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mircea_popescu: well, like sex is no longer fashionable so the girl will claim she was "raped", just so the visit by two state employees to confiscate some contraband is called a "raid"
mircea_popescu: undata obama finished the reorganisation of everthing law enforcement as a homeland security sub.
mircea_popescu: so the person in question can be charged with conspiracy "?
mircea_popescu: once it disappears, irrespective of what the usg propaganda machine claims, it's happened.
mircea_popescu: the law can not compel one to lie, and so as long as that statement appears, it's not happened
mircea_popescu: no, the way these things work is the company has a firm negative statement published. "we have not been approached to so and so".
mircea_popescu: this comic font business is neither passive nor unavoidable
mircea_popescu: for something to be a canary it has to be a passive, unavoidable mechanism.
mircea_popescu: but they'd be legally forbidden from stopping hitting that button.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i fail to get how this is supposed to be a canary.
mircea_popescu: magic numbers are all equal. if 99.999999% of bitcoin were destroyed as you describe, the remainder coupla hundred btc will play the role of twenty million
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> perhaps, or it's not worth anything to anyone any more << that's pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> at least, that's my understanding, would like to know if it's incorrect. << there's other ways to verify too, but this one definitely works.
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> are you familiar with the deedbot? << exactly.
mircea_popescu: but if you're trying to prevent the asshole from getting resources, why even consider the matter, just ignore it.
mircea_popescu: but you gotta decide which line you're going. inasmuch as it keeps the asshole from getting resources, yes it's better than giving him bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well, would you say that the best way to help your poor neighbour is to burn some soup ?
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> do you think that's true? << no, it's stupid.
mircea_popescu: "We also need to find the sender's address, so we know where to send the money. This is done by looking at the inputs of the original transaction. The transaction can have multiple inputs that are all under the control of the sending party. We just send everything back to one of the input addresses at random."
mircea_popescu: you mean where private first class amanda stole all the data ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, in this particular case the best rebuttal is letting the guy do whatever he does after "setting sights"
mircea_popescu: maybe we should just publish a schematic, help these dumbasses self-rebutt
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> ya know, over the past month i've been reading articles, there has been many fluff pieces that keep pushing this idea that bitcoin the technology is what is valuable and not the "currency" <<< yep. classic approach. "it's not the barrel that we're affraid of, it's the crazy shit stuck on all sides of rifle".
mircea_popescu: the general idea is that nobody who gets involved into something like this in any capacity and on any side survives. period.
mircea_popescu: which, if you recall, was o noes, 50% at some point and lo and behold, not a year later it is nothing.
mircea_popescu: well, the death of the previous hard fork (the one gavin & hearn created) happened through the cooperation of the meanwhile defunct 50btc guild.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at some point, perhaps, a major mine operator will be pwned and his crown jewels throw to the mob. then we can study live code. << why would anyone do that ? it's difficult to trust the authenticity of a stolen thing, which is why theft is not an acceptable source of evidence in legal proceedings
mircea_popescu: actually no, you're right, gotta follow their getworks
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: pool administrators determine block size, correct? << maximal.
mircea_popescu: it's impractical for the aliens to keep coming to dig holes where to dispose of the us consumer garbage.
mircea_popescu: undata: pretty ungrateful to call the guy retarded. << it's an act of love, you just don't know how the world works.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: actual - doubtful << if i ever have to create you as a character, i'll have you watching the special olympics and then mutter to yourself "i wonder why they're trying to act handicaps"
mircea_popescu: direct application of "i have tried and therefore nobody should criticize me"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i just love how the krugman shitgnomes prattle on about the need for physical 'use-value' in currencies and then go on to bid on apple-1 pcbs and jackson pollack paintings << they are stupid and how dare you demand they be consistent!
mircea_popescu: which is why they're so attracted to software (it never fails)
mircea_popescu: *: asciilifeform is not equipped with the evidence needed to agree (or not) with 'it's mostly ok' << the problem with the mostly ok thing is that intelligent people tend to build but loathe to maintain.
mircea_popescu: jurov: more like "inevitably idiotically yapping around" << myeah.
mircea_popescu: " regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish"
mircea_popescu: anyway, you perhaps remember the history of how that plays out. after all, the tsar tried it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, that's about three days before the random shootings of anyone known to be associated with usg start.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: >Increasingly scientists think there should be some regulatory oversight maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish. <<< like you know, turn everything on its head, making current arrangements obsolete
mircea_popescu: this may require particular grips, depending on how the lever happen to be constructed. the hands will adjust.
mircea_popescu: no, the political goal is to allow people who are interested in doing things the right way at the levers where things are done the right way.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes technical choice ? these are all political choices.
mircea_popescu: and the people trying to hire you to review their code would crowd the shit out of the only buyer currently,
mircea_popescu: moreover, by putting the sexy back into reading code, it actually directly addresses the problem. currently people only read shit AFTER a bug was found.
mircea_popescu: my model will allow a specific list to be created. this was read in fact by 5468 people. these ones :
mircea_popescu: the entire "foss is better because read by millions of eyes" fetish needs to be put to rest already. opportunity does not equal actualisation.
mircea_popescu: between these two, the budged for recruiting pencildicks goes from constant to hilbert's hotel.