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mircea_popescu: incidentally, the evolution of this dev session clearly proves the superiority of chat over say bbs, of which forums and trilema comments are implementations.
mircea_popescu: for all practical purposes i am his 3rd split personality, a figment of his rich imagination.
mircea_popescu: however, if you only know asciilifeform and he;'s relying my chat,
mircea_popescu: and if i am in your list and you in mine the same is preserved by gossipd.
mircea_popescu: the only entity served by this nonsense is nsa. users don't actually exist, outside of what the parties you trust say.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i wish to take this opportunity and link the important point of the "unsheathe your sword". inasmuch as people proceed on the "user objectively exists" and then try to "create anonimity" the unavoidable result is "anonimity is hard lolz".
mircea_popescu: this "objective existence of user" is a trap in our task here. it doesn' tserve, it hinders.
mircea_popescu: artifexd you have a clue : either your friend, or someone who only exists
mircea_popescu: for that matter, imagine a "No" string signed. what now ?
mircea_popescu: well, i don't. i more often have sex with someone in the bus
mircea_popescu: do you ordinarily sign contracts with people you chat with in the bus ?
mircea_popescu: in fact, for all you know A sends whole different novels to B and C.
mircea_popescu: don't trust people you don't trust and so you won't have to answer unpleasant questions from people whose trust you value.
mircea_popescu: each server compiles wot list for use of its user from helos received
mircea_popescu: each server maintains his wot ratings, and theyt are sent out as part of hello procedure
mircea_popescu: lettuce continue this convo while asciilifeform feels all left out :D
mircea_popescu: the current implementation favours what is fundamewntally an erroneous view of thew wot as "one thing". it is not one thing.
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why the "total score" nonsense is so hard entrenched.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, a "total score" is nonsense predicated on this mistaken view.
mircea_popescu: each server sends its own view, you compile what interests you.
mircea_popescu: a 360 baud modem loses 99% of usenet messages out of a pipe which puts out 36kbps worth of messages continuously.
mircea_popescu: if i were to connect to irc with a 360 baud modem i would similarily lose messages.
mircea_popescu: because it's chat. if someone wants to log it, that's a diff story.
mircea_popescu: the messages should be kept around for a short interval (hour ?) while the user can retain them as long as he wants.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo soon enough there's going to be a "no half empty batteries" rule then.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i wonder if for some god-forsaken reason the shitgnomes never actually considered this obviousness.
mircea_popescu: suppose i make 50k 1btc txn. they don't fit in a 1mn block. they do fit in a 10mb block. what now ?
mircea_popescu: since one contains more txn than the other by definition.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes what do you mean ? it necessarily will occur.
mircea_popescu: (if it were that simple, teh enemies wouldn't be going through all the gymnastics & eating up all the frogs)
mircea_popescu: the only way to guard against it is, obviously,for the "large" chain to maintain 1:1 identity with the "small" one. because you don't just fork bitcoin.,
mircea_popescu: the attempt may fail, but the cost to me of this failure is not significant, so i can keep on trying until it succeeds.
mircea_popescu: now i have bitcoin separated in two addresses, one for each chain.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if one block's large and the other small, all i need a tx that's included in the large block but not the small one. then doublespend it on the small one, which will be rejected necessarily by the large block blockchain
mircea_popescu: but it's for as in, "i am doing in the name of x, ie, for x"
mircea_popescu: artifexd i guess in retrospect the use of "for" was misguided. chetty warned me, too.