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PeterL: bleh, maybe I just have no idea what I am
talking about
PeterL: well, once you get a good system,
then make it change slowly
kakobrekla: so if its not good why want
to change it slowly
PeterL: right, I am not saying
the current system is good
PeterL: big changes get put in
the news, usually
PeterL: ascii_field:
there is something
to be said for making it hard
to change laws, if changing
the law is
too easy
then nobody will be able
to keep
track of it
jurov: and some such idea can be discerned in Roman Republic,
too
ascii_field: but
the (very modern!) notion
that
the state would or could
tie its own hands - lunacy.
ascii_field: so you (crown) don't have
to personally sit and review every idiot land dispute, stray ox, etc
ascii_field: the only
thing statal (vs
tribal) law ever was, is a '3 ring binder' affair
to simplify peasant-herding
adlai: "fight fire with fire" breaks down when
The Law is above itself
kakobrekla: ascii_field not missing, 'betmoose' is right
there, in
the first comment.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo:
the buggers'
traditional defense is
to pretend
that
the event was a non-event - or, if
this is impractical,
to continue living in an imaginary world where
they 'scooped'
the story first, and all of
the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
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ascii_field: take something
that works but doesn't 'democratize' enough, or can be spun as such, and replace it with sham 'equivalent'
ascii_field: the
turdmeisters replacing
the genuine blockchain download process with an 'equivalent' one
that 'omg111itfinallyscales!!11' - was inevitable
☟︎ thestringpuller: "I’m actually, right now, working on just getting consensus among
the five, what I call, core developers —
the five developers who have push access
to
the git code. I
think I’m getting close
to convincing
them
that we have a plan
that will work. I’m probably going
to have
to write some more code . . . I
think we have a year
to eighteen months. I would love
the next release of bitcoin —
the next major release, which wi
☟︎ kakobrekla: i heard
the 100 dorra device you plug into it can indeed charge at same
time as you use usb or whatever it is
ascii_field: in other news, apparently apple released a portable machine
that not only has slower cpu clock
than
the
typical such box 5 yrs. ago - but cannot charge and use an external peripheral at
the same
time!
ascii_field: 'let's do
this
thing except we'll do it without actually doing it because actually doing it is omghardm4thish4rd and weloveruby'
adlai: the catcher in
the _field
ascii_field: 'subspace' >> 'Unfortunately, downloading all messages scales very poorly. In Subspace, we use a filtering
technique
that allows us
to mix our messages with a user-defined subset of
the
total message space, reducing your bandwidth consumption while preserving your privacy.' >> shitgnomism
adlai hasn't, beyond knowing
that
they claim
to not require everybody
to store everything (which bitmessage requires)
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PeterL: asciilifeform:but going back
to mathematical notation for a spell - let's write, e.g., a gnarly
triple integral, in plain humanlang. << When writing such an integral, I use words in my head as I put down
the symbols (eg. integral from 0
to 2pi integral from 0
to 1 integral from 4r^2
to 4 of xdxrdrd(theta) )
mircea_popescu: i wonder if
there;s a limit of how many you can plop
together before you end up in some novel hell
mircea_popescu: seeing how i'm not an electrical engineer, i'm prone
to misinterpret.
the boon of ignorance.
mircea_popescu: i'll note you'd have had a much more reliable response had you described rather
than shown :)!!!
mircea_popescu has been spending some
time looking at
this circuitry, understands why it backfeeds now.
adlai is
trying
to actually understand what loper-os links
to...
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it
translates
to
text quite perfectly well, and plainly : "if and only if". but
this is familiar
to people
trained in humanities more
than in cs i guess.
adlai would've had
to use
trial-and-error
to figure out which gate was represented, if
the filename hadn't specified it
mircea_popescu: not unlike ruby programmer imagining "o wow, so much better
than asm".
adlai: the only
text which i needed was
the filename
mircea_popescu: so now it's symbolized and you look at it and you figure hey, it's so much better
than
text
mircea_popescu: the only reason
that picture is even meaningful
to you is because you long ago digested its
text
adlai: eh, you can describe
this picture in less
than 1000
adlai: antecedent failure... for a moment, parsed
that as [firstlook] cite
thompson... but i guess
they're just journalists