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mircea_popescu: instead, they're preoccupied with the liberty problems of trans-idiots.
mircea_popescu: and only agreed to hire a replacewment once the replacement swore he is firing every single lieutenant in the department ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it'd be nice if the reference client provided this, however, what with thew "accounts" bullshit and etc in there, i doubt it'll be this decade.
mircea_popescu: sooner or later everyone ends up with a full bitcoin data manipulator built in their favourite language, python or not.
mircea_popescu: they keep pretending like oh, the miners bla bla. nobody, ever, actually used the shit raw. because you can't, because obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: seriously, anyone gives a shit abvout what you release ? as anything other than toilet reading material ? when did that happen ?
mircea_popescu: kind-of why the blind insistence / pretense put forth by the power rangers is so amusing to me
mircea_popescu: nobody serious to my knowledge has used this software as-is.
mircea_popescu: yes, this is why 0.7 was right off when we discussed the branch
mircea_popescu: if it ever makes you rich, donate to teh bitcoin foundation
mircea_popescu: menahem so is that "130 people checked it out 0 bought" ?
mircea_popescu: fuck it, make one planet time and whoever doesn't fly enough can eat a bag of dicks.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather people had to get used to the fact they a) live in shitlandia so sunrise is at 4pm and b) they're shitlords that live in the dirt and so their interests areen't being catered to
mircea_popescu: it's only controversial in that most of the "participants" have nfi.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there is a list of idiocies that may not be not smitten
mircea_popescu: the obvious "because our esteemed leader says so" (which already carried, exactly once, when the versions prior to 2 were forked off) doesn't carry, as the closest to such a thing extant in bitcoin is against it.
mircea_popescu: irrespective of any flailings of random idiots (gavin & all), there can not be a hardfork until such a time as we have an answer to that question.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> at what level of 'hardness' does it even make sense to retain the original blockchain, as opposed to full-bore altcoin slugfest ? << the fact that this question has not a good answer as of yet is perhaps the principal roadblock in the way of considering a hardfork at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's unlikely it'll roll over without complaint. for one thing what's 0xFFFF - 0x0000 ? is it < 10 ?
mircea_popescu: diametric apparently you're getting ~14gbps worth of random packets. it's going to come back up in the coming hours as it's being mitigated.
mircea_popescu: im definitely going to run a few, just as soon as we're in a position to actually package one
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a hard fork is this enchanted moment when you borrow the heavenly forge and ... well... rewrite the rules.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: everyone can just throw out their old computers. not like they're useful or anything.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, no hard fork proposal can be seriously considered that fails to include a fix for such scatteromobilia throughout the codebase.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: myeah. mod dropped teh ball, an' as a result im out a coupla bitcoins now.
mircea_popescu: i do not know you. we can't talk privately for this reason.
mircea_popescu: cue kid come visiting, "hey, is that the car ???" pointing at a yellow futuristic looking bridge with some wheels attached
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares what some jerk thought he would do if he had your toy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have read in the sense of moved my eyes over them and decyphered the letters. i have not read in the sense i understand this sufficiently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you think it feasible to run one on nsa servers ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski less than what ? about on par with mouth and labia/penis head.
mircea_popescu: (the one medically notable thing about alcoholics is that their liver is shot)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski your saliva is eventually shat out, but little arse herpes described.
mircea_popescu: but in 80% ish of alcoholics and in 3% ish of normal people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also, re the liver stressing ; herpes C generates liver disease all the way to cirhosis.
mircea_popescu: so how does it jump from the right to the left trigeminus ?
mircea_popescu: if you look at the nerves, there's really very little contact / very good separation between the strands
mircea_popescu: it's not too well understood what it does. but trivially : you don't have monolaterality in observed cases
mircea_popescu: even leaving aside the "we've arbitrarily divided this virus up into 3 no wait 7 no wait 16 no wait nm groups", the notion that "i don't have herpes" is to be translated as "i read very little and understand even less".
mircea_popescu: cause for some reason it's where it mostly manifests, esp in young people.
mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if it's been 16% for a week, you don't get it by fucking herpetic whores bareback, you get it from being genetically broken in that way