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mircea_popescu: incidentally, why
the fuck does bitcoin have json support ? do we actually want
this ?
punkman: can do
the gui-snip
thing first, work is already done
mircea_popescu: what i
took it
to mean was
that if he's gonna load his head with shit, would rather do
two
things
than one and reload
mircea_popescu: punkman certainly a worthy attempt, even if mod6 prolly won't be able
to put it in current release.
punkman: both gui-snip and debug-sanity are gonna
touch a lot of files
though, and I would prefer
to do
this once
mircea_popescu: this with a view
to better semantics, or with a view
to reinstate gui ?
punkman: mircea_popescu: start over, meaning make a new debug_sanity patch with more improvements (and without
the gui snipping parts bundled
together)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually may want
to write him a letter, iirc he was also all about fits in head but arrived
there on slightly different path
mircea_popescu: guy's brilliant, hard
to argue with
that. but yes, seems he's being slowly ground
to paste by "teh system"
punkman: I'd like
to contribute more debug-related patches, could maybe split
the gui-snip stuff from debug_sanity patch, and start over.
mircea_popescu: of course
they're busy fucking around doing nothing much. but hey, gosplan!
mircea_popescu: actually a proper history of early mining would be a most respectable endeavour for a serious, diligent historian at
this point.
kakobrekla: afaik
there were 'duds' i dont recall specifics from
top of
the head
mircea_popescu: there were, up until early 2013 or so, more dead runs
than live.
mircea_popescu: asicminer had a fully blown up run. so did bfl,
twice iirc.
mircea_popescu: of
the people who scammed
their "investors, at least half,
to
two
thirds, were scammed in
turn, by
their "providers".
mircea_popescu: easy
to reinterpret what memory salvaged of
the midden of history, but if you were
there and saw
the missing 95% from
that story...
kakobrekla: they didnt have
the
time
to make anything past "this will prolly work"
mircea_popescu: iirc
the overall "delivered asic, all cores working" was in
the <5% zone.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:59:13; punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable
to assume
that most small miners will have recouped
the majority of what
they initially outlaid for
the hardware, and are now disinclined
to continue ‘supporting
the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’,
to acquire all
this idle hashing power seems like a smart move. As,
mircea_popescu: very fucking hard making jokes about bitcoin codebase, seeing
the state it's in.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:33:08; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it could always curl deedbot.org for
the latest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let
the guy do something useful wouldja. step at a
time.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:23:47; mircea_popescu: and for
the love of christ implement either rolling or else a maxsize for files or something.
mircea_popescu: well, depends.
the large nato round is really like
the hunting .308
mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is
the old ak/sks russian
thing. nato has a bigger one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
that's on
the modest 39mm. pretty much a
thing of
the past, everyone doing 51 now amirite. so 2x
that.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's about 2kj per bullet, we find
that each enemy combatant
takes ~1MWh in bullets only!
mircea_popescu: people keep mocking hollywood marksmanship. mostly because
they've never been in a warzone.
mircea_popescu: dja know
that
the AVERAGE ammo expenditure per enemy killed is in
the 2mn range by now ?
mircea_popescu: but, at
this juncture, augustus' memoirs are recomended re-read. might explain
the vecchio rotinculo much closer
than before.
mircea_popescu: and
they do not wish
to be not because
they somehow give a shit about brutus and brutish jealousies.
mircea_popescu: ironically,
the people who could be caesar ie emperor and pontifex max uniformly do not wish
to be, so much so it's almost a heuristic.
mircea_popescu: they had more dynasties
than americans had sexual partners.
mircea_popescu: your idea
that "5000 yr egyptianreich" is not unlike a 1900s victorian idea
that "5000 yr chinareich". wut ?
mircea_popescu: which is why
they keep inventing academic honors for
the emperor.
they work admirably, don't
they.
mircea_popescu: king can not invest by staff. he doesn't have a staff
to give.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea how
to formulate
this better
than
to refer you
to
the (oft mentioned, by me) worms dispute.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
this is a flattering if incorrect representation. like saying "unfortunately whale did not have enough evolution mojo
to grow wings". yeasure.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in
the expression of
the castrated subhumans
that nevertheless are intelligent enough
to notice
the problem,
this is usually called
the "knowledge problem", ie poor state can't acquire and process enough information
to make a reasonable gosplan.
mircea_popescu: i am immune
to it, it depends on me.
this creates a certain situation of power in
the field.
mircea_popescu: problem being,
they don't actually help, just serve
to alienate me further.
mircea_popescu: which is why all
the red square nuclear bomb displays and etc. obligate pompousness.
Azelphur: I feel bad -10ing him
though, I like
to work
things out with people and it just sucks
that he's not meeting his obligations or even being reasonable really
mircea_popescu: the argument against gosplan is exactly
the argument against "hi guise i am ceo".