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mircea_popescu: eventually someone in samoa is going to say some miner is not according to obscure samoan law thus undelivered thus bet is a clear no.
mircea_popescu: which has some merits, but how far are you going to go.
mircea_popescu: and as far as anyone kniows they'll get refurbished later to double performance or some shit
mircea_popescu: lol. nubbins` would you return a laptop because it comes with a power brick and you ordered ONE unit ?
mircea_popescu: fractal there'd have been a number of issues still, yes.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the rabinical council of lvov ever saw such heartfelt contention !
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i have no idea, but i think it's a ridiculous criteria.
mircea_popescu: fractal dude get away. it's ridiculous, anduck is this kid.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im sure at some point they were somehow packaged together. seems a weird way to go about it.
mircea_popescu: im just sitting here and partaking in the lively debate of shit that actually matters.
mircea_popescu: fractal need you a link to the earlier discussion of laptops ?
mircea_popescu: it is still absolute, but that doesn't mean absolutely anything someone wants it to mean.
mircea_popescu: deizel wasn't making an analogy for the bet, was simply verifying the properties of must.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` what of the sentence "you must bring a cup of coffee"
mircea_popescu: i won't intervene in cases where one party is pissed off with the judge's ruling.
mircea_popescu: im not the judge. the closest approximation would be i am the minister of justice.
mircea_popescu: it takes more to make a block than all the math done in the entire history of humanity up until 1900 or so.
mircea_popescu: (and if i was gonna i'd have registered it in january not september.)
mircea_popescu: and im not being facetious either. i'm actually curious. maybe i learn something.
mircea_popescu: well no, as a fiction it wouldn't. once it's live i'm curious how that works.
mircea_popescu: i'd bet there a lot, seeing how i probably have a lot more shitslinging capacity than you can dream of.
mircea_popescu: well if that's what you think i really can't wait for your competitor.
mircea_popescu: this is true now and it'll stay true as best as i can determine until we move on to writing c++ instead of english
mircea_popescu: ideally your position is substantially supported. if it's technically suported you're at risk.
mircea_popescu: but you'll have to understand that bitbet is used by many people for many purposes and technical arguments may or may not carry.
mircea_popescu: i get that in a strong nominalist view you want this as a no,
mircea_popescu: fractal they advertised two types, overshot performance on one, undershot on the other and made up for the difference sending more gear.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather have vague short text everyone can be expected to read than long text everyone can be expected not to read.
mircea_popescu: and yes it's not hard to link to a pastebin but it's hard to have it read.
mircea_popescu: this was well known aforehand, excuse me if i fail to be impressed a year later.
mircea_popescu: fractal he who steps into deciding contentious matters without recourse for the parties is going to make a lot of enemies of your sort.
mircea_popescu: address), it clicked instantly. Mercurial is thus named in Larry's
mircea_popescu: and the good fit with my pre-existing naming scheme (see my email
mircea_popescu: of 'fickle'). Given the multiple meanings, the convenient abbreviation,
mircea_popescu: Bitkeeper debacle that described Larry McVoy as mercurial (in the sense
mircea_popescu: "Shortly before the first release, I read an article about the ongoing
mircea_popescu: The streams are also exclusive-ORed together and that stream's entropy is estimated in the same manner. If the raw streams appear to have severely reduced entropy then it indicates a fault in that generator, if the third stream has low entropy then it indicates that the generators have correlated and are not independently gathering entropy.
mircea_popescu: honestly i doubt these know wtf they're talking about.
mircea_popescu: "The Entropy Key contains two high-quality noise generators, and an ARM Cortex CPU that actively measures, checks and confirms all generated random numbers"
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know one of the bright minds that made asics or wanted to make asics but didn't get to it in time should make a stick like that.
mircea_popescu: apparently linus t was complicit in weakening linux rng implementation.
mircea_popescu: i need to stop following these links. i have people insulating me from the idiocy for a reason.
mircea_popescu: "Why should the owners of two different exchanges spend their time and money to develop a protocol for transferring shares? How would it benefit either of them?"
mircea_popescu: there's no need for phones that are "entertainment centers" nor for browsers that are abstractions of the os.
mircea_popescu: benkay this trend to make the browser central to computing is retarded.
mircea_popescu: jurov "an unit" sorta has this "an hero" flavour to it. maybe it becomes a meme
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. im off to the 100mn diff celebration. take it easy all.
mircea_popescu: it's not encryption, is just detection of interception. and afaik it was in the field for military coms for a while. optic fiber allows it.
mircea_popescu: a closed harem is a difficult proposition. tensions build, you'll end up with drama on your hands.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man, i don't have a problem importing my pillows, but i like to use at least half local.