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mircea_popescu: i've yet
to find a hitler servant
that fucked anything.
mircea_popescu: hopefully he doesn't decide
to fuck any of
the interns or anything.
mircea_popescu: the dispositive criterion for
the matter is
the counterparty function.
mircea_popescu: (to be perfectly clear - most of
the eth budget went
to propping
the exchange rate, nothing else.)
mircea_popescu: the sort
that pay for
the bullets
that cut holes in retarded us-born kids' heads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the loss was extracted in
the field of battle, and came as actual, isis-equipping dollars.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - ethertard budget exceeded 50mn in 2016 ; and
these are
turkey dollars.
this is more
than
the aggregate expenditure across all software branches in
the united states in
that year.
mircea_popescu: the currency of
the reich is, as
the original hitler well observed, a sort of sweat.
mircea_popescu: moreover,
the strategic profile is not symmetrical :
the initative is strictly not with hitler.
mircea_popescu: mp can afford
to lose however much mp volunteers
to lose ;
the exposure profile is not symmetrical, hitler keeps having
to go all in.
mircea_popescu: then hitler
tries
to make "his own bitcoin", and pumps
the battery, which mp drains at his leisure. but it is HIS, hitler figures, so he changes it. and changes it. each subsequent change resulting in erosion of his grasp over
the battery in question.
the wind blows
the other way.
mircea_popescu: to which mp reacts with
http://trilema.com/2014/an-era-ends-today-a-new-era-starts-today/ ; which is notable in
the form, but not in
the result. hitler gets
to do his usual manipulation, and "win", but a) hitler is stuck denying
the venue where he won exists, and
this hurts him so bad he spends a year
trying
to get kakobrekla
to eventually agree "fiat is a better deal" and whatever other "modern science & democracy" nonsense
mircea_popescu: so far
the winds are not
too favourable. consider
the situation in
the field : hitler has ~exactly one
trick~, and it is
the following
trick : you know i shall fall, and i know i shall fall, and we both know we both know, but here's
the
thing --
the market can stay liquid for longer
than you can stay solvent, especially if
the liquid is liquid shit from my liquid shit pump. so come,
take positions on my sotck exchange, reflec
mircea_popescu: that "and
them only"
trailer is mostly why we haven't had
the pleasure. just as soon as hitler figures out how
to remove it, he WILL burn his citizenry into a crips, as he always does.
mircea_popescu: no, actually - a forest fire
that singes every ~law abiding~ participant and
them only.
mircea_popescu: this is a best case view not supported in practice (by which practice we mean
the repeated etherape, symbolic as it is of
the chances of
the premier science and
technology institution in
the world in front of a loose assemblage of
things
that don't, supposedly, exist.)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-30 20:45 mircea_popescu: none of
this stuff CAN be fixed.
mircea_popescu: that's why
the "pistols" discussion ends up where it does
davout: in all fairness, some of
this stuff might also have been fixed later on
mircea_popescu: this sort of
thing allows nonconforming
txn
to be put in!
mircea_popescu: which is
the
type of
thing alf is usually loud about, and all
thinking men concerned :
davout: maybe i'm missing
the semantics of "transaction finality"
davout: asciilifeform:
this IsFinal method is quite weird, if nLockTime < blockHeight,
the further checks on
the
txin are simply skipped
mircea_popescu: and if you are one of
those who can summon
the mental energy
to convince yourself
this [sort of
thing] is accident rather
than mens rea, you have my admiration.
davout: also, from reading
the source, AcceptBlock is an entirely different beast
than CheckBlock
mircea_popescu: there should be a word for computer code
that does
the opposite of what it "appears"
to be wanting
to do.
davout: so a block doesn't pass AcceptBlock if one of
the
transactions has nLockTime > blockHeight
davout: raises an error should one of
the
transactions return false for IsFinal ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 18:45 asciilifeform:
thestringpuller: what EXTANT miners CHOOSE
to mine, and what COULD be mined, if
there were sane folks mining, are quite distinct
things.
davout: mircea_popescu: iirc
there was one locktime
thing
that was
there from day 1
mircea_popescu: sooner or latter prb WILL be unwound.
this is a certainty. just a matter of when.
mircea_popescu: davout
trb does not implement any of
the prbisms.
this means
that ANY innovation included by
the power rangers is a "while it lasts"
thing, and building on
top of it is setting one up for
tears.
davout: one
that was
there since day 1,
the other
that was 'soft-forked' in
davout: iirc
there were
two *different* locktime 'features'
davout: asciilifeform: so you're saying a block including a
transaction with locktime > block height is considered valid by
trb ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-30 20:16 asciilifeform:
theoretically a 'will go in node xxxxxxx --- yyyyyyy inclusive or NEVER' field in
tx, would have been sane. but it is
too late,
this is not in bitcoin.
phf: sbcl right now is at 450mb on average, which drops
to 270mb after full gc