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mircea_popescu: ". Decrement isn’t a basic operation and requires linear rather than constant time" << this is perhaps the best part.
mircea_popescu: chiefly through stealing old irc discussion. guess now ima have to steal more.
mircea_popescu: this is all eerily related to the article im in the process of writing,
mircea_popescu: anyway, i originally though the guy was a programmer, which seemed interesting.
mircea_popescu: no consumer has ever demanded anything in the history of business to date.
mircea_popescu: it's supposed to be a diversion! the fucking trade is called variety!
mircea_popescu: in the case of fortran, yes. in the case of "entertainment" ?!
mircea_popescu: or maybe you wouldn't. "mit still running fortran". big whoop.
mircea_popescu: i spent a decade of my youth in roughly equal halves between producing porn and handling hollywood ip. you'd be surprised how often it is the case that "no scripts are new".
mircea_popescu: When asked about their shared Catholic faith, Eszterhas said of Gibson, "In my mind, his Catholicism is a figment of his imagination."
mircea_popescu: maybe this is how bitcoin dies, we run out of longints to save the diff.
mircea_popescu: people spendign 12 mn to buy mining gear in a month ? definitely.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's someone in a cave somewhere, never turned it off.
mircea_popescu: and the humans got 5 ph and the elves 7 and the dwarves only 3 cause they were midgets
mircea_popescu: if you went to the us army and said "you have to increase your firepower by 50%. you have one month. you can't get a bank loan for this"
mircea_popescu: allow me to rehash the usual arguments : this bet calls for a 50% increase in deployed hash power within a month.
mircea_popescu: i still don't know how they manage to be so well picked ffs.
mircea_popescu: and for all the talk of displeasure, if one compares the
mircea_popescu: so the guy can ask. course... always a good idea to ask before rather than after lol
mircea_popescu: Namworld i assumed they allow him to sign with the address ?
mircea_popescu: does coinbase actually allocate addresses to users, like a sort of wallet ?
mircea_popescu: zach_ then you could i suppose pester them to credit it, when it shows up. in general however you should not be doing this.
mircea_popescu: no, there is no way to change addresses it sends payouts to. otherwise everyone would cash in on everyone else's bets.
mircea_popescu: this means that it sweeps its btc into a cold wallet, which also means it will be paying from addresses it controls,
mircea_popescu: zach_ because it is likely that coinbase uses some sort of minimal security.
mircea_popescu: if you did not enter an address then coinbase thanks you for your donation.
mircea_popescu: this means, not using shitty services that don't add a fee to txs, and not betting late.
mircea_popescu: if however you send in such a way that your transaction doesn't make it before the bet closes, you're screwed.
mircea_popescu: zach_ as long as you control the destination address, you'll be fine.
mircea_popescu: and the airplane throwing thing is a fascinating exercise in impotence.
mircea_popescu: nobody can win the war on concepts, be they purely theoretical like heliocentrism or quite sordid like psychoactives,
mircea_popescu: there's an infinite number of people still using the airplane.
mircea_popescu: after you're done throwing an infinite number of people out of the airplane
mircea_popescu: anyway, the parachute argument eschews the infinity problem.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem is perhaps that you're confusing the internet and the web
mircea_popescu: probably a sort of point to point over wireless is already happening in the major cities
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves how is bitcoin related to the web, sweriously
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the relation of bitcoin to the web, mpoe-pr ?