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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : today in b-a, "best jabs are the completely impredictable, entirely baseless shit nobody expects".
mircea_popescu: (yeah, trilema actually does get these types of searches. in romanian.)
mircea_popescu: ;;google population size of where ben_vulpes works/lives, how many time smaller than buenos aires it is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you're being hit on, by a bunch of bored chicks stuck in a beancounter job in rural america and the social skills of a box of liverjournals.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i suspek the guy's trying to be fringe & controversial rather than anything unsavory.
mircea_popescu: dunno what asciilifeform is doing but i guess he got sick ?
mircea_popescu: srsly, tepid cold ? lol who the fuck writes the bezzleweb!
mircea_popescu: rdymac prolly a good idea to have your pgp key added to the page anyway.
mircea_popescu: which'd be, "it's good like holy water. it doesn't fix anything, it doesn't break anything"
mircea_popescu: romanian expression goes, "ii bun ca apa sfintita. nici tocmeste, nici nu strica."
mircea_popescu: actually speaking of which. Anduck need a job ? exactly tailored for your intelligence level, skills and abilities, everything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can imagine the "responsible people" working 8 hours a day "typing in chat". they're like, on the street, in bars, imagining they may talk to women and so forth.
mircea_popescu: wow you're the guy that sent some blogger a copy of his greencard ?
mircea_popescu: rdymac: beside that, if I've never trade at #bitcoin-otc I'm not trustable... what a bullshit << heh.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo mike_c "here's how november went for mpex stocks" piece for qntra ? can has ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: is the blockchain cpu-bound on ssds *and* spinny-drives? << not really. afaik the bitcoind was always IO bound, either on memory or more usually disk. but i guess some people somewhere run shitty enough systems that it's the cpu.
mircea_popescu: what they're actually saying is, "you'd never pay for us to do things you don't want done but we do, so gotta force you to pay". which proper restatement of the argument is of course too plain for their taste.
mircea_popescu: and you're telling me the local school or w/e couldn't, IF IT WERE ANY USEFUL.
mircea_popescu: i mean... the fucking commie party of the at-the-time enemy of the us could have lived off fucking us citizen ~donations~
mircea_popescu: to... essentially... build an experimental prison camp. or to leave to the communist party of ussr.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, completely insane and otherwise entirely pointless derps like the jones dude got TENS OF MILLIONS of 1970s dollars in donations
mircea_popescu: you know, reading on this people's temple thing... the general pro-state argument is that o noes, donation powered police department and government generally "wouldn't work" because "people won't pay, gotta tax!"
mircea_popescu: i hope he comes here to tell us how "gpg is not user friendly and too hard".
mircea_popescu: no but i mean... the kid's clearly trying, which is good.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jyap you have to be fucking insane to send over copies of whatever residence card to derpy websites.
mircea_popescu: hopefully those folks got to live like kings for a while lol.
mircea_popescu: so i bought half a dozen cartons of romania's cheapest and threw em over when coming back.
mircea_popescu: one day they had one of those convict crews doing some roadwork in front o' my house as i went shopping
mircea_popescu: that the free and happy people of jonestown i mean new york are more than happy to pay 18 bucks for
mircea_popescu: still, as a general rule a 1 mb block takes < 1s to download and multipes s to process. makes little diff.
mircea_popescu: but they help with the indexing, which was an issue esp on bdb, and they may also help with tx related stuff
mircea_popescu: anyway, they don't speed up the download per se, because blocks are still downloaded
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it needs to trust the correctness of whoever made the checkpoints.
mircea_popescu: the proper operation of bitcoin is trustless. there's nothing it needs to trust in a no=chekcpoint scenario.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes incidentally, a server or two to be used as a [l2-accessible?] bitcoin testing environment may be a great foundation expenditure
mircea_popescu: cazalla from what i hear from Naphex yes, exactly same.
mircea_popescu: "he acted as an investment broker without a license ?! AND HE DID SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE ?!?!" burn him!!1