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Tue Aug 18 08:34:52 UTC 2015 <punkman> so just let them destroy productive farms and dry out the delta, so they can water some piece of desert down south?
Tue Aug 18 03:38:35 UTC 2015 <*> BingoBoingo offer that yes, Kismet is supposed to be the white handmaiden of Satan keeping true Africa down, but Whitey is violent to no one else like his is to his fellow white man
Tue Aug 18 03:29:48 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-08-2015#1241775 << the point here being (perhaps unfamiliar to some readers) that wheat is not a sort of plant that survives, except in particular situations : say post volcanic eruption, when everything's been burned down. then the weed makes a quick colonisation, because of its disproportionate seeds.
Mon Aug 17 21:50:24 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> uses beat freq. to bring signal down
Mon Aug 17 21:01:50 UTC 2015 <wilbns> mircea_popescu: it's regarding the idea of a hypothesis, theorem, manifesting it self later on down in the line the form of something else, not necessarily positive
Mon Aug 17 20:31:54 UTC 2015 <jurov> btw, if pouring pogos to concrete, any hard drive you'll use will wear down in few years
Mon Aug 17 19:52:22 UTC 2015 <kakobrekla> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-08-2015#1240685 < again down to some arbitrary number ?
Mon Aug 17 19:42:37 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> as in, goes up or down.
Mon Aug 17 19:41:43 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> but to get back to the ratchet thing : it is both impossible and a very stupid idea to have freefixing for bitcoin block size. because the network is trivial to disrupt when it comes to mining difficulty (by design and deliberately), it will guaranteedly be moved down to 0 over time and the defense's necessarily too expensive.
Mon Aug 17 19:34:13 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> it's not called settlement, it's called delivery. settlement is sitting down and agreeing the paperwork.
Mon Aug 17 15:17:26 UTC 2015 <ascii_field> notice that mining scales down ad infinitum - bitcoin worked fine when mining consisted of spare cpu cycles
Mon Aug 17 08:40:11 UTC 2015 <punkman> "“Not everything is for everyone and that’s the way it is,” he said, teeth gleaming indifferently. His theories about shoes were tinged, predictably, with a seeming misogyny. They come, he insisted, with a great deal of “sexual energy” – which is perhaps just as well, as the only thing it’s possible to do in a pair of his heels is lie down."
Sun Aug 16 23:38:48 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> I dunno how you find old Trilemas, even Qntra is starting to really slow down the brainchain index
Sun Aug 16 16:23:49 UTC 2015 <jurov> down
Sun Aug 16 15:11:31 UTC 2015 <*> asciilifeform falls down
Sun Aug 16 03:10:41 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> (they take'em down at the end of the day, sure.)
Sat Aug 15 19:24:08 UTC 2015 <asciilifeform> zulag shall down for maintenance for most of today, starting 30 seconds ago.
Sat Aug 15 17:22:06 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> punkman> "Some California farmers have turned to drip irrigation?to reduce their water use." << ah welcome to state of the art in 1970 greece << word. i was rather impressed with what "intensive agriculture" meant down there.
Sat Aug 15 04:03:50 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 25-06-2015 21:47:45; assbot: Logged on 03-02-2015 23:43:58; asciilifeform: winnie pooh walks into a butcher's shop, asks 'got mortadella' ? answer, 'sure' winnie pooh draws a submachinegun and spins round, round, round with it, mowing down everything that moves: 'for piiigleet!'
Fri Aug 14 22:13:49 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> and yet kickstarter does not have its doors torn down by police.