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mircea_popescu: then again, granted, most of those involved were pretty nuts.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone sane was seriously thinking the situation may survive. it was painfully obvious we're riding a self-limiting wave.
mircea_popescu: seriously, 10 hours for 100gb ? what is this, maxtor days ?
mircea_popescu: so in that sense, my os copies files a lot faster than that.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag incidentally, i suspect you'll find the latest quite very interesting, if you manage to wade through it all.
mircea_popescu: trinque i suspect this is what drove alf's ideas of you know, deliberate sabotage against trb nodes.
mircea_popescu: while cutting out crud we could get away with less poring, but as we add / change / etc it becomes ever more problematic.
mircea_popescu: like it or not this is the level of scrutiny that patches have to face, even if it makes develoipment slow.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the thing is, that 10`000 we took out - while very sensible to be out and belongs out - could very well had been covering up for say an openssl bug.
mircea_popescu: think of all the growth the kids will create on top of their parent's food!
mircea_popescu: terminal2 by this reasoning you really should invest in toilets.
mircea_popescu: but if you';re sick of seeing it you should be able to config your client to ignore that line.
mircea_popescu: different branches in the wot disputing which earlier node to be credited with x.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in the future there will be the principal cause of war :
mircea_popescu: seeing how the men in question were unfortunate to die befgore the bible.
mircea_popescu privately bets alfie will mention the three russian stooges thing.
mircea_popescu: i still recall the feynman conundrum. to me it's the archetype for this.
mircea_popescu: lol, because mistakes, rather than people, are finite. gg.
mircea_popescu: well... as much as a car without combustion as possible.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag ever met a govt employee that welcomed accountability ?
mircea_popescu: better investment than chasing cephaloids' dubious fortunes at mit.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller he's technically correct, they just stole it and delivered it, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's a delusion, born fundamentally out of a lack of business experience.
mircea_popescu: anyone in business will prefer to write de novo rather than audit the dubious code of the crowd of idiot kids gathered around that buteriun dude.
mircea_popescu: AdrianG implementation is not per se valuable, for the sad reason that it is much cheaper to write code than to read it.
mircea_popescu: of course, the other way to automate regulatory bs is to ignore it until it goes away.
mircea_popescu: neveretheless... have you used it as a door ? will you ?
mircea_popescu: take your window, on the presumption that you are currently located in a room with one. this window of yours COULD be used as a door, to a larger degree than ethereum could be used to anything.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly why all the "oh, bitcoin needs x" "oh, bitcoin must or else Y will" bla bla is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: malformed, dysfunctional, self-contradictory, defeated propositions aren't better than the currently chosen broken one. the broken one hasn't been chosen on technical merit.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with their "needs" is that their needs are a certain path to their own doom.
mircea_popescu: heh, the usg can't afford to throw away half a bil just for this.
mircea_popescu: like every fashion-driven scam, gotta keep ahead of the wavefront, not sit behind.
mircea_popescu: AdrianG if what you aim is to make money out of the vc circus, you're very much in the wrong spot.
mircea_popescu: terminal well, get in the wot and let us know how your trade went as far as long term gains.
mircea_popescu: PeterL> y'all are a bunch of pansies, afraid of a bit of snow << ho i knew took a (well earned) vacation to morocco in the middle of the carpathian winter once. her fondest memory was that there was a tiny bit of snow just as she got ou of the bus, and everyone in sight was on their ass. "they have no idea how to walk on snow, the africans!"