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mircea_popescu: davout, fluffypony < i don't think bitcoin reference supports either nlocktime or multisig.
mircea_popescu: and im negrating anyone ever hiring him, on general principle.
mircea_popescu: in case it's not clear, no anything authored by hearn may ever be merged into anything. i don't care what it is. the dog learns to shine shoes or do carpentry or whatever, but he does not work wioth computers anymore.
mircea_popescu: "The BIP was authored by Mike Hearn who also provided the implementation for Bitcoin Core."
mircea_popescu: hings necessary to implement this functionality in a secure fashion are already in place, which Bitcoin Core should have done as well."
mircea_popescu: "btcd won’t be supporting the command because it is completely unauthenticated and insecure as pointed out numerous times on the initial pull request. In response to these concerns, a section entitled “Authentication” was added to the BIP which attempts to address the concerns by simply calling them out along with some potential modifications that could happen in the future. However, we prefer to wait until the t
mircea_popescu: the woodcollector guy spending weeks producing 10s of k's of words a day on the topic of nothing at all being the prototype for how that works.
mircea_popescu: and a lot of political entrenchment and noncontent sprouting for pages.
mircea_popescu: but if you let people off the street do system design you get systems designed by people off the street.
mircea_popescu: trinque: I'm starting to itch for a sqlite+deturdolatedbitcoind experiment <<< wha happened to deedbot ?
mircea_popescu: "how i challenged buffett and won millions in the process"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if i end up winning that thing it'll make a pretty great story. enough for an autobiography at any rate.
mircea_popescu: "and i'm going to take two weeks of and carry on regardless, because the "all" on the field was really nothing at all."
mircea_popescu: "Like so many of you, Paul and I have left everything on the field. We have given our all to this campaign. I so wish that I had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead this country in a different direction, but the nation chose another leader."
mircea_popescu: by next year it's going to be completely gone, and the muppets ready to be sent against a wall again.
mircea_popescu: all that article needed was a thick red "Idiot who was going to make the first best and greatest election website. He failed."
mircea_popescu: 27k words, no mention of "website", no mention of "software", wikipedia relevant as ever.
mircea_popescu: al gore, after being a total muppet, did he go commit sepukku quietly somewhere ? nope, still there, still doing substantiall the same thing. romney, after his beyond ludicrous failure with his "super duper website' thigee, did he quit ? nope... still there.
mircea_popescu: you can distinguish the usg agents from the random muppet by this simple pretense : once gavin's ideas are crushed in the open, does he continue as if nothing happened ?
mircea_popescu: you won't know until someone brings some white stuff indoors.
mircea_popescu: at least before getting a fucking alternative up and running. like the "white" walls that are just about puke gray.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.unrate.felipelalli:811fb8713831e0da1b08ff8b05f3bc76531e2d3f6864f7a733bbc08409566d52
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell felipelalli actually iirc assbot is not a gribble fork. gribble is supybot, and i dun think kakobreklaa pythons much. i dun actually recall what it was derived from tho.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell cazalla im calling you j. coelho henceforth!
mircea_popescu: then the discussions re meatpacking yest. "why are landlords slumming them up ?" "because they're basically sheep ?"
mircea_popescu: "Nos primórdios, minha fonte principal de notícias sobre Bitcoin era o Bitcointalk Forum. Mas eu cansei de lá." << first off, my principal source of news on bitcoin was teh tardstalk forum. i got sick of it.
mircea_popescu: imagine this shit, i can actually read portuguese straight up!
mircea_popescu: how they expect to stay fed and warm is beyond comprehension. but they do so expect.
mircea_popescu: davout: the "you're mean to me makes me want to take the opposite view" is pretty priceless in itself << there's an entire generation of fucktards who pretty much run on this software with little else.
mircea_popescu: davout: they seem to have the same problem in -dev ,<< top kek :D
mircea_popescu: mats: i have always suspected slush is an idiot << in fairness, i think his involvement with this was more in the lines of typical forum scams (name lending - btw, always a bad idea)
mircea_popescu: "so derps beat you to market ? that's ok, give them half a year they'll hang themselves."
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: Google,s fibre offering annoys me for several reasons. << definitely a power grab.
mircea_popescu: long known as a problem, little to do about it because "must have lusers on the internet"
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: The captures are 5.0GB each. Just a little too large to fit on a DVD:P << last time we diagnosed this it was mostly unpnp pwnt routers that yielded it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: buncha derps in there nobody knows what to do with anyway
mircea_popescu: actually... i doubt obama would mind giving it to them, provided the cia etc still gets to use it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the farce was made public some time around '06, iirc. << i recall that. i also recall thinking "gee whiz, what a pointless thing nukes actually are."
mircea_popescu: The Post Recommends: Remember Russia? It’s still doomed.
mircea_popescu: not like i import the usual sort of teledildonics / ipads
mircea_popescu: and if custom guy wants to steal the thing to run his own node i dun mind lol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: not sure why that thing made such an impression on me << because it's pretty fuckin stupid.
mircea_popescu: you'll be easy to pick up in the airport. "fetch me the guy that's inside a pile of boxes"
mircea_popescu: if worst comes to worst ima have friends import em when visiting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know im so impressed with that little train engine...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo fwiw, you're both prolly making too much of this.