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mircea_popescu: looky here. you decide to make a system. next step, is to decide whether it shall be centralised or decentralised.
mircea_popescu: those things are by and large irrelevant in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: the 51% attack is a weakness of the particular solution used to implement decentralisation.
mircea_popescu: the system is not based on "trust/demand/decentralization". the system is based on the blockchain because it has to use some solution for the byzantyne problem once it's decentralised.
mircea_popescu: i think you're jumping to conclusions on very little data, and the shape of those conclusions is visibly more influenced by your own ideas of the world than the actual reality of the matter
mircea_popescu: i mean "BTC can't survive without being decentralized enough". what's enough and how do you know ?
mircea_popescu: so now i will get a pretty expensive lab bill saying "power fluctuations caused bla bla bla"
mircea_popescu: well, see, before the 2nd drive went in and got fried, i had already sent the 1st to be cut up
mircea_popescu: but for all the shortcomings of distributed models, which exist, the centralised model has its problems.
mircea_popescu: blameless or blameful, you know ? what can i do, i'm doing it.
mircea_popescu: yes, 99% of the time 99% of your shit isn't at work / needed.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, mpex is very much an adaptive beast. it's the best i can do, honestly, because i don't know the correct way to build bitcoin systems
mircea_popescu: however, if you do noboduy cares you were < .1 seconds forever, cause well... days offline.
mircea_popescu: depends, right ? if you never have catastrophic failures of the sort, the incremental gain from the better server is everyone's benefit.
mircea_popescu: so would you have a faster & better main server, or a shittier main so the back-up is there ?
mircea_popescu: jurov yes, but then at some point you have machines in disagreement. how do you resolve this ?
mircea_popescu: at some point the dilemma is, "either people will complain becauyse it takes too long, or people will complain because x edge case wasn't covered in the security design"
mircea_popescu: bob_ yes, in principle. see, here's the thing : the more complex the security model becomes, by that very fact the more complex recovery processes become
mircea_popescu: in my case, i have to, everytime something unexpected happens, see why the fuck it happened before i can move on
mircea_popescu: however, if the result of errors is not nil, you can't just shrug and move on
mircea_popescu: you CAN seamlessly failover on errors, if the result of errors is nil and convenience of not having errors is what counts.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the problem is centralisation + security as a combo.
mircea_popescu: you know genial = friendly, happy people. genius is prolly what you mean
mircea_popescu: jurov because at some point your system is either cenrtralised or it isn't.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no attack, no data loss, no anything. just fucking obnoxious power.
mircea_popescu: that particular power strip apparently puts noise in burns drives. i have no spare powers because a lot of shit in there.
mircea_popescu: see, a drive popped yest. so this was suspicious, was looked into extensively. nothing found. new drive was put in.
mircea_popescu: sent the pcb in the dead one to be cut apart, i'll have the results in a coupla weeks, i don't expect to see anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the fsck is complete, the drives are fine, the failure was due to cosmic rays.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> what are the chances. << bout 80% i guess
mircea_popescu: how much were gen2 nre costs, and wasn;'t there a gen3 that's supposed to be where the real hash comes from ?
mircea_popescu: people keep publishing fundamentally meaningless reports cause why not, it's coo
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform probably why kakobrekla insists on having one on bitbet
mircea_popescu: i keep all my wallets encrypted in temporary amazon sessions
mircea_popescu: you mean the old "consultant" that broke into their stuff back in 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. normally it could have recovered on the fly, but now chief engineer wants to see why it failed right now, and i can't argue with her.
mircea_popescu: jurov when this prototyping started it was the size of a breadbox
mircea_popescu: jurov seriously, atm the form factor is roughly the size of a smartphone
mircea_popescu: jurov i think the only body cavity able to hide it would be a well worked vagina, the sort pankkake favours
mircea_popescu: but what else are engineers for, if not whipping and abuse ?
mircea_popescu: o, mpoe bot has a different interface to the trade engine, it can't be affected by this stuff
mircea_popescu: ironically, actual orders had somewhat better chances to get through than stats i think