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mircea_popescu: viduals who were labeled as human rights violators. Russian legislators responded with the “Dima Yakovlev Bill,” named after a Russian orphan adopted by Americans who killed him by leaving him in a locked car for nine hours. This bill banned American orphan-killing fiends from adopting any more Russian orphans. It all amounted to a silly bit of melodrama."
mircea_popescu: "At that time the stakes weren't very high yet. There was much noise around a fellow named Magnitsky, a corporate lawyer-crook who got caught and died in pretrial custody. He had been holding items for some bigger Western crooks, who were, of course, never apprehended. The Americans chose to treat this as a human rights violation and responded with the so-called “Magnitsky Act” which sanctioned certain Russian indi
mircea_popescu: it was crucial originally, to ensure against an at the time unknown nsa.
mircea_popescu: the bug is not so much of a concern, nobody is typing the book into a machine.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic you know i got that from a number of ppl ? incl mpoe-pr
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's prollly going to sell a hundred, you kidding ?
mircea_popescu: it's 3 in the morning and the log is 500 lines ya buncha chatterboxes.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like, "what % of gas station are selling the new gas ?" "dunno, but what % of cars use it ?"
mircea_popescu: decimation: rightbut what percent of miners? << better q, what % of coinbase :p
mircea_popescu: what's next, bitcoin foundation is not a scam parasitizing this space but an actual representative ?
mircea_popescu: but the notion that .9 is "bitcoin" is laughable on its face.
mircea_popescu: usgavin can make usbitcoin, or they can have gavin & mike's extra special bitcoin-identical flavouring "i can't believe it's not blockchain"
mircea_popescu: decimation: which is why a hardfork with a different name is necessary, so the n00bs can be educated << no. the name is bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: which'd be the earliest that would interoperate with the majority of extant nodes? << last hard fork was to .4, so technically anything. but i'd say a .6 something'd be the best choice.
mircea_popescu: decimation: does he? is there a repo? << there's no repo.
mircea_popescu: after all, if usgavin wants a fork, he can have a fork, what's the big deal.
mircea_popescu: namely, eulora, btc, there';s a lot of work to do, and it's paid.
mircea_popescu: and actually, i AM looking for binary maintainers for gentoo/debian(ubuntu)/windoze/etc for a bunch of code
mircea_popescu: decimation: it would be useful if someone 'hardforked' 0.6 and maintained it << quite.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: what is this, late bettor hour? <<< asciilifeform will keep his bet now.
mircea_popescu: lol @the silbert thing and generally bitpay's derpage. seriously, they think they're going to compete with us as a closed source usg-agent ?
mircea_popescu: and, exactly like described in the quoted thing, idiots and imbeciles on reddit will congratulate him for "having saved" bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i mean, not like either him or hearn quit after the previous failed fork debacle.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the funny thign is that it'll fail, and he'll still bitch and pretend like he's involved in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal well it;s in the log, but anyway, guy goes "we're doing x with a b c and d". since b worked on x' 5 years ago and x' went nowhere after initial enthusiasm, a reasonable probing.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: mircea_popescu was that AdamIRaway guy really a developer in the MMADX platform? << i have no idea. he said no. one of the guys he lists as associates was involved with it.
mircea_popescu: jurov you're missing the key point of it, which is, no government gets a say in what code runs.
mircea_popescu: but this aside : yes if this existed i'd be using it pretty much exclusively
mircea_popescu: jurov if you mean spot instances such as amazon or w/e, a) those come with riders and b) try and get a dedicated ip say.
mircea_popescu: jurov a) how is 0.01 an hour the current going price ? b) motherboard 50bux, cpu 100 bux, memory 50 bux, hdd 50 bux. don't need a monitor.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves mit paper "we need more money" news at 1.2.3.4.5.6.etc
mircea_popescu: i'd have paid money to have the script altered so she gets run over by a bus.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly her job in life, being fucked in the ass for bubblegum and then shot in the stomach and left to bleed in a parking lot.