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mircea_popescu: equalitarianism is a pipe dream, whether it calls itself democracy, socialism or anything else. hierarchy is both good and indispensable. this is factually correct, which means it's practically falsifiable and scientifically approacheable.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it sculpture is also fantastic waste of marble
mircea_popescu: isn't fixed sig + nonce equivalent to ephemereal sig ?
mircea_popescu: because the telcos WILL do a mickey mouse or should i say microsoft version of it
mircea_popescu: and i'd kinda like to see this implemented right by sane people this decader
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the important part isn't even trhere, the important part is that the machine WONT ROUTE
mircea_popescu: aside of which, friday some derp was going on about what "his life is dedicated to" and in the crowd hysteria i told em my life is dedicated to excluding people.
mircea_popescu: exactly like gunpowder is impressive even without a fine 1850 hovitzer
mircea_popescu: the extreme power of this idea is evidenced by how effectual it is even when poorly implemented.
mircea_popescu: and a shitty version, beyond primitive, yet it still worked.
mircea_popescu: once you get the proper voice model implemented, forgeddaboutit
mircea_popescu: and absolutely NEVER allow any derps on it. stick to the original plan with the original internet, no fucking undergrads.
mircea_popescu: turn off all other traffic, have servers in their own, better world.
mircea_popescu: make a whole new web, on a whole new port, based on pgp signs
mircea_popescu: if cardano wasn't so woefully delayed exploring this in practice'd be almost tempting.
mircea_popescu: in short, the more i think about it the more im inclined to rather see the telcos win the internet war, adn google lose it
mircea_popescu: that is the definition of design : rules independent of events.
mircea_popescu: they only get away with it because a flaw in the design.
mircea_popescu: it's a situation exactly identical to "pay for software" and software market in general.
mircea_popescu: because teleport bits exists, putting undue down pressure on all prices.
mircea_popescu: that is what im saying. to get a packet there, you need more than one
mircea_popescu: right, which goes through thermodynamic dissipation aka friction.
mircea_popescu: exactly for the reason you mention : who can afford or wants to give anyone free traffic ?
mircea_popescu: as long as friction is baked in, the ddos problem fundamentally doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: you want n packets, you send at least n+1. you want n bits, you send at least n+1.
mircea_popescu: in spite of endless generations of imbeciles running wild all over it.
mircea_popescu: you always get less than what you put in. this is the chief principle that makes the world endure
mircea_popescu: it was made by idiots who do not understand what trade even is.
mircea_popescu: every anything used in an amplification attack meets the criteria.
mircea_popescu: it's like a beautifully drawn mmorpg made by blizzard. you KNOW the economy will be broken to all shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the entire world made by derps unaware of game theory needs to be redone.
mircea_popescu: "lets make computers fun" ; "you know, for kids" and "anyone can do this". fuck that.
mircea_popescu: mullenweg and the core of imbeciles "working" at wordpress go around claiming they program computers
mircea_popescu: you want the time ? ask twice. the server answers each request pair once, in the order of descending delta intervals.
mircea_popescu: and in connectionless environments such as ntp or dns even, it would cost nothing to require 2 tits for every tat.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile TO THIS DAY wordpress will go check 1.1.1.1 because 2.2.2.2 said so.
mircea_popescu: and to not send packets to X that were asked for by Y.
mircea_popescu: the solution is to not send 500 packets in response to one
mircea_popescu: " IP addresses that were not assigned to the device which is sending them."
mircea_popescu: not trivial to know where a packet enters tho. they do have to traverse it anyway
mircea_popescu: there IS something wrong to treating packets like fucking popcorn.
mircea_popescu: the world would be so much better if all the gmaxwells of this world were never taught to read.