asciilifeform: i will answer the secret question which i can answer. 1) i personally can't pay rent with btc without giving up every other one to usg. 2) cost of extrication from gravity well is inconceivably high. 3) no one crowned me hero to begin with, why even ask.
asciilifeform: perhaps his only runs on gurlz with arithmometers, how the fuck would i know
asciilifeform: in usa, 'make moar' would mean that someone has to actually think about cost.
asciilifeform: make moar << works for su. for usa - no.
asciilifeform: and anything other than a stone age opponent can blind the machine. or, if usa continues to insist on unsigned control signals, take it home.
asciilifeform: 'hero' would be the fella who submits to carrying out this mission gratis, and can stay alive long enough to chop down a critical mass of foes.
asciilifeform: bounce: mircea_popescu only buys gurlz
asciilifeform: He costs around what good whiskey does.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you want polished turd, buy a girl who knows cpp, 'valgrind', gdb, understands memory discipline, can implement bdb replacement ab initio, knows ecdsa mechanics, etc, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those 12 errors look like 6-10 different holes << also please remember that there is no deterministic full-walk test for this turd orchestra.
asciilifeform is not thrilled with the fact that poroshenko owns most of the remaining supply chain for proper 'soviet' chocolate, and the latter may soon be in short supply
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that something being me, further down in log?
asciilifeform: to finish off my 'sword into the stone' speech - yes, i can do this. (turd lathe.) but - if i were to put in the time required, the hour would soon come that i could not pay electric bill. and then s.nsa, and turdatron, will have to summon the gnome rumplestilskin to work in my stead. while i boil in whatever pot in hell moiety and pankkake are cooking in.
asciilifeform: but if it turns out that i am the only one here who even knows how to operate 'valgrind', 'gdb', etc. - you're SOL, fellas.
asciilifeform: don't get me wrong, if there liveth among us a hero who can piss out the required diamonds in his spare time, let him pull the sword out of the stone.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: not enough to be willing to go on the expedition. also need pitons, tents, dogs, pemmican.
asciilifeform: 5) if you think you have 'bitcoin career' or whateverthefuck, derping around with financitrons of whatever variety, and at the same time you're at the mercy of phoundation's turds and whatever direction they'll take them in, you're the goose waiting for christmas dinner.
asciilifeform: (functional in our sense, not merely in the technical sense of 'appearing to work')
asciilifeform: 4) everyone remember the thread where mircea_popescu explained why none of the people who, through necessity, arrived at a functional bitcoind workalike, have shared it.
asciilifeform: 3) gavin & the phoundation gang boobytrapped the blockchain in a number of ways that appear to interfere with reliable operation of classical nodes, these will have to be ferreted out
asciilifeform: 2) boost must also die, but this will require rewrite in totality
