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mircea_popescu: they're not so stupid, and
the measure of
their superior intelligence is
to be found in
the joyous cries of
the noble roman's girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: that's what late empire matrons
tell
their effette offspring
that just lost at
the races
to
the hearty barbarians : "don
funkenstein_: the point at which Americas so
teemed began in 1600 or so
mircea_popescu: it is drastically unwise
to imagine a certificate of intelligence as a sort of consolation prize.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ <<
that's basically
the ideology of butthurt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and at some point, america
teemed with fucktarded savages and nobody came
to kill
the males and rape
the females.
mircea_popescu: actually more floor space = better for a short interval at
the place
they're now.
mircea_popescu: they don't understand
that if you sell for yourself, and not
to put in a desktop, you have diff engineering constraints
mircea_popescu: the packing
thing is a result of
the consumer electronics market
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
they're just going
through
the motions.
they don't really know what
they're doing, nobodyu sat dowqn and
thought
things
through.
mircea_popescu: o, wait,
that schmucky chick. what was it, chamber of buttsex ?
mircea_popescu: i am not unaware of
this possibility, yet i apparently discounted it, preferring a divergent approach. maybe i'm just
that dumb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. chief among
them, a poor handling of cooperation.
mircea_popescu: it isn't
the worst play, but hard
to get
the notion
through.
mircea_popescu: people have
this fixed idea
that getting others involved is
the worst play.
mircea_popescu: of course, sold != deployed, but
the error isn't great.
mircea_popescu: do
the math, sometime. a miner earns 0.2% or some shit.
mircea_popescu: and if it were
the case
the commercial value of piece of pluto
ten
times exceeded
the commercial cost of sending miner ?
mircea_popescu: but if it does exist,
then yes, it will necessarily be found eventually.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, your hero also bleeds,
there's a lengthy cultural history of
this idealisation problem.
mircea_popescu: this is
traditonally pointed out
to
the shy young male as "you know, even
the lady of your heart farts"
mircea_popescu: i am merely pointing out
that if both
things you discuss exist,
then both necessarily, by definition of existence, are approachable.
mircea_popescu: the curse of existence is
that it is approachable. just like a
tool has its uses, irrespective of a maker's intention.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as
they both exist,
they both exist. inasmuch as
the one you're good at doesn't exist, you're basically wanking.
mircea_popescu: "oh it can be
the case i can lift rocks but not railroad metal"
mircea_popescu: there is an ennumerable list of people by
their intelligence.
this usually reduces
to sorting
them by score
funkenstein_: there is a special space in
the hilbert space of stupidity for
those who
think intelligence can be well described with a scalar
mircea_popescu: in any case, weren't you bravely accusing ME of viewing
things as scalars ?
mircea_popescu: and yes, redditards are not necessarily unintelligent in
the sense of derp.
mircea_popescu: for
this is
the definition of intellectual faculty :
the driver.
mircea_popescu: if one is purportedly intelligent, how is it
then
that his brain does not work intelligently ?
mircea_popescu: but
that's not where
the problem lies.
the problem lies at
the spot where you propose
there exists an "intelligence"
that nevertheless does not have control of
the processor.
mircea_popescu: me ? you're
the one
to fire. you proposed pink shapeless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ready for
the will/intelligence discussion ?
decimation: for other applications moving
the clock around might make
them sad
decimation: in
the case of bitcoind
that would work
decimation: but you could periodically bang
the clock
decimation: well,
the advantage
that ntp brings is
the long-term PLL
that gently corrects
decimation: likely
the rtc has a more stable clock
than
the 2ghz clock
that runs your cpu
mircea_popescu: i don't expect
technologee changed
these much since
the 90s
decimation: asciilifeform: you can configure ntp
to ignore
the network and use RTC
decimation: unfortunately
the really cheap ($1) rtcs available do not come with specs, it would be interesting
to know what
they are
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's still a very good clock by
the looks of it.
decimation: but as you can see it isn't cheap,
the chip is about $9 in single quantity and about $4 in units of 1000