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mircea_popescu: it works on fundamental structures of the hominid brain, much like flirting makes the girl wet.
mircea_popescu: no, not credible. a threat at all.
mircea_popescu: and every citizen linked to it to the detriment of all else.
mircea_popescu: the socialist state does not want a normally functioning society, but instead this stellar configuration where the state is at the center, ☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: -credible- thread.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if you were planning to kill someone, would you helpfully tell him first ? << that's not the point. in a normal society, the threat is a fundamental tool to hierarchy building. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: decimation: why don't these kind of people with a brain just leave the country? <<< i dunno decimation. why don't they ?
mircea_popescu: and let the thing just run unmolested.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be clear, did you stop the original thing again to run a something else ?
asciilifeform puts the traditional turd back on
mircea_popescu: atmosphere already supplies most of the squishing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is also very easy to squish a cockroach.
asciilifeform: the 'naturally-occurring' nodes supply most of the wind
mircea_popescu: delirium tremens is hardly that ffs.
BingoBoingo: barbiturate withdrawals, benzodiazepine withdrawals and alcohols withdrawls, potentially deadly "Delerium Tremens"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you have to keep blowing.
asciilifeform: 12 dollars for a box that can be driven off the net by blowing on it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Opiates are not barbiturate, and heroin withdrawal indeed often only makes people wish they were dying.
assbot: How to become a good poker player, translated. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1EtmYp1 )
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo http://www.contravex.com/2015/01/30/how-to-become-a-good-poker-player-translated/#comment-9277 << is this guy from a parallel universe or wtf.
asciilifeform: any moron can connect to one of our boxes and take a steaming shit in it
asciilifeform: likewise, the orphans thing is an easy ddos vector ☟︎
asciilifeform: just pointing out that it may prove tricky to convince folks that a node which is, de facto, 7/8th duty cycle or worse, is a good thing
mircea_popescu: we're upstream. enemy wants to kill bitpay, it can start a forkwar with me. enemy wants to convince people "bitcoin sucks", it can "create plausible scenes"
asciilifeform: enemy will search far and wide for stories of one of these things catastrophically losing
mircea_popescu: welcome the filth that is practical bitcoin into your heart, ascii ☟︎
asciilifeform: not merely concerning the db
asciilifeform: the behaviour of the thing during death is by no means well-defined
asciilifeform: there's another aspect to it
mircea_popescu: let it run to where it takes > 10 minutes / block.
asciilifeform: every time the thing reboots, the longer the chain, the longer the re-init.
asciilifeform: other thing is, it's quadratic.
mircea_popescu: trust in your t-34 with non-interchangeable parts and random fabrication defects
mircea_popescu: once it takes > 10 mins / block i'll care.
mircea_popescu: and you know this how ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. "what is to be done" re what ?
mircea_popescu: "nah. if it were, we'd be paying someone to do it for us."
mircea_popescu: "hey, do you suppose this is work ?" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: you know the joke with the shitting jews ?
asciilifeform: the question does remain, however - what is to be done with toy node
asciilifeform: (unless you read the bugger)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can't even begin to fathom how true this is
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said before, it's a kudge to fix another kludge. we don't really wnat any of it.
mircea_popescu: a collection of yous is going to run exactly noting into exactly nothing.
asciilifeform: but if it has antecedents, the chain of those is followed to the end and the terminus is dropped.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell phillipsjk "run into the ground" ? lay off the pipe, man. you don't have enough disposable income to cover my harem's feminine hygiene products bill.
asciilifeform: and when the limit is reached, one is picked for eviction from the cache
asciilifeform: what they did is to set a limit (default == 750) of 'orphan blocks' (terribly confusing term, nothing whatsoever to do with orphaned chains)
asciilifeform: (as found in the enemy code)
asciilifeform: i will describe the algorithm here.
asciilifeform: but i very much did not like what i had to do to get it to build.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite certainly not meant to go in the tree under any circumstances.
mircea_popescu: "a test"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a test.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not so sure this is a good idea.
danielpbarron: are you going to the next one? I'm planning on it
metsuno: it was an interesting adventure. that's for sure.
danielpbarron: that assassin thing was the best part of the whole week, besides poker of course ☟︎
danielpbarron: ohhh cool that's who i thought
metsuno: we had a very lenghty discussion about bitcoin. you told me about the awesomeness of openbsd. i helped you pretend-assassinate that guy.
metsuno: I'm need to muck around with my os first though
danielpbarron: metsuno, get in that WoT so i can rate you!
asciilifeform: by folks who actually understand what they are doing.
asciilifeform: a backport of the orphan trimming mechanism.
asciilifeform: for therealbitcoin
asciilifeform: i just began live-fire test of the first really dangerous patch ☟︎
scoopbot: New post on Trilema by Mircea Popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/how-to-be-good-at-poker/
BingoBoingo: fxd thx
danielpbarron: BingoBoingo, "Had he lost at trial in the worst way one every count and received" s/one/won/c
BingoBoingo: It isn't so bad, but you need to keep antacid tablets on you. The last thing you want is world induced dyspepsia affecting your composure.
metsuno: What does it feel like to be the eaters of worlds?
mircea_popescu: we are the eaters of worlds.
mircea_popescu: <metsuno> The constant openness of this channel, and everyone on it, freightens me slightly. << so it should.
assbot: How to be good at poker pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Lovg3r )
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2015/how-to-be-good-at-poker/
metsuno: I didn't read it that carefully
danielpbarron: anonymity is counter to the purposes of the WoT, although a user does not need to link their key to their slave name
danielpbarron: what is that?
metsuno: The constant openness of this channel, and everyone on it, freightens me slightly.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But in American popular culture there is a carefully groomed myth through all kinds of fictitious media that in criminal proceedings a plea always results in some form of mercy from the courts when all it does is keep the cattle line moving through the feedlot.
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: fxd, thx
assbot: ryancarnated comments on Ryan X. Charles on Twitter: "I was just let go from reddit because cryptocurrency is not a part of reddit's near-term plans. This is unfortunate, but understandable." ... ( http://bit.ly/1BBITH2 )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: That's really all it seems like except for those who accept a side of pederastry as they plea
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: ^for the non-romanian-speaking poker players among us << sheeit check that out
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: asciilifeform: your engine is pretty smart, thank you. :) <<< mmm win :D
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing as "cryptocurrencies" pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1ySxvXi )
danielpbarron: ;;later tell girevik you're rating in the wrong WoT!
assbot: Dinner time. http://t.co/byNpmBnFRU
BingoBoingo: kakobrekla: If you ever have reason to soul slander gar again, here is a picture of his namesake meeting an end https://twitter.com/PicTimedPerfect/status/359290644281294848/photo/1
assbot: I don’t know what to do, you guys | Fredrik deBoer ... ( http://bit.ly/1yHk4VA )
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not yet. Across the river there is talk of it, but not yet here.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a number of locales are in the process of raising fuel tax, yours may be one of them
BingoBoingo: Gas just went up 25 cents here today after going up 10 cents earlier this week.
asciilifeform: if anyone here is fond of www programming, can write one of those quizzes, a la 'which genocidal dictator are you?' --- 'what will you be in u.s. prison for, ten years hence ?'
cazalla: cheap atm too, 99c a L for 91o, i'm sure the abos can afford top shelf 98o at these prices
BingoBoingo: cazalla: I though your government was still shipping them that recreational 87 octane
cazalla: BingoBoingo, that'd be the british, they'd bury the abo kids in the sand and kick their heads off
BingoBoingo: Pretty sure Australia just helps the Abbos gas themselves
assbot: Man jumps off bridge and gets hit by a fire truck - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1yHfDKo )
cazalla: decimation, nope, they run em over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCxc4SjpN6M