asciilifeform: 'Fay was due to answer bail on January 25, 2013, but failed to do so. Just days before he was due to be charged, Fay emptied his bank account...'
asciilifeform: the account-freezing thing didn't work on him? why? name too short, triggered sql bug ?
asciilifeform: 'Today Bitcoin Core is easily >100 times faster to synchronize and relay than when I first got involved on the same hardware, but these improvements have been swallowed by the growth.' << ahahahahaha the headers-first idiocy
asciilifeform: and the worst architecture i've ever had the misfortune to work with. just about worse than x86 from a fits-in-brain perspective
asciilifeform: which is likewise turdalicious usg tentacle.
asciilifeform: incidentally, situation is more depressing than could be, because the usual principle of 'the thing waiting to catch the falling corpse is us' does not apply here. when intel dies, the corpse will be eaten by arm
asciilifeform: (i sorta have an entire www about this)
asciilifeform: the secret to killing intel (in the sense of crafting a replacement which pushes the bits -that actually need pushing- at competitive speed at competitive cost) is to ditch x86 and even unix, all the way to von neumann; then can use si fab processes circa 1994 or so
asciilifeform: intel has nothing remotely resembling a serious enemy
asciilifeform: (and, one could note, was shot with a very small pistol and will be thrashing around for quite some time to come)
asciilifeform: cisco was already tied to the firing post
