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mircea_popescu: there's an absolute limit turkey dollars put on "tower to the moon" efforts : if you have at most 100 turkeys you can commit, printing further pictures of a turkey on paper will not help you in your effort to build the "cart driven by 101 turkeys". because the 101th physically does not exist.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the us does not have, even if it sold itself out, the cash to half-complete this.
mircea_popescu: the "buying russia" item was lulzy enough, but still, explainable in terms of ra ra ra. but this nonsense is simply demented.
mircea_popescu: musk doesn't have 1% of 1% of the money he needs to build such a thing. wtf already.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what these folk are sniffing, but it must be some sort of heavily psychotropic mold infected their conference centers.
mircea_popescu: (there's been a long time train running boston to wash dc, reasonably fast, reasonably popular in the 80s. meanwhile gradually disused)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so i wouldn't worry -- the only way this happens is if the chinese do a us-equivalent of their plan to colonize europe, and front the coupla trillion needed.
mircea_popescu: in any case they're not making the la to sf item for the quoted 5 to 15bn. boston's big dig, a project a degree of mangnitude smaller, ended up costing well over a trillion, and this is 1999 dollars. also taking five x the time, but we leave that ot the side.
mircea_popescu: (itself a remake of japanese equivs.) worked remarkably well at home.
mircea_popescu: and this is just you know, high level executives aka waitresses. if you look at 1920s rank and file, they lived in dorms within the textile mill complex. kinda like universities today, except you know, 30 to the room and with hall monitors turning off the lights at 8:30.
mircea_popescu: 1920s waitress would live in whatever accomodations she could find within walking distance of her bar ; and go to downtown like every other weekend and think this a major, awesome accomplishment. but 2020s waitress (aka "software engineer") exepcts to be able to travel all over the city each day. what, he's from brooklyn ? that shouldn't mean he can't work in the lower east side, what's he, some kind of slave ?!?!
mircea_popescu: at home, yes every single last one dork out of the 20mn can think himself overpoweringly important. at least until the broadband craps out.
mircea_popescu: their problem is that they all think they're important. such people can not transport ; they must stay put.
mircea_popescu: there's 0 way to have functional transportation in a city of aspies.
mircea_popescu: "if all people were perfectly attentive, perfectly intelligent and perfectly dedicated to the task of making our plan work ; and if they were perfectly equal and perfectly convinced we should be telling them what to do in detail ; THEN here's a solution to a problem!"
mircea_popescu: ask the author, or generally any "city planner" what are the wrong assumptions they hid in the nonsense ? they'll look at you like you're from mars. yet... 1. all people = all other people. there's exactly 0 concept of social hierarch. 2. all people == spherical cpus in a vacuum. really bitch, i'll keep track of your stupid grids, and CONNECT ? i'm not fucking connecting lol, wtf do i care where the bus is at.
mircea_popescu: but that was the glamor : "honey, you don't suck cock because you can't, not because you don't want to ; but even if you sucked cock, and even if you were extremely good at it, it'd still take you months to manage what i can do overnight if i fucking feel like it".
mircea_popescu: (this point, in either "intern can progress" or "sit in forum and access meaning" presentation, is the fundamental mechanism of both "rounders" and that "poolhall junkies" cheapo rehack of it : that the dude playing can decide the girl's future, a degree of magnitude above her own capacity. take that away -- it's not worth doing. and you sure as fuck ain't meeting the head of ny law firm socially, and play $X with him so he g
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats yes, but intern can then progress to independent contractor / work for self and cut the costs to 0. this is what say 5 years' experience buys you. 5 years' experience in the casino buys you jack.
mircea_popescu: lmao i was thinking, since when the fuck do indians care about stench.
mircea_popescu: (official numbers -- 81.6k is the average salary for sv intern, apparently ; 2087 the yearly work hours). turns out they make 40 bux.
mircea_popescu: strikes me as too close to "social worker" for comfort.
mircea_popescu: at some past glory age poker was, at least mythically, the way to actually sit at the same table with people who matter, and thereby actually have some sort of access to the meaning of the world. these days...
mircea_popescu: actually, the real money is in doing something else. the real sluts, the real errythings too.
mircea_popescu: mats and if you live to be 60 doing this, you'll look back on a life of tedium.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you rob them worth a coupla hundred an hour, which is probably an overstatement, you'd make about the same as a silicon valley "engineer".
mircea_popescu: they're mediocre, neither amazing nor terrible. but they're old, and stupid, and lazy. and not the sort of person i want to be around at all.
mircea_popescu: reason #5498509865409 to despise herdemocracy, "peace and human rights" bullshit : it makes poker games indistinguishable from mahjong.
mircea_popescu: mats i tried to go play at local casino. dumped my chips half hour in because i got this unbearable feeling im at a florida retirement home playing canasta with the inmates.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, that'd prolly how comps would work if women made them originally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that'll be the day, free traffic on the supermation inforhighway...
mircea_popescu: anyway, i quoted the blocks by hash so you can check if those are the ones you're struggling with, as opposed to magicalorphans.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is just poorly written allocates a potentially infinite number of locks as part of handling the last block.
mircea_popescu: you understand the lock thing refers mostly to handling reorgs, it isn't historical count or anything.
mircea_popescu: lol yeah, well, i would put it past "people themselves" to keep archives.
mircea_popescu: historically the problem is "o noes, orphan chain", but i have nfi who would be owning or propagating orphan chains at that height.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform these are too small for that to be touched.
mircea_popescu: none of these are problematic in either the "new boltons to protocol" p2sh sense or size sense.
mircea_popescu: and finally 168002 is 0000000000000a08f0e6aa70d9f8b990c48c2d48c577393c73b9acb9a55d12cb also 28.6kb long, 61 txn
mircea_popescu: main chain block 168001 is 0000000000000a40136ba56d6b514769534831e9ba805fef4d122f6c8d6da51c 21.2kb
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's see some details. main chain block 168000 is 000000000000099e61ea72015e79632f216fe6cb33d7899acb35b75c8303b763 mined 2012-2-22 at 21:31 ; size 7.1kb
mircea_popescu: i don't specifically recall 168000-168002 being a heavy load in that sense
mircea_popescu: the txn linked though isn't one of the usual suspects.
mircea_popescu: but if you say this isn't what's getting your fanless box...
mircea_popescu: this failure mode exists, where node spends forever unable to distinguish between orphaned chain, because can't ever get to where it actually verifies a sig.
mircea_popescu: phf can you add a refby:name to logotron search ? it'd be equivalent to from:mircea "btcbase.org/log" but list the values rather than the references.
mircea_popescu: more ladyboys less plumbers ? sounds like teh swamp's drainin'.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : kathy keeton treated her breast cancer with hydrazine sulphate, an idea she got reading penthouse (which she published)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know that's pretty broken spanish even for my low standards,
mircea_popescu: this way L only knows C after T made a decision ; D only knows a C-candiate once user made a reply ; T never knows C-candidate.
mircea_popescu: relays hash(it) to T and L. T replies to D with either "OK" or "FAIL", and reveals (C) to L. L calculates hash(OTP) and compares it with what D sent."
mircea_popescu: trinque re last para, what's wrong with you know,
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693444 ? basically replace "The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which relays it to T, meanwhile revealing it to L. T replies to D with either "OK" or "FAIL", and a transaction is complete." with "T sends hash(C) to L, encrypted(C) to D. The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which
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