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mircea_popescu: Work on the Diaspora software began in May 2010. Finn Brunton, a teacher and digital media researcher at New York University, described their method as "a return of the classic geek means of production: pizza and ramen and guys sleeping under the desks because it is something that it is really exciting and challenging." A developer preview was released on September 15 and received criticism for various security bugs
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo herbijudlestoids you've really been in all the shitholes huh
mircea_popescu: why, because we subscribe to the theory that idiots are people too, just like us ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or even a "for i 0 to process count do launch this process"
mircea_popescu: i can't believe the canonical windoze fork bomb uses goto.
mircea_popescu: anyway, kinda funny that the alt was the true altcoin before there were fake altcoins
mircea_popescu: too lazy to discern if naively stupid or interestedly stupid
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either that or a fellow lieing about the eventual volume
mircea_popescu: Sorry for the little error, I changed it to 2^32, total number is 4294967296.
mircea_popescu: . Dropshadows lift the type off the page as if they are 3D.
mircea_popescu: clearly this coin is the solution to all centralisation troubles.
mircea_popescu: "Sorry about that. I was doing some work on the server and accidentally killed the stratum."
mircea_popescu: check it out, they decided 4gb should be enough for everyone on sunday 2694
mircea_popescu: | 33554432 | 4 GB | 22864142697 | Sun, 15 Jul 2694 06:44:57 GMT | |
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is constantly being colonised by people who have fundamental but unverbalised disagreements with its fundamental principles.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the essence is, some people have a fundamental but unspoken disagreement with the basic premise behind mining. <<< exactly.
mircea_popescu: derp. wasn't it btcguild that had 40%ish back in feb 2013 ?
mircea_popescu: "Now that Bitcoin computational power is handled almost entirely by large data centers, the currency has rapidly changed from a distributed, decentralized currency, to one that is much more centralized and vulnerable. Companies such as Cex.io are routinely hitting 40% PoW computational power on a daily basis, and will soon be able to perform 51% attacks at will, if they so choose."
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids listen, a 5k satoshi tx is like... impossible to even propagate.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he's not a virgin, so there's the end of that.
mircea_popescu: it's wonderbread. i wouldn't use it and i don't agree it's bread. you could say this is me being elitist, you could devise some tests of breadess wonderbread passes
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids for the same reason you're not fucking all the floozies in your town right now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo has been looking for someone to beat ever since truffles ran off
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what is customarily meant by unusable. "which can't be used for its intended purpose"
mircea_popescu: the resultant mess is unusable past about 0.6.x or thereabouts, for these reasons.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it has since been "fixed" in the hands of mediocre coders with no system design comprehension whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the original stuff was poorly written by one unexperienced coder with a lot of system design experience.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the point in quesiton is "throw away the first chapter of your novel"
mircea_popescu: for epic lols : writing novels is listed under GARDENING,
mircea_popescu: well it's supposed to be funny by contrast. the one team that didn't need tech
mircea_popescu: the third is more flegmatic. either one or two bridges.
mircea_popescu: mike_c buncha teams are presenting offers to build a brige. they all start from both sides. one team has laser sensors and whatever, the 2nd satellite and whatnot
mircea_popescu: mike_c i suspect the code only came because the response to the paper was a particular brand of retarded.
mircea_popescu: why are you so focused on the building and implementation notional universe ?
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of agreeing how we'd like the vase to look, but a matter of representing how gravity actually and in fact does work
mircea_popescu: this is science, we're describing an actual real process.