asciilifeform: mention of pgp as a 'tough cookie' and also as internally used in at least one nsa product (disinfo psychop or genuine tears, take your pick.)
asciilifeform: in particular, allegations of exploitability for openssh (with no detail naturally)
asciilifeform: i don't think it is a mystery, to anyone even remotely connected with the sordid business, what it was that he meant.
asciilifeform: unless mr. 'i want to hire 30 great programmers tomorrow morning' wasn't writing from a psychiatric hospital, the parsimonious hypothesis is that he meant something other than inventors when said 'great programmers.'
asciilifeform: or otherwise 'can you play violin? don't know, i've never tried yet'
asciilifeform: anyone wanting to hire 30 inventors needs his head checked
asciilifeform: imagine wanting to hire 30 'great mathematicians' tomorrow morning.
asciilifeform: ^ what definition of 'great programmer' portrays a creature you can even think of 'hire 30 tomorrow morning' of ?
asciilifeform: 'I asked the CEO of a startup with about 70 programmers how many more he'd hire if he could get all the great programmers he wanted. He said "We'd hire 30 tomorrow morning."'
asciilifeform: paul graham << sahib says 'moar coolies pleez'
asciilifeform: because, by definition, there will be no variation in it.
asciilifeform: in other words, everything that is a 'timeless' part of bitcoin - i.e. cannot ever change or hardfork - must be a working part of the client.
asciilifeform: just the same as mr. spam, or naggum's stalkers, in that they would regularly insist that 'they're done with' him and the 'pit' he dwelled in - but seemed to structure their entire waking lives around frequenting his haunts and crapping out abuse
asciilifeform: dan mocsny (discussed on a few occasions, another well-known usenet figure) also had orbiters.
asciilifeform: one might say that they 'won.' likely, naggum became wormfood that much sooner than otherwise could have.
asciilifeform: they did their best to destroy the little corner of the net where naggum dwelled.
asciilifeform: it is because he dared to put psychopaths in their place. and so attracted at least half a dozen of these 'orbiters.'
asciilifeform: ople react extremely hostilely to any feeling that somebody else tells them what to do and are unable to cope with the helplessness and powerlessness they feel after being told what to do, but this is not anybody else can fix for them.'
asciilifeform: 'it is _never_ politeness and courtesy these lunatics want. (If it were, they would simply prove the superiority of being polite and courteous.) They want _other_ people to be polite and courteous because _they_ do not want to feel humiliated or threatened, but who can tell what makes a deranged lunatic feel humiliated or threatened by just and proper criticism, especially by proxy as the worst of these outcasts do? These pe
asciilifeform: 'For us as the Reserve Bank... ...we'll have to figure out how we make money because the way we generate most of our revenue is through forms of seigniorage, people are willing to hold currency free of interest and that's how we make money...'☟︎
