asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $38335.12
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 15 nodes...
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 185.85.38.54:8333 : Could not connect!
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.023s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956
watchglass: 71.114.46.209:8333 : (pool-71-114-46-209.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.047s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.112s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.084s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=664956 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.147s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.206s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.221s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664956
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.327s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=391693 (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 213.109.238.156:8333 : Alive: (0.323s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=664755
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : (182518.pk.3pp.slovanet.sk) Alive: (0.371s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=444509
watchglass: 103.36.92.112:8333 : Violated BTC Protocol: Bad header length!
asciilifeform: meanwhile in misc. lulz: 1 from mr mold.
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $39328.43
verisimilitude: What's wrong with the article, asciilifeform?
verisimilitude: This is Yarvin's writing, right?
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: aha
verisimilitude: It seemed decent and similar to his prior work, although I've not read enough of it to become sick of it.
verisimilitude: I've not read enough of his entire body of work to become sick of it, that is.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: it aint even that 'sumthing wrong w/ the article' per se. simply, yarvin has decade+ career of 'snark', pseudoerudite 'historical'-flavoured pieces, and 'no one can ever so much as scratch the regime, don't even think' while carefully pushing his readers away from bitcoin, wot, any and all even mildly promising, even in principle, countermeasures to re
snsabot: (trilema) 2016-08-18 asciilifeform: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/urbit-dev/utp3H7F78so/Dt24fpiT3xcJ << part of it
asciilifeform: ich
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $39995.58
asciilifeform: lol
asciilifeform: ^ almost resembles e.g. toyota pricing in billboard
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $40205.1
trinque: flip the ratio and it's a graph of the full faith and credit of the US!
asciilifeform: trinque: lel, loox like usg got ~1.5k$ moar faithed in, in past 15min..
asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $36650.23
asciilifeform: ( see also. )
snsabot: Logged on 2020-05-05 19:52:05 asciilifeform: thimbronion: they won't run out. it's an ecologically closed cycle.
thimbronion: There are reportedly geniuses who mortgaged their house to *short* bitcoin at 18k or thereabouts.
thimbronion: There is hubris out there of mythical proportions.
asciilifeform: 'sucker born erry minute'
verisimilitude: I'm more fond of a different saying.
verisimilitude: Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: where are the 'smart games' ? w/ 'smart prizes' ? where to queue up ?
verisimilitude: That's a good question.
verisimilitude: I like playing this game, in this IRC, well enough.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: i regret to inform -- there are no prizes, however
verisimilitude: There are.
verisimilitude: We're not walking around with cloth over our eyes, at the very least.
verisimilitude: I treat this primarily as a venue for discussing programming and whatnot; the ignorance and rewritten history spanning decades is disconcerting and truly sickening.
verisimilitude: The ignorance and rewritten history spanning decades of other venues is disconcerting and truly sickening, that is.
asciilifeform: [www.loper-os.org/pub/the_spittoon.txt][the spittoon], verisimilitude, 'is all in one strand.' sadly concerns not merely programmings.
verisimilitude: Sure, but focus is nice.
asciilifeform: ok let's try that again :
asciilifeform: the spittoon, verisimilitude, 'is all in one strand.' sadly concerns not merely programmings.
verisimilitude: Oh, is that a flaw regarding the transforming procedure, then?
verisimilitude: Sure, it's not just programming, but that's the poorly-understood magic of the modern world, like a new frontier, so our time focusses on it.
verisimilitude: In another time, perhaps some of us would be in coffee houses betting on ships, instead.
verisimilitude: I should've made an alchemy analogy, instead.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: needs the http... in url
verisimilitude: That was my second guess.
verisimilitude: I did something that was technically non-destructive, but swarmed me with so much information I ceased caring.
verisimilitude: Let's say I've small N entries, and then I did something which added a few thousand, and swarmed out the N, causing me to stop caring about it. It wasn't destructive, but the interface offered no way to isolate the N again.
verisimilitude: It seems clear that a better system would offer this, but this is creating a system that's just not amenable to heavy user modification to ensure these guarantees.
verisimilitude: If every entry addition goes through function F, and F guarantees this, but F is redefined, now it's gone again.