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mircea_popescu: <Chillum> aw crap just dumped an ashtary on my keyboard and naken body << proof wikipedia is a nudist colony.
mircea_popescu: if you think in these terms you're either in an alt-universe where bitcoin can not exist, or you have woefully misunderstood the present one.
mircea_popescu: alf has it. the notion of "good node" is akin to the notion of "clean bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "In fact if an attacker waits until he sees another block on the network, the attacker can be sure that a majority of hashpower is now working on successors to that already published block, and not the one the attacker has kept hidden. The result is not a toss-up, but a distinct advantage to the honest nodes who have published their blocks already. "
mircea_popescu: (british-german rivalry goes back a long time. as long as there was a germany, really.)
mircea_popescu: the later imperially-ambitious english retconned a bunch of shit into their record
mircea_popescu: they didn't even speak a mutually comprehensible idiom.
mircea_popescu: decimation if i was sure, i'd recommend it to bright young things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ask someone whom you know in the civil service what does an overturned conviction do.
mircea_popescu: the problems the social security system has are not limited to the social security system. they are endemic, and that because they are systematic.
mircea_popescu: pay a lot to gain very little vs pay nothing to gain whatever you take for yourself. hmm....
mircea_popescu: conviction overturned. is da fucked ? yes. is weev feasting on his corpse ? yes.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an angle alf does not wish to see (deliberate engineer's blindness), but in fact compare the afore-mentioned weev with the unfortunate da prosecuting. is weev a lazy bum ? yes. did the poor da work butt off through law scool ? yes. still not paid debt ? yes.
mircea_popescu: decimation it means, "try and leech as much as you can off the young and impressionable females before a determined and disinterested young male gores you."
mircea_popescu: "promotion = much more responsibility, not much more money" etc.
mircea_popescu: soon the same old jokes from the 70s are going to begin to circulate once more.
mircea_popescu: and so a position "of power" was a terrible curse no one wanted.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. more important in practice - the need to cut the grass.
mircea_popescu: feudalism empowers he with most knights, the rest - he wight less concern.
mircea_popescu: decimation the problem with a "democracy", aka representative democracy aka people's soviet is that the victory is always to the fearless.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 since you use the web platform andso prolly don't have a local log.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help you if i stand up in the "political meeting" and ask you about X.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember the power of the "people's denouncing" in there ? that's the equivalent.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i guess this makes me the first of that evil species of barristish sticklers that you all love to hate that you ever met.
mircea_popescu: i like a challenge as much as the next fellow, i guess.
mircea_popescu: Guest64542 as far as i'm concerned, there's a crowd of silly people somewhere on the web that tricked a dc into bankruptcy. yes.
mircea_popescu: gotta absolutely have /10001 so the next one is /10002 ?
mircea_popescu: but seriously, you're all tech savvy people. who the fuck claims to have, you know, "built the site with security in mind" then makes the db trivially iterable because couldn't be bothered to hash the anything ? would something like user/F2xWjk been so very hard ?
mircea_popescu: but seriously, they're total fucking idiots. i even had a lengthy comment explaining to the derp in charge how to salt and hash
mircea_popescu: turned into a service for folks too poor to afford a lawyer.
mircea_popescu: what started as a service for folks too simple to understand why they do not wish to be /user/1004555
mircea_popescu: im not about to put anyone in prison. this is about money Chillum .
mircea_popescu: "uh... we just ... didn't wanna do it anymore your honor." "shut up. sit down. "
mircea_popescu: misusing it in this manner is a misdemeanor, and more importantly, a path to civil liability.
mircea_popescu: the dmca does not provide for an avenue to enforce anything you wish.
mircea_popescu: decimation the dc could claim absolutely anything they wish. the standard still is preponderence of evidence.
mircea_popescu: generally these end in settlements, to avoid the ever balooning costs.