asciilifeform: (and yes you can do blockchain over shortwave. after learning this algo, and not before)☟︎
asciilifeform: (tcp, that massive barrel of liquishit, was designed before the discovery of luby code - or any of the subsequent 'fountain' algos)
asciilifeform: alert reader will realize that this abolishes tcp.
asciilifeform: satellite tv outfits use a somewhat more efficient - but ~considerably~ more complex - version of luby
asciilifeform: transform arbitrary byte array B into generator of datagrams, where you can collect N in any order, and N weights <= 2B, to re-create B☟︎
asciilifeform: (it was crucial missing piece for gossipd)
asciilifeform: 'if it were detachable, the last you passing by would have carried it off'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re the bmore thread, it appears to be a continuation of my childhood education, where i saw silver ruble coinz on occasion, but strictly glued to the asphalt with the recently imported cyanoacrylate
asciilifeform: this bizarro world where ghetto rats are 'actual people' is an interesting place.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu might have a somewhat distorted picture of bmore. most of these boxes aren't mega-profitable dens of vice, but empty and full of rubble.
asciilifeform: a few dozen folks promising to return call, and 0 did.
asciilifeform: it ended in a very interesting place, btw
asciilifeform: a couple days ago i did experiment, 'what is the cheapest box one can buy title to in bmore, where the roof is intact and inside is not full of vermin and rubble'
