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jurov: tl;dr: "chinese are still competitive at 40nm due
to moore's stalling"
jurov expects asciilifeform
to shoot holes in it ^
☟︎ decimation: related:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709092955.htm "A new model of
the Sun's solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within
the Sun's 11-year heartbeat.
The model draws on dynamo effects in
two layers of
the Sun, one close
to
the surface and one deep within its convection zone. Predictions from
the model suggest
that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during
the 2030s
to
decimation: was
that a 'cloud mining' business
that has gone 'full scam'?
decimation: they
think
they can arbitrage
their github commit credentials into power over bitcoin
decimation: my conversation with luke on friday night was enough
to convince me
that
the bitcoin devs 'know what
they are doing'
mircea_popescu: no fucking idea what
they
think it'll do, not like we don't have original copies.
mircea_popescu: punkman "let's put
the blockchain into such a state it's no longer a blochcain"
mircea_popescu: this mental masturbation of inserting us into
things as if it matters. it doesn't.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_modem> no 'war on drugz' - no sinaloa << dude, forget it. he was
there before
the us, he'll be
there after.
assbot: Logged on 12-07-2015 15:27:06;
thestringpuller: qntra down?
phf: i just did
tandem paragliding at la jolla couple days ago, lots of fun
ben_vulpes: $bizpartner is going
to shoop us around in a fiberglass meattube
pete_dushenski: " How
to help spread Bitcoin awareness while earning money at
the same
time."
pete_dushenski: not even 'come
to life', just plain ol' fashioned cartoon characters
pete_dushenski: and
then
they come back with another 'acme' product with which
to catch
that elusive little bird.
pete_dushenski: once in a while
they realize
that
there's no ground under
their feet.
pete_dushenski: every road
they've built
thus far has resulted in
them chasing
the roadrunner well after
they'd already passed
the edge of
the cliff
punkman: paving
the way for bigger blocks?
pete_dushenski: "Block pruning works during initial sync in
the same way as during steady state, by deleting block files “as you go” whenever disk space is allocated.
Thus, if
the user specifies 550MB, once
that level is reached
the program will begin deleting
the oldest block and undo files, while continuing
to download
the blockchain."
punkman: I'm working on some bitcoind debug improvements, I'm losing count of all
the different printing functions
pete_dushenski: "The minimum was chosen so
that Bitcoin Core will be able
to maintain at least 288 blocks on disk (two days worth of blocks at 10 minutes per block). In rare instances it is possible
that
the amount of space used will exceed
the pruning
target in order
to keep
the required last 288 blocks on disk." << RARE !
pete_dushenski: highlight : "Block pruning allows Bitcoin Core
to delete
the raw block and undo data once it’s been validated and used
to build
the databases. "
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punkman: ascii_modem: unless can retool for slave
trade << you
think
they won't find new business?
pete_dushenski: that communities must be destroyed and middle class businesses bankrupted in order
to fuel fight against nouns
ascii_modem: back
to
the mexican fella - in a very important sense he is more dependent on usg staying in business
than a u.s. post office director
ascii_modem: perhaps
the people-who-dont-matter
things-that-make-no-difference-d
them?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: well aren't we just
the largest, bestest bitcoin company evar ;)
pete_dushenski: speaking of which : "Mexico's most notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman broke out of a high security prison on Saturday night for
the second
time, escaping in a
tunnel built right under his cell"
ascii_modem: made in usa at
this
time (if not car) means
that labour was ruinously expensive - and so
there was no sense in saving five cents
to make all
the parts 'zamac'
mircea_popescu: first mexican beheading, a woman. not empowering enough for
the derpstablishment ?
mircea_popescu: how is such a great story not in hollywood i wish
to know.
mircea_popescu: this was a woman, married, with children.
to a drug cartel boss. whose enemies sent a slick kid
to seduce her, which
the kid did. and he convinced her
to withdraw millions of $ from her husband's secret stashes in
the us
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know
the fascinating story of one guadalupe leija serrano ?
pete_dushenski: the cars are basically corn at
this point. see 'bioplastics'
mircea_popescu: yeah, as in all dead empires. caragiale notes
the case of
the 1900s hungarian who declares
that he'd rather eat soap wrapped in
the hungarian flag
than cheese in plain white paper.
pete_dushenski: yes, i recall
the 'working for foreign company' prestige
mircea_popescu: ie,
the first step
to establish if some item sucked was, "is it romanian made ?" for if it were...
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you gotta appreciate, at least at
the
time, being romanian was,
to romanians, mostly a derogation.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i actually owned
the
town and
their sorry asses
to boot. but hey.
pete_dushenski: if you're 'one of
the gang' you're not using your noodle well enough
mircea_popescu: so
then when i wanted
to meet
them she arranged a meeting and
they were liek "oh, he's definitely not romanian"
mircea_popescu: best anecdote
to illustrate
this being, of course,
that i had a (us born) woman over, many years ago, and she made some local friends (clueless kids all excioted about
this english speaking american woman
that knows computers and with nary an idea about
the world around
them)
pete_dushenski: that adverse response by 'the locals' is almost
the entrance exam for la serenissima
mircea_popescu: chiefly on
the grounds of not subscribing
to various idiocies
that
there as anywhere constitute
the spirit of propriety.
mircea_popescu: anyway, what i meant was merely
that i don't generally seem very romanian
to romanians
themselves
pete_dushenski: it's
there when you need it and
tucked away when you don't
mircea_popescu: how did
that quote go, "In confronting
that which
they feared, he had become something else in
their eyes...and no longer
their champion."
pete_dushenski: so you're
to be
the first notable romanian in history
then ?
mircea_popescu: there were like.... maaaybe
two notable romanians. one was german
pete_dushenski: but what of 'transylvania mops
the floor with rest of country' ?
mircea_popescu: you get
to be
the first dragon, for lack of notable historical anything.
mircea_popescu: this is fascinating. perhaps
the only advantage of being romanian, but also perhaps
the only advantage
that could
truly be called an advantage
ascii_modem: i've never lived in anything but
the ribcages of long-dead dragons.
mircea_popescu: (this
term, which probably does not exist in english, should probably be very much akin
the xtian practice of eating crackers)
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i dun feel cosubstantial with
the idiots of
the past.
mircea_popescu: or just
them,
the lot of
them, up
to an unspecified and unspecifiable border
ascii_modem: h's laughter was
the laugh of hyena eating
the dead lion
ascii_modem: except
that
two continents still largely run on what he built 'at a loss'