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mircea_popescu: cads but if it's purely coincidental then you don't have a pow that does protein folding, you just have a pow that occasionally folds a protein
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's clearly interesting. or as the romanian expression goes, "un prostovan arunca o piatra in apa si zece filosofi se chinuie s-o scoata"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no we want like emmy noether for this shit
mircea_popescu: and actually this could probably be expanded into interesting results for ppl trying to understand various higher level maths. "define a comutative algebra in which a ring can exist for which any addition also calculates a multiplication and vice-versa"
mircea_popescu: im probably restating well known and anciently established mathematical fact, but here, mp's lemma : any computation of two results can be reduced to two computations of the respective results, and the sum of the energy consumed by the latter will be at most equal to the energy consumed by the former process.
mircea_popescu: now. does this mean your key will simply have to be twice as long for equal security ?
mircea_popescu: "you can make any sha key you want, as long as every other byte is FA"
mircea_popescu: no but you're math-literate, how would this work ? you compute two things with the same stone ? what's the idea here ?
mircea_popescu: im not debating whether it's interesting, it's definitely interesting. i'm just saying it;'s stupid. stupid things are usually interesting, at least as amusements
mircea_popescu: this could be understood on a macro level as "if there are outside constraints on your pow process, you'll need that many more iterations"
mircea_popescu: one would seem to be thermodynamic, which is to say that the total utility of work available is limited, and if you do outside useful work you won't do the work you set out to do in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing shows striking similarities to the peta-and-animal-saving debacle, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: nao what ? purely ideological construct, works just as well in any random direction.
mircea_popescu: it's malignant alright, it's pointless alright, with or without all the huffpo crap the world would be exactly in the same position.
mircea_popescu: sort-of what the socialists are doing in the us, or the communists did in the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: malignant pseudopolitics is this process which expands to occupy all fora available.
mircea_popescu: perhaps amusing an exercise would be restructuring the argument, except directed at them.
mircea_popescu: the gargle holds no futher merit past its function as a retard magnet.
mircea_popescu: now, that this is hogwashed into something pompous sounding like "malignant computing" is exactly typical of the mannerisms of the particular ideological group in question.
mircea_popescu: the idea is that bitcoin uses energy, and they don't like using energy. period.
mircea_popescu: that's besides the point. there's a certain troop of losers that have had a purely ideological problem with bitcoin mining since 2009
mircea_popescu: cads you realise that's a whole lot of ignorant nonsense do you ?
mircea_popescu: "China's Li Keqiang warns investors to prepare for wave of bankruptcies"
mircea_popescu: bejeez all these foreigner terrorists getting uppity...
mircea_popescu: but you know, when in 500ad the sarmatians started pushing west, you knew something was scaring them at the other end.
mircea_popescu: and so we literally don't know wtf their jets actually are.
mircea_popescu: joecool maybe. the thing with them is that they're really good at keeping secrets.
mircea_popescu: tho if we're to apply the old yurpean wisdom, considering how fucking scared the russians must be to spend so much on their sus... the chinese must be pretty bad.
mircea_popescu: and to top it all off, we don't even know what the chinese are flying.
mircea_popescu: (they did have the jewish elecwarfare upgrades tho, which apparently are damned good)
mircea_popescu: and these are people who can barely afford the fuel to fly the damned rust buckets.
mircea_popescu: the romanian team downed half the us planes, and a bunch of french and dutch
mircea_popescu: the nato exercise in 2012 consisted of a romanian team flying migs (old migs, mind you) as "the enemy"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah. the migs, here's a funny story about the migs :
mircea_popescu: chetty no doubt about it, they're the best union builds :D
mircea_popescu: well the problem is... strategic bombers are useless in this context. the russians can airplane-intercept tomahawks as it is.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the latest su can actually outfly sidewinders
mircea_popescu: turns out it's not enough to be really firmly convinced you're cool. gotta also do homework.
mircea_popescu: and obviously, the little secret nobody wants to share in the english language propaganda machine is that currently russian jets are about two classes over anything nato can fly.
mircea_popescu: in a sense, kerry's idiocy sealed its fate, had he kept his stupid mouth shut...
mircea_popescu: much like the crimeea. you can posutre all you want, but in the realpolitik world crimeea was gone the moment obama got raped over syria.
mircea_popescu: snotty eu refused to let them in when they had a chance, and much to their detriment, as a eu member turkey would have definitely taken the eu out of any crisis
mircea_popescu: curious if they finally turn muslim, ataturk's memory and the military can only go so far.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation as far as i recall the theory behind carbon dating and especialyl the "constant decay" part has been under fire for decades.
mircea_popescu: dub more like found a good angle to humiliated people with it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can probably laser/gamma/magnetic resonance for the ink inside huh.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves punkman benkay it's wences' new thing. he previously made the same exact thing (lemon) which apparently got sold.
mircea_popescu: bank vps can't afford the same today, with the wife working.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point, bank clerks cca 1950 could maintain a nice beachfront house in california, a housewife and her children
mircea_popescu: mebbe. but for whatever reason... nothing makes what it used to make.
mircea_popescu: even cocksucking, if you believe the casino cocksuckers, is much less than it used to be
mircea_popescu: singer-songwriter is MUCH less of a living than it used to be
mircea_popescu: fucking lawyering is less of a living than it used to be
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, totally, community is everything. except they have no idea what that word means.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i never actually run gambling. but i'm vaguely aware it's a living, so
mircea_popescu: that's why the promoter makes dough. if it were easy it'd be every kid and his app situation
mircea_popescu: this should be vig-profitable, whatever it's supposed to make, 8% or what was it.
mircea_popescu: the way i'm thinking, if you pick a sport you like and you actually know enough about to make a line, you can then make that line, and promote it like any bookie