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mircea_popescu: apud videodrome (1983) : "north america's getting soft, patron. and the rest of the world is getting tough. very, very tough. we're entering savage new times, and we're going to have to be pure and direct and strong if we're gonna survive them."
mircea_popescu: possibly the process was unclean and some portion of payload got clobbered at the gates.
mircea_popescu: and as it sits on a filtered connection, it'd actually has to have been the tru magic packet, w/e that is.
mircea_popescu: supply is fine (works on diff identical item). all clues point to "was fed magic packet, patch broken, unit failed to come back"
mircea_popescu: the best proxy to understand the bitcoin wallet notion of "accounts" would be the linux notion of "user".
mircea_popescu: no i mean the "your derpy os's notions of "users". as if those fucking EVEN WORK irl." part of it.
mircea_popescu: yeah. pretty colors. dunno where you're headed with log visualisations...
mircea_popescu: so i had a router fail it the most amazing manner overnight. it powercycles - turns on, blinks the downstream connections for a second, then power goes off, then back on again. it doesn't look analog at all, like failing power lines, but very much a time-precise cycle, almost as if it's being flooded (which it isn't) or getting whatever magical packet in a loop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform organ of corti was one of the early miner commentators that both produced a large body of work and wasn't incredibly batshit insane to the point of stabbing his own eyes throughout
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo turning into a pretty decent scam, like those ny jeweler shops "going out of business"
mircea_popescu: they have a point - reddit is now not really protected by the whatever act.
mircea_popescu: in other news nobody cares about, the us&friends decided the leaking of civilians from mosul is more trouble than it's worth, sealed it off, will proceed to butcher the remaining and blame isis for it.
mircea_popescu: and not giving a shit about us market must necessarily be a loss ?
mircea_popescu: lol wait, because if you think libtards are ridoinculous you must be insane ?
mircea_popescu: sure. every whoremonger wins the war with the cunt every time he takes out his wallet.
mircea_popescu: the byzantine version thereof, that's as it should be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very similar to how the us military works. hasn't won a single engagement since the 90s, and you could ask "why the expensive and brittle theatrical machinery then" ? and i'd answer the same thing.
mircea_popescu: just let me know if you'd like to drink "beer", "soda", "energy drinks" or what.
mircea_popescu: and, outside of the color coding, substantially produced out of the same hfcs vats!
mircea_popescu: a world of consumer choices, color coded for your convenience!
mircea_popescu: just like the vampire books tend to use a lot of red and science fiction books tend to use a lot of blue.
mircea_popescu: as far as practical results are concerned, i mean. as far as the chumps involved are concerned, the doge crowd requires pictures of cats and the eth crowd requires technogargle.
mircea_popescu: it could do just as well as the becker college, and dispense with it.
mircea_popescu: except for the "i fucking love science" / "wikipedia and tedtalks!!!" crowd of chindribblers, rather than for the icanhascheezburger / pinterest / etc crowd of chindribblers.
mircea_popescu: placing self on (monero, solidcoin) continuum takes being ustardian.
mircea_popescu: yes they could design meaningful item. however, that takes work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well it's not clear what one means by catastrophically buggy.
mircea_popescu: "but how could it be that we don't matter in the future!!!11"
mircea_popescu: so they're making centralized bitcoin and calling it permissioned coin. hurr.
mircea_popescu: and tghe pill is to do WHERE BINARY. holy shit, im doing where binary char compares.
mircea_popescu: and in other omfgwtf, mysql SELECT WHERE TYPE [char len 1 field] = "F" selects BOTH f and F.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't get it, wtf is a "permissioned" coin ? bitcoin is already permissioned, and if you don't think so you're more than welcome to spend mine ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ethereum costs about 1k times more to support than it can possibly profit anyone
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what "exchanges" ? afaik ~everyone halted trading altogether at one of the previous similar junctures.
mircea_popescu: (low abstractive value is what's meant, rather than practical value)
mircea_popescu: phf yeah but he's juggling too much code and i dun wanna lose him under a pile of lengthy rules of low value.
mircea_popescu: this is how we figure things out you know, otherwise the far edges are really too far for contemplation.
mircea_popescu: eh, bot shouldn't speak whenever it thinks it sees an ip.
mircea_popescu: esp as there was no guarantee you'd get the whole mod anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you not like the new deedbot phuctor style ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: prolly should be standing policy to actually announce such situations.
mircea_popescu: trinque that's kinda the thing, everyone tends to assume such things because why risk offending friend of lord.