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mircea_popescu: you know, jurov is actually a very talented historian.
mircea_popescu: "Despite being drowned in graceful donations and membership fees, they just keep piling new and new code without proper specification and proper testing, making mistakes or even forks inevitable and thus providing cover for abominable interests."
mircea_popescu: much like strippers and whores pay for their place of work, don't get paid by the landlord.
mircea_popescu: like, gavin et all, should pay a daily fee to be allowed into the amusement park where they pretend like they matter
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the sort of "programmers" that "add features" should actually be charged to go to work.
mircea_popescu: Adlai this, because industry is increasingly a piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: no mythical man month, because no mythical man, not because no mythical month.
mircea_popescu: there isn't some sort of "us" that could just as well be a standin for any of us.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: this roman doesn't seem to care much for his friends' feet. perhaps the shoe's pinch points would bother them too, if they were to walk long enough in the same shoes? <<< you know your crowd-* obsession is at some level based on the fundamentally evil notion that people are interchangeable.
mircea_popescu: Adlai afaik there was never in the entire history of bitcoin proposed some sort of credible / evidenced based interepretation of wtf it does.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: except! in the case of the 1990s alt.tasteless 'golden turd award.' <<< anything good in there ?
mircea_popescu: undata you don't understand. siberia is a huge space, full of minerals they can't access because ice.
mircea_popescu: it needs more oil under a sheet of ice like kim kardashian needs more pubic hair.
mircea_popescu: <undata> if I were russia, I'd wait for the US to go balls deep into the middle east again, and then I'd grab some of the north pole's oil, <<< obviously, you're not russia.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> anyone else find it mildly interesting that the last 5 chars in deed ID of jurov's signed treasurer's contract are "urovj"? << it's in the logs.
mircea_popescu: now if i only had a link to where it was put to rest, to pass along to undata
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: undata: this comes up here at least once a month, and i regret to say that it is mostly my own fault. <<< that it has a good response is mostly your fault. that it appears... it'd have appeared anyway.
mircea_popescu: should be interestinf to see if sleep actually resolves [part of] memory leakage
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how much of what is on your computer right now, actually -does- something ? << i guess about half.
mircea_popescu: "Lest this all seem merely amusing, meditate on the fate of those who have tampered with words before. The behaviorists ruined words like "behavior", "response", and especially, "learning". They now pl-ay happily in a dream world, internally consistent but lost to science."
mircea_popescu: well no meaningful content is directly obvious from the form of expression. you gotta know what the words sya.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seems you first logged last month, what do you mean "btc auth set up for years" ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai it just says "you're authed" and lists how that could be
mircea_popescu: double the hassle of logging. tide's not really that high yet.
mircea_popescu: now imagine what happens if either is breached somehow.
mircea_popescu: anwyay : you'll also notice we quite strictly use 4kb rsa sigs in our gpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you asking me why or the abuser why ?
mircea_popescu: the only proper way to use bitcoin addresses as identification correctly is to run a never-connected node that has no balance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even getting into these technical discussion : getting people to use their credit cards as identification paperwork is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: badly thought out, pointless functionality doesn't get much use among the sane.
mircea_popescu: Our biggest concern is the welfare of children who appear on this site. {Site name redacted} has a ZERO tolerance policy for rape or
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im just saying, let's not confuse those who pass the fertility test with those who fail the turing test.
mircea_popescu: she hacks herself. of course she does. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: understand something : if female brain were not hackable, if female vulva had no opening, there'd be no species.
mircea_popescu: so basically we could say it's "the understanding" of magnetism ?
mircea_popescu: what i am saying is that the mechanism clearly exists.
mircea_popescu: now look. im not saying the small scale thing is effectual.