mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185700 << this is a fact. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185688 << either that on a website-y thing or have an option for a new subscriber to get whole shebang ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: touch typing is good if you're going to do straight typing for mintues at a time. i normally do not. i suppose you do not either, need a mouse, a this, a buffer, a that etc.

mircea_popescu: ascii_modem harem, actually. "if you have a ton of babes, doing it wrong"

mircea_popescu: this follows in the wake of a few threads mostly brought to a head by the opnessl idiocies you might wish to review phf if you've not seen them before.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185658 << this is not merely a difference of workflow, but a difference of philosophy. we are not interested in automation, we are interested in review and responsibility. the only concern that thing is adressing is that we find a critical bug tomorrow, i want to know who to negrate. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185411 << they aren't always performing. most of them can't perform worth a shit. nevertheless, the sexual exploitation of women is an important element of mental health, including for the women in question, for women in general, for men in general... ☝︎

mircea_popescu: see ag3nt_zero, syllogism. reductio ad absurdum. present the op with a dilemma, so he can either explain what was misunderstood or correct what he misunderstood

mircea_popescu: arguably intelligence is similarly of a capital good, and you have enough control of it to, for instance, contribute here. other people do not have this luxury - for instance because they agreed some employer owns it all.

mircea_popescu: as much as running your own server is controlling a capital good. not a very significant one, but that's a quantitative discussion

mircea_popescu: even not counting the nsa etc ; pogo is a capital good.

mircea_popescu: and i agree it's a pity nobody cares enough to beat up that bum.

mircea_popescu: and he told me that he was an orphan, and that he got put by the commieus through the above grinder, and now he has a family and owns his car.

mircea_popescu: this horrible trampling of rightrs and liberties resulted in a romania with absolutely no bums, and moreover, in the anedcodtic situation where i picked up a cab from the train station

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185395 << ceausescu did exactly this. if police found you oin the street and you had no place of employment, you'd get a beating and get force-sent to either vocational prison-school if underage or work camp if overage. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185329 << except cheaper to adapt the yard to the robot, as in all examination markets. so you get those round cultivated fields with a pillar in middle etc. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185320 << incidentally, twelve generations of peasants died in a pool of their own blood to get ownership over the fucking tools, as a precursor to over the land and eventually their life. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: because yes, we're fucktarded enough to not notice what's proposed here is a closed f2pool - antpool loop. they're over there in their own parallel universe.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187182 << add lying schmucks to a degree not experienced since kindergarten on pirate island. the f2pool admin's explanation is "we got the bad block from antpool, who we don't know how they got because they told us they only follow us" ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187175 << there is a world under the ground we know little about. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not a very good q.

mircea_popescu: "I shook hands with the man I did most of the talking with and they took off... I was a little shooken up but realized I made a big mistake! I forgot to shake the black police detective's hand... shit!!!"

mircea_popescu: one day, someone WILL mine a version 1 block that WILL stick.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187156 << how exactly would they do this ? by mining a block ? at this diff ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-07-2015#1187150 << i think this is a bad idea. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: <punkman> gernika, maybe write up your process/mods << also a good idea. submit to mail list, now you can.

mircea_popescu: <punkman> "Después de encontrar una vulnerabilidad grave en el sistema de voto electrónico a #MSA estan allanando mi casa, los de delitos informaticos." << in case anyone else missed it, this country is mostly a parody.

mircea_popescu: a gallon of water makes half hour's mist, protects the plant if there's any air draft at all

mircea_popescu: almost as if someone was holding off hitting the muppets over the head with a 2x4 until b-a crowd had its ducks lined

mircea_popescu: i still dunno why they do it. i've not yet managed to unstick a stuck one from last night

mircea_popescu: a two ounce leaf can not carry a twelve ounce load!

mircea_popescu: the town was fully of blooming magnolias and i never saw a single artichoke plant outside of my garden

mircea_popescu: <punkman> wait until you try to debug plants << he has a point there. tho in fairness iirc alf debugged mice at some point.

mircea_popescu: there is no reason to expect any better in this new field. it is, after all, a field.

mircea_popescu: but this situation is why im so cold on your ada idea. sure, you go put all the god damned effort into writing a fully correct, fully specified implementation oif an... broken idea.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't envisage as much as an inkling of a solution. just more stuff to worry about.

mircea_popescu: punkman right. hence all the "We don't give a shit" verbiage here.

mircea_popescu: hard to convey what the changes in dynamic such a thing brings.

mircea_popescu: ascii_modem more specifically put : currently everyone is mining with a "god given" known tx of 25 btc + whatever they pick off the ground.

mircea_popescu: it pays more as a pool operator to be into skulldugery than into running your pool

mircea_popescu: or else by fucking up other people's miners. i ordered a listing of "all the ways you could exploit a miner with crafted comms for a hash advantage"

mircea_popescu: anyway, the main sufferance in my head atm is that reading the chinese stuff (in translation) clarifies in my head an objection that may well be a second major flaw to the protocol, after the "relay nodes gotta do it for the glory" : its altogether unclear a purely financial incentive is the correct solution for miners. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: which sort of reorg apparentyly happens, or used to happen, a whole lot.

mircea_popescu: i know she's stupid and fat and you want a divorce, but...

mircea_popescu: this is a major problem, and the fact we're looking into it one of the few things giving me solace and better rest at night

mircea_popescu: i run a public company wut do you want from me, blood ?

mircea_popescu: im also going to have it unstuck, but i got a shitpile of stuff cooking atm.

mircea_popescu: i do intend to replace it with a foundation one as soon as practicable.

mircea_popescu: now, since you're synced to my level, and you have a full validating node, i see no reason to not open the listen port. do you ?

mircea_popescu: specifically, what happens if you put the new chain into a node

mircea_popescu: ascii_modem where were the daily forks b/w january (?) and now ? << costs a little to make one, nobody cared enough. (also lots of manual intervention and general ducttaping at the miner and relayer level - bitcoin is quickly becoming an excellent makework tool, keeping idiots both employed and in a delusion of importance)

mircea_popescu: none of this in any way invalidates anything about the new chain, nor is it a point of concern that i can distinguish

mircea_popescu: this utterly proves that a) the BIP system provides no benefit and should be disused ; b) the peoiple involved with all this nonsense should be muted ; c) voting does not work. nothing here is novel.

mircea_popescu: 4. the people who voted did so as all people voting ever do : blankly, mouth only. then, someone mined a v2 block on top of a v3 block (which to them look identical) and the supposed 95% majority that promised by that vote to distinguish failed to distinguish. well, half of them or so. the other half distinguished

mircea_popescu: this, again, has nothing to do with us. if tomorrow miners decide as a social game to never communicate any blocks they find that hash to odd, it's THEIR problem

mircea_popescu: 3. in order to avoid the situation that happened tonight, a supposed "voting" mechanism was deployed where people switched an irrelevant byte in the blocks they mined, to go from 2 to 3, to indicate they are ready and willing to follow the new rules. ☟︎