mircea_popescu: as it is, this reporting, it is a 90% of an excellent job. make the extra 10%. make it whole, it'll be great.

mircea_popescu: mod6 not a bad idea. but make sure you package these with the required context and publish them.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field industrial engineering is a three century old history of "minimal improvements have astounding effects"

mircea_popescu: anyway, i must say the profiling seen here crowns an expectation that has been slowly building from what was shown prior, ie that the snipped bitcoin 5 we're using is actually a major improvement over the old bitcoin 5, and thus very, very far ahead of bitcoin 10/11/etc.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't recall ever running a node under 8gb, and for that matter that was more like 2012. i think everything now's 32.

mircea_popescu: what business of it is theirs ? "oh, you're so ignorant, you don't even know astronomy". well... he's a farm hand, let him farm.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, see, the opinions of people who do not own 30 btc to their name as to the comings and goings of places where this is a minimum requisite bar do not constitute proper ignorance. it's like saying country bumpkins in montana have no idea how broadstreet works. they obviously don't, but this because the goat does not know calendars.

mircea_popescu: "but your honor, it would be a price too high for society to pay were the government granted the right to act because of any defect sufficient to invalidate submitted tax reports"

mircea_popescu: so government can fuck up the conviction, gets a second shot because hey, govt's speshul. you go fuck up your tax returns, see how that goes over.

mircea_popescu: new that reversal of a conviction would put the accused irrevocably beyond the reach of further prosecution."

mircea_popescu: al. It would be a high price indeed for society to pay were every accused granted immunity from punishment because of any defect sufficient to constitute reversible error in the proceedings leading to conviction. From the standpoint of a defendant, it is at least doubtful that appellate courts would be as zealous as they now are in protecting against the effects of improprieties at the trial or pretrial stage if they k

mircea_popescu: "While different theories have been advanced to support the permissibility of retrial, of greater importance than the conceptual abstractions employed to explain the Ball principle are the implications of that principle for the sound administration of justice. Corresponding to the right of an accused to be given a fair trial is the societal interest in punishing one whose guilt is clear after he has obtained such a tri

mircea_popescu: "In a line of precedent almost a century old, the Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed that the Double Jeopardy Clause does not preclude the government from retrying a defendant whose conviction is set aside because of an error in the proceedings leading to conviction."

mircea_popescu: "but i have a shirt and shoes!" "so does my goat."

mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's not even that, lol. i'm not making a judgement based on how the twerp presents itself. this is more like, "you're not famous, go away", but for a much better definition of famous. "people i care about heard of you."

mircea_popescu: it's funny, what a few decades of "everyone else is your supporting cast" has done to joe blow.

mircea_popescu: i thought they're just pulling a great gatsby / jerry seifeld, and just storing them

mircea_popescu: i'd rather see uclibc in the "official" b-a linux ☟︎☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: you mean, with a gun ? i mean... rifle ?

mircea_popescu: a senator got shot in the face ?

mircea_popescu: "a bunch of fat slobs with too much time on their hands and a govt-subsidized internet connection are mashing keyboards" ?

mircea_popescu: english as a language secundary.

mircea_popescu: there's a reason drug cartels use subs not blimps

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-05-2015#1128664 << it's a fucking stupid idea. ☝︎