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mod6: true. this is
a good point.
mircea_popescu: pre hearn&fail-bip, the standard was pretty high. by now it's
a lot easier to argue "hey, at least it's not as bad as THAT dumb shit"
mircea_popescu: so in
a sense they're actually working for us, unintentionally, in their idiocy.
mircea_popescu: mod6
a perfect backward compatibility <<< every month less perfect.
danielpbarron: i'm
a little surprised i didn't get suspended as well, for retwatting the offending .. uh..
mod6: yeah getting rid of openssl is going to be, an adventure. not only does the crypto need to be implemented,
a perfect backward compatibility needs to be maintained.
mod6: in the short term, is there
a way to maybe do this better that I'm missing?
mod6: it's
a tough pill to swallow to sign & rely on such garbage
mod6: i do see what you're saying in
a sense I think.
mod6: i have one more bridge to cross yet, and I havent gotten that far yet; having
a script of my own somehow check the sigs & hashes after the file xfrs are complete.
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 06:49:28; assbot: Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to
a Hoax | Motherboard ... (
http://bit.ly/1IGiEGw )
mircea_popescu: "CountOneInterrupt 2 points 1 hour ago Gotta love that classy web design with
a butt next to the name. It's our sister site!" << check it out! someone fucking got it!
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> top kek, mircea_popescu made buttcoin << eh, they've got
a fascination with me ever since back when the subreddit was called somethingafwul
mircea_popescu: <cazalla_> yeah that guy, i actually bought
a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make
a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin <<< ahahaha check out the guy that took
a year off from btc biz :D
punkman: I've read
a couple of his learn X books, not bad
cazalla_: yeah that guy, i actually bought
a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make
a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin
BingoBoingo: "She told me that her team did
a lot of collaborative work in this lab, and she didn't need someone who was going to 'eat more than their fair share of the pizza, if you know what I mean.' "
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: [malleability] 'This is
a major problem, principally driven by the deliberately broken state of the FOSS' << btw it affects pgp (via the braindamaged pkcs1.5) to same extent
ascii_field: (with
a very small amount of number-theoretical elbow grease)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'Not only are they part of the transaction, not only are they an integral part of the transaction : they are the only actually needed part. What makes
a transaction
a transaction is the signature, nothing else. Everything else is like marketing : contributes to costs, not to revenue.' << here i will note that, if bitcoin used rsa sigs, the tx and the signature could be literally one and the same thing
shinohai: Well I never would have guessed two individuals would get their panties in
a bunch in one day.
mircea_popescu: try screaming "YOU MAKE EXCELLENT PIE" at the top of your lungs @woman, see if she takes it as
a compliment.
mircea_popescu: consider this blog post (
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-to-calculate-lifetime-value/) from KISS metrics,
a company whose aim is to “help you make smarter business decisions.” Not only do they include
a version of the model that specifically ignores future costs, but also they recommend taking an average of three different results, two of which are clearly flawed. This voodoo-math has no place as part of
a multi-mi
mircea_popescu: "The Model is Confused and Misused. Frequently the same group that is arguing for more spending is the same one that “owns” the LTV calculation. (This is
a mistake – finance should monitor LTV). As
a result, it is not uncommon for one to see shortcuts taken that allow for greater freedom. As an example, marketers often divide spend by total customers to calculate SAC rather than just those customers that were
mircea_popescu: myeah. i had
a mp sitting on my shoulder going "Doh" as i hit enter
mircea_popescu: except this approach handed their country to china on
a silver plate.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: if you live in usa you are not far from some place where you can rent
a kalash and try 'snipe' at 100 metres into
a plate
ascii_field: same reason why add
a 2kg telescope to kalash ?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 14:24:36; HeySteve: as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5 as
a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
assbot: You rated user heysteve on 25-Oct-2014, with
a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: Fairer sex connoisseur.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i've really not spent so much time looking into it, gb-and-
a-half piddle from 10s of ips.
ascii_field: wake me up when i can buy
a ticket to the impalements.
HeySteve: step 1 is not being
a psychopath. try it sometime.
HeySteve: I mean really, putting out
a hit? what if some desperate or crazy person takes you up on it, are you ready for the criminal charges?
ascii_field: was it really so impossible to find
a halfway-convincing actor ?
mircea_popescu: im guessing if the "swj" update to bitcoin goes the same way the xt update goes, usg is going to discover that really, gavin has no objection to wearing
a going to wear
a satoshi costume permanently ?
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:13:57; mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run
a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of
a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 15:17:55; mircea_popescu: why would you need to purge anything, i thought usgavin had consensused with
a bunch of experts as to how there's plenty of room for everything.
mircea_popescu: "Taleb has been kicking up the dust lately on Facebook and Twitter, encouraging his readers to not even listen to people who disagree with his beliefs about GMOs." << apparently encouraging readers to not erven listen to people who know better than to buy in the "rape" narrative, or the "global warming" narrative is
a-ok. the problems only start when power exists unalligned to the usg, then the means are VERY BAD!!11
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 08:07:31; pete_dushenski: "Taleb’s tantrum is reprehensible, but at the end of the day it’s his own business whether he is willing to listen to actual experts. He does more harm by setting
a bad example. He’s not just refusing to engage opposing opinions himself, he’s encouraging his readers and followers to do it too"
mircea_popescu: the best part is that this works out to
a 50% discount for the first year. basically, they;re out there selling adjustable APR mortgages to suckers.
mircea_popescu: i fully expect the 2016 sv vc verbiage to be all about special pleading of the "employee contracts" sort seen this year. "we lose
a lot of money but want you to somehow believe everything that exists is due us!"
mircea_popescu: "But the bigger problem – and the real problem for investors – is how little of
a problem this persistent underperformance is for VCs themselves. LPs have created and perpetuate an industry of such structural economic misalignment that VCs can underperform and not only survive, but thrive."
mircea_popescu: "2013 had all the signs of being
a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and
a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.
davout: mircea_popescu: "Valid Bitcoin addresses start with
a "1"" <<< since when?
mircea_popescu: aww... experiencing
a little bit o' ddos, somehow. back shortly.
mircea_popescu: why would you need to purge anything, i thought usgavin had consensused with
a bunch of experts as to how there's plenty of room for everything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this year they're all "oh noes, scarce resources, must replace blockchain with
a napkin"
mircea_popescu: and yeah re the src point : /me would enjoy
a show conssiting of alf crossexamining pretenders.
assbot: There's
a one Bitcoin reward for the death of Pieter Wuille. Details below. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1lxiG9S )
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6 perhaps an announcement that the bitcoin foundation maintains and will continue to maintain
a real bitcoin client, notwithstanding continued attacks from well known usg agents on the core values of sound money ? << sounds good, will write something up by EOD.
mircea_popescu: i nten million bars all over the world
a hundred million derps spend hours discussing what shit they'd stick to the sides of kardashian, also
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 07:40:28; pete_dushenski: "Nowadays I ask computer-science faculty candidates to explain their view on the ethical responsibilities of computer scientists. Some respond like
a deer in headlights, unsure what such
a question could even mean." << via
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf mircea_popescu: is there no honest man that ever worked for
a university ?
mircea_popescu: "You would mark the signature data as special. You are indicated by green color on this slide. Everything but the green part goes into the hash of
a transaction. The signature doesn't. It's just
a piece of data that's still there, but we don't consider it part of the transaction.
shinohai: It's like whitewashing
a fence!
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mircea_popescu: rrently there is
a mechanism in there using checkpoints, which we want to deprecate soon, but the result will still be that we're not validating all signatures from years ago in deep history."
mircea_popescu: In particular, we are going to be talking about signatures. It's important to realize here that signatures are really only needed for fully-validating nodes. As
a light-weight client, you are not validating signatures, even though they are part of the transactions you still have to download them. If you are using
a full-node that is syncing historical data, you don't actually validate all of the signatures in there. Cu
mircea_popescu: and it does create
a mess for the people on the highway.
mircea_popescu: next time you feel the itch to "drive adoption", specially to poor/stupid people, think that giving
a car to
a guy living in
a horsepulled cart doesn't help him.