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mircea_popescu: (i dunno if you recall
the net history, was at a point swedish
torrent published openly mockful "takedowns" on its website)
mircea_popescu: turns out usg is more
than happy
to bomb a whole dc, or for
that matter wedding party.
mircea_popescu: this was
the pretense of shared hosting. it didn't work irl.
mircea_popescu: your design requires "always", not "when it's worth
the money".
mircea_popescu: whenever your design calls for "and
then
they will go in front of
the cannons, break
the enemy's arms and beat
them into a pulp with
the broken arms" you're not asking for a merchant, but for a soldier.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-25 18:33 mircea_popescu: no because government does
thart for
them hurr.
mircea_popescu: yes but now you depend on a
type of
tx -
the moving fallbacks.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-25 20:03 mircea_popescu:
the pill
to socialism is market. make
things marketable, no further problems.
mircea_popescu: game suddenly becomes "can you volunteer necks
to squeeze" ; empire already reduced
the
thriving system of euro
trade
to
the sad nonsense of us banking.
mircea_popescu: anyway. nytimes/cnn are getting shut down,
this year.
there's no
two ways about it at
this point.
mircea_popescu: now people will have
to click on breitbart
to see what
trump said at news conference.
mircea_popescu: in other lulkz : cnn, nytimes and
the rest of
the libertard fake news sites denied white house access.
mircea_popescu: "oh but if
they're strong
they might not like us". ~dumbass women always and everywhere.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the fundamental problem of making one's citizens weaker is never evident
to
these schmucks.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 16:16 asciilifeform: 'Security expert and doomsayer Bruce Schneier – speaking by video owing
to RSA Conference commitments in San Francisco and perhaps prescience with regard
to seasonal
travel challenges – predicted
that
the government is coming
to handcuff coders. "We all had
this special right
to code
the world as we saw fit," said Schneier. "My guess is we're going
to lose
that right, because it's
too dangerous
mircea_popescu: and note
that we';re not
the onyl ones aware. enemy has placed a strategic urbit right on
this space.
mircea_popescu: much like i much prefer
the "i
took my pills"
to
the "i'll be careful" female declaration.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm always open
to
technological solutions
to replace political solutions.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there might be others, i make no pretense
to exhaustivity, hence why
this is a very early phase of
the design. we don't well know
the space yet.
mircea_popescu: also happens
to be what's of interest, what with all "color of bits" eternal imperial quest.
mircea_popescu: ie,
the interests of
the participants are alligned in
the way of
the fix not in
the way of
the failure.
mircea_popescu: take
the issue of "must have all blocks".
there's a strong political incentive
to supplant
the
technological failure.
mircea_popescu: (in case it wasn't obvious, diff between political and
technological is based on whether people have an incentive
to emulate
the fix anyway)
mircea_popescu: well, sha-1 went, any one of
the
two mechanisms involved in pubkey protection weakinging any would make for an emergency incentive.
mircea_popescu: absent a good or at least workable breakthrough in
this vein,
there's no strong
technological incentive
to move
to
trb-i
mircea_popescu: this is what i'm saying, anyway. " what we don't really have is
the stuff
that we really need, such as debottlers."
mircea_popescu: the problem with
this is
that it makes balance checks impossible.
mircea_popescu: (practically - you can only know
txn y spent from address z only once
the chain ends up with an address you own so you can decrypt it)
mircea_popescu: all
txn are encrypted
to destination. nobody knows what was mined until it is spent.
mircea_popescu: miners may not be able
to choose
txn on any other criteria
than
the fee ; nodes idem.
mircea_popescu: idiot example #2 : a
trb which allows
txn
to be blocked by others
than
their issuers is ALSO a "way
to do
things" which doesn't in fact work, and
therefore, exactly equivalent
to
the peter
todd & prb idiots item
mircea_popescu: idiot example #1 : peter
todd & prb idiots came up with "a way
to do
things", which does not in fact work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you keep fixating on a completely nonsensical interpretation of
the comparison.
mircea_popescu: never mind
that.
the problem is
that if your
tx being included depends on you having a miner, you don't actually have a system. just like
the 3bullshit isn't a system.
mircea_popescu: yes, but
the idea is
to not expand
the hipster doofus design principles
to
trb-i
mircea_popescu: it was an instance of "here's something i made
that doesn't work, mommy loves me" complex.