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mircea_popescu: once usg.whatever loses ability
to enforce its diktats in oregon wilderness, alaska is ~independent.
mircea_popescu: can't seem
to find it, but im pretty sure it was a
thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you recall, whgen i was
trying
to get ben_vulpes
to collect a bus'worth of local sluts and go
throw an unauthorized party around
those people
the usg was
trying
to drive off
their land ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, funny item re hetzner : back in 2014,
there was a large demonstration in novosibirsk in favour of you know, russia losing siberia.
the russian govt pressured everyone
to not discuss
the matter, including bbc.
the ukrainians at
the
time didn't feel inclined
to comply, so hetzner
took glavcom.ua and others offline, because hey, unlicensed republic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform does
the same join/part in eulora for instance, says nothing and
that's unmoded.
mircea_popescu: oddly enough it doesn't seem
to actually
try
to spam or anything. and
too little name variation for a lost soul looking for its cc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of
these
traces
to hetzner, comsumer in gauteng, johannesburg, sa ;
the other is softlayer
mircea_popescu: "who knows where
this car will
take us, johnny!" "not me. i'm driving it."
mircea_popescu: items which go
to unspecified locations are eminently
the
tools of
the engineer. it's
the doctor of divinity
that should expect very strictly confined results. engineering is more of an airy,
take-things-as-they-come line of work.
mircea_popescu:
https://www.tcl.edu/ <h4>TCL Program of
the Week</h4> <p>The opportunities are virtually endless. Get
the high-tech, in-demand skills you need for a computer career
that can go just about anywhere.<br />
mircea_popescu: "TCL's flat screens and curved screens are
the perfect combination of elegance and high-tech performance (HD/4K
televisions, Android
televisions)."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you mean
tcl, america's fastest-growing
tv brand ?
mircea_popescu: well,
to quote
that dood, "at least it's cheaper
than at any point in history ; and faster
than at any point of history"
mircea_popescu: on
the basis of "what
the people need", as demonstrated by
the people
themselves, bitcoin blocks of 64kb would be perfectly sufficient./
mircea_popescu: in other words, bitcoin cash is exactly equal
to a proposition of reducing bitcoin blocks from 1mb
to 60kb.
mircea_popescu: ~340 kb average (over 10 blocks). considering
this 10 represents 1/5 or so of
the bitcoin chain, so basically
they're about 15
times LESS
transaction intensive
than bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: in further lulz :
the scamchain is ~300 blocks behind bitcoin. here's a summary : 478610 1 hour ago 443.02Kb ; 478609 1 hour ago 141.72Kb ; 478608 2 hours ago 291.50Kb ; 478607 2 hours ago 584.60Kb ; 478606 3 hours ago 174.71Kb ; 478605 554.37Kb ; 478604 3 hours ago 771.29Kb ; 478603 4 hours ago 355.16Kb ; 478602 4 hours ago 158.57Kb ; 478601 4 hours ago 424.27Kb
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back on planet earth :
the bitcoin crash difficulty implies a per-scamtoken cost of about 1/4 btc, and
the price is about 1/10btc.
the remainder comes straight out of
the would-be miner's pocket. now
tell me again all
that jazz about how "miners decide" and whatnot bullshit idiots were spewing
theoretically in
theory.
trinque: asciilifeform: aw, lol.
they're going
to call
the HR department on you now.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 23:02 asciilifeform:
to add insult
to injury, even BROWSING shithub ( where all of
the 'open' ice40 projects live ) no longer works on any of my graphical wwwtrons
mod6: nice new
trilema pic
shinohai: I didn't get kb so I
take it
they at least
tolerated.
mod6: ah, did
they enjoy?
shinohai: I went in
that chan and spammed
tit art, befitting my station
shinohai enjoys ascii art in moderation, when it is worthy
to be attached
to something
mod6: asciilifeform: werd,
thx for forwarding
shinohai: It appears
to naked eye
to be script-kiddie paradise
mod6: perhaps just m$ disease has permeated
the brain barrier huh
shinohai: "From
this date, you must hereby allow your webrowser of choice spew irrelevant ads and any other form of js eyesore
that is dictated by
the creators of
this site."
mod6: "it's not its fault it's retarded" line of
thinking ?
mod6: cocksuckers, if i can't use it with lynx, do not want
to use it.
shinohai: 99% of all reporting nodes seem
to still be
the Amazon sybils from before.
trinque: nah caught up meanwhile all
that noise.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as best i can see for
the past coupla hours bcc hash is actually 0.
mircea_popescu: trinque in principle it shouldn't have anything
to do with your node, all
that jazz.
shinohai: I'd be surprised if anyone does, considering diff retarget will
take a few months
to make it have 10 min blox
shinohai: trinque: I did,
twas first few hours after
their "fork" ... afaik still no actual > 1 mb block mined.
trinque: thought shinohai or someone'd said
they'd yet failed
to mine a block larger
than 1mb
trinque: not
that I've looked into wtf "bitcoin crash"
transactions look like, distinct from
trb
transactions, but
that'd perhaps explain it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but in our
terms ; not in zimbabwestan
terms. zimbabwestan may not have
terms.
mircea_popescu: i
thought
the guy fixed wannacry. did he make wannacry ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i care what usg
thinks its laws are about as much as i
think what fat girl
thinks her reasons for eating are.
mircea_popescu: let me put it another way : if "the united states" is sorely hurt by a coupla grand wortha software, all
those
tomahawks'd better win some wars.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so
the idea is dood made/sold kronos w/e
that was.
mircea_popescu: tbh i very much like
the danielpbarron write-up style of "this is how
to do x ; if you're lazy i'll do it for you costs
this much".
mircea_popescu: yeah, notbad film. anyway. al siding was always a scam, but
that's not what i
thought you meant by foil.
mircea_popescu: you saw
that "tinmen" film btw ? re
the early al siding industry ?
that enchanted period in
the 50s
that even gave memes like "wtf are you, an al siding salesman ?"
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
the fertilew swamp on which
that was produced were "better building materials", ie, "let's make a house out of drywall and insulation".
phf: it is well known
that
things are as bad elsewhere as
they are in smawpland, dc
mircea_popescu: well, in practice
the whole "flame retardant"
thing never really
took off. but
this is not because of
the rohs stuff.
mircea_popescu: makes eu houses significantly more habitable
than us equiv.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the other side of
that chasm, of course, is
that it's how euros forbade
the phtalates (plastic softeners) and polybrominated crapola (flame retardants).
a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 22:21 asciilifeform: ' RoHS = Restrictions on Hand Soldering ' ( good one. and
true : as described in
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1871 , shit dun melt worth shit with any available iron )
mircea_popescu: "our novel eutectic alloy melts at just about 500 degrees. just as good as proper solder, and also better for
the environment!!!"