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assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 00:51:09; mircea_popescu:
to make sure : your notion of "paying" includes "peers
that relay
txn
that are worthy of going in our pool", correct ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much every amateur
thinker / world saver captive in english as his sole language would benefit immensely from reading balzac. whereas
the clueful might really enjoy
the elegant display he makes of
things.
mircea_popescu: it's quite simple : if you're old but somehow "owner", you will get so fucking raped you'll deplore
the protections of
that "ownership".
mircea_popescu: he also has an excellent depiction of
the exact mechanics of inheritance in eugenie grandet
mircea_popescu: the casual, obvious manner in which he
treats
this otherwise subtle point really stuck with me. 1800s! man got it.
mircea_popescu: one of
them dominates, but
takes care
the other one (some widow, buncha incompetent losers) doesn't outright go out of business
mircea_popescu: anyway, he has a story about doesn't matter what, in which
the setting is
that
two groups have licenses
to print newspapers in some small
town
mircea_popescu: the most important point of military strategy is
that a weak position which
the enemy doesn't invest is not really weak in any sense.
this is
the meaning of napoleon's "never interrupt"
mircea_popescu: have a special, encrypted protocol. fix
the "magic hole" issue
too
mircea_popescu: to make sure : your notion of "paying" includes "peers
that relay
txn
that are worthy of going in our pool", correct ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: looky :
there are parts where we may... ever so slightly... deviate.
hanbot: sounds like what asciilifeform was
talking about.
kakobrekla: 'Furthermore,
the final program did not work reliably when it was loaded onto other FPGAs of
the same
type.' < fun
kakobrekla: It seems
that evolution had not merely selected
the best code for
the
task, it had also advocated
those programs which
took advantage of
the electromagnetic quirks of
that specific microchip environment.
The five separate logic cells were clearly crucial
to
the chip’s operation, but
they were interacting with
the main circuitry
through some unorthodox method < heh
mircea_popescu: the reason you can not see
the substance of
the future should be apparent.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking magic, yo. utterance is not
the glue
that makes it stick.
mircea_popescu: but it goes all
the way
to
the fucking celts, you knoiw, "you never had iron
tools. everything you say, and everything you
think you mean or stand for is
therefore invalid"
mircea_popescu: and it stands. no man can look you in
the face past
that, for he's a sort of a
toy.
mircea_popescu: for kids born in
the 80s when
talking
to
their parents it's "shut
the fuck up, you fucked women in a single hole your entire life"
mircea_popescu: every generation has
this, an overpowering, indomitable reason why
the previous one fails
to matter.
mircea_popescu: but
that aside, naggum's via alf point re complexity being usually and generally as a safe bet
the result of someone missing
the
thinkboat certainly stands resplendent on its own feet.
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2015 22:11:06; asciilifeform: jurov: his position, if you recall, is
that we are more or less stuck with
the
turds forever.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2015#1222669 <<
the problem is
this : you have
to verify old blocks. all of
them, al lthe way
to genesis. if you do not, for whatever reason, you are on an alt. and if you're going
to make an alt, better make it properly and deliberately rather
than
the idiot woman "i had
too much
too drink so
things happened" approach.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eulora is suddenly more advanced
than
the state of new york.
mircea_popescu: if jurov finally gets a proper chat system built in, and we have a chat bot
that does auction lists etc...
mircea_popescu: hey midnightmagic ask me
things about
things will you.
mircea_popescu: heh Luke-Jr fighting a loser's battle with his "bitcoin core" matters
twu faith.
mircea_popescu: or 120k of
the romanian lei of
the
time. 50 or so salaries.
kakobrekla: compatible with
the pyramids or what was it
kakobrekla: The BIOS in many personal computers stores
the date and
time in BCD because
the MC6818 real-time clock chip used in
the original IBM PC AT motherboard provided
the
time encoded in BCD. < heh
assbot: Logged on 03-04-2015 19:07:33; mircea_popescu: look. whatever whatever may be built as or not, i have
two basic expectations. one is, for fucking machinery
to behave
the same way from night
to next evening.
the other, albeit weaker, is
that if i get a "minimal work"
thing i actually have
to do minimal work.