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mircea_popescu: anyway, hopefully they manage to prop it, because if they do not and people start unwinding us holdings on the grounds of the massive yuan profits to be thus made, that's that.
mircea_popescu: imagine what will happen if month later no china crash is seen? but USA has advantage that it will never feel shame. one lie does not come true, there is another one. and in the end they can still say china has hacked usa without any evidences. Repeating lies 1000 times, it becomes truth. that is how USA invaded Iraq.
mircea_popescu: after this unwinds 1929 will look like glbse by comparison.
mircea_popescu: no, the problem with landmines atm is that they can't be safely defused
mircea_popescu: i'd like land mines like that. so would every army out there.
mircea_popescu: " running powerful hacking software called Metasploit"
mircea_popescu: but notice that this does not run as far as the previous
mircea_popescu: what you want is the alleged minialfs who exist. people who supposedly could use the head, but somehow magically "not enough fuel"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> point of pogo is to allow well-meaning but illiterate or even stupid people to run therealbitcoin. << no. well meaning stupid is the LAST thing we want. i'd rather import us academia.
mircea_popescu: and if they fail to find it, or to take it, you have no case.
mircea_popescu: and the followin line does not follow. some intelligent people are poor, or more to wit : some poor people are (allegedly) intelligent. i doub this is true. but if it were, pogo is their way out.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> you know i'm not even convinced a node *should* be stood up without human intervention. << this may be true.
mircea_popescu: now if i ask dpb something about it, he can answer sensibly.
mircea_popescu: block 102 arrives, at timestamp 200, advertising timestamp 250.
mircea_popescu: block 101 arrives, at timestamp 150, advertising timestamp 101.
mircea_popescu: does not. looky here. block is 100, timestamp is 100, allowable max drift is 100.
mircea_popescu: yes, magical offset in that you don't know who's lying.
mircea_popescu: or whatever actual respectable prize the nobel used to be
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem of fitting real time to blocks is in fact going straight to the root of the world. solve it, get nobel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well ideal in what sense ? it's very unideal for his idea of timekeeping, because it proves (what we already knew) : time is meaningless and political time conventional, and all sorts of nutty fashions can endure a long time. ie, 350k blocks in this case.
mircea_popescu: jurov that's a pretty weird graph considering the gaps aren't even same size o.O
mircea_popescu: it would appear we are no less than a year into the future.
mircea_popescu: i would like to assure the concerned public that no flower bouquets were involved in any of this at any point.
mircea_popescu: she says sure, she's going for a cup of coffee. i ask where, she says "tell your guy to find out"
mircea_popescu: well, the most famous and i guess exemplare case is, mp stops car, tells shadow : follow that girl. guy gets an address, mp gets a phone number, talks to puzzled woman. explains that he had her stalked, would she like to have a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: mats you know all the girls i knew for the first i dunno, decade of my life i got through stalking ?
mircea_popescu: they truely believe it is a natural truth that their existence is all that's needed.
mircea_popescu: also why it's so fucking disconcerting to the welfare mass.
mircea_popescu: which is why this place (ie, bitcoin) is so fucking beautiful.
mircea_popescu: i dunno there's a sadder indictment of the decaying west.
mircea_popescu: because why sign things when you're "in crypto". he's an expert at counting fucking goats
mircea_popescu: jurov how am i going to speak here if i can't paste the assbot text ?
mircea_popescu: careful shinohai next you'll buy into the cult koolaid that milk doesn't come from supermarket
mircea_popescu: nobody realises they live in a house of shit until they try to go out the door
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think a few people are trying, but yes, as trinque says
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't want you to be doingm it, you do useful things with your time