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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i appreciate consensus scoring under fiat.
mircea_popescu: and it has this major make/destroy inequality baked in, to cherry on top.
mircea_popescu: dub more's to it. as i explained to asciilifeform a while ago, it actually makes it impossible to be evil in raport to it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform time has compressed since then. their ability to hold out had a lot to do with the difficulty of seafaring then, and lack of satellites.
mircea_popescu: whatever you may think of the matter, bitcoin was never in the hands of THOSE 3 people.
mircea_popescu: modern science has not yet found a way to shove it back into the womb.
mircea_popescu: compared to this, user derpage and luser derpage on -dev is about as relevant as fairies in the spring rain.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has been enacted by the fiat of a few important people, a few years ago, exactly in the same manner. they weren't THAT important as a % of the world, but that doesn't matter : bitcoin can't be un-enacted by the fiat of much larger entities. it has a cost of x to make and 1mn x aren't enough to undo it.
mircea_popescu: this is the situation o nthe field : one has NO FUCKING CHOICE. this is how bitcoin works, and why it wins out.
mircea_popescu: or keep them, in which case it's actually making the coin more valuable.
mircea_popescu: that entity can either sell the coins it mines, in which case they end up with me, which is what i want anyway
mircea_popescu: so : atc is not driven by "user adoption". it's driven by the fact that i'm buying it. in this context, if "evil" entity decides to just mine all the blocks, nobody gives a shit. so txn aren't included ? whatever.
mircea_popescu: this situation actually allows a window be thrown into bitcoin, to understand how it works. jesus atc is useful, props tat.
mircea_popescu: anyway, news at eight : luke still irrelevant. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: 03-07-2014 01:50:42 <atcbot> [CoinMiner Hashrate]: 0.02 TH/s [PityThePool Hashrate]: 14243.64 GH/s << this is the peak this month.
mircea_popescu: so if you add 8th from elegius that's what, 60% for luke, provided nobody else joins.
mircea_popescu: dub but there's ALREADY 5 th on board, and these are atc dedicated, they're not merge mining.
mircea_popescu: i don't get how this is supposed to work. so he mines and doesn't include txn
mircea_popescu: mthreat possibly, depending on how smoth mpex starts-up
mircea_popescu: FabianB he said he's travelling and the bot croaked, can't touch till he's back
mircea_popescu: Fairlay you know, it may be a good idea to get in the wot.
mircea_popescu: dude this entire bitcoin-assets system with its tools is turning me into a fucking singularity, im like brain on steroids.
mircea_popescu: decimation here's more. sha1 is implemented as "sha1sum". sha256 however is implemented as "sha256". then sha512 is... "sha512sum"
mircea_popescu: so wait, basically your wife used some paper altcoin to defraud grocery chains ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i don't follow, so did the coupons yield boxes or not ?
mircea_popescu: sciilifeform do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ?
mircea_popescu: Dropping out the egd support made me puzzled for a moment, but then I realized that there is no point in using egd to feed the randomness to the process, you just need to feed entropy to the kernel, and let the process get it normally. I have had, unfortunately, quite a bit of experience with entropy-generating daemons, and I wonder if this might be the right time to suggest getting a new multi-source daemon out." << a
mircea_popescu: "I actually have been thrilled to see that finally there is movement to replace the straight access to /dev/random and /dev/urandom: Ted's patch to implement a getrandom() system call that can be made compatible with OpenBSD's own getentropy() in user space. And even more I'm happy to see that at least one of the OpenBSD/LibreSSL developers pitching in to help shape the interface.
mircea_popescu: Q : "ie. mining your competitors’ data to send unsolicited and misleading marketing messages isn’t allowed, so if you didn’t breach this clause how exactly did you send those notices?"
mircea_popescu: i have this impression your name's familiar, any idea whence ?
mircea_popescu: obviously if one applied the same standards to quarks as it does to bitcoins, one could never trust the fucking quark. obviously quark-nsa is behind it.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit." << hey asciilifeform look at that! what was gulag, 50mn ?
mircea_popescu: sheldonthomas anyway, that was then. meanwhile a lot of progress'been made (notices of which scattered all over the log), and we're coming out of da woods.
mircea_popescu: basically god is just this very large dice assemblage in non-space, feeding all the quarks dicerolls.
mircea_popescu: no, the contrary. in the quest to make determinism infeasible, it requires some sort of entropy reservoir outside-the-world.
mircea_popescu: and about as close as one can get to physically proving divinity.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamentally why reductive (and most not-so-reductive) physicalism does not work.
mircea_popescu: one of the core (if unknown) principles underscoring all creation is that the qty of entropy in a system remains the same if it's cut in half.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust << this breaks physics.
mircea_popescu: so it turns out that ssh specifies ports with -p, but scp specifies ports with -P and -p is something else entirely.