mircea_popescu: ah. no i meant, is jhvh1 sitting atop a trb node feeding !~blocks

mircea_popescu: wait a second, cloudflare is a WEB SERVICES company now ? i thought it was a nsa tap services company.

mircea_popescu: this thing, usually plugs into like a campging cooker for the gas.

mircea_popescu: there's also arc welders. pulse, 2-3 a sec, 2-3 amps or so

mircea_popescu: (before anyone tries the cutting weld torch on their wedding ring : the torch here discussed is a tiny thing, not-that._

mircea_popescu: there;s also special brazing flux. but i had a can

mircea_popescu: there's a special eutectic formulation of silver.

mircea_popescu: the myth of "you're a human being and therefore you can do anything human beings can do" strikes again.

mircea_popescu: and in further tales from the orclands : place mp rented (furnished!) included something like a quarter ton worth of silver plate. because the woman likes it or something. among the vessels, this reasonably nice cup, with a lid. both the cup and the lid were chiseled into shape, but the lid had a forged pompom added on top, for ease of handling i guess or whatever.

mircea_popescu: take the dnc. still looking for a chumpairman.

mircea_popescu: here's the thing with the monkey herds : they can all agree that "x is to be done" until blue in the face. the problem is that a specific X will have to do it. and the word is out whoever does it gets fucked in the ass, as per that ancient von flondor discussion.

mircea_popescu: terrible case from their pov, the redditards consider it a prerequisite victory and the evidence dun support

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it doesn't extend to charlottessville. it's mostly a queens and brooklyn thing.

mircea_popescu: buncha priviledged white sons raped the shit out of a random poor ho, walked.

mircea_popescu: (ftr i maintain this isn't even a bad translation)

mircea_popescu: this is a pretty good companion for the eggog list.

mircea_popescu: you want what, like a wen-ba ball basically ?

mircea_popescu: Going back to that coffee meme, the implied message is that 1MB is fine unless for everything else. You know substantial stuff like paying your mortgage, business deals, major capital expenditures, or paying a supplier for inventory. This just isn't the case though. Do you know anyone who pays for coffee with a bank wire? The FedWire service (run by US federal reserve) processes ~150 million bank wires annually. "

mircea_popescu: that'll be a joyous moment.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, bitcoin tx costs 5 bux at the very most. wire costs 50 bux at a minimum, plus whatever bank tacks on to that.

mircea_popescu is now getting pissed off at conflicts long resolved through the beheading of the conflicterers. what a life.

mircea_popescu: in 2013 he seemed credible. in 2017 we meanwhile found out what a fucking joke argentina is ; and this mutation exactly describes him, too.

mircea_popescu: he's a typical schmuck, a la jwz. wants a comfortable existence and really, all these complicated shits scare him shitless.

mircea_popescu: and in other lulz from the swamp : "The divided United States of America will unite today, sharing a cosmic event predicted by the methods and tools of science." apud Neil deGRasse TysonVerified account.

mircea_popescu: "hurr durr, let's pretend like usg-korea is a place and let's pretend it's gonna innovate and bla bla"

mircea_popescu: so fucking totally not a case of "here's my website, i write numbers into it" you wouldn't believe.

mircea_popescu: (of course, like darwinism, there's a large mass of religious "critics" of the notion)

mircea_popescu: at time t3 you receive a payment from 1b, of that self-same coin chunk.

mircea_popescu: you can't "unwind" upstream of a blockchain tx.

mircea_popescu: yeah but if it meanwhile got anchored in a proper tx it's good.

mircea_popescu: PeterL trying to drive a concrete slab also slow.

mircea_popescu: but in general, people make them shitty because they're inept and in a hurry.

mircea_popescu: in principle a hardware wallet should be secure, because a sheet of paper (also a kind of hardware wallet) is.

mircea_popescu: linux isn't much better, practically. but there's a difference in kind, you could in principle have a secure linux machine, even if most people don't bother to. whereas the secure windows machine is a myth, like the happy feminist.

mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah there's also no "catching up with the chain", one can turn eulora off for five years, turn it back on (maybe have to get a new client, till we freeze that down) and be ready to go. but then again the cost of having to check the blockchain isn't THAT terrible, we bring up back new nodes all the time. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: take the item this line is written on -- it doesn't fucking need dram. in fact, it could be a 386.

mircea_popescu: there's a lot of "smart shit we don't bother to mention because everyone knows" sorta thing. this is also how/why the inept noobs that get silenced do : not worth talkingt to.

mircea_popescu: basically a very drastic reduction in quality of life, fit for a socialist empire. something on the level of "hey mr, you have this contract to have two cartons of milk delivered each mon, wed, fri and sun. how about we deliver JUST THE CARDBOARD, empty ? it will be 5% cheaper and you can have them every day instead!"

mircea_popescu: ie right now, if i want to spend from 1address to 1youraddress i end up composing a transaction that gets mined (emplaced in a block). it's about 250 bytes worth of 1address signs transaction x where it got coin, and hash of 1youyraddress etc.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1702779 << core hasn't yet hardforked from trb. their "segwit" thing is a "soft fork". basically they intend to make everyone's transactions be blockchain messages instead of actual transactions. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1702761 << run trb. follow mod6 's instructions, it's a relatively painless half hour install on most any sane linux. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: you recall, you had to guess how the arrangement relates to a number