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mircea_popescu: but be this as it may, i can't distinguish nor am i inclined to distinguish j supran's pretense that he engages in "science" from random wanna-be-trilema online publication's pretense that it describes "the mainstream" from random wonderdiet late night cable sleazemarketer's "salvation cuisine" from any of the rest of the gunk. they are exactly the same thing, and the word to denote them exists already. barbar.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone ever met more kinds.
asciilifeform: i'm still trying to puzzle out if i even disagree with mircea_popescu , upstack
asciilifeform: if i had to pick between, e.g., jonathan swift's, lice, or the life of homo walmarticus, it would not be a hard choice to go with the former
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 15:31 asciilifeform: 'well ~i~! know now that i'm not an acorn. but do THE SQUIRRELS know??????'
asciilifeform: however i probably ~could~ (and at one point did) watch planes take off , all day. so point taken.
ben_vulpes: i would watch all day.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i admit, i watched for a spell.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: to entertain your scenario, i go elsewhere because i'd rather watch the big hydraulics.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: at one point city was digging up water pipes on my street, drill all day long, i would go elsewhere. how is this not 'escape' ?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: metaphor is rather thick, i cannot see through it
ben_vulpes: all things i want more of in my life, just like regular americans
ben_vulpes: digging peat out of the ground kills me; i grew up running around on 100yr old moss blankets
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes's 'how do i get rid of my rubbish in this shithole where city charges 10bux/pound' reminds asciilifeform of asciilifeform's shed gymnastics. in that both are problems that 'sane folx' would solve by... moving
ben_vulpes: if i have time and energy, i'll be experimenting with the pickled food waste compost + charcoal in a different corner of the yard, in planters to mitigate externalities
ben_vulpes: i heard parts of the bezosnet went out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i see an eggog
mircea_popescu: who can take "feminist intellectuals" seriously, i wish to know ?
BingoBoingo: In the city I hear the convert it to the freebase and smoke it
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I though the appeal of programming work was a porsche in the driveway for one's blue haired silicon valley transpig
shinohai: BingoBoingo: I'm trying but I get 90% "Bigger" tit blocks
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> trb-tits << I thought that was shinohai's fork
mircea_popescu: i guess it must not be very good.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In my mind trb-i is discussion piece. Ideal may be impossible. trb-i may end up being way to consider idea for trb-b which suceeds trb-a (a is for arse)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: keep in mind, it's ~a possible~ trb-i, not ~the~... thing's quite certainly still in 'matrix mechanics' stage of life, and who knows, for how long.
BingoBoingo: Oh the Trump flensing knife lulz come out tonight, while still digesting trb-i theory. What a time to be live!
asciilifeform: hm, now that i think about it, when using mircea_popescu's algo, you take your current chain to be the linearization. and if your chain gets orphaned, you consequently get a new linearization.
asciilifeform: (how many is N ? i have nfi.. mircea_popescu remembers a time when n was 60, iirc from last night thread)
mircea_popescu: i'm not in the business of telling clerks how to run their office. it is clear what the blockchain is, no further explanation is needed.
ben_vulpes: i attended one sometime in the last five years, and it'd been sadly neutered and taken over by the mayos
ben_vulpes: trinque: in portland, when i was a wee one, they were a deliberately not-as-raunchy-as-they-could-be bdsm-lite-junior-queers-and-thespians social club
asciilifeform: ^ if anyone recalls the 'eatblock' thread -- i found that my blkxxxx.dat differed, in a handful of places, from mircea_popescu's, and yet again from every other trb node's.
trinque: I watched a talk he gave in 2016 sometime, subtext sounded like "real change comes on the other side of a currency crisis"
mircea_popescu: really, they went straight back to the october pipe, that's all they got ? i thought it was going to be protests and revolutions and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think i ever went to a cinema with a girl that wouldn't take stuff off. not past the age of 13 in any case, or as an independent agent, or however you put it.
trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619750 << people make it sound like it's some kind of interactive burlesque, cept I hear not so much as a bare tit swings free ☝︎
asciilifeform: or he would've swung it by nao, i suspect
a111: Logged on 2017-02-20 00:22 danielpbarron: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber >> they said that I didn't show any signs of an upward career trajectory. I pointed out that I was publishing a book with O'Reilly, speaking at major tech conferences, and doing all of the things that you're supposed to do to have an "upward career trajectory", but they said it didn't matter and I needed to prove myself as an engineer.
asciilifeform read 'i got a day of iss' , thinks 'damn, launched to international space station, what atrocity'
mircea_popescu: in fact the entire substance, such as it is, of "i fucking love science" contemporary idiocy is exactly that, "omaigerd nature is stylish!"
shinohai: I got a day of ISS because I said she was in the wrong camp.
shinohai: I had to read that horror in Hugh School.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, one of the supposedly intellectual libertard dorks.
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: honestly i kinda lost interest once it was about shithead news. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-01-28 03:24 asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-27#1608577 << here's one crackpot method: implement 'gravitation'. analogously to physical one. i.e. an agglomeration of coin is worth ~more~ than selfsame coin in fragged form. quantifiably, in some straightforward way.
asciilifeform: ( for utter pedantic completeness, i will also link back to one other solution to fragging: 'gravitation' : thread http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-28#1609013 ) ☝︎
asciilifeform: likewise, in sect. 6 i ought to have explicitly stated that Z is a sig that covers not only I,O,C,F,Q but also T. perhaps this is evident to alert reader - but ought to have been explicit.
asciilifeform: specifically, in section 5, where we have T'_i = H(T_i) ought to read instead : T'_i = H(A'_i+T_i).
asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu to revisit upstack : there is a serious mistake in my casks.txt , that i did not spot until now:
mircea_popescu: same exact nonsense, "i'll talk about things i don't know"
mircea_popescu: bout the same thing, occupy wallstreet, black lives matter, student choice in education, i will fix bitcoin,
asciilifeform: (or 'i found out about bitcoin, and now i will fix it!1!!')
asciilifeform: i for one do not much care whether they 'take remedial class remedial in washing' in a specially-designated leprosorium , or in mircea_popescu's cellar; just for so long as the non-washers do not get to redefine what washing means.
mircea_popescu: ceteris paribus i'd rather take a clueless teen than the confused twentysomething she naturally produces.
mircea_popescu: to make the story round, alf : there is ample record, not just re antinisca nemour's stinky feet, but in general regarding the women of the 70s and before. they didn't wash. what i have to deal with today in say http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537246 is the tail end of a half century process that BEGAN with exactly this, "sharing the fruits of industry", in this case hollywood, with people unfit to make the wot lists. all ☝︎
mircea_popescu: it is one thing to not permit the infantile to interact with you ~on their own terms~. this, i wholeheartedly support. it is quite another thing however to not permit the ifnantile to interact with you at all. this is insupportable.
asciilifeform: if it i buy a new, more efficient cpu, that heats the room less with each cycle, but the gained cycles are used to maintain the self-delusion of redditors -- this is a loss, not a gain !
asciilifeform: i for one would actually rather that my cpu heat the room , than handle redditor's pissdusttx.
mircea_popescu: to briefly revisit http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619936 : idiotcy like spending a fraction of this "technological unit of account" is currently punished by high relative fees like the case of the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619097 "oh noes i tried to pay 25 bux, ended up charged 6%". ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: i proposed a mechanism with minimal somethingtoallcomers, and correctly-balanced, imho, incentives. it remains to other folx, to ~dispose~, neh.
asciilifeform: perhaps not the best analogy. i make rifle, and monkey uses it for hammer, he has nfi where is the trigger or which end is the business end -- monkey's problem , not mine.
mircea_popescu: "but if i make mircoscope, and monkeys - use it for a hammer - what's to do."
asciilifeform: granted, the stupidity of users knows no limit. at least i for one do not know its limit. but if i make mircoscope, and monkeys - use it for a hammer - what's to do.
mircea_popescu: i used to think this is principally a figure of speech, then i saw a dude fucking a misfortunate husky.
asciilifeform: what can i say, tastes vary..
mircea_popescu: yeah, i suppose that's why you never went to any wash dc orgies. but lots of people find the promise sufficient.
asciilifeform: i have 0 fondness for the mempool, it is 99% rubbish, and uniquely retarded means of accomplishing what it was meant to accomplish
asciilifeform: an item i forgot entirely to mention in the original piece.
asciilifeform: 'i give you a republic, if you can keep it' (tm) (r) (somebody)
asciilifeform: here we have another piece where i used a nail instead of a hinge.
asciilifeform: 'i wanna play chess, but i know 0 chessplayers'
asciilifeform: 'i wanna fuck, but i know 0 chix'
asciilifeform: 'what if i know no nodes' was a problem there as well.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 12:24 mircea_popescu: a sixth, also major problem is that the system offers no serious guarantees to the user. think of some situations : a) i mined some bitcoin back in 2011, today i clean out the closed and boot up old laptop, to check out the tits and bits of ex gf who was back then hot and heavy into me. i jack off, and then snoop around and find a bitcoin wallet with ~500 btc in it. i go to spend it... and discover... that i know no nodes...
mircea_popescu: i think the notion is generallyt accepted, under the broad heading "bitcoin is a prototype"
mircea_popescu: well, i keep recurring this problem / most everyone is eager to glaze eyes and move on.
mircea_popescu: i thought i made it clear that's nonsense, but to revisit :
asciilifeform: btw i'd argue that the fixation on 'collecting the dust' is peculiar. everyone who has ever thrown away, e.g., old mobo, or whichever electronic rubbish, has discarded many milligram of Au and more or less whole mendeleev table of rarities.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose i have a wallet full of dust. how do i resolve the problem ? count dust / 2 txn in sqrt(count dust) tranches ?
asciilifeform: the fixed-width-tx is a provable component of any long-term-sane trb-i. regardless of what other parts are included or excluded. without it, you get rapid rot.
asciilifeform: there is no such thing, and i suspect that it can be proven that there can be no such thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm ok with 11 in, 11 out. so long the byte block for them is FIXED.
mircea_popescu: forcing all txn to be 2 in 2 out is a poor man's ring signature i guess.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason i said 2 in 2 out. anything else is either nonmoving (1-2) or else tree pruning (2:1 ends up with a single coinbase ; 1:2 ends up with an infinity of satoshi sized coinbases you might as well stop lying about and issue outright)
asciilifeform: i'll repaste, damn it
asciilifeform: and this also addresses http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619762 , i think ☝︎
asciilifeform: i'm with mircea_popescu on this one
mircea_popescu: the rot where i shit in the soup and the rot where the soup is "too expensive" iyo are not the same rot.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:59 mircea_popescu: there's a different, much less notable problem wrt to what constitutes "a rotten fill". if i go to the stock market (i mean the old, gentlemany, pit of hand gestures thing) and bid "sentiments" for a certain share, i am in fact engaging in retarded behaviour, on the level of sjwing, and will, and should be kicked out.
mircea_popescu: well, i dunno which it is, but saying for future generations of sluts.
mircea_popescu: well, i read your attitude as rather negative to it. but okay.
asciilifeform: there is a reason why i specified 'fib' as a fact of life.
mircea_popescu: which in practice i will resolve by always overissuing by (1+sqrt(2) )*that percent.
mircea_popescu: i must ensure i get 1k filled casks for it ; but if nodes can return casks at any time, i will ALWAYS have a % of casks returned too late.
mircea_popescu: but they must be because i am working on block n with 1k holes in it./
mircea_popescu: i now issue 300 more casks, to 300 more "distant cousin" nodes.
mircea_popescu: i am node mp. i issue 1k casks, to my 1k nodes.
asciilifeform: let's come back to this part; i'ma walk the list.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's aim was to consider gedankexperiment trb-i where this cock is turned around radially, at the miner. who, reaping most of the cake, ought to also absorb the cock.