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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually it was a very good coat. tough as nails.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell znort987 a) it's one part of what looks like 7 or 8 and b) for entomologist interest only.
mircea_popescu: a little vps is useful to have anyway. it's one of those things, like a shed. once you have it - uses abound.
mircea_popescu: if you run it on yoru desktop is no better than your normal ircf client
mircea_popescu: felipelalli you're supposed to get a cheap vps and run znc there.
mircea_popescu: pretty ridoinculous seeing how half the time i fuck girl with knees together.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ah, yeah, ankle hook was permitted. if you count that as wrestling.
mircea_popescu: phf by and large the deep driver being that girls at that age suck, being as they are ~marmots. babyfat bubbles on uneasy legs.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it got pretty much all of the girls wearing dresses.
mircea_popescu: 10yo acceptable maneuvers re girls were a) throwing soft snowball (really hard iced ones were for boys only!) ; sticking snow behind neck but only if done with trickery (ie, if the girl was aware she's about to get it you couldn't do it) and finally pulling pants off. bonus points if also underwear.
mircea_popescu: the ~reason we monetized these was because a) we'd snowball the girls into little piles as soon as the snow came and b) we'd wrestle hundreds of times a day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they don't. these spontaneous monetizations are spontaneous from an interplay of sexuality and violence which does not exist in anglo world.
mircea_popescu: iirc i even told the story of the gambling game i devised which made me uber rich
mircea_popescu: ie, THESE coins are now going to be SHARES in so and so.
mircea_popescu: nah. the original colored coins was a "let's do mpex over bitcoin network because mp is something you can replace by a napkin sketch of a protocol"
mircea_popescu: really, the 1700s are more instructive to the student of modern finance than any available material.
mircea_popescu: then voltaire andsome friends bought all the emissions and so "won" the "lottery"
mircea_popescu: THEN came up with idea of lottery, to repay full value for the serials took from a hat.
mircea_popescu: well, state issued "rents", ie, you give them so much and they give you so much back.
mircea_popescu: (anyone up to date on the lulz that passed for fiscal management of the kingdom back in 1750s ? )
mircea_popescu: also money lottery was popular in the time of voltaire
mircea_popescu: i suppose some soapy smith somewhere did something like this.
mircea_popescu: to get you the actual pointers i'd have to dig out through my official history of currency trainingbook which i continents ago misplaced.
mircea_popescu: also case of "converbile - but only so and so numbers monday ; so and so tuesday" etc.
mircea_popescu: case of "only odd digit is good from now on" instead of making new currency, to stablize
mircea_popescu: though it should not happen prior to 2018, i expect a lot of dao-lolz coming out of what's fundamentally a middling design.
mircea_popescu: heck, we might even implement sidechains of whatever fashionable flavour of the month, as a bold-on, if anyone's bored enough.
mircea_popescu: that they make segwit ; that we make deedbot (the two are not even vaguely dissimilar, by the way, except prb doesn't know how to code cleanly), is really nobody's problem.
mircea_popescu: you can count on 1`000`000 bytes ~ every six minutes til kingdom come. that's your bitcoin footprint.
mircea_popescu: this is all fine. and they're more than welcome to hold whatever sidechain db in whatever manner until they fall over.
mircea_popescu: the other side of "segwit" is that there will NEVER be a block size increase. period and full stop.
mircea_popescu: i don't see how you can be forced to store txn you dun wanna.
mircea_popescu: who knows, maybe stephen still wears red pants next year ; or maybe brown ; or maybe dead.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they got nuked, currently is all they can try for.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, do you know how many think they have seven sons ?
mircea_popescu: do you know how many people think "500 followers" means 500 followers ?
mircea_popescu: there's no end to the human capacity for self delusion - which is fundamentally the point of our discussion coupla days ago. you can't have a protocol that keeps people from being stupid.
mircea_popescu: there's the regular idiots who think themselves "rich", esr style.
mircea_popescu: there's also people who imagine they "have a voice" ; or "social media power" or whatnot.
mircea_popescu: sure, this will prolly "be implemented" ; then some idiots will "use it" ; then we'll get some "oh mp is a scammer because i sent him 5 btc he's not recognizing" threads on reddit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing obliges you to accept transactions that don't conform.
mircea_popescu: a dozen people (if that) carry on their "very reasonably engineered" with flecks of "right thing" a la mmap shoulders THOUSANDS of fucking social media monkeys and assorted barn animals ; they see a paltry few thousands out of the BILLIONS this shitfest burns each year ; and they don't even have good parking spaces.
mircea_popescu: the one true shocker (and unsurprisingly fishwraps avoid the mention) is just how few hands were involved.
mircea_popescu: found the one lone dude still competent in the whole shit fondue fountain-castle.
mircea_popescu: "But it is even worse when many of those attacks are agitated by someone that purports to be part of your own project. Not just involved with, even leading projects whose developers and users are openly hostile to us."