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mircea_popescu: anyway, re lungs, as im a fan apparently : gas exchange happens through a wonderful bevy of yet poorly understood fluid/fluid phenomena. there's some true space tech going on in there.
mircea_popescu: i used the term metaphorically. the convo sounds like noise to you because you don't accept/have the priors. which priors he'd propose are a different authority structure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in summary, it's impossible to make sense of the leaves of a merkle tree that you don't have the root for, is what he's saying.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you ever had the opportunity to see lung tissue under good magnification, but it's a wonder.
mircea_popescu: but ftr, lungs aren't awful. especially human lungs are jewels imo.
mircea_popescu: hydration is prolly going to emphysema-kill you in weeks at the most. sorta in-between
mircea_popescu: kanzure fluid respiration does happen, and has happened since the 70s. it's not even that costly, biologically. lung NUTRITION however is impossibru.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo aha! it's like mp-berylium that thing, totally reflects my memory rays.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cuz we're patient and tolerant and i have a houseful of teenagers, mr grouch.
mircea_popescu: ie, "why do you know so much about string theory ?" "because im on this biker forum and this guy steve keeps posting articles about it" "yes but... it's neither that important nor interesting" "i dunno"
mircea_popescu: be it in school, on reddit, whatever. as a result, have deeply nfi about relatively fundamental, basic stuff, and WAY too much familiarity with relatively irrelevant fringe extensions of minor alt-theories in obscure fields.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with the current crop of kids is that they're so used to have OTHERS pick their reading materials for them.
mircea_popescu: every membrane will have a pore. it's only natural. dja know the joke with the horny bear ?
mircea_popescu: eh. think of it this way, if people didn't have barriers at all they'd be goo.
mircea_popescu: so basically, this is a sort of republic-like, some people got together trying to do [what their idea of] good is. not nearly as dead as cat-v.org thing for instance.
mircea_popescu: hey, for every single articulation there's multiple positions, and the shit we dabble in is many articulations long. combinatorial explody.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you run a grep on the site over my name or what
mircea_popescu: wtf is alt-right literature for my curiosity ? not ann raynd and such i hope ?
mircea_popescu: as oft discussed, the current system excists as does because satoshi was a lazy thinker.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that the money users pay is pocketed by the miners for mining ; whereas it should be pocketed by miners + nodes for mining + noding.
mircea_popescu: the problem is not one of proof, here, and it is imperial nonsensemachine to misrepresent it in terms of proof.
mircea_popescu: user pays for tx via fee. that's 100% all he has to do. if he should pay more, let the fee be more. there's not going to be any tack-ons in kind, it's a monetary system not fucking 1800s serfdom.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, * Topic for ##hplusroadmap is: biohacking, nootropics, transhumanism, open hardware | sponsored by lobsters everywhere, banned by the Federal Death Administration (5 times)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for one thing because i want to be able to spend by hand.
mircea_popescu: you are discussing the composition of said proofstring ; i was giving the ur-example of what he's talking about, "make USERS prove they have the blockchain, not miners".
mircea_popescu: even without going into any discussion re what is a "proper" proofstring.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform something like pubkey = hash(hash(privkey+proofstring) . privkey). you publish the pubkey AND the hash(privkey+proofstring) component. then when spending they check that indeed the proofstring component was correct.
mircea_popescu: kanzure you can't put that sort of burden on key generation. he has a point with the babbage quote, you're trying to put contraryt things in the same box.
mircea_popescu: "'I think his followers actually kind of excommunicated him after he lost their bitcoins." as opposed to "he actually blew up the early feelers of teh cartel a year ago, we're STILL butthurt about it".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember the days when "teh cartel didn't exist" ?
mircea_popescu: the lulzarmageddon on something awful, "oh bitcoin is useless" "really ? here's a dork shoving crayons in his ass for bitcoin" "OMFG porn and winning unpopular arguments are now bannable offenses on something awful" ?
mircea_popescu: what else did you miss, lessee, the 1k btc berkshire bet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what diff does that make. still the same dumbass FLUXBABBIT!!!11 nonsense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i see the merit in using the actual item though.
mircea_popescu: (most of the heavy lifting consists of OCR, mind you. that's the core of the job.)
mircea_popescu: not exactly what i want. it should work with arbitrary user provided links ; and it should specifically spit out the format required.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do we have the famous pdf unicorn-coconut or whatever took to the inept competition instead of bringing to qntra, resulting in a jail term for her ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: why not ? woulda saved that chicks bacon, what was her name.
mircea_popescu: kanzure ftr, does your pdfparanoia thing also wipe the yellow printer dots ?
mircea_popescu: aite, so it's this item that factors privkeys. has the whole db of pgp and ssh keys.
mircea_popescu: it's a state, like any other. well, better than most, at least in tech terms.
mircea_popescu: the republic fabricates its own hardware, building towards a complete stack. not to mention its own software, idem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: maybe that's why alf's ecoli were so uncooperative. basiliskation.
mircea_popescu: wait, you are telling me you are working at company x BECAUSE you work there, not so that you're on the //heres-some%20stock-photos-stolen-from-internets.htmk page ?!
mircea_popescu: kanzure 188 wpm sorta top speed ? that's pretty impressive.
mircea_popescu can't help but visualize endless expanded rice cakes, painted with the required assignats drawings. sort of like e-stamps, only edible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now ask me what is the diff between polar and cartesian coord systems.