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adlai: only
the dead have seen
the end of war
BingoBoingo: We know not when
the war ends, but
they enemy knows even less so!
adlai: although
think of it
this way - if you shat in gold
toilets, you'd start dreaming about building Gold Woman
adlai: that's not really news
to me, beyond
the details about
the heater (congratulations, I guess?)
adlai wonders whence
the Second Foundation
adlai: are you being forced
to look at
them?
BingoBoingo: My nostrils can
testify
that
this as of
this fall
turds were still a more popular fertilizer in my area for corn and soybeans
than anything other.
adlai: what grows from
turdilizer is not a
turd,
though
adlai still wonders whether polish is better applied
to
turds
than, say, shoes, or nails
BingoBoingo: Naggum now lives in
the realm of
the mythical
BingoBoingo: I'm pretty sure
the state of
the world is
that
the one non-mythical person who knows cpp is asciilifeform and he loathes it.
mircea_popescu: what are you
talking about,
tons of people working on it from what iv'e seen ?
mircea_popescu: "tl;dr:
The Bitcoin Foundation exists so a few people can pay
themselves generous salaries and play important. Also,
they seem
to depend on
the Bitcoin price rising seeing
they lose money on revenue vs. expenses."
mircea_popescu: Lindsay Holland, assistant director, received $160k + $2,512. I have no idea what she's doing, other
than writing press releases, uploading conference videos
to YouTube and giving interviews about how she's paid in Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: Gavin Andresen, "chief scientist", received $209k of "reportable compensation" + $2,884 of "other compensation", for more
than $212k. Apparently
the foundation
thinks it's better
to pay one guy $212k for writing blog posts and giving
talks and interviews
than paying
three guys $70k each
to work on
the software
the whole pyramid scheme currency depends on.
mircea_popescu: we're back
to
the fucking state crap and we've not even revolutionized yet!
mircea_popescu: so now since
the b-a notary system is down, i can't check on wtf
taxes mpoe has
to pay
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you
totally have
to read more qntra. help fix
the quantcast demos.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Either one. Given
the CIA's history of applying diverse hires I would expect
thestringpuller
to be assigned
to somewhere lilly white or otherwise homogenous. Probably in a deep cover role
mats_cd03: nah, your first assignment will be
to befriend mp.
mircea_popescu: how about
the cia's strength and effectiveness as a potato ?
thestringpuller: "Your first assignment is
to become friends with
this man *displays picture of Snowden*"
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Might as well go.
They'll prolly station you in Russia.
thestringpuller: "The CIA's strength and effectiveness as an agency depends upon its ability
to employ a workforce as diverse as
the nation it serves."
punkman: "We never
thought a video would be watched in numbers greater
than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but
that was before we met PSY. "Gangnam Style" has been viewed so many
times we have
to upgrade!"
adlai: which raises
the question of how "usagi" is pronounced
adlai: after reading a bit more about
the scamosphere, in my mind, "usg" now gets pronounced "usagi"
adlai: oh you're
talking about
that other nsa
mircea_popescu: i
thought so
too, kinda wy i asked. he seems in
the prime market
to care about em
mats_cd03: not
that i know anything at all about how
this stuff really works.
mats_cd03: based on my observation of news on
this front, 'memristors' seems likely its rapidly becoming feasible and affordable
mircea_popescu: it's not like
there;s an actual dichotomy. you can have a ramdisk or a diskram for all it cares.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: science died. << "and yet we can't conserve
tech in amber".
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform speaking of
the fast memory
thing, did resistive ram go anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: whereas
the point i was making was kinda you know, in general.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, you're stuck in a paraeconomic crevice over
there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own,
terrahertz bus.
mircea_popescu: which is why "two oxen" is actually misleading. either it's one ox, or else it's an infinity of chickens. no
twos here.
cazalla: adlai: nubbins`: yes, but it could ignore
text within blockquote
tags <<<
this is correct, it does ignore
them and
this is actually one of
the first
things discussed when qntra was launched
mircea_popescu: some
things are discrete, an' being an ox is one of
them
things by definition.
mircea_popescu: but 31 bit doesn't work anyway. it's either 32 or 16.
that's it. you don't get "closer"
mircea_popescu: what, and 31 bit registers are closer
to functional
than 28 bit registers ?
cazalla: jurov: what's with
the submissions
to qntra containing lengthy documents verbatim? <<< anything contained in a <blockquote> as
those length documents are, do not count
towards word count
mircea_popescu: somehow having
this magical problem
that fits just right in
this otherwise narrow space seems very improbable.
mircea_popescu: if your problem can be approached with 2014 "state of
the art" killer micro, it can also be approached with killer micro
that was state of
the art in 2009.
that's
the whole argument.
mircea_popescu: not
that i'm against oxen or anything. but seriously,
trying
to sell me on braindamaged chickens with
three beaks as a sort of unavoidable oxen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know what you're saying, but i
think it's much rarer
than you make it look, a problem
that doesn't
take well
to chickens.
BingoBoingo: Was last difficulty 40,300,030,328 if so
then dropped
mircea_popescu: and nobody seriously reviews fraud
that involves public funds.
mircea_popescu: this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes
to sell
to
the gubmint
mircea_popescu: but i recall
that even before
the first cray, kiler micros did better
than
the mainframe.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much yeah. and
then Dull Gates dragged
the entire "industry" of nitwits along with him.