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mircea_popescu: i think some implementations end up with different gaps between them or something.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, it's so to speak "unstrained" if you're there, and "strained" if you hear about it later.
mircea_popescu: i was doing like 5 things at once past coupla days and so ended up leaving all sorts of things unexplained fully.
mircea_popescu: nah, they had the "unsustainable" crapola on the back burner for a coupla years, as they were hoping they may actually elbow themselves into relevancy all through 2013-14
mircea_popescu: go sustain yourselves on cocks, nameless "journalists".
mircea_popescu: like doesn't want you gaming or whatever the nutty fuck ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can at this point guarantee to you it is not due to this machine.
mircea_popescu: which hate has apparently saved a bit of internet comedy from extinction.
mircea_popescu: i mean, there were occasional spikes in load in the previous incarnation, and i figured those may be it. but now it's smooth as butter.
mircea_popescu: ok so last time there was a bona fide index/db problem, which made it be slow and painful.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they figured out how to make the old games run in emulator.
mircea_popescu: i've last used windows xp a decade ago to play might and magic.
mircea_popescu: the seeder is coming back online momentarily. for my own curiosity, re-start the syncing and compare the two sets you get.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field : LoadBlockIndex(): hashBestChain=00000000000000001160 height=362808 << confirmed. my chain is fine, delay and difficulties to date due to operator error.
mircea_popescu: "i got a new girlfriend - she came with a built in boyfriend!"
mircea_popescu: "oh you know, if your head needs to take a walk - now it can!"
mircea_popescu: i really don't get this "put all the things in all the things" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, they'll make it back OUT OF BEING LEGAL AND COMPLIANT!!11
mircea_popescu: how does this shit even work ? can their word editor open net connections !?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: wait, amazon is replacing shit by vacu-packing it in convenient, easy sized, value packs ?
mircea_popescu: i wasn't born a bug and how the fuck did i end up here ?!
mircea_popescu: i'll tell you im getting plenty sick of this entire "everything around is a bug's nest"
mircea_popescu: jurov needs to stop keyboard-fu-ing eulora and fix the list!11eleventy.
mircea_popescu: fucktards already. i'll use uber just after i go to work for a transvestite brothel in bang gook.
mircea_popescu: "we want a db of everyone's travels, what is this bs where people can get a cab in peace"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the proposition that greece is a democracy is beyond laughable, and in general he takes a completely nonsequitur turn straight into nonsense midway.
mircea_popescu: and so no, there's no serious question that the future of the us is anything else or anything different from the africa which it has for so long aimed to join.
mircea_popescu: aka, "Pork bellies go for ~$1 per pound, and so do you".
mircea_popescu: "These aren't words that an American or a European politician can utter in public, and perhaps not even whisper to their significant other while lying in bed, because the American eavesdroppers might overhear them, and then the politician in question would get the Dominique Strauss-Kahn treatment"
mircea_popescu: creditor owed can not bother the debtor. meanwhile usg can go burn down his house for no reason.
mircea_popescu: “Just because I get a judgement, it’s a piece of paper—I can try to put a lien on his house, take his car, but he has various homestead exemptions,” he added, citing a law in Kentucky and elsewhere that exists to protect homeowners with deceased spouses who owe money to creditors.
mircea_popescu: He admitted that it would be difficult to collect the money from the Kentucky man.
mircea_popescu: "The temporary prohibition is imposed in accordance with Article 20 of the Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2012 on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps (OJ L 86/1, 2012)." << riiight.
mircea_popescu: "The legislative act exempted pensions from all measures, with initial plans to open some bank branches on Wednesday and full pensions being paid out. " << dude, fuck this shit. since when can there be exceptions ?
mircea_popescu: now, it existed as a cleaner, more useful thing before being coopted for this purpose, of course. much like anything else that's now being used to make large population densities possible was a lot nicer before being shat on
mircea_popescu: anyway, the broadly fraudulent proposition that "you can make yourself better through X Y Z" be they hard work or prayer or anything else fundamentally exists as a direly needed social control mechanism. because the social cost of the ambitiously ungifted is plainly immense, societies have universally and often independently constructed this method to deal with the afflicted.
mircea_popescu: but they also don't have a retroactive abortion mechanism (not that they aren't trying, look at any ghetto ever).
mircea_popescu: all the avatars of orphaned boyhood, kids who grow up without a father have no idea what games to play are there.
mircea_popescu: and so... they "are crypto entusiasts" and "You can go much stronger than that" and so on.
mircea_popescu: why ? because intelligence and ambition are unrelated, and the ambitiously ungifted have absolutely no incentive in recognizing their shortcoming. it's not that it's cheaper to pretend. it's that literally no other alternative is present.
mircea_popescu: some of the anal children will instead make a "different" version of yachthing, which will consist of, for instance, birling.