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assbot: How
A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain't Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1zINIRn )
mircea_popescu: cjc read the logs, linked in topic. there's
a search function too.
ben_vulpes: i sent one of the guys out to get me
a cheese yesterday. "cheddar, sharp, really solid, aged."
BingoBoingo appreciates that my doubt an edgerouter with 512 MB of RAM could make
a Bitcoin node and
a week later
a serious effort to make
a 128 MB pogoplug is seriously iterating in
a productive direction.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Tell then their link doesn't work.
A url encased in parenthesis can not be clicked.
mircea_popescu: "Now i see. Gavin announced chaos and drama to the press because he himself intends to create it. He gets
a 30% veto and still wants to proceed. It's gonna rip. I just switched to Litecoin."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's trying to do
a chain reorg and failing.
danielpbarron: might be my crappy laptop; i may just make
a fresh gentoo install just for this
hanbot: i guess that's
a highlight for artifexd
fluffypony: I have an API for
a service I run that is written in Go, and that's 'go server.go', no compiling
ben_vulpes: conformal, btcd, compiling << btcd won't even compile on
a vps with ~600 mb of ram. OOM kill.
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I don't really know men's tennis. Kind of
a sport for the girlies.
assbot: On pretending “Googling” is still
a thing that works any more than “USG” | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1EwLHJ0 )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, the march fork yielded
a lot of that too
BingoBoingo: jurov> i guess b-
a bash needs american( or america-culture-aware) moderator then. i found midnightmagic's utterance only slightly bizarre << Same here
mircea_popescu: nah, this is actually
a known 2011 issue. that was obv never fixed
jurov: i guess b-
a bash needs american( or america-culture-aware) moderator then. i found midnightmagic's utterance only slightly bizarre
assbot: The real reason Ryan Charles was fired from reddit: he spent the entire duration of his employment working on
a port of bitcoin core to Javascript. : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1zIyjAo )
mircea_popescu:
a more laughably clear cut of usg-ism i've never seen, and it's utter defeat and public ridicule will do
a lot not only to preserve bitcoin as "the noose that hangs the usg", but moreover as
a focal point for all people who would rather live an actual life.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: gavin andresen is unchangeably biased against solutions that preserve scarcity semantics. <<< that's not even it.
a princeton graduate that lives in amherst mass and has suckled the usg privilege tit all his life to the exclusion of anything else is going to make it so we can't verify bitcoin transactions or integrity anymore in order to "save africa" by allowing them microtransactions they don't either nee
ben_vulpes: for some reason the "upload
a public key" feature for aws has gone missing.
coderwill: anyone looking for
a frontend dev / ux designer in here? i'm trying to find identify and hopefully work with more closely aligned people in 2015 - without moving. :)
pete_dushenski: In some situations, ruthlessness may be necessary. “To be prime minister, you can’t be namby pamby – you need to cut corners and hurt people, and even be nasty to achieve your moral causes,” he says. After all, the dark personalities often have the impulse and the confidence to get things done –even Mother Theresa apparently had
a steely side, he says. “You’re not going to help
mircea_popescu: as george costanza once said, "if there's
a pinhead in the crowd, i gotta be on top of it"
mircea_popescu: it's almost like explorer found ancient tomb, ran off with ancient pee bowl. as
a hat.
pete_dushenski: the efforts of moslems maybe "clearly doesn't work" at the superficial intention, but it seems to be successful
a recruiting new folks
mircea_popescu: myeah. "frantic exertion as
a decoy for impotence", as teh tlp guy likes to say
pete_dushenski: i guess i just think that people would actually read such
a thing
mircea_popescu: anyway, stereotypy's mostly
a literary device. the poor man's term of art, if you will.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot more to it than that. big boobs, tall,
a certain mouth shape...
mircea_popescu: even if they're both meaningful constructions, they're not both stereotypical constructions.
a good test being, of course, translation.
mircea_popescu: see, there's
a stereotype of
a dumb blonde, there isn't
a stereotype of
a hot blonde.
pete_dushenski: even if the specific vices thereof are
a matter of perspective
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: that's
a point i suppose. but "stupid people" are subject to the same
mircea_popescu: well first off, you introduced
a stereotype by discussing jews, so we're going to do stereotypes.
pete_dushenski: but that doesn't mean author x is going to stake his claim on
a stereotype
pete_dushenski: i mean it's one thing to keep an old lady company for
a few years, take her to dinner, to the doctor's, end up in her will
mircea_popescu: then completely insane commanding officers fail to sack them and completely insane judges fail to throw the thing out and hold the idiots in contempt for
a few years at
a stretch.
pete_dushenski: Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni, 79,
a physicist and naturalized citizen from Argentina, pleaded guilty in 2013 to espionage-related offenses stemming from
a sting in which he told an undercover agent that he could help the Caracas government obtain an atomic bomb, according to the F.B.I. and court records.
pete_dushenski: it's not at all clear that larger brains are the function of
a social behaviour, nor why they should be
mircea_popescu: actually... i guess bernard chapais actually is
a 15 yo from nantucket.
mircea_popescu: so... this guy is discussing interesting and otherwise important matters with all the astuteness of
a virgin 15 yo girl from nantucket.
pete_dushenski: Because of monogamy, Dr. Opie said, “This could be how humans were able to push through
a ceiling in terms of brain size.”
pete_dushenski: Brains are hungry organs, demanding 20 times more calories than
a similar piece of muscle. Only with
a steady supply of energy-rich meat, Dr. Opie suggests, were we able to evolve big brains — and all the mental capacities that come with it.
mircea_popescu: as far as the fabled 17% strictly monogamous cultures go... i very much doubt this ever happened. no culture in history was strictly monogamous for
a strict definition of strictly.
pete_dushenski: The extra supply of protein and calories that human children started to receive is widely considered
a watershed moment in our evolution. It could explain why we have brains far bigger than other mammals.
pete_dushenski: Once
a monogamous primate father starts to stick around, he has the opportunity to raise the odds that his offspring will survive. He can carry them, groom their fur and protect them from attacks.
mircea_popescu: there's probably
a population somewhere in history that actually reproduced by flies carring sperm from splooge puddles into fetid snatches.
pete_dushenski: “The human mating system is extremely flexible,” Bernard Chapais of the University of Montreal wrote in
a recent review in Evolutionary Anthropology. Only 17 percent of human cultures are strictly monogamous. The vast majority of human societies embrace
a mix of marriage types, with some people practicing monogamy and others polygamy.
mircea_popescu: so much progress could hardly fit in
a single asshole.
mircea_popescu: "The astonishing truth is that despite millions of dollars and hundreds of academic careers psychiatry has made no progress in almost 20 years, let alone ten,
a claim no other medical specialty can make, and the truth which cannot be spoken out loud. Hence an exam."
pete_dushenski: but clearly the supermagickuserfriendly core is
a turd so i might as well just go for the real deal
pete_dushenski: i thought this would be
a good training wheels program before tackling 0.5.3 ...
pete_dushenski: : Cannot obtain
a lock on data directory /root/.bitcoin. Bitcoin Core is probably already running.
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 03:13:36; mircea_popescu: something simple like, "whenever
a parentless block is handed over the retaining of which would cause memory pool for holding parentless blocks to be overrun,
a) drop the handed block ; b) close the connection and ban that peer for half hour ; c) discard all chains of parentless blocks longer than six items ; d) connect again"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you feel like testing
a 3rd approach, can you look through orphanage for % of blocks more than 10% off the difficulty ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: yes. but if we put in expected difficulty instead of checkpoints << he actually has
a very solid point.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski generally bitcoind goes into safe mode if it has
a bad chain etc. proilly corrupted local data.
cazalla: midnightmagic, shots fired! oh.. hang on
a sec
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski>
a sent you an email or something? << They indeed did
BingoBoingo: Hey, pete_dushenski You given the new look Qntra
a try?
danielpbarron: i got
a ssd sata drive,
a 5400 rpm laptop thing, and
a usb3 flashdrive to test
BingoBoingo: trinque: There is an adspace we tested before. Just
a square in the sidebar. The right offer could either get it back or banish it for some time.
BingoBoingo: The greatest crime of American cheese is that it is radically overpriced as
a nutritional measure of last resort.
trinque: anyone who thinks that's food is being slowly turned into
a subspecies over the generations
decimation: I prefer
a good sharp cheddar from the southwest uk
BingoBoingo: Cheese food is
a plentiful byproduct here.
decimation: "In 2002, the FDA issued
a Warning Letter to Kraft that Velveeta was being sold with packaging that described it as
a "Pasteurized Process Cheese Spread",[8] which the FDA claimed was misbranded because the product declared milk protein concentrate (MPC) in its ingredients listing. Velveeta is now sold in the US as
a "Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product",[9]
a term for which the FDA does not maintain
a standard of identity, and which
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> 'velveeta' iirc isn't even
a dairy product << Velveeta is totally
a dairy byproduct