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mircea_popescu: doewsn't even have to be collapse. consider : a hot area of research in the 50s/60s even 70s was genetics of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: (for they following at home : 4x as many bits does not mean 4x as large numbers. when computer registers went from 32 to 64 bits, maxint went from 2147483647 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idea that computing power is a monotone... heh. out of the crooked timber of humanity, no monotone was ever made.
mircea_popescu: besides, factoring 4096 keys is not quite that much of a given. for one thing, 1kb keys have not been factored yet. for the other... moore law, again ?
mircea_popescu: not sure what cuckoldry is, but, they can just register another key and push their stuff to it ?
mircea_popescu: is that alf actually beats a lot of "professional" managers
mircea_popescu: (one of my favourite jokes long ago. because i knew this ugly obnoxious dude who was kinda rape-y, and also kept buying clubs, as in, bars with music.)
mircea_popescu: well... you could start polyamory-ing, and then getting a new girl each week and then tricking her into having her picture taken with weird numbers written on her chest.
mircea_popescu: he can access them via otc, for that matter, just sell em to someone. but it makes little sense before share goes over par.
mircea_popescu: (i also fucked up the math, warrants only worth like 330)
mircea_popescu: ima make sure the mpex fee is 1.250 mn or so at that point :D
mircea_popescu: suppose within the year cardano proves such a success s.nsa trades ~0.00020000 like s.bbet. at that point, your 70% share of the stock will be worth 663.1905 ; your warrants like another 663.1904. if btc is 1.2k at that point again, you're now worth a million and a half in benjies
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you recall the entire warrants business btw ?
mircea_popescu: well in practice it seems it's mainly to drive people up the wall.
mircea_popescu: it's no such proof. it's proof that you are willing to allow the holder of key y to continue in your stead.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obama holds an arab world summit, nobody goes, us press is all quiet on THAT score.
mircea_popescu: brilliant plan, brilliantly executed. meanwhile, the chinese go to putin's victory celebration, the us press derps about how the european heads of "states" missed the opportunity to be relevant.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah totally. meanwhile the brilliant plan tostop supporting israel has resulted in an israel that could no longerr pull off the halfweek war, thus the arabs are no longer affraid of it, thus saudi arabia has no further need for the us alliance, thus they're trashing it.
mircea_popescu: the crowdsourced internet, putting pro comics out of business since september 1993
mircea_popescu: derp on trilema offers "military campaigns" as example of plans that worked (tm)
mircea_popescu: keys are identities. identities have to qualify themselves. the qualification happens to be pay 30 btc.
mircea_popescu: mpex does not discourage anything. mpex charges, because mpex is a business.
mircea_popescu: if you can upgrade your key for free, you don't have to pay mpex, you can just find someone with a key they don't want to use anymore and they can "upgrade" theirs to yours.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov we're talking about this situation where the total number of keys mpex charges for is = to the maximal number of keys ever used. that is not happening.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell nubbins` yo nooblet, make a pink eyes banner ? :D
mircea_popescu: go into the shop get a new one made, what. you want to turn the old one in for a new one ?
mircea_popescu: and it specifically should be 'unsupported'. For all you know a key ends up rediscovered five billion years later.
mircea_popescu: My new key is X, use of Y key past this point is unsupported. Signed by Y.
mircea_popescu: ah, but mind that there's no in principle reason a computer might not exist.
mircea_popescu: so, the key is there. how do you COLOR it, that's your job.
mircea_popescu: you can't un-discover some integers in a certan mathematical relation.
mircea_popescu: i do not belive machines should have any imperium over valid keys.
mircea_popescu: you have a comment field in the keys as they are now. put in there "This key not valid after block 175552"