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mircea_popescu: is this ver's way of saying he can't afford anything bitcoin-related anymore, not even that thing in miami ?
mircea_popescu: i'd bet you but we can't use bitbet because it doesn't take gavin btc.
mircea_popescu: dude, it will be 5 years before anyone even figures out there's something to attack.
mircea_popescu: and it will get more eyeballs reading code on the strength of the already existing thing.
mircea_popescu: but there can be a later protocol extension covering udp
mircea_popescu: if done right, a reasonable expectation will be that any box is running it anyway.
mircea_popescu: it is in my eyes much more valuable to have a working prototype rapidly, that then can be extended (and nothing will prevent a future client to filter traffic any way itchooses, say by accepting udp only)
mircea_popescu: another advantage to tcp is that you don't really get to care about mtus and all that.
mircea_popescu: improvements don't have to be absolute solutions to be useful. they just have to be absolute improvements.
mircea_popescu: and it's worked nothing short of splendidly for many years.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, we have a much shittier version currently,
mircea_popescu: artifexd nothing prevents the thing to be further upgraded later on.
mircea_popescu: should be obvious that model does not work. it doesn't, specifically because it caters to the idiocy it proposes very flimsily to be "against".
mircea_popescu: on a more practical angle, you will note that the various entities relying on "secrecy" are in jail, from the pirate robets to the shrem dude. even "thanking the judge for a justice well done".
mircea_popescu: no, i shan't live by any entities' permission. the state will live by my permission, or go down in a hail of bullets and flame thrower exhaust.
mircea_popescu: if the state controls the field of identity it doesn't need much more.
mircea_popescu: let the derps analyze it until they fall over. this retreat of person to "anonymity" is exactly the wrong strategic moves.
mircea_popescu: artifexd more's the point, i don't specifically give a shit about "analysis"
mircea_popescu: ideally we keep away from any really dumb ideas that'd prevent moving away from the current situation
mircea_popescu: reading the comments, this new ircd thing is actually fucking exciting.
mircea_popescu: (possibly the first in the trend of white trash "do-ologists", something that's apparently coming en vogue what with all the couch surfing entrepreneurs)
mircea_popescu: such as, in medieval times punishment lists were put out in the marketplace.
mircea_popescu: i thought about it for a while, but fundamentally, wot has a lot of trouble existing independent of the forum.
mircea_popescu: arguably ircd isn't really any of these, but going by intent rather than practice.
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's supposed to replace ircd as a secure, fast and reliable means to communicate directly with others.
mircea_popescu: it's akin to saying that there's child porn in the blockchain. yes, of course there is.
mircea_popescu: they can sort-of push the levers, they can send over diddled code to whatever "specialists" never to be heard from again,
mircea_popescu: i don't expect "the freenode folks" have technically very much at their disposal. this is the thing, frozen since the days lilo walked the earth.
mircea_popescu: anyway, go read the log, come back in half year or thereabouts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would someone know if sometyhing's a mistranslation absernt source matrerial ?
mircea_popescu: "Saudi Arabia shipped 54 percent of its crude oil exports to Asia in 2013, with another 17 percent to the United States, according to Saudi Aramco's annual report. It shipped just 5.4 percent to Europe and 6.7 percent to the Mediterranean. In total, crude exports ran at 6.8 million bpd."
mircea_popescu: Burn the castle, storm the keep, kill the women, save the sheep.
mircea_popescu: i always hope on the side of getting to do some raping. and pillaging.
mircea_popescu: and the us muppets are currently shivering to death in a "democratic" ukraine that CLEARLY had to have its block sizes increased.
mircea_popescu: the us has a lengthy history of getting involved in wars it can't afford
mircea_popescu: the "coinbase" tx is the tx that pays the miners for the block mined, that 25 btc
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the lulzy part in there is "clearly the thing that's not needed but we kept repeating that it is, is in fact needed. because...uh..."
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it's as good as the argument that "my horse doesn't need to eat"
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic kako's argument needs a "and the govt will print money and give it to them. forever" companion.
mircea_popescu: the block rewards keeps going down. how are they going to make money if there's no pressure on txn to pay ? is gavin going to give them it ?
mircea_popescu: jurov this discussion entirely elides the more important point of "why in the fuck would miners even consider a proposal that inflates their main ware".