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mircea_popescu: very much a case of "are you trying to learn how to fly the f-14 on the basis of having been a f-4 pilot, or are you trying to learn how to fly the f-14 because you loved f-14 flight sim on crapple as a teen ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it's because computing class is postodctoral, whereas language class is highschool. so they learn the x:=a a:=b b:=x "trick" way before anyone even explains xor.
mircea_popescu: TomServo i count that like i count microsoft windows offering. it's the anti-item. gia is all about fucking, not all about being a dork.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has a point though. you need someone as doggedly determined as ceausescu to keep the thing afloat. economic blocs are a reality for what, 50 years now ? euro "common market" was not particularily DESIRED.
mircea_popescu: guy was a major... well, like bill gates, or khodorovsky, however you call the faux business men produced by governments. except in ro, so he's talking 1e7 rather than 1e10
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from the perspective of "we're trying to survive mp" it is perfectly understandable. miner fees per tx are rapidly growing to a size comparable to the "walmart one item cost", which is what bitpay & all are willy-nilly married to.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, new car theft method : drink a bottle of coca-cola, screw the tap back on, stick it in between wheel and chassis on parked car, wait for owner to get in and try to leave. the bottle will sound, the muppet will get out of the car to see, at which point you can just leave with it.
mircea_popescu: ah so the idea basically is to tell the inexistent miner cartel not to mine txns they don't want ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's better to "sacrifice" self on the noble altar of high socialist ideals than to simply admit that can't make money and can't continue supporting losses.
mircea_popescu: um. so literally, they say pay x to y, you do, they go "lalala" ?
mircea_popescu: so what, they'll pretend they didn't get paid with tx in the blockchgain ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that "older comments" thing is abominable.
mircea_popescu: this apple piece makes for fabulous companion reading.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it will conveniently double as many things. i will add it to the topic link later today.
mircea_popescu: precisely because universities "became open" and "put online" their inept webcasts etc.
mircea_popescu: you are aware there exists no usable "learn to compute" item ANYWHERE ?
mircea_popescu: i am reading. so far, this is a major achievement, and quite fundamental at that.
mircea_popescu: i looked at thousands of once-there, now deceased sites. pretty depressing as an incidental, facebook made people measurably dumber.
☟︎ mircea_popescu recently went through his comment section, nulled out dead links. (you'd be surprised what survival rate of commenters pages is like)
mircea_popescu: you know it's not a great idea to leave live links to dead urls.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the previous runaround was enough punishment for his sins.
mircea_popescu: shinohai wanna put his thing in r/code or w/e it is, r/crypto, r/weRgrownupsnao ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform reading this backbreaker of an article i must say i r impresst. exactly what ffa needed, too.
mircea_popescu: i have this impression i was doing something but i can't remember what it was now.
mircea_popescu: where he explains what madona means by "like a virgin"
mircea_popescu: alf's browser (emacs) includes live-browsing extension, sends 4k px wide 100fps film of the page to his tape ticker.
mircea_popescu: basically fits half as much on your screen, but leaves plenty of room for writing in things on paper.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform annotation style printouts (every line is followed by an empty line)
mircea_popescu: in other news, this footlong plastic calzador i vbought at flexi (local shoe store) is one hell of a buttpaddle.
mircea_popescu: trinque while at it, can there be an acct history to check on this side ? or what's iyo the ideal approach here