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BingoBoingo: undata: What is the use of releasing the chamber curve diagrams of an effective nuke?
asciilifeform: he made it clear that didn't want to, why pester the man
undata: asciilifeform: what's the point of not distributing it then?
BingoBoingo: Ah. asciilifeform So a solution is raising soldering irons to get weaponized bitcoind from pool ops
asciilifeform: undata: afaik mircea_popescu doesn't actually need the weapon - already has own
chetty: I would go after that sword if eulora wasn't in the way
undata: asciilifeform: perhaps the wealthier among us have reason to offer bounties
asciilifeform: undata: 'this' being the overall affair of transmuting the 0.5.3 turd into a usable weapon
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2014 18:08:51; asciilifeform: attn turdmasters:
BingoBoingo: I'm still catching up to there
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: also see today's log, for why this is probably a doomed march
asciilifeform: why am i even telling this, go run it
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: these die during initial blockchain pumping
BingoBoingo: thickasthieves: pankkake says .9 is where it's at << My 0.8.x node I run is rather low on memory consumption, runs with full txindex
asciilifeform: who the fuck is in New York << afaik most of 'verizon' ends up 'new york'
undata: in my case this will be where my VM is
BingoBoingo: Except who the fuck is in New York?
assbot: Qntra.net Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast
BingoBoingo: adlai: bounce: so you could theoretically "chemically print" the composition of any drink, medicine, poison, drug, explosive, etc << Very hard problem when you want to print anything protein
kakobrekla: a good rng will aid the process.
ben_vulpes: "just try a bunch of different numbers until you find one that works"
asciilifeform: nubbins`: now you too can watch it wedge.
ben_vulpes: why thread does not show the same as date and author is a mystery to me.
undata: ben_vulpes: wonderful; thanks!
nubbins`: he's busy generating a treasury address by hand
undata: jurov: where to?
undata: asciilifeform: is there a new client mailling list yet?
undata: asciilifeform: don't tell me how to live :D
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat << dude that's touching, srsly.
undata: ben_vulpes: at least the dog would kill a guy for you; my girlfriend's cats would just watch
ben_vulpes: ripping usg crud out of the thing is a recipe to endanger any coins i'd have if i were not eating ramen so that the dog might eat
undata selfishly wants the stripped down daemon for his own experiments
undata: ben_vulpes: oh and protecting your own bitwealth; how bout that one?
bounce: patenting war to win the patent war
mircea_popescu: 3d printing TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: gtfo, i hear they got 3d printing now and errything.
asciilifeform: in usa, 'make moar' would mean that someone has to actually think about cost.
mats_cd03: arguably, the allies won the war because of excellent maps and radios
mircea_popescu: the allies didn't win the war by making good tanks.
asciilifeform: and anything other than a stone age opponent can blind the machine. or, if usa continues to insist on unsigned control signals, take it home.
mircea_popescu: if plane could fly w/o ground installations, captive pilot may make sense. as it is, pilot belongs with the airbase not with the plane.
mats_cd03: although the 101 airborne was converted to an air mobility unit recently, so theres that.
bounce: the infrastructure to make that happen isn't cheap and isn't that robust either
mircea_popescu: fwiw, the current us doctrine of "don't put the most valuable part of the plane in the most fragile part of the plane" is sound.
mats_cd03: besides test of bravery.
mircea_popescu: tho they were an utter and total waste of resources
mircea_popescu: cuz they somehow had bad experience with the german paratroopers
mircea_popescu: well, half a day. but they didn't fly wortha shit at night anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, those were the days. gasoline + 5 man crew for a day, 100 bux.
mircea_popescu: you know they weren't THAT bad a design.
asciilifeform: well any tu.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the men called those, affectionately, 'тушка' (little sorry carcass)
asciilifeform: well, only catch, have to jump out.
ben_vulpes: glory? who cares for that.
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mircea_popescu: ;;google Tu-75
asciilifeform: military tupolev << lol. my father rode in those for phree.
asciilifeform: where is it written that a fat man can't get ulcer.
asciilifeform will probably get there soonish
mircea_popescu: you're too healthy-looking for ulcers
mircea_popescu: this convo's enough to give naggum a second ulcer.
asciilifeform: heroes - straight to sword, stone.
ben_vulpes: at least this time nobody's asking me what color my trabamborghini will be, or offering me worthless options.
mircea_popescu: military tupolev tho.
ben_vulpes: undata: yes i'm just so pleased to bite off this chunk of responsibility for no remuneration
asciilifeform: fellas, i know, i have sympathy, when i was a boy i wanted to buy an airplane for 100 rubles too.
mircea_popescu: jurov lettuce get this show on the road shall we ?
mircea_popescu: lulzy tho lol.
nubbins`: perhaps i'll put it on the cover
mircea_popescu: punkman so nao i want to verify things, but i can't, because no bot and i dun recall what the website is ;/
asciilifeform: perhaps nubbins` can have 'sword in stone' t-shirts printed.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the charter is signed, right ?
asciilifeform: anything that won't buy a whole man, may as well be nothing.
mircea_popescu: so they are going to feed the afrreddit hordes if oyu give them moneyz ?
ben_vulpes: let's see how this collection plate goes, turdmeisters
bounce would starve a bit too soon to take that up, ATM. otherwise have the time.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: no checkpoint there.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "old for the sake of old" right ?
ben_vulpes: // + Contains no strange transactions
ben_vulpes: // timestamp before)
ben_vulpes: // (no blocks before with a timestamp after, none after with
ben_vulpes: // + Is surrounded by blocks with reasonable timestamps
asciilifeform: 'hero' would be the fella who submits to carrying out this mission gratis, and can stay alive long enough to chop down a critical mass of foes.
bounce: from a hero to a girl in a few short log lines
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 not in the next five years.
asciilifeform: turd on lathe requires liquid helium refrigerant to stay solid.
mircea_popescu: / Guess how far we are in the verification process at the given block index
mircea_popescu: 21 // fast multicore CPU, it won't be much higher than 1.
mircea_popescu: 20 // can be up to 20, while when downloading from a slow network with a
mircea_popescu: 18 // be slower. This number is a compromise, as it can't be accurate for
mircea_popescu: 17 // How many times we expect transactions after the last checkpoint to
mircea_popescu: just for the lulz :
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you want polished turd, buy a girl who knows cpp, 'valgrind', gdb, understands memory discipline, can implement bdb replacement ab initio, knows ecdsa mechanics, etc, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't laugh, greeks conquered them too :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah this is prior to that issue. hm.
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2014 17:09:54; asciilifeform: in other news, turd firmly wedged at block height 252450. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: which block is this ?
mircea_popescu: i *think* the maximal lock count a block may possibly need is somewhere just south of 600k, but i don't have the shithandy.
mircea_popescu: hey there desi.
mircea_popescu: bounce temperature treated, yes. like saying "iron, some carbon, some molybdenum" = sword.