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mircea_popescu: myeah. it just doesn't wash, half the "expert" population of c-ers doesn't actually comprehend c string safety
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and yet, author knows enough to use strprintf rather than any other of the countless vulnerable c string things
mircea_popescu: it doth not have the great degree of generality that a good exercise makes.
mircea_popescu: help people learn the shit you use makes more people use the shit you use makes you less likely to have to learn shit other people use.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes btw, as a matter of course articles like that should contain a "this is how you get your system to reproduce my screenshots" thing, with emacs settings etc.
mircea_popescu: (and no, i'm not an exception - i have to have the chicks pick up chicks for me!)
mircea_popescu: certainly nobody still young enough to pick up chicks would know wtf -?
mircea_popescu: Bitcoind as written would be the best possible example of condescending software design if it were worthy of being called "designed" instead of "crufted together by a monotonically increasingly febrile group of contributors". << i can sign that.
mircea_popescu: "Even though the application's default behavior is to create the ~/.bitcoind directory itself unprompted (and yet not the bitcoin.conf file that the damn thing expects in there), if you pass it a data directory that doesn't exist, it refuses to create it."
mircea_popescu: mysterious BDB shenanigans on application shutdown << it doesn't have atomic index operations. which means, that it can has updated index but unupdated data.
mircea_popescu: then go through these phases of he's kidding no wait, wait, i recall this. but it couldn't be. o yes it is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i just keep forgetting the horrest parts of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "main calls AppInit, which itself calls AppInit2 catching all exceptions in two seperate logic branches, shuting itself down if the second layer of AppInit doesn't fire correctly:"
mircea_popescu: nbews in past 6 months : s.mpoe almost went to shit but recovered, i lost the berkshire bet, s.mg launched eulora, s.nsa's phuctor delivered 60 or so broken rsa moduli
mircea_popescu: the things that happen in the internets truck make me feel old and out of touch
mircea_popescu: so ? people cook successfully without running water and things
mircea_popescu: !rate SuchWow 1 answered all questions, still no idea who he is.
mircea_popescu: lol what, the proposition is that dogecoin still exists ?!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i wonder briefly why these tards don't do something useful with their time, instead of making pointless "infographs" that make no sense, represent no data and interest no one.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, we'll keep it warm for you for when you grow younger ?
mircea_popescu: the problem reduces to "find a salt that will turn this trivial hash into a known hash", which is equivalent to "break this key", which makes the premise unworkable.
mircea_popescu: contrary to popular belief tax lawyers are not expensive, ~especially~ if you're young and you look like you know what you're doing. most of their revenue comes from their list, which they can only add at the early stages, nobody's switching late in the game.
mircea_popescu: if it's a large company you don't gas about dividends. if it's small hire them as consultants or w/e
mircea_popescu: why would you be paying yourself dividends in london ?
mircea_popescu: deduct in london, get out of 60% rather than in romania, which has 16% pretty much throughout.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne moreover, there are better jurisdictions to deduct expenses in than romania.
mircea_popescu: but best used in the hands of a competent local accountant, because it's complex.
mircea_popescu: you can also opt to be a vat payer (in which case you also get to deduct vat you paid)
mircea_popescu: small businesses pay 3% of income. the other option is to pay 16% of net income.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it was in the first implementation too. pretty sure it's OA.
mircea_popescu: "if flag is passed, transform its value into an ip and use that"
mircea_popescu: it just transforms a numeric value into a boost "object"