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mircea_popescu: well, the .1 ain't, in my mind, the actual larger half.
mircea_popescu: one explanation, that persuades me, it's because they dun have the time to. because they gotta work.
mircea_popescu: consider the case of the various chicks that came to show their tits for .1 btc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i do not exactly believe b-a is intended for the workaday people. << do elaborate. should all of us but you & kako pack up? or some other thing implied << well, i know you self-motivate by refusing to see some degrees, but there are some degrees.
mircea_popescu: this would seem to sane minds the only way to close, but then it "took too long", so...
mircea_popescu: no no, bitcoin itself can close in such a way so as to not leave its own state crud crudely saved
mircea_popescu: this is useful if you keep stopping every x blocks, backuping bdb files
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: decimation: but at one point exhausted ram, but blockchain remained wedged upon restart <<< speaking of this, there's an option to close with detached bdb
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: as in, physically go places and do things << dunkin donuts ?
mircea_popescu: problem is, yoyu get them on ubuntu, next you know they think it's windows and update
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose the "so ssh then" only works for people who youi knw, actually own multiple computers
mircea_popescu: not as in, well the hdd's wiped and the bios randomly rewired
mircea_popescu: but i mean... rendered unusalbe as in you can't get a terminal on your monitor
mircea_popescu: there was also a ruby one but i dont recall right off what.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : another thing systemv does badly : it tries to restart stuff based on pidfiles.
mircea_popescu: until myserver; do echo "Server 'myserver' crashed with exit code $?. Respawning.." >&2 sleep 1 done ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL so what about scoopbot uptime ? what keeps taking it down ?
mircea_popescu: he could probably make more begging where he lives, and being a professional beggar would actually be much more respectable and honorable than being bitcoin's 5th column.
mircea_popescu: if there ever was proof positive that crime doesn't pay, gavin's income is it.
mircea_popescu: "Gavin Andresen's salary as the full time lead developer of the entire bitcoin protocol is $209k a year."
mircea_popescu: dun wanna be too cultumancated, lest anyone can tell the orcs apart from the elves ?
mircea_popescu: now they're going to randomly put is instead of are and so forth ?
mircea_popescu: just like they decided a decade ago to randomly use she instead of the canonical pronoun,
mircea_popescu: or is the us so poor these days that a plurality of shirts is verbally inconceivable ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose im the only one bothered by the ebonics coming out of salondotcom ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so basically not practical to just pull off road or what ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, am i the only one that finds it just a little amusing that torproject.org actively promotes the use of pdfs to encapsulate information that otherwise should be in a textfile or simple post ?
mircea_popescu: just keep camping gear in the back, skin and cook the thing on the spot.
mircea_popescu: no dude, not like that. for all the "knife subctulture" or we it is, people spending more money and time with knives than they're worth...
mircea_popescu: the "satoshi costume" is just a start, he'll wear a dead deer if it comes to it.
mircea_popescu: "You'll find the core developers are detached and very different to their users. As a developer of software myself I would find it disheartening if the bulk of my users were jerks like /r/bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: anyway, they have very right-wing ideas about dispensing justice here.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how banned it'd be if the city closed down a major street for it.
mircea_popescu: i saw it with own eyes, about one guy every three minutes or something
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the parade consisted of like... i dunno, five people ? six ?
mircea_popescu: they closed off a major street downtown (rivadavia) and put a scene up and everything in front of the cogress building
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mircea_popescu: yeah, that's right. USG pseudo-secrecy agency used to fuck up idiots stupid enough to trust it now claims "it was bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: what do they instead claim ? "Bitcoin deanonymization"
mircea_popescu: something fundamentally broken with these people's heads.
mircea_popescu: what the next line actually is ? " Unfortunately, we have very little information about how this was accomplished, but we do have some thoughts which we want to share."
mircea_popescu: what the next line should be ? "we suck, and we're stepping down. sorry we couldn't do what we wanted to."
mircea_popescu: "Recently it was announced that a coalition of government agencies took control of many Tor hidden services. We were as surprised as most of you."
mircea_popescu: ::later tell sdffsd nobody ever told you tor is not actually safe ? lol.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you have trouble with websites use the irc bots.