mircea_popescu: the way this'd work would be as a list of rules ("no two consecutive spaces" or whatever) which the sources are checked against BEFORE diffing. should the check fail the options are either to propagate the fail ("file x not in format" error) or else to autofix (which'd work via sed).

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754358 << entirely not what's contemplated here ; asciilifeform spurious overloading of the concept unwelcome. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: women as in usg."women" and capitalism as in usg."capitalism" and "law" and so on forever.

mircea_popescu: which yes, kock wouldn't be koch if he didn't live to try and befoul the tools of salvation through association with his turpitudes.

mircea_popescu: but the concept itself is sound.

mircea_popescu: so in this sense i agree "secure memory" on current iron is not worth bothering with.

mircea_popescu: ofcoruse such a thing can not exist until we actually make tmsr-computer without dma

mircea_popescu: secure memory as a concept is actually pretty good, if implemented correctly. implemented as "not swapped" it's not useful, but if it were "untouchable by any other" it'd be useful.

mircea_popescu: cheap "cleverness" of the male virginarium aka monastery ; in same vein see also http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-08#1499583 ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: in that it bakes metasyntaxis into the code.

mircea_popescu: bad coding altogether.

mircea_popescu: it's a metaphore!

mircea_popescu: because hey, "core developers" too busy eating my asshole.

mircea_popescu: and yes, the original holder threads were never meaningfully revisited. this is a 10yo suture wound with the first silks still attached. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: early bootstrap is always ugly.

mircea_popescu: trb-as for anti-sybil.

mircea_popescu: (editor, as in, the human person, not as in the "editor" ie ide)

mircea_popescu: when i diff i want to see what you changed, not what your editor changed.

mircea_popescu: yes. but it is a conceptual failure on the part of diff that it presents these.

mircea_popescu: stuff like "two spaces after dot" vs "one space after dot" and http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-17#1752560 do not, properly speaking, belong in diff. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: phf the correct approach to this is pre-diff filtering masks. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: phf ayup.

mircea_popescu: which is my point, your interest in women consists of dreaming succubi.

mircea_popescu: best way, as per teh older discussion re your newly discovered interrest in boats.

mircea_popescu: can rent

mircea_popescu: :p

mircea_popescu: apparently shit asciilifeform makes sells ok, for just as long as it isn't him selling.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754228 << ahaha epic. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: what am i supposed to say now, "if only i had five more and pushed them harder, i could buy a las vegas casino ?"

mircea_popescu: other than the "hey, i spent like 100k usd for these cufflinks" lulz, there's also "hey, this slavegirl who was doing basic training made like 100 btc freelancing in 2012. so i'm today ~2mn usd richer because owning obedient slut."

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754215 << there's always a better path through history with retrospective power. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: almost like living in silicon valley!

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754176 << holy shit what! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754172 << why not ? great boating area, either you or girl ever saw uruguay ? ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754144 << misstated. "a coin has been ~spent~". obviously it was minted whenever the fuck the possibility of having the item appeared, which is probably before the big bang. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: myeah.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1754158 << if only. he has a point, they're not all the same thing. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: a few months after we standardized it (and without reference, OF COURSE)

mircea_popescu: iirc they even said they're breaking it.

mircea_popescu: fundamentally, the "quo warranto" inquiry is exactly equivalent to transaction verification.

mircea_popescu: that you don't "need to make a coin" for this should be evident, in the sense that the "coin" already exists. (not to mention -- http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1752985 ) ☝︎

mircea_popescu: but yes, this comes with the necessity of considering eg http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-14#1751602 as "a coin has been minted" ; i don't see http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-19#1753931 as anything other than an abstract rendering of the exact practical reality ☝︎☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes look into teh whole medieval history. two salient points : a) "honor", especially "why would it be said that the enchroaching of king into chivalry through pretense of fons honorum actually destroyed it" ; b) tenement, especially in the sense of subinfeudation.

mircea_popescu: 12k is almost human ☟︎

mircea_popescu: one coin per l1.

mircea_popescu: heh

mircea_popescu: i guess.

mircea_popescu: for a while it was church tower, same inca principle.

mircea_popescu: broadcast nevertheless is the ~only economical way to clock.

mircea_popescu: i suspect quartz hating is because obsoleting the last remnant of pre-socialism tech, the mechanical movement.

mircea_popescu: still not quite AS remarkable as discussed here, but yes.

mircea_popescu: no argument. they are.

mircea_popescu: 2^20 ~= 10^6 ?

mircea_popescu: it did ?

mircea_popescu: women ~generally make children, but that's only 3e12 cells or so.

mircea_popescu: etcetera.

mircea_popescu: consider, making a clock that works equally well over 1e20 time units,

mircea_popescu: this is no small matter generally.

mircea_popescu: now, the accomplishment here is that it tied a theoretical model to future development in reality.

mircea_popescu: machinery that behaves as intended over a large range of inputs impresses me. this isn't mandatory for anyone.

mircea_popescu: not much of a machinery.

mircea_popescu: it redirected me to oh i see what happened

mircea_popescu: anyway. so the range is approx 1e8

mircea_popescu: fucktards. dja realise that link is dead ?

mircea_popescu: that redirects.

mircea_popescu: very halpful, look, a pdf.

mircea_popescu: what's its range ?

mircea_popescu: and if you're proposing 2017 vintage intel cpu works anything like a diode you're in for a world of hurt.

mircea_popescu: that is NOWHERE CLOSE.

mircea_popescu: cpu transistor count is what, 1e10 ?

mircea_popescu: what about my cpu ?

mircea_popescu: name item, man-made or natural, that presents this property.

mircea_popescu: it was not obvious to me.

mircea_popescu: you do not encounter a phenomena where you go from 1 to 1e20 smoothly.

mircea_popescu: the point is that it worked.

mircea_popescu: not even seen in nature, such things.

mircea_popescu: the fact that blocktimes today are SO DAMNED CLOSE to the range intended 8 years ago in spite of diff going up 1e20 is unmatched.

mircea_popescu: nevermind that.

mircea_popescu: it scaled remarkably well, much better than expected really ; and much better than expectable. this exceedingly close coupling between model and reality isn't, to my knowledge, seen before in human industry.

mircea_popescu: i clearly remember gushing in the log many years ago, but can't seem to find. anyway : difficulty worked.

mircea_popescu: i don't mean here what rando-idiot thinks those are. i mean the actual article,

mircea_popescu: anyway. "discretized worldfunction", which is ~what pow+blockchain is, has obvious advantages.

mircea_popescu: right.

mircea_popescu: nor wioll.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform up to a point. if they came up with say riemann falsification , you'd care.

mircea_popescu: in all factuality we wouldn't have wot were there not pow.

mircea_popescu: well... call it a bootstrap

mircea_popescu: maybe "any" is too strong. but if one can take decision based on it, there's the evident problem

mircea_popescu: doesn't have to be complete being the only grace.

mircea_popescu: but it'd seem that in point of fact what is needed is a reliable description of all factual existence.

mircea_popescu: this is entirely new field, in fact, as http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1753861 etc : we don't even really understand what worldfunction si supposed to be. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: sure.

mircea_popescu: hm ?

mircea_popescu: indeed. no reason to.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform coins moved is a phenomenology function. worldfunction must discuss states.

mircea_popescu: (in the discussion re http://trilema.com/2016/the-necessary-prerequisite-for-any-change-to-the-bitcoin-protocol/ the item involved is a more elaborate... world function.)

mircea_popescu: but i suspect as implemented it is blind peculiarization of more general concept that needs unearthing.

mircea_popescu: anyway, one approach might be to a) create a scalar worldfunction and b) force reference to the discrete value of it. which is what pow ineptly tries to do.

mircea_popescu: maybe not.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but this just makes us a larger mp, you understand ? girl going "hail master, i am yours to command" does not resolve the problem.