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mircea_popescu: decimation yes. but actual gentlemen, rather than presumed gentlemen.
mircea_popescu: whenever people's conscience is the only protection, the third reich is about to emerge.
mircea_popescu: conscience is fluid. look at Luke-Jr's conscience : he lied about bfl delivering. look at gavin, etc.
mircea_popescu: and you can't just expect "conscience" to resist indefinitely.
mircea_popescu: which is essential, because our enemies are putting a lot of pressure on them to break it
mircea_popescu: and this puts huge pressure on trusted nodes not to break the fucking trust
mircea_popescu: rather than papering over breakdowns of trust with "foundations" and "chief scientistdom"
mircea_popescu: undata more properly said : every breakdown of trust is a fork
mircea_popescu: no such thing as "official" "because we say so". who;'s we.
mircea_popescu: so if version x is signed by people i know and version y is signed by people i don't know, x is official and fu.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, "official version" is redefined from * this (static) to whatever one has most wot trust towards.
mircea_popescu: until it becames a case of "we will hang whoever made this one byte error in bash"
mircea_popescu: can you intercept x's email for y, change subtly, release ? sure.
mircea_popescu: undata that's kinda why this is not the same discussion. you're thinking of the scratchpad. they're talking the exhibition.
mircea_popescu: similarly, you could sign via a website that has your pubkeys
mircea_popescu: well ok, it could also be sung, or whatver. anyway, the central idea here is the signing.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you two are discussing the same discussion.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Breakout Gaming Fall Short In Attempt To Raise 10,000 BTC | Qntra.net <<< they shouldn'rt feel bad, minigames didn't manage 10k either.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no, just sayin', your guess is as good as sexyginger's
mircea_popescu: and because of ddos, plenty of time miner doesn't rely.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: one can fudge the version string in the proggy, yes, but if you're on the network, folks can presumably connect to your node and test behaviours <<< miner doesn't have to rely
mircea_popescu: we were arguing about power ranger braindamage uptake is like.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the non-classical version strings are interesting << the first time i said ppl alter their strings ppl hgere were "oh, mp is just making shit up to win an internet argument"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you may be old enough to recall the fucking relief php was back when ppl were stuck doining web-cgi
mircea_popescu: oh i see. meh. prolly jurov should just reg it to mess with people.
mircea_popescu: decimation: yeah xbt is gay but it can be used as a wedge << a wedge ?!
mircea_popescu: consequently, the incredibly idiotic shit it does is concentrated
mircea_popescu: decimation no, moreover, php doesn't try to do much. literally, it's intended to process strings.
mircea_popescu: no dude, php is a lot more stable than ruby bs, then the ruby crowd goes around bitching about php
mircea_popescu: fucking scavenger culture. "o, nice car, is it the latest ford ? no, it's an old toyota civic with the crap thrown off"
mircea_popescu: Opal is a variety of low-aromatic << that'd be a problem
mircea_popescu: this idea that what people want matters as a universal...
mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, this is a disguised gift of stock from directors / interested parties to company
mircea_popescu: at any rate, that's what it should mean, regardless what they actuall did.
mircea_popescu: you know if you dig deep enough everyone's going to have a bunch of idiotic notions.
mircea_popescu: (the way "spam" works is you pay yahoo 100 bux or w/e, never get fglagged. dun recall right off what google is)
mircea_popescu: it just means everyone else is drowning in their own shit
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Julian Assange: "Bitcoin's Blockchain Most Intellectually Interesting Development In The Last Five Years | Qntra.net << for sure.
mircea_popescu: cazalla the sorrow in that "That's about as close as you can get with BitCoin." is delicious.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> instant anti-ddos pill << this is like saying that because anyone can wget -m qntra.net that's an anti ddos pill
mircea_popescu: <jurov> there must be some statistic how price of uprooting increases with age >> it does ? why would it ?
mircea_popescu: i think the bar for thai citizenship is having sex with a trannie
mircea_popescu: us citizens on army bases routinely get dual citizenship kids if they become pregnant and deliver
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone, really. germany definitely, if you were born there.
mircea_popescu: mod6: me too, that threw me off. but maybe i did something silly with the install by creating a root account? i'm not super clued on deb... but it asked me to make a root account first, then a user account. so that was kinda bizzare to me. << no that's how debian did it for what, 10, 15 years ?