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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
mircea_popescu: if we seriously mean to take over teh fiat world we imperatively must have forbidden words!
mircea_popescu: nigger is one thing, that's like freedom of speech and shit like that. but saying the bad about mpex and shit ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so is he quoting a convo that actually occured on irc or one that actually occurred in his head ?
mircea_popescu: there's no "control" involved when the two options are "give us stuff for free" and "disappear into the night"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: because - in all but one out of thousand cases - why??? << once the why is answered, the "make their own" is answered too, fiveseconds later .that's the point.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller << re the techcrunch cadaver washing job in the case of mccaleb : mebbe someone should write a piece detailing how tech crunch bit a steel girder providing whitewashing services for well known bitcoin scammers.
mircea_popescu: alrighty, well, that was all for me today. hohoho an' merry xmas yo!
mircea_popescu: usually it ends up a little later with "here's the thing we were talking about, except i built it inside a submarine just in case. and here's some beer i brewed and by the way, do you know candi and brandi ? they're twins."
mircea_popescu: i mean, suppose you do that. so ? people can just reup outside of your control, all you achieve is piss off the wot list.
mircea_popescu: then we can count how often this happens to de-l1 people.
mircea_popescu: leaving a loophole there deliberately where someone with >1 l1 and 0 l2 can still voice themselves
mircea_popescu: people still can /ignore for that short interval, what's teh big deal
mircea_popescu: the link actually is to his previous bout of derping here
mircea_popescu: and it's what generally happens whenever a state claims to be "protecting rights". it's not protecting anything, it's stealing freedom and issuing in its place token "rights". which, much like its paper currency, are fiat worthlessness.
mircea_popescu: in any case : a freedom is something the people have, and the state can't take away. the rights are constructions that the state gives, and so the state can take away.
mircea_popescu: the difference between rights and freedoms being essentially the difference between pearl necklaces and dog collars.