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mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin Unlimited is a full Bitcoin client and is an alternative to the original Bitcoin Core client. It offers high levels of security, privacy, and stability." quoth the roger ver mfa.
BU_lulz: but it is def a different calliber of insanity
BU_lulz: just the fact that their was a bug in their protocol that brought down 90% of their nodes
mircea_popescu: a right there is that.
jhvh1: trinque: [KJV] Mark 7:15 :: There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
mircea_popescu: so then it's not even a bad strategy for the 16yo brighter-than-average highschool girl, http://trilema.com/2013/whore-strat/
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Isaiah 64:6 :: But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
danielpbarron: a repented whore would be ahead of 99.9999% of the world that's for sure
mircea_popescu: but the point remains, notwithstanding how poorly it worked for that particular idiot, that there's a lot worse fates than being a 30something successful repented whore.
danielpbarron: hey if she's saved i don't care what else she does. adopts a bunch of orphans, wonderful!
danielpbarron: and a father to raise them
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Mark 10:25 :: It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
mircea_popescu: well, she can repent if you want her to, but she still has a town house, eighty lbs of jewelry and about half a million in cash in strongboxes all over mexico.
mircea_popescu: this is certainly a matter of perspective.
danielpbarron: if she repented of being a whore and really came to be saved then yeah i could see marrying her, maybe. but the onus would be on her to do that. I'm better off single, it's her best interest to marry
danielpbarron: i don't follow. because she was honest? perhaps i should clarify, i use whore to mean a woman who has sex with multiple men. harlot is a better word (friend of the world) but both are bad things: whether she is paid is irrelevant
mircea_popescu: (and if she says "i'm a high end whore" fucking marry her, because srsly.)
mircea_popescu: so identify one, run into her "accidentally" in town, ask her out and then ask her what she does for a living.
mircea_popescu: how much is the business hotel only call girl in connecticut ? 1k a night by now ? 2 ?
danielpbarron: i don't know any apparently. or rather i haven't met a whore i couldn't get to admit it
danielpbarron: ask her! everyone i talk to here in connecticut freely admits they are a whore/adulterer
mircea_popescu: ah, mind that the eventual fate of all these is of no interest in this discussion. we were just going on about the "should be" and "shouldn't be". if mary doesn't have to publicly admit she was a whore, and if nobody has to point out to her, and if she may vaguely repent without mentioning, or maybe not, and it makes no difference, then why not random hussy aged 17 in 2017.
danielpbarron: judas was a follower
mircea_popescu: but apparently a whore may also ambiguously pass for random follower and it wouldn't matter.
danielpbarron: eh it may be the case she didn't believe. i don't suppose it matters. the fact remains a whore generally may repent and no longer be a whore, although it would still be appropriate to execute her
mircea_popescu: yes, but would you propose "she sucked the judges off, all of them" as a fine defense in your above case for whoredom ?
danielpbarron: if she repents then she is no longer a whore
mircea_popescu: well is it a sin or an offense ?
trinque: or I can decide I'm a softy and "turn the other cheek"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes laugh if you will but the issue is not entirely uninteresting... working on marriage for eulora. though there - one will only be able top marry npcs. even if they start as pcs - fine method for a player to suicide an avatar, this.
trinque: "shouldn't be permitted" is what everybody asking somebody else for a mega-state says
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mircea_popescu: perhaps because you've never had it. but from experience, being the judge of a troop of idiots is the worst fucking horror of a turd to fall on your head. and this holds even if you have life and death powers and the ability to construct the law andf its application however you wish through simple declaration.
danielpbarron: that would be a nice problem to have
mircea_popescu: suppose #dbp ends up with a million souls hanging off it. are you going to now hear all this crap ? 100/day ? really ?
danielpbarron: hey i agree. i don't think it needs to be a database or state issue. can be between husband and father of girl. if there's a dispute later, let them testify accordingly
danielpbarron: what would that be? a concatonated string of woman ids?
mircea_popescu: thus, if you decide which women are your wives, "wife" is a field of you-entry in db.
mircea_popescu: but as a general principle of db design : the property is stored with its creator, not with its object.
danielpbarron: heh if we're gonna get technical, perhaps she declares instead a signed thing produced by me
mircea_popescu: that died at a time orwell was a young man. this dude's murican from the island.
Framedragger: danielpbarron: iirc there's a scheme down there which allows for this, etc.
trinque: the article signs off with a turd about open minds and flexible worldviews and so on
asciilifeform: 'There are a lot of people in the world who actually think like this. This is their for-real, no-joking conception of "marriage". They do not grasp that men and women are interchangeable, as a result of which homosexual marriages create repulsive integrity problems in their heads. "But if they're both guys, which one is the wife? Does not compute!" How sad.'
trinque: what, we jettisoned a quip guy and now you're it?
danielpbarron: sure, if he was saved after the marriage. otherwise it's dubious to say he believes if he was willing to lay with a heathen
danielpbarron: can be a drag if one believes Bible and other doesn't
mircea_popescu: i dunno, why would the woman be a drag in the first place ? old loves dun bother mp any. heck, they're a substantial part of his imperial majesty.
trinque: while they haven't yet, they're a nuisance to the living
danielpbarron: and this is a better incetive structure for preventing the bad relationship in the first place
danielpbarron: wha? i'm not saying a man can't have multiple wives. if the first sucks get another, just don't ditch the first
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me that in the continuum between "whenever a man is born a woman is allocated him, soulmate" and "let them be passed around and let the dogs fuck them too, what, it's a muscle. not like they're made of soap" the specific "there's no soulmate but there shouldn't be gynorgies either" spot you select is hard to support in any fundamental way.
danielpbarron: and lucky her she's not going to hell because i wouldn't have married a heathen
mircea_popescu: suppose you're born and a perfect and ideal bride is destined to you. suppose 15 years later a black immigrant from the arab nation of africa gets her drunk at a party and fucks her. is it now too late for you ?
mircea_popescu: teh cast away device is immensely valuable : to the loving woman it is truly the bottom, worst possible penalty ; to the unloving a welcome release.
danielpbarron: if a man enjoys a woman he absolutely should marry her
asciilifeform: sorta like a kid falling behind in school
asciilifeform: bad engineering ALWAYS eventually takes the form of a glue trap, where 'entry costs a buck; exit -- two!'
mircea_popescu: ie, man enjoys a woman specifically ; satoshi wishes to make bitcoin. that's all well and good. then man proceeds to marry her and satoshi proceeds to design a scheme whereby everyhing's suddenly and for no reason o(n).
danielpbarron: i know of a few
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform danielpbarron the arrangement a) between one man and one woman which b) presumes to be wilfully entered by both and c) claims to resolve all the possible problems they may encounter is, necessarily, a casette tape.
asciilifeform: but it's enough so as to never know where n+2nd element of a sequence is, without eating the n+1st !
mircea_popescu: it's basically a hobble. from which we discern satoshi, whether married or not, certainly saw no fundamental problem with marriage as a mental construction / social narrative.
asciilifeform: as in, ~counts~ of inputs/outputs in a tx; counts of tx in blocks
Framedragger: wait he uses boost right, doesn't boost have its own 'multiprecision' thingie a la bignum?
asciilifeform: as a result, parsing ANY of the traditional bitcoin serializations, is O(N) operation !
asciilifeform: and not even bignum representation, where'd it begin to make a vague sort of sense,
asciilifeform: finding a given input or output of a given tx, becomes O(1), theoretically.
asciilifeform: if it isn't obvious : 'fast form' is simply a SANE tabularization, removing the idiot varints
asciilifeform: so to round off the thread: blocks can be stored in 'fast' form, and reconstituted as-needed for transmission to peers; or alternatively, with 2x the disk cost, can be stored in both forms (i prefer the latter, with a background thread that randomly spot-checks the correspondence, which oughta be an iron 1:1 , everywhere )
asciilifeform: (i.e. ~any~ proper, 1MB, bitcoin block can be made to sit down in no more than a 2MB-sized bottle such that indexing of its components becomes an O(1) operation.)
mircea_popescu: a recurring observation.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 90% of the retardation of trb is that objects live in heap and are all part of a massive ball of yarn, linked to one another
Framedragger: yeah this is a big wtf.
mircea_popescu: it's not a minor point given that no bitcoin implementation is currently known that DOES in fact run within a defined memory footprint.
Framedragger: did you already have a chance to check if there are any tx collisions in the 32 bit address scheme? just curious ☟︎
asciilifeform: and that a btctron can run in a constant, defined memory footprint
asciilifeform: ( it slowly dawned on me, that a proper block eater is perhaps half of an entire btctron... )
asciilifeform: anybody other than asciilifeform have a working gnat toolchain yet ?
asciilifeform: that thing also runs various housekeeping systems, aside from trb. like a champ.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess that's a serious reason then
asciilifeform: thing is the size of a grown man's fist, also.
mircea_popescu: honestly, it should just be a patch. there's no serious reason to allow the usage of trb on tiny boxes
asciilifeform: ( i'd much rather that bdb simply went away. but this may take a while. )
asciilifeform: davout, mircea_popescu : probably the bdb cache thing oughta become a command line knob.
asciilifeform: (i recommend a box with at least 16GB installed, to use this)
asciilifeform: also if you have a consistent empty 4GB of memory, you can apply my cache patch (not yet an official vpatch, but it is a 1liner, ups bdb's cache to max) ☟︎
asciilifeform: davout: if you have a box with a ssd ~and~ traditional disks, put the debug log on the traditional
davout: so far it blocks for a while on the 'getinfo' call, but seems to still be up to date
davout: we'll see how that goes i guess, i was kinda wondering whether i should get a ssd-equipped server anyway
asciilifeform: when ~saving a block~
asciilifeform: davout: see logs. it's when the thing grinds to a halt while verifying block, while waiting for 1,000,001 random disk writes to complete
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 12:12 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-15#1627304 << a box like that will have hour-long blockindexdb blackholes
davout: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-15#1627313 <<< cool, i'll send you a ssh key ☝︎
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/how-to-be-a-pimp-the-simple-comprehensible-and-exhaustive-guide/ << Trilema - How to be a pimp - the simple, comprehensible and exhaustive guide
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2016/02/20/how-to-be-a-pimp-a-simple-yet-understandable-and-still-exhaustive-guide-translated/ <<
pete_dushenski: i seem to be a sucker for those :/
mircea_popescu: anyway, working on "how to be a pimp" guide, secrets revealed.
mircea_popescu: b41e209ccc264812 may take a while.