asciilifeform: as opposed to several, including the do-i-cash-this-ticket-in-time one
asciilifeform: i was never able to understand why these folks thought they were only playing in one lottery
asciilifeform: iirc there is some lawsuit in usa every day re: one thing or another to do with lottery tickets allegedly misappropriated, stolen, 'borrowed', etc
asciilifeform: the story of the 'lottery ticket lost in the wash' is cross cultural to schmucks of every country
asciilifeform: the folks described in the linked piece are 'load on the state' in strictly the same sense as the traditional '4th of july' fireworks display.
asciilifeform: i can buy an argument re: joe stack et al., but these schmucks are products of usg entrapment program and are really best understood through 'psychiatric' lens, rather than criminalistic much less 'revolutionary'
asciilifeform: trinque: so far this is like proton decay
asciilifeform: the 'your own people hate you' thing isn't false, as such, but a newspiece about the arrest of one Abdul Rahman is not really proof of this
asciilifeform: can end in some 'dirty' equilibrium, where everybody's living room is filled to capacity with precisely how many rabid weasels it can hold,
asciilifeform: as i understand, we already have a 'bezzle' in the net - the unmetered resource, 'blank cheque,' of the mempools. as all 'meat in the sun without flies', it is a very ephemeral thing
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what i was trying to get across earlier is that the very concept of 'mempool spam' is presently undefined
asciilifeform: back to the more interesting point, we still have an unbounded data structure in there...
asciilifeform grasps mircea_popescu's implication that 'the only winning move' in the decimal-point chase game with shitgnomes is 'not to play'
asciilifeform: that scenario is undesirable regardless of what else.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i don't have a specific proposal except that the machine ~must not go down~
asciilifeform not professional spamatronicist, cannot say whether this makes a difference one way or another
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did say 'spamatronic' - i.e. search engine crud.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: the present situation is that they ~all~ 'get purged' when your box goes down.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i grasp the logic, but notice that we sit in the gigantic spamatronic shadow of the phoundation. if nobody gives a fuck, there isn't much else to be said about this
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what means 'approach infinity' ? if tx is valid, nondoublespent, and has adequate fee, it is 'every bit as tx' as yours or mine
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu seems to disagree. ask'im why
asciilifeform: imho it ought to be distinguishable from shitgnomatic bitcoin with the naked eye, incl. in survey charts like the one linked a few days ago
asciilifeform: i'll sign an identical patch sans the bump if anyone needs this.
