asciilifeform: e's Illinois electoral victories, raised questions about this bizarre "quarantine" policy. Inquiries by the NJCRC, he wrote, had uncovered that "the media in Illinois did know that [Democratic primary candidates] Fairchild and Hart were LaRouchites, and chose not to headline this information, based on a judgment that to do so would give LaRouche a platform in statewide politics he did not deserve."'
asciilifeform: 'But behind the media's "soft" view of LaRouche there was often the rankest hypocrisy. While newspapers portrayed him as a kook they made editorial judgments based on the assumption that he was indeed potentially dangerous—so dangerous that his activities must be concealed from the public lest the truth help his movement grow. Jerome Chasen of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, in a 1986 memorandum on LaRouch
asciilifeform: 'Just as LaRouche took issue with Hitler's version of total mobilization, so he criticized the Nazi leader's military strategy of waging a two-front war against both the West and the Soviet Union. Hitler should have mopped up the Rothschilds' headquarters, Britain, before marching east. The London blitz was not carried out boldly enough.' << genius.
asciilifeform: http://lyndonlarouche.org/newamericanfascism.htm << in very other non-noose. 'This is not a democratic situation; this is a time where democracy is the worst factor you can get. You've got a democracy in the streets now, they want to kill these guys. That's the democracy I want to hear from. I don't want to hear from these so-called Democrats; I want to hear from the killers!'
asciilifeform: my point is that artificially rationing connections to trb will lead to ~slower~ propagation, rather than faster -- unless it alleviates severa spamola, as my 'banhammer' did
asciilifeform: witness mircea_popescu's frustrations every time he transmits a tx and nothing happens
asciilifeform: the 'fixed peers' thing is actually the tip of a very nontrivial iceberg, because bitcoin was not in fact designed as a 'wotronic' mechanism, and it is not clear that 'nothing to allcomers' is safely retrofittable on it
asciilifeform: so long as reader knows where he stands.
asciilifeform: it is like to say that self-appendectomy is trivial. in aspects -- it is.
asciilifeform: mining - afaik - remains a thing that happens among the heathens strictly.
asciilifeform: (the situation where trb nodes, in the ~collective~, can be persuaded to tune out the heathen world, is precisely it)
asciilifeform: phf: it is not a trivial change, because if you are not careful you can end up in solipsist world where you can be driven into chain split by a d00d mining on old rusty ford pinto
asciilifeform: sorta why i have not touched trb in quite a spell -- there is nothing left to do that is not 'a mutilation' imho
asciilifeform: and to introduce ANY such thing would mutilate, beyond recognition, 'grandfather's pistol'.
asciilifeform: in the sense where there is no mechanism for safely preempting a stalled conversation with another node, or allocating time quanta, or even (gasp) allowing >1 operation across blockchain or mempool in PARALLEL
asciilifeform: every time i go and reopen this can of worms and look at the code, i end up realizing that the thing is ~unfixable
asciilifeform: ( because - at least as i understand it - it requires the entire spittoon )
asciilifeform: it still very much itches in asciilifeform's brain that we still do not have any means for fixed peering in trb
asciilifeform: (does 0, naturally, to distinguish pseudonodes from nodes or any of this.)
asciilifeform: somewhat surprisingly -- it really is a dumb surveybot, does not seem to do anything peculiar other than the >0.8 test.
asciilifeform: to get a sense if their overall census is even slightly believable
asciilifeform: the bulk of the reason i even wrote the 'programmable verstring' patch to begin with is to determine, experimentally, whether enemy would willingly go along with displaying directory of public trb urinals, or not
asciilifeform: then, if it's your turn again, and your box answers - it gets displayed
asciilifeform: iirc they do exactly as you might expect, port scan, and if it's your box's turn and you're in, e.g., blackhole, it'll delist
asciilifeform: (entirely blind version num check, they give 0 shit what command set node responds to etc)
asciilifeform: trinque: the heathens only list a node if it reports >0.8 iirc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu iirc also has at least one, but iirc he's on some year1 version thereof and in fact i have nfi whether it even worx, or he still uses own 'mpb'
