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mircea_popescu: ascii_modem the gist of what i'm saying is that while foundation publishing the best code possible is a very useful and very worthy thing, you do not have game theoretic reasons to expect the things you were claiming to ewxpect
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, some people do code defensively. rare but exists
mircea_popescu: on olne hand, you'd be surprised what is appreciable for mining
mircea_popescu: this isn't a field where such a thing as sop may be a defined symbol.
mircea_popescu: it's a shitty game plan, but then again there's women aspiring to be singers, so.
mircea_popescu: what the current outsider schmucks (on #bitcoin-dev and etc) hope to achieve with their time is, release enough code that nobody* uses to give the impression they know their shit, so they can one day maybe join the actual miners as a junior analyst, and until then survive on conference rubber chicken.
mircea_popescu: there's a revenue model in place, and traditional software paradigms plainly do not matter.
mircea_popescu: this isn't wordpress, or red hat, where you hope to make money downstream out of basically, advertising.
mircea_popescu: you DO NOT benefit from more people using your software.
mircea_popescu: understand : unlike most usecases for software, bitcoin mining presents exactly zero incentive to share code.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem yeah, it's on the shelf right next to the secret cypher suites, have at.
mircea_popescu: wrote own software, been doing parallel sigcheck since 2013.
mircea_popescu: you know, spend three hours mining a spv verified chain because they just don't give a fuck.
mircea_popescu: but do not despair : the same situation was in place back when the power rangers maintained it.
mircea_popescu: game theopretically, bitcoind is irrelevant for mining.
mircea_popescu: so, again : if they can think they don't need you. if they can't think, they wouldn't even know you exist.
mircea_popescu: i'm a miner, i can't think. i run some random derp pool, i couldn't care less about you.
mircea_popescu: i'm a miner, i can think. i run my own nodes, i run my own pool, i couldn't care less about you.
mircea_popescu: "Tokyo police are investigating whether a man who cooked his own severed genitals and served them to five paying diners committed a crime, the force said Tuesday."
mircea_popescu: all this suicide "indicting" has a single source : "you owe us"
mircea_popescu: is perelmanism singularly unprofitable for the perelman ?
mircea_popescu: the one that'd never have amounted to a hill of beans until some cop shot him ?
mircea_popescu: how you say this in russian ? ziditor, literally, building, but it's only used in that form in a churchly context, "building into christ"
mircea_popescu: said the daymio to the assassin : why would i want protection from contact with assassins ? you're giving exceptional blowjobs!
mircea_popescu: the whores i've known in my lyf taught me to not take a man's own word on that score.
mircea_popescu: well, i have not the instrumentation to make this point rigurouslyt
mircea_popescu: that's the problem here - to make a name you need a concept, and the concept's only circumscribed enough when there's enough errors on the table.
mircea_popescu: it is that by the time the mistakes got a name, the mistakes are by now too numerous to allow victory anymore.
mircea_popescu: by the time "systemd" is a word, usg-as-nsa is no longer.
mircea_popescu: by the time we have "politically correct" as a concept, us liberalism is dead.
mircea_popescu: by the time i can actually point to something, that side's lost.
mircea_popescu: but, without committing to being in any sense persuaded, or anything, consider the following :
mircea_popescu: this is not repaid by having five billion more schmucks use ubunwindows.
mircea_popescu: punkman if nothing else, i have a very convenient rally point.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem only in your alt-world where meta-win is a win and meta-nsa a thing.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem understand that it doesn't matter what the loser of a contest cares about.
mircea_popescu: gnutls was marked for death along with everythning else i nthe pki scabies pile
mircea_popescu: exactly how "war on terror" was a disaster for them. "oh we conquered iraq". "you won't be able to hold it"
mircea_popescu: <punkman> they must be pleased with systemd results << they are. and mostly on the grounds that they're measuring badly.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if google telepathy keyboard will work intermediately. secretary on her back with the things attacked, you stick your cock into her and write your next article.