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mircea_popescu: i hate london, and why do you think a pub somewhere'd be a better venue ?!
mircea_popescu: the problem now is that government has no further reason to exist and no means of supporting itself.
mircea_popescu: the reason we met is because for a few years that is no longer the problem.
mircea_popescu: that ~used~ to be the problem, before we met, for many years.
mircea_popescu: has nothing to do with murder. everything to do with college degrees, global warming and so on.
mircea_popescu: "this isn't a good apple because its not fda approved" "have you tasted it ?" "i don't need to"
mircea_popescu: well ok, so now we can agree, the problem is the red tape.
mircea_popescu: the salem trials is the convenient case study here. you can decry them as "incipient government establishing itself the way government establiushes itself all time, all places : through murder". but just as well... people kill, and some killers are persuasive.
mircea_popescu: that's also never going away. if i thought the victim was kinda cool i'd not have killed them. once i killed them, obviously i will go on thinking they sucked.
mircea_popescu: the state as a voluntary association, all they who choose and wish to pay taxe sand obeys the law is what we have here already.
mircea_popescu: well bureaucracy needs to control the money, and so that's the end of that.
mircea_popescu: you can be in any camp you want, because with bitcoin what camp you're in dun matter anymore.
mircea_popescu: not like it's exactly a mystery what definitions i use :D
mircea_popescu: (but it rests me at ease to hear from the usg_press_machine itself that crypto is no longer armament)
mircea_popescu: to me it sounds kinda like "a movie can't be good if it doesn't have car chases and those anti-physical sparks bullets make in hollywood"
mircea_popescu: how's this formal approach to things worked for you so far ?
mircea_popescu: well, inasmuch as someone';s breaking the law and not paying taxes, yes. that'd be the definition of a rebellion.
mircea_popescu: the situation is in fact quite symmetrical, whichever side you're on the other will prolly not like it.
mircea_popescu: in short : your notion that sitting with the usg is safe and joining the rebels is dangerous is fundamentally broken. sitting with the usg is safe except if the rebels get the upper hand.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and as to "never ever" : pre nurenberg, this trying of a foreign power's officers and ministers had also never ever happened.
mircea_popescu: here's the legal convention : anyone who worked for the tsar in any capacity, 20 years diging ice in siberia.
mircea_popescu: the future is eminently unknowable. i for one am definitely going to push for hangings.
mircea_popescu: there's no rule of nature that says the us can never be so identified. for those people who do make that identification, you're a criminal.
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin but anyway, a secondary point to your " obeying the law and paying taxes?" is that if you happen to be obeying the "laws" of a terrorist organisation and giving it money, you may end up in hot water with a lot of people.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck am i going to make gilded business cards then ?
mircea_popescu: "A proper approach to key management. This could be anything from centralized key management as in Apple's iMessage -- which would still be better than nothing -- to a decentralized (but still usable) approach like the one offered by Signal or OTR. Whatever the solution, in order to achieve mass deployment, keys need to be made much more manageable or else submerged from the user altogether."
mircea_popescu: "(Let's not get into the NSA's collect-it-all policy for encrypted messages. If the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP.)" << best part :D
mircea_popescu: please get me some anti-eyeroll tape i might strain something.
mircea_popescu: "The lack of transparent key management in PGP isn't unfixable. For those who don't trust Google or Yahoo, there are experimental systems like Keybase.io that attempt to tie keys to user identities."
mircea_popescu: by now i can sorta distinguish the noobs from the veterans because the noobs send me gpg blobs with "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" mixed in, whereas the veterans just neatly paste the pgp in the email body.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as if you know, plaintext mail isn't end to end encrypted. why not ? i do it all the time.
mircea_popescu: sorry asciilifeform sorry chan. behind on my reading it seems
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's so lulzy, the crap these people publish. "o i hate pgp, it's too secure, pls to use centrally distributed keys, so much lightyears better"
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin if you read the logs, you've seen how well this entire "try and force mp into our preconceived headboxes" worked before.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, some people can't. which is fine. but don't go around claiming impotence as a virtue.
mircea_popescu: there is definitely something wrong if trying to present that as anything but fucking weird.
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with having sex while not getting an erection ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is a normal function of the adult mind, like writing, or like fucking. you're not into these for anything other than you know, being an adult, being alive, doing the things that there are.
mircea_popescu: to quote an old timer, "i have no idea, [you] just wandered in here one day and started talking"
mircea_popescu: bycicling isn;t a functon of people who can't ride bikes either. do you want more people to ride bykes ?
mircea_popescu: i keep forgetting about that and then talking at meanwhile devoiced ppls.
mircea_popescu: you can kill yourself with paracetamol too, doesn't make paracetamol faulty.
mircea_popescu: <usg_press_machin> But from a more practical perspective, some of the tools people use to interact with the blockchain e.g. brain wallets or faulty random number generators are weak points. << how do you figure this has anything to do with ecdsa ?
mircea_popescu: <usg_press_machin> Surely it can't be that easy. << why not ?!
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin just how often do you check them hits ?
mircea_popescu: usg_press_machin i don't like you enough to pm. and no, not really. you can comment on it once it's done.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is resulting in an article, so. gimme an hour here.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the guy's "business partner" drones all about how "you gotta live in real anarchy". because totally nobody ever did it outside of his dumb american ass, being leeched by some somalis for a few years.
mircea_popescu: that's what teh boys got. how well bitcoin integrates (ie, how well some usg twerps nobody takles seriously have pretended to integrate with their puppet masters. herp.) and how unsovereign it is.
mircea_popescu: ECDSA is imperfect. The hunt for the perfect mining algo is ongoing; Bitcoin’s in particular has proven to be a tremendous waste of electricity, the process little more than an environmentally harmful race to the bottom. The protocol supports a mere 7 transactions per second. Protocol development has been difficult to implement on account of the centralisation of mining power and community inertia. "