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mircea_popescu: well yes. your choices are : either have enough power / capiutal / value to acquire enough actual btc to matter in that world ; or else to get used to not mattering in the world ; or else to have even more power and force an alt into being.
mircea_popescu: heck, there was a bitcoin-based thing that kinda worked on that premise. namecoin.
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact you can run a dns server right now, and tell everyone to use it, and for everyone who does use it... your version of the ns will be visible.
mircea_popescu: well, yes, because it wasn't made by idiots. but the fundamental point remains : someone excluded could re-use that article by re-writing 5 words.
mircea_popescu: obviously EVERY naming system will work exactly like the dns, or like the wot works : either be at the table, or be a child looking for parents.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, if half a mil is " you can just forget about that right away." to you, then on what the fuck is your expectation to participate in the workings of society based ?!
mircea_popescu: so guy is pissed off and likes to call things names. fine.
mircea_popescu: originally i registered the domain with namecheap ; originally namecheap was a great registrar. meanwhile they went to utter shit, the story is both on trilema an' in the logs.
mircea_popescu: copypaste tons of people were affected and the eventual sale was related.
mircea_popescu: these days, dressed women will have little influence on society.
mircea_popescu: i want domain names like i want a wide selection of hats.
mircea_popescu: anyway, judging by the [Ticket#2015121310000406] header it'd seem they sat on this for almost a month - from dec 13 to jan 9th. but whatevers, i was just looking for a pretext to throw the whole dns bullshit away anyway.
mircea_popescu: from what intel reports they had a cowboy period ~in2014 when they stole a bunch of domains, got slapped with some suits, lost a coupla worth their income for the decade and settled right the fuck down.
mircea_popescu: would say to try and extricate themselves from the potential mess).
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-01-2016#1366093 << not exactly, at least not yet. we had an exchange, they backed off. (last i heard was "We have already asked the complainant to contact the webhost as we do not provide hosting services and cannot remove any content from the website. We are awaiting their response and will forward you the details once they respond." which is exactly what one'd expect sane people
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "lenin, lived ; lenin, lives ; lenin shat in the bidet!"
mircea_popescu wonders if all these people were waiting on winnings to make more bets.
mircea_popescu: clearly bitbet lost a lot of confidence over the bitcoin-sucks debacle
mircea_popescu: mats> pogo is mega expensive now, just about one year following project inception << fortunately we have a bunch stashed.
mircea_popescu: adlai> but do we really want to go full wottard? << stop with the "we", and yes we do.
mircea_popescu: i would strongly advise anyone using trb in production to at least test this patch.
mircea_popescu: sooo... it pleases me to announce that private testing shows alf's patch not only removes 80% of bullshit "nodes" trying to connect, but it also improves network thoroughput by a factor of about 700
mircea_popescu: <adlai> fwiw utxo set size grows indefinitely, whatever the block size. someday it grows larger than the largest affordable RAM, even for mircea_popescus <<< this was discussed here a number of times, actually.
mircea_popescu: i recall hav ing a 32 bit trb made to work at some point, but not the specifics
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually you should be able to run 32 bit on a 64 bit box, neh ?
mircea_popescu: "December 19 2014 : DBD parameters set by Shane Kinney" ahaha cool.
mircea_popescu: more dominant mother doesn't necessarily make worse mother (excepting for crazy outliers known in literature as schizogenic). it's true she has a tougher time for the first few years, but then once there's teenagers in the house... you'll love every cannon you got.
mircea_popescu: you'll scream yourself hoarse setting limits. with any luck.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes was working on more, iirc mod6 has two too...
mircea_popescu: davout has two, mike has two, pete has iirc also two ? kakobrekla has like 6 or 7 or some high amount like that...
mircea_popescu: you kidding me, these doods be multiplyin' like rabbits. i think there's more b-a kids than there's b-a adults.
mircea_popescu: in this sense the whole thing would be reminescent of how nipples work.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear, but it may be the case that the mechanism is coopted in their sexual activity and becomes part of what drives child rearing. so they got a deliberate leak and it never fills.
mircea_popescu: well... it's a problem of people, it appears. you are born with a tank, and until it gets filled you're stuck working on filling it. normally it's full by about 12yo in males, but abnormally...
mircea_popescu: no. he's saying that he's not getting enough attention at home.
mircea_popescu: now break out of this queergender feminized state where you imagine anyone cares to seduce you and go do some work.
mircea_popescu: yeah totally, you can run an eulora client, desperate need for more noobs there.
mircea_popescu: i'm giving it away exactly like "free education" is given away.
mircea_popescu: davout really ? because why, i'm short tits and they have economic utility ?
mircea_popescu: adlai if you can code, you can actually help the trb people. if you can't code, you can try an' help BingoBoingo, who's coinstantly asking. or else offend copypaste by rewriting trilema as best you can. or etc.
mircea_popescu: <davout> adlai: it's the same kind of stupidity you'll find in "oh, i'll give away some bitcoin for xmas" << i maintain that my "give a little btc to eager young sluts" beats this "give a little more btc to people you know or are related to that don't want it" by a factor of infinity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: adlai nobody's trying to convince anyone. i also don't go around watering holes in africa trying to convince the animals to drink./
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this seems a deeply ignored point, all sorts of okcupid chicks honestly expect they'll be entertained just because well... they exist. ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: the poor in all times and places belong on a conveyor belt towards a woodchipper. it is however very important to have a readily accessible door out of the tunnel, for any thinking folk who accidentally fell in.
mircea_popescu: adlai you're not belabouring under the misapprehension that i expect all to be saved, are you ? the point is not that. the point is for there to be a way for the scant few who don't belong there to save themselves.
mircea_popescu: that bitcoin allows the poor a venue to actually accumulate capital is really all that matters, for the well being of the world generally.
mircea_popescu: that is the only social function poor people actually need : a path out of poverty.
mircea_popescu: not so. it is extremely useful : it allows them to save.
mircea_popescu: "I stuck it on a github repo, which includes a tarball of the code with detached signature. You can also grab it as a vpatch with seal if you like. You might see some nodes reporting version 77777; that's what it will claim to be if you run it without modification."
mircea_popescu: hahaha check thios dude out : "Some of you may be aware of a project called "therealbitcoin" and some of its development history. Over the last few days I forked the project, dropped in the woodcoin genesis block, genesis merkle root, the skein woodcutting algorithm, the logarithmic supply curve, the relevant difficulty adjust parameters, and the magic header code:"
mircea_popescu: the demand for bitcoin usage from poor people remains scant.
mircea_popescu: well that's the only fucking end result when illiterate people get involved in "fixing" shit they didn't read.
mircea_popescu: so i'm taking an educated guess : it's because bad math.