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mircea_popescu: chalbersma if you wish ask in #freenode for a cloak. otherwise, anyone in any chan or pm sees your ip
mircea_popescu: if your idea of private is cpe-72-135-98-192.kc.res.rr.com...
mircea_popescu: if the protocol had been written, it'd have been obvious to anyone sane why this thing can not be done. as it wasn't, people can persevere into trying to push mud uphill, because there's nobody to "prove to them" that's what it is, and they refuse to believe authorities that know better than them can even in principle exist.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> No one can seem to figure out how to use nLockTime without a third party to prevent double spend. << for a fundamental reason.
mircea_popescu: course he hated the banks cause he hated the jews, but hey.
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me ezra pound would make fine reading for b-a. he hated the banks.
mircea_popescu: There once was a pore honest sailor, a heavy drinker, a hell of a cuss, a rowster, a boozer, and the drink finally sent him to hospital, and they operated, and there was a poor whore in the woman’s ward had a kid, while they were fixing the sailor, and they brought him the kid when he came to, and said : ‘Here! this is what we took out of you.’
mircea_popescu: people should be involved, and their involvement required, or otherwise shit happens.
mircea_popescu: now, getting back : serverless is not an advantage, it's a disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: really, the problem is its context, it's too metaphysical. you're not supposed to solve practical problems that way.,
mircea_popescu: by this measure, bitcoin also already existed, in 2004.
mircea_popescu: listen, do you agree making things "so easy to use even an idiot could use them" is bad policy ?
mircea_popescu: jesus you're all too smart to argue with, what is this! counterexamples and shit :D
mircea_popescu: who knows what comes out of the ecosystem built around this undersea volcano of satoshis
mircea_popescu: nature doesn't stink and factories all do because nature allows things to be expenses and industry does not.
mircea_popescu: "woman could just go outdoors naked ?" "could, yes, but gangrape" sure. except if they all do, because no rapists, gang or otherwise, can keep up with women if it comes to the biology of it, which is how it's designed. and so...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: could, yes. and then overruled on appeal. (very embarrassing, if not career-ending event, for patent judge) << this works if the event is rare. if the event is common, it stops working. consider :
mircea_popescu: don't tell me the plan is to throw out ip or something.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's quite clearly by the book libtard orchestrated nonsense. cui bono ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the patent office thing is a crock of shit. << you know i wonder why the press is moving against the uspto.
mircea_popescu: oh, you were asking who. i am seeding it, after which if we run it by donation we run it by donation, or else users will have to pay.
mircea_popescu: which implementation is a large portion of why im here in the first place. if it hadn;'t existed it's unlikely vragnaroda'd have had what to seduce me with
mircea_popescu: here's how idiots change the world : they do stupid shit which makes smart people get off their arse.
mircea_popescu: anyway ping you for tests once this thing is delivered ?
mircea_popescu: and yes im aware english doesn't like "on average at most" but it's actually correct logically. har har.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's not even spam, it's one extra tx every six blocks on average at the most.
mircea_popescu: the advantage being that since one needs the whole bundle to verify the blockchain hash, everyone in the bundle has a vested interest to preserve the whole bundle
mircea_popescu: so if you're willing to work with it, we can have a special ratings protocol. they're a lot more solid than gribble's.
mircea_popescu: nanotube it's a bot being written that will take gpog signed stuff, serialize it, hash it, insert the hash in the blockchain
mircea_popescu: nanotube would you consider melding the bitcoin-assets deeds registrar into wot ?
mircea_popescu: aaactually... once the deeds bot comes online, it can work as a gribble substitute.
mircea_popescu: tho one hell of a coincidence, it practically started the same minute.
mircea_popescu: how much does ddos cost anymore anyway ? per gb per minute or something ?
mircea_popescu: FabianB lemme guess, the health indicators don't roll over ?
mircea_popescu: so, mpex.ws is being ddosed, the rest are ok. thank you for flying or what was it.
mircea_popescu: worrywarts aren't immune to negative events, nor hypochondriacs to disease, nor paranoids to accidents.
mircea_popescu: "my gopro's been filming you all along. you're a youtube sensation now, congrats."
mircea_popescu: dudes rutinely break down the wrong door they're too dumb/high/clueless
mircea_popescu: dude for crying out loud. you think there's five cops that know how to use one ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, web streaming cameras are a pretty good repellant
mircea_popescu: the difference between better and worse is not arbitrary. it's real. this then flows right into all the pots.
mircea_popescu: let's not get ahead of ourselves. boiled frogs brains ain't magically working just because wearing an evil cape.
mircea_popescu: this is like reminding me that a cd press is expensive.
mircea_popescu: most of the mass will boil, but is worthless boiled or not.
mircea_popescu: what will happen here is that the "frog" will spontaneously separate.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> The20YearIRCloud: I'm pale, but not Anglo << what, srsly ?!
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