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mircea_popescu: well in fairness vps wasn't going to be able to take it.
mircea_popescu: sounds like a great plan, strategic manager should get a bonus for that oen.
mircea_popescu: and btw, to all the people who think they are safe from ddos because "cloudflare" or equal bs :
mircea_popescu: and while they have somewhat humanly understandable trouble coming out with "We're idiots", nevertheless the message has landed fine and people are working at it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, from reviewing the summaries of ~15mb of public and private conversations re this bug i'm sort-of contented that people have mostly got it,
mircea_popescu: "So for a single database transaction which consists of all Bitcoin transactions in the block the number of locks required is O(N * log_b S). This number has no upper bound, it logaritmically increases with the size of blkindex.dat."
mircea_popescu: "So please, lets just admit we aren't up to spec and have never been up to spec, and focus on getting there instead of pretending that "the world is after all perfect, if requiring a little adjustment" is a bastion of software engineering."
mircea_popescu: markedathome dude you're becoming like a beacon of sanity or something
mircea_popescu: something tells me by 2015 we will be all doing some diff chain and mostly we'll be saying "no, this is not bitcoin, no this is not associated with the weirdo bitcoin devs, the weirdo bitcoin talkshow hosts and the weirdo etc"
mircea_popescu: dub wait, libertard is someone who believes in global warming and shit about how you shouldn't say nigger, right ?
mircea_popescu: deadweasel : simple rule. have all terminals white on black. have all non-terminals black on white. problem solved.
mircea_popescu: and for the record, i'm adding safeties to not have stale cache again. this one managed to get away!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i'm not sure there's a better source of all soviet woes in englush than stoljenitsn
mircea_popescu: the jsons are not sorted, could that give the impression the book is different ?
mircea_popescu: jurov i just went through s.dice, failed to see a difference ?
mircea_popescu: 1970s, the soviets were going "great", thinking people were starting to suspect intelligence is a burden.
mircea_popescu: well... you wouldn't know cause you don't read russian, but it's not new.
mircea_popescu: basically my theory is that the sensate world is underpinned by two essences
mircea_popescu: im just saying it's woefully inadequate in anything to do with money, or more generally value
mircea_popescu: understand, i'm not saying there's anything wrong with the "what keeps me out of pain is right" approach in general.
mircea_popescu: evolution forces species to be more like "right", for a natural definition of that term.
mircea_popescu: well, if you're going the route of relativism might as well forget about action at all
mircea_popescu: obviously this isn't a vestable attribute, like "being tall"
mircea_popescu: how do you distinguish between the case where you're right and the case where you're wrong
mircea_popescu: watch luke & idiotco learn chinese to better explain why everyone should care about their pasty-ass preconceptions.
mircea_popescu: (also, you might consider making use of the ref system)
mircea_popescu: i know there's something wrong with your logic but unsure what exactly
mircea_popescu: ya but girls are full of cooties, guys are a subset of hm
mircea_popescu: so in the end is bitfunder streaming quotes or not rly ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingobongo hey, SalvorHardin and Philip both win. mark the first guy as winner and tell the other to get in touch here.
mircea_popescu: all these doods with the kobe bs never had decent mare.
mircea_popescu: yes, the point of the article is "here's how you cook cat"