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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
mircea_popescu: do you have any ? the planet uranus is also "a fact of life", in some distant sense.
mircea_popescu: sounds more like a fancy.
asciilifeform: 'lice are fact of life' is a notion, not merely the absence of one
mircea_popescu: the ~presence~ of artefacts doth make a civilisation ; the same presence of notions makes a culture. the absence of objects does not make "the alternative civilisation of africa consisting of not having anything". absence is not a thing.
mircea_popescu: to understand our anthropology basics : if the item has mass, it is a proper subject of civilisation ; if the item doth not have mass, it is a matter of culture.
mircea_popescu: they're uncivilised louts ; today as whenever. it is after all a fucking colony, not a real place, neh ?
asciilifeform: just earlier mircea_popescu had a thread re 'in 1970s chix did not yet wash properly' -- this is distinct from 'cultural mainstream' ? how so
mircea_popescu: misinformed ninnies may be confused as to the exact spelling of "trilema", which is a sad testament of the poor quality of public education available to them and naught more.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, unless and until you read it in trilema, it can not be said to be part of a mainstream of any kind.
mircea_popescu: this is no more of a true statement than "pin can hold 40 angels but only 3 seraphims"
asciilifeform: you can make a true statement about it -- e.g., 'eisenhower era's american mainstream did not include tulpas and transpuppies; obummer's -- does'
mircea_popescu: also, "american mainstream" is a fake news construction. it exists in no place, certainly not the us.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i admit, i watched for a spell.
ben_vulpes: escape is a rather mean characterization, asciilifeform
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/02/28/the-contemporary-classic-car-phenomenon-explained/ << » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The Contemporary Classic Car Phenomenon, explained.
asciilifeform would not believe that this is a thing, if he had not worked with at least a dozen of d00dz who admitted to it
BingoBoingo: Well, imagine you are the tender root of a delicious vegetable plant. Would you rather cuddle up to soft peatmoss extracted from fridgid canada or rough coir that feels like sack cloth from tropics
asciilifeform: while we're on subj, what exactly stops ben_vulpes from ordering his minions around via a net pipe ?
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
BingoBoingo: Oh, and a little bit of leftover clay midsoil was worked in near bottom
asciilifeform: iirc they were a bush-ii-era headline
asciilifeform: in other lelz, 'PARIS - A sniper mistakenly fired his weapon during a Thursday speech by President François Hollande in southwestern France, slightly injuring two people, according to a regional official.'
mircea_popescu: so apparently cum snorting is a thing.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I though the appeal of programming work was a porsche in the driveway for one's blue haired silicon valley transpig
asciilifeform: so, for concrete example, a verifier that runs in O(1), is 'ideal', it is definitionally impossible to beat O(1).
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.
mircea_popescu: whether your opinion changes as to which exact blocks is not germane. to mine on chain a you use n and to mine on chain a' you use n'.
mircea_popescu: at all points the blockchain is a linear string of blocks though.
asciilifeform: (how many is N ? i have nfi.. mircea_popescu remembers a time when n was 60, iirc from last night thread)
asciilifeform: you can't simply 'administratively' declare a tree to be a chain. gotta specify a linearization that works on ~all~ possible states of the tree.
asciilifeform: take the example of a fresh forked-end . which prong is 'outside' ?
mircea_popescu: kinda the whole point of having a chain.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had this thread, trb retains orphaned branches of any and every size, because it never goes back to remove anything from ~inside~ a blkxxxx.dat .
asciilifeform: (0, of course, in a reprocessed blockchain -- that is, one that's been spitblocked and immediately eatblocked by fresh node)
mircea_popescu: you must be running a weird bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's a single block for each height, what are you talking about.
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.
asciilifeform: and noshit.jpg, they hate the d00d -- closest thing mr.t's wot has to a brain
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: whatever, dude's going to go right back to a "losing streak" which is seeing cuts to libertard state ~= to the entire education budget.
asciilifeform: on one hand, yes pigs squealing. on other - they aren't actually in a meat yard, nobody's rendering'em
asciilifeform: in re mr.t lulz, 'Trump will continue his losing streak if he keeps Bannon at his side, WSJ says in blistering editorial. Hits against President Donald Trump's senior counselor Steve Bannon are circulating Tuesday morning, with “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough saying it's “hard to find a more villainous historical figure this side of Stalin or Hitler.'
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.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:30 mircea_popescu: wtf "nothing sexual happens". in a fucking theatre ? that's insanity.
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: well yes. and they're still there, and will be there next year, because mr.t doesn't, evidently, own a magical Wand of 1937
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: and before anyone attempots the historical gambit, "but mp, that's not what it is, but it's what they thought in 1960", gimme a break. that's what INEPT AND LAZY BUT AMBITIOUS GIRLIES thought. much like poor people think "rich people can;'t be happy", as a cheap and useless psychological defense.
shinohai: I got a day of ISS because I said she was in the wrong camp.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, essay does not mean making baseless enunciations in the thick hand of a fucking peasant."
mircea_popescu: this is how you get a D in any half-decent highschool.
asciilifeform: or 2015 b-a was about gavin & hearn
asciilifeform: al intelligence will kill us all, or whether everything will turn out fine just as long as we continue to monitor the living shit out of every single human being alive, in order to feed the machines. A Hackernews suspects Obama quoted Mao, and everyone reassures each other it's probably fine.' ( http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2016/10/14/0 )
asciilifeform: 'Someone considers Barack Obama, a politician whose largest undertaking involved a failed healthcare IT deployment, and member of a political party known for hemorrhaging private data, eminently qualified to discuss safe policies for artificial intelligence practice. Hackernews divides into two groups. The first group performs the traditional election-cycle political shit opera for six hours. The second group debates whether artifici
asciilifeform: 'A Hackernews begs for advice on getting anyone at all to pay attention to his shit. The answer is unanimous: spam. Not even considered: making attention-worthy shit.'
asciilifeform: 'Some moron "optimizes" a feature of a text editor that is written in javascript and requires hundreds of megabytes of memory to open an empty file. Hackernews recommends you switch to this editor, or away from this editor, or anything, just switch. Whatever you're doing isn't what they're doing: fix it. In accordance with Federal law, one Hackernews implemented the feature in question in Rust.'
mircea_popescu: not the worst of situations, though it does fuck over a lot of typically cryptocoin usecases.
asciilifeform: ( the most obvious down-side is : that now you can end up in a situation of asking someone ~for change~ -- as if you were in a shop, in meatspace ... )
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 13:10 mircea_popescu: the (false!) theory that the bitcoin unit of account is the 0.00000001 btc or satoshi is based on the batshit insane theory that a system could ever be devised that would track 21 million hundred million individual 512byte outputs.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-28#1619935 << incidentally it now occurs to me that danielpbarron's vectorized-coin solves this problem. (picture the quantized an-addr-is-born-when-a-block-is-mined-and-changes-hands-via-sigs scheme, from old thread; but with the twist that you can mine a variety of different sizes of coin. which remain fixed at selfsame size for all of eternity; they merely change owners.) ☝︎
asciilifeform: as if it were not sad enough to have a block that takes ~12 minutes (!) to save,
asciilifeform: in other noose, https://archive.is/Rw5QK << 'The "Beat the Boss phone" is an £27 micro-telephone built into a Bluetooth headset with only trace amounts of metal in its construction; it is lozenge-shaped and is designed to be rectally smuggled into prisons, jails and courtrooms.'
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: ~now~ the cask-chain is a proper, nonpromisetronic chain, cemented in the end by the leaf's seal.
asciilifeform: in the original text, a leaf signs ticket that was made from H(T(H(T(....))) . this is disastrously wrong, because it does not cement the relays' payment addrs into the final signed tx
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: in random lulz : tje original "gone wild" reference comes from dorky ny judge who condemned deep throat. "a sodom gone wild before the fire".
mircea_popescu: from here to "no input whatosever" is a length.
mircea_popescu: they can't mature on their own ; nor can they construct a working society on their own. this is neither shocking nor worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: this is not a fair statement. modern "western world" / "our democracy" is what you get when girls are ineptly forced to shoulder the WHOLE task.
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.
asciilifeform: naggum had a thing or two re subj.
asciilifeform: sorta was the original point of a school, neh. a reasonably safe reservation where 'chix who have not yet learned to wash' can lean to wash, without creating dangers to self and others. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent - deepthroat, a movie of dubious pornographic merits, was produced by the mob and released through the mob's own wot. that you saw it in the 70s meant you were cool, period and full stop. even if you saw it in between gangbangs as an american version of carol.)
mircea_popescu: ceteris paribus i'd rather take a clueless teen than the confused twentysomething she naturally produces.
mircea_popescu: there's a dubious romanian film, "the death of mr lazarescu", in which a very professional doctor sends the orderlies to take the man out for a half hour spin until his subdural hematoma has progressed to a state where it's worth his scalpel.
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: for the other side of the matter, if you never take dumb 15 yos out for a night on the town, whence the crop of 19yo accomplished cocksuckers is to come ?
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: thing is, there is no good reason to assign the cake that a tech improvement yields, to the stinking poor.
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.
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.
asciilifeform: and his place will be taken by a miner who knows that a miner's place is on his knees, in the kitchen.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear to me how such a thing is an improvement over "just run your current trb through the future gossipd"
mircea_popescu: incredibly, mindblowingly, the dog's expression was EXACTLY that of a very bored girlfriend/wife. how the fuck is this even possbile is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: i used to think this is principally a figure of speech, then i saw a dude fucking a misfortunate husky.
asciilifeform: and the existence of some public pissoire that will necessarily accept a given piss of mine, is promisetronic
asciilifeform: likewise, since we have a defined down- and up- stream, we can have sane block propagation mechanics.
asciilifeform: recall, this is not a decorative item, it gives very real bang-for-the-buck -- for instance, the complete abolition of the idiocy known as mempool
asciilifeform: 'i give you a republic, if you can keep it' (tm) (r) (somebody)
asciilifeform: those who were issued H(H(....)) of the outputs of Q, will see whether what they got rolled corresponded to one of these, or was a sham; or that they were rolled a particular ticket, but it ended up carrying ~someone else's~ tx as cask fill.