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mircea_popescu: there must be active extermination, not just, "get them fat and shut in".
mircea_popescu: really, reddit as a concentration camp for shitheads is not nearly going far enough.
mircea_popescu: best thing ever. let them have the retard mass that success brings in. socialism deserves its fruits
mircea_popescu: leaving probably r/buttcoin as the schellign point, which honestly...
mircea_popescu: theymos tried to salvage reddit through doing what he wouldn't do to save bitcointalk three years ago ; this failed to work, reddit-bitcoin shattered.
mircea_popescu: #bitcoin-assets weathered it fine. the bitcoin foundation mailing list weathered it fine. the old mailing list is practically dead for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : the only thing this faux controversy has actually shown, is that the antiquated model of governance inherited by the power rangers from satoshi plainly does not work.
mircea_popescu: point was agreed to before i think. which is how the discussion re what pgp implementation must be like got started.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, but there's a difference between statistics and redditart say-so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which reminds me, apparently monero does just fine with the oak. somehow.
mircea_popescu: certainly the two major groups that stand to win from harming bitcoin are govt shills and the idiots they cater to.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's bored, here's a simple job : take all reddit accounts > 1 year old that are in favour of xt, count the ones who weren't also active in some other historically failed fork attempt.
mircea_popescu: pretty amusing how on some basic demographics, all the various groups doing various "better bitcoins" come out drastically in support of bitcoin-xt. it'd seem the people who agree bitcoin needs "improvement" is 80% the people who already agreed with this, unsuccessfully.
mircea_popescu: historically, X never happened. I believe X will happen now, because I think so.
mircea_popescu: I see the current block size debate in similar fashion. It seems almost inevitable that we will get bigger blocks (probably with XT) because the alternatives will not work well enough, soon enough."
mircea_popescu: "Some time back altcoins were thought to be potential challengers to BTC. But as time went on we realised that BTC was never going to be removed from the throne.
mircea_popescu: "public education" and "we should encourage more people to get into high paying tech jobs".
mircea_popescu: they assume it's ok to "require networking" because it makes X thing easier and "who would ever want to run without networking"
mircea_popescu: they're "nobody would ever want" level implementation.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell wyrdmantis ssd is irrelevant in the discussion. "memory pages" is also irrelevant i nthe discussion. apparently it's not that person's field either.
mircea_popescu: usually happens when it eats up all the memory doing long number manipulation. give it a few hours and try again
mircea_popescu: "Among intelligent Communists there is an underground legend to the effect that although the Russian government is obliged now to deal in lying propaganda, frame-up trials, and so forth, it is secretly recording the true facts and will publish them at some future time." << meta non-asshole stalinism!
mircea_popescu: ahahahah lol modigliani. "o you don't like pieface ? try longface!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i like the guy's thinking. "it's hard and i suck therefore whatevs."
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I demand for this to never have happened at once! << somehow reminds me of lweiss carroll
mircea_popescu: sadly it doesn't seem matematically possible to have this miracle.
mircea_popescu: i'd seriously consider publishing trilema as such if a way for this existed.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform and whoever else is privately thinking of reimplementing pgp : one thing i'd dearly love would be the ability to encrypt not to X, but to "l1".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ppl really need to to a diff between realsolid's claims in 2012 and gavin's claims in 2015
mircea_popescu: <trinque> or if it did on some forkchain, who cares? that one will inflate << and for a while it will be "just as good as bitcoin" except "better", like all other scamcoins to date. like ethereum, and next before it, and aurora coin before it, and solidcoin before it and so on.
mircea_popescu: for very obvious reasons only a retard needs delineated.
mircea_popescu: a retail payment system that isn't visa is going to be inferior to a retail payment system that is visa for the foreseeable future.
mircea_popescu: punkman yes of course. just as soon as there's observable value everywhere a horde of shitheads with spoons are moving towards it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: should we need a salt, in the shape of a #sigline for all authors ? something like