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davout: asciilifeform: have you
tried bitcoin-ruby?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-06 17:05
trinque: as far as
the lying wire is concerned,
that's solved by a different gadget
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 19:38 mircea_popescu: let user pick checksum.
this is
the only right way
to do
this.
mircea_popescu: even
that aside -
there's no "propagation" excuse in
this usecase.
mircea_popescu: let user pick checksum.
this is
the only right way
to do
this.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes iirc
the discussion at
the
time ended with me pointing out it should be made arbitrary
to user's choice.
ben_vulpes: aight so i can drop checkpoints.cpp
then?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i complain
that you construct a problem
that necessarily may not have a solution.
mircea_popescu: this whole "humans are inferior ; aliens come ; but humans still manage
to somehow" is rank nonsense, not how
things play out, nor how
things should play out, nor how anyone wants
them
to play out.
mircea_popescu: that's broadly
the idea - "mommy, what should i do if johnny wants
to plug my virgin ass ?" "don't let him ?" "what if i can't ?" "you can" "what if magical alien from afar comes and he has magical powers and i really can't ?" "oh, no, HIM you spread for."
mircea_popescu: if you do
this - you may not anymore deny
the other implications of magical unicorn. such as you know, someone eating jam and shitting whole plums.
mircea_popescu: but it contains a counterfactual of
the nature of magical unicorn.
mircea_popescu: listen, randomly
transmuting
the magical unicorn into magical octopi etc isn't going
to work.
davout: ben_vulpes:
then no :)
mircea_popescu: your life, in ALL its respects - !!!!IMPORTANT!!! NOT IN SOME RESPECTS YOU AGREE
TO !!!!IMPORTANT!!! - is not certain.
davout: ben_vulpes:
today's
thread?
mircea_popescu: nor can you extract guarantees.
there's no guarantee stamped on gravitaqtion iether.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you proceed from
this very strange place. nobody owes you any guarantees.
ben_vulpes: davout:
this is
the 'sybil'
thread, yes?
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm aware various magicks are readily
transmutable.
davout: asciilifeform: bitcoin makes no guarantees
that you'll be fine if *all* your peers are compromised
mircea_popescu: one who comes with magical unicorn alternative can not
thereby pretend
to invalidate
the rest of
the magical unicorn implications.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:38 asciilifeform: yes but
then martian shows up with yottahash or whatnot and you fork off.
mircea_popescu: deindustrialization dun enter into
this ; de-"personalization" as personhood is currently misrepresented in
the west however - does.
mircea_popescu: we're discussing what software runs on black box. you propose "hey, it's
trying
to cut gangrene in such a way as
to do maximal damage
to enemies". yes,
this may be, as a generous interpretation.
the more common interpretation however is
to say
there's exactly no cutting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the less generous one is as set out in "apple could buy russia"
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're right in
that
the "free world" is significantly impeded in sane / reasonable reaction by
the unwarranted, wholly baseless conceit
that "all people matter", so
they can't go on
tv and
tell every woman she has a week
to find a master after which will be packed on catle ship and auctioned off in iran.
mircea_popescu: and as per
http://trilema.com/2016/and-they-wont-fucking-yield/ the absolutely imbecile generation STILL wants
to pretend
the conversation is about how racist it is
to not allow faggots
to "marry" ; rather
than about how idiotic it is
to pretend russia is an enemy and africa's an ally ; or
that deindustrialization is a reasonable response
to anything.
mircea_popescu: the ~entire
thing is just how much
the chinese want
to and can convince
the russians
that significant and sufficiently humilatory concessions will be forced out of
the us side so
they forego actually
taking scalps.
mircea_popescu: the sad
truth of
the matter is
that
the us has spent
the past few decades giving most initiative away.
the fate of
the world is not significantly decided in washington at
the present
time.
BingoBoingo: How many days did it
take
te world
to got
to shit following Franz Ferdinand?
mircea_popescu recalls roman emperor who did
this exact
thing, had an uncharacteristically smooth rule
thereafter.
mircea_popescu: but
the
truth is,
this is perfect
time for
trump
to rid himself of
the best and brightest of
the "progressive" nigger set.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
that members of various
the various states' college of electors < since we're on it
mircea_popescu: the russkis are prolly going
to double-tap anyway owing
to fears of "who knows, maybe
the dysfunctional shielf works".
mircea_popescu: not really how
that game is played. argentina is an entirely agricultural shithole, nukes go after industry.
mircea_popescu: if anyone wants
to evacuate
to ba i'll get you a place
to stay.
mircea_popescu: iers, except maybe one in china sea. at which point obama may or may not launch
the nukes.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to be fair here :
the russians have no interest in waiting ; putin might be uncharacteristically meek, but in general a half dozen us ambassadors starting with
the resident in manilla within
the next week-10days is perfectly possible. at which point obama actually having
the gall
to call natl emergency and set aside
the
transfer of power is not entirely inconceivable. after which
the russians WILL sink all
the us carr
☟︎☟︎ mats: you, me, might literally be Hitler if we
take ourselves
too seriously