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mircea_popescu: how many alfs are there ? how many do they need, to cover their immense if fictitious debt base ?
mircea_popescu: "mircea_popescu: giving inept infantrymen good horses doesn't create an elite cavalry regiment, it just creates a lot of injured horses. giving stupid people smart things doesn't make them smart. it'll just make a lot of broken smart things."
mircea_popescu: wehn i linked to it, i linked to an item put there a week or so ago.
mircea_popescu: had i met linux as a boy i'd be pissing with froth on the entire stupid stack.
mircea_popescu: that behaviour is certainly the l;argest contributor of wy i am even vaguely interested in computers at all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more in the sense that the blondy teen that is always clenching her jaws shut is vaguely interesting in a way her verbose airheaded cogeners are not
mircea_popescu: The upshot of this is that you can run a client that is a year old, but pretty much after that 1 year anniversary you'll be dropped off the network (even if there have been no "real" changes in that year)."
mircea_popescu: Anything that is more of a soft fork will kick in immediately (as long as it doesn't drop pre-fork clients off the network). Anything on the p2p layer (ie. hard forkable) will be kept in the wings until the next fork date (as roughly estimated from block height) and then is enabled.
mircea_popescu: Every 6 months, either on March 15 + September 15 or on April 15 + October 15, the Monero network will have a hard fork. 30 days before the fork we will have a code freeze + tag + release, and if there are no major changes we'll have an increase in the protocol version (ie. that's at a minimum). A similar fork system to Bitcoin will apply, whereby a rollover to the new code after the trigger block will only occur if a
mircea_popescu: "Basic bottom line: every 6 months there's a hard fork. You get 1 hard fork's grace before you have to update or be left behind.
mircea_popescu: but it also has very little regard for you know, "the reader has come to expect"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of the funniest protests (sexually repressed women generally) bring to my sexual themed writings is "oh, it would never happen like that".
mircea_popescu: oh, you're not so very engaged by this reality ? FUCK YOU BITCH LMAO
mircea_popescu: reality beats fiction mostly because fiction has to be things reality does not.
mircea_popescu: in local news, argentina GDP fell 4.9% today because one of the lengthy queues accidentally merged with its own ending, resulting in 84`755 people spending an average of 8 hours following a very intricate 12 mile pattern through town for no apparent purpose.
mircea_popescu: sorta like Rembrandt School of Art : since 1950, making paintings almost as good as rembrandts, with less work per sq in
mircea_popescu: "shoot without aiming", "taking it up the ass", what the hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: but alf! it takes 85 muscles to hate and only 1 to take it up the as!
mircea_popescu: you conversely can't have a trillion worth of cake and ten dollars in cash.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a trillion worth of dollars and ten dollar's worth of cake.
mircea_popescu: (the driver of inflation is the circumstance that in any economy, the monetary value of circulating capital and the monetary value of goods sit in a certain, fixed proportion)
mircea_popescu: re s.mg report : that game's actually getting an economy and everything! macro variables visible, a money/goods raport emerges, whatnot
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "can be viewed here" << missing link ?
mircea_popescu: trinque the tattoo is not as much of a problem as the bs string. "really needed" because omg
mircea_popescu: boots 50%^H^H40^H^H18%!!!! faster than anything else. including the things that boot 100x less frequently./
mircea_popescu: trinque> well hell, that CoreOS << /me can not help but notice the "core" symbol.
mircea_popescu: dbus needs network connectivity to maintain a list of ddos ips.
mircea_popescu: which "archive" now says, "We are working hard to fix all the missing resources at Digital Inspiration. If you need anything urgent, please send me an email at amit@labnol.org."
mircea_popescu: "but who comes from a country where they own a pony to a non-pony owning country!"
mircea_popescu: point being, the two options are either the tyranny of the many against the few, or the tyranny of the few against the many.
mircea_popescu: because at that time it couldn't have been that you'd do anything useful.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea. but yes you're not the only one noticing this
mircea_popescu: some people dun wanna run servers. i know i spent a while deliberately not doing it.
mircea_popescu: yes. iirc that was the problem, you never got the emails yes ?
mircea_popescu: my point is, if your email provider is eating your emails, try a different one.