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mircea_popescu: and the funny thing is - the usians won't even know it.
mircea_popescu: in fact this country is quite exactly the future of the us, almost to the last dash.
mircea_popescu: and the next day, people had to hide the police from the mob, like they were jews suddenly.
mircea_popescu: modern ro is kinda what the us aspires to be. and at the point where that happened, about 3%.
mircea_popescu: this is strictly true irrespective of any other consideration, and the epsilon can even be calculated quite well.
mircea_popescu: if the odds increase past a very tiny epsilon, there can not be a country.
mircea_popescu: if the odds for a policeman being answered with bullets are ~0%, there can be a country.
mircea_popescu: understand : the ability of the usg to continue strictly lays in the fiction called "lawful order".
mircea_popescu: i look at that index and i'm like... hey, nice, simcity 2015.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a middle class unless the poor class is being squished underfoot.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the only possible definition of "middle class" is, "what's left of the poor fucks once the rich fucks are done raping their daughters and shooting their sons for sport."
mircea_popescu: we aren't putting ghetto meat first. let the usg have that, they earned it.
mircea_popescu: "I think we should put users first." << oh, but we are. because poor people ARE NOT bitcoin users. by definition.
mircea_popescu: yes but traditionally the way broker works is that he allocates his trades. so... you say it happened, you have a block it could have happenbed in, that's it.
mircea_popescu: let him be "oh, that xt pool operator" and hang with it.
mircea_popescu: "good guys" gotta at some point comprehend the jwz future is no future.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, this is a perfectly fine time to move hashing away from slush, if anyone was looking.
mircea_popescu: "This shit from Mircea and friends is incomprehensible. And probably exactly wrong."
mircea_popescu: well, no. it works as intended : if you extract all the prefixed lines and wipe the prefix, you get the original text.
mircea_popescu: the correct solution is to reimplement pgp and make it behave re clearsign.
mircea_popescu: still, these perfectly valid technical objections aside - signed is deeply inferior to clearsigned. this is a fact, and it won't change.
mircea_popescu: just making the point that it's fucking impossible to predict wtf it does
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two undistinguishable reasons for silent answer. one's that no one heard.
mircea_popescu: "does it grow on dead body ? " "ayep" "then it's dangerous weapon for usg"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i thought you had no money, what do you care.
mircea_popescu: the text reads "append as many trailing spaces/tabs/CRs as you like to the clearsigned text"
mircea_popescu: well you can readily see what i added, it's all in there
mircea_popescu: ascii_field obviously. i'm just saying, you know, here's where the shore is. for all the puddles pretending to be rivers.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.slush.-10:32bc6c42d2abe961351b640351fa93b57b39fb751ee8ffa2f040ca50fa101109
mircea_popescu: perfectly valid fork that doesn't run into (the mostly valid) problem you raise.
mircea_popescu: "oh, millenium times" what the fuck derp argument is that. you get the same 25 btc for mining a block, here or there. each hash is worth the same.
mircea_popescu: then they could always have done it properly, like above. heck, they still do.
mircea_popescu: if genuinely users were constricted by nonsensical rules which inept conservatives maintained out of sheer lunacy,
mircea_popescu: that'd have been the HONEST approach to xt, were xt actually powered by the stuff they claim it to be powered by.
mircea_popescu: "here's the hard fork. mine the first block or go away"
mircea_popescu: all the altcoin scammers ever did, of course, but for a very transparent reason.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field youre not required to starty it at 1 diff.
mircea_popescu: since we're doing nonsense ("you can't teach a class in nonsense. but the history of nonsnese - that's scholarship!"), can anyone explain why exactly would a hard fork not start with its own genesis ? outside of the fundamentally fraudulent, pious or otherwise, attempt to pretend like it's something it is most assuredly not ?
mircea_popescu: heck, the absence of social recognition for this is why i won't have kids.
mircea_popescu: there is nothing wrong with preserving the originator's exercisable right to end his progeniture.