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mircea_popescu: dude keeps exposing himself to these cardano by xmas type of things. why all the self hate yo!
mircea_popescu: i am however saying that no one here can implement it in zero time.
mircea_popescu: i'm in no case saying that w/e, any one in b-a *couldn't * correctly implement what alf is proposing./
mircea_popescu: it's just more hard work to read the shit. which is work. which we don't fucking hasve the time for.
mircea_popescu: they ARE making political parties and getting various lawmaker seats because of it.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the (actually sound) argument is that they won't be 20 forever, we're eating up a bubble of externalised cost.
mircea_popescu: you know, like industry works since fortever. not like ford mondeo got recalled because hey, they got ford fluence out, so they'll conver them
mircea_popescu: and if you want to change, derp. change the production flux.
mircea_popescu: i propose whoever makes one puts w/e the fuck they want in there and that's that for the damned unit in question
mircea_popescu: (and before anyone goes "how could we implement signature checking incorrectly", this was discussed mere days ago. === "no errors found" or what was it)
mircea_popescu: "this thing breaks iof there's a bug found in gpg. or if we didn't implement signature checking correctly. or or or or"
mircea_popescu: in any case, the "this thing breaks if it runs out of power at any point after the enemy (or more likely plain old rust) has destroyedall seed ips" proposition is better value than
mircea_popescu: in general. not when you're signalling how to get the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: it breaks if you turn it off && fort meade floats in the air above your house.
mircea_popescu: "dude that zergling's broken" "mmkay" "aren't you going to repair it ?" "wut ?! *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*"
mircea_popescu: this is hopw the problem is solved in this space : buy more units.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` onoes, you ruined 20 bux worht of old gear (plus shipping and handling!)
mircea_popescu: (im kinda nonplussed that nobody even seems to realise seed list is only interesting on boot and these aren't intended to ever reboot, really.)
mircea_popescu passes out "you suck at system design" dounce hats liberally.
mircea_popescu: you're trying to jump a fence by crawling on your back.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` if it's not narrower just make it the seed list. bam back to square one.
mircea_popescu: iirc you were asking for a complex update gpg signature thing. not for a simple "move x text file from /sda to /sdb"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field seemed to me you're asking for an entirely something erlse, but anyway
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if you're so absolutely convinced, how about seedlist is a config file sits with blockchain on disk ?
mircea_popescu: ft meade gets to look like a kiddy pool i took a piss in
mircea_popescu: because they only exist halfway, like competent usg and able nsa ?
mircea_popescu: dja see how the fucking attacked ips are actually more valuable than the damned pogos ?
mircea_popescu: for the cost of this project, i wish to see large scale ip diddling
mircea_popescu: it is not an item to be loved, dreamed about, repaired, tuned etc.
mircea_popescu: this is a consumer product, it works like a consumer product. once it stops working it gets thrown out.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : forget argentina, and forget the anecdotal peculiarities of my odd choices in things.
mircea_popescu: the mexican billionaire w/e his name is has his own ic fab made out of driewd cunt juice./
mircea_popescu: fuck the third world with a spiked club. if it wasn't made by retards it wouldn't be third.
mircea_popescu: wtf people. srsly. if anyone WANTS TO run a pogo they can
mircea_popescu: but if you imagine there's any room in the spec of this thing for the end user to fiddle with it you're ourgiht nuts.
mircea_popescu: there can not be a power ranger node that can run on a pogo.
mircea_popescu: "i wonder why that doesn't work, the allignm,ent was perfect!"
mircea_popescu: it does not work. might as well grab the moon with a tweezer
mircea_popescu: so : yeah, usg&friends thinks it's engaging me on its own terms.
mircea_popescu: this is not a discussion of anything but the hard laws.
mircea_popescu: heck, i'll vote WITH them on the voting stage of things
mircea_popescu: understand : they can stand on their fucking head. "vote" ? what fucking vote ?