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pete_dushenski: trinque
those 3, yes, plus usa currently holding down
the eastern corners of
the mediterranean with
turkey and egypt
decimation: also
they would very likely summon usg
decimation: saudis are not ruthless enough < I strongly doubt. Saudis would
throw every merc in
the world at someone challenging
their rule
trinque: those seem
to be perpetually beating war drums against eachother; perhaps ISIS is a complicating factor in
that situation which none want
to approach lest
they unbalance
the former
trinque: I am not a scholar on
the subject, but it seems as an outsider
that
the major factors are Saudi, Iran and Israel
trinque: I am
talking about middle eastern powers
pete_dushenski: and why should
the middle east be anyone's problem other
than
that of
the middle easterners ?
trinque: among other
things I
think whatever successes ISIS has had reflect
that nobody really wants
to have Iraq or Syria be
their problem
pete_dushenski: but isis has a sufficiently powerful 'why'
that
their soldiers are cheap and oh so very cut
throat
trinque: how many oil fields do
they have now?
pete_dushenski: i dun seriously
think
that
the saudis are ruthless enough nor rich enough
to win
this contest
pete_dushenski: saudis are already
teetering on
the bring of self-immolation post-abdullah
mats: out of sheer self-interest and
to return
the balance of power
to as it was
mats: iran and
the saudis are active in
the region and may crush
them yet
pete_dushenski: mats sure, in dreamlandia where anyone can be allies with
the devil and
then
turn
their back on him whenever
they feel like it with no repercussions.
mats: hard
to anticipate,
they've gotta
take baghdad first
pete_dushenski: maybe if obama promises
to pay eternal
tribute
to
the caliphate, isis won't wipe his face in his own vomit.
mats: well,
they weren't
the enemy at
the
time. just 'moderates' looking for cash and weapons
to fight al-Assad
pete_dushenski: gotta find victories wherever you can. and, hell, just create
them ex nihilo everywhere else.
pete_dushenski: because hey, can't just be losing wars for
two generations straight.
pete_dushenski: he could -maybe-
throw a wrench in some up and coming social media app. maybe..
mats: hey, he armed ISIS. close enough
to 'boots on
the ground'.
pete_dushenski: the dude couldn't even put boots on
the ground in syria, as fucking if he could do better
than gavin and hearn.
pete_dushenski: the only
thing obama is gonna crush are his video game enemies in 'easy' mode.
Adlai: few days later, 300, 160, who knows what. here we are
today.
Adlai: last i heard, from
the most reputable of reputables, obama was gunna "crush" bitcoin
Adlai: please
tell me it was
the same event
mats: missed it? as in, you wanted
to go?
Adlai: the question is... which percentile of "fees" is used in
the calculation
ascii_field: (they also had obama, no less
than
twice. also missed
that. snore.)
Adlai: one good
thing did come of
the meetup, my new Bitcoin Price Index is fees/coin
Adlai: now it's my
turn
to 'lol'
Adlai: as
though i'm in
the right part!
ascii_field: i live in wrong part of
the world for
this
Adlai: one of
those was a
typo
Adlai: but you get
the idea
Adlai: suddenly everybody
tries
to buy
ascii_field never went
to anything even vaguely bitcoin-related in
the flesh other
than for mircea_popescu's c2 and c3
Adlai: exactly. i ratted
the guy out in front of
the group, it was a little hilarious
Adlai is guessing
that ascii_field steers clear of bitcoin "meetups", of all
their shapes and forms
trinque: then
the guy
tried
to give me some oddly
Adlai only lost
that cherry
tonight
Adlai: who's ever had somebody
try
to sell
them bitcoins unsolicited?
ben_vulpes: phf: didja grunt out a script or something else i could
try?
thestringpuller: but love
the line "This compulsion means
that, for
the first
time,
the opinion of
the ignorant masses (if misled, or merely divided) can actually destroy Bitcoin."
ascii_field: afaik it is part of
the overall crap fleet.
ascii_field: the one moving
to/from 6-char brainwallets
ascii_field: not
too late, flood of crud still going strong.
ascii_field: incidentally,
there's never been a better
time
to open a zoo of
these
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: 0.7.2 Just renumbered it
to advertise as 0.7.3.9
BingoBoingo: ascii_field:
Takes about as much
time as any other "problematic" block but gets chewed
through just
the same
gernika: <+mircea_popescu> by now a multitude of people have copies, of
that chain. << got it. switched
to another node and now syncing.
mircea_popescu: but
the
truth, in general, is
that closed systems have a very short shelf life. you can get away with it for a matter of years, maybe, if you're very good at managing it. not decades.
ascii_field: if it was written by a phriend, i would love
to see him among our number here.
mircea_popescu: had no particular expectation
to see anything like
this yet, either.
ascii_field: how, i must say i wonder, did mircea_popescu even persuade anyone
to shovel
the sheer
tonnage of shit
to write his soviet pdp clone 0.6
mircea_popescu: neway, needless
to say, i'm actually impressed. for once world of shit averted.
ascii_field will enjoy reading mircea_popescu's old node if he ever gets
tired of it and prints it
ascii_field: probably somewhere deep in
the 2012 shitter
mircea_popescu: i have nfi where i'd be had b-a never happened and foundation never happened and etc,
trying
to make sense of
this situation
mircea_popescu: yeah you know what,
this work actually made a difference.
ascii_field: we cremate orphan
tx. and
the 'tx spam' is sent in rapid succession, and depends on previous instances of same, and hence spends much of its life cycle as 'orphan
tx'
ascii_field: afaik i'm
the only one actually running a public-facing realbitcoinotron
assbot: Logged on 14-07-2015 20:32:01; mircea_popescu: it didn't actually work, obviously, but i must say without all
the work
the foundation put in, it probably WOULD have.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not fully understood yet, but it seems
to exploit a buffer overflow in
their own fucktarded code.
ascii_field: would love
to read
the logic behind
this hypothesis
mircea_popescu: it didn't actually work, obviously, but i must say without all
the work
the foundation put in, it probably WOULD have.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: relatedly : i am reasonably satisfied
the ~950 kb single
tx a few days ago was
trying its best
to make pre 0.10 clients unable
to verify
the chain anymore.
mircea_popescu: by now a multitude of people have copies, of
that chain.
mircea_popescu: gernika_ it's up and down as i have
the 363736 issue examined.