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mircea_popescu the current lease on floor space expires April 30 2016; property will be considered to be abandoned if arrangements not made by that point
ben_vulpes eagerly anticipating
mircea_popescu's bitcoin eulogy
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:
mircea_popescu.rate.artizan.1:2e61c9028b68fdb12bbd0e1e5e0c1f076aa4f82140e58aad9c03e4344929e4e7
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 23:14:46;
mircea_popescu: ah the recursive "it must be me too then"
mod6:
mircea_popescu: noted. ya, we need to get our heads around this thing.
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 18:53:47; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: re: workfunctions, there was once some theoretical work concerning 'non-outsourceable puzzles', i.e. mathematical magic preventing the formation of pools by allowing any pool participant to silently and untraceably claim the entire block reward. but i cannot recall if this went anywhere other than academiwankery.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: so if your pre-req for change to btc protocol was adopted, and ASICs were rendered useless, how does one begin to attack the problem of mining pools?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: This is why /me leans towards well designed altcoin as solution. Something capable being ada-ified, but perhaps implementable in rougher form.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 20:10:03;
mircea_popescu: not with the wanna-be ceos and assorted "captains of industry" ; not with the wanna-be coders and assorted "power rangers" ; not with the wanna-be journos and assorted redditards ; not with the wanna-be sikrit agents and assorted nsa tools.
fluffypony:
mircea_popescu came up a couple of times
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 18:48:33;
mircea_popescu: there's also the case of the retarded romanian workers who stuck a compressed air outlet in the woman's vagina for lulz, ended up with a fatality.
mircea_popescu:
mircea_popescu> in what sense is it worth anyone's time to do anything ?
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 15:13:36;
mircea_popescu: the intellectual value of the work trying to get it to work goes to that great place in the sky where everyone's work ever goes, gauss, newton, who have you.
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2016 14:51:11;
mircea_popescu: ^ for the record, i've been divesting, if slowly.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> jurov feel free to fuzz, crashing it every which way will make a somewhat lulzy qntra piece << Jurov takes are always welcome
trinque:
mircea_popescu: I see the malice in the act, but am commenting on the pervasiveness of propaganda such that malicious acts can be projected through many obedient, subservient nodes
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 03:25:08;
mircea_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
hanbot: <
mircea_popescu> i did not. << you saw it, you didn't like it
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 21:19:30;
mircea_popescu: for instance (and plox, before we run off with it - example only!) : if every tx was defined as "only 1 input - only 1 output" and if you wanted to make a larger payment youy'd have to make MULTIPLE txn, then a) the protocol would actually make a lot more sense, atomicity-wise and b) you wouldn't have the problems jurov describes. because pay x to y with fee z would exist EXACTLY one way.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 21:16:20;
mircea_popescu: the problem ~MAY~ be that bitcoin transactions are dupe-able in the first place, for instance.\
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what's the cannonical article re pres. bahamas, witgh the pic ? the asean one ? << yes
jurov:
mircea_popescu of course. please reread and think
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo should i do a small piece on argentina or really too far off scope ? << Go for it
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 18:20:51;
mircea_popescu: specifically : while the universities may well be pushing costs down as you describe, they're sure as fuck noty passing the savings up the chain to comecon.
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 16:41:20;
mircea_popescu: "no such dept" not even a half-bad idea.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:24:36;
mircea_popescu: over the dead bodies of ranchers
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 23:24:36;
mircea_popescu: over the dead bodies of ranchers
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: then user is fucked because he's now shared privkeys and ~still~ has no way of transacting lol
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I refuse to vote for a clinton so no, can't vote for hairday guy
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: what is the 'comecon'?
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 01:23:57;
mircea_popescu: in other news, they have these guts-of-figs with almods or other nuts on top sweets here. utterly delicious with a glass of vermouth
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: link to clitler speach?
assbot: Logged on 04-03-2016 00:49:41;
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-03-2016#1421236 << fancy that, i've just been to an incredibly shitty "super hip" bar here. nice tall ceilings, that the idiots took to defending against with some inept iron grating to make the seats all boxed in. live band, so fucking bad it had more in common with static noise than music.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2014 20:55:09; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu: reminds me of, in reverse: '...Идет пленум ЦК, Генеральный секретарь читает доклад: Больших успехов достигли хлеборобы Кубанщины, Ставропольщины, Смоленщины, Техасщины, Колорадщины.'
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Romney attacked Trump and offered brokered convention as a solution in his speech
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> in other news - hilary apparently attacked trump, and with a total loser speech. it's all over, he's winning << It was Romney, but really no diff
assbot: Logged on 03-03-2016 19:39:39; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu, in particular, seems to understand this principle very well.