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mircea_popescu: a 12 meter rocket + the semi truck carrying it x3 + tankers + c&c + meteo etc ?
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, pentagon went in with the same expectations ; but never actually managed to land a hit)
mircea_popescu: and we're talking 100s of airborne detectors, latirn, synthetic aperture radars, the works.
mircea_popescu: too much like normal trucks, too burried into em background.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes, all bugs are in the pie since the baking.
mircea_popescu: but there's definitely TWO known bugs in bitcoin now. to the ancient and oft discussed here node-miner split, we are to add this new one, pow-centralization.
mircea_popescu: the bricking-of-extant-asics moment edges ever closer.
mircea_popescu: ditions on the matter being PoW than originally agreed upon, through d) the direct avenue of refusing to continue "non-compliant" chains.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model is as follows : if a) a PoW system exists in which b) a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: also should be a comment there, after the pragma "if you unban these careful about wswap)
mircea_popescu: he has a good nose sniffing it out, but i don't believe your sicilian's "if thumbs hurt, cut arm at elbow to be sure" approach is warranted. next patch put a warning in the comments an' let 'em be.
mircea_popescu: but, it wouldn't happen if foo(4,4) nor when foo(x,y) where the VALUES of x=y=4. it'd strictly happen when foo(x,x) ie, same variable_name
mircea_popescu: i can't conceive how this can occur. how can it occur ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think your response to apeloyee is correct actually, when you call with the same item you're fucking yourself. BUT!
mircea_popescu: let it be clear for everyone that pushing "cloud" and pushing "Hateful/prejudicial language/slurs = Kickban" and generally pushing the ustardian aggenda = death.
mircea_popescu: to quote from myself, "just wanted to let you folks know it's great fucking news your sad zombie finally croaked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "linux journal" advertises "puppet" and some "in their words" about "becoming a cloud native organisation".
mircea_popescu: yes but by now it is counteradvisable to work for eg nsa if you're not poor from a purely wealth management perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now ~90% or so of us "law enforcement" consists of "asset forfeiture". totally not bankrupt empire.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo everything that's not run by usg runs better than anything that's run by usg. you've got a better chance to manage an airplane bombing strike by talking to some obscure black bloc than the dod.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes statistics can produce toxic facts. it is broken like bitcoin, needs "payment protocol"
mircea_popescu: it conceivably was a bit of personal bitterness over some ancient story about taping people in hotels. or any other thing.
mircea_popescu: can't say i exactly get it either, but it wasn't teh usians so what exactly is lefty.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... prison life can be hard for a 68 yo whom teh russians particularly dun like. bonus points : his lawyer "suicided" self by jumping before train.
mircea_popescu: the guy's son somehow managed to have teh ICSID tell the romanians to get fucked (they actually had an interpol "arrest warrant" out for the guy)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, if you want another vignette : dan adamescu was this fellow, 2nd richest romanian (excluding mp, of course) in 2013. then the govt took its krysha back, his company magically was now bankrupt, by 2016 he was being sent to jail for supposedly trying to bribe the judgtes in a 1e8 civil case with 20k. early 2017 had died, of septicemia, for which he had been placed in medical coma. it all begun with a knee ope
mircea_popescu: not from legal. which would make the alien anthropologist suspect the russkis have the great inca, not the usskis.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, ru "correct" is moar like "legal" than anything.
mircea_popescu: the above. "E1337 : i dunno how to evaluate if you're right".
mircea_popescu: (in other news, #trilema fucking takes the cake in terms of error messages.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some kind of uci is the only possible solution to "superinformation highway" potholes.
mircea_popescu: (i guess this isn't obvious to anyone but me, but obviously once the item is in chan the very first next extension is "now let it take a list of urls in paste from user")
mircea_popescu: nothing infinite is ever practical, so this objection is moot.
mircea_popescu: yes, large, difficult, etc task. not however avoidable, in the end.
mircea_popescu: and the whole fucking point is SPECIFICALLY so that they can't accomplish anything and get fucked in exactly the way blacks got fucked via obamaing.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact that in 3-400mn walkers there's at least a dozen or two chicks who could have done it.
mircea_popescu: in my topgun hs class we had a chick being chem first hand and another being either math or physics 2nd hand, whichever line was thin.
mircea_popescu: no wai. in 1999 if female stood up in say polynomial interpolation class, you didn't just check out.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if anyone remembers, BUT! there was a point in earth's history when what chick said was not automatically dumb.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything, from usenet to "what will the chick you pick up via irc or from a game lan party say".
mircea_popescu: the petri dish had exactly one generation's worth of leak.
mircea_popescu: two major divides : a) post cunt-is-for-fucking late 80s what with the condoms, pills, disco scene end and b) pre internet-is-for-everyone 2005 or so
mircea_popescu: nitric acid also not automagically great even if not necessarily lethal.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee! apple drawing thing!"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the concept of "programming" in a sense other than direct memory write was something i had to deliberately learn against inclination. like mult table, about the same time. "wtf is this bs and why am i writing words"
mircea_popescu: phf pascal was huge letdown for me, either didn't have or i didn't know how to get to the direct memory diddle.
mircea_popescu: also had direct-to-memory (via poke) chartable switching :D
mircea_popescu: (thing had programmable characters, you could define your own 8x8 bitfield glyph, anyone recall ?
mircea_popescu discovered xor while trying to make z80 gfx as a 7-8-9yo.
mircea_popescu: "it is better for your jet fighter to resemble a stove than a wafer".