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copypaste: oh right, i forgot
that command. i don't chat here often
copypaste: pete_dushenski: you never seem online at an opportune
time for me
to
tell you
this. i
think
that you should develop your own style instead of copying MP's for contravex. contravex is a cheap knockoff at best
to
trilema. no one can surmount
the original, i wouldn't dare even
try writing in MP\s signature style.
assbot: There's a one Bitcoin reward for
the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxiG9S )
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:29:15; copypaste: will
the bitcoin foundation be accepting "segregated witness" into its client?
mircea_popescu: anyway, im in full agreement with
the fellow on
the "listen
to body" angle. if one can shut up
the stupid going on in his head long enough, absolutely amazing feats can be accomplished, such as knowing when
to eat and what.
pete_dushenski: "Edward Archer, a computational physiologist at
the University of Alabama’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center in Birmingham"
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 06:11:34; mircea_popescu: similarly it'll adapt
to anything within reason, and as far as it can help it, beyond any reason. it's only job is
to keep you going and it
takes it more seriously
than you'll ever
take anything as long as you live.
pete_dushenski: "The
takeaway, Archer said, is
that our bodies are adaptable and pretty good at
telling us what we need, if we can learn
to listen."
pete_dushenski: "So we’re left with our original question: What is a healthy diet? We know
the basics — we need sufficient calories and protein
to keep our bodies alive. We need nutrients like vitamin C and iron. Beyond
that, we may be overthinking it"
mircea_popescu: it is bad management not
to do a large number of various
things
that appear counter-intuitive
to "intelligent" people. especially
to
the "civilised" metastasis
thereof.
mircea_popescu: and of course, alf's favourite part, "Popular until
the very end, Digital Group failed in August of 1979 due
to management and parts supplier
troubles, not a lack of customer interest or product orders. Co-founder Dr. Robert Suding recalled
that at
the
time of
the bankruptcy, DG had
thousands of product information requests and orders waiting
to be filled."
mircea_popescu: ing systems on display at computer shows. Besting
the closest competitor by weeks if not months. Contrast
that with
the common practice of
the day, of running ads for a concept product,
then using
the money from
the customer orders
to develop
the advertised hardware."
mircea_popescu: "Digital Group also offered a very wide range of hardware accessories. If it was available
to computer users at
the
time, it was available
to DG system owners, and usually first. A users group of
the
time reported (and I confirmed in conversation with Dr. Suding)
that within
two weeks of
the release of
the Zilog Z80 chip samples, Dr. Suding had finalized
the design for
the Digital Group Z80 processor card, and had work
mircea_popescu: " As
the
tape was read,
the screen would fill with
the HEX or OCTAL page high address of
the byte being loaded,
testing
the memory content for correctly loaded data as each byte was saved."
mircea_popescu: that lisp company isn't
the only
thing
to have sunk irrespective of immense
tech advantages in
the history of computing.
mircea_popescu: and a keyboard as standard equipment with all of
their systems."
mircea_popescu: our
times
the speed possible with any other manufacturers
tape systems, and
ten
times faster
than paper
tape --
the only method available at
the
time for loading Micro Soft BASIC onto
the Altair system. Of course,
to even do
that on an Altair, you had
to buy a paper
tape reader and an interface. Usually an ASR-33
Teletype and an SIO card. ($$$) By contrast, Digital Group systems included a video and cassette interface
mircea_popescu: This was
the "Cadillac of computers". In 1975, when
this system was introduced, Altair system owners were flipping switches for hours just
to watch lights blink on
the front panel of
their systems. Digital Group system owners were
throwing a power switch and loading an operating system in less
than 20 seconds.
The cassette interface, standard with DG systems, loaded programs at 1100 baud. At
the
time,
this was nearly f
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> and add a ((Mark
to be pronounced "Carl" not "four")) on
that IV << fixed
mircea_popescu: i dunno why
the muricans don't recognize b's merits. he did
the integral expansion which is
the actual reason it's even useful.
mircea_popescu: it's a basic
tool for resolving certain problems in analysis.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's actually one of
the oldest ideas in western
thought.
mircea_popescu: i dun
think
the part about how limiting excessive medical procedurizing is
the core of sane medicine was at all controversial.
funkenstein_: but I imagine I should hold off on exposing you
to further of my dietary nuttery
mircea_popescu: there is something fundamentally wrong with people, intelligent or otherwise, who can't simply come out and say "mp said no, so it can't be done". just like
there's something fundamentally wrong with people who can't simply come out and say "i
tried pissing upwind and staying dry - it doesn't work".
copypaste: so
that's why at first
they were all in support of raising
the blocksize, but
then
they all
turned against gavin
mircea_popescu: pretending
that a) didn't happen and
then latter
that b) if it happened it didn't matter and
then even later
that c)
they did it anyway by
themselves!!1
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you were around for / recall
this, but after i singlehandedly nixed
the original "block expansion" almost a year ago
to
the day,
they spent A FUCKING YEAR
mircea_popescu: and
then
they get hits called on
their stupid heads and "nobody" understands why.
copypaste: even
though it's such an obvious flaw ...
copypaste: i haven't seen one mention of
the miner defection problem anywhere but b-a
copypaste: the funny
thing is,
to hear
them describe it (luke jr, wuille, antonopolous, and so on) "segwit" (cute name) has no problems whatsoever and softforks are perfectly safe so everyone should start
throwing
their coins into segwit
transactions so as
to make
the overall "capacity" of
the network go up
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:49:35; copypaste: so people going along with soft forks are literally just
throwing
their coins into a blackhole which will be opened whenever miners defect, which is a gaurantee as more muppets follow along with
the softfork
the potential gain from defecting rises
mircea_popescu: in other words, intelligence is no bar against stupidity.
they may be as intelligent as you wish, but certainly dumb as rocks. and so...
copypaste: i see. it's all about mindset, and
their mindset is all wrong.
mircea_popescu: in fact... "there aren't many of
them, and
they're supposed
to be intelligent" is not unlike saying "this cow doesn't belong in
the pen, it gives a lot of milk which is rare". whether it goes in
the pen or puts
the would-be farmer in
the pen strictly depends on how willing
to
http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=shoot+cop the cow finds itself.
copypaste: there aren't many of
them, and
they're supposed
to be intelligent
copypaste: but are
the core developers really
the "masses"?
mircea_popescu: whence would come such a sudden and complete change for
the masses ?
there is no such
thing.
mircea_popescu: what do
they do when
they pay
taxes ? put money in 401k ?
mircea_popescu: they are doing exactly
the same
thing
they do with
their every waking move : banking on
the ultimately doomed proposition
that "this ledge will hold".
copypaste: how can
the "core" devs not see
the obvious flaw in
this stupidplan?
copypaste: so people going along with soft forks are literally just
throwing
their coins into a blackhole which will be opened whenever miners defect, which is a gaurantee as more muppets follow along with
the softfork
the potential gain from defecting rises
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 15:43:30; mircea_popescu: oh check
that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing
that apple fails in 2016.
copypaste: and
then collecting all
the fees. lol
copypaste: i understand.
thank you guys. i can't believe so called coredevs are supporting something which has such obvious problem as defecting miners dumping all
transactions
that follow
the new rules. wtf.
mircea_popescu: oh check
that out, queergender consensus is slowly coallescing
that apple fails in 2016.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people arguing absurdities on bet resolutions like it happens now and again are actually you know, stranded in an airport somewhere and got nothing better
to do until
the battery runs out.
kakobrekla: the funniest was "pls hurry im
traveling and out of cash"
kakobrekla: great, good
to hear angry emails will end soon
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wrote about
that in his Qntra piece.
mircea_popescu: if a billion people starve because
their
thousands of btc got stolen by greedy miners who saw an opportunity
to revert a soft fork and
took it - i'll cheer
them on.
that's a billion idiots less, and an absolutely ideal end state.
mircea_popescu: and if anyone imagines
the "you wouldn't be willing
to hurt innocents" is going
to hold worth one stitch, please kindly review
the history of accidental payments
to bitbet and all
that.
mircea_popescu: miner defection from any and all non-trb approved soft forks is a ~GUARANTEE~ in
the future. just a question of when.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 12:45:13; adlai: if you run a full node which has no recognition of segwit, you can still operate normally. segwit is dangerous for a) users of non-full nodes who
think
they have "SPV security" (whatever
that may mean), and b) everybody, if enough utxos use segwit
that miner defection becomes a real risk
shinohai: thestringpuller: yup, was going
to
try and emulate
that CPU you showed me. Not sure abt
the rest of
the architecture
tho :/
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, 0/0 is still an undefined value - inasmuch as
their
time and effort is actually worthless
then it can not be argued
that
they should stop what
they're currentlyu doing.
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense, "contributing"
to bitcoin outside of b-a /
tmsr is a pure and objectively declared waste of
time.
mircea_popescu: clearly whether
this happens or not is purely a matter of accident, which is
to say a matter of
time - all
the pr derps can do exactly nothing
to influence it any way
thestringpuller: yes. and as I
told my mom "We can't have nice
things cause
there are stupid people who ruin it for everyone", i
think bitcoin solves
this problem effectively, but must stay ever vigilant
mircea_popescu: if
that happens, all
the "Soft forks" get reverted on
the spot, and all
the "hard work" and "contributions" go
to
the same place windows nt codebase went.
mircea_popescu: their projective ability
to control
the future is also absent, for
this reason. consequently, it is not in any sense inconceivable
that a situation will come
to pass where
the maintenance of
their derpage requires resources nobody wishes
to expend.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2016 15:58:10; mircea_popescu:
THEY however, with
their needs
to compensate for absent intelligence
through
the deployment of computing hardware, DO need
the shit
to "improve".
mircea_popescu: this said, it has
to be pointed out
that
the one
thing all
these derps have in common is -
that
they can not afford
to pay for
the hardware
that is required
to run
their software
they've "contributed". (and re
this,
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=04-01-2016#1360176 is apropos.) in
this sense
the economic freestanding value of
their "contributions" is null.
☝︎ shinohai: Oh awesum. zzzzzzzzztook me a little longer
to get a VM up
than I
thought, I'm in
the process of upgrading
to new lappy.
thestringpuller: imo
this is why
TRB Foundation is so important. it not only decrufts
the shitty code but acts as defenders of
the blockchain
thestringpuller: shinohai: i gave mod6 access
to my box for further diagnostics
thestringpuller: if I broadcast
tx and have
to use block explorer or god forbid "upgrade"
to see it confirm,
then I
take issue
thestringpuller: this is fine as long as my future
trb node can witness
transactions being confirmed
that it broadcasted.