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mircea_popescu: the chinese are also willing to pay ~
a little~ for umd services, namely, the stamping of "this chinese guy is as good as the best white man" on foreheads of their second sons.
BingoBoingo: From which
a bit leaks to feed SV iTunes-isms
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cook has
a point. trump wh should launch
a campaign (paid with public funds) denouncing the ~foreign propaganda~ pushed by the guardian and urging people not to read the libertard fishwraps, nyt&co.
BingoBoingo: Tech companies have
a responsibilitit to STFU and Labcoin already
mircea_popescu: whole machinery's geared up to obstruct
a naive nixon, trying to get shit done. it has exactly 0 solutions for the stark opposite.
mircea_popescu: nixon didn't run on
a "i will tear down washington dc" ticket.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't actually need to do anything. all he needs is
a good excuse as to why he isn't. so far - they're providing him it.
mircea_popescu: way this works is as an empowerment engine. all trump has to do is keep
a steady stream of loud but idiotic fixes coming ; for the judiciary to reject.
mircea_popescu: "there's
a difference between what you want and what you need ; and google will insistently, relentlessly give you what you want"
phf: i thought that was the case since forever, last time i asked
a question why gcc can't tree shake (10 or so years ago) i was told that i don't understand..
BingoBoingo: And how long dies it take water to drain out of
a void 2 feet deep and 2 feet in circumference?
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Problem is soil timecube is rounded. For srs. Just get
a bunch of peat moss while you can along with composted cow manure, and
a few 5 gallon buckets full of generic 10-10-10
mircea_popescu: and consider -- he's selling the supreme strength of NOT having
a bunch of these useless dorks employed as...
a weakness.
mircea_popescu: and most amusing - they thought that's
a show of strength.
mircea_popescu: the truth is after eight years of monkey in chief they're scarcely capable of anything but monkeying about. the dem party that lost to bush is such
a sad memory for the democrat party of today. like 50yo sinatra to 90 yo sinatra.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a theoretical discussion. i'm not about to upgrade libc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can still deliver
a full package, if you're actually serious about being serious.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 05:43 mircea_popescu: "Parse did
a lot of things right."
ben_vulpes: "illegal smuggling and trafficking of humans" is all over that thing. would otherwise be
a huge victory for the nonprofits pushing that line, except for how it's donny t doing it
ben_vulpes: besides, paraplane is
a+ garage flugenice
mircea_popescu: we'll have to have
a gossipd sooner rather than later.
thestringpuller: "After further investigation, it turned out that the two AIs were communicating using
a novel symmetric key cipher, and the key that ended up being uncrackable by the third AI was simply '12345', the kind of password an idiot would have on his luggage."
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 16:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, in
a very much unrteported move, frankfurt got 300 tons of gold from new york.
mircea_popescu: imo chiapas is the best part of mexico. spent
a very agreeable week in palenque drilling the confused hordes of usian girlies searching for spirituality or w/e the fuck.
phf: in fact i tested it from nearby Huatulco, mexico, and it was sort of like batched processing. type
a bunch of things, wait some time and eventually get feedback, but i had very poor luck with ssh
mircea_popescu: even without obamacare that's
a 10ish bn extra expenditure on the welfare state.
mircea_popescu: quarter mile radius should be 20 city blocks or so. even in
a moderately dense area should provide
a healthy 20k or so new cases of cancer within 12 months ; bout half of which leukemia.
mircea_popescu: hence seattle. put it up on
a hill, fire at the city. should get the 4km out of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, how long before someone raids
a us stockpile, surrounds say seattle with
a bunch of davy crocketts and ... fires ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, in
a very much unrteported move, frankfurt got 300 tons of gold from new york.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's
a blow to the justice system more than to trump. but hey, the pantsuited opposition can't possibly consider things, so therefore they can't possibly exist.
mircea_popescu: really ? they'll take it to the supreme court ; which is understaffed, and will conceivably deadlock 4-4. this will also be
a blow to trump ? why, because it is strictly impossible for the weimar republicand its institutions to be perceived as ineffectual and effete ?
mircea_popescu: and in the same vein, "The judges’ vote is
a major political blow to Mr Trump, whose early days in power have been characterised by
a difficult relationship with the judicial branch of government."
adlai: oh sorry, that line got pebkaced. it seems wrong though, shouldn't
a miner want to both increase the amount of work the others do (validating the new block), and reduce the chance they have to do reorg work?
davout: adlai: "And there is also no incentive for Mike to forward to Molly
a block that Miner Mary just solved and sent to him."
mircea_popescu: suddenly i don't need to explain why all "police" resources are expended to fight "war on drugs" even as kitty genovese dies in
a pool of her own blood. cia wants drugs as its own domain, what.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 14:20 davout: as he formulates it doesn't strike me as
a fundamental issue, the miner of
a block ~is~ properly incentivized to broadcast it as widely as possibru
mircea_popescu: "Most institutions which have undergone
a lengthy cultural evolution, such as law (which lowers vulnerability to violence, theft, and fraud)," <<< i gotta say, the ubernaive reinterpretation of reality in the hands of armchair nonviolent "scholars" is endearing. to be plain : law ENTIRELY exists so that the concept of forest may be enforced without the depletion of the villages.
mircea_popescu: (to revisit the beatings : beating both mother and daugther for misbehavious by either mother or daughter is the historically deployed and theoretically correct approach ; what the "red pill" dudes call "branch swining behaviour" in their AWALT booklet is both proof this is so and its direct result - it selected over the years for
a certain thing, the anthropological concept of "female community")
mircea_popescu: davout he stated it in the particular. there's no actual incentive for miner x to tell miner y specifically. which creates
a very toxic situation, which then presents all of itself an incentive for cartelization.
davout: as he formulates it doesn't strike me as
a fundamental issue, the miner of
a block ~is~ properly incentivized to broadcast it as widely as possibru
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 13:59 mircea_popescu: to do that that preserves bitcoin's design goal." (part
a, which is correct)
mircea_popescu: basically, "bitcoin has clearly proven that what libertards thought they understood about money and finance is pure global warming claptrap, so in conclusion here's
a restatement of the global warming claptrap and proposals to fix the world so it is more like the claptrap!"
mircea_popescu: "The biggest flaw is the fixed issuance cap. Ideally, to make bitcoin useful as
a currency, the supply of BTC in circulation should expand at
a rate slightly greater than the increase in the volume of payments, forever. Then the value of 1 BTC would slowly decrease with time. Then no one would want to hoard it. Then the value would be stable enough for use as
a currency. There would be no bitcoin peddlers trying to get other
mircea_popescu: to do that that preserves bitcoin's design goal." (part
a, which is correct)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "To be fair, the economic flaws are mostly justified because there seem to be no technically sound way to fix them. For example, there is no incentive for Miner Mike to forward to Miner Molly the transactions that he received from Client Charlie. And there is also no incentive for Mike to forward to Molly
a block that Miner Mary just solved and sent to him. Those flaws need to be fixed, but AFAIK no one has figured out
a way
phf: i've not used it from
a cellphone though, i don't grok the whole concept of
a shell on
a device without keyboard
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612714 << is handy, but i can't bring myself to replacing safety critical ssh with it. i've had plenty of opportunity to test it though, and it's best option for when you're trying to connect to server over
a public wifi running over cell network off
a generator
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 05:27 mircea_popescu: "Parse Server •Server was Rails at first (with 24 threads max. concurrency) with very little throughput per server (~15–30 requests per second) •The server was later rewritten in Go. The open-source Parse server is written Node.js and lacks many functionalities of the original Parse server in Go." <<< holy shit, can you believe the idiocy ? "we wasted
a bunch of money doing stupid shit because we truly believe"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know how photosynthesis reduces electron energy by lowering its potential down gradually through
a series of steps?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes chicken bones are
a problem for some (retarded) dogs ; otherwise notrly.
mircea_popescu: no system will ever compost bones. you need
a furnace for that
ben_vulpes: i suppose the smart thing to do is make
a highly reduced stock?
mircea_popescu: understand, the definition of septic tank / latrine isn't "where people shit", much like
a fridge isn't "the hole in the kitchen wall food comes from". if meat goes in, then it's
a latrine, nqa.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes as
a rough heuristic for this matter, if you were to be locked in
a room, would you prefer the room contain
a large lump of cake or
a large lump of people ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the microbiology involved is anything but settled. from the lengthy human experience on the topic, coal is
a miserable substrate for
a garden.
ben_vulpes: 'tis not 'coal', but i'd appreciate
a primer on why not
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you stiumbled on
a fine example of "spreading-works". do not add coal to soil you plan to cultivate.
mircea_popescu: that's the historical as well as correct solution for that problem. spread it out before
a storm.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do they sell calcinated bone as
a fertilizer where you live ?
ben_vulpes: correctness is not
a thing to bolt on after the fact.