mircea_popescu: there's a few things like that.

mircea_popescu: but iirc this was mentioned and discussed a year ago, part and parcel of all the "Scaling" bs is a sheer cluelessness as to what a node actually is / what it does / how it looks.

mircea_popescu: which is how come i even know people who can digest the concept of stuffing 256gb in a box.

mircea_popescu lives in a land where he has to run ac anyway. you should hear that thing.

mircea_popescu: o a new one ?

mircea_popescu: so something that should happen twice a day on average happened four times past three hours.

mircea_popescu: "Probably yes. It's the equivalent of a little boy taking his ball and going home because everyone is not playing according to his rules. It's a useless gesture unless there is a factory of fresh asic chips rolling off the production line in anticipation of the new POW and/or there is a large chunk of the Bitcoin economy that is willing to completely abandon the larger block chain.

mircea_popescu: taking it from 6 to 5 not only gives you a cheap 20% boost of thoroughput, but also significantly reduces the "probability to wait 1 hr for txn inclusion". by about 60% or so.

mircea_popescu: so basically the comedy goldmine is really a comedy well.

mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny to me, because the vermin they regard as their progenitors, various "social rights activists" and whatnot benefitted from a context where each defeat made eventual victory more likely.

mircea_popescu: easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful, the recent S. 190 debate on limiting portfolios (bond issue supporting dud mortgages) by government sponsored enterprises being a perfect reprise of the debates on limiting the issue of new assignats in the 1790s."

mircea_popescu: "Then knowledgeable people complain that the evil financial network is heading for disaster, that the government sponsored enterprises are about to cause a "collapse of the total financial system", as Wallison and Alan Greenspan complained in 2005, the government debates shrinking the evil government sponsored enterprises, as with "S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" but they find

mircea_popescu: i imagine we'll be hearing a lot about how, and to quote,

mircea_popescu: anyway. i've moved my tx fee from 0.0001 (~4 cents) to 0.00022 (bout a dime, give or take).

mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> i'm at a diner right now watching my explore bot via ssh terminal on fone << epic.

mircea_popescu: not that at this point "classic" is anything but a drunken joke, but anyway

mircea_popescu: i dunno, laddel sent me a pile of uncleal links and got canned by freenode

mircea_popescu: "I'm going back to the frozen north, where the pricks are hard and strong. Back to the land of the all-night stand-where the nights are six months long, where you get it in bits as hard as tin in the land where spunk is spunk - not a trickling stream of lukewarm cream, but a solid frozen chunk."

mircea_popescu: "A few days after the book was released, readers took the author, the illustrator and the publisher to task online for presenting a sanitized version of the life of Washington’s cook and other enslaved people. “An insulting tale that sprinkles glitter on rape, murder, torture and servitude,” wrote one outraged reviewer."

mircea_popescu: there's a reason for this, it's natural.

mircea_popescu: female side is similar. whore is just that, end of road. hooker tries to grab you with a well placed line, still has that much fight left in her.

mircea_popescu: a knave, well antiquated by now, would technically denote a "child of better means who is now destitute and agressive out of survived entitlement". a word lafond's looking for.

mircea_popescu: a punk is, of course, the eromenos in the typical pressure-driven homosexual relationships they engage in. a hooker's not the same as a harlot and so on and so forth

mircea_popescu: errors compound. without a star or other fixed outside...

mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "maintaining homeostasis" sort of things and what you describe.

mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag there's a problem of positive feedback loops.

mircea_popescu: they can't go to a random bar, they can't talk to random people.

mircea_popescu: i really don't blame the kids themselves, they're being raped under the guise of education, and in two major ways : one to create a wholly delusional concept of "originality" which is so badly wound up in self-contradiction it causes most brains to shut down ; the other is more pervasive, they are prevented from socialising normally in a myriad ways and as such become incapable to work with others.

mircea_popescu: https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage/issues/775 << poor surda, i guess he's trying the entire "push a mountain uphill to build strength" approach.

mircea_popescu: punkman notably, the one difference between this and gossipd is that it really doesn't require so much trust. the paramount question isn't to make it possible for derps to safely exchange child porn or whatever, the paramount question is to make it possible to run a chan without having to bow down to an isp providing server space.

mircea_popescu: broadly it seems more like a sort of confused yahoo messenger implemented by teenagers than anything.

mircea_popescu: spam shouldn't be a problem in a sane implementation of the above-discussed design

mircea_popescu: tore a bunch of holes in the "logical arguments" of the retards, to exactly no effect. their logic consists of whatever they make algal blooms out of.

mircea_popescu: there is no such thing. there shall never be such a thing.

mircea_popescu: moreover, the wholly misplaced expectation of youthful enthusiasts that they may make a name for themselves through independently "creating" shit must be quashed. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: shrug. you a dev there gernika ?

mircea_popescu: gernika the idea was to make a chan not to convey short text messages in a roundabout manner.

mircea_popescu: check that out, they put wheels on a shoe.

mircea_popescu: lol how are they gonna "compete", who gives a shit about that thing ?

mircea_popescu: back before the whores starting pretending like government is a job.