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mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone taking bets on the name of the chick that informed mr fox as to the intricacies of the russian soul ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: classic russian fatalism <<< aaaaaaaahahaha, how do you know this ?
mircea_popescu: it's going, it's going, don't blame the relative fixed position of mountains on the ass derping in the road.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but now i don't see this thing as going anywhere << what, srlsy ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: me - i don't want jsonism in my book. << anything actually solidified in your head as to what you actually want ? sigs, really ?
mircea_popescu: "do you wanna be able to get it out or do you wanna not be able to get it out ?"
mircea_popescu: i never drink again anything that gives me a hangover.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he has a point there, this "need coffee to wake up" thing is nonsense. i know this experimentally.
mircea_popescu: the us "debate", an engine wasting time and paper while going from unpolarized to polarized.
mircea_popescu: bounce i don't care either way. maybe i;m the only person left i guess.
mircea_popescu: *: BingoBoingo wonders about serious matters such as will Cardano prototype factory make the eventual loper prototype << my hope is that in the 2020s. but i've been off before by an xmas or two.
mircea_popescu: hm, i like girls that wash ashtrays. i don't mean empty them in the trash, i mean actually wash the damned things.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't remember, is edsel a car or a bad cheesecake brand ?
mircea_popescu: dude incredible how much subtext i miss. and i do read the logs!
mircea_popescu: undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects <<< there is. you're watching it. just because leadership is not in your face doesn't necessarily mean leadership is absent and it's your time to shine. it may also mean leadership is extremely good at what it does.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: undata: if there's an existing stripped down client the deturdification process is a waste of time <<< what are you, new ?
mircea_popescu: undata: mircea_popescu: ^ << nothing was said publicly on this topic.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how would a site worked on that principle go. "ever day traffic is up, hire someone ; every day traffic is down, fire someone"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: a good rng will aid the process. << srsly, how do you keep this dry ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wherever you're going, check for cpp gurlz. << none!
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat << dude that's touching, srsly.
mircea_popescu: if plane could fly w/o ground installations, captive pilot may make sense. as it is, pilot belongs with the airbase not with the plane.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, the current us doctrine of "don't put the most valuable part of the plane in the most fragile part of the plane" is sound.
mircea_popescu: cuz they somehow had bad experience with the german paratroopers
mircea_popescu: well, half a day. but they didn't fly wortha shit at night anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, those were the days. gasoline + 5 man crew for a day, 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when I was a boy i actually bought an airplane (ride) for 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes okay, jurov appointed ? address published ?
mircea_popescu: punkman so nao i want to verify things, but i can't, because no bot and i dun recall what the website is ;/
mircea_popescu: so they are going to feed the afrreddit hordes if oyu give them moneyz ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, "we" have nfi why 252450 would hang.
mircea_popescu: 39 double GuessVerificationProgress(CBlockIndex *pindex, bool fSigchecks) {
mircea_popescu: / Guess how far we are in the verification process at the given block index
mircea_popescu: static const double SIGCHECK_VERIFICATION_FACTOR = 5.0;
mircea_popescu: 21 // fast multicore CPU, it won't be much higher than 1.
mircea_popescu: 20 // can be up to 20, while when downloading from a slow network with a
mircea_popescu: 19 // every system. When reindexing from a fast disk with a slow CPU, it
mircea_popescu: 18 // be slower. This number is a compromise, as it can't be accurate for
mircea_popescu: 17 // How many times we expect transactions after the last checkpoint to
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't laugh, greeks conquered them too :D
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 how do you call an indian in indian btw ?
mircea_popescu: i *think* the maximal lock count a block may possibly need is somewhere just south of 600k, but i don't have the shithandy.