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mircea_popescu: "adlai, you are charged before this court with high crimes of having derped on the internet in a forbidden manner"
mircea_popescu: not reusing addresses is a bad idea ; reusing them makes them more ambiguous, which is good.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a general point : breaking the address <-> user relation is the most important thing to do for bitcoin's success on an individual level.
mircea_popescu: srsly nao, isn't it obvious by now, whenever immutability is achieved without a db, a hash was involved ?
mircea_popescu: so it looks if it sent a mail for that amount. if it does and the recipient correctly hashes to it, it sends it an email with teh code.
mircea_popescu: you're aware that when you make an order you get sent an email. right ?
mircea_popescu: adlai anything can happen, but if you don't need a database you have less exposure to the things that can happen.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile using a single address has no cost associated, other than you know, one particular string of eight digits as opposed to another particular string of eight digits.
mircea_popescu: it also happens to be the wrong thing. it makes it easier for ~everyone~, which is bad for user privacy. it requires more complexity, which costs money and opens the door to errors
mircea_popescu: anyway, that was the van network, it was actuve for like a month.
mircea_popescu: kinda no practical way to make these not relate to one another
mircea_popescu: or more likely, because the theme they ripped came with the icons.
mircea_popescu: "you forgot your panties in my bed" "but i don't wear panties ?" "oh shit... um..."
mircea_popescu: "i know exactly how garza scams, having watched a number of his scams in trhe past, and i can assure you this one's legit"
mircea_popescu: well if there's no argument on that point, then there's no argument on the "watch the clouds" point either
mircea_popescu: in the same vein with "i won a million bucks in the reader's digest mailing, look!"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` im merely bringing the argument that an inclination to be impressed with what one sees and a tendency to get excited about what's directly seen is more a thing of youth than a thing of humanity.
mircea_popescu: seems to me if high temperature is required the correct approach is not a butane torch but a thermostat hotplate.
mircea_popescu: some people get really elated watching theatre. heck, most 9yos spend the rest of the day doing weirdo dance move things after their first action movie experience.
mircea_popescu: and for that money, you could probably have the same results if you just sat on your back and watched the clouds go by long enough
mircea_popescu: takes a very impressionable sort. it's more you than it's it
mircea_popescu: nubbins` they pretend like it's painful... but it's not.
mircea_popescu: shall there be no end of this "i smoke oregano the older kids sold to me as a mockery BECAUSE I ENJOY IT!"
mircea_popescu: still your best work, just, shitty & obscure. like you.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` and if you're not a musician NOBODY WILL HEAR ABOUT IT
mircea_popescu: so much of contemporary us is all about being incredibly stupid...
mircea_popescu: "oxycodone : how the idiot generation is getting all the drawbacks of opioid dosing with none of the benefits"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` so then are they fucking addicted to the big mac lawl.
mircea_popescu: "i'm in love with X, manifested by the fact that whenever there's no naked swimsuit models splayed on my bedspread, i fuck X"
mircea_popescu: how many people will be snorting your oxycodone when heroin directly available right next to it ?
mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : make a buffet with 10 lb bowls of pure powder.
mircea_popescu: yes, but geared towards a different set of objectives.
mircea_popescu: as best i can see, oxycodone is more like codeine than heroin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's more of a cargo-cultapproach to this science ("i know it's strong because this is how the doctors use it")
mircea_popescu: nubbins` they're rather close anyway, so mass works nearly good enough