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Fri Mar 18 21:34:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436264 << really the problem is that it adds unwarranted complexity. so now we have more bits, yay. do they do anything ? notrly. well if you're going to hire a fortune teller, hire the cheapest not the best. but this aside - the problem you raise is very much a problem, and altogether this thing will have to be worked on moar.
Fri Mar 18 21:29:18 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436219 << not at all, i think it's a step in the right direction. i think it also needs more thinking/discussion, but anyway.
Fri Mar 18 21:25:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but the vector is interesting.
Fri Mar 18 21:24:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "The latter act conveys very little useful information, and no permanent sealed record remains of the effort taken to actually understand the patch. This is a Bad Thing" << the thing with this asciilifeform is that on the surface i feel very moved by the notion ; but upon examination it seems to devolve into a sort of enumerating badness ?
Fri Mar 18 21:21:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it won't make specific forms of derpage tolerable going forward, also, but there was no provision to protect that stuff anyway.
Fri Mar 18 21:20:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436209 << the other view being that proving that we can do something no one else can or could do will on the contrary, make this asset as well as all other assets more valuable.
Fri Mar 18 21:20:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436207 << is it me or is phf slowly catching up on republican humor
Fri Mar 18 21:18:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> did you know leds are actually digital equipments ?
Fri Mar 18 21:17:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i already am feeling the blessings of engineeringshnu upon my humble abode.
Fri Mar 18 21:17:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i've just finished rewiring this set of xmas lights to work in parallel
Fri Mar 18 17:29:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the spanish say it's from taino.
Fri Mar 18 17:28:23 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aha.
Fri Mar 18 17:27:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no such wonder as potatl.
Fri Mar 18 17:27:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mno, the origins are batata and papa (still used as originally, to distinguish sweet and plain varieties, here)
Fri Mar 18 17:26:09 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i guess i'm lucky to be in an engineering-internet. were i in a scholarly-internet it'd be all "mp, potato comes from new world therefore everything is invalid!"
Fri Mar 18 17:24:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (IN SERIES!)
Fri Mar 18 17:24:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i think they were gilding things with potatoes
Fri Mar 18 17:24:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "here's me exercycling to power my blog"
Fri Mar 18 17:24:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> prolly instafamous on various social media turds, too.
Fri Mar 18 17:24:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> would make a pretty great blog topic, you know ? for the numerous bloggers among us constantly looking for stuff to feed the woodchipper with.