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mircea_popescu: Vexual: Luke-Jr: Is it the current one that really annoyed you? << im pretty sure he held the same opinion at the time of jp2. since then there's been one who... abdicated ?!?! (i didn't know they could do that) and all sorts of innovative bs. i can readily see his argument, in that the papacy since perhaps Pacelli has little to do with what is preserved in the literary record of the renaissance and a lot more to do wi
mircea_popescu: e are essential matters for its future, only serving is much in its control, and even then, rather vaguely.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: the question still stands. how does humanity pick a monarch, or conclude that a currently serving (because it's both a privilege and a duty) monarch is incompetent << humanity does not pick a monarch. and a monarch is not serving, the humanity is serving. if it doesn't [do a good job] of serving, or if it's not lucky to get stuck with a good monarch, it will diminish and eventually extinguish. while both of thes
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's no "bootstrapping" a monarchy just like there's no training a virgin. a monarchy exists because it exists, if it does. that's all it can do.
mircea_popescu: "Adlai: what criterea would you expect a monarch to use when picking a successor?" <<< welcome to the "none of your business, pleb" side of the monarchy stick. why would you expect you're qualified to discuss that ?
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr: Adlai: I favour absolute monarchy and small government. <<< afaik that's pretty much ... the majority view here ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: this "spam on the blockchain" is only a thing because blocks go unfilled for the most part << exactly.
mircea_popescu: "mats: but yes. be less poor." is this in the bash even ?
mircea_popescu: whoa this Luke-Jr getting murdered thing... apparently b-a does a perfectly fine job of rendering derps with or without mp.
mircea_popescu: but when teh cock is hard, there's work to be immediately done.
mircea_popescu: how long can this last ? and why would anyone do that instead of you know, architecture school ?
mircea_popescu: look at that, like two weeks. wonder how long this'll take.
mircea_popescu: that's why we don't fucking talk to people on the bus, in the train, at the bank. because outside the novelty of it, it's so god damned boring.
mircea_popescu: low tech b-a, on dead trees. because the dirty little secret nobody wants to admit is that people sorted by geographical proximity yields an incredibly limited and ultimately boring set.
mircea_popescu: i ended up fucking reading, which is roughly the equivalent of a gamer that ends up firing his nintendo gameboy because fuck this "real world" shit.
mircea_popescu: actually... ok at first, but it wears thin pretty fast.
mircea_popescu: oh. they were preparing the weirdest nativity scenes earlier, with like palsm and camels and shit.
mircea_popescu: this means they don't have to make sense, or even consider their actions.
mircea_popescu: be so kind to leave a comment once you fix it, it'll encourage other people to do the same i believe.
mircea_popescu: with a 64k list one would have the following problem : the tree of following transactions 4 bits removed is... 64bit.
mircea_popescu: too many unsafe on weak entropy systems. then again, whith a good entropy source, 256 or 65536 could be the default.
mircea_popescu: so a 3.7566 payment out of a 3.9 btc balance becomes 3.7566 0.0992 etc
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with "create 6 new addresses, split change on any tx among these 6, usingthe same number of nonzero digits as the payment"
mircea_popescu: im not so sure that predictable behaviour is actually ideal.
mircea_popescu: more aptly put, if that's nefarious why do we even think bitcoin makes sense.
mircea_popescu: once you do that, idiocy like bitcoind does with "accounts" and whatnot is a tempting step away
mircea_popescu: at the very least you need a safe enumerator of pubkeys.
mircea_popescu: prolly would have been better if they actually became an independent project and continued separately, but beggars/
mircea_popescu: people had been building "wallet tools" as a bundle in parallel which eventually got merged into bitcoind sometime around early 2012
mircea_popescu: importprivkey is trivial tho, just not supported by the gui or w/e
mircea_popescu: on the topic of "can irrational numbers that are powers of rational numbers be written out as polynomes with rational parameters"
mircea_popescu: no ass to speak of, just this pouffed up hair and huge green eyes
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i've seen the prettiest black girl i ever saw.
mircea_popescu: apparently people do think 100 dollar bills are worth 100 dollars just because they can reliably transmit 100 dollars.
mircea_popescu: guess what ? 100 dollar bills are also a way of transmitting value , which is what he misuses "money" to signify.
mircea_popescu: lol buffett doesn't wish for the currency part of bitcoin to exist huh