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mircea_popescu: uniquely among dumb implementation of "smart contracts", this doesn't even involve the actual parties to the txn, but third parties.
mircea_popescu: in that fingerprints are on the bill, and taint is in the mind, wholly imagined.
mircea_popescu: and it recurs because stupid is really a very narrow space.
mircea_popescu: like any other stereotype, like the nigger thief/rapist, the dumb woman, the jew cooking christian children etc, it "exists" in the minds of the stupid,
mircea_popescu: yes, some idiots have trouble with reality, replace it with neurosis. this to the detriment of them and anyone trusting them.
mircea_popescu: but really, the notion of taint is only recurring because people are stupid, and do not wish to think. otherwise, taint is meaningless.
mircea_popescu: Adlai didja eat dumb this morning ? i put 100 btc on one side, of your taint, and 100 btc on the other side, you don't know about. if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of "lalala taint doesn't exit". taint exists exactly as much and exactly for the reasons god "exists"
mircea_popescu: address A with your "taint" may lose to address B. what now ?
mircea_popescu: you really should read the logs, this was discussed ad nauseam.
mircea_popescu: not sure why we put it in, but i think it was the usual "customer request" stuff
mircea_popescu: <Adlai> how is that any good? if you know somebody's betting address, you can see their winnings on the site << not how that works.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell funkenstein_ could that thing stop being disqus
mircea_popescu: about as sensible as the "paradise" of xtians, or ragnarok or w/e.
mircea_popescu: and yes the brain's not a leviathan. nothing is. that only exists as a first line of fantasy, no place ever worked like that except in the bookish literotica of state-wankers.
mircea_popescu: yes, obviously, people working on computational theories of human intelligence are basically correct and broadly irrelevant, yes people who were working on this 30 years ago are too stupiud to follow it, because hey, they didn't grow up with a computer, like i did, and yes culture consists of a lot of fleas and relatively little treasures.
mircea_popescu: there's some reasonable if banal shit floating around in a sea of very annoying nonsense. wtf is "out of whack" even supposed to mean, and since when is an ipad a better model of computing than a desktop.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like putting cockroaches in your pizza for easy publicity.
mircea_popescu: going to 1Ez69SnzzmePmZX3WpEzMKTrcBF2gpNQ55, never spent.
mircea_popescu: not every poltroonish german's a gestapo agent, not every poltroonish soviet's a kgb agent and not every reddit idjit's working for teh soup.
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't necessartily be much more than editorializing, up to cazalla if he wants more of that or more news to balance things out.
mircea_popescu: "how about you fill in the paperwork while i keep on being in charge."
mircea_popescu: much like you know, "you can'tr fuck this woman until this old man has sprinkled water on her"
mircea_popescu: but this is exactly it, usg trying to insert itself into the process by "blessing bitcoins"
mircea_popescu: this is a capital offense. mass arson, rape and murder is a tea party by comparison.
mircea_popescu: no one ever will survive trying to make one bitcoin unequal to another bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: in any case this "we attack bitcoin fungibility and expect to remain in business" angle has to be dispelled.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem a terribly legit reason to stop withdrawals, who knows if they're piggybacking on it to excuse their own failure.
mircea_popescu: etrade only exists because that model's practically dead.
mircea_popescu: Tetra113 seriously, this isn't etrade in a different color scheme.
mircea_popescu: the crash is only important if it can be used to poison the stack. otherwise... it's just annoying.
mircea_popescu: should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
mircea_popescu: there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
mircea_popescu: "In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
mircea_popescu: ie, we've built a much larger % of the computers that could be than there's been people alive as a % of the people that could be.
mircea_popescu: i wonder idly if anyone even realises that the turing machine space has by now been explored MUCH more in depth than the human genetic space, for instance.
mircea_popescu: you'd be amazed how many monkeys click the blue e, too.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla used to work in china. for the first coupla years.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know just like who ? just like putin, except not the real one, the factitious version that "is holding country back" jurov was talking about.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno man, to me it's the crowning achievement of a particular sort of technopunk, which is what 50 years of soviet industry really is.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i don't get it, is the french govt running an isp ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` 50 yo blue collar woman went after shift with coworkers, had compressed air hose stuck up ass.
mircea_popescu: they have no users. just because the whatsapp scam was pushed by fb on the grounds of "users" (by the way, did the fantabulous "growth rate" continue after the acquisition ?) does not mean that the same sort of fraud will either work again in the future or is in itself any sort of value.
mircea_popescu: i guess i wouldn't make a very palatable politburo member.
mircea_popescu: more interesting is, why did he get away with it for long enough to become a prolbem