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chalbersma: Mircea. I have
the p2pool server ready for
testing.
Vexual: wait, was i supposed
to
think
that? oshit
decimation: asciilifeform: re: analogue computing <<
this is essentially what rf circuitry is doing.
the general fad
these days is
to move all of
this computation
to
the conventional binary machinery
Vexual: think peter fonda deciding
to get loaded
Vexual: mircea_popescu great dissection of some great writing, i would
think
tho,
that
the our in our happiness refers not
to
the individual, but
the collective man as a beast
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller wait is
this new ? or just
the feb
thing ?
mircea_popescu: i don't need everyone
to be an idiot, i just need a few
to make my case.
mircea_popescu: and for all
the error-fiends : you can't correctly represent decimal numbers in computers
today, it doesn't stop anyone from derping on
the pretense computers are ideal machines.
mircea_popescu: jurov perhaps more a "Can shit we need done be phrased such
that wetware can do it better
than
the
turing machine"
kakobrekla: thats why
they go
the ibm synapse cpu way
jurov: question here was
the other way, can wetware do
turing stuff effectively?
mircea_popescu: the archetypal "rather
than explain your job
to you i'd rather just do it"
mircea_popescu: the question is more like, suppose i give you piles of C N H O etc molar equivalent
to
the contents of a live creature,
assbot: Loper OS » How Much Computation Does
the Universe Perform?
kakobrekla: reasonable speed for '100000point
travelling salesman' problem ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you readily know
the volume of "silicone" computation
that goes by in
the average cell ?
kakobrekla: asciilifeform correct. only
the bubblers are missing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know it's a bad habit
to state
the problem
thus.
assbot: 11 Photos of Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Erupting
That Are Just Unreal
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know, after
the first steam machines were introduced in
the 1800s, people saw
that horses and oxen are replaced, but believed
the intelligent movement of man will remain emulated for a long long
time
kakobrekla: i suspekt wetware is going
to stay emulated for a long long
time
mircea_popescu: jurov i still
think wetware comes before quantum, so
there.
ContingencyPlan: thanks for
the up - does anyone have a link for getting started with PGP/WoT?
assbot: BBC News - How do you stop
the flow of lava?
fluffypony: this is just begging
to be
turned into an altcoin
mircea_popescu is picturing kakobrekla sitting on a huge pile of coal, pumping
the server furnace as needed
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mircea_popescu: o look at
that, gizmodo links images off gawker-media.
they're not even worth
their own directory :D
chetty: who has order
their apple leash ..err watch?
mircea_popescu: shit, bitbet is still online. what sort of scam ddos is
this even
mircea_popescu: also,
that is NOT what a family is for fucks sake. what is
this, PREFIX instead of POSTFIX alternative universe ?
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha epic. "if only we knew what we need
to lie about in
the future, we could have made pesudomath
that did it back when"
mircea_popescu: 51) If our models could
time-travel back in
time, “we could have forecast ‘the pause’ – if we had
the
tools of
the future back
then” [NCAR press release]
mircea_popescu: anyway, since we're on
this, let
the permanent record reflect
that i've bought up all
the prime skyn avaialble at buenos aires' largest sex shop (called
the buttman).
assbot: List of excuses for ‘The Pause’ in global warming | Watts Up With
That?
mircea_popescu: ;;google i can
take about an hour on
the
tower of power as long as i gets myself sum golden shower
justusranvier: mircea_popescu:
That does fit better with
the
theme of giving you free wifi but no power
mircea_popescu: justusranvier i always
thought
they meant
that in
the sense of butt piracy
justusranvier: Philedelphia:
The city of brotherly love. (note: brotherly love does not include accessible electrical outlets in
the airport)
kakobrekla: blocking at
the lowest level
that _i_ can
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fluffypony: it's irritating and pathetic, but welcome
to 2014
mircea_popescu: looky : pre webz, every ghetto block corner had its "gang" with "leaders" which "the girls" (all 0.7 of
them) "worshipped". now we get
to hear about it is all
mircea_popescu: the internets will have
them all.
the dumb,
the poor,
the hungry. it's america.
fluffypony: they can't see
things
through
to a finish, so
they fail at life
fluffypony: there are a great deal of "developers" in
the altcoin section
that have *failed* at holding a job IRL
fluffypony: you know what I find
that's REALLY interesting
fluffypony: then
they become "developers" from kahn academy
mircea_popescu: hey, not
the kids fault
that
their parents dump
them on
the internet for an education
fluffypony: summary of
the Bitcointalk altcoin section
mircea_popescu: nobody has anything better
to do,
that's how we're all here :D
fluffypony: oh jesus don't
these people have something better
to do
assbot: Sarah Palin and family reportedly involved in party brawl in Alaska |
The Kansas City Star
skinnkavaj: good, people expect
transparency for business, but I also see a future in
the altcoin market with one altcoin
that offers something bitcoin cannot
today, anonymity.