asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... wealth by itself, especially if you imagine cash is "wealth" , does not allow any power whatsoever << i am astonished that this needed to be elaborated. any 'wealth', lacking that other element, can be separated from the 'owner' and his earthly bones by the folks who have both
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... as if a reverse engineer needs any further "branding" or advertising past the ability to do hisd work << it is entirely possible to be under- or even un-employed, or mal-employed (substitute appropriate term..?) in any profession, and yes, even that one
asciilifeform: i still want to know precisely what patch it was that made it into various non-gentoo things, that silenced the alarm bell and deceived folks into 'yes this is a static build'
asciilifeform: -somebody- saw it fit to break static linking on gnu platform in the traditional microshit way - suddenly, silently, and 'for your own good' (TM)
asciilifeform: <decimation> I didn't see it. So " --enable-static-nss" is useful for glibc << as i understand, this results in random breakage (a binary which only runs with any degree of certainty on your machine)
asciilifeform: 'I do not know where to find the historic references, but yes, static linking is dead on GNU systems. (I believe it died during the transition from libc4/libc5 to libc6/glibc 2.x.) The feature was deemed useless in light of: Security vulnerabilities. Application which was statically linked doesn't even support upgrade of libc....'
asciilifeform: decimation: importantly - in a way calculated to 'steal the sense of having been stolen from'
asciilifeform: 'I might be stepping on some people's toes, but to me it looked like a high-school class where the dimmest students drew up guidelines on how smart students "should" behave, and gave that to the teacher in order to earn brownie points - including clauses like 'not contradicting the teacher'.'
asciilifeform sifting through ancient notes in thus far futile search for unrelated thing
asciilifeform: manipulation of 'voting rules' manipulates outcomes << this is actually a very undergrad-level game-theoretical result (arrow's theorem & related)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they bought (with guess what kind of money) sizeable stakes in various swiss concerns (including, best-known publicly, crypto ag)
asciilifeform: decimation: easy as a fart if you're a usg intelligence asset.
asciilifeform: swiss banks: exactly like american banks but more honeypotty
asciilifeform: case in point: where is crypto ag corp. headquartered? and why
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it was a nato possession since day 1 of nato (and possibly earlier depending on whether you're a dulles et al '3rd as prequel to 4th' reich proponent)
asciilifeform: mega-b00k incidentally. recommended to all.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was taken to hilarious heights in j. brunner's 'stand on zanzibar', where virtually the entire fuckable female population of planet earth lives that way
asciilifeform: 'With that he interrupted me and said, `Mr. Fisher, you as an individual have no inalienable rights. You live in a democracy subject to the will of the majority, and the will of the majority, through an act of Congress can deprive you of any right.''
asciilifeform: and is anyone else suffering some indigestion at least from the 12 or so detectable instances of jumps-depending-on-uninitialized-values in -the wallet handling code- ?
asciilifeform: there's definitely some leakage in there, at the very least
asciilifeform: theoretical still needs to house library.
asciilifeform: (example: what is the cost of inhabiting a free-standing building with mains current, temperature control, and good fiber net? free-standing at least to the extent that you can't hear screaming children, smell neighbours' shit, etc)
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: almost invariably i find that something important is -not- cheap in such places where the food is cheap... but more power to you if you discover exception
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: man does not live by steak alone.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: first launch satellite and persuade someone to peer net access to it, for you
asciilifeform: not in the customary 'keep showing up, you keep eating, hell or high water' terms
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i can't speak for the fella, but i suspect that he is looking for a btc substitute for his day job. which is not likely to exist.
asciilifeform: the one saving grace is that i'm fairly certain we can shed libnss entirely from this project
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from my preliminary investigations, was not able to come up with a reasonable picture of what it'd take. similar to my vast underestimation of what it'd take to hammer bitcoind into sanity.
asciilifeform: if they use cpp at all, it is as a cautious 'c with classes'
asciilifeform: folks who grow up outside of the winshitsphere tend to not do that.
asciilifeform: i actually knew as much when first learned that bitcoin was heavy on the cppisms.
asciilifeform: punkman: my preliminary experiments point to the db.
asciilifeform: punkman: that code is not executing in my tests.
asciilifeform: punkman: again in the wallet mechanism only.
asciilifeform: whaack: nyc is in the broad class of chumpatrons where the workers let virtually their entire post-tax pay go to the real-estate hucksters
asciilifeform: i can say with some confidence that there are leaks which -do not pertain to the bastardnodes mechanism- !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, chetty, et al: in yet another - arguably inverted! - manifestation of The Problem, it appears that valgrind's dynamic substitution for memory allocator -does not cover all of bitcoind!-
