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mircea_popescu: so does pdf, in same conditions. except you gotta use either a windows bundle or else more perl crud munged together.
mircea_popescu: the failure of widgets is a problem of the widgetmaker. do not ask me to solve it till i market a widget.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field how about forget .ps which is fine, and .tex
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, it's not only the most valuable thing you'll ever have - it's outright the only one.
mircea_popescu: oldest scam in the book, this identity transfer. keep your identity, it's yours.
mircea_popescu: now that you wish to be facebook inc, suddenly *they* gotta be you know "people", to take the place of the vague "we".
mircea_popescu: "because people follow us". well fuck you, back when YOU were anonymous, joe schmoe and lucy lue followed you. not "people".
mircea_popescu: 'cause that's all they know, facebook model. pretend like "we" are interacting with the stakeholders but stay anonymous, and then if/when this gets big enough, assert a new identity and whoopdeedoo, claim you're worth a billion.
mircea_popescu: "o look, they're hippy dippy cool and got cat pictures". what "they" ? and it's not THEIR fucking cat, either.
mircea_popescu: no dude, that's how *they hope to make money*. later on. once "we" and "contact us" have got enough of this fuzzy baseless trust made by appealing to a certain naivity of the intelligent.
mircea_popescu: then people wonder about kaminsky. EXACT SAME THING. you lot have been so mentally stunted by the stupid welfare state, you do this sort of shit. "oh, i wonder if arxiv backwards . org paid funkenstein_ anything". no dude, they didn't, he's just silly like that. like everyone in that country.
mircea_popescu: fuck them. you want me to tihnk "i wonder if you have more"
mircea_popescu: you don't want me to think "hey that was a great piece, i wonder IF ARXIV ORG HAS MORE"
mircea_popescu: own your content, AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. you don't need someone else deciding anything whatsoever. not what url to use. not when to "put up a warning page". not. ANYTHING.
mircea_popescu: the difference between this stupid diqus shit and just writing for gawker is 0.
mircea_popescu: dude...srsly. a walled garden/proprietary platform is bad in and of itself. it's not bad only if it becomes big.
mircea_popescu: and im not reading a pdf. what the fuck funkenstein_ .
mircea_popescu: <mats> conned or what? lent his name for a buck to some trash? << intelligent people have a lot of trouble avoiding locklin's mistake.
mircea_popescu: <mats> such incompetence. how hard is it to use sed? << real muppets use excel.
mircea_popescu: bitstein the observer makes the valid code replace point, but STILL names its article "the race to replace bitcoin". as fucking if. "the race to waste imbecile capitalist money, the new hot valley term for what was once known as a venture capitalist" was radioactive or something.
mircea_popescu: you're like the guy going "so mp you're saying the perpetuum mobile could not exist because X ?" sure, x if you want it.
mircea_popescu: i'm never going to be able to show you ALL the things that are wrong wqith it, being that it's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: model this attack and i'll show you one thin that's wrong with it enough to sink it.
mircea_popescu: mats well, it's training, i gather. trainee pieces aren't either useful or valuable, per se. so you're not really "buying" anything.
mircea_popescu: "In order to encourage participation we would like to be able to award more substantial prizes. If you would like to donate to this cause, please contact us!"
mircea_popescu: dude with the article must have had some pretty odd searches in the past. my "google images" for princess leia consists of 20 hits of the woman wearing some sort of white overalls, with the 17th being her in actual atire.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, i had no idea leia is supposed to be anything BUT the slave chick.
mircea_popescu: no it's not fucking anonymous. it's pseudonymous. different fucking things. identity still exists!
mircea_popescu: the rub, of course, being the entire "oh but bitcoin is anonymous"
mircea_popescu: which is what this is : inexistent problems that don't exist being misunderstood as existing by people who don't understand how anything works, and then failing to see that even should they exist, the solution also exists.
mircea_popescu: so i give you nonces 1-100 to hash , and fluffy nonces 101-200. and you report nothing found, and he reports nothing found. and then one day a block on nonce 76 is found and you are forever fucked.
mircea_popescu: because identity being expensive, it's no longer productive to attack.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin equivalent of "did leia really enjoy it" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: and that's my point here : these are discussions of no substance used by reddit dorks to be discussing things.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yes fluffs, in a game theoretic universe where cows are spherical and it rains glass, one could accidentally make a cow snowglobe.
mircea_popescu: people became intellectually enamoured with it and keep spouting it everywhere, as a sort of cargo-cult bitcoin "knowledges"
mircea_popescu: Adlai the "withholding" thing is idiocy of prime order. it existe,d historically (ie, cca 2011) and was a problem for early pools. but it was SHARE withholding, not block withholding. it was fixed meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: do you have any idea how long it'd take a pool (just that, nothing else) to make back 100 dollars after server costs ?
mircea_popescu: the cost of 1) is what, 100k ? 500k ? the cost of 2) is what, 100k ? 500k ? the benefit from the gained market share is... what ?
mircea_popescu: as a result of 1 and 2, 50% of people mining on B move, leaving it with 11% hash rate. the resulting 24% difference moves to pools, 90% of which are A's.
mircea_popescu: 2. ddos' pool B. as if ddos is not actually a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: 1. makes 500 new pools. complete with persuasive admins (1 per) who keep social media profiles etc.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony let's see this. pool A has 25% of hash rate. pool B has 30% of hash rate. there's 45 other pools each with 1%.
mircea_popescu: i mean... they should still be here, riught ? they owned a year ago, right ? what happened ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony if miners actually don't care, how do you explain 50btc/btcguild's demise after their collusion with gavin last year ?
mircea_popescu shrugs. derps in reddit care who said god hates faggots. yet people who actually have stuff riding on this don't care about stuff that matters. i dunno, seems rather anecdotal.
mircea_popescu: small miners don't care, but this is universal - they don't care about anything, including rig safety.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ we left aside the idiots in question and are discussing the theoretic theory.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the fact we can't observe it doesn't allow us to value it at 0.
mircea_popescu: the barrier to entry to making mpex is not "making the software". same for pools,
mircea_popescu: you seem to go on this remnant of forum dumb where the technical costs are relevant in bitcoin. they are not.
mircea_popescu: unless there's actually C1...Cn and any of THEIR hash rate grows.
mircea_popescu: which is the real risk here : if pools collaborate TOO MUCH we end up with usg 2.0
mircea_popescu: so ? even if there's only two - the +ev outcome is collaboration not hostility.
mircea_popescu: territoriality developed in living things for instance specifically to try and pierce this problem.
mircea_popescu: even leaving aside the rank nonsense of the particular "analysis". the concept that it is somehow game-theoretic feasible for a one-of-many arrangement to attack everyone is at least bizarre.
mircea_popescu: dude am i the only one with a scrollback or something. how is the "nash equilibrium" stuff sensible.