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mircea_popescu: sadly this won't be possible here, like it's not possible generally, but in spirit.
mircea_popescu: so no, if it lasts forever and it's nothing but a hellish cried of the tortured all the better.
mircea_popescu: the fact that no lord ever wanted whoever he punished to ever die is directly apparent if you look at two things : their artists made hell be eternal torture ; the bodies lay in the gibbet at the gate for much longer than the dude inside survived.
mircea_popescu: their cries of pain and outrage should be preserved for posterity, to teach others.
mircea_popescu: the expensive and painful slow roasting of idiots is a very valuable output.
mircea_popescu: whatever mini-nuland is in charge does not understand that there are forces more powerful on the field, who "do not understand how the world works"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i kinda enjoy all this acting as if they have an option in the matter.
mircea_popescu: "i want it" "are you paying for it ?" "no, but i still want it" "because ?" "because i say so, damn it" "this isn't fiat, billy" "fuck you stop opressing me"
mircea_popescu: "Not everyone who wants an immediate confirmation will be able to get it, regardless of how much they pay. If there's more people wanting next-block confirmation than there are slots in the block, it's mathematically guaranteed that people will miss out. As network usage grows, the percentage of unsatisfied users will grow linearly with it."
mircea_popescu: this is the only kind of youth one could possibly wish for themselves.
mircea_popescu: anyway, on contemplation i actually see this as my finest work to date.
mircea_popescu: maybe you should write a restatement ? curious how it'd read.
mircea_popescu: wots are trivially doublespent. as part of normal functioning.
mircea_popescu: it only makes for an unrepudiable log of what matters.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no but recall the thing itself i refer to. a pastebin contract was in fact proferred.
mircea_popescu: except once the few derps flaked, i had nobody to complain to.
mircea_popescu: no contract appears. well... now you cantell whoever you see me through that wtf is this bs.
mircea_popescu: this identity, which may be me unless i deny it, proposes he will sign a contract so and so.
mircea_popescu: "we were going to make it, so i told the wife, go ahead and get started, i'ma grab a paper"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the price for this, of course, is immutability :)
mircea_popescu: just saying, kind of an engineering convention. no point in seeing too much metaphysics behind it
mircea_popescu: yes, well, this is more a function of louis than anything.
mircea_popescu: decimation did you actually read the whole discussion ?
mircea_popescu: i might be especially thick, but i don't actually understand what decimation is saying.
mircea_popescu: (i mean, as opposed to soft. it's not like twitter, follow X. it's the opposite, "send to X")
mircea_popescu: artifexd nevertheless, since output is always encrypted to a key,
mircea_popescu: you don't really need to hear anything back from anyone.
mircea_popescu: artifexd you will notice the spec is broadcast-oriented.
mircea_popescu: im not entirely sure it is actually to any purpose important.
mircea_popescu: if we were onm a purely broadcast network, it'd work right
mircea_popescu: so im guessing this is going to be forced by the medium.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, connections on the internet don't work unilaterally.
mircea_popescu: this part is finnicky. it shouldn't, ideally, but i don't see how it could be done.
mircea_popescu: i must say, incidentally, i thoroughly enjoyed this discussion.