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Thu Mar 10 21:44:17 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 07-03-2016 23:26:24; assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
Thu Mar 10 21:43:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> !s negative vs positive functioning
Thu Mar 10 21:43:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uh i dunno...
Thu Mar 10 21:43:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL i tohuhgt you were scientists ? "this experiment came out right - what more ?"
Thu Mar 10 21:42:45 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> let me guess, "nobody could have foreseen - no one got fired for following the herd".
Thu Mar 10 21:42:17 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 10-03-2016 21:37:58; PeterL: <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage
Thu Mar 10 21:42:09 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ?
Thu Mar 10 21:41:47 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.
Thu Mar 10 21:41:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429166 << the spartans "emerged" out of a well understood, well documented process modern man prefers to think never existed. specifically : the woman's job to push them out ; the man's job to decide which may live. and runts - off to the apothetae.
Thu Mar 10 21:39:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> PeterL i only do what with women of a certain age.
Thu Mar 10 21:38:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and of course i'd prolly have a wailing chorus of stakeholder idiots, whom i'd tell the usual get fucked.
Thu Mar 10 21:38:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> because how do you budget for that. << i have no idea wqhat the because would be, other than idiots. if i ran the lab i would, simply on grounds of independence.
Thu Mar 10 21:38:01 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429161 << this is actually a very juvenal-ish image. yet i don't recall it as a thing.
Thu Mar 10 21:37:58 UTC 2016 <PeterL> <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429119 << it is a complicated thing, "train an army of samurai". << try the Jedi approach, one-on-one tutelage
Thu Mar 10 21:35:35 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh.
Thu Mar 10 21:35:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> lol! how did you know.
Thu Mar 10 21:34:55 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429153 << amusingly enough, it's historically how it works.
Thu Mar 10 21:33:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429150 << not giving a shit, for instance, in incredible short supply.
Thu Mar 10 21:32:48 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> log can take one of everything.
Thu Mar 10 21:32:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> !s story of harrison, the watchmaker