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pankkake: there is a
thepiratebay.bit… but it's domain squatted
ozbot: The Pirate Bay changes domain
to stay ahead of
the law |
T3
pankkake: what stupid
thing did
they do
this
time?
mircea_popescu: diginforce is Gridseed
total online sales agents, sales are now sold out yesterday,
there is no development board conference
mircea_popescu: Hot Search: pumpkin baked cat butterfly KNC Bitfury Bitmine Avalon
TMR
mircea_popescu: possibly. many people involved in mining are from
the "old world"
mircea_popescu: this is
the exact equivalent of
the "poorly specified bitbet bet" fallacy.
mircea_popescu: you are wrong
to imagine
this problem can be solved by specification.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, do you know
the story of
the kid who wouldn't pass physics exam ?
mircea_popescu: as all cognitive
tests,
the one proposed measures more
the bias of
the
tester
than
the subject.
mircea_popescu: "otherwise you need
to use
the 'code-cracking' part of your brain
to
try and infer a meaning from an unknown syntax."
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
there is a good objection
there :
the example given seems very
tilted
toward people with experience in a C-like language.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
their problem is a relation
to
the self rather
than
to
the world,
the only way
to have
them relent is
to change
them
mircea_popescu: which in
the end boils right back into
the old
trunk of crafting
the perpetuum mobile.
mircea_popescu: it's not so different from
the conviction one can patent medicine,
mircea_popescu: and he imagines
this means
the conclusions of
the
test only show how desperately
the world needs more
teachers.
mircea_popescu: check out
this guy. he's a
teacher who feels able
to help people fake
the
test,
mircea_popescu: But
to blame
the poor education methods on students willing
to acquire
the knowledge is just ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: e
to blame
the students and not
the
teachers. Now if a student is *unwilling*
to learn
the material
then
that is another question.
mircea_popescu: "The interpretation of
the results of
the above assignment
test make me feel angry. I am not a
teacher but I am confident
that I can
teach (in less
than 15 minutes) any person smart enough
to be admitted
to a computer science class how
to pass
the above
test.
The results speak volumes about
the utter ignorance of educators regarding
the nature of human knowledge and how
to acquire it. It is a
tremendous act of injustic
pankkake: there was a community named "horseporn junction"
that I was not part of, but it might be a hoax
pankkake: and
then
there's
the odd soulseek, still up while having some heavy centralization
pankkake: that's not really
true anymore. public bittorrent yes, but private communities are
thriving
pankkake: edonkey network still has some active communities and good stuff. actually it was
the only one of
those with actual communities
pankkake: but
then you have
to ask yourself why would anyone sane still use bitcoin
nubbins`: aha,
the one guy referred
to mp+-pr as "shim"
nubbins`: this will be equal parts comedy and
tragedy
ozbot: MPOE-PR, almost
two years in
the swamp. An anthology. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: lmao, so anything
to avoid an actual delivery bet huh ? we make a fake bitbet out of forum paste & spit, pretend and pray.
pankkake: you've got
to see
the custom mining hardware forum
too, where shareholders shill for
their companies
that are not shipping
mircea_popescu: pankkake you were saying a few days ago about being disgusted with ppl lauding scams just because
they hope
they get a little back ? where is it, i want
to quote it.
mircea_popescu: if
the box ain't functioning,
there's no guarantee you end up with a web. even a not working one.
mircea_popescu: you seen
the pictures of spider;s webs made by high spiders ?
mircea_popescu: it went from "indicator light" (algebra)
to "execution squad" (bitcoin)
kakobrekla: > •8% of students didn't give a damn and left
the answers blank.
pankkake: "most people can't learn
to program" is really
true. but it goes against
the egalitarian ideology "you can do anything"
mircea_popescu: what bitcoin does is it meaningfully sepparates
the population, and i see nobody credibly arguing for extending human status past
the 2nd bump
mircea_popescu: i wasn't kidding when i said
they're
turning into niggers.
mircea_popescu: if
they had
the mental power
to catch up
they'd be doing better money
than whatever foodstamps "the press" pays.
sbp: 2013,
the media still hasn't caught up with programming, let alone bitcoin
pankkake: lurking moar should be
taught in school
KRS|Gotyawallet: entertaining conversation..kind of relaxing watching
the lemmings isnt it
pankkake: so noobs are ignorants
that didn't lurk moar
KRS|Gotyawallet: ignorance != noob..matters are
that said noob did not get
the memo
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah, noobs handle
their ignorance differently. but still, how else do you know a noob's a noob ? by
their ignorance.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing new in
this world except for
the history you don't know.
pankkake: there's
the humble noob and
the entitled noob
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
this is less of "i'm a n00b" and more of "i have no idea how economics really work and believe we should just print more money so we can fix our bad debts. Make it rain Ben Bernanke while I suck your dick."