asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu https://archive.is/9rOIL << for your psychiatric collection

asciilifeform: somebody milking phf's box again ?

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/j9dtw << meanwhile, in the belching smokestacks of lulzschwitz...

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: so why aintcha there.

asciilifeform: why?

asciilifeform: diana_coman: iirc phf followed my recipe to a happy result. might want to ask him when he comes back from desert planet.

asciilifeform: (off lan via tftp, that is)

asciilifeform: i even described how to boot kernels off the net, for quick turnaround when working on a kernel-cum-bitcoind shitball

asciilifeform: and here i thought i beat the subject to an agonizingly pedantic death...

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: not satisfied with the cookbooks on trb mailinglist ?

asciilifeform: ick

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lemme guess, 'chrome' or some variant ?

asciilifeform: ;;later tell diana_coman http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-01#1532900 << yes, there is a magical recipe, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-03-03#1421109 << thread. ☝︎☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform also.

asciilifeform: 'kokakola! sometimes - war!!111' (tm) (r) (rammstein)

asciilifeform: boolcrap must also have weird dreams.

asciilifeform: boolcrap: you can go from one end of mircea_popesculandia to another by cab for a few bux.

asciilifeform: though also 'drive there and wait to be road mined'

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: technically none at all, in 'green zone'

asciilifeform: he was bored.

asciilifeform: i once met a fella who played 'call of duty: iraq' in actual iraq.

asciilifeform: nah he was mexican also.

asciilifeform: looked a bit like level1 of 'wolfenstein'.

asciilifeform: also there was nazi party headquarter on 3rd floor.

asciilifeform: also i had a dream where i visited ye olde rupturefarm and all you lot were long gone and there were mexicans instead...

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: boolcrap: i was windbg-ing and thought of you.

asciilifeform: boolcrap: make another, will ya

asciilifeform: didja keep it in that watermelon boolcrap .

asciilifeform: where's yer key

asciilifeform: eh boolcrap .

asciilifeform: does that thing have a name ?

asciilifeform: lel what's she wearing ?

asciilifeform: and the disk cost thing is one leg of what old mircea_popescu article called, iirc, 'responsibility collapse triangle'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well yes.

asciilifeform: but iirc mircea_popescu already has good piece re subj.

asciilifeform: long before any other 'too manies'.

asciilifeform: ~this~ crack ~will~ eventually fissure.

asciilifeform: the ~actual~ terminal instability in the thing is that the folks who eat the cost of disk (nodes) are not the folks who get tx fees (miners).

asciilifeform: and tomorrow there will be 10,000,001. what of this.

asciilifeform: so today there's what, 10,001 derps per minute who 'just want to' but cannot, and aren't worth even a bullet.

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu colour me thick, but i still dun get why 'oh noez there'll be 2100000000000000 potentially-movable satoshis.' everybody still gets to sit down in 1MB block. so tx-ing will be eventually like what launching satellite to orbit is today - had better be worth the cost. but will still work quite the same.

asciilifeform: somethinglikethat

asciilifeform: for sins in past life.

asciilifeform: re suffer, aha, i've been reading motherfucking microshit docs all day.

asciilifeform: probably busy washing shit off light bulbs.

asciilifeform: poor ben_vulpes , iirc he never even had time to run the rng i gave him during c3

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: 'too many items, O(N)'

asciilifeform: for the reason stated earlier.

asciilifeform: coin that is fragged beyond a certain point, is ~lost.

asciilifeform: eh that's sorta like 'using gold means 10^50 atoms in sea water to keep track of'

asciilifeform: ah no, not this. just 'when you discover an addr, which is not easy to do, it comes with 1 coin. which you can then send by ....'

asciilifeform: possibly?

asciilifeform: all i recall is that it had discrete (nondivisible!) coins, 1 per addr, and mined strictly by 'vanitying' the addrs into existence.

asciilifeform: though i did see a bizarre crackpot altcoin in dream last night

asciilifeform: i prefer not to add cheap xerocopies of xerocopies to the world, enough of these as it is.

asciilifeform: eh it is different when you do things and then dream article about them, vs when you dream things and then dream article.

asciilifeform does regularly read trilema in dreams, and wakes up and futilely searches for 'the one where he used piss as a lasing medium...' etc)

asciilifeform: (or did i dream about reading a trilema with this)

asciilifeform: lel this is the man who drew fractals by hand

asciilifeform: somehow i knew that mircea_popescu could not resist pulling such rabbit out of his hat.

asciilifeform: the degree of control, so small as to rightfully count as 'homeopathic.'

asciilifeform: or elliots.

asciilifeform: at any rate, this is 'red herring.' nobody's insured against having kid who can't grasp recursion, or even do addition, etc.

asciilifeform: 'say hello to our new mulatto kid' horned husband: '...'

asciilifeform: with horns, how else.

asciilifeform: modern americans seem to have caught up with the reverse.

asciilifeform: closer to the, e.g., state of maryland powerless ball, sure.

asciilifeform: 'hey come and play powerball with me, i haven't won yet but TOGETHER YES WE CAN!1111'

asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has it.

asciilifeform: al 'uncle al' schwartz's father, for instance, was - iirc - a tailor, who never read a book cover to cover in his entire life.

asciilifeform: ~=.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: iirc he doesn't lift random scum off the street to work on.

asciilifeform: well, joe is a hero, and moe is a zero, and this quite likely was apparent to a skilled eye when both just learned to walk, neh ?

asciilifeform: rather than 'choose parents carefully'

asciilifeform: i did say 'same powerball'

asciilifeform: same fortune as in powerball, only diff is that the respective tickets were bought by joe and moe's parents

asciilifeform: fortune is by definition random, neh ?

asciilifeform: where's the 'better' though ?

asciilifeform: but who will attach it, and why..?

asciilifeform: brick would also fly 'better' attached to jet booster

asciilifeform: contaminated with urge !

asciilifeform: 'As you might have noticed, I'm surrounded by guys, all of whom are enthusiastic about new technologies. They have managed to successfully transfer their excitement to me and have contaminated me with the same urge to discover the numerous possibilities that the crypto world has to offer.' << also great.

asciilifeform: was my thought. but, seeing the rest - probably as real as it gets.

asciilifeform: legendary.

asciilifeform: *dzerzhinsky

asciilifeform: https://youtu.be/T9SeOrGni9s?t=31m00s << specifically the fictionalized zherzhinsky pictured here.

asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu walking up to seekrit skvirrel and giving 'the stare', like felix dzerzhinsky supposedly did

asciilifeform falls down

asciilifeform: 'rifle? what rifle, that was a balloon pop'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik typical cowman filters out 'inconceivable' stimuli. 'oh that's nuffin, that's a dude who ~looks like~ obummer'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever chat'em up ?

asciilifeform: l0l! what's this look like ?

asciilifeform: (which, one might suppose, also counter-reads trilema and it bounced right off..)

asciilifeform: and hey, usg dos reads trilema, that was the year they tried to 'colourize' moscow

asciilifeform lelling over ancient mircea_popescu piece, where 'Putin este ceva intre obraznic si periculos, si intre noi fie vorba o tinta excelenta pentru un micut si elegant asasinat politic executat de unul dintre cele cite mai sunt, douazeci de servicii secrete romanesti.'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lel, apparently ol' kako knows some of these folks, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-08-2016#1454709 ☝︎

asciilifeform: i have nfi, but pictured item dun look like a dude