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mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, guy complains about not getting my email, i
tell him his shit's probably badly set up, he
tells me my shit's prolly blacklisted, i go what
the fuck. spend a
time googling
to see if
this can be even
tested,
turns out it can, i end up on
http://www.mail-tester.com/web-WeHDBS which says
that i'm perfect except "listed in pyzor".
shinohai: Casablanca and Morroco are straight - up Spanish
tho
punkman: seems
the spanish didn't ever go further
than
the Sahara
punkman: actually
that's portuguese
mircea_popescu tries
to recall which west african country was a spanish dominion already.
shinohai: mircea_popescu is right, he would be
the perfect space Moor
punkman: fluffypony: much more
than Samuel L. Jackson
fluffypony: but in a movie where a small green hobbit-creature is a major star, I don't know if
that counts
fluffypony: punkman: Lando Calrissian was
the only memorable on-screen black character,
tho
mircea_popescu: "oh, you made a movie in 2010 and
there's a buncha black dudes in it ? how considerate of you, where were you in 1952!"
punkman: episode 4 had one black person,
then
the added a bunch more in 5 and 6
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well moreover it's only relevant in
the sense of fan service commentary. "oh, really, it just so happened all your bridge bunnies were 180 and freshly laid off
the siegfried follies ? fancy
that coincidence into
the future!"
shinohai: I liked Four Rooms, but
that was only co-produced.
fluffypony: "there weren't enough Gungans in
the original
trilogy!"
fluffypony: but
they had a bunch of aliens, so it's a dumb argument
fluffypony: I guess
the running joke is
that most of
the films only had 1 (visible) black actor/actress
shinohai: Samuel L Jackson kills in
th
the new Hateful Eight movie.
mircea_popescu: i dun
think it would have "count"-ed for
the same people.
fluffypony: yeah,
that's why I said I doubt many people knew
that Darth Vader's voice was a black guy
shinohai: But alas, James Earl Jones was but a voice, underneath
they still made vadar a wrinkly old white guy.
mircea_popescu has no idea who any of
these people are, googles
the latter, he looks about as black as wesley snipes wtf.
fluffypony: and in
the prequels
there was Samuel L Jackson
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck do
these people still bitch about it
then ?!
mircea_popescu: "Star Wars was released
theatrically in
the United States on May 25, 1977. It earned $461 million in
the US and $314 million overseas,
totaling $775 million. It surpassed Jaws (1975)
to become
the highest-grossing film of all
time; its gross was later surpassed by
that of E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). When adjusted for inflation as of 2013" << check it out,
there was inflation since
the 80s ?!
shinohai: I don't recall. Don't
think so unless it is a background character.
mircea_popescu: mmkay so : Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope being
the 1977 & first release of
the
thing, has no black people in it. does it ?
shinohai: I skipped
the Jar-Jar awfulness. I have seen first 3 movies and
the latest
mircea_popescu: i guess
that's what i get for commenting on stuff i never bothered
to actually see.
mircea_popescu: so
the retcon forks off episode V rather
than episode I ? or wait... actually
this franchise starts midway does it ?
fluffypony: Billy Dee Williams (who played Lando Calrissian) was in Empire Strikes Back and in Return of
the Jedi
mircea_popescu: "oh black people always existed, we just didn't film any back in
the 60s."
mircea_popescu: punkman
the whole
thing of even having black people in star wars. seriously ?
the retcon of all
time.
BingoBoingo: trb behaving as expected so far, no forgetten gold in
the wallet.dat yet
BingoBoingo: That
trump bet's looking like it could make it
to 100 BTC
BingoBoingo: atm rescanning an ancient wallet
to see if anything is
there. Hopefully datacenter gets back
to me
tomorrow about dedi-box, which is practice for colo-box
BingoBoingo almost has build machine back
together
to resume V-enture
idkwhat2dowithmy: Thank you mircea, I've been reading qntra and
thought I'd pop in here
phf: i vaguely recall
that
phf: because a cryptology
themed restaurant,
that would be something i'd want
to see. nsa contractors go
there for burgers, kind of ironically, but also cause it's close
to "the location". spy memorabilia, but all utterly obscure for a casual observer. cute frequency analysis problems sprinkled all over
phf: asciilifeform: cryptological
theme park, is
that
the spy museum or
this some other facility?
mircea_popescu: but sadly... it's hard
to make a function
to describe future human behaviour.
mircea_popescu: now, if subsidy was more like 25 cents
than 25 BTC, we wouldn't even have
this discussion.
mircea_popescu: but i must an' gladly do commend your stubborn insistence because yeah in fact i was conflating
two
things in mah head.
mircea_popescu: so yet another aspect of
the well familiar by now disaster of commons
mircea_popescu: however more importantly b)
there is NO WAY for neutral-S miners
to profit from
T2-Tn as-is.
mircea_popescu: a)
the expectation is, as you've seen,
that i'll get an accountant out of bed and on my own dime fix
the mess power rangers made because hey, why not, it's a decentralized protocol which means some idiots break it and
the world fixes it
mircea_popescu: it's
true
that
this costs S-indiscriminate miners
the
txn fees of
T2-Tn, but
mircea_popescu: should
T1' be mined,
then
T2...TN is now invalid, and will have
to be resent.
mircea_popescu: all miners, whether
they be S-indiscriminate or S-selective can mine
T1 necessarily.
the latter as is ;
the former as
T1 in 50% of cases and as
T1' in
the remainder cases, where
T1' = C-T1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
to fully formulate
the impedance mismatch here, because on reread
this isn't satisfactory. suppose you have a chain of blocks, B1...Bn. suppose you also have a chain (different concepts) of
txn ,
T1...Tm.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i would suppose
that is "child porn" by
today's standards, right ? buncha fourteen year olds in clingwrap
tops.
mircea_popescu: for
the raft of 3yos
the us is infested with,
tits yet hold a different meaning
than ravishment.
mircea_popescu: tits are for older boys, like
they had in pre-nazi germany.
mircea_popescu: but "everyone" does it. and you want
to be just like everyone, don't you ?
mircea_popescu: that's how "states" are built, you're supposed
to be aped by
the awesome power of
this imaginary
thing
that lo! it makes whole rafts of bitches
to absurd shit like
this
mircea_popescu: i currently send both kinds, and
the mined blocks include
the low-ified S all
the
time.
mircea_popescu: see, miner
that sees high-S
tx can either reject it, or just low-S it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
this is something we can experiment with once someone picks up
the pool
thing ?
mircea_popescu: for some reason
the whole high/low S
thing is part and parcel of
this in my head.
mircea_popescu: you seem
to be operating on
the delusional notion miners user prb ?!
ben_vulpes: i do not see
the point at all in differentiating between
txnen-which-are-relayed and
txn-which-are-mined
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in
this sense, building atop
that shit is an excursion in insanity, which is why ONLY usg-financed "companies" do it (in
the sense of pretending
to do anything besides hiring more ustards and eating rubber chickens at "conferences")