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mircea_popescu: so something that should happen twice a day on average happened four times past three hours.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag in this particular case very much so.
mircea_popescu: it is possible. i've been looking for smoke on satpics, nothing showing.
mircea_popescu: cuz unique and speshul snowflake and slavery was bad mkay.
mircea_popescu: they certainly don't mind the bitfury idiots having been idiots.
mircea_popescu: The human incentive to adopt this chain would be incredibly low though as everyone has GregCoins now and any exchange that decides to allow arbitrage between the two chains is going to see huge dumps onto the GregCoin chain which will quickly obliterate the price. Why? Because the very large majority that own Bitcoins want the blocksize to increase. I will also happily flush my GregCoins the instant some stupid schmuck
mircea_popescu: "Probably yes. It's the equivalent of a little boy taking his ball and going home because everyone is not playing according to his rules. It's a useless gesture unless there is a factory of fresh asic chips rolling off the production line in anticipation of the new POW and/or there is a large chunk of the Bitcoin economy that is willing to completely abandon the larger block chain.
mircea_popescu: in other news, teh reddit astroturf brigade has done some studying, and is now quoting [without attribution, of course] what i said last time, but with the persons switched. because yeah, totally, that's how things work o.O
mircea_popescu: taking it from 6 to 5 not only gives you a cheap 20% boost of thoroughput, but also significantly reduces the "probability to wait 1 hr for txn inclusion". by about 60% or so.
mircea_popescu: somehow that's the one hardfork nobody thought to mention.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone find it odd that the best way to "increase thoroughput", which is clean, safe and above all ecological (in that it brings the halvings closer) would actually be to re-set the time between blocks to something like 4-5 minutes ?
mircea_popescu: so basically the comedy goldmine is really a comedy well.
mircea_popescu: the situation here is EXACTLY opposite, but they obviously lack anything other than the zombie drive.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny to me, because the vermin they regard as their progenitors, various "social rights activists" and whatnot benefitted from a context where each defeat made eventual victory more likely.
mircea_popescu: copypaste no, "these people" who aren't in any sort of sense people are merely laying the ground work for "the next battle", as they perceive the string of endless humiliations and buttrapes they receive.
mircea_popescu: your "push button, i matter" mental model is only applicable here inasmuch as you're hypocritical enough to go "i planted tree, and got an apple, therefore am in control" sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful, the recent S. 190 debate on limiting portfolios (bond issue supporting dud mortgages) by government sponsored enterprises being a perfect reprise of the debates on limiting the issue of new assignats in the 1790s."
mircea_popescu: "Then knowledgeable people complain that the evil financial network is heading for disaster, that the government sponsored enterprises are about to cause a "collapse of the total financial system", as Wallison and Alan Greenspan complained in 2005, the government debates shrinking the evil government sponsored enterprises, as with "S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005" but they find
mircea_popescu: i imagine we'll be hearing a lot about how, and to quote,
mircea_popescu: so in other news, seeing how the next halving happens to more or less coincide with the expected next usg attempt to "save" bitcoin,
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag life on earth relies on cockroaches and vermin generally.
mircea_popescu: just outraged that txn has been waiting for inclusion for an hour now.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag in no way related to peers discussion.
mircea_popescu: this is the first time i changed it since introducing the fucking concept back in 2012 ish.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i've moved my tx fee from 0.0001 (~4 cents) to 0.00022 (bout a dime, give or take).
mircea_popescu: much like irl it's pretty much the "home nat router" that is the problem.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much the "spv" nodes that are the problem.
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> i'm at a diner right now watching my explore bot via ssh terminal on fone << epic.
mircea_popescu: not that at this point "classic" is anything but a drunken joke, but anyway
mircea_popescu: in no small part because in the past 75 minutes we had 3 blocks.
mircea_popescu: in other bitcoin network news, "Estimated Confirmation TimeVery Soon (High Priority)" txn waiting for the past half hour to be included.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, laddel sent me a pile of uncleal links and got canned by freenode
mircea_popescu: "I'm going back to the frozen north, where the pricks are hard and strong. Back to the land of the all-night stand-where the nights are six months long, where you get it in bits as hard as tin in the land where spunk is spunk - not a trickling stream of lukewarm cream, but a solid frozen chunk."
mircea_popescu: somebody got some very bad news yesterday, coped in the manner these schmucks tend to cope.
mircea_popescu: ahaha da fuck. i'm sure washington's cook was murdered and raped.
mircea_popescu: "A few days after the book was released, readers took the author, the illustrator and the publisher to task online for presenting a sanitized version of the life of Washington’s cook and other enslaved people. “An insulting tale that sprinkles glitter on rape, murder, torture and servitude,” wrote one outraged reviewer."
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> jurov: sit closer. << nuts, really.
mircea_popescu: when the weigher for the worth in pounds of flesh comes around, it god damned weighs.
mircea_popescu: imo they're scamps. (juveniles trying to live off recycling)
mircea_popescu: female side is similar. whore is just that, end of road. hooker tries to grab you with a well placed line, still has that much fight left in her.
mircea_popescu: a knave, well antiquated by now, would technically denote a "child of better means who is now destitute and agressive out of survived entitlement". a word lafond's looking for.
mircea_popescu: punkman the bum is not violent. generally "below" would go towards more violence.
mircea_popescu: well... you know, random technician in factory may well not know wtf he's doing also.
mircea_popescu: a punk is, of course, the eromenos in the typical pressure-driven homosexual relationships they engage in. a hooker's not the same as a harlot and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: phf you know there's an entire classification of the ... idle members of society. hobo travels, will work. tramp won't work, but travels. bum doesn't travel. etc.
mircea_popescu: this is just another restatement of the 'you won't find your soulmate in the brothel'. what are you, your own mother ?!
mircea_popescu: i will find everything everywhere, thank you very much.
mircea_popescu: errors compound. without a star or other fixed outside...
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "maintaining homeostasis" sort of things and what you describe.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag there's a problem of positive feedback loops.
mircea_popescu: socialisation is an ability to interact with the other , not an ability to tolerate the boring.