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mircea_popescu: well... i guess because i was mostly indoors ? only 10 or so miles away
mircea_popescu: dat dangling minipenis, a foot under the all consuming hole...
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything more adorkably pathetic than academics aiming for political power. sort-of like the bichon frizee trying to mount a german shepherd in heat.
mircea_popescu: so apparently this stolfi brazilian derp figures himself some sort of stragetist or something ?
mircea_popescu: It looks like he made his goal in life to be the most detestable person in the internet. (Methinks he is still nowhere near that rank, though.) However he is a precious resource, as an expert bitcoiner who enjoys kicking some of the most sacred cows in bitcoinland.
mircea_popescu: davout well geneally yes, but some voices in particular seem to hate you personally.
mircea_popescu: there's a book "luxury rotary bits management" you should read.
mircea_popescu: punkman he did it deliberately so it's artistic and unique
mircea_popescu: or whatever other random css expert gavin found on fiverr.
mircea_popescu: "the winner of world war three was a good man, right ?
mircea_popescu: you're talking of ambiguous things as if they were specified.
mircea_popescu: " do ops frantically get on the horn to get their block into the long chain?" << through that process.
mircea_popescu: in practice either whichever they hear first or whichever has better likely outcomes
mircea_popescu: i think he has been delaborately confusing us to gain time
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nothing in particular, just the general.
mircea_popescu: i thought nubbins was contemplating a genderbendin' surgical intervention.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes only if you're willing to cut noobs entirely loose
mircea_popescu: BFL the "Exchange" , pirate the asic manufacturer, woodcutter the ponzi scheme...
mircea_popescu: what do we do once they simply start repeating names ?
mircea_popescu: these guys "delisted" at a 25% buyback that they didn't really honor
mircea_popescu: CAVirtex, Canada’s largest and oldest Bitcoin online exchange, is facing a potential class action lawsuit to the tune of $884,880 CAD. The alleged losses were incurred by the lawsuit-bringers after the company offered 10% of its shares for sale on the cryptocurrency-based asset exchange, Havelock Investments then stopped listing the stock by the end of 2013.
mircea_popescu: static char line_buf[LINE_COUNTER_BUF_LEN] = { ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', '0', '\t', '\0' };
mircea_popescu: a codebase that's written by a monkey is more liable to attact "do-ocracy" monkeys than one written by a sane person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, just the power ranger lot. they'd have (i optimistically assume) been excluded / self out-selected if the satoshi actually understood programming.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it does, unfortunately, mean that they who did forget / never had what to forget can pass for "geniuses"
mircea_popescu: you can, if you wish, implement a function that returns "equibranches" on a tree.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no asciilifeform put it in proper terms. it's a tree.
mircea_popescu: think of it as "chain of pointers" and now tell me who the fuck doesn't flunk the idiot that actually keeps an enumeration array for the chain
mircea_popescu: like sending you to hunt for snipes so yo ucan't be a huner)
mircea_popescu: this is nonsense of the first order, an utter antipattern, and iof they weren't stupid as frogs i'd suspect its deliberate
mircea_popescu: (another bit of braindamage th epower rangers forced upon the world, other than "historical transaction validity" as a thing, is "block as aheight"
mircea_popescu: the notion of N must be subordinate ot the blocks only identifier, its hash