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coderwill: yeah, i
thought about
that at
the
time, but
then was like, well, i guess i'm getting
to work at one of
the most well-known wallet providers,
that could be good for subsequent opportunities
mircea_popescu: next
time
tell
them "listen bub, i'm not fresh off
the
turnip
truck. you want
to hire me on pure salary, it's $1,5mn
the first year payable upfront and increasing by 1mn each eyar after
that.
coderwill: so when i asked
to see
the cap
table, was
told
that no one except investors are allowed
to see cap
table
coderwill: ben_vulpes: sorry wasn't around
to reply
coderwill: ben_vulpes:
the first
thing i asked was
to see
the cap
table
coderwill: ben_vulpes: hello, apologies, i have been busy for a few days, but noticed your mention
the other day about options
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: undergrads who 'rock
the boat' end up 'having problems', one way or another. see also
the folks who posted diffs b/w one semester's
textbook and next's << can't say as
that was my experience. i rocked
the boat constantly and still managed
to eke some funding out of
the university for harebrained rocket schemes
mircea_popescu: (it didn't last
tho, meanwhile romania joined nato and every college prof is hawking his own dumbass books)
mircea_popescu: apparently growing up in
the civilised world has its advantages
mircea_popescu: you know
the one
time a smarmy
teacher
tried
to be all american and make
the class buy a book we complained
to
the provost and he nearly got kicked out.
ben_vulpes: i didn't even see
the reorderings, asciilifeform
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ben_vulpes: RI, by my understanding: downloads and verifies blockchain; regurgitates blocks on demand; relays
transactions.
mircea_popescu: it will cause
trouble at some point down
the road, because eventually
the blockchain will overwhelm
the index.
ben_vulpes: have in fact complained about
this in
the past.
ben_vulpes: 'pierce' << i
think fondly of
that
time in my life when i had several holes in my face
ben_vulpes: any
time anyone brings up brock i
think of pokemon.
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski i'll be lucky
to get my butt in a miata
this decade
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> except
they're not orphan,
they're just "not in
the presence of
their parents" << Latchkey Blocks
mircea_popescu: well
technically it's improved, over
the 200/hour earlier :p
mod6: kakobrekla: i like
that.
mod6: mircea_popescu: fair point
there.
mircea_popescu: except
they're not orphan,
they're just "not in
the presence of
their parents"
mod6: they really are "orphans", since an orphan is someone with out parents right? so im fine with calling
them orphans, i
think
there is confusion around how
these come into existance.
mod6: pblock is probably not a good name, since in most of
the code "pblock" is what is denoted for a pointer
to a block.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes. which is why
the only sane way for bitcoi nnodes
to work is gossipd
ben_vulpes: but in keeping around orphan chains,
the enemy can pollute ones disk
trivially.
ben_vulpes: "reference node should only keep
track of a single chain:
the longest discoverable"
mircea_popescu: parentless blocks are blocks which arrived
to a node before
their parents, and so can't be evaluated for validity (yet)
mircea_popescu: PeterL orphans are short lengths ofchain
that were abandoined in favour of a competitor.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 06:09:29; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes:
the 'orphan blocks' in question have nothing whatsoever
to do with
the usual definition
mircea_popescu: seriously let's start calling
them parentless blocks / pblocks
PeterL: which orphans are
these? how many kinds of orphans are
there?
PeterL: / Some explaining would be appreciated <<
this comment sounds like something asciilifeform would put in?
PeterL: so, I'm reading
through
the bitcoind code as published by
the Foundation,
mircea_popescu: a sudanese, poor as
the dirt hre sits in, still has a chance.
mircea_popescu: the only poor people are
the "rich people" making 500k
to 5mn a year
to pay for
their mortgage and college loans.
mircea_popescu: so is
taleb. so is everyone
that DIDN'T join
the system.
mircea_popescu: linus is rich, in
that ~he can do what he pleases~. your definition of rich.
mircea_popescu: people DO get rich, in
the manner of
their choice, out of accumulating
this sort of capital.
mircea_popescu: "why does
the horse run, while
the worm can but crawl ? because
the horse enjoys
to run."
mircea_popescu: people interested in actually doing stuff have b-a. everyone else can be "a contributor" (for bois), or "part of
the community" (for womyns)
mats: hard work is hard.
totes believable.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
the problem is
that people are insulated from reality (least it hurts
their feelings) and so
they are also insulated from everythning interesting, and in
the end
their own life.
ben_vulpes: this "orphans" routine
though, i must say i love it.
ben_vulpes: i can't believe
that people want
to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when
there's interesting work
to be done in improving how
the satoshi codebase handles block downloads
mircea_popescu: i could be sitting in a parisian cafe cca 1815 and lol
the same way for
the same reasons at
the same people
mircea_popescu: no but you know,
the fumes of confused
teenagers are going
to somehow coallesce into moving as much as a hair of actual matter. ANY DAY NOW
mircea_popescu: it's going
to get even funnier once
they actually
try.
mircea_popescu: the funniest
thing in all of
this isn't exactly
the horde of children who don't understand how
the fuck
they were
tricked exactly.
the funniest
thing is
the plethora of articles about how "apple could buy russia"
mircea_popescu: the mirror-image infantilized 20something bois are idem fighting for paul graham's right
to pay
them nothing while
turning
them into a strange sort of pulp fiction's gimp
mircea_popescu: this is quite exactly it, and it's not limited
to poorly educated, insufficiently fucked, infantilized 20something wymyn.
mircea_popescu: in gratitude
they are going
to
the front lines
to fight for
the media company's right
to pay
them less."
mircea_popescu: e'd backhand slap you right out of
the glee club: "it discourages women from writing and earning a living online." Earning a living? From who, Gawker? Most of
the women writing on
the internet are writing for someone else who pays
them next
to nothing. None of
them control
the capital, none of
them get paid 1/1000 of what
they bring in for
the media company. You know what
they do get?
They get
to be valued by work, and
mircea_popescu: oo-weak-to-try rapists want
to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about
their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting
to observe
that
the article's single suggested solution
to cyberharassment is
to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent
that if you laid
this on your Dad when you were 16 h
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