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mircea_popescu: half the reason i'm a shitty scientist : unlike the good ones, i get laid.
mircea_popescu: he who knows a secret key is a bitcoin user ; he who can say if ia signed transaction is valid or invalid is a bitcoin node ; he who can include a bitcoin transaction in a block is a bitcoin miner.
mircea_popescu: "users who verify blocks" = nodes ; " monkeys who shave and drive cars " = people
mircea_popescu: turn on your livingroom lights, pretend you're "running a node". exactly the same as "bang on keyboard, pretend you're writing"
mircea_popescu: anyone can run current through wires. nmot what we're discussing.
mircea_popescu: this is an entirely ridiculous misrepresentation of the issue
mircea_popescu: if it's valuable then not everyone can do it and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: understand, there's no way to at the same time give nodes marketable data AND make it so any redditard can just pop a node
mircea_popescu: "mining a block takes a century" currently, it's no bug.
mircea_popescu: but this is what the nodes ~are selling~. the o(n^e ness)
mircea_popescu: however, if you already did the work, what is the problem ?
mircea_popescu: omraphantom yeah, turns out he's from missouri though ;/
mircea_popescu: !!v 83F8592A75BE0CEAA1DDE5BDE9B3DB2F8C280413A0E2F5DC82A45684A4D0DF34
mircea_popescu: !!rate omraphantom 1 kinkster engineer teenager or something.
mircea_popescu: they've been doing this whole "add logos to a printed page" thing for years now, it did 0.
mircea_popescu: this looks entirely very promising. where's my winnings alf ?
mircea_popescu: wow check it out, a quarter of the baikal chip's unused.
mircea_popescu: where did they get this "ceo" from, was he the previous VP of ceosunlimitedbocavistatexas.tripod.com ?
mircea_popescu: there's nothing andressen has to contribute to any discussion. if you want copy/paste "ugc" you can just as well use google "ai", for the exact same result.
mircea_popescu: and i do mean this. nobody. tom cook isn't a fucking ceo, and if i replaced him with hillary's daughter there'd be no perceptible difference anywhere.
mircea_popescu: hanno boeck is not some sort of journalist, and generally speaking nobody has any ground to stand on ~whatsoever~. at all.
mircea_popescu: koch is not some coder, he's a sad fuck who lies about where he gets the code.
mircea_popescu: this is the entirety of everyone. stallman is not some sort of graybeard, he's a sad fuck who lied about what laptop setup he is using.
mircea_popescu: i had since opportunity to verify all of them, and they are all false. he's as much of a businessman as any random redditard, which specifically includes pirate, the silk road dork, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: he came to my country, introduced himself as "an investor", and made some statements.
mircea_popescu: and a very fine point in case here, from my own personal experience, is that xapo sad faggot, wences casares.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they "ran some tests" in the manner that gave us "hillary is looking past trump" and this was the result.
mircea_popescu: but this is, no histrionics, no rhetorics, no exaggeration, my expert, considered and final view on the matter.
mircea_popescu: and it must have been the face of the dice that fell up.
mircea_popescu: and by that fashion, little tidbits of text were "Scored" through you know, SCIENTIFIC !!11 process like "ab testing" (i kid you not, they all do the same basic statistics wronglyt inthe same ways)
mircea_popescu: it most patently is not, in contrast to anything else - which is measurable, but meaninglessly so, the web is not measurable fucking period.
mircea_popescu: they put out the goebbelsian lie that "web is measurable"
mircea_popescu: at some point when the "web community" faggots were trying to get round two of dotcom bubble inflated with "web 2.0" and similar gimmicks,
mircea_popescu: what, because one set eats at fastfood and other set eats at fastfood they are now different ? words may be powerful, but they're not this fucking powerful already.
mircea_popescu: can you imagine deposed roman emperor moving to china to become confucian scholar ?
mircea_popescu: man fired from one can become part of the other and back and forth forever, "i just work here" etcetera. there's no substance i can discern to the proposed classification whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: different, how ? corporations, both, trying to advertise, both, hiring the same fucking tv crews, pr agencies, what is the specific difference ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not entirely sure that ability to distinguish wasn't more of a symptom of the cockroach working than anything else. "i can distinguish tarantula that bit me from tarantula that did not" is scarcely a quote after linnaeus.
mircea_popescu: if we took samantha cocks or whatever her name was and made her "a scientist" and took the supurating jeoffrey and made him "an engineer", they'd what ? go right to it without skipping a beat, that's what the "revolving door" even denotes.
mircea_popescu: there has to be some sort of definite difference in something, legs, mandibula, reproductive organs, something somewhere must allow classification in the proper sense to have a classification.
mircea_popescu: i mean the kitchen cockroach is not kitchen cockroach sp as opposed to bedroom cockroach just because that's where they happened to be captured.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure any sort of meaningful speciation has yet been either found, described or howsoever vaguely proposed.
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: if nothing else, the anecdote that his perception was so flattened through experience he failed on first pass to comprehend actual monkeys are not physically barbarians just like all the others should be dispositive.
mircea_popescu: the question was as to how many kinds they met. it is altogether likely alexander is the one men who met most kinds of barbarians.
mircea_popescu: the etymology of the very word is instructive. barbarism comes from the greek hurrdurr, and it literally as well as onomatopoetically denotes that ... they do not have a thing.
mircea_popescu: the young girl is not "an alternate woman" but a not-yet-woman.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the importance of cutting short the gypsy's pretense that he lives in an alt-country ; the grubfilth's pretense that he has an alt-hygiene, the neoprotestant's pretense that he has an alt-religion (discoivered it himself, he did!) and so on is key. a "vegan" is not someone who "has an alternative cookbook" but an imbecile who doesn't know how and what to eat. and so on.