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shinohai: I wish my node would sync to either IP, as it is I'm stuck atm.
danielpbarron: on the topic of time and the pogo, I should point out that I recently had to update the time on my blue pogo (the one i'm using as a web server / irc client) because it had drifted from the real time by as much as a quarter hour in the few months it had been running continuously
ascii_field: flabkebab_: as in, on the picture
flabkebab_: ascii_field: as in, same file, or as in same cluster of linked nodes?
danielpbarron: i have not noticed the "network test" except that my actual full nodes sometimes differ by (sometimes rarely) as much as a few dozen blocks before eventually settling in on the true height. My transaction sending has been uneffected.
trinque: if someone really wants to "spam" let him pay the fees sufficient to do so, and he can keep that up for as many blocks as he likes, bidding against every other person who wants in the block
ascii_field: ^ adding the missing rtc crystal & power source to 'dockstart', machine using same chipset as pogo
ascii_field has taken to pronouncing 'goat', 'voat', with accent on syllables, as in 'coax' cabl
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think a few people are trying, but yes, as trinque says
ascii_field: may as well ask him (her!) to set up a gentoo
mod6: as dumb as it sounds, i thought about ICMP 13 (dispite it being often fw'd) and checking TS against default route.
mircea_popescu: actually that's not so horrible as i thought.
decimation: might as well buy a telescope and start with your navigation tables
decimation: I guess I percieve the reliance on an ntp server for time as being a much smaller attack surface than relying on operating bitcoind nodes for sync
mircea_popescu: i was entertaining delusions of pogos being used as net propo for small home miners.
ascii_field: as mircea_popescu points out, 'once' is a many-time thing here
mircea_popescu: he has a point, he ~can~ sync like that, but only provided he actually did the measurements as to which star himself.
decimation: as in, a printed table?
mircea_popescu: decimation what i said was that if you use usg-supplied cutouts for that reduction, you're just doing a roundabout ntp call. might as well ask directly
decimation: doesn't need to, treats as man on the street
ascii_field: he can if it treats his signet as ultimate authority
decimation: well, there is such a thing as signed ntp
mircea_popescu: think of time as capital, and think you're that anon president that opposed hamilton
ascii_field feels like he took that potion from lem's 'futurological congress', which makes one realize that he had no robot servants, just leprous wretches dressed in gabage cans clanking around as 'robots'
ascii_field: punkman: no good, as pointed out earlier, because finite planet
ascii_field: proof of work as hilbert space...
mircea_popescu: anyway, took down (as folklore) by one alexandru donici in the 1800s
mircea_popescu: back at sad farm, there's really little we can do with the bitcoin as it is, other than acquiesce to the filth of human notions of time.
ascii_field: for so long as the 'lucky strikes' can't nudge too far
mircea_popescu: anyway. the problem of time (as you rightly observe) is a larger problem than anything bitcoin solves
mircea_popescu: (same list as it takes blocks from)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: may as well ship a pc then!
mircea_popescu: it's not that i don't appreciate your intellectual purity. it's merely that things must be made as correct as possible and no correcter than that.
ascii_field: as if miners were not enough of an evil
ascii_field: realize, time is specified as an invariant
ascii_field: at least as good as pc
ascii_field: the idea, as i understood it, was to let folks set up nodes without human committment
danielpbarron: isn't there supposed to be a way to send commands to the pogo? otherwise how is it useful to me as a "full node" if I can't query it for blocks/transactions and relay new ones I have created for it?
ascii_field: at this point, any unixlike box with a graphical display may as well be running winblowz
ascii_field: same crud as 'tor'
punkman: "I have intentionally adjusted my teaching materials as the political winds have shifted." "While I used to pride myself on getting students to question themselves and engage with difficult concepts and texts, I now hesitate. What if this hurts my evaluations and I don't get tenure?"
pete_dushenski: "All the old, enlightened means of discussion and analysis —from due process to scientific method — are dismissed as being blind to emotional concerns and therefore unfairly skewed toward the interest of straight white males" << moar gold.
lobbes: "So it's not just that students refuse to countenance uncomfortable ideas — they refuse to engage them, period. Engagement is considered unnecessary, as the immediate, emotional reactions of students contain all the analysis and judgment that sensitive issues demand." << ayup
asciilifeform: as in, one that jurov would be willing to read & sign
jurov: as opposed to "simple as possible, but no simpler"?
asciilifeform: as a protocol
asciilifeform: punkman: we already know that it is a monstrous perversion that has approximately same relation to bitcoin as american 'chocolate' does to chocolate
asciilifeform: so much as opening pogo and touching inside multiplies the cost of the operation.
asciilifeform: adding so much as a shoelace to pogo would multiply the cost.
asciilifeform: the point which i am trying - and apparently failing - to make, is that the bitcoin protocol as we know it requires time to be an invariant, by which blocks are judged
asciilifeform: not in so far as it depends on proof of work
asciilifeform: as for why anyone would willingly move the target by solving a harder-than-required one - this ought to be obvious
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-07-2015#1190896 << by far the most interesting thing here is that every cpp programmer needs this. and it is available from dozens of vendors, as winblowz turdware of course. because ~nobody else uses cpp~ for anything ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-07-2015#1190832 << yes. node - synced (as discussed yesterday.) wanted copy for study. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: they both engage in making predictions, which are about as interesting and useful.
mircea_popescu: then stolfi wonders whether i want to be this or that title. as if a title is in any way useful or related to me.
assbot: Logged on 07-07-2015 04:26:43; *: asciilifeform confesses that he did not know this proof, and, as a student, wasted a great deal of time trying to devise such a thing
punkman: shinohai imagines punkman as a Spartan << here have a cretan instead http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4849567-md.jpg
shinohai imagines punkman as a Spartan
shinohai: I thought that the 0.1% per 1 BTC transacted was reasonable, as set out in the Declaration of Sovereignty.
assbot: Logged on 07-07-2015 07:58:09; punkman: http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/when-modern-art-was-used-as-torture-during-the-spanish-civil-war.html
assbot: Modern Art Was Used As a Torture Technique in Prison Cells During the Spanish Civil War | Open Culture ... ( http://bit.ly/1dJi6kp )
punkman: http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/when-modern-art-was-used-as-torture-during-the-spanish-civil-war.html ☟︎
cazalla: yeah, that lee guy uses it as proof he has a solid reputation in the bitcoin community.. hai guyz i run a bitcoin meetup so pls gief me 20 mirrion dorrah
asciilifeform: lamport (same as of the 'generals') clock.
asciilifeform confesses that he did not know this proof, and, as a student, wasted a great deal of time trying to devise such a thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: mats: as a rule, i am entirely uninterested in 'mitigations' ☟︎
asciilifeform: as in having keys in the box at all when it ships
decimation: as in, a symmetric pair for time transmission?
decimation: as asciilifeform pointed out this comparison would involve some time conversions
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: thread was about how bitcoin as it exists is very much designed around 'political time' being a knowable and generally agreed-on thing
decimation: being dumb as bricks is essentially correct...
assbot: Logged on 04-07-2015 16:41:04; asciilifeform: ;;later tell kakobrekla my current understanding of the ph0rk situation is that your hypothesis re: miners being dumb as bricks is essentially correct...
asciilifeform: as in ww2.
trinque: and often just as fast or faster
asciilifeform: because, as mircea_popescu explained earlier, difficulty is defined in relation to wall time
thestringpuller: blockheight as canonical measure of time
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: Really as fragile as the thing is atm fuckers ruined my dreams << twas a good dream
asciilifeform: as is kcachegrind, openpat, amd's codeanalyst, and makeppgraph.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Haven't seen people talking blockheight. Really as fragile as the thing is atm fuckers ruined my dreams of blockheight as "canonical" measure of time
asciilifeform: which is why i'd like to banish the block index to disk. so that the 128m of ram can be freed up to cache disk ~as required~
pete_dushenski: "SuperSecretTech: How many bitcoin do you own?" TravisPatron: Not as many as I would like."
ascii_field: punkman: keyserver is presumably for use as a keyserver, rather than place to hang the severed heads of pwned folks ?
ascii_field: i suppose all the 'proper confucians' with millenium-long time cocks are employed as colonels in pla or whatnot
ascii_field: as (i think it was) mircea_popescu pointed out, it looks like the miners have not been sufficiently darwined yet
mircea_popescu: just as long as we put THE REAL TIME as a txn in every block, pogos can be fine
ascii_field: only in so far as proof-of-work can be used
decimation: essentially there isn't such a thing as p2p time
trinque: anybody ever looked at tinc as a starting place for a gossipd?
ascii_field: the former treats the added ip as equal in status to those dug up from dirt
trinque: ascii_field: and then going down that route, anyone can diddle his pogo soon as it's in hand
ascii_field: as jurov points out.
ascii_field: jammed for sport as we speak
ascii_field: there is no such thing as a 'trusted node'
decimation: actually happens on linux as I understand. there's a thing
ascii_field: shinohai: good luck obtaining so much as ONE system-on-chip for the prototype
jurov: marked as 64
ascii_field: but given as the protocol has no authentication, these could vomit forth literally anything
ascii_field: every bit as bad as ntp!
ascii_field: as discussed earlier in this thread