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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, how's that for "unmask itself" ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno why they persist in thinking that it actually matters how it LOOKS, but hey.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: never bought that line, worked on assumption if it's plastic, it is shit regardless of label << a wise man is you.
mircea_popescu: yes, he was. do you know who else is just as stupid ? oh... everyone in america ? the smartest lawyers and the smartest businessmen, graduating at the absolute top of the absolute best classes in the absolute best universities ?
mircea_popescu: then people say that pirate roberts character was stupid.
mircea_popescu: that's what they say, and they say it over plaintext channels held by their enemy.
mircea_popescu: these are, it should be noted, the ivy league's best and brigtest
mircea_popescu: "Canellas wrote to defendant Warren, “Great job dude. We kicked ass! Time to get paid.” About ten minutes later, defendant Warren responded, “Hey man, I don’t know where you come up with some of this stuff, but you saved the day. It’s been a rough year but it’s been damn good. Nice work dude. Let’s get paid!” Canellas and defendant Warren then left the office to enjoy New Year’s Eve."
mircea_popescu: heh at that link. "replace bisphenol-a with bisphenol-s. be surprised that s stands for shittier."
mircea_popescu: bitcoin holders may put up more rigs to protect hteir holdings, and they may or may not also be miners, but that's coincidental.
mircea_popescu: seriously and why miners actually aren't given that much of a voice in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash: you'd essentially have a narrow window where you could have an easier time manipulating things, but the technicals of mining and others miners would catch up. << "other mienrs will catch up" is so much nonsense. other miners are turning down their rigs as it is with the price today. if diff suddenly jumped 100%, "other miners" will give up and go home. which is why the other miners are not to be taken too
mircea_popescu: that's why the article says the only stable solution is once 50%+ of the earth available energy is used to mine.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't matter WHAT the other, larger altcoin is. even if it is "nothing at all" : for as long as most miners are mining "nothing at all" then the altcoin Bitcoin is in danger of being stomped.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there's a 15-25% ish chance by now they actually did and it's just being noised out. tough chance.
mircea_popescu: tripleslash:so watch for a noticeable permanenent 40 petahash drop over the next few difffchanges << it's pretty noticeable they DIDN'T have 40 ph.
mircea_popescu: just waiting for kako to put finishes touches on assbot wot.
mircea_popescu: cazalla they been arounbd a long time with no withdraws ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the part where satoshi pretty much left because he couldn't believe just how fucking idiotic gavin is doesn't really make the cut of what reddit likes to discuss huh.
mircea_popescu: Gavin Andresen: Um... I haven't had email from satoshi in a couple months actually. The last email I sent him I actually told him I was going to talk at the CIA. So it's possible , that.... that may have um had something to with his deciding"
mircea_popescu: "Bruce Wagner : When was the last time you chatted to satoshi <laugh>
mircea_popescu: so any bets/guesses as to what price bitcoin needs to touch for coinbase to fire 9 workers ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine it's passive-aggressive "i will crop a screenshot rather than link because somehow links from this shithole matter in the grand scheme, whereas 15 minutes of my life are worth squat"
mircea_popescu: "hardfork is considered by a majority of items nobody asked compatible with bitcoin and its rules"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i imagine the point was to humiliate through the low bar.
mircea_popescu: "by not specifying otherwise multiple times and using these prefab expressions"
mircea_popescu: if you look at it, so fucking weird what burns these people.
mircea_popescu: "oh look, what mp said back in october when he was being nice about it is a lot easier to follow than what he's saying now, once the fuckwits in question ignored the polite approach. isn't it mp's fault that gavin is an idiot!"
mircea_popescu: "[EDIT] There is an explanation of the possible problem with increasing the block size in the comment section here Gavin Andresen Proposes Scalability Roadmap and Hardfork, which is much more informative that Mr Popsescu's own vindictive rambling."
mircea_popescu: "Not the least of my reasons is that Mircea Popescu seems to be a thoroughly dislikeable, arrogant, smug, elitist and condescending chap. He makes every disagreement a personal dispute between his own superior intellect and the stupid idiots that are not him. His attitude towards Andresen, the public, the poor and the residents of Mali is despicable."
mircea_popescu: ah this rape will be like... the sweetest rape in the history of that generally sweet article.
mircea_popescu: "[EDIT2] I've never seen so much stupidty concentrated in the same space as so much unpleasantness since I was in high school. Even if Popescu and his friends are right, they deserve to be left on a fork and lose all their precious play-money. This is why I usually avoid reading anything non-technical about Bitcoin. I'm going back to that policy, the pain was not worth the Quora credits."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: hint: its not the nick, its the channels. << he got you there [/\/\/\]
mircea_popescu: not like it should dent the budget of the greatest country in the world anyway, got 1 trn to spend on imaginary planes.
mircea_popescu: generally prosecutor has little option, going through with it costs more before the thing even gets to a jury.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: 30 years proposed by a prosecutor is often 2-3 years by the time one has to report to jail. << well, how's that plea bargain supposed to go, "oh, so you're offering 3 meals a day and free housing, over 30 years that's about 350k give or take. pay me say 175`000.00 in one lump up front and i might let the charges go".
mircea_popescu: TomServo yeah i dunno how good that gribble estimate is.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : F35 Program cost US$1.0165 trillion (projected). Trident program cost $39.546 billion (to date)
mircea_popescu: TomServo: Curious, block 338710 had only 1 transaction (the new coins) - is that common? << empty blocks used to make up 10-20% of the chain a year or so ago.
mircea_popescu: no, ineffectively the same thing. i'd actually support that "ban"