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mircea_popescu: cazalla possibly not bs seeing how it actually provides a valid verification method.
mircea_popescu: one of the best parts of living in argentina ? you can have email exchanges with "don Pablo Picasso". literally.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> danielpbarron: in essence, like most supposedly 'gpl compliant' commercial products, the compliance is a total and unabashed crock of shit. <<< funny how much stock rms puts in the nude declaration, huh.
mircea_popescu: btw re ers : i'm not so sure about all that barnacle. isn't the guy a major libertarian ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform management sez take a break you're chewing the scenery.
mircea_popescu: metzger could be that blind schmuck in systemd could be gavin etc.
mircea_popescu: what shocks me is the extreme structural coherence of the red herrings deployed.
mircea_popescu: "As mentioned earlier, in any case I will happily accept and install LLDB support into gud.el. So as long as I'm Emacs maintainer, your opinion on whether this might ruin the FSF's goals are not relevant."
mircea_popescu: oh, some holdouts still don't wish to trade power for the fetish of power ? pretend like power doesn't even exist anymore!
mircea_popescu: "Licenses and "control" have absolutely nothing to do with it. Stefan" :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, exactly. the problem is that they (unknowingly) approximate the wot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you;ll enjoy my write-up, if it gets picked up :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "compiler technology has advanced significantly in ways that GCC is not well positioned to exploit. " any clue what this specifically means ?
mircea_popescu: it can't actually do THAT, but some other things it can buy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform esr is posting from an universe where apple has ambitions.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this is pretty huge. if you feel like spinning it together with the discussion re symbols a few weeks ago makes a pretty great qntra article. informative and in depth of what matters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know people who have tried and gave up.
mircea_popescu: only if we can make our nodes give out blocks in order.
mircea_popescu: now it's mostly people who don't have bitcoin, and desperately wish to be told "that's okay".
mircea_popescu: they either gotr scammed and sold out as the price went up, because they couldn't justifyably keep those hjoldings
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this was back when reddit mostly consisted of people who had bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: what "enough people" want and five dollars in cointips buys them a cup of coffee.
mircea_popescu: one year you throw away k's of btc, the next year you need foundation salary for 10s of btc ?
mircea_popescu: we are still on the OLD chain, we didn't move to the new one that emerged then.
mircea_popescu: if you mean the unintentional power ranger fuckup of 2013, that fork was killed.
mircea_popescu: it was always there, and it'll hit you over the head until you die if you cross it.
mircea_popescu: that's the principal point here. it's not a "technology". it's not an invention. bitcoin is a discovery.
mircea_popescu: <beetcoin> but humans can't really change gravity << or bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nobody ever read all of reddit. so it's okay : failure by design.
mircea_popescu: one million lines is it ? should be about a year, for someone that is professionally qualified to read.
mircea_popescu: now... if OUR node was better, to privilege it would make sense. and itd; be worth WAY more than the five bux or w/e on tap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform problem is that if you penalize nodes for misbehaving thus, you'll just in practice randomly cut them off. as thery all do.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` slow peers nbot even it. out of order block peers much worse.
mircea_popescu: funny how botomless the capacity of these people to generate conflicting names.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i strictly meant the point discussed above, "bootstrap"
mircea_popescu: "oh, let's lay low for a coupla years everything will be fine".
mircea_popescu: ;;rate phantomcircuit -10 Aka Patrick Strateman. That he has the unmitigated audacity to pretend he is a Bitcoin dev is unsurprising for the history of this felon. His name is permanently besmirched by one of the most inept frauds in the history of Bitcoin (Bitcoinica). He is also famous for sending the entire userbase the email address of the entire userbase. This is the sort of moron early Bitcoin attracted.
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:b4adb22156bc3560f7f16c899dd2896a9af5c26d90b4c8cf345a6562
mircea_popescu: ie, back when all the idiots thought they're bitcoin coders.