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mircea_popescu: anyway, mind buying a disk for fluffypony on amazon and reshipping it ?
mircea_popescu: DAMMIT YOU CAN HAZ NO CONTENT CONTROL WITH THEZE INTERNET KIDS TODAY!
mircea_popescu: well kako is more than welcome to fork it or w/e if he likes the code. tech decision.
mircea_popescu: the other one is that they don't maintain the records.
mircea_popescu: this notion that anyone can randomly decide they'll now develop things works fine for weblogs or w/e
mircea_popescu: fluffypony it's missing two key ingredients, the most important one being - done by people i trust.
mircea_popescu: i'm not checking some random site i never heard about fwiw.
mircea_popescu: or they could have joined assets a year or so ago. either way.
mircea_popescu: well, it's definitely the blockchain-friendliest approach, seeing as only a hash is stored in the first place. moreover, i don't see how nonspendable tx helps anything other than pruning
mircea_popescu: punkman a tx is a tx, whether unspendable or not it's the same length no ?
mircea_popescu: if financing ever becomes a problem can always charge people who do over say 2 a month X btc for using it.
mircea_popescu: 3. once this tx gets 1 confirm, assbot makes an announcement here. "statements from mircea_popescu, mike_c, kakobrekla : b-a.com/registrar/blockxxx"
mircea_popescu: 2. once every 512 seconds, submitted text is checked. all that is clearsigned content by signatures in assbot's l2 gets bundled together, hashed and the hash is included in a special tx through which b-a pays 1 btc to itself with a decent miner fee
mircea_popescu: 1. somewhere on b-a website there's a text form where people can submit random text up to say 16kb in length. this all goes into db.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so based on mike_c's discussion last night, i think i have a very good addition to b-a kako. it'd go like this :
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: nobody wants to admit the entrepreneur does no more need the financier. horowitz least of all.
mircea_popescu: and so, the stupid meets the lazy : nobody wants to admit the fiat paper is pointless ; horowitz least of all.
mircea_popescu: it's so bad your INTERN for a vc won't consider deals under 1mn
mircea_popescu: meanwhile on the other end of the chasm, there's billions nobody wants.
mircea_popescu: in fact, it costs so little he doesn't even need horowitz. nor does he have any reason to talk to them. which he doesn't.
mircea_popescu: if anything, start-up rounds need to be more now, not less. because it costs WAY less now for a couch surfing founder to start his company.
mircea_popescu: guess which got the head start and which is the funny one.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete views on one of the pastebins ? 190. the other ? 201.
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp to be a mass market language? Because this kind of people will want to exert influence over something that is good because it has been restricted to the “elite” that has made a conscious choice to be different from /something/, indeed to /be/ something. The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth, to stand out”." << this, incidentally, is why the same splooge tries to
mircea_popescu: "the kind of people who have a strong desire /not/ to think become not just a liability on their immediate surroundings, they force a change in how civilization can sustain itself when these people think they should have some power, and indeed /have/ some power qua mass consumers, where everybody is in fact just like everybody else and were being a minority costs real money if not convenience.
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp to be a mass market language? Because this kind of people will want to exert influence over something that is good because it has been restricted to the “elite” that has made a conscious choice to be different from /something/, indeed to /be/ something. The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth, to stand out”.
mircea_popescu: the kind of people who have a strong desire /not/ to think become not just a liability on their immediate surroundings, they force a change in how civilization can sustain itself when these people think they should have some power, and indeed /have/ some power qua mass consumers, where everybody is in fact just like everybody else and were being a minority costs real money if not convenience.
mircea_popescu: this is why never to trust google as an arbiter of relevancy.
mircea_popescu: betcha there'd be just the same folks as today for whom itwon't build.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but 'everybody who wants, has' ; 'just have to want enough'. ergo, not everyone who wants has.
mircea_popescu: davout but that aside i dun see much problem with it. gavin is copying the sec, hard to find fault even should you be so inclined.
mircea_popescu: re davout's link , "take the time to run bitcoind and p2pool." << running any recent bitcoind is much worse for bitcoin than mining on ghash
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i kinda suspect that usb disk wp is one of those gizmos that everyone who needs - already has. << not so.
mircea_popescu: this is what makes shakespeare relevant, today as in his time. this is also what makes marc andreessen irrelevant today, and permanently.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this is genius : writing things that are correct as you write them, and then stay correct as later readers apply them to circumstances you could not have foreseen.
mircea_popescu: the issues of "entrepreneurship" as practiced by the circus could not be better described.
mircea_popescu: another job fast. fourth, when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers the most — there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with the individual “winner”, and instead of people being good at whatever they are doing and proud of that, they will want to flock around the winner to share some of the glory."