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mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, people like the amateur ddos guy will be helping with this.
mircea_popescu: thus creating a single point of failure. which people can evaluate for trust.
mircea_popescu: colocate in locked boxes, don't allow the dc or anyone else any sort of access to the boxes, kivm or whatever
mircea_popescu: if it's someone you trust then it's someone you trust.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla best i can tell, all someone needs to do is a) be a sysadmin and b) colocate a few boxes in a decent dc
mircea_popescu: let's pretend like things are other things and stuff!1
mircea_popescu: "All those haters that come in here with economic models and charts telling us it's impossible; all the hit pieces penned by pros like Krugman telling us to 'grow up' - none of them really quite grasp that there could possibly be a group of people who have the audacity to sit around their hallowed poker table without needing to win."
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE you know people have been clamoring for a bitcoin host for a while.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla mpoe-pr told kraken pr to quit over their trying to paper over that incident.
mircea_popescu: ended up with ~100 btc in deposits they couldn't properly credit.
mircea_popescu: cazalla few months ago, they had this embarassing moment when they sent the same deposit address to anyone asking for a deposit address for a day or two
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, you can mention the time they lost customer deposits, too, round it all up, since it's there.
mircea_popescu: cazalla but when you quote what the man says whle the man's puffing up his business, you are in fact publishing paid pr.
mircea_popescu: whether we're getting paid for that sort of thing or not, it's still paid pr.
mircea_popescu: TomServo i have nfi. bounce sure, teh future's an open book.
mircea_popescu: but no, he quit brokering many months before that, an' he we were sort-of working on a project but apparently never went anywhere.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate pankkake 1 some lols were head, meanwhile he left.
mircea_popescu: totally, this works, yeah. which is why nobody does it in practice o.O
mircea_popescu: looking at things from a distance always helps. "oh, you wish to tell me that if we make this bar so that anyone can come in and not pay a cover charge it'll be cooler ?"
mircea_popescu: no, but they've had "we know shit and we have economists" dev teams
mircea_popescu: if those things actually worked, they wouldn't have blown up.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "blocksize elasticity" and all the rest of the derpage is trying to turn bitcoin into whatever, xrp, nxt, whatever the hell.
mircea_popescu: which is what "if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess." is saying.
mircea_popescu: yes, it has to work that way. some things gotta be fixed.
mircea_popescu: so far what i got from your position is, "curious how the market adjusts the price of the oil barrel, but not what a barrel consists of"
mircea_popescu: that'd be unrelated. can we discuss one thing at a time ?
mircea_popescu: this prolly warrants an in depth discussion. like what ?
mircea_popescu: if everything gives every which way you got postmodern us, ie, a mess.
mircea_popescu: gotta have some fixed points to have a working equilibrium
mircea_popescu: well, curious how the car moves forward, but not realy upward.
mircea_popescu: could have avoided being stupid in public by just asking.
mircea_popescu: the worst part of it being that you know, he KNOWS about this place.
mircea_popescu: what could possibly be wrong with infinite blocks . pdf
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, it's kind-of amusing to me that the Krawisz fellow KNOWS about gavin's ideas to reduce block propagation from a function of size to a fixed value
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i think it was somewhere between 20 and 40 << llol. isn't thiks true of like, 90% of all postage ever ?
mircea_popescu: what they opine as to how either of those should work, well... i'm a believer in free speech just as much as the next guy.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "In light of the foregoing, it should be clear that Mircea, not Gavin, is derping here." << the only thing that matters in there is that they understand who is setting the conversation and establishing the winners and losers
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> in the end, current regs already do apply <<< ahahah what ?
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> someone is sane? << apparently it's possible
mircea_popescu: anyway, im not playing this stupid game. he wants to ama, he can come here.
mircea_popescu: anyway, got a meeting. we can resume usgavin and the five fail dwarves discussion later.
mircea_popescu: bounce yup. which is why the "you seem to have omitted suckling my penis, son" is the right approach.
mircea_popescu: fucking shocking, 5 "actual" economists found that agree inflation is a good idea, and if anything is naturally uninflationary, adding it in is the tits.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves who knows, maybe they learn to not pdf.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seriously, gavin and "5 ~actual~ economists", this is the "are we all wrong" astroturf consensus he hopes to go on ?
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't make sure he knows any better first, that's the culpable act.