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mircea_popescu: well the us has the advantage that the people contain enough food for ~decade, give or take.
mircea_popescu: oh wait, they sold the corn earlier. they're definitely starving.
mircea_popescu: so macri's here to stay, and the country's definitely going on sale. staples prices already up ~50 to maybe 100%, salaries frozen, all bureaucrats discussing in hushed tones their fears of which jobs will be cut... it's a pleasure.
mircea_popescu: an utter humiliation, i have no idea why the fuck they even did it. but it's quite clear that without the cona house they got ~nothing.
mircea_popescu: de mayo wide the fuck open, more police than protestors, 50 miles of fence and 300 yards of protestor perimeter.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of the us and its future - so macri's been in power for a few weeks now, the peronistas (ie, criminal-socialist party) kept hewing and hawing about how they'll bring the street power to bear. today they finally called out a demonstration, it was on all the news outlet. deeply zoomed in, it looked almost like a thing. but zoomed out, it was ~50 to 100 people in a yellow box "blocking traffic". all the plaza
mircea_popescu: and that only because it abstains from discussing the economy.
mircea_popescu: first party in history with a double fuck in the full name.
mircea_popescu: (ie, Partido Justicialista Because Fuck Republicans And What The Fuck Are These Democrats Even Supposed To Be)
mircea_popescu: besides, the us is just about ripe for a peron of its own
mircea_popescu: but for a better man, the correct strategy is exactly this.
mircea_popescu: ideally the republican party should end by being spit in the face by "an outlier" and never recovering from it. best thing for them.
mircea_popescu: anyway, trump got 7, next ghuy what, 3 ? 4 ? it's all over. i hope to hell he a) fails to get enough delegates and then b) spits in their faces re "brokered convention" and then c) starts his OWN party on pretty much a platform of "fuck the republicans and what are these democrats supposed to even be ?"
mircea_popescu: in other news, they have these guts-of-figs with almods or other nuts on top sweets here. utterly delicious with a glass of vermouth
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't recall when's the last time a democrat was so culturally inept. maybe carter.
mircea_popescu: seriously, not time to make america great again, it never ceased being great, gotta unite it more ? bitch, you lose. you lose so badly... jesus.
mircea_popescu: in other news - hilary apparently attacked trump, and with a total loser speech. it's all over, he's winning
mircea_popescu: people other than orwell, who unlike orwell had sex and mattered in the world.
mircea_popescu: just like any other derp/redditard to whom i give key life advice.
mircea_popescu: i crossed out art and wrote in "you stink" and "get a job", but something tells me they won't take this to heart and execute it exactly
mircea_popescu: they had the unmitigated audacity to leave envelopes on the tables, "thanks for halping us continue with our art"
mircea_popescu: it's what it usually means when someone says they're using "normal" anything in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> what does this mean ? << that he's using prb and never looked inside for sheer horror
mircea_popescu: no argument there. but it is not ok merely because some idiots do it atm.
mircea_popescu: yeah, some noncompliant miners are currently doing this, among many other insanities they do.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to write a sane specification for bitcoin that avoids saying specifically "if input tx is not found in a block, tx is invalid"
mircea_popescu: yeah, a miner might choose to do all sorts of patently idiotic shit.
mircea_popescu: this argument has some merit, but it's really contrary to bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: fucking evil bs, child pays for parent, let's invent OTHER ways to import meaningless state into bitcoin and fuck it all up
mircea_popescu: apparently his wot key is defective, can't decrypt assbot pad
mircea_popescu: sturles that's kind-of a problem then, you can't voice here.
mircea_popescu: so rather than a preliminary it's actually the thing ?
mircea_popescu: i will have the harem hum your nick during sex for a week in recognition.
mircea_popescu: i claim no ownership interest in the notion. it's so outrageous a tree somewhere in the forest prolly said somethingat some point.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is with these idiots. "oh, there's fewer of those" o ya ? guess what - there's fewer of niggers and jews, also.
mircea_popescu: somehow, the fact that any system trying to "include everyone" necessarily excludes the best and brightest is never a concern.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform shush you, it's not supposed to make algebra-2-sense. it's from the statistics-and-citizensheep textbook.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you're curious, what trb is contemplating to eventually do is a ring buffer with a per-kb fee only as the criteria.
mircea_popescu: i don't recall when this "3 day" thing got introduced, but longer than coupla years ago i think.
mircea_popescu: check that out, "TradeBlock serves financial institutions with execution and analysis tools that capitalize on the potential of blockchain technologies."
mircea_popescu: built on the basis of what other nodes advertise as txn
mircea_popescu: sturles from my own nodes' estimation of what the "mempool" is currently.
mircea_popescu: for the curious, mempool was as high as 80mb during february, but recently it's ~8 or so.
mircea_popescu: yeah, mempool is low now for some reason, across the board.