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mircea_popescu: then threw a fit when random barbarian landed and took your wonders ?
mircea_popescu: were you the derpy sort of player that never built a phalanx ?
mircea_popescu: even "pogo-ready btc" might be good enough. definitely WOULD have been good enough, in 2015.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a btc with ringbuffer mempool, with the aforediscussed scoring mechanism for discounting txn, with encrypted connections and using any port is probablty good enough. hard to tell.
mircea_popescu: well i don't even know yet. vaguely defined, "a btc that won't give my computer hives"
mircea_popescu: socialists, of which the usg is just an implementation, lose through there existing alternative. all that's needed really.
mircea_popescu: notrly, even to whale. gotta appreciate : if the niche exists, the plankton also exists.
mircea_popescu: so far all the efforts went more in the line of the earlierly discussed tor : nobody uses it but we keep pretending yet the propaganda machine's in place,
mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: of course, back illo tempore any class on crypto necessarily begun with a "data structures" prior years earlier.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "whenever you do a murder, you make 25 mistakes ; if you remember five of them afterwards you're lucky."
mircea_popescu: seems easier to believe a lone wolf is dumb than clever.
mircea_popescu: of course, there's a 2nd layer of problems : had the code been neatly written by someone obviously clueful as to the fundamentals of computer programming, would we have believed.
mircea_popescu: someone would have benefited immensely from a decent class in data structures.
mircea_popescu: notably, this would do nothing to break the protocol. how nodes handle their mempool is really their own problem.
mircea_popescu: i've been mulling it for months now, but there's no way out.
mircea_popescu: i see why they wanted to pretend, but it is fundamentally contrary to design goals.
mircea_popescu: "no transaction may be included in mempool if it has ANY predecessors that have not been already mined"
mircea_popescu: and i am almost persuaded by now that the notion of chained tx must be done away with.
mircea_popescu: what's it been, ONLY two full years ? still carrying on with it ?
mircea_popescu: "That contrary to planted disinformation of which the Guardian article is a fine example, the NSA has complete and unlimited, instantaneous access to any and all information passed through the TOR network in its entirety, as a matter of course and by design."
mircea_popescu: funny how "everyone" pretends tor is actually somehow a thing.
mircea_popescu: he's been an outlier throughout. not more or less insane than the average for that place.
mircea_popescu: and unrelatedly, omfg busta rhymes is the best black people act since aretha franklin.
mircea_popescu: jurov does this mechanism do anything about fragmentation ? notrly huh
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the intercepts were from "a dangerous ring of underage prostitute traffickers". who turned out to be indescribably dude-next-door sorta warm, cozy, familiar situation.
mircea_popescu: heh, two things about sorana, the comedy : a) i think i wrote about a dozen words. the rest is simply taken from "leaked" romanian-nsa phone intercepts (strictly illegal to have those, and even illegal-er to leak them seeing how the trial was ongoing. but...)
mircea_popescu: straight from horse's mouth (internet.bs). no idea if actually worth some research
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mircea_popescu: lmao they are going to dump all that tor bs on top of all that openssl bs on top of all that boost bs on top of all that qt bs into the client ?
mircea_popescu: anwyay, commenters bring a good fucking point. when i was in my teens i went through about 25-30k calories a week, each week.
mircea_popescu: seems a rehash of the entire "it's okay for fat woman to drown you in her lard in the subway. it's not ok for male to sit comfortably."
mircea_popescu: "TLDR: Fat with knee problems. Fat mother. Fat people are a cancer. " << i wonder how come people will throw an absolute hissy fit should mother dare smoke, yet nobody seems to get too worried should mother be obese. yet smoking is not nearly as damaging as obesity.
mircea_popescu: if i designed this, the -a flag would yield a "1024 most common english words" encoding.
mircea_popescu: dumbest fucking idea. why THE FUCK would the transport layer be even aware of pgp as opposed to plaintext.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's all the result of "easy to use" tools that run automagically.
mircea_popescu: there's no reason for it to be "good" when kuhn describes it as a way for scientists to keep from being too stupid and also "bad" when ayers describes it as a way for red necks to still manage to fit in with their neighbours without shooting each other too much.
mircea_popescu: love or hate it, propaganda has a role in helping undifferentiated cells digest phenomena. pure, nude phenomena are indigestible by the human cell.
mircea_popescu: trinque in point of fact, words mattering is just another luxury good
mircea_popescu: propaganda storm most closely resembles insulin fatigue i'd say.
mircea_popescu: ie, i'm so very proud and i tell ya : rather than english or german, french or american, you're better off moldavian.
mircea_popescu: "io-atita ma mindresc, io-atita ma mindresc si va spun : decit englez or neamt, franzuz, american mai bine, mai bine moldovan"
mircea_popescu: phf well, you know, onoculated from propaganda, what's that even. "i'm done with love" ?
mircea_popescu: i happen to think the same is true of propaganda, even though it's an ideal object. by the time it's ubiquitous, the thing's going to shit. propaganda storm is a reflection of developing propaganda resistance.
mircea_popescu: "who needs blood when it spews from every orifice". seems like that's when you need it the most
mircea_popescu: the irony implicit being that had she watched it in 1978, she'd have thought it unspeakably great.
mircea_popescu: the flesh in the west was starting to build a new socialism, and the flesh in the east wanted what flesh always wants.
mircea_popescu: for specifically this reason : it is the direct equivalent to the set of euler's axioms.
mircea_popescu: i am sure it was the coolest movie in the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a valid and an invalid thing that i can readily see going under the same mantle. the valid side is an outgrowth of "no, we're not putting up with any shit, because shit reproduces itself, if you're going to make a sterile environment it gotta be sterile". the invalid part is well, paranoia, basically. "world is out to get itself!!!"
mircea_popescu: not all tumours are operable, is the sad fact of biology.