asciilifeform: where every other node is a gavinous abomination
asciilifeform: the very notion of storing things which 'might be verifiable later' runs against the overall flavour of a mechanism designed to face a -maximally- hostile universe
asciilifeform: in general i favour the principle of 'if it cannot be verified RIGHT NOW, it is garbage'
asciilifeform: the other effect of nuking the tx orphanage is zapping the obvious ddos vector of folks crapping deliberately spurious tx into a node
asciilifeform: what i did not have time to do is to measure whether this had the intended effect.
asciilifeform: but i nuked the cache entirely in the interest of reducing fragging
asciilifeform: mod6: notably, bitcoind 0.5.3 stock actually had the orphan tx cache limit
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that was, i think, another 'magic list' item
asciilifeform: if Landgull did this - congrats to him
asciilifeform: Landgull: this cuts both ways. if locals start charging you $1000/mo for the great privilege of your flat not being torched, the officials -also- will not care.
asciilifeform cannot comment on the specifics of Landgull's case here, but the overall prognosis of americans who go abroad 'for the gurlz' is dire
asciilifeform: and re: their sanity once you renounce your u.s. passport formally
asciilifeform: Landgull: get back to us re: the girls once you have $0☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: or the abundance of buggy legit-signed drivers to dynamically load and exploit
asciilifeform: mats: considering the ease of bypassing uac on all known winblows, sorta academic
asciilifeform: Landgull: any flea-bitten village can become an independent country. all it needs to do is learn to manufacture ballistic rockets and nukes by the thousands.
asciilifeform: decimation: i will add that usg works tirelessly to help -them- as well 'wake up' to their 'ancient and proud cultural identity and thirst for independence'
asciilifeform: and in its most acute manifestations, far more recent than that
asciilifeform: and to avoid rape & pillage, rather than 'to be own country', which is really a 19th c. psychiatric disease
asciilifeform: Landgull: mainly fighting poles, and turks, yes
asciilifeform: and i'd like to learn of the ancient and proud race of south korea.
asciilifeform: rather than the anglo-created zoos they are☟︎
asciilifeform: next Landgull will have us consider the pakistanis or taiwanese 'an ancient and own race and culture'
asciilifeform: Landgull: if they had learned to manufacture so much as an alarm clock, much less airplane or nuke, they would be somewhere on the road to where 'independence' is thinkable outside of a lunatic asylum☟︎
asciilifeform: Landgull: fighting to be zimbabwe, yes
asciilifeform: Landgull: they're bringing in u.s. mercenaries. will be many good lulz.
asciilifeform: Landgull: besides, they did organize very well to shell a few million ru folks in east ua day and night. that will be paid for eventually.
asciilifeform: Landgull: ^ and this doesn't affect your life?!
asciilifeform: because the dirty work can be done with local hands, and bureaucratic niceties are 100% optional
asciilifeform: Landgull: interestingly, it is much cheaper to have you picked up in an 'orcish' land than in, e.g., new york
asciilifeform: 'prison is like the grave, room can be found for everyone' (ru proverb)
asciilifeform: Landgull: the queue must be long, i'm still waiting to be gassed, give'em some time
asciilifeform tries to recall the last time he ate synthetic food
asciilifeform tries to recall the last time americans threw grenade in his window
asciilifeform: y'know, for all the things said about american prison, at least no one is compelled to be involved in the growing of food there.
asciilifeform: Landgull: if you have enough of these to last your entire natural life, we're happy for you
asciilifeform: and send you a complimentary plane ticket back to gulag
asciilifeform: Landgull: other thing is, if you rely on electronic banks in any way whatsoever, they'll simply zero your accounts
asciilifeform: they are making the slow but inevitable transition from fraud to robbery
