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mircea_popescu: "Bitnplay's failure to launch comes off the back of what can only be described as a disappointing result in an attempt to raise 400 BTC. Offering a total of 200 tokens to investors via CounterParty, Bitnplay managed to sell a grand total of 5, netting them 10 BTC."
mircea_popescu: mthreat: Here's exactly where I am, for the details << yeh but how are we to verify!
mircea_popescu: (that's what the azns call a love hotel, above. and that's a [cheap] whore cafe)
mircea_popescu: punkman: "There’s a distinction between the Internet and IRL for a reason. We are here in IRL, and we have to make judgements in IRL." - Ulbricht's lawyer << did he actually point to the distinction or merely presume it ?
mircea_popescu: seems a lone guy with enough irl acumen to make a corp.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: i think it is interesting to note that qntra has surpassed a competing site, founded in april 2014 << i have never heard of it, but mebbe ask em if they want to join in ?
mircea_popescu: my neck of the woods is a city larger than all of california.
mircea_popescu: she can figure out how to get in here like anyone else.
mircea_popescu: the plan is to put wot-member signed nodes in and nothing else.
mircea_popescu: mod6: it seems like the growing thought seems to be to get a list of 50300 active nodes and seed those directly into the R.I., or am I misunderstanding that?? << completely misunderstanding that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: bitcoin could handily run under 100MB constant if the whole bastards thing were somehow bulldozed << yeah it's one of those serious issues that should have been on teh priority list of actual core devs. in 2012.
mircea_popescu: same can almost never be said of catastrophic failure hdd system.
mircea_popescu: it's an ideal usecase for the "use ssd until it fries" because the value of running a pogo is in its running. so a pogo that ran for 3.5 years then died, had part replaced and resynced over three weeks then ran for another 3.5 years is a perfectly functional, 99.999% uptime pogo as good as any other.
mircea_popescu: so danielpbarron, if you feel like trying a generous swap on one of the pogos, with the understanding that the ssd disk you put in there will likely fry, please do so, and document the exeriment as well as possible.
mircea_popescu: obviously 250`000 full rewrites of the swap means a decade or more of intense usage, and so, a perfectly economic use of the ssd in question.
mircea_popescu: roughly speaking, my rationale is like this : because a large chunk of fixed data is always present (the actual blockchain), should a 100gb ssd be blessed with a 4gb swap partition, the drive finds itself in the position where the 100gb * 10k (say) writes are available as such : 100gb of them for the actual data, and 100gb * 9999 for the 4gb partition.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: swapping is the more or less one guaranteed way to ruin an arbitrarily good ssd. << while the principle is correct, in point of fact i would like this experimentally tried in our current case.
mircea_popescu: aka "too many english speakers read trilema, lol @ us, need fresh turnip trucks plox"
mircea_popescu: decimation: from $67,300 in 2014 to $61,287 this << remember the lulzy "need immigration to maintain geniusness of industree" paul graham nonsense ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that no checkpoints means no error would perhaps bolster the "bad code, off by one" hypothesis and relate it to the checkpoints implementation.
mircea_popescu: note that none of the blocvks you receive match your sent getdata.
mircea_popescu: it MAY be a subtle off-by-one error somewhere in the code.
mircea_popescu: this causes oom errors because narrow space for orphans.
mircea_popescu: mod6 persuing your error log : it would seem to me that for some reason your peers keep pumping you with blocks height=168002 and over, whereas yotu never get height=168001.
mircea_popescu: anyway, he can't actually do it. you can;t arrest a president.
mircea_popescu: yeah it was one of the numerous points making a juicy press story
mircea_popescu: how i learned twenty one languages twenty one times in twenty one days
mircea_popescu: "my twenty-one days dating twenty-one twenty-one years old twenty-one day book authors"
mircea_popescu: "my twenty-one days dating twenty-one twenty-one day book authors"
mircea_popescu: i am the one that sold the ukalele guggenheim bridge in abudja
mircea_popescu: in the sense that a nineteen year old with a very messy room is a persistent masturbator, sure.
mircea_popescu: chumps are routinely downed for their troubles. but "dunno what it was ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: and anyone else a) doesn't hjave the money and b) would just be happy to send you support tickets
mircea_popescu: decimation but the people who could do it could get it anyway
mircea_popescu: if you can do it with a toothbrush you could ... restore art, or make your own, or be a surgeon or etc.
mircea_popescu: there's this very narrow lost demographic, mostly at the periphery of the world, made up of kids smart enough to be able to do it but dumb enough to not have anything better to do.
mircea_popescu: cazalla can't even be bothered to bet on it. "they'll make a bitcoin's worth of sales the first week, then half a bitcoin the next year and then that's that."
mircea_popescu: standard practice on cheap home connections, and the only reason the shit's even effective in any sense.
mircea_popescu: well but if the whole thing's tossed then they have not acquired the right to use it.
mircea_popescu: actually it would in principle bar any sort of legally organised body from ever using the software.
mircea_popescu: "he's a nice enough fellow, if only he were more serious."
mircea_popescu: what did the father of the girl schopenhauer was courting say ?
mircea_popescu: starts as a joke, which is kinda funny, except haha, only funny, except hm... etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have you notice how my shit grows on one in retrospect ?
mircea_popescu: have you talked with the dog about this, or is it entirely your own opinion ?"
mircea_popescu: the butcher, a huge guy with a huge mustache, "don't be afraid, it won't bite"
mircea_popescu: which starts to bark quite furious. the jew stops in fear
mircea_popescu: a scrawny jewish real estate agent is going down the street to show a house to a customer. on the way, a large butchery, and in it a huge dog
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which reminds me, you know the joke with the jew an' the big mean dog ?