asciilifeform: the car, as i understand, has to come -after-, or you fished with dynamite - and any idiot with a stick of dynamite can then be a 'great fisherman'
asciilifeform: afaik the pickup folks have no position on which, if any, car, boeing, planet, one should buy -after-
asciilifeform: afaik they don't have a position on money per se, except that it can be used to travel to faraway lands where the great satan has not perverted womankind
asciilifeform: 'In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers.' <<< wat?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: wallowing with the eagles, soaring with the pigs, eh
asciilifeform: flipped, like the prices at filling stations.
asciilifeform: the story of inflation << one of the streets i frequently drive through had a housing development (row homes) under construction for the past ~3 yrs. there was a billboard, advertising 'From the low 300s!' (10**3) recently the '3' was flipped to a '6'.
asciilifeform: mod6: snippy snippy is very easy. and satisfying. i encourage others to try.
asciilifeform: while still syncing in a reasonable time
asciilifeform: ideally you can determine a value for bastard pool constant that turns that into zero
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: how many deaths has it died ?
asciilifeform: i still don't grasp, for instance, how a node loading headers (during warmup) knows that it is being fed actual headers
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it very transparently follows the overall pattern (create, nurture problem, then propose 'solution' glued with glass that introduces subtle boojum)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone here trusts it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: before very long, this thing will not be readable in the usual sense of the word.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: am i the only one who wonders why 1) checking hashes, inside a pgp-signed script, when patch sigs also are checked 2) patches & their hashes, sigs, listed explicitly, instead of iterating over directory
asciilifeform: and i will say that none of the items i have worked with (and they were samples of malware, in some cases elaborately obfuscated) remotely approached the ugliness and gnarliness of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: for some years i earned bread as a 'reverse engineer'
asciilifeform: since this place is quiet, i will take the liberty to blather at length;
asciilifeform: had an early draft where it was phrased in a particularly comedic (unintentionally) way, where, parody of rms and his 'software freedoms,' the sqrt(-1)-th 'freedom' was to be 'freedom to understand'
asciilifeform: i've been meaning to write an article on the subject of 'pseudo-open' for... ~5 yrs now
asciilifeform: a closed hairball for all the interest the entities in question have in documenting and maintaining the various hairballs' (ben_vulpes's www)
asciilifeform: 'Software may be "open sourced" by various companies who depend on that software to do their business (Puppet, Chef and Go are all excellent examples of the pattern: monolithic software projects of such scale that they either approach or actually are their own languages for which the source is freely available, but the source for which nobody is really supposed to read), but in nearly all of those cases the code may as well be
