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Fri Mar 18 21:47:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform : 0, 1, inf. if not one bit, then why not make headers, in ascii ?
Fri Mar 18 21:47:00 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 21:34:13; 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 21:46:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hey, it works to discern wine, why not here.
Fri Mar 18 21:46:40 UTC 2016 <*> mircea_popescu intends to allow some dust to settle on this.
Fri Mar 18 21:46:21 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 21:29:18; 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 21:45:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> be they what they may be, they are what they are and so it goes.
Fri Mar 18 21:45:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the totality of thoughts thought is a legitimate application of pen to paper, is it not.
Fri Mar 18 21:45:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is isn't it.
Fri Mar 18 21:44:42 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 21:24:35; 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 21:44:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> next they'll be able to ddos.
Fri Mar 18 21:43:53 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 21:18:58; mircea_popescu: did you know leds are actually digital equipments ?
Fri Mar 18 21:42:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lol
Fri Mar 18 21:36:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436273 << your internal mp is actually, after years of practice, getting pretty good.
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 21:29:18 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 18-03-2016 18:23:36; *: asciilifeform prepares a bucket for mircea_popescu to barf into after he reads the 'algebra' piece.
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.