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mircea_popescu: it's ludicrous as a concept. showing that these idiots posing as "leaders" have the intellectual penetration of frogs.
mircea_popescu: except, how the fuck will that work ? here's a broken c program, make a basic version of it and then try to enforce it
mircea_popescu: basically the proposition is that rather than writing good software, bad software will be translated into law language
mircea_popescu: this entire "forget how the machines work we'll make a legal representaton of how they SHOULD work and then hold you to respect that whether you knew it or not" is such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: mats: usually its all world domination and biodiesel << world biodisomination!
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: I want to hire a statistical company to make a distributed properly research. << there's perhaps better uses to that capital, whatever you'd be spending. seeing how the value of asnwering the "what does brazil think" on whatever topic isn't really that great. i guess it could be a useful demonstration of methodology etc, but that needs some sort of a plan, won't do much as just a shot in the dark.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: But I want to write it in Portuguese to someone translate it to me to English, and I make the final review just to see if anything was misundertood. << this is a non-starter. the person doing the translation can just write their own stuff directly. you're not famous or anything, why'd you imagine someone'd be bothered translating you specifically ?
mircea_popescu: but there'd have to be some sort of serious upfront commitment to it. one article now and again isn'treally worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i believe english is strongly encouraged. from what I remember when the guy wanting to write in italian showed up. << well, nobody speaks italian. brazil speaks portuguese. i don't directly see a problem with it, if the coverage's any good.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: and does the cooking too << i remember that part.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> from the top of the hill << o look, czechoslovenia!
mircea_popescu: back in the 90s the diesels were pretty economical cause diesel was 30% off
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what he does is, "here's a turing machine, and here's how im painting my game on it. "
mircea_popescu: apparently a sack of 20 different apples is "turing complete" if you provide the turing completeness separately
mircea_popescu: tank isn't that big if memory serves, more like 52, and fuel economy is not that bad, more like 7ish
mircea_popescu: jurov it's counterintuitive, but the session thing is not actually increasing security.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> its hard work, i hardly get any sleep << sleep is for pussy!
mircea_popescu: <jurov> also i must confess, it uses only short key ids internally << this should be fixed, and rly shouldn't be to hard to.
mircea_popescu: actually i guess it depends on teh wisdom / celerity of teh admins currently involved if the future will hold it as best practice or just you know, that thing that might have been useful but never took off.
mircea_popescu: that they talk to each other is a convenience, and i guess best practice, but not really a necessity.
mircea_popescu: well obv that's optional. as the wot decentralizes, one can be part of as many / all of them.
mircea_popescu: <TomServo> Am I crazy for suggesting that assbot be subordinate to gribble until the exchange of ratings is sorted out? << why would it be ?
mircea_popescu: lol@fuckyou.biz sez "this article is fucking stupid and i hope it was written as a joke to piss off nerds"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you don't understand, she was almost under 18 at the time and she didn't agree to switch positions!
mircea_popescu: <davout> just wondering if there was a specific reason it wasn't mentioned in the spec << so people can have fun.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i got a meeting, we'll have to continue this debte in a few hours.
mircea_popescu: it does make sense. because the trust does not derive from a robotic application of a gpg seal.
mircea_popescu: you're free to sign whatever matter a similar way, but it won't be thus notarized. it will just be your own mock-up of the process.
mircea_popescu: the notary keeps a list of all the items it was sent a certain way.
mircea_popescu: because for all i know you signed a "coin will fall heads" statement too and aren't sharing that one.
mircea_popescu: if you come hither with a signed statement saying "the coin will fall tails" i won't particularly care
mircea_popescu: people should be able to sign independently of the notary, and should be able to mock its formality, sure.
mircea_popescu: it won't show up on its website, but supposedly you dun care
mircea_popescu: that sort of latency means you'll be a late comer to the "sell it into the dirt" party.
mircea_popescu: im not happy with waiting the 200 blocks for the scamcoins to mature.
mircea_popescu: maybe this entire pool thing actually just needs to be a website to generate raw tx for people to put in bitcoind
mircea_popescu: course, this is not actually needed either. miners already do that, in that they look for high tx fee txn
mircea_popescu: it *could* just look for dblspent txs that made it on gavinchain and prioritize them
mircea_popescu: actually you're right huh, it doesn't need to be trustless and that "send to pool" step is gunk.