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mircea_popescu: they don'
t really exist, unless you're a part of the japanese national wot, which...
a111: Logged on 2017-02-27 12:30 mircea_popescu: (story there was, olympus "hired" aka finally accepted its first foreign devil ceo (michael woodford) in 2011 ; and fired him two weeks later as the dude was principally dedicated to the job of, how can we finance usg out of this japanese corp. the usg however didn'
t go home, but started "legal proceedings", which eventually resulted in the above theft, plus whatever office supplies woodford managed to take home. apparently 6
mircea_popescu: (story there was, olympus "hired" aka finally accepted its first foreign devil ceo (michael woodford) in 2011 ; and fired him two weeks later as the dude was principally dedicated to the job of, how can we finance usg out of this japanese corp. the usg however didn'
t go home, but started "legal proceedings", which eventually resulted in the above theft, plus whatever office supplies woodford managed to take home. apparently 6
☟︎☟︎ phf: i couldn'
t get past title. "ten tricks international oil conglomerates that run everything hate"
trinque: bizarre. "no, we really don'
t think this company which extracts what ~everything runs on~ is as valuable as ... pick your non-essential toy company"
mircea_popescu: anyway, no the ramdisk thing doesn'
t work indefinitely, soon enough the block index will exceed the commodously available ram
jurov: i don'
t get why that bothers you so much
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don'
t really do blockchain.info style "public support". i think i have the stuff somewhere, i'll have to dig for it. basically it's, blk* live on /sda ; blkindex.dat and friends live on /sdb which happens to be a ramdisk.
mircea_popescu: jurov shutdown of node can readily take > 15 minutes ; and can'
t even be initiated if the node is, eg, in db lock because block eating.
jurov: Suppose i shutdown bitcoind and backup .bitcoin using rsync (so that all files with recent mtime are backed up).. you say this won'
t work?
jurov: "entire fs is subject to random rot if my app won'
t checkpoint its files by calling fsync all the time" is NOT true. where did you get such silly notion?
mircea_popescu: we aren'
t actually following a purpose here, like "have a good bitcoin". we're merely proceeding from cause : db is broken and THEREFORE must be fixed. not BECAUSE it would bla bla ; but therefore.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-26 19:26 mircea_popescu: now then : a fix for the db would significantly improve a few classes of block verification delays ; and it would alleviate blackhole-like behaviour due to that, node's frozen checking a new block. there's at least 3 different dos vectors for other nodes, and a) the foregoing wouldn'
t help ; b) if it helped the enemy could easily upregulate the crapflood to compensate.
mircea_popescu: one's like "you were in a coma for the past thirty years, here's what happened that you don'
t remember" ; the other's like "you had a hallucinatory episode, your history for the past x period is bad and you'll have to rewrite it".
mircea_popescu: yes, but blocks once written don'
t change. that's the non-rewritable part.
mircea_popescu: the other problem is that a good db fix is a very large project, because bitcoin is written insanely. and our fs db isn'
t moving, last i heard a month ago someone was going to try and profile an extx
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now then : a fix for the db would significantly improve a few classes of block verification delays ; and it would alleviate blackhole-like behaviour due to that, node's frozen checking a new block. there's at least 3 different dos vectors for other nodes, and a) the foregoing wouldn'
t help ; b) if it helped the enemy could easily upregulate the crapflood to compensate.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i'll point out that the problem here isn'
t the work, or the thought, but the fucking packaging. you get overexcited and oversignal. it detracts from very valuable stuff.
mircea_popescu: and this isn'
t the first time we run into the problem of ... let's call them sloppy run "experiments". but the second, this week.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the analogy doesn'
t hold. currently the tool gives miners cake while nodes pay for the electricity. there's some people cheering on the sides, which i suppose makes the nodes all warm inside ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron that part wasn'
t much explained. all mining is technically wasted space for the node, not like they get money for it.
danielpbarron: isn'
t the vacant block easier for you to validate? shouldn'
t you prefer most blocks to be vacant except when you have a transaction to send?
mircea_popescu: apparently you can'
t make the flock be good christians through tithe control.
mircea_popescu: there isn'
t an administrative solution to the problem you perceive. if the "godfee" is low, it won'
t matter, and if it;s high it won'
t work.
mircea_popescu: this was the pretense of shared hosting. it didn'
t work irl.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there might be others, i make no pretense to exhaustivity, hence why this is a very early phase of the design. we don'
t well know the space yet.
mircea_popescu: (in case it wasn'
t obvious, diff between political and technological is based on whether people have an incentive to emulate the fix anyway)
mircea_popescu: this is what i'm saying, anyway. " what we don'
t really have is the stuff that we really need, such as debottlers."
mircea_popescu: idiot example #2 : a trb which allows txn to be blocked by others than their issuers is ALSO a "way to do things" which doesn'
t in fact work, and therefore, exactly equivalent to the peter todd & prb idiots item
mircea_popescu: never mind that. the problem is that if your tx being included depends on you having a miner, you don'
t actually have a system. just like the 3bullshit isn'
t a system.
mircea_popescu: it was an instance of "here's something i made that doesn'
t work, mommy loves me" complex.
mircea_popescu: what we don'
t really have is the stuff that we really need, such as debottlers.
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t so obvious back when ppl cpumined on the single windows binary
mircea_popescu: it inadvertently forces a node-miner tandem ("you don'
t like the mempopol, fucking mine it already")
trinque: would release but the thing doesn'
t need more legs
mircea_popescu: trinque my concern was more in the vein of, i don'
t want deedbot to answer with an item crafted as described to a !!key command
mircea_popescu: see, the fact that you don'
t have txn as you describe is what allowed me the "you will die if you fork" threat last year : i don'
t have to know jack about their chain to murder their chain.
mircea_popescu: somewhat in the same way a retarded child who buys things but always ends up using them as if they were icecream doesn'
t thereby realise he's retarded.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-25#1618154 << it's so funny, at least to me, the sheer wastage of resources usg oligarchs engage in. they keep buying things, which they don'
t understand, on the expectation that "we;ll find a use for them". they do. it's ALWAYS the same one. somehow the fact that i know in advance what it'll be doesn'
t inform them as to their horrible strategic position.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: canned txn wouldn'
t be impossible, just less maneuvrable.
mircea_popescu: similarily, young bride isn'
t AIMING to become a bitch. she's just getting married.
mircea_popescu: and phf was all like "this isn'
t in the spec" then read the spec etc
mircea_popescu: no, just, i don'
t give a shit what happens to any request.
mircea_popescu: but you don'
t ~only. you web. rarely write, often read.
mircea_popescu: quite literally irresponsible : i don'
t fucking answer TO YOU SAD LOT
mircea_popescu: o look, stefan molyneux made the list, that chick angie what'sher name didn'
t.
mircea_popescu: don'
t begrudge an orc his orcish tongue ; "blockchain principles" is how they say "tmsr made"
shinohai: Why have an api if you can'
t actually do useful things with it.
trinque: of course these things needn'
t have one particular origin
ben_vulpes: veen: i share these reservations; d'ya think the
t-top'd have been better off without a shroud?
mircea_popescu: there's three different ways a node can end up in reorg crisscross, and it doesn'
t even take owning all its connections.
mod6: asciilifeform: ya, I've seen the 'std::bad_alloc' from ProcessMessage before -- it doesn'
t happen to me often, and it doesn'
t seem to be at the point of OOM exactly. i have noticed that it seems to happen after my node has been up for an extended period of time. say >1week.
mircea_popescu: i like how they manage to package tidal locking and orbital harmonics into "a little known theory from 1989". by the same measure fucking is a little known activity from the 70s. if you're at camp with janine garofalo i guess this isn'
t even so far fetched a description.