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mircea_popescu: canned txn wouldn't be impossible, just less maneuvrable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform judging by the thing you linked btw, the "harmless radiator" function of urbit is out in full effect.
mircea_popescu: "who the fuck cares about navy timekeeping" "hurry up and have children before you're too old to attract a sucker"
mircea_popescu: it's very similar to the marine chronometer problem, in its disproportionate impact
mircea_popescu: only in the making of hard vacuum was the making of hard vacuum learned ; and it fundamentally changed fluid physics (which is more than one immediately realises)
mircea_popescu: similarily, young bride isn't AIMING to become a bitch. she's just getting married.
mircea_popescu: what people think the whole point is scarcely has any bearing.
mircea_popescu: it's hard, dude. washing out the socialism from the crevices of the boy who lived in socialism is fucking hard.
mircea_popescu: yes. but at the time satoshi was satoshing under that name, people were still pre-bitcoinafrica
mircea_popescu: no. very much in line with the cowboy design altogether.
mircea_popescu: and phf was all like "this isn't in the spec" then read the spec etc
mircea_popescu: you recall the discussion where you couldn'tr get "advanced sqltron" to read stale ?
mircea_popescu: no, just, i don't give a shit what happens to any request.
mircea_popescu: you understand this, it stays up through all sorts of insanity.
mircea_popescu: (new comment stales out all article pages ; all pages are staled out once a day cause of header image ; etcetera)
mircea_popescu: not every www load hits the db, but more than none do because page layout complexities
mircea_popescu: it has slave reads, which makes it WAY BETTER than any other, including progresql or whatever
mircea_popescu: but you don't ~only. you web. rarely write, often read.
mircea_popescu: 8 years of trilema, never crashed, randomly or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what hate haters hate, mysql is perfect for the web
mircea_popescu: quite literally irresponsible : i don't fucking answer TO YOU SAD LOT
mircea_popescu: o look, stefan molyneux made the list, that chick angie what'sher name didn't.
mircea_popescu: don't begrudge an orc his orcish tongue ; "blockchain principles" is how they say "tmsr made"
mircea_popescu: whatever, they'll be left with boeck and supran tweeting to one another, no great loss
mircea_popescu: lots of people, not just you. and they're all suspicious subversives.
mircea_popescu: smart thing would be to replace it with a proper rsatron
mircea_popescu: dudes are so out of their league it's been past funny and back to funny again too many times to count.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, the southern poverty law center (mildly famous lefty oppression tools from the 60s) lists "kek" as a dangerous nazy paraphenalia.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: girls engage in this sort of fatty grooming as a shit test. if you agree with her that her fat friend also deserves "a life" aka someone to pay for her children, perhaps you should.
mircea_popescu: anyway, asciilifeform, you should prolly publish a codebase adnotated with time profiles. trb-454523 ; trb-454520 etc.
mircea_popescu: also a main reason why the discussed wallet separation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that'd be the disk sensitivity, or most of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: moreover with a little care you can actually fingerprint for things such as "does this node have a tunnel to another one" in this manner.
mircea_popescu: there's three different ways a node can end up in reorg crisscross, and it doesn't even take owning all its connections.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, these in order are the two major soaks i am aware of ; whether they manifest for you right here or not)