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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
mircea_popescu: "for fucks sake, is it necessary to invade every last god forsaken swamp ? is burma next ???"
mircea_popescu: first time the equivalent of turing's definition was constructed in practice.
mircea_popescu: it is a central tenant of computer science, henceforth.
mircea_popescu: "There remains after today no alternative manner to deploy Bitcoin software, or indeed any software that is not a toy intended to be used by children playing, outside of this paradigm. May the switchover be bloody and painful in all the right places." is not some sort of a joke, and in no case can it be waved aside.
mircea_popescu: because the whitegoods are fucking made for a house with running water by people who have running water and intend to continue having it.
mircea_popescu: just like you can go make yourself a house on the prarie. it won't have running water. and all the whitegoods will work poorly fed from canister.
mircea_popescu: but in being non-ba project, it misses out on all those things a ba project gets.
mircea_popescu: if it burns to the ground tomorrow it's about fifty million years too late.
mircea_popescu: humanity as it chooses to understand itself is the chief enemy, actually, and also the author of shit like the gnu diff. and everything else.
mircea_popescu: b-a is not a fucking gift "to humanity" as that "humanity" chooses to understand itself. b-a is a gift to humanity as defined by b-a.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c hey, would you make the v graph alongside the wot graph ?
mircea_popescu: and this exact scenario has played out a dozen or more times in the history of b-a
mircea_popescu: (really, V chiefly exists because we put other thibngs together a while back, and we didn't at the time know yet this is how it'll come out.
mircea_popescu: because really - they much belong together, and i expect synergy to be productive
mircea_popescu: maybe mike'd consider making it a subthing of his excellent wot graph
mircea_popescu: which is exactly a) what should be favoured (make it easy for the DEPLOYERS to sign, let the writers have to do all the hard work) and b) maximally economical.
mircea_popescu: b) you farm these and let them age, what's the big deal. 99% of all social media accounts are registered for the purpose of aging and then be used in a scam exactly like is contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: a) twitter is a piece of shit web 2.0 item. they are probably hacked by 4 different teams as we speak and they don't even known
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can't be arsed to, but it takes anyone five minutes to create a twitter accouint, link it to a dead website and say "dear mircea popoescu" on it
mircea_popescu: lmao twitter now sucks uisers phone number as a "security" thijg too ?
mircea_popescu: well, it's denominated in one euro increments, and i don't think he ever had outstanding enough to payu for even one year of college
mircea_popescu: antonosika no, that's not what it says. the contract creates no nude obligation to pay, which may be satisfied, and then a separate and ulterior consideration as to whom.