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davout: french civil service is
this kind office where
the late-comers greet
the early-leavers in
the stairwell
mircea_popescu: actually, no. just,
the french civil service must die.
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mircea_popescu: ie, you won't get a conviction on it straight ; if you're also prosecuting other indictments it can either blow up, ruin your other counts or at most succeed for no benefit, as it'll get rolled into
the other counts.
mircea_popescu: except it's a meaningless ofence nobody prosecutes seriously, because it can get
the jury
to waste
time / negotiate a conviction down, and
the punishments are minor anyway.
mircea_popescu: davout
the usians are insane. it is apparently a crime
to have a house where
there are drugs.
mircea_popescu: so now
the president is claiming
that
the evil guys (unspecified)
that made
the da guy falsely claim she's involved in destrtoying
the
trial of
the iranian
terrorists
that blew up
the jews, also killed him,
to make her look even worse!
mircea_popescu: heh,
there's actually a us felony charge of "maintaining a dwelling."
punkman: I mean
they add a vowel in front of words starting with s
punkman: like
they can't say spain, stella, etc
punkman: s==es is kinda fun, do
the argentines do
that?
davout: makes spanish sound like
the php of languages
mircea_popescu: i
think
they work on
the basis of about five consonants and
that's it
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at
the other end of
the spectrum, argentine spanish spekers can not actually distinguish b, p v and f
davout: no i
think
there's something
to
this
mircea_popescu: i
think queue has a sharper k which is actually perceptible
davout: they just can't say
the sounds, sounds all
the same
to
them
mircea_popescu: mon cul / mon cou is certainly in
the same position :D
davout: all
the americans i know
trying
to learn french had a problem with "mon cul", "ma queue", "mon cou"
mircea_popescu: davout in other news, rewatching oscar i had
the pleasure
to expose anglophone ear
to
the delices of "ta maman /
ton amant / demander
ta main". no differences could be perceived.
davout: "We realized we were also
twins"
mircea_popescu: "In
the year of '61, we left our native land, 'cause we could not bend our spirits
to
the
tyrant's stern command. So we rallied 'round our Buckner, while our hearts were sad and sore,
to offer our blood for freedom as our fathers did before...."
mircea_popescu: (never = not anymore, since gavin is no longer in a position
to merge hearnidiocy in any significant manner)
mircea_popescu: a 2 block orphan
that's 122 blocks shorter
than
the main chain is never going
to be main.
mircea_popescu: a 900 block long orphan
that's 5 blocks shorter
than
the main chai nshould not be discarded.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> In later versions,
they have a cap of 750 blocks max for
the orphan map iirc. << yes, and it's idiotic.
mod6: ill give another update on it
then.
mod6: @ block 1236XX i'll have
to check back in on it in
the am.
mod6: so if
the new block is not
the genesis block, and
the new blocks prev hash != best chain hash, run Reorganize
assbot: Logged on 07-08-2014 19:08:21; decimation:
the question is: if
this isn't a scam, where are
they going
to
trade bitcoin?
mod6: In later versions,
they have a cap of 750 blocks max for
the orphan map iirc.
mod6: Lastly, it recursively processes any orphan blocks
that are depended on it, and deletes
them from
the map.
mod6: in v0.5.3, afaik, it looks for dups,
then (with checkpoints) it checks
to see if
the block has a
timestamp previous
to
the last checkpoint,
then if it can't find a prev block it puts it in a holding area until one is found.
mircea_popescu: ah, spice is a different story
tho.
they can eat pretty hot, especially in
the se.
decimation: and washington dc is definitely a midwestern city - where else are people going
to get jobs? ohio?
decimation: re: midwestern blandness < yes, it's a weird phenomenon.
try going
to an indian restaurant in say, chicago, and have
them give you an average level of spice
mod6: I don't have a good answer for
that atm.
mircea_popescu: "another chain at least 120 blocks longer" or something sane like
that ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 do you know right off what's
the logic
that deems an orphan chain no longer worth
tracking ?
mod6: i'll hvae
to
take a look at your results.
mod6: i'll have
to look back. i spent a bunch of
time running gdb & valgrind earlier in
the month.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the xbox was a loss leader. heck,
the 94 playstation was a loss leader
mircea_popescu: no srsly,
the way computiong works, no loss leader stays a loss leader for long.
pete_dushenski: alrighty
then, off
the go be fit and whatnot. later assets!
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mircea_popescu: "take
this food away, it... it... it almost
TASTES of something!!1"
mircea_popescu: cheese's not really
their
thing. what passes for "sharp" cheddar in washington dc is in fact barely more
than cream fraiche.
mircea_popescu: the
thing is, us folk, and especially midwesterners (which is what washington is, in spite of all pretense) have very VERY bland
tastes and a
taste for blandness.
decimation: I
think it is,
they
tried
to open a shop in wash dc
decimation: asciilifeform:
there was a cheese shop in downtown dc called 'cowgirl creamery'
that closed down
mircea_popescu: now my house smells like No Personal Higiene High athletic
team had been camping out all week
mircea_popescu: i bought myself all sorts of excellent cheeses
today, from
this very competent deli
mircea_popescu: i have a great plan. and if it doesn't work,
that's ok.
mircea_popescu: and mind you
that i do NOT mean linux level of coherence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i really never looked at anything
they pushed out after
the hearn fork.
mircea_popescu: once
there's a million dollar worth of
them in
the wild, "upgrading" bitcoin is
this good joke.
mircea_popescu: anyway, mod6 ben_vulpes : asciilifeform has a point, it'd be ideal if
this can be wrapped up with a foundation blessed bitcoin core, and one
that has
the bad seed model snipped out ideally.