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mircea_popescu: inflation is a
transfer of wealth from old
to young,
to mirror
the
transfer of relevancy.
ascii_field: where i lose
the mental
thread is
the part where
this is somehow curable
mircea_popescu: you understand
that
the bitcoin (holder, miner) set is an exact
translation of
the irl (old fart, young cock) set yes ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: possibly i'm
thick, but i don't see how inflation is a pill against miner defection
mircea_popescu: neither of
these seems
to work well even
theoretically, let alone
the practical mess
they entail. it is probable an alternative interpretation of reality
through
the bitcoin
twisted mirror actually exists, but i'm not where i can see it.
mircea_popescu: the other obvious approach is probably at
the root of
the "proof of stake" retardedness.
mircea_popescu: seeing how historically, inflation between .5 and 1% a year seems
to correlate with a maximum on
the wealth creation graph.
mircea_popescu: alright, so each block reward is say 17/100000000 of
the
total monetary base.
gribble: Error: Something in
there wasn't a valid number.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes one obvious approach is, fixed rate inflation, rather
than decaying inflation. each block reward is say 1/10k
the current monetary base.
pete_dushenski: the great glorious excellent nation of bahamas :
the world leader in yeswecan
to an extent and degree unmatched by
that 2008 u.s. campaigner who illegally infringed upon
that great glorious excellent nation's copyright.
phf should
try
this it at a
towncenter skating rink
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how would you have designed
the "securing of bitcoin-gold" differently from
the current mining scheme?
mircea_popescu: those people retired,
their kids grew up with
this "if i don't look uner
the bed
there's no bugaboo
there" outlook on life and everything.
mircea_popescu: trinque
there's films from
the late 70s and all
through
the 80s going "hey, us better shape up or we're fucked"
trinque: substituting
the dot-com bubble in industry's place was
the loudest admission of "we have nothing left
to say" we could've made
trinque: could smell
the desperation in
the air growing up in
the 90s
ascii_field: aha, 90s, when a few
things still kinda worked
shinohai sheds a
tear for
the 90's anyway.
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that such a
thing matters anymore.
that was more of a consideration in
the 90s, back when
there existed some sort of school discipline.
trinque: shinohai: could be just ddosing for
teh lulz
shinohai: Why all
the hate on freenode suddenly?
mircea_popescu: (Registrar: ENOM, INC. as for some reason
the derps don't use
their own license)
mircea_popescu: anyone see namecheap on
the qntra.net whois for my curiosity ?
mircea_popescu: which makes about as much sense as anything
to do with dns, really.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of alternate reality perceptions : both namecheap and internet.bs
THINK
they hold
the registration of qntra.net currently.
ascii_field: danke mircea_popescu. mega-ddos on
this side of
the sea
gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 377.68, Best ask: 378.0, Bid-ask spread: 0.32000, Last
trade: 378.03, 24 hour volume: 46799.13590388, 24 hour low: 361.3, 24 hour high: 384.99, 24 hour vwap: None
punkman: trying
to figure out which parts are stupid, I'm still wondering why
this
thing has passwords
adlai: byzantine dns are
the best failures
mircea_popescu: Obama administration officials don’t dispute
that, but say it has helped connect
the dots on potential
threats."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Paul has made his opposition
to
the Patriot Act a key plank of his 2016 White House campaign and argued
that
the program hasn’t foiled a specific
terrorist plot.
punkman: but said on
tv he'd rather live with
teh animals
punkman: and believed
that he was
taking part in a completely legal goat-burning
tradition. After Jones was released from jail he went straight back
to
the US without paying his fine. As of 2006 it was still unpaid."
punkman: "2001: Goat set on fire on 23 December by Lawrence Jones, a 51-year-old visitor from Cleveland, Ohio in
the United States, who spent 18 days in jail and was subsequently convicted and ordered
to pay 100,000 Swedish kronor in damages.
The court confiscated Jones' cigarette lighter with
the argument
that he clearly was not able
to handle it. Jones stated in court
that he was no "goat burner",
BingoBoingo: punkman: Only
through XML does a line of
text become a "stanza"
punkman: re: irc
threads, suppose we had a client
that merge multiple channels into a single stream
BingoBoingo suspects cocaine would be surpremely effective, but
the whole sobriety
thing
BingoBoingo: punkman: Isn't dexamethasone
the bad kind of steroid?
mircea_popescu: seeing how
the only question is "what fraction of bitcoin reserves is safe
to be kept as fiat"
mircea_popescu: whenever
trinque is
the 2nd word in a sentence my latin parser kids in
BingoBoingo: And my nose doesn't need
to identify as
transJewMayoQueer
mod6: thanks
trinque, let me know how it goes.
assbot: Balaji S. Srinivasan on
Twitter:
The day is coming when Google must bulk purchase Bitcoin
to crawl
the machine-payable web : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1XChT2Y )
mircea_popescu: remains staying outside of
the Core fork << spurious staying
assbot: Logged on 30-11-2015 00:12:56; pete_dushenski: (how azerbaijan is in 'europe' is for ecclestone
to answer)
kakobrekla: server is still sort of in war mode since
the last ddos attacks
phf: i patched my script
to do HEAD on files
to ensure
that i'm up
to date, probably doing
them in loop on
the entire set is what
triggered
phf: from my machine only
though. is
there some kind of
tripwire
there?
kakobrekla: you dont have
to get married, you can just pay.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in general
the housewives
that succeed in
their life's work of "getting everyone
to stop messing up
the house" are ~a year away from having
to decide if
they wish
to file for divorce or just come
to
terms with
the fact
that
the husband lives with a younger woman now.
kakobrekla: second best is
to have a house keeper, but
that has failed.
kakobrekla: the best way
to keep a house
tidy is not messing it up in
the first place
phf: i keep bookmarks around, per subject
that i'm interested in, or mp/ascii dialogues
that i might want
to reread. a solution
that i was
thinking of hacking up in my own system is ranged highlights, basically same idea as on
trilema, but instead of point-to-point it's entries and ranges. so on subject of v
the link becomes entries=333,350-380,490-492,500-505. perhaps
that sort of bookmarks can be shared,
to have an illuminated log
mircea_popescu: pete_d has been
trying in his own way
to fight
this i gather, with mixed results.
mircea_popescu: certainly all sorts of buried gems in
there by now
that all of 3 people maybe know about.
kakobrekla: better comparison
than professor seems
to me a giant book
that contains everything without any order or index or chapters or ...
mircea_popescu: but so stated (say i wanna reread everything
that x),
the problem is obvious
to me
too. we're in danger of losing it.
mircea_popescu: the
total size has balooned but each person has
their own comfortable paths cut
through
the field, like so many mice.
mircea_popescu: uni professor comes before
the class of 100 kids, reads
the 30mb of log,
mircea_popescu: no,
the idea is you keep your own lecture notes, which are not necessarily equal
to another's.
kakobrekla: id be able
to
tune it down
to 10 megs instead of 30. out of 100k needed.
mircea_popescu: which is how intellectual life organized
the large conversation back when people still had an intellectual life.
mircea_popescu: think
the old system of "library cards" or "study notes"
mircea_popescu: if you had a summary you would in principle be able
to.
kakobrekla: say i wanna reread everything
that was said about 'v', i have
two options;
mircea_popescu: anyway, slaves schmlaves. i
tried
to do it myself,
the summarization of logs, gave up in anger.