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mircea_popescu: so at some point the corp's gonna go bankrupt and you can buy the code then
mircea_popescu: basically the problem is negative incentives. lots of money to be made from windows holes.
mircea_popescu: if it were "it worked for us" it'd be mre latin america and less ru.
mircea_popescu: no dude seriously contemplates telling parents / prospect / parents of prosepct that "he contributes to wikipedia"
mircea_popescu: i suppose the problem is that the us is fully aspirational, whereas the ru world a lot more practical.
mircea_popescu: and you're right in pointing out that ida is probably a thing to rewrite, alongside gpg, etc
mircea_popescu: but i can see his point. waste of time to go into the guts of windows.
mircea_popescu: why do you wanna go in locales you don't like the maxima.
mircea_popescu: this can't be a problem. it's like mp's triangle : x sucks , no competition, anyone cares.
mircea_popescu: moreover, this "follow effects bs" is what leads one to "property is theft"
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of effects. it's a matter of causes.
mircea_popescu: this is good and proper natural-ness. things as they should be.
mircea_popescu: THIS monopoly is more like, i'm the only kid that washes.
mircea_popescu: well, normally monopoly is like this : i hire five ex convicts to beat up any boy that stands up, thus leaving me the only eligible teenager i nthe highschool. because no girl wants to fuck any of the other losers.
mircea_popescu: it's only a monopoly by virtue of everyone else being retards
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform am i hiding all the good nsa agents somewhere too ?
mircea_popescu: "it is not possible we just simply suck. our excellent goodness is hidden somewhere. if we coud just unleash the real we..."
mircea_popescu: so "twice the money" except it's probably the same value,
mircea_popescu: apparently accountancy become a pretty good business in the us, past decade.
mircea_popescu: the point of money is exactly this : that it may not itself be measured. there's no "utility" of money. it exclusively exists to measure everything else.
mircea_popescu: repackaging of ther "oh, utility of mining, all that electrictiy burned for nothing" crapolade.
mircea_popescu: all it has to do is make sure it's the best money. which it did. once that's done, utility is not a concern. you will work the blockchain if you have to do it by hand in dank cellars chained to the wall,
mircea_popescu: bitcoin itself is money. that means BEYOND ANY UTILITY CONSIDERATION.
mircea_popescu: the utility OF EVERYTHING justifies itself in bitcoin terms.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, all this talk of "utility of bitcoin" can get fucked. it's a flimsy if doomed and in any case transparent attempt to frame the question in fiat terms.
mircea_popescu: but anyway : it's not "mostly engineers". it's 100% of all the business people actually involved with bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: five years ago romania was replete with kids who rewrote trilema articles about this and that to be like all cool and civilised and worldly and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: what i find comedic is the sort of schmuck that thinks he'll survive on intellectual dishonestly. here's the story : if i made it and you stole it, whatever you think about it and however you're representing it... it'll still work for me. not for you. that's the thing with culture.
mircea_popescu: "something i heard from all the people that all read trilema but i won't mention this"
mircea_popescu: o look at it, suddenly the arguments that didn't exist now exist ?
mircea_popescu: "It's largely engineers who think about it in terms of game theory. They think that if you have unlimited blocksize, then the cost of transactions will go to zero because there will always be a competitor that is willing to include transactions even if you're charging X. They believe this will cause a race to bottom and there won't be any incentive for miners to secure the network because they can't cover costs.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what's more alienating than the bizarre that obviously feeds this comic strip.
mircea_popescu: on my tenuous grasp of insanity, it'd seem that it's an entirely vacuous thing, which takes the shape you impose upon it. if you insist it's dangerous... it will probably grow some dangerous appendages. if you treat it as benign, it will basically be benign.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, it does exactly nothing to anyone, including the kids in question, that some weirdo jacks off.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, this particular sort of strange would definitely benefit from support more than OUTRAGE OMG!!1
mircea_popescu: mebbe he actually went because he wanted to jacvk off to 12yo jap gals.
mircea_popescu: english teacher ;likely thing for a foreigner there to do.
mircea_popescu: much in the way kids used to replace the "made by" strings in the old 8086 days with a hex editor.