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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that if they had an orphan it would show its own hash and root, not the correct block's.
mircea_popescu: (i don't keep much of an eye on blockchain.info since there exists blockr)
mircea_popescu: well then i suppose you'd better blog about it, or post or somthing.
mircea_popescu: this would necessarily result in them listing a different set of txns from the actual set as found on the actual chain
mircea_popescu: if a service like blockchain.info goes down (ie, stops listening to the chain) it may end up with the impression a meanwhile discarded block is still valid
mircea_popescu: the validity of a block is not established until later. which is what orphans and chain reorgs are.
mircea_popescu: you mean the hash of the block as reported then matches the hash as reported now ?!
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: big one and number two.. anyone taking bets one of those was goat? << yes. how much you wanna bet ?
mircea_popescu: in 2000ish ? yea, it think it'd have been all over slashdot. "highschooler gets ccie!!1"
mircea_popescu: kinda why i'm stuck with an ever increasing intel dept
mircea_popescu: reeses_ well then read the discussion with mr pineaple above too.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic but on the topic of making a name for oneself, know who tried that ? a certain dr. gleason. he tried to make a name for himself as not being a contemptible piece of shit. he was convicted, eventually, and then killed himself.
mircea_popescu: hence "<mircea_popescu> and i don't think reeses_ is even paying attention anymore."
mircea_popescu: chetty presumably the free market still exists in the us, both financially and with regard to ideas, so such an academic would "make a name for himself"
mircea_popescu: yeah, i think the most we can arrive to is stating the respective positions.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic yes, but not the 14% aspirational crowd that "makes" names
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic nobody is going t omake a name for themselves in the current us showing that not beating kids is a wrong thing.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic only in uncontrolled environments. in controlled environments, fear is a motivator exactly for education.
mircea_popescu: you then run studies showing that A2 responds better than A1
mircea_popescu: basically you're externalising a cost. when "kids get beaten" subset A1 gets actually beaten and subset A2 learns from their experience.
mircea_popescu: much like the us nuclear weapons, which the us refuses to declare will never be used.
mircea_popescu: problem is the entire system collapses once kids know nobody can ever get beaten.
mircea_popescu: because the group that responds to the former well is SELF SELECTED.
mircea_popescu: the same pseudoscientific process created both notions.
mircea_popescu: but it is over prescrived on the basis of " virtually all infant and child development research"
mircea_popescu: well, either that or magically all kids suddenly need ritalin.
mircea_popescu: it's about as good as us epidemiological data, that crap.
mircea_popescu: virtually all data fugded by post 1950 us pseudoscience on the topic says random stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: children have to be beaten systematically, in which case most don't actually even need pyshical contact.
mircea_popescu: some random drunk randomly hitting some kid is absolutely not within the scope of this discussion.
mircea_popescu: but as an exercise : consider whether you're randomly lumping together beating children with simple abuse, as a sort of strawman argument.
mircea_popescu: we can move on to discussing how temperatures form a golf club pattern next
mircea_popescu: no, actually, there is an endless record of evidence that it does. what there's no evidence for is that not beating them is sustainable.
mircea_popescu: which is why society naturally segregates. it's not that the upper class hates the lower class. it's just that the lower class... stinks.
mircea_popescu: and so you understand both why you had to be beaten, and why you'll be beating the shit off your kids, too. so they don't end up like the retarded us scum.
mircea_popescu: so it's habit, but it's also that once you know things, stupidity appears quite different from how it appears back when you don't know things.
mircea_popescu: "whoever loves you loves you as you are" and all that.
mircea_popescu: but if you're used to your smell being filthy, you'll just keep on doing that because... whatever.
mircea_popescu: B007 yes, it will continue. not even strictly of habit, as chetty says. take washing : once you get used to your smell when you're clean, you're not likely to stop washing.
mircea_popescu: hey D : someone over there ain't doing their job of reading properly.
mircea_popescu: you can make people do absolutely anything they should be doing, provided you're comitted to beating them to death if they do not, and start before they're 5.
mircea_popescu: further proof that teaching kids to read and write is not either sufficient or particularly related to literacy.
mircea_popescu: that is oral culture at its finest. this guy is not part of contemporaneity, or even modernity. he finds himself in a roughly feudal time. back before literacy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dunno where you get the "civil proceedings" notions from.
mircea_popescu: if someone ends up disbared over pirate's dumb ass that'll be the lol of all time.