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mircea_popescu: computer is a woman. it's the woman's job to make loser's life insufferable.
mircea_popescu: this notion that "any people is a people" and computer should be nice to everyone that touches it is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: hm, he had a link with the fixing the lightbulb thing. anyway.
mircea_popescu: bitstein inasmuch as you want a central repository, you're stuck with a central repository. if you look into the design papers / discussions around gossipd, this is also a well solved problem, just,
mircea_popescu: bitstein take otc-wot rating #14167 on pirateat40, made 2012-08-29 03:14:41. how do you know this is current ?
mircea_popescu: on the other side of the fence there is this (i suspect irrational) notion that pumping out signed material weakens the signer key.
mircea_popescu: note that changing this model for "maintain signed ratings" does not help : either of them could show OLD rather than current ratings, which would still be undetectable.
mircea_popescu: as pere the entire "wot is not an oilfield with trust as oil".
mircea_popescu: bitstein this is true for both of them, currently. this happens to also not be a problem because a) they could do this once ; and b) the way you're supposed to use this tool is by asking the raters about their ratings.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony im sure it's so totally going to work like all the previous attempts did, which is why we're here.
mircea_popescu: lol at the fluffypony businessoutsider link. EXCITING! may become the new AMAZING, as a new generation of idiots moves into bitcoin scam pushing.
mircea_popescu: god fucking help any piece of machinery that "just says no"
mircea_popescu: like this lazy cd rom that wouldn't spin properly which ended up plucked out, connected straight to power and let spin until it ground itself off.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i might be the only techno-enabled sociopath that disassembled misbehaving hardware/software and let them do X for a while, by themselves, in the dark.
mircea_popescu: and the user's reaction is anything but getting a 28 inch dropforged wrench and beating it into a pulp. without grease. ?
mircea_popescu: ahahaha who the fuck came up with this shit. seriously, photoshop "Refuses to open" somethng ?
mircea_popescu: not like people can't do that if they wish, via deedbot.
mircea_popescu: well, you're stuck publishing all this signed material in that model.
mircea_popescu: jurov so the question was more "why does assbot not implement the drawbacks to privacy of a strong crypto verification scheme" ?
mircea_popescu: at which the leader goes "Yo! Alifie! come over we got one."
mircea_popescu: listen dude, you're getting fucked whbether you want to or not. it's a fact. the only questrion to you is, if you want to do it with alifie or without.
mircea_popescu: they struggle a little, he's taken to the ground, at which point the leader of the pack goes
mircea_popescu: guy walking through street at night. suddenly, jumped by some burly dudes.
mircea_popescu: dun worry sir whiteknight, b-a brings the best out in everyone.
mircea_popescu: (if you read teh trilematograph heading you prolly know i've been working on a very similar question)
mircea_popescu: originally, it was actually max hardcore i think. after that, it was mostly bangbros.
mircea_popescu: anywya, i have deepthroat right here, it's... ungreat.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller if you want to talk "women in tech" it really starts with noether.
mircea_popescu waves @ Patrick Merck, who realised all this shit too late and ran off through the wall.
mircea_popescu: (and by "too expensive to be useful" i don't mean anything but, for every btc in gains it makes us, it gives that terrorist we shall not name 10 to 100 btc worth of ammo)
mircea_popescu: because whatever, i'm going to hang them anyway, and usg isn't going to hang them no matter what, so that leaves a space in the middle.
mircea_popescu: pretending now that hey, "they are publishing reports". of the new entity.
mircea_popescu: which pretty much brings us to 2014, when the thing became too expensive to be useful, so it had to run out of usg jurisdiction (went to uk)
mircea_popescu: except no worthy goals were willing to work with them, and so moved to "default worthy goal" = pay gavin a salary.
mircea_popescu: once got called out on that, shed some bits (coinlab, anyone recall that ?) and moved to "worthy goals" (stioll not releasing any reports, because vessenes, like all clueless idiots involved, thinks taint is a thing, and also thinks i don't know his addresses, because whatever, he's magically protected by nulandine)
mircea_popescu: but no, the two got merged late. originally, foundation was transparent scam to syphon and repurpose bitcoins to prop up "vc entreprises".
mircea_popescu: well perhaps the discussion of which lice spawned what scorpion is not directly interesting to engineers, being more in the vein of politics and law. so i guess you actually have a fine aproximation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, gavin showed up pretty quick o nthe original lists. to no one's suprirse, nsa does read the stuff, as amply documented.
mircea_popescu: which will be buried too, but... still. you don't kill ticks by breaking the bellies.
mircea_popescu: once they didn't get away with simply stealing that, they made coindesk.
mircea_popescu: it's exactly like "Bitcoin magazine", meanwhile buried.
mircea_popescu: fake foundation's just a pressed shitbullet, they made it, getting rid of it won't get rid of the problem.
mircea_popescu: you for some reason seem to think scam foundation and bitcoin are cogenerational. this is about as true as saying you and your mom were born the same week
mircea_popescu: alf trying to scam me in argument! "oh, bitcoind works. i think so because i don't use it because it doesn't"
mircea_popescu: or, closer to what you want, "then send it all to one address". see with own eyes.
mircea_popescu: this is the golden standard for testing txn generators.
mircea_popescu: (split it to three addresses, then feed one by two for a while)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field anyway, if you're curious, do a braid on a bitcoin then see what happens.
mircea_popescu: (honestly i've not really looked what they've been doing with it since 7ish)