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mircea_popescu: "others will not readily understand how our implementation of 3 card monte is an implementation of 3 card monte, giving us an exploitable knowledge asymmetry - which makes this exactly an altcoin, which is why it's sensible to pretend we're like bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "whenever misreporting an event is worth more to your stake than it costs to buy back the lost reputation, you misreport the event. decentralized selective scamming ftw!"
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: such a thing is not possible; there needs to be an arbiter to decide if a bet has resolved yes or no << easier to "invent" stuff than understand stuff. just like it's easier to write new code than understand coding.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (and that there is another one, where it wasn't. but i think we did this one before) << like 5 or 7 times.
mircea_popescu: i know for a fact the usg did not know what was in the leaks until their press agents told em
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point is that gpg was widely used for the snowden leaks. this indicates that a major player trusted it, and was right in so doing ; and suggests a major target for that reason alone.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's not a strict thing, more like a general consideration. i doubt they managed to react fast enough to do much to 4.14
mircea_popescu: trust is good. what, fucking is also an obsolete, pre-scientific word. slides right down nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: so ima send a btc to assbot's 1B6NP9eb4RKy9tRrXYCJnNcenZkrt5Q2gb
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.assbot.10:e33f37ce0c6349c2ff073951a8cd8907102c1ccbe4996cad4061ed1e6fc1d310
mircea_popescu: !rate assbot 10 Nuclear sub delivered 2 days before order while paying me $500
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo / cazalla pls to write-up this truly momentuous development.
mircea_popescu: can't hurt. leave all these for a 2nd version down the road.
mircea_popescu: yeah the old way had the advantage of automation, but this has the more significant advantage of airgap
mircea_popescu: would be useful. then we have gribble-assbot talk to each other via diffs
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla as in, if the rating was given via here, or imported from gribble's db
mircea_popescu: this is almost as if someone sat down and thought about it.
mircea_popescu: i'll get on nano's case to see if he's willing to put it all into gribble.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea is to import gribble's wot but mark it as gribble's, and allow others to import assbot's wot.
mircea_popescu: stupid fucking name. anyway, towards the end there's some good foundational stuff. perhaps not directly useful for the purpose at hand, but very good to get your head swiveled in the right position
mircea_popescu: nono it was a course, you were supposed to email your results
mircea_popescu: i been looking for it magically can't find it. the one that had the rsa break in the last fascicle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you got a link to that hacking course thing that was crypto oriented ?
mircea_popescu: Using Cryptography Against Cryptography. Adam Young and Moti Yung.
mircea_popescu: even if you use rsa-only keys, you can rsa-encrypt a message so that it's easier to break but still decryptable by destination.
mircea_popescu: artifexd not to be taken lightly this. a lot can be compromised in gossipd crypto.
mircea_popescu: seems a reasonable approach tbh, but generally people should free to use whatever they wish to use.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to... well... it's what the build pulled in.
mircea_popescu: anyway. guy can use whatever crypto routines he's comfortable with, on the general understanding that he's read them and is actually comfortable with them
mircea_popescu: if only great wautu blessed us with some unquestionable crypto routines.
mircea_popescu: if i pick a barber i don't go by the straight razor brand.
mircea_popescu: well ok, sure, but still. i dun see the problem, so b-a guy wants to play with go. his choice, his signature, why is this an issue.
mircea_popescu: dude you can't impeach people on the grounds that they ate with hitler.
mircea_popescu: listen, if you don't start fucking girls born after X at some point, you'll be stuck in wrinkle heaven.
mircea_popescu: well... guess what ? nobody ever read fucking linux, either.
mircea_popescu: but i still dunno wtf is wrong with it. so, it has open compiler. it has open libraries.
mircea_popescu: well yes. that way it gets implemented in two languages.
mircea_popescu: well so why do you want him to also write it in c ? go is a better choice neh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so other people like other languages, big whoop.