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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.
mircea_popescu: i dunno wtf you're doing programming computers yo. go be a negotiator.
mircea_popescu: i hope me and mike_c die in the same plane crash and i get to hear him talk it over with ol' paulie.
mircea_popescu: but my involvement in bitcoin has been deeply educative through example
mircea_popescu: dja understand any minor mistake the man made PROTOTYPING is now preserved in billion dollars' worth of amber ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c "some reason" aka it's fucking stupid and who the fuck does this to people, takes their napkin sketches and puts it in a frame above the mantelpiece!
mircea_popescu: thoughts ? what thoughts. this is abuse. you want 12-c down the hall for thoughts.
mircea_popescu: check it out thestringpuller you got better score than orlov.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli that's exactly it : there can only be one, and miners don't pick it. mike has it.
mircea_popescu: it's a great faith for the defeated, and always popular with them
mircea_popescu: christianity took over the decaying roman empire as the most concise, most popular embodiment of their hope and aspiration. the only such remaining - that even as they've failed, they still must survive "for there's nothing else".
mircea_popescu: and has so appeared, since before the greeks were invented.
mircea_popescu: the world is not unipolar. even if, for various inhabitants of various rural places, it so appears.
mircea_popescu: lemme put it plainly : if this were a unipolar world, it's not that bitcoin wouldn't exist. it's that it COULDNT.
mircea_popescu: because it's their fucking car, and because if they fuck it up they don't get another one.
mircea_popescu: yet lo and behold that not so many people drive their car through other people's doors.
mircea_popescu: that said, yes, people who disregard their own property can "mess around" with your property. for instance, a guy that doesn't give a shit about his 50k car can drive it through your front door.
mircea_popescu: would you say this means "hanging has taken over the us" ?
mircea_popescu: if tomorrow all white dudes in the us go hang themselves, leaving all the black dudes
mircea_popescu: a) what takes over ; b) what less and less. for starters.
mircea_popescu: " What neither side seems to grasp is this: as the virtualized realm of cyberreality and social networking takes over daily life, the actual physical economy will matter less and less"
mircea_popescu: i guess you'll have to provide offsets with your orlov links nao
mircea_popescu: events that increase in frequency due to the rapidly destabilizing climate." <<< ascii_field i'm sorry, what ?
mircea_popescu: "With each passing week more and more of us become ready to concede that economic growth is no longer possible. Economic development, on the old model, which UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon recently characterized as a “global suicide pact,” is becoming constrained by the limits of natural resources of the finite planet, energy, arable land and fresh water foremost among them, and stressed further by extreme weather
mircea_popescu: but to my own head it's a huge step forward. i guess i was coming at the internet from the wrong perspective. took a while to clear in my head heh.
mircea_popescu: well, i guess it's not novel nor really anything but the most banal observation.