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mircea_popescu: bitcoin is in fact a very solid protocol, and it flows in an unbroken line from software pre 0.5.x and from block 1.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely untrue, and a poor attempt at trying to salvage some clout for the power rangers.
mircea_popescu: pls to make a proper patch in full glory so people can benefit from fruits of your genius.
mircea_popescu: yeah apparently uclibc is made specifically because of this/similar issues
mircea_popescu: what was bitcoind using that ended up pulling libnss via glibc ? gethostbyaddr() was it ?
mircea_popescu: and i'm not counting whatever it takes to compile. just, it is not sane to expect me to go through laundry lists for minute after minute after minute.
mircea_popescu: i didn't say it should take YOU an hour. i said it should take me an hour.
mircea_popescu: so i find prisses unusable and you find crosseyed women unusable. so ?
mircea_popescu: rather than a ludicrous attempt to be hipsterashionable.
mircea_popescu: i originally imagined it's a misguided attempt to make money,
mircea_popescu: im starting to realise the "bitcoin atm" thing is actually just a sort of "freedom toaster" v2.0
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to live like that i'd have stayed in academia."
mircea_popescu: "you mean to tell me you wrote down form f.45.b instead of 4.5.fb ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: trying to install gentoo is like taking an exam for public servancy
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's the most objectionable thing ever, all this list of gotchas.
mircea_popescu: sadly intelligent people are coditioned to fear hurting idiots, instead of enjoying it.
mircea_popescu: stepping on transvestite cocks and hispster beards, in a swamp of hurt feelings.
mircea_popescu: how. spiked club in one hand, plank-with-nail in another hand.
mircea_popescu: sure, someone could. the moment someone does you get ubuntu - two years of unusable, six months of barely usable and then insta-poettering.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because it is unacceptable for a world to exist where i may have to spend more than an hour getting a new os running.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: ie, my way out of swallowing random binary strange is to get a solid block of binary strange ? from... red hat ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which one is sudoku ? theone that is taking over the idiots that used to do crossword puzzles ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno who sane still plays chess. might as well "play" hanoi towers, it's closer to compulsion than anything.
mircea_popescu: then chokes showed up and for a good decade people were all "no dude, there is a shaolin monk somewhere that can hit your spirit!!11"
mircea_popescu: but speaking of this, i recall the lulzfest of the "consensus" in the 50s to 90s about how you know, striking is the way to go.
mircea_popescu: if you actually love him you can try slavery, but this works exclusively on the thin set of people who understand deeply they suck
mircea_popescu: yes, he's in touch with the *fashions* of his society.
mircea_popescu: Adlai there's no such thing as "the reality of a society"
mircea_popescu: this is ridiculous on the face, of course, but hey. if they understood things they wouldn't be underclass.
mircea_popescu: trinque essentially what it boils down to is the proposition that the underclass does not agree the elite should have the right to opt out whatever redistribution system they come up with.
mircea_popescu: "how about you go be a transsexual/gender confused/derpopotamus about Bitcoin TOO, then"
mircea_popescu: "so you mean to tell me now i don't get a say into how the world works anymore, because back when i got the benefit of the doubt all i could do was being an idiot on reddit ?" "exactly"
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean, i can't own a pet only for the portion where i wanna play with it, but not for the portion where i have to feed it and clean its cage ??!?!" "exactly"
mircea_popescu: "but we only want a say in the things we want a say in and only for the part we want to say something" "yeah well that's not how this works"
mircea_popescu: this idea that most people "should" get a say in what happens to them... dude, if you do that, the same most people go "hey, i don't want to be bothered reading 548958609 pages of tax code, to then go have a hanging party for the govt that made it".
mircea_popescu: "Why does that matter? Because people have a right to democratic institutions. People have a right to vote on or have a say in matters that govern their lives. Bitcoin, as it exists now, takes that away from people."
mircea_popescu: "The difference is, the people whose behavior would be controlled have no say in changing those economic assumptions. "
mircea_popescu: (iirc he's still wanted on "tax evasion", which is pretty much the highest accolade of personal achievement the empire can bestow on any free individual)