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mircea_popescu: everyone can "do a little coding' just like any man could ride a horse in 1800.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: My gut is telling me that changing the public keys to garbage is going to be the quick << not that dirty, either.
mircea_popescu: forget that part and think of bandwidth. romania does not have this problem, but the us does. bandwidth accessibility is actually going down, not up, and it looks like it may go away entirely.
mircea_popescu: how are you to make them ? where do you buy your raw materials for bitcoin ? where do you hire workers and pay them in bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: and that if i or anyone else decides to bomb that place that's that for new hard drives for a decade or more.
mircea_popescu: and that at one point, when they had a flood, hard drive prices exploded on the market by a factor of 3
mircea_popescu: exactly schmexactly. there's a difference between the idle imagination of youth and the knowledge of men. for instance : i know but you don't know that the vast majority of hard drives are produced in the same few acres of asian shore.
mircea_popescu: how would this work ? you mean you manufacture the hard drives in house ?
mircea_popescu: if on the other hand expansion is paid in "hard drives" chances are whosoevere wants to participate has to SELL bitcoin to buy fiat assets.
mircea_popescu: point remains : if the expansion is paid in bitcoin, whosoever wants to participate has to SELL fiast assets and buy bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: yes, well... are you one of those who imagines bitpay "paid in bitcoin" for whatever sponsorship ?
mircea_popescu: what has made me come to this conclusion is neither here nor there. i am not proposing anything to you. i have made my own determinations, and if you inquire i tell you the reasons. that's how far that goes.
mircea_popescu: so : a) gavin is in no way involved in bitcoin development ; b) gavin's insanities have nothing to do with bitcoin's problems, and in no case are they solutions. as you'd expect of someone who has nothing to do with it in the first place.
mircea_popescu: both discuss camels and donkeys. both ARE NOT discussions of how to carry your rubble.
mircea_popescu: it is ANOTHER discussion to propose that you pile all the donkeys on top of the camels and then throw the lot in the river.
mircea_popescu: it is one idea to discuss how to load the donkeyus and the camels respectively, to best do this.
mircea_popescu: to understand exactly the situation, you have camles and donkeys, and have to carry a billion tons of rubble.
mircea_popescu: this is completely differet a matter, and it is not proper to mix it together in the consideration of an actual problem. it is not an actual problem.
mircea_popescu: unrelated to all of this, a usg mole is proposing to change bitcoin into something unsustainable.
mircea_popescu: these are, obviously, both going to be employed, in some combination, because the thing is going to grow too huge to allow exclusivity
mircea_popescu: another one is, to pay for it in fiat, via paying for disk space.
mircea_popescu: there are two avenues to pay for it. one is, to pay for it in bitcoin. via paying for txn.
mircea_popescu: looky here : growing larger implies growing costs. this is a given. a larger bitcoin will somehow be paid for.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "XII. The current 1Mb limit is arbitrary. We want to change it. Please ignore the fact that the discussion is about whether to change or not to change, and please ignore that the onus is on whoever proposes change to justify it. Instead, buy into our pretense that the discussion is about "which arbitrary value". Because we're idiots, and so should be you!"
mircea_popescu: you said that you read my articles, which is nice, but it'd be a lot better if instead of saying you did you showed me you did, by asking meaningful rather than meaninglessly general questions.
mircea_popescu: there's, intermittently, some unidentified derp that floods noobs
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's a true old courthouse favourite, "i pay your salary"
mircea_popescu: dickens vs austen ? "o look, my toy car is faster than your toy car!"
mircea_popescu: The term was coined by the physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in an 1860 article in the Atlantic Monthly.
mircea_popescu: apparently "brahmin" has a lengthy usage to describe the cult of the dead cow of massachussetts ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "In the United States polite letters was a cult of the Brahmins of Boston, with William Dean Howells at the helm of the Atlantic." << Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #3190]
mircea_popescu: i didn't beat him up, it was kinda incongruous. he had no real quarrel, posed no real threat and besides, as far as teh adults were concerned i was a silver spoony gentleman.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yup. people trusting shit to memory that are also actively attackin it chemically.
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't go blasting quailshot all over the mall either, would you.
mircea_popescu: decimation> in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety as a top priority << i think paragliding is much like hunting, a sport intended for empty land.
mircea_popescu: a total of nine exploded in a decade in timisoara (tiny town, 300k)
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestions in general a machine is secure if its secure. linux is not a magic pill. as danielpbarron suggests, not connecting it to the internet helps a lot, but also makes it more difficult.
mircea_popescu: camels floating in space on half butterfly/half bat wings
mircea_popescu: the browser is not unlikely what'd have happened if the beduins had discovered dna alteration and there was no interstellar void.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel his idea being i suspect that c code you wish to query over should just be quarried over yonder hill
mircea_popescu: then after a decade i come by and go... "why did she write this!"
mircea_popescu: sometimes i fantasize about buying an old english castle, turning it into a computing school for nude 18 to 22 yo ladies, and putting alf in charge of it, with a flexible bamboo cane.
mircea_popescu: so total noob here, but. the way cffi works is you compile your c stuff as dynamic objects and then put the headers in your lisp program ? or what ?