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mircea_popescu: bounce: it's better than to not use it, <<< this is perhaps the longest endless discussion i don't feel like having. is it better to have loved a whore or to not have gotten the pox at all ?! etc.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: so, web developers of #b-a: for what reasons would you use HTTPS? << it's not actually useful.
mircea_popescu: which is what the entire cause vs purpose discussion is all about.
mircea_popescu: i dun really see the value to the entire sensitivity.h include.
mircea_popescu: but as far as any sane measure can be had, this is the only open bitcoin space
mircea_popescu: this has resulted in some bruised wot accounts, danielpbarron being perhaps the best example
mircea_popescu: anyway, re cultishness thickasthieves : the one datapoint i have so far is that b-a broke the cultish misinterpretation of how to use wot/ratings prevalent prior to its existence.
mircea_popescu: but in communist romania things worked better, apparently.
mircea_popescu: i dun recall the last time someone was required to believe something they didn't lol.
mircea_popescu: so a guy agrees, a guy doesn't agree, big deal either way.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i dunno, guy got butthurt over some linux discussion
mircea_popescu: assbot: Dogecoin Leaders Present Evidence <<< lol doge leaders sounds so funny.
mircea_popescu: 191.235.134.39 "POST /wp-comments-post.php << stuff like this
mircea_popescu: (the wp-comment lines are in there legitimately, btw. the way trilema works is that if an ip has a previous comment spamlisted, further connections are rejected outright. so these are all spammers, and can be used as such)
mircea_popescu: there may still be some straggler legitimate users caught in a 404 through no fault of their own, but mostly it's bots trying to be all haxxor
mircea_popescu: Adlai well other than the regular pgp being incredibly broken in so many ways,
mircea_popescu: sorta like i'm going "oh, you're just the sec lawyer ? get a gpg we'll talk"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it means the idiocy derps who refuse to submit but like to pretend they're part of bitcoin hide behind.
mircea_popescu: somebody send him the gpg contracts article, and perhaps read it to him too.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nobody, but then again eulora doesn't claim to be "decentralised yo"
mircea_popescu: gotta expose people to things they wouldn't seek on their own. it's the very point of rape in the first place.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well, the problem being that the "more of the same" filter google uses is actually conterproductive to intelligence
mircea_popescu: the matter of them actually adding something however is closed.
mircea_popescu: they could just as well retire, because they can no longer actually contribute. but if they don't want to retire they can hang around as lolcow fodder.
mircea_popescu: to make it perfectly clear : no team that in any way includes any of the currently proscribed usg agents (gavin, maxwell, hearn etc) can ever make a fork. never.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves the hard fork is a problem, mostly because they're trying to introduce a whole slew of 0days into the protocol itself.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, everyone has an endless capacity for stupidity, and if we're too cool we'll self-censor ourselves into extinction.
mircea_popescu: people need to be able to be stupid because noobs are stupid.
mircea_popescu: let's put it this way : if it's okay to post pronz, it's okay to be stupid.
mircea_popescu: o.o i think we have actually found the bottom of the internets.
mircea_popescu: "Hi guys Decided to post this here to see if I could find more people interested in this project. I am Cruel-Cherry one of the guys making the game named "Project Cherry" (working title) A game thats about raping little lolis in cruel ways."
mircea_popescu: ;;google seinfeld kramer "what if it's so true your head is spinning like a top!"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. which is why men are more pleasant company than boys.
mircea_popescu: i see it as an invaluable tool to keep the overton window wide enough so actual stuff of value can occur.
mircea_popescu: shit this is such a relief, i was seriously considering i'll have to open a chan