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mircea_popescu: <jurov> i'd be eager to try one myself, with some phto documentation.. or that was verboten? << try what you mean ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i dun want you to do anything specifically.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud well nothing's specifically expected from you, that;s the problem with statistics.
mircea_popescu: (i know they failed on that power thoroughput specifically, but it's a year old+ bet. it actually improved meanwhile)
mircea_popescu: mats pls to put in comment at article tho. pastebins expire etc.
mircea_popescu: wtf does this work when the "value" given away isn't even worth anything.
mircea_popescu: pretty great. ima save five gallons of twitter for a few years ?
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who plans to waste the shareholders' money can undercut the competition. The easiest thing in the world is to charge too little, it is just as easy as spending too much of other people's money. Customers will flock to those who do because they are giving away some, if not all, of the value for free. Somebody may even pick up the underpriced goods and sell them at a profit when the stupid company ceases to ex
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> aka 'structured asic' <<< this was true last year. meanwhile tho... look at the hash per power figures.
mircea_popescu: and it owned... you know. valuable shit. like all of 'em.
mircea_popescu: * iang_fc (ae3f267d@gateway/web/freenode/ip.174.63.38.125) has joined #bitcoin-assets <
mircea_popescu: i could of course be entirely wrong, maybe he's really a woman and needs special encouragement to "participate".
mircea_popescu: because the sort of people who "invented it all 18 years ago" tend (in my experience at least) to also be the sort that won't have their venues limited by kids with fiddy routers.
mircea_popescu: but the noob was an online expert. he'll figure it out.
mircea_popescu: seems to me more like discussing @ cavalry officer's mess all about how there's a bunch of reeds on a riverside "free for the taking"
mircea_popescu: no but seriously, so through this or any other million ways one so inclined could create a ddos network. ok, so ?
mircea_popescu: let 'em figure it out. the stuff's there, they may, eventually they will, who cares.
mircea_popescu: i wish to see the noob that does that, rather than coming in here trying to derp about how "they did it 18 years ago"
mircea_popescu: * BitLuckInfo has quit (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) << you know this makes me feel a lot better about giving out voice / ratings to noobs.
mircea_popescu: whereas the chieftain fathers 50% of the actual offspring on a regular basis.
mircea_popescu: by this token a discussion of primitive village demographics will center on the visible males
mircea_popescu: reflect that it's too bad we gave anyone over 40 the vote" <<< for what it's worth, this is a woesome misrepresentation of the male. it's the beta male fighing for cotnrol, about as relevant in the discussion as the fat female fighting for reproductive equality.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ also see first note there, oddly on point.
mircea_popescu: all people in prison - prisoners. whether "guilty" or "innocent". all those in the insane asylum - insane.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the entire content of chumpatron X is going to be x.
mircea_popescu: so. obviously for the needs of your own bed you may employ whatever perverse criteria.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : bug parts are functionally identical to rice,
mircea_popescu: if i'm sending it to the mcdonalds factory it might be.
mircea_popescu: plurisemy and syntactico-lexical ambiguity are the actual reasons language is an adequate medium of thought,
mircea_popescu: but in this line of thinking you're baking in ulterior considerations into an anterior branch of the thought tree.
mircea_popescu: specifically, this gives the lie, exemplarily, to "oh, bip32 poses no threat to your security"
mircea_popescu: "Note that the addresses that appear only in the second list still may be in danger, e.g., if they stem from a BIP32 wallet and one knows the "xpub" public key."
mircea_popescu: "There seems to be a new buggy program that reuses the same R value for all signatures in a transaction. It started around September 2014"
mircea_popescu: (so not wanting to relive the experience of the cabal they mostly don't use it)
mircea_popescu: currently the way it works is however many people can route you in or out. and that's that.
mircea_popescu: rather than the very discrete "either you're in or out of the group" thing
mircea_popescu: jurov i imagine he just wants a more continuous bgp arrangement.
mircea_popescu: i recall that "badon effect" dude reducing his "2004" to "2012" on the first cursory examination.
mircea_popescu: dude how is it that all these dudes with wild historicity claims fail to back them up ?