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assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 00:27:34; mircea_popescu: nobody cares
to look at
the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene :
the more sewers
the better" "so ?"
mircea_popescu: i can see
the argument in favour of isolating all "cloud" crapolade anyway, from everything.
mircea_popescu: and
there's really no rule on what a node owner does
to maintain his own network. you want
to cut off aws, cut off aws.
mircea_popescu: yet another
theme one can lose an entire
team of engineers in
mircea_popescu: "oh my god what if i read it and it makes sense
to me".
mircea_popescu: well i suspect
the reason for
that disinterest is simple fear.
mircea_popescu: and
the list could continue.
there's piles of patristics, all
the way
to
the divine doctor himself, doing nothing else. what's plotinus exactly ?
mircea_popescu: is composed of one inch squares repeating ad infinitum (edison, gates,
the us generally) or is actually a pattern as large as
the wall itself (ie, cultivated)
mircea_popescu: to
try and formalize
this, imagine
the question in
terms of wallpaper. now you, being a sane individual, would never have wallpaper in
the house. but, admitting for
the sake of argument
that you own a slavegirl
together enough
to be allowed
to run her own household, and admitting she inexplicably wants some wallpaper,
the difference between "whatever" and "you can't have
that" mostly rests on whether
the 900 dpi
thing
mircea_popescu: i like
the wesleyan fellow for
the same reason, weirdass right wing fundamentalism notwithstanding
mircea_popescu: anyway, i imagine
trying
to read
taleb
to judge paths
to success/create a path
to success would be ungodly unnerving. i mostly like him because he provides an unalligned datapoint, by some definitions of unallignation.
mircea_popescu: that's why
the entire progressive bs even caught on in
the first place. no causation.
mircea_popescu: these points are always extremely hard
to establish. even in
the golden age of cultivated,
the argument never was causation, but mere correlation. "lucy, sit like a lady" "why!" "because sitting like a lady correlates with not marrying a bum"
mircea_popescu: his
theories
took him no far, seeing how he created
theories after going places./
mircea_popescu: so it registers in my head as a merely not very good attempt at
that.
mircea_popescu: i suppose what saves it for my benefit is
that romanian-ness has a humongous
tradition in playing
this for laughs
mircea_popescu always
thought
that nonsense was between patently insane and alienly endearing.
mircea_popescu: and
this doesn't bother you on his www ? or, for
that matter, my www ?!
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 06:14:47; pete_dushenski: Nassim Nicholas
Taleb: ""We're not all famous authors".
This is a
type of smart ass easy comment only a bitter loser makes. In addition, it has a logical fallacy. Did it hit you
that I have only been a "famous author" part of my life? Did it also hit you
that it also applies
to employment in general?"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
http://qntra.net/ << older backuped version back online. feel free
to log in as per normal, update it, etc. everything should still work as b4, if not lemme know.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-05-2015 21:54:14; ascii_field: shitgnomes and
their 'it didn't happen. if it happened, it doesn't matter. if it matters - one of -our- people did it first, of course!'
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:27:34; mircea_popescu: "it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing
to do wit
them"
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:22:53; mircea_popescu: lol @
that bitnodes.21.co
thing not listing all my 0.6 nodes etc
assbot: Logged on 20-12-2015 18:03:24; asciilifeform: now if camel fucker army had brains and used pgp and gave half a shit, one could send 0day
to
them and have at least
the pleasure of knowing
that it will be used
to deal max damage.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:12:40; mircea_popescu: next
time you have
the opportunity
to hurt coinbase - hurt coinbase. secure in
the knowledge
that you're not only hurting some 3rd removed assholes, but a whole system of evil.
mircea_popescu: prolly something more in line with "you don't get
to comment on his impalement because who
the fuck are you"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it's exactly what we'll say as
they get impaled.
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 02:04:44; asciilifeform:
the scam is not in hitler's ability
to 'cut off your lips if he doesn't like your face' but in
the ~pretense~ at
this strange 'rule of law' fiction
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 10:09:53; mircea_popescu: "I won't comment on
the account ban for privacy or regulatory reasons. But I can say
that
the ban has nothing
to do with
this person's hackerone reporting. And unfortunately, we cannot be more lenient on him just because he has previously helped us.
The 2 issues are independent. And plus,
the
team
that works with banning has no access or knowledge of
the hackerone cases.
This separation protects our
shinohai: I saw
that ppart,
thrilled
to have node back
mircea_popescu: o btw, didja happen
to notice
teh speed raid arrangement on phuctor's new server ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you would expect, from a very high on view,
that bw is
the bottleneck in p2p anything, and especially anything dealing with 200gb worth of stored data.
assbot: Logged on 19-12-2015 20:08:33; asciilifeform: so at
this point i'm pretty certain where 'black hole' comes from.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 09:07:36; BingoBoingo: Also does is anyone else peristently maintaining many more bitcoin connections
then
they were when
the XT spamnodes flooded? Went from 12-19 range
to 24-38 range
mircea_popescu: anyway, i happen
to agree.
there's absolutely no reason usg.jwz has any business
touching bitcoin at any point.
mircea_popescu: usg gotta split
the muppets off bitcoin chain. one way or another, but IT GOTTA BE DONE!!1
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2015 08:01:58; BingoBoingo: network message for relaying fraud proofs, a specification
that SPV wallet developers can use
to validate
these messages and so know when
to ignore
the highest (but invalid) PoW chain...
mircea_popescu: punkman aka "we want
to redefine honest
to mean 'honest' please play along".
punkman: proof of work. Fraud proofs are a
technique which provide honest full nodes
the capability
to conclusively demonstrate
that chain is invalid regardless of
the amount of proof of work backing
the invalid chain."
punkman: "SPV clients can connect
to multiple full nodes in
the hope
that at least one of
the nodes is honest and will provide
them with
the best valid chain, however situations may arise where
the non-compliant chain contains more proof of work
than
the compliant chain. In
this situation,
there is no way for
the honest full node
to signal
to an SPV client
that it should disregard
the chain with more
mircea_popescu: soonish we'll need a dedicated index just
to keep
track of
the various smackdowns we delivered.
mircea_popescu: did
the "well we wanted
to do xt but mp nixed it so i guess no xt" comunique appear as
the last entry on bitcoinxt ?
mircea_popescu: did buffett have
the audacity
to claim no shorts could be found with millions riding against him in publicly visible ledger ? sure. ever fixed
that ? no.
mircea_popescu: "it didn't happen, or if it did it shouldn't matter or if it does it has nothing
to do wit
them"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Because what non answer will
the give for nodes using maxint versions being censored
BingoBoingo: But
the alf experiment of see how many nodes
trb needs before being censored is worth at least
two chuckles