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assbot: How
A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain’t Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
assbot: theymos comments on
A Scalability Roadmap | The Bitcoin Foundation
justusranvier: go
a few parents up to finnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd the staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarting po
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i didn't mean that color. i just meant, red prius roling headlights at white prius for being such
a mainstream pos car.
assbot: justusranvier comments on
A Scalability Roadmap | The Bitcoin Foundation
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do the gawker idjits figure they're any better than the ozarks idiots just through being
a different color...
mircea_popescu: Uh HUH!" Dan Witz's mosh pit paintings? "AbsoLUTEly!" This is actually
a clever form of communications ju-jitsu, because, over time, you start adopting the same affectation just to fit in, until one day you hear yourself saying "That ghost tour was AMAZING!" and you wonder if you have lost your identity somewhere along Highway 86.
mircea_popescu: ss your heart" Southern affectation of intense, polite agreement with everything that makes
a mockery of any attempt at challenging conversation. Even when Bucky started ranting about various street artists and why they are or are not sellouts, Berry would strenuously agree, despite the fact that—and I don't think I'm speaking out of turn here—the street art scene in Branson is rather limited. Banksy's new piece? "
thestringpuller: Where Denzel puts
a C4 block in the rectum of
a police chief
BingoBoingo: You know at this point the shit Gavin proposes on the roadmap has to suggest
a three letter agency gave him an explosive buttplug.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 no. they have their cults and we have
a culture.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "And then divide by… uh, I think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5 times as fast as OpenSSL << honestly, at this point i'd want everyone to give
a good look to libsecp256k1
thickasthieves: i always assume the spikes are
a new batch of miners testing then shipping
assbot: Valleyball -
a fantasy VC league
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> some jobs simply do not parallelize. << i have trouble coming to terms with this concept. wtf do you mean ? they'd better parallelize or else can't work on
a turing machine
BingoBoingo: It's the derps who see adds about hosting prices falling or staying constant and the connections offered increasing... Don't realize how infrequently... people who keep their own machines upgrade their connections... Unless they are running
a data center.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: What took me so long was building
a full txindex.
BingoBoingo: Apocalyptic: I mean right now it would be feasible to put
a Bitcoin node pretty much anywhere with
a wired internet connection other than Nepal or the Desert, yet... this constant bandwidth grow really only happen consistently in data centers.
Apocalyptic: <BingoBoingo> pete_dushenski: Notice how he never addresses bandwidth growth seriously // this is indeed
a worthy issue to address
bounce: those numbers are not that important. he could be off by
a factor of ten and nobody'd notice. the "paying attention to the needs of EVERYBODY" is killer, though. in light of his committing those same EVERYBODY on upgrading their connectivity every year.
pete_dushenski: chief scientist should be spending his time figuring out
a plaintext emoticon for "drool"
pete_dushenski: gavin must drive
a lexus because he's definitely in the pursuit of perfection.
assbot: How
A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain’t Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski
bounce thinks of
a 'pinky' joke, but fails... like every night.
bounce: that gives
a lot of headroom for fancy interconnects, no? :-p
bounce: true enough. and so the best you can have there today AIUI is
a 5+ GHz IBM thing in
a massively overpriced package
bounce: they can charge quite
a lot before it becomes more economical to buy non-chicken cpus
hanbot: bounce treacle, sugar refining byproduct.
a brownish, sickly-sweet gunk. perhaps
a little awkward in there ::shrugs::
mircea_popescu: check it out, that's
a choke ain't it. 2 on >200 1 on < 600
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i knew
a guy who basically had
a soundstage, because he wanted to record all his fucking sessions, which he then catalogued and manically preserved for old age.
thickasthieves: he's obsessed with making
a home recording studio currently
thickasthieves:
a fam member uses it for his psych issues, along with some meds
bounce: more like something that'll get you nice and tired for
a good night's sleep but not something that's so demanding it's easy to give up on
bounce: worse than. possibly quite
a lot worse, depending on how much of
a party the insurers are going to throw with it
xanthyos: i just don't want to spend hours
a week comparing the lengths of my fingernails anymore.
bounce: V got
a little out of hand, making it less than useful
thestringpuller: xanthyos: one of my closest friends has schizoaffective disorder. there was
a point when he was having tons of episodes everyday that he couldn't really leave the house. But he's doing better now because better treatment is out. Just stick with it mang.
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd rather go to some full contact sport thing than
a shrink if the problem is violence.
mircea_popescu: it's not "impulse control", once she hands you your ass twice
a week for
a month
bounce: get
a gf that could hit you right back, and will if you mope
xanthyos: ti's not
a sadomasochistic thing
xanthyos: because i'm too afraid if i got
a girlfriend i'd just end up BEATING her like the last one
xanthyos: i haven't had
a girlfriend since 2004
kakobrekla: x<xanthyos> maybe danielpbarron is right when he says i'm brain damaged and i can't trust my own judgment < its good you figured this before buying
a bottle of vodka and walking into the woods. just listen to us.
BingoBoingo: vodka and the woods sounds like
a fun way to get
a hangover.
xanthyos: i might buy
a bottle of vodka and walk into the woods
xanthyos: so i think that deserves
a negative assbot rating
mircea_popescu: trust is
a feeling! investing is
a +ev activity for the amateur, just like people make
a profit growing tomatoes on their windowsil. sticks and stones could break your bones but words is what really matters. etc.
mircea_popescu: so much shit on people's eyes getting in the way of their finding
a loaf of bread
mike_c: there was this woman around looking for work who was
a writer, but i think she disappeared.
mike_c: my once-
a-month pace already strains my time for writing. i don't think i'm the right fit for
a newsroom.
mike_c: his time must be worth more given he just turned down
a weekly video job.
mircea_popescu: i was
a producer for
a bunch shots, but that was back in the 90s.
Quinn_: mircea didn't you create
a porn site under
a false name and stolen content?
mircea_popescu: this is an interesting point tho. i guess for the vast majority of the public, bitcoin is this "cool tech", nobody stops to think bitcoin is actually
a bunch of saudi princes.
BingoBoingo: He's at least
a plural hundreds of Millionaire though, provably.
BingoBoingo: Quinn_: At the time he was provably
a Billionaire. Now He's mysteriously maybe so. Bitcoin be volatile.
Quinn_: other than one article citing you as
a romanian billionaire which doesn't exactly sound in any way legit.
Quinn_: and I know nothing about you,
a quick google search doesn't reveal anything either
Quinn_: I did it in my spare time between commissions, since it wasn't
a source of income so around 3 months
Quinn_: The amount of work and time dedicated all depends on price. e.g
a $300 video that's 30 seconds long will take
a week.
mircea_popescu: Quinn_ how long does it take you to make one of these ? could you in principle bang out one
a week if scripts were availabe ?
Quinn_: But do you have
a script /idea?
ben_vulpes: though the causal relationship is
a little murky to me
Quinn_: Depends on the content, i have
a site which is better to contact me through. www.zenithquinn.com/#!commissions/c171x
Quinn_: I created the bitcoin users in
a nutshell cartoon.
BingoBoingo: Hanta is apparently
a creature of the desert.
chetty: BingoBoingo, thats
a point, with all the drought that should have broken out, haven't seen anything about it
ben_vulpes: it was
a passing note, take it up with Barber!
mircea_popescu: get out, no govenrment in history survived
a large pandemic
chetty: but seriously when exactly do you cross the line to being infections? the exact second you show
a fever? the first time you cough? of just maybe its actually 5 minutes before ...
mircea_popescu: i don't get this. you telling me it's specifically because obama is
a kenyan citizen ?
mircea_popescu: n ow on the other hand, who gives
a shit about west africa flights...
BingoBoingo: I have
a gut feeling that the big reason more US'ians don't follow through with their going to Canada threats is that Canada is too close to what they are leaving. That and Canada doesn't really want them.
BingoBoingo: That story about the silenced handgun is ridiculous. Even modern suppressors leave gunshots well over 100 dB range. Nice to know that our spymasters even insist on lying to themselves." Forgets .22lr is
a thing
BingoBoingo: Comment on
a site that links to gallery of things to be paranoid about "