asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: atomic war is expensive.

asciilifeform: shinohai: i think it is interesting that i've been kill -9 'ing trb since day 1 and never had this problem.

asciilifeform: (for n00bz, this is pronounced with maximally puckered lips)

asciilifeform: croc: 'ню-ню' (~= hmm, hmm.)

asciilifeform: they: 'for having such a big mouth'

asciilifeform: he asks why

asciilifeform: crocodile swimming in the river, sees monkeys beating a hippo savagely.

asciilifeform: this one's new to me, but i recall a similar.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-08-2014#803437 ☝︎

asciilifeform: i only recall the hedgehog.

asciilifeform: not familiar with the case, but plenty of this in ww2 ?

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: (though, in pathological cases, the dead can rise again, say chetty wrote down her key somewhere, for whatever reason, and it is found)

asciilifeform: lost - can reappear. theoretically.

asciilifeform: i might be mentally overextending traditions from the meat world, but wouldn't a lost key be different from a dead lord's in the sense where a man lost at sea differs from one buried with witnesses ?

asciilifeform: (just as if you lose your key, you are dead, though still breathing)

asciilifeform: if somebody has the key, 'you' are still alive...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i gotta ask, what happens to shares owned by the dead ?

asciilifeform expected a declaration of war, mildly disappointed!11

asciilifeform: meanwhile, http://qz.com/628761/the-irs-is-using-a-system-that-was-hacked-to-protect-victims-of-a-hack-and-it-was-just-hacked

asciilifeform: not big brother.

asciilifeform: and it's 'grandpa of the iron ricebowl' in cn.

asciilifeform: don't want another.

asciilifeform: i already live with one.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: where a ship can sink from matters unrelated to what is on board, but with known chance.

asciilifeform: and if it even worked like the ocean,

asciilifeform: in light of mircea_popescu's hypothesis.

asciilifeform: PeterL: it is entirely unsusprising that we have empty blocks

asciilifeform: jurov: considering that the only thing i am apparently good at is falling on grenades, i would happily sit on this one for you if i knew how.

asciilifeform: ah

asciilifeform: l0l what has BingoBoingo been smoking.

asciilifeform: jurov: and to the extent i blow my very little free time on trbism, they are.

asciilifeform: jurov: by all rights they ought to be.

asciilifeform: but it has to be ~done~.

asciilifeform: it is possible to build a concrete bunker, or even castle.

asciilifeform: house of cards is not the only possible kind of house.

asciilifeform: that it 'works' in the sense where a house of cards that nobody's pushed, stands up.

asciilifeform: at any rate, i've been repeating, largely to deaf ears, since i showed up here,

asciilifeform: '... and with strange eons, even death may die' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: and how it 'works'.

asciilifeform: jurov would be astonished to learn what i live from.

asciilifeform: no wai

asciilifeform: jurov: what, in place of recon by fire, would you do in his place ?

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: so it was a reactor test?

asciilifeform: for whatever reason

asciilifeform: tbh i'm a little surprised that mircea_popescu was pinching pennies on tx fees

asciilifeform: (is there even an engl. phrase for this?)

asciilifeform: possibly time to show'em 'кузькина мать' i mean.

asciilifeform: so it's nukefest time, then.

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: i could've sworn we had this thread

asciilifeform: what, theoretically, would it take, to get a guaranteed block weekly ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd be curious re: what the 'technical solution' is.

asciilifeform: http://qntra.net/2016/03/a-miner-problem/#comment-47629 << interesting

asciilifeform: PeterL: see thread re: keccak.

asciilifeform: but if mircea_popescu coughts up a (c), i'll enjoy reading.

asciilifeform: b) tmsr shows the vermin their place

asciilifeform: or

asciilifeform: a) tmsr takes up some form of mining

asciilifeform: so far the only solutions i can picture divide into 2 classes,

asciilifeform: hey it beats being in the business i'm in (swimming in tank of shit with shit-eating pirannhas)

asciilifeform: no shit!

asciilifeform: it does not follow that toilet was a waste of time.

asciilifeform: in pants - always easier.

asciilifeform: inventing the toilet is not enough, you have to go to it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you cannot solve the problem of hygiene with technological means, no.

asciilifeform: *well-deserving

asciilifeform: i for one am disappointed, i expected there would be a lively thread re: the exact how-tos of applying boot to some well-deserved faces in the middle kingdom and elsewhere.

asciilifeform: in that sense - yes.

asciilifeform: PeterL: 'when it feels like it'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trb didn't even get off the runway until magic constants, recall.

asciilifeform: prolly.

asciilifeform: why was this ?

asciilifeform: i distinctly recall that trb sailed through the july incident while mpb did not.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ~usefully defensive~ heterogeneity is an illusion.

asciilifeform: running on 4 generations of x86.

asciilifeform: and certainly there is nothing truly heterogeneous about 11 old versions of satoshi's crud.

asciilifeform: heterogeneity in software is an illusion in every case.

asciilifeform: especially then.

asciilifeform: d bet money that there is some peculiar mpbism that is being exploited here. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i'

asciilifeform: in whatever cases.

asciilifeform: which we (other than mircea_popescu) have nfi what it does.

asciilifeform: ahahahahaha so we have mircea_popescu's mpb mysterymeat in the mix.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: we - or at least i - have nfi what 'most nodes' are or do. the sybils are not necessarily relevant.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, which is why i did not ring the alarm.

asciilifeform: how many bullets do you need to catch before you stop saying 'meteorite' and shoot back.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla this is not even the first botched payout on bb!

asciilifeform: wishes?

asciilifeform: none of the necessary priors are known.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is not a thing you can actually do

asciilifeform: more than enough.

asciilifeform: aha. tunneling.

asciilifeform: physics - allows it.

asciilifeform: randomly.

asciilifeform: i can fall through the floor.