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mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem is that dumb speaks to two different things.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure there's also a third way, like the communism that actually works (tm)
mircea_popescu: no suicide because they're not actually competent enough to do it, for the most part.
mircea_popescu: or else let them bubble in their own stew and get redditars. and depression.
mircea_popescu: but yes, tis true. hardly any teen is sure of their anything. you get the choice to either force them into a role, and thus get ballet dancers, olympic athletes, women, men, depression and suicide
mircea_popescu: honestly i'm surprised he's not more publicised. seems just the man to lead a "bitcoin resurection effort" "cryptosecure phone" or whatever other such usg-nonsense
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The shootout with the police was highly exaggerated and in fact no one was even hit by a bullet, let alone harmed by one. The police knew me and I don't believe their hearts were truly in the shootout, as it is not included in the official report. When I ran out of ammunition, I surrendered quietly and the officers and my self had a cigarette together and joked about my bad aim."
mircea_popescu: "John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer, was arrested in Tennessee for driving under the influence of drugs and possessing a handgun while intoxicated."
mircea_popescu: who ever came up with the idea that "it's ok to corrupt permanent storage if volatile ram dies"....
mircea_popescu: which results in a situation where killed bitcoinds ruin their blockchain because well... can't make sense of it anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually, yeah. my detachdb forces proper flushing of db ops to disk such that the disk is always consistent. this was (mostly) the behaviour pre 6. the power rangers came up with a retarded scheme where they held about half of txn in memory in an ad hoic cache
mircea_popescu: so bitcoin is 93% shittier than power-ranger bitcoin right ?
mircea_popescu: ah, not even a million yet. what sort of video driver is this!
mircea_popescu: indicative of the braindamage bad conventional notation bakes into thought
mircea_popescu: they basically counted halves. half, half-once (1 1/2) half-twice etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform specifically : the sestertius was really "semis-tertius", or, half-third.
mircea_popescu: note that when i stood up an ancient chain, to assuage any conceivable doubts about blockchain contiguity from day one, i let people actually filter it in through the normal process, rather than torrent it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fortunately bitcoin doesn't actually require reliability
mircea_popescu: shinohai not really. either you verify or you don't. if you don't, might as well not bother storing a blockchain of unknown origion and run spv. if you do, you do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you were complaining about outbound not inbound.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the problem with that is in the verficiation.
mircea_popescu: french is just weird, like, someone's mentally retarded. romanian is hysterical, like someone's very drunk
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest things in nature is watching voiceovered shows in romanian. beats any conceivable mst3k or anything.
mircea_popescu: the battle dwarves do 133 damage. "piticii de batalie fac 133 stricaciune".
mircea_popescu: anyway. the general philosophy of teh interwebs was you know, fault tolerance since day i. "just stand up more nodes" is how one could summarize the internets.
mircea_popescu: anyway, leaving aside the ever present possibility of extremely obscure bug resulting from our changes, it'd be a backbone issue.
mircea_popescu: i really don't have a strong opinion on it, but i am pretty certain it's not them making you unreachable.
mircea_popescu: re above thread. and re nat thread, traditionally it's been regarded as "good for bitcoin" to allow consumer folk connect ot the network.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd prefer this in the form of "running X bit of b-a infrastructure". otherwise...
mircea_popescu: i'd like to know who people that discuss what i would like or wouldn't like are. so lemme know.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-08-2015#1227427 << strangely, that article doesn't read "russia is acting like a mature adult and is ignoring our idiot child tantrums re "embargo". instead, they graciously allow us to use infrastructure we can't afford, for being poor, the consequence of having been stuck in idiot child mode for decades now"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: incidentally, the us got beaten to shit about 5000 times since ww2, or roughly speaking "in every engagement to date".
mircea_popescu: and don't pester me with "surgical precision". the last thing a defeated and runniung away force ca do is make sense.
mircea_popescu: imagine if the week after wehrmacht broke its cock in stalingrad
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not the idea. the idea is... so tanks go around, now you're stuck with some units caught between a crater fgulla radioactive water and enemy spear units
mircea_popescu: the only thing that'll do is increase your casualties.