mircea_popescu: anyway. that's all for me, take it ezzy

mircea_popescu: lol this scamming the noobie carnie sounds so mark twain like.

mircea_popescu: cazalla not enough data to make a call

mircea_popescu: e has got you into several sorts of trouble" << my question is, why one word per cycle ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Suppose you want to support strings and have a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn't, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle. A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just as quickly; the only thing you'd save is a few bytes for instruction encoding. On the other hand, your string comparison thingi

mircea_popescu: not that many things in bitcoin with a better record

mircea_popescu: basically bitbet hgas paid 190 btc in dividends to date ☟︎

mircea_popescu: Confirmed total: 19000 BTC

mircea_popescu: have trouble understanding your proposal - ordinary users will be easily bamboozled by a government sponsored security update. Further, when the crisis hits, to disagree with the line, to doubt that the regulators are right, and the problem is the evil speculators, becomes political suicide, as it did in America in 2007, sometimes physical suicide, as in Weimar Germany."

mircea_popescu: er, more serious, and more disastrous, as with the most recent one. Each attack is hugely successful, and after the cataclysm that the attack causes the attackers are hailed as saviors of the poor, the oppressed, and the nation generally, and the blame for the the bad consequences is dumped elsewhere, usually on Jews, greedy bankers, speculators, etc, because such attacks are difficult for ordinary people understand. I

mircea_popescu: "The big and easy government attacks on money target a single central money issuer, as with the first of the modern political attacks, the French Assignat of 1792, but in the late nineteenth century political attacks on financial networks began, as for example the Federal reserve act of 1913, the goal always being to wind up the network into a single too big to fail entity, and they have been getting progressively bigg

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2013/digging-through-archives-yields-gold/ << this stuff is such greatness.

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> i don't really like the mr trololo treatment << this was re the seuss link

mircea_popescu: people with the drive to push the absurd quite very far, and with the means to actually do so irl rather than in their own minds/reddit pages.

mircea_popescu: and so the superman and the existentialist are both models of the late french aristocracy

mircea_popescu: well this is a very difficult question. but a good part of it is that nietzsche and sartre are not innovators except formally. fundamentally, they were retracing preexisting ideas,

mircea_popescu: i don't really like the mr trololo treatment

mircea_popescu: not in the name of progress, no.

mircea_popescu: i mean what, hollywood used it to establish just how speshul redford is to make sharon stone fucking him for money acceptable to the housewife in attendance

mircea_popescu: decimation you know who was talking on the cellphone back in those old days ?

mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i am really excited about this thing, i hope it keeps up. it would be so awesome if i never had to look at coindesk again. << you have NO IDEEA how awesome this thing actually is

mircea_popescu: <mike_c> when's hanbot going to start contributing? << latest was hers neh ?

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because modern111!1111 browser won't build there << what is the "modern browser" for ?