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pete_dushenski: ^bwahaha. lest you think all the wealth is illusory !
pete_dushenski: "It is not just property ownership that is creating more UK millionaires. While the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was axed in the UK in 2014, the National Lottery says it has created more than 3,900 individual millionaires since 1994. ☟︎
pete_dushenski: please to now accept more syrian refugees, pay higher taxes, etc.
pete_dushenski: "The number of millionaires in the UK has shot up by 41% over the past five years, with one in 65 adults now classed as having a seven-figure fortune thanks to booming house prices and stock market gains." << y'all brits are rich, innit !
pete_dushenski: it's like, why join the band ?
pete_dushenski: "In his ideal scenario, Littlehales says athletes wouldn’t be banned from having sex before big games (“absolute crap”) but most definitely sleep solo, with partners leaving for a separate room once it’s time to get 40 winks." << whoa whoa whoa, why play pro sports if you're sleeping solo ? ☟︎
assbot: Nick Littlehales: the man who showed Cristiano Ronaldo how to sleep | Russell Jackson | Football | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1JEmZIB )
pete_dushenski: http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/jul/23/nick-littlehales-the-man-who-taught-cristiano-ronaldo-how-to-sleep << coaches for training, eating, sport, why not sleeping ?
pete_dushenski: granting that even making a digital lego is some sort of productive use of one's brain
pete_dushenski: couple $bn in the bank, brain left to rot
pete_dushenski: sorta graham level, for whatever that's worth
mircea_popescu: one more idiot, give or take
pete_dushenski: ’t seem like it got used as part of a botnet or as a proxy server. This new version is hosted on wordpress.com where I don’t have to worry about anything other than the content. Nice. I like this." << from persson's personal homepage
pete_dushenski: "The old notch.net domain was hosted on an amazon instance I managed myself. It was set up many many years ago, and I was very lazy about doing security or maintenance updates to it. A couple of weeks ago, it went down. I tried to log in, but my security credentials were no longer valid, so I assume it got hacked. Weirdly, the network logs showed very little data coming in or out after it went down, so it doesn
punkman: @SnoopDogg: . @notch Cheer up homeboy! Im gonna have you by tha Doggy Den and we can smoke sum of that sticky n build sum new shit! Uhearme!!!
assbot: Markus Persson (@notch) | Twitter ... ( http://bit.ly/1MVdfeb )
punkman: https://twitter.com/notch this guy...
asciilifeform also traditionally counts printed circuit boards which are prolly considered by normal people to be fit only for gold reclamation, as 'scrap metal'
asciilifeform would like to learn, before dies, precisely why this happens and what determines how long it takes and where it comes off
asciilifeform: either scrap, or piles of laserprint so tall and old that the toner unstuck and transferred to adjacent page randomly
asciilifeform had something not entirely unlike this shelf in old flat
asciilifeform: hey dunt look at me, if that were me i'd be filling it up with scrap metal.
ben_vulpes: telling me how to put my own furniture designs to use
asciilifeform: the elder, on the left, younger - right.
asciilifeform: children go in the middle niches, it looks like
asciilifeform: could fit two long, narrow dogs on the top.
asciilifeform: gonna guess, the oblong one in the right-hand bottom corner ?
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2015 04:03:54; *: ben_vulpes is having a blast nesting with the girl. today, we finished scaffolding the builtin to house the dog and spawngear: http://imgur.com/Z9iBUv3
ben_vulpes: plus, fun projects with the babe!
ben_vulpes: i'd be irate about all of this value evaporating as soon as i move out of this place, but it's saving me the cost of relocating to a larger apartment next year and the associated switching costs.
assbot: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1LCZuPN )
ben_vulpes: previously, lady v put up crushed foam panels on the ceiling, and i installed the seam and crown molding: http://imgur.com/yevDNKh
ben_vulpes: don't be chewing tacks over there.
assbot: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet ... ( http://bit.ly/1LCZlMf )
ben_vulpes is having a blast nesting with the girl. today, we finished scaffolding the builtin to house the dog and spawngear: http://imgur.com/Z9iBUv3 ☟︎
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel so've you asked her out yet?
asciilifeform: this thing ~will~ have to work without my pushing it, if only after i am shot - which, for all i know, could be scheduled for monday
asciilifeform: i would ~like~ for this to change, yes
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2015 02:32:10; mircea_popescu: dun worry so much bout that part.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2015#1256426 << why, are you gonna do it? because thus far every single bit that involved serious surgery on therealbitcoin just sorta sat there until i did it. ☝︎
asciilifeform: gotta love the key lock
mircea_popescu: dun worry so much bout that part. ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2015 02:29:22; mircea_popescu: im seriously not concerned. the thing designed, if implemented, will be fine.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2015#1256413 << therein lies the boojum. implemented by whom? when ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: whole thing is a penis.
mircea_popescu: im seriously not concerned. the thing designed, if implemented, will be fine. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (not today, when there is 25btc 'on the sidewalk' - but tomorrow, when there is not)
asciilifeform: there is also the part where a half-arsed node, when feeding a miner, leads to orphaning and going broke
mircea_popescu: not like this shiot's either novel or uncalculable.
mircea_popescu: you know, like the internet.,
mircea_popescu: network in terms of nodecount, function in terms of maximal packet loss you admit and load in terms of saturation.
asciilifeform: network - bitcoin. function - propagate blocks, transactions, as traditionally expected. load - sustained attack from every usg orc on the fucking planet, plus legitimate users.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is not clear to me, at this juncture, that a network consisting ~largely of~ items like pogos could function under sustained load
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/attachments/20150701/referenced_b2510447257f2b623fcf30cc4f0413a23f515b60.png << see this.
asciilifeform: and the store-block-index-in-ram-at-all-times is also a no-go.
asciilifeform: but the 'infinite pile of tx until fills ram' is a no-go;
asciilifeform: now that libc is shot in the head, it builds ~and~ runs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the principal item missing is a sane txpool
mircea_popescu: but i reckon the whole shebang "here, do this this this" list is getting closer.
mircea_popescu: of course, the people trying to get that to work (davout, jurov, etc) aren't getting that much support yet.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : it's not clear we can't stick it in pogo. so... there is that.
mircea_popescu also wants to introduce by reference the discussion of "for honor" and slavegirks
mircea_popescu: you run that in your teenage hoisiery shop because that's what the teenage hussies want.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm node seems more akin to soda fountain
asciilifeform: has never fallen behind, spontaneously, by so much as one block (the one notable exception was the day when the db locks thing wedged ~every~ honest node)
asciilifeform: it is telling that, of my three therealbitcoin nodes, the only one which has not suffered an unexplained malfunction of any kind is the one which is where i can personally see it !!
asciilifeform: (and will try to make it look cheaper by selective vandalism of folks who do not go along. algo used by all states at all times.)
asciilifeform: and there are people working on making running a node 10,000+ times more expensive....
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2014 03:06:22; mircea_popescu: specifically : an atm requires a fortress. we have not yet built the fortress. when we do, you will know we have, because i will kidnap a number of "world leaders" wives and daughters to be publicly raped there as to make the fucking point that in fact it IS a fortress.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-07-2014#777630 << start of thread ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2014 14:09:33; mircea_popescu: all the other atms in the world are inside an invisible fortress.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-07-2014#778143 << see thread. turns out, a server is a fortress... ☝︎
asciilifeform: contracts terminated on technicalities
asciilifeform: running an honest public node is expensive. far more than i realized. and will be getting more so.
asciilifeform: but they work so long as they fit within 'hobbyist' budget, and the results pass some minimal bar
asciilifeform: in the sense that the folks paying for it are not getting anything like their money's worth. and yes, this is true for many activities, from fixing old cars to raising children;
asciilifeform: call it an energy leak, in the sense of 'memory leak.'
asciilifeform: so what we have going is something like this, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1255291 ☝︎
asciilifeform: and this is without any megablox idiocy !
asciilifeform: (in the sense of supporting a healthy network)
asciilifeform: and it is not clear to me that there is enough of this to go around
asciilifeform: it is quite conceivable that a node can only be run for the abstract imperial glory of something else, something very lucrative
assbot: Logged on 29-08-2015 22:45:57; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes well i have nobody with an axe to ship there rightnao
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-08-2015#1256166 << even if you did, the point i was trying to make is that we have right now this risky situation where running a proper honest node actually costs serious dough, and it is not clear that this cost can ever be recoverable ☝︎
asciilifeform: was this dropped over vietnam or where
asciilifeform: lol is that gavin ?!
mircea_popescu: http://41.media.tumblr.com/LyJX520Sx2ctqo1b0Xxx6cCT_500.jpg << native tsa.
asciilifeform: i did not expect to see it from a traffic jam below d.c.
asciilifeform: this at least begins to explain where that machine was going.
trinque: The situation wasn't helped any when the program's senior officer, Lt. Col. Odin Lieberman, was relieved of command after an internal investigation discovered that he had instructed his team to falsify records to make the Osprey look safer than they actually were. << heh, he expected that this wouldn't become apparent?
asciilifeform: 'But while they're definitely (relatively) safer than the early versions, the Osprey is still not safe enough to entrust with the leader of the free world's life. As such, the presidential Osprey has not yet been designated a "white top," meaning President Obama is not allowed on board, but is currently undergoing further reliability testing. There's no word on when that will be completed, so for now, it will serve as a $67 mi
asciilifeform: 'The aircraft is manned by a crew of four—pilot, copilot and two flight engineers—and can carry as many as 32 troops or 20,000 pounds of cargo. Or, in the case of the President's jaunt to Martha's Vineyard last Saturday, a contingent of White House staffers, journalists, and Bo, the president's pooch. But not the president himself. No way, he's not allowed anywhere near this thing.'
assbot: The President Gets a Personal Osprey He's Not Allowed to Use ... ( http://bit.ly/1X0pg6M )
asciilifeform: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/11/20/us/SUB-JP-OSPREY/SUB-JP-OSPREY-articleLarge.jpg << turned.
asciilifeform: http://www.military-today.com/helicopters/bellboeing_v_22_osprey.jpg << turning
asciilifeform: though iirc the bug in these things typically shows itself when the propellers flip
asciilifeform: flying low enough to be identified for what it is; did not fall down (at least not where i could see it...)
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2015 00:42:33; pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu well nothing could be worse than osprey
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2015#1256316 << i saw a working 'osprey' for the first time a few weeks ago. my first thought was 'wish i weren't stuck in traffic under that thing' ☝︎
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu well nothing could be worse than osprey ☟︎