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mircea_popescu: in the end not substantially different from the su's own "sluggard schizophrenia" in response to that age old question that's the bane of every mature bureaucracy : "why would anyone want to leave paradise!"
mircea_popescu: it's funny how all the soviet defections were proof sovietism dun work (it didn't) but all the various us defections weren't proof usgism dun work (it... didn't).
mircea_popescu: in my head it's all "time when the pre-cocksucking lusers lived"
mircea_popescu: in another life you could have been a happily employed girlie, reading this crud of your own curiosity an' making summaries for terrorists.
mircea_popescu: punkman well that's maybe a point, but nevertheless it currently uses one, and it uses one mostly to update and insert
☟︎ mircea_popescu: many reads few writes is a particular usecase, not really what's at work in the cases discussed.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you must set your ip, the binary has no way of knowing.
mircea_popescu: there's at least fifty billion "market research" houses more than happy to provide one with this crap.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, "nsa laundered the vulnerabilities it planted in juniper firewalls through an offshore platform". britain, panama, whatever pacific island, what the hell's the difference.
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http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-12-2015#1351462 << BECAUSE, importantly, the only remaining function of the british colony, its only significant export and sole raison d'etre left is exactly this playing the extraterritorial base for the USG role. you know, obama is not spying on you, the queen is (and sharing the results). we hope this legalistic subtlety makes all the difference to you!
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the oh-so-precious "alternative means solar, wind and any other inefficiency" lobby can push it's "the only energy source that works doesn't work - buy our shit" narrative.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: " And the way to keep it from breaking is to replace all the bits that are listed on the replacement schedule no later than the dates indicated on that schedule. It's either that or the thing goes “Ka-boom!” and everyone's hair falls out." << yes, except for the cynical west that actually wouldn't mind a few more nuclear "accidents". so what if they were fully preventable, deliberately man-made disasters ? at least
mircea_popescu: if you don't keep the pipes above 0, they freeze. if they freeze they split. if they split you can't keep the [mostly concrete prefab] dwellings livable, not now, not ever.
mircea_popescu: repair the damage). That seems bad enough, but we aren't quite there yet." <<< this much is exactly factual, as romania is well aware since its very difficult early 90s. as far as temperate habitation is concerned, you have strictly to options : either produce enough energy to keep the heating pipes unfrozen through the winter, or else lose the possibility of urban settlement and as a result return to 1800ish (the wor
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Now, here's what it all really means. With so much going wrong, the Ukraine has been unable to secure enough natural gas or coal supplies to provide a supply cushion in case of a cold snap this winter. A few weeks of frosty weather will deplete the supply, and then pipes will freeze, rendering much of the urban areas unlivable from then on (because, recall, there is no longer any money, or any industry to speak of, to
mircea_popescu: "Prime Minister Yatsenyuk was recently hauled off the podium by his crotch; how dignified is that?" << coming soon, to a white house near you.
mircea_popescu: heh. this perennial willingness to NOT discuss, if at all possible to UNdiscuss all the fuckups is so fucking dumb already.
mircea_popescu: "But for the US, and for the EU, it is now yet another major foreign policy embarrassment, and the less said about it the better."
mircea_popescu: but hey, at times i enjoy my painstakingly recreated version of the 80s.
mircea_popescu: do you have old lockfiles scattered around for any reason ?
mircea_popescu: i think teh qntra backuping process suffered some improvements lol
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.linton_s_dawson.1:273d20a03740ae777bb12c9e71a486bf6cc40dc9d5273b684a21934cd0c17dce
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell linton_s_dawson
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-12-2015#1351345 << not anyone afaik. theoretically speaking it wouldn't likely work too well yet - not enough resources on the pi to be a real node. nevertheless, as a didactic / research sort of project rather than something to go in production trying would be interesting, if for nothing else then because nobody;s tried it yet.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: ironically, i suppose both the impairment and the sewer comments apply. life!
mircea_popescu is reasonably impressed. had ben_vulpes pegged for "this guy's managed to put himself in a texbook model of a place where guys crack".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. this is how bitcoin ended up with bdb i suspect. infinitydb might be an option. they all suck.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol. hey, how's life with the thunderbird, the wife, the studio and the new kid ?
mircea_popescu: sorta like a birthday balloon works in all usecases that don't require anything of it.
mircea_popescu: this is the problem of having a trb in the first place : the temptation to assume it's sane is just too great.
mircea_popescu: one is supposed to simply assume it had whatever he uses on his machine.
mircea_popescu: anyway, off to a meeting, we'll delve into this later on.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem with other hypothesis being that i connected it to your nodes.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when it comes to node communication, half a second delay is too much
mircea_popescu: notably, this only conceivably works because, obviously, the blocks are communicated plain. we definitely should have internode encryption.
mircea_popescu: would make sense, too, as part of a wider strategy to murder the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: it appears to me asciilifeform that the way the blackholing works is as an interdiction to communicating old blocks.
mircea_popescu: aaand in other news, the new rotor has been mightily blackholed since last night (the usual array described here multiple times), it's got ~20k blocks through in a day or so.
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