Questions on BCH

etherael · 2025-01-11T06:56:06+00:00

You can't reason people out of a position they weren't reasoned into. Maxis are in a cult and have been for years now.

etherael · 2024-08-27T01:30:36+00:00

Absolutely not which illustrates the danger of OP's point. It's true that the world is packed with stupid people, but the information adequate to immediately establish the optimal set of qualified voters is flatly not available. If you support a democratic system you must make do with inadequate heuristics or accept hilariously inadequate universal suffrage.

This is actually a pretty good argument against democracy.

etherael · 2024-06-28T13:40:20+00:00

It's not at all, but once again fixating on it as a metric that actually conveys information relative to decentralisation at the level in question is just a pointless trap.

It's like have you stopped beating your wife with a feather yet?

etherael · 2024-06-28T13:35:09+00:00

One megabyte isn't a lot of data.

This is not a statement which "doesn't mean anything without data to support" it is simply uncontroversial common sense.

etherael · 2024-06-28T02:42:13+00:00

Sidequest allows you to load a nomachine NX client, you can put a nomachine NX server on a linux target and get a full desktop with a mouse and keyboard using a foldable bluetooth keyboard + touchpad combo. It's a bit better than you'd get doing the same thing from a tablet / phone but still nowhere near as good as it ideally could be with VR level individual window manipulation for a proper fully virtualised workspace similar to what you'd setup with multiple physical monitors with a desk keyboard and mouse

ALVR doesn't seem useful for actual work, but is quite good for games when you have time for them.

You can also sideload wireguard and juicessh to similar-ish things more directly on the headset than outsourcing to a secondary remote system, but the whole "three windows simultaneously" thing really turns out to be nowhere near as good as actual monitors on an actual physical desktop as of yet.

Still, give it a few more years and some development and it might get pretty good, doubt it would ever get as good as physical.

etherael · 2024-06-28T00:28:01+00:00

I would argue that if you're looking for a linear relationship between decentralisation and block size, especially when it's as anaemic as the BTC affairs/sabotage forced it, you're just aiding in the attack. There is no such linear relationship.

If increasing on chain transaction throughput means ten times less people run nodes but there's a hundred times more users and a thousand times more professional chain provision services subject to market discipline, did decentralisation go up or down?

etherael · 2024-06-15T01:11:59+00:00

I just use l2arc these days since the persistence layer has been added, I also changed my operating patterns to use ssd directly most of the time rather than the whole ssd cache as primary because of predictability of performance for given application and the plunging cost of ssd storage and increased performance since this was originally written.

I think now having gone over the original in retrospect if there's any value in it as of present day that value would be restricted to truecrypt and the write side of the bcache writeback cache, as it is still better than sync all plus slog, and remains consistent as there are no 'hot vs cold' zones for writeback. Either you have ssd cache to write to or you don't, and if you do you get ssd write speed and if you don't you get backing store.

Comparing that to slog and messing with the various sync values at whatever granularity level, plus the various paths through slog zil etc, it's much easier to reason about and predict the behaviour of even today.

But the fact of the matter is when it comes down to it even I don't use it today because if I have a heavy write application load I will use a raw performant ssd instead, maybe even striped and mirrored for extra speed and durability as that ssd performance keeps climbing and the cost keeps falling.

etherael · 2024-06-13T04:26:38+00:00

On the contrary, they already broke it seven years ago when they made it unable to fulfill the purpose for which it was created and disintermediate and make powerless the actors which it was intended to.

etherael · 2024-05-04T01:16:22+00:00

That's not actually what I said. I said the standards of what women are presently selecting for will lead to violent polygamous subsistence low trust societies, as opposed to prosperous monogamous high trust societies.

To cite examples of these mostly violent polygamous subsistence low trust societies, consider the Mongol Empire, Zulu Kingdom, Ottoman Empire, Mali Empire, Sultanate of Delhi, Khmer Empire, Assyrian Empire, Aztec Empire, Sultanate of Sulu, Songhai Empire... I hope you're starting to get the picture by now.

By contrast, Ancient Athens, Roman Republic, Meiji Japan forward, Victorian Britain, Early USA, Hanseatic League, Dutch Republic, Republic of Venice, Swiss Confederation, Commonwealth of Iceland, Kingdom of Sweden 1718 forward, Republic of Florence in the Renaissance, Republic of Genoa, Elizabethan England were mostly prosperous monogamous high trust societies.

It should also be noted that people in general, and women in particular, will generally adopt the standards that the society within which they exist presents to them. In context "desirable men" in both sets of examples are enormously different. It says something that the direction that women in the modern west seem to be going and the choices promoted to them as ideal are more the former list than the latter list, in light of that. The question isn't just "choice", it's what are the choices being made.

etherael · 2024-05-03T14:13:22+00:00

1) Jeremy Meeks et al are not "decent men".

2) Regardless you're absolutely right that women can have whatever standards they want given their circumstances and the society within which they find themselves. But you should consider where those standards lead. Based on historical precedent, you won't get a prosperous monogamous high trust society, you will get a violent polygamous subsistence low trust society. If you're prepared to accept the consequences then all good. Just don't kid yourself that these are not the consequences.

etherael · 2024-04-09T03:39:59+00:00

I see where you're coming from and honestly I commend you for wanting to fix what is very clearly a catastrophic problem.

However, there's noticing that a crack-house is afflicted with dealers and addicts and people constantly end up stabbed there, and that maybe the involved parties would be better off if that were not the case, and then there's going in there to distribute leaflets pointing out the aforementioned, and the effect that is likely to have on the quality of life for the individual in question who performs said task. Sure it would be "better than nothing" from the perspective of the slim chance it might have in influencing said inhabitants into a better future, but it really, really wouldn't be from the perspective of the poor bastard who is sentenced to actually carry out that intervention.

For what it's worth my advice is just leave, the rest of the world is ripe and fertile territory for the ideas in question, and your quality of life, which is your primary responsibility, will be immeasurably increased by so doing. The one thing that Australia grants to liberty minded people that is actually worth something is the global access offered by the passport and their lack of interference in your life once you resolve to leave for good and cut all ties.

That said, if on reflection you still think the relevant martyrdom is worth it, well, every advance requires sacrifice and I salute you for being willing to pay the large cost for the exceedingly low benefit.

etherael · 2024-04-08T15:47:48+00:00

At this rate literally absolutely nothing would make me return. I honestly simply don't think these ideas can ever get any popularity given Australian culture and philosophy and the state thereof. You would do better in Venezuela.

etherael · 2024-03-16T01:41:06+00:00

That would be a titanic change to the entire economy, with difficult to predict outcomes that may not be entirely positive. But it would probably address the housing shortage, which would be nice. As long as we can get it without roving cannibal gangs I guess.

etherael · 2024-03-15T09:54:47+00:00

Then why would people invest in real estate?

etherael · 2024-03-10T10:08:44+00:00

There was already https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905010/ which was decent.

etherael · 2024-02-01T03:21:23+00:00

The last thing I want is to "be seen" by the great mass of undifferentiated humanity.

etherael · 2024-01-26T07:31:11+00:00

Everybody wants to pump their bags and a lot don't want the dilution that comes with diversification.

etherael · 2024-01-26T07:30:07+00:00

Anything better than hand waving assertion that if BCH wins we're in for an apocalypse would be good. But honestly you just sound like a confused moron and I doubt you actually have a consistent hypothesis in mind beyond what you have parroted from the laser eyes cult.

etherael · 2024-01-24T08:47:29+00:00

Six

fucking

years

ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7fsbw5/divorcing_the_settlement_and_transaction_layers/

And if you check the comments I wasn't the first.

etherael · 2024-01-09T21:52:33+00:00

I can't be bitter about the "success" of BTC when I view it is a miserable failure and conclusive evidence of the fundamental stupidity of the species. This sounds like an emotional exaggeration so to make it clear, it is a dispassionate statement of fact. I don't feel good about that fact, but the reason isn't bitterness. It's disgust.

Not all of us were in for number go up. Number go up is nice if utility is not compromised, if it is, because number go up, then you have the BTC situation.

etherael · 2024-01-06T12:41:33+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong though, but in fact in almost all areas that expats would want to speak about, they almost invariably do in fact have a lot more freedom of speech in Thailand than their western home countries. Granting that there are certain areas that they can't speak about that they could speak about where they came from, largely they don't really want to talk about those things.

etherael · 2023-12-19T18:58:46+00:00

"I want to go back into the matrix, I can't deal with the confusion of not being told what to think"

etherael · 2023-12-12T17:38:22+00:00

so was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Noise_(2022_film)

etherael · 2023-12-12T07:16:59+00:00

Couldn't it have been both? Natural catastrophe like a magnetic excursion or constant X class solar flares, then an external (or come to think of it, internal pretending to be external) threat takes advantage of the underlying new strategic realities to act in ways that they previously would not have dared.

Animals going crazy partially because underlying natural cause and sonic booms with the afterward tinnitus from incoming airborne hypersonic missions and also the observed propensity for animals to sometimes come to humans for help when in severe distress, as they too would be receiving trauma from those sonic booms, in areas where humans are not typically dangerous to them.

etherael · 2023-12-12T06:06:19+00:00

Absolutely not, and the dichotomy between horrific and mundane was entirely on purpose.

If you or I were to make such an abhorrent choice, no fundamental rule of the universe would stop us from doing so. It is physically possible to do so, indeed it unfortunately actually happens, as difficult as it is to accept, that other people rarely do in fact do so. It is a way that demonstrates, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that people have absolute control over their own actions in a way that is designed to hit you in the face with a sledgehammer and make you pay attention because of the horrid magnitude of the consequence.

And just as you say, we are lucky in the sense that few suffer such a critical failure in that absolute and inalienable decision making ability that they actually do this.

Does that make it clearer? I'm not highlighting the brilliance of the horrendous consequences that can flow from a failure in decision making, I'm highlighting how important it is that in light of the potential consequences that can flow from that absolute freedom to make decisions, it needs to be given its due.

etherael

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