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mircea_popescu: oil!" to, finally, "flyover country". not entirely sure who'd be the indicated canon on the topic. as everything else to do with culture, starting with the great "american" novel and ending with the great "american" dictionary, the us has failed to produce usable works. maybe one day
a gibbon is born in kenya or wherever and writes its history.
mircea_popescu: TomServo>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2016#1414960 << Any suggested reading on this topic? << mid 1800s, galveston was the world's cotton center. by the 1900s, dallas had overtaken it as the center of texas. lots of discussion of this change that's emblematic from
a more general shift from "midwest = great american desert" to "we built some pumps and whatnot, let's farm and raise cattle" to "holy shit
☝︎ BingoBoingo: This is becoming
a problem even for me, did I write that thing I just came across or not
punkman: is this
a bastardized mp quote? can't recall the source
punkman: I try to keep in mind: "network might be down for
a year, can you live with that"
mircea_popescu: basically, the most charitable read of the thing i can come up with is, "if you find your own wallet unable to transact - try move the privkey to
a webwallet, maybe it works there".
mircea_popescu: well... what happens if the tx is not included in
a block ?
pete_dushenski: because it's then
a throwaway intermediary. and yes, hoping that bc.info doesn't spend same coins in same 10 minutes is the risk.
mircea_popescu: it's not kosher, it's
a race as to who can spend first, and you're hoping the lady's good enough to keep him busy long enough for you to get to
a wifi ?
mircea_popescu: the lady side aside, do you think this is
a sensible deal ?
mircea_popescu: so you meet
a shady guy in
a bar, and he shows you an address with 10 btc in it, and gives you the privkey in exchange of taking the lady in the back alley half-n-half.
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mircea_popescu: compare the counties where scheme was implemented (it's always done by the "local barons", not
a central thing) with the counties where it isn't.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I refuse to vote for
a clinton so no, can't vote for hairday guy
cazalla: get
a job help building that wall as well
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo incidentally - imagine the fucking ratings once trump turns the white house into
a nbc studio
mircea_popescu: gotta say i like the language. the derps are fucking useless - saw
a fucktard SLEEPING IN THE SHOP today, banned the shop - but check out "envalentonada".
mircea_popescu: this year in us election, an ogre runt and
a quail on lsd.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 01:23:57; mircea_popescu: in other news, they have these guts-of-figs with almods or other nuts on top sweets here. utterly delicious with
a glass of vermouth
mircea_popescu: and these imbecile stallmans of
a new generation, encouraging this nonsense. pfff.
mircea_popescu: so macri's here to stay, and the country's definitely going on sale. staples prices already up ~50 to maybe 100%, salaries frozen, all bureaucrats discussing in hushed tones their fears of which jobs will be cut... it's
a pleasure.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the us and its future - so macri's been in power for
a few weeks now, the peronistas (ie, criminal-socialist party) kept hewing and hawing about how they'll bring the street power to bear. today they finally called out
a demonstration, it was on all the news outlet. deeply zoomed in, it looked almost like
a thing. but zoomed out, it was ~50 to 100 people in
a yellow box "blocking traffic". all the plaza
BingoBoingo would just prefer
a more honest wrecker to do the parting
mircea_popescu: first party in history with
a double fuck in the full name.
mircea_popescu: besides, the us is just about ripe for
a peron of its own
mircea_popescu: but for
a better man, the correct strategy is exactly this.
BingoBoingo: Well, the writing's on the wall for that except for the part about such
a fate being MP-esque, I mean Donald Trump-Clinton is
a serial scammer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, trump got 7, next ghuy what, 3 ? 4 ? it's all over. i hope to hell he
a) fails to get enough delegates and then b) spits in their faces re "brokered convention" and then c) starts his OWN party on pretty much
a platform of "fuck the republicans and what are these democrats supposed to even be ?"
BingoBoingo: i.e. Let Trump win
a plurality but not majority of delegates
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Romney attacked Trump and offered brokered convention as
a solution in his speech
mircea_popescu: in other news, they have these guts-of-figs with almods or other nuts on top sweets here. utterly delicious with
a glass of vermouth
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in other news - hilary apparently attacked trump, and with
a total loser speech. it's all over, he's winning << It was Romney, but really no diff
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 20:15:01; ben_vulpes: while "there's nothing wrong with addr reuse" made sense once upon
a time, the new regime is that "tell people where you're sleeping, and they'll come murder you there".
mircea_popescu: i don't recall when's the last time
a democrat was so culturally inept. maybe carter.
mircea_popescu: in other news - hilary apparently attacked trump, and with
a total loser speech. it's all over, he's winning
mircea_popescu: i crossed out art and wrote in "you stink" and "get
a job", but something tells me they won't take this to heart and execute it exactly
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 19:05:18; pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420808 << i took in the alberta ballet's nutcracker in december, which is the local company. there were no more than 3 of the cast who could actually dance. the rest were trying to 'fake it till you make it', which drove me up the wall, particularly when the mouth-breathing audience took it upon themselves to give the sorry lot
a standing o.
trinque: felipelalli: I'll look in
a bit and fix whatever's stopping that and put it through for you.
shinohai: trinque: home, someone busted in my the side door to my home office, got
a lappy and
a few trivial items.
shinohai: I've had that, theft, and just yesterday
a db crash. Yet I soldier on.
gernika: I finally have
a fully synced trb node, after starting on the project almost
a year ago.
ben_vulpes: while "there's nothing wrong with addr reuse" made sense once upon
a time, the new regime is that "tell people where you're sleeping, and they'll come murder you there".
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:15:42; ascii_field: Chillum: the entire exercise is what i call
a 'bear suit'
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 13:12:31; asciilifeform: 'You think Bitbet benefits from the open display of bets and payouts? Fine! Publish them for paid-out bets. Publish
a shortened version for active bets, first few digits of the amount,
a fragment of the address… publish hashes of the whole data, deedbot them, anything you'd like. Why publish the whole thing, plain text, all the time? What did you imagine would come out of that rabid, unthinking tran
pete_dushenski: granted that it's
a bit of
a pain, and also granting that it's hardly
a scalable solution, it does do the trick.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420812 << hahaha i had this exact same debate with fillie at guggenheim bilbao over serra's 'the matter of time'. she fucking hated it, i defended it, but probably to play foil as much as anything. this was
a few years ago however, though i do still see his works once or twice
a year in toronto's pearson airport ('tilted spheres'). i will grant them their ability to bre
☝︎ pete_dushenski used to dance ! lifts were
a pubescent boy's dream cum true.
pete_dushenski: made me long to see
a real ballet. i think i'll wait until the royal winnipeg is in town next.
pete_dushenski:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1420808 << i took in the alberta ballet's nutcracker in december, which is the local company. there were no more than 3 of the cast who could actually dance. the rest were trying to 'fake it till you make it', which drove me up the wall, particularly when the mouth-breathing audience took it upon themselves to give the sorry lot
a standing o.
☝︎☟︎ sturles: I haven't looked closely at the code. My node behaves like any other node would. Except it keeps
a part of the mempool protected from fee based eviction based on priority.
sturles: Yes, and I don't think this is much more complex than requiring each utxo to be in
a different block than the one it is spent from.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to write
a sane specification for bitcoin that avoids saying specifically "if input tx is not found in
a block, tx is invalid"
sturles: Yes. It isn't verey complicated. Really. As long as
A is found before B in the blockchain, the order is AB. Even if
A and B are in the same block.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
a miner might choose to do all sorts of patently idiotic shit.
sturles: Well, you may call it
a fetus.
A miner can choose to give birth to both in the same block.
sturles: If
a transaction pays too low fees to get included, and you spend an output of the transaction with
a high fee,
a miner may want to mine both.