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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.
mircea_popescu: what a fucking nightmare, a "countermobility" unit that drops random nukes
mircea_popescu: so far ignoring it worked pretty well. us, zimbabwe and other places that exist for illustrative purposes only.
mircea_popescu: i remember learning with some amusement about the kindergarten games usians play in airports
mircea_popescu: i've never been in one of these "lockdown" bullshit things
mircea_popescu: but needless to say this is not a normal state for your key.
mircea_popescu: anyway i think assbot should always use the main not some random subkey
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose one day sks servers list a random key for you too ?
mircea_popescu: and whyt do you imagien you can revoke a key if you don't have its privkey
mircea_popescu: and yes, i would ghuess the whole pile as it stands atm is just about 1mn loc
mircea_popescu: if it isn't, something's fundamentally broken in the entire "forth anything" claims.
mircea_popescu: if this forth thing is so great, a program to interact with eulora server and convey the results to a human should be make-able.
mircea_popescu: man wants a challenge, man insists it's lalala-freefoprm and whatnot. fine.
mircea_popescu: i would pay to see this. perhaps not "enough". but still.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care he can put it in narrative form on the fly.