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Thu Mar 17 14:53:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435057 << he has a good point.
Thu Mar 17 14:51:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "The suburbs are doomed. Go rural or stay urban, where you at least have structurally defensible enclaves, as opposed to getting caught in the suburban net that was designed to put you at the mercy of teenage criminals when you are in your eighties." << to the uncharitable eye it'd seem south africa was actually an experiment rather than happenstance.
Thu Mar 17 14:41:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435055 << they should at least wear those cute see through frilly socks! if they can't go all the way to http://41.media.tumblr.com/a512c6749b02295db8b4c267a379a075/tumblr_nlayqenekm1u2r4a0o1_1280.jpg
Thu Mar 17 14:32:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ;;google know-nothings
Thu Mar 17 14:32:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435051 << ahahaha.
Thu Mar 17 14:32:29 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in fact, that's eactly how engineering ISN'T done.
Thu Mar 17 14:32:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i mean i know gavin-moore law will "fix this in the future", of course, but this isn't how engineering works.
Thu Mar 17 14:28:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> danielpbarron an important point to consider is the data & i/o meaning of "1 petahash". if each single hash requires 256 bits of data to proceed, you are looking at 32 petabytes of data that has to move. in a second ? ouch.
Thu Mar 17 14:26:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435048 << if the nonce is not shifted at all, each digest is good for exactly one nonce. if the nonce is shifted one bit, each digest is good for 2 nonces. if it is shifted 10 bits, 1024 nonces. etc.
Thu Mar 17 14:24:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435045 << you';re better off with digital storage than analogic. even for the narrow cases where analogic usually wins (film archival) it's on the grounds of "preserving the original item, which was analogic rather than transform it in some manner the lossy-ness of which we can't evaluate", nothing more.
Thu Mar 17 14:23:19 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm shocked. SHOCKED! i say!
Thu Mar 17 14:23:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435036 << you mean he didn't move to argentina ?!
Thu Mar 17 14:22:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435032 << pretty lulzy.
Thu Mar 17 14:13:03 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ;;google liber-schimbist
Thu Mar 17 14:11:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> phf for my curiosity, what's your classification of "b-a rhetorics" ? anarcho-neoliberal ? deco-existentialist ?
Thu Mar 17 14:10:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-03-2016#1435023 << hence all the soviet youth's photo labs.
Thu Mar 17 14:05:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (to explain my thought process to the curious bystander - i would have seriously considered the application of a fiat-based receiver with provable practice but innocent of the wot over solrodar's ; i won't consider such over davout's. this means that in the past coupla days a window for some people to actually make their corpses useful to the world opened and closed - notwithstanding their or anyone else's pretense to
Thu Mar 17 14:05:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the contrary.)
Thu Mar 17 14:04:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> :p
Thu Mar 17 14:03:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much better stated like this than stated like you know, in the fiat wooden tongue. at least for my needs.