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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sadly one can't have at the same time verifiability and opacity.
mircea_popescu: see it's from fishing, when a fish bites so hard it eats not just the bait, but with it the hook, and the bit of fishing line all theway to the floating thing
mircea_popescu: you know, just because most people find sooner or later personal reasons to hate large groups of idiots doesn't reduce the problem.
mircea_popescu: not how that works. generally if they get one they get one for all their stuff.
mircea_popescu: but the original universities were fortified, exactly to keep the redidtards of the time awya.
mircea_popescu: "university" means elitist and antisocial. neither of these exists in the muggle world anymore,
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the well documented nonfiction blog is always well regarded, and as it happens stuff that's banal to you often will be fascinating to others. which is why a psychologist's blog is like, b-a's favourite blog or something.
mircea_popescu: if this implies he settled on pow for that reason, it then follows he chose the correct mechanism for exactly the wrong reason, becuase that's the only aspect under which pow has failed.
mircea_popescu: as a fine example, the bit danielpbarron quotes : "The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making. If the majority were based on one-IP-address-one-vote, it could be subverted by anyone able to allocate many IPs. Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote."
mircea_popescu: one of the most fascinating things about reading satoshi's statements is just how often he makes the correct choice for the wrong reasons.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what this guy did in his life that he's so upset at himself anyway.
mircea_popescu: everything he has ever done in his life is complete garbage (just going by what I've read of and from him, so I could be incorrect).
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron lol, did i become a drug addict once i stopped being a woman ?
mircea_popescu: this "idea" is so fucking retarded it's perhaps the best advertisement to my ancient "you don't get to have ideas, go work for someone who matters" thing. only people without the first clue as to how things work could entertain such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: like saying "look at this cute 9 year old girl, i bet she's got a cunt between her legs under the skirt there" is rather impolitic,
mircea_popescu: only inasmuch as you think this is a label to begin with.
mircea_popescu: you both need for your own sanity to misrepresent the other's set.
mircea_popescu: well cause he lives with one set of idiots and you with the other.
mircea_popescu: what, it's secret, i don't get to see it ? only the choice alfs ?
mircea_popescu: so basically... it's about as redundant as everything else the power rangers have made, past coupla years.
mircea_popescu: your contract must be specified. once you specify it, you have specified a way to circumvent it. end of story.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> more efficient economical system runs through the fuel - faster. elementary << nope, other way around actually. the more advanced, the more fuel.
mircea_popescu: and russians don't have many freiends in the caucasus etc
mircea_popescu: everyone in the middle east hates the big satan / us for exact same reason
mircea_popescu: simpler explanation : everyone in central europe hates the russians, because last time they had the chance to matter they fucked it up.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ahem. the us is sitting on a lot of unearned mineral resources and unraped land. like say, alaska.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field an advantageous explanation would be : they knew they didn't do it, so...
mircea_popescu: you shouldn't go around logged into the windows equivalent of root.
mircea_popescu: lobbes well actually, since a bunch of uninformed idiots are creating the problem in the first place, adding more resolves it rather than anything.
mircea_popescu: all it takes is to make inner city clinic prescriptions for "medication" contingent on voting card.
mircea_popescu: ostensibly to give them candy or something. THAT they will know about.
mircea_popescu: chetty same way they do here, or anywhere else for that matter : bus them in.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or anyone inclined, can we have a qntra piece discussing why
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057797 is an attempted self-boon by fiat, which bitcoin will ignore like all the others ? and warn reuters and whatever idiot signed it to dessist from lying and misrepresenting while they still have their heads ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: jurov well... getting idiots to mind their own fucking business might be a bridge too far.
mircea_popescu: jurov so the idea being that it's better in one empire than the other ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so wait, the fact that it was downed by a missile is not disputed ? then why's this relevant ?
mircea_popescu: "Investigation into the chemical composition showed that they are remains from a BUK missile, among which fragments from the warhead – the pay load. The fragment of the warhead consists of a low-quality alloy of steel common to this form of ammunition. It appears from electroscopic enlargements that a fragment shows a cast-on Cyrillic serial number from the Russian language next to a partly broken number 2."
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't recall what the positions were there, was it the pro-russians saying the pro-nato downed it with a jet, and the pro-nato saying the pro-russians took it down with a buk ?
mircea_popescu: but in any case : i happen to think the attempt'd do a huge service to all usians.
mircea_popescu: no, generation of demons and monsters through masturbation.
mircea_popescu: this seemed a plausible theory for centuries at a stretch.