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mircea_popescu: the complexity brtought about any attempt to implement "convenience" is outright staggering huh.
mircea_popescu: because you know, usg keeps a master key, or so the rumour goes.
mircea_popescu: so if i posion dns cache, can i also steal payments for that domain ?
mircea_popescu: mkay. well i'm exiting this process with message "a project to provide bitcoin-deanonymizers with a domain-address pairing method, powered by the general public's expectations of convenience and lack of expectation of guarantees" which sums up to "fluff".
mircea_popescu: you folk gotta hire someone to do proper tech writing. there's nothing wrong with having sales copy,
mircea_popescu: "What is OpenAlias? OpenAlias seeks to provide a way to simplify aliasing amidst a rapidly shifting technology climate. " << i mean come on.
mircea_popescu: "By leveraging DNSSEC we are able to prevent MITM-style attacks on an alias." doesn't tell me very much.
mircea_popescu: (im still trying to understand exactly how this works)
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that aside, how does this thing solve situatiosn where dns zones are ambiguous ? (say registrar and host don't match)
mircea_popescu: curl: (35) error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell williamdunne explain this difference between "1 btc = 1 btc" and "anyone and everyone being able to have a bitcoin wallet".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ;;later tell menahem you really don't know how to bother girls.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.menahem.1:ef600b5ecdbf4fb4fc6975db6a8a625a670ccde4c18d5e5462f354dbec68aadb
mircea_popescu: "We're going to co-opt the technology, OK? End. Of. Story." lolk.
mircea_popescu: now do me a personal favour and ditch that retarded disqus thing
mircea_popescu: the good news being that if you stick to it, it'll improve.
mircea_popescu: anyway williamdunne i see what you meant by "not as eloquent" :D
mircea_popescu: " off the top of my head the United Kingdom, South Africa, Singapore, India, and China have instant and cheap (in many cases free) bank transfer systems." << nonsense. your example is SEPA. rest sucks by comparison. (or gyropay before that).
mircea_popescu: but hey, they got all these things because can't show fucking on tv, because usians are retards.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's a thing, greece has > 9k islands, about half of them have a church on
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor." << a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so she removes her top (was a knotted square thing) and puts it on her head.
mircea_popescu: this reminds me of scene where chick is told that she has to cover her head in church
mircea_popescu: williamdunne "inheritence" that takes an a, and moreover, the entire "transfer reputation" thing is muddied at best.
mircea_popescu: you don't really look like you have any business in a casino...
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.jayk.1:486e17533db78ce8c35a9aed04ec6c2e015f4f145af1c95a3188b499c90d6515
mircea_popescu: i'm really the best customer anyone could ever have. i tip, there's hot chicks, the works.
mircea_popescu: the last time an idiot "asked me to leave" i had the place torched.
mircea_popescu: "Be suspicious of pedestrians when you pull up to a house. Don't open your car door if people are nearby."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "* Beware of teenagers grouped in twos wearing hooded sweatshirts. Most criminals fit that description"
mircea_popescu: williamdunne "The cost of enforcement of contracts grows over time as an increasing number of loopholes are found - as described in an article by Mircea Popescu" you know you could ~link it~ o.O
☟︎ mircea_popescu: proof of pizza, for fucks sake. all the money in pizza delivery is the god damned tips. nobody will ever deliver pizza to the sort of idiots who bicker about times randomly. if this is how it went, why not have "proof of latte" to make sure the barrista really did give you the latte.
mircea_popescu: just because particular memes are well suited to the mental vulnerabilities of the early mind and so are noteworthy to educators and psychiatrists does not mean they're also noteworthy to engineers.
mircea_popescu: other things sharing the same properties, "the free lunch", "democracy", "you can do anything" etc.
mircea_popescu: "It, together with smart contracts, has been let out of Pandora’s Box – never to return, never to be unlearned, no matter how badly some of us might want it to."
mircea_popescu: jayk you mean renting hash power ? that was never a good deal.
mircea_popescu: so described, it is rather clear that bitcoin can not in fact exist : immutability and entropy are mutually contradictory.
mircea_popescu: because that is the property here : same as entropy, bitcoin lacks the ability to review earlier states on the base of later states.
mircea_popescu: maybe the best description would be "immutable, fungible and entropic"
mircea_popescu: i would suspect maybe trustless is a misnomer. trust is not involved at all, the point is coherence. the system remains coherent, which is to say it does not fork into ambiguous states.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in retrospect : "immutable, fungible, non-discriminatory, and trustless" is really redundant. fungible includes "non-discriminatory".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am probably the record holder for most footnotes in an article out of the entire interwebs