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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or better shielding, or making it go into a reactor core, or etc.
mircea_popescu: phf but if you're up for some utter wtf, can always try "this must be the place". i have no idea what i saw.
mircea_popescu: (this, i come to realise, is a major block for my watching ~any video sf. back when the people involved weren't idiots, the machines weren't yet capable.)
mircea_popescu: i just don't go for the whole carny show with the facepaint and the star wars papier mache models.
mircea_popescu: phf i tried recently and couldn't stand it. the cheapo roadshow really irks me. it's almost like watching that dude "commenting", what's his face
mircea_popescu: the insanity of this boggles the mind, if the mind can be bothered to stop and think for a minute.
mircea_popescu: but yes, imperial idiots actually do "rng verification" of software ~running on unspecified machines~.
mircea_popescu: yeah, he's not a very good actor, but a fine icon. in the vein of brooms that shoot once, a picture of a car can count for a car from the right angle once ; and a stopped clock still shows accurate time on occasion.
mircea_popescu: aaand i just looted ~half a btc worth of dagsden flags in eulora. mwahaha.
mircea_popescu: fwiw de funes shows the same tragic character, except he's more of an engineer at heart, a great administrator, a sort of fouquet rather than you know, piaf's legionnaire.
mircea_popescu: phf possibly not. but yes, not ~entirely~ bad, and as an actor certainly better than whatever dorks available today, so he'd still win a "what do we watch" competition. the period though... ah, ah.
mircea_popescu: (as a public service : /alɛ̃dəlɔ̃ nʲˈe pʲjˈɵt ɐdʲɪkɐlˈon/ /alɛ̃dəlɔ̃ pʲjˈɵt dvɐjnˈoj bɜrbon/ /alɛ̃dəlɔ̃ ɡəvɐrʲˈit pəfrɐnt͡sˈuskʲɪ/ )
mircea_popescu: he did enjoy a period of chuck norris ism in ru did he
mircea_popescu: back then, the french were still pretending to be a thing. much in the manner of today's us.
mircea_popescu: last i fell alseep on alain delon. holy shit is that period weird.
mircea_popescu: anyway - IF there's ever going to be that "radical bioengineering technology" medicine, it starts exactly in these places. gotta first do the 13yo torah reading work. then can be man.
mircea_popescu: (yes, all allergies mean one thing - that you're a degenerate fenotype not fit for life. what can you do ? certainly can't go back in time and whack ytour mother to fuck better drunks.)
mircea_popescu: guess what - if you take your allergies to the doctor he will also not cut into every cell and fix your bad dna
mircea_popescu: patient is indeed not operable in the sense you mean ; but medicine is chiefly a pile of paleatives, not "radical bioreengineering technology"
mircea_popescu: no, it wasn't, as i don't actually propose any changes to processblock. it can go wholesale in b.blockchain
mircea_popescu: i suspect it can be done by surgery without the two parts ~even knowing~ they're not satoshi-full-bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: and you know, sanity suddenly flowers everywhere - do you send too much in bytes/s ? b.peer can can your. do you send too much crap ? b.blockchain can tell b.peer it dun wanna hear from you no mo.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the divorce is required and continuing in the current monolith sheer nonsense.
mircea_popescu: this way b.peer can always answer something ' and b.blockchain can sanely optimize its queue processing.
mircea_popescu: if queried, b.peer loads mempool-txn as it is and uses that ; so what if it's stale, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: b.blockchain picks up items from received-blocks and verifies them, adding to blockchain if necessary ; picks up items from received-txn, and verifies them, adding to mempool-txn if necessary.
mircea_popescu: b.peer receives items from peers and puts them in received-txn and received-blocks ; both of which are queues.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it answers immediately. let's formalize this.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has a single office, like a fucking bidonville residence.
mircea_popescu: business has a secretary and an actual worker ; fast food has a front office and a back office. there's reasons for things wtf.
mircea_popescu: the fact that you need the blockchain part to tell you what tx are to be relayed does not reduce to, you must make it to listen to all comers.
mircea_popescu: nope. blockchain part will get to it when it gets to it, and tell you. until then, peer part builds queues.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mixing these into a single frail monolith is very much satoshism, but we're not supposed to stick to stupid.
mircea_popescu: the process that talks to peers has ~no business~ knowing anything about the blocks ; the process which maintains the blockchain, verifies blocks etc has ~no business~ talking to peers.
mircea_popescu: at the very least block digestion and peering must be cleaved in trb
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the miners are pushing block complexity to the maximum possible because hey, more fees ; the cost this imposes on the nodes is not to be discussed because hey, fatso thinks he should matter and stuff.
mircea_popescu: whole story is, "fatso is angry at not being as relevant as he thinks he should be"
mircea_popescu: practically speaking, the exact equivalent of "putin did wtc"
mircea_popescu: this butressed on the observation that satoshi code is large and stupidly wrought.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the suspicion is you'll be seeing too much variance to be able to say much definitively
mircea_popescu: myeah. i have no problem with the baruch spinoza approach, esp when eg, dealing with viri etc. but it's not a universal wrench.
mircea_popescu: imo this is a total waste of time ; we won't have the culprit even if we drink the gigabyte swamp. which we needn't be drinking in any case.
mircea_popescu: just keeping track of the binary star is already a huge thing.
mircea_popescu: to think the dork actually claimed he is "slightly more productive on linux than windows". satoshi never fucking as much as saw a posix compliant box.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, bitcoin 2.0 has no room for this serial nonsense.
mircea_popescu: anyway. like you said, seems pretty credible parallelizing will fix this./
mircea_popescu: yes but this doesn't answer if the idiocy is naturally ocurring so much
mircea_popescu: anyway, i've been rereading period warnings about myself, it's been rather pleasant.
mircea_popescu: but in general there is no such thing as an unwanted pregnancy. for the attack to exist, the client has to be "retarded".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so listen, the important thing here is, have you managed to reproduce the "blackhole" in an isolated system ?
mircea_popescu: there isn't any space, or any need, or anything else for these fucktards today anymore than there was in 1996 or in 1976. they know it today like they knew it then, and they're lying about it (to themselves, mostly) then as now because they know that's exactly all they can do. who's gonna hire pmarca ? to do what ? who has a job for zuck ?
mircea_popescu: at which juncture it should probably be reminded to the general public that the pmarca schmuck is ... known, let's say, for one of the first ~web browsers~. ie, the shit soup to end all shit soups, exactly like "spreadsheets" and whatnot except to the power of nine thousand.
mircea_popescu: it's not even detailed ; but at least it's not idiocy on the level of nature mag science mag etc.
mircea_popescu: ~everyone said the same thing "holy shit this is detailed".
mircea_popescu: “unpracticed in liberty, unschooled in self control, never sobered by the discipline of self support, never established in any habit of prudence… insolent and aggressive, sick of work, [and] covetous of pleasure.” << heh.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski top 3 on trilema this month consists of something from 2012 and something from 2010 + the internet census. so... yeah.
mircea_popescu: eh get out of there, it's prolly marc andreesseen being all typically-fatso.
mircea_popescu also stumbled on recent comment section reading it, apparently there's a whole debate etc.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the latest bit is easily your best piece yet. people generaly hated because yes, throughout the lenghty process you sounded ~like every other jew boy reading the torah for bar mitzvah, ie, ridiculous. but insistence pays off, and now i dun have to groan when reading your stuff, which is a welcome change indeed.