asciilifeform: decimation: i admit to having been mildly surprised to learn today that ftp.cdrom.com vanished years ago. i sorta expected some shrivelled, mummufied husk to still be there.
asciilifeform: autoconf, what a sad joke. so often dwarfs the proggy it's distributed with!
asciilifeform: the latter, in the initial designs are laughably low-density - but can always be packed tighter.
asciilifeform: and realists, who are building kommunalki.
asciilifeform: from my understanding, u.s. civilian real estate chumpmeisters are split into two camps - the optimists, who intend to buy the old folks' homes using 'reverse mortgages' - pensions, appealing to folks with destroyed or absent savings, which bargain away the property - and then sell them back to young chumps;
asciilifeform: ~= 'think of this sinking titanic as increasing potential! when it hits the bottom of the sea, it will inevitably bounce up, with such strength that it will fly to the moon !111!'
asciilifeform: 'Right now, the U.S. household formation rate (essentailly the pace at which people, typically young adults, are moving out on their own) is incredibly low. When it speeds up, you'll see more demand for housing, and the things that come along with it, like appliances, furniture, televisions, and so forth. So, you know, just think of this graph as increasing potential.' << mega-lol!
asciilifeform: most zoologically educational experience i had in years.
asciilifeform: for those with slightly less-loaded parents, same arrangement informally, with higher density
asciilifeform: the variant described above is the 'luxury' btw.
asciilifeform: four bois/gurlz to a flat, room each, one shitter, one kitchenette, tv pit.
asciilifeform: that great invention, communal flat, has won over the americans.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the town where i live is being slowly converted into gigantic sov-style communal flats (officially, 'student housing', in practice - they will live their whole lives therein)☟︎
asciilifeform: i'm assuming everybody else here who read the thing, was stumped similarly
asciilifeform: and wtf is with the two entirely disjoint concepts named 'orphan'
asciilifeform: nor does is fetching mechanism steered
asciilifeform: hence the nondeterminism. the blocks arrive in braindamaged order and are not sorted in any intelligent way
asciilifeform: re: mapOrphanBlocks: there is some confusion of terminology in the source. the orphan blocks in question are not the orphan blocks spoken of usually (i.e. blocks on dead ends of the tree) but rather any block for which the antecedent is not yet loaded by the node
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asciilifeform: e, as it was not used to commit any of the crimes of which he was convicted or used in conjunction with any of these crimes. Thus, notwithstanding the agreement between the parties, the court declines to accept the portion of the Plea Agreement that requires Defendant to forfeit his copy of the Declaration of Independence. Accordingly, the court orders the Government to return Defendant’s copy of the Declaration of Independe
