asciilifeform meanwhile was watching zoolag sync, 'hmm 10min from nao' turned into hour+, and still 10blox behind. culprit seems to be a combo of 'everybody else is lagging' and 'flooded with mempool crud, and as result , not spending enuff time disconnecting unproductives and pushgetblocks()ing with novel peers'

asciilifeform: ^ding^

asciilifeform: lessee if he digs up the link when he wakes up

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there's a mirror of the collection on mircea_popescu's www

asciilifeform: ( or simply failed to reach takeoff velocity )

asciilifeform: the rest, variously, went mad ☟︎

asciilifeform: afaik phf is currently the all-star champ from that group

asciilifeform: ah hm

asciilifeform possibly was the only 1 who skipped tardstalk entirely

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ^ phf et al : pheature req ?

asciilifeform: !#born ben_vulpes

asciilifeform: ah hm.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes was here before asciilifeform , i think, and in the era prior to proper logging, so i have nfi where he came from

asciilifeform: *puedo

asciilifeform: i'ma relent nao, srsly

asciilifeform: ward of delusions >> off ?

asciilifeform: Yo se yo puedo tener hambre >> yo se que yo pudo....

asciilifeform: or aspell -a etc.

asciilifeform: comb the thing yerself BingoBoingo , this one was typed on ipad or wat.

asciilifeform: disabiguate >> disambiguate ?

asciilifeform: mised gender crowd >> mixed ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it piqued by the >> is piqued ?

asciilifeform: afaik german is the only living lang close-enuff to stand a chance of working like this with eng

asciilifeform: ( i remember 1 key word, 'also' )

asciilifeform: but it escapes me

asciilifeform: uncle al had a german/english one

asciilifeform: this oughta be a genre...

asciilifeform: but classic 'false cognate' (lol, ~entire sentence made of'em)

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: 'Федот, да не тот' (tm)(r)(aphorism)

asciilifeform: recall the cousin-fucking thread.

asciilifeform: it does. problem is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759431 . ☝︎

asciilifeform: history had better be immutable. lest we get stuck with having to undo c again and again forever.

asciilifeform: which has currently a birth defect hole in it, the classical blockchain is not properly speaking immutable.

asciilifeform: patches yes. i was speaking of the blockchain-vchain parallel.

asciilifeform: afaik nobody else has got with-what.

asciilifeform: driving uppity miners into bankruptcy, abatement of gavins, etc. is thus far mircea_popescu's dept.

asciilifeform: but meanwhile, in historic loose ends , http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-24#1758001 << how to square this with >> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-05#1637609 ( summary : classical bitcoin permits ~modification of old blocks~ via the idjit 'tx replace' mechanism. even though -- as i understand -- it'd split the network if actually ever deployed. which it was not, not even in prb. but theoretically still permitted by the protocol. ) ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1913&cpage=1#comment-18457 << congrats to spyked , graduate of ffa ch1.

asciilifeform: !~later tell phf plox to snarf : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/ffa/ffa_ch1_genesis.vpatch.spyked.sig

asciilifeform: !!key spyked

asciilifeform: that's sorta what made the 'natural philosophy' thing take off -- the realization that 'it's still there', whether or not newton bothers to publish

asciilifeform: or any

asciilifeform: suxx.

asciilifeform: iirc most of varro evaporated

asciilifeform: even on surface. ( that very same yellow sand in ro, from earlier threads. )

asciilifeform: uranium is actually quite common on planet3.

asciilifeform: *proverbial

asciilifeform: possibly proverbian alphacentaurian would spit, 'see, THIS is what happens when no surface iridium! they did not have the good fortune to meet the proper meteorites...'

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759568 << speaking of this: nobody has anyfi re what earthling history could have looked like if... iridium, say, had been similarly available ☝︎

asciilifeform: ( though even there, in the slightly less 'female' folx, they had angry godz )

asciilifeform: witness the gods pictured by tropical fuckwits

asciilifeform: divine anger was always the part that made sense to everybody. ( at least everybody other than the poor benighted http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-08#1748753 folx . ) ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'motherfuckers, i gave then such particle-like electrons, and they STILL dun have roomtemp supercon...'

asciilifeform: plenty of what i suspect 'kindergarten-level' (in hindsight, like karatsuba) -- unsolved.

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759577 << if beelzebub made the levels for us to walk, he must be quite disappointed at the '% secrets' (think to 'doom'/'doom2' level endings, lol) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759576 << steps that are taller than the tallest man, look like walls, not steps ☝︎

asciilifeform: or, or.

asciilifeform: and there's a reason we're talking over waveguide and not, say, entangletron

asciilifeform: or i could go on.

asciilifeform: or for that matter, usable maxwell. ( modern electronic design uses a narrowly restricted, i.e. sorta-fits-in-head special form of maxwell )

asciilifeform: phakt : plenty of 'next steps' that apparently too tall. e.g. roomtemp supercon.

asciilifeform: problem is that the stairwell pov presupposes its conclusion. 'it happened, thereby it was the next step.' exactly 'newton sat down to discover'(tm)(r)

asciilifeform: this however is not the problem

asciilifeform: einstein really gavinized minkowski and lorentz

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-28#1759571 << pretty wide gap, and was closed by buncha folx, see below, ☝︎

asciilifeform: let's. ( i'ma come to tea, brb )

asciilifeform: that or cirrhosis

asciilifeform: not clear why one 'cleverness' but other, 'fortune', could just as easily say the reverse

asciilifeform: ( imho 1 of the great finds of that century, no less )

asciilifeform: e.g. karatsuba

asciilifeform: dedicated primality tester ic would rock.

asciilifeform: but nothing short of that.

asciilifeform: as in, ffa-width cpu.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~iron~ aks may be worth something.

asciilifeform: eh who keeps idjits-in-exile other than the 'they' for anyhing.

asciilifeform: dun have to be in old london. can put in orbit, like in pelevin's 'snuff'

asciilifeform: it's just this place, where they keep 'governments in exile', lel

asciilifeform: 'gov in exile' (tm)(r)

asciilifeform: send to london!

asciilifeform: sumbody oughta set up a parallel usg out of crackheads in bmore

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: some d00d with long, white beard.

asciilifeform: hey betcha somebody in ro even knows about the beta thing.

asciilifeform: ( where is thorium , consider )

asciilifeform: it isn't even 'high tech'n, pretty clear how it works if you look at mendeleev table

asciilifeform: *pantsuitism

asciilifeform: funnily enuff pre-zombiefication PG mentioned that his father had come to usa from britain to build breeder-reactors. and then driven into sad-retirement when pantsuitisml

asciilifeform: (e.g. new york stands on enormous thorium vein)

asciilifeform: 'breeders' were a major thrust in pre-pantsuit usa, where abundant thorium

asciilifeform: is there ? su afaik did not build any

asciilifeform: gotta wonder why no breeder reactor in ro

asciilifeform: tomato for petrol. but today imports both from eu. because spread legs for nato.

asciilifeform: bulgaria, land of tomato, aha.

asciilifeform: !~google bulgaria fuel rods

asciilifeform: i was thinking of bulgaria specifically.

asciilifeform: neato.

asciilifeform: long in the tooth, and with american ersatz fuel by ge co. -- but running.

asciilifeform: iirc good chunk of eastern europistan to this day running on golden age reactors