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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."
mircea_popescu: er need as the motivation to enter the field. second, an unskilled labor force will want job security more than intellectual challenges (to some the very antithesis of job security). third, managing an unskilled labor force means easy access to people who are skilled in whatever is needed right now, not an investment in people — which leads to the conclusion that a programmer is only as valuable as his ability to get
mircea_popescu: "something important happens when a previously privileged position in society suddenly sees incredibly demand that needs to be filled, using enormous quantities of manpower. that happened to programming computers about a decade ago, or maybe two. first, the people will no longer be super dedicated people, and they won’t be as skilled or even as smart — what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes she
mircea_popescu: so someone kills the president. big deal, bout 50mn unemployed lawyers ready to take over
mircea_popescu: this would be your random shitstain wanting to be "anonymous".
mircea_popescu: "Yeah. I was just kind of wondering how much trouble it could cause if hundreds of people internationally started contacting his government demanding action to investigate his bitcoin involvement and possible unethical activities."
mircea_popescu: if your average us citizen got to run as much as a chicken coop... woe on those chickens.
mircea_popescu: namely, proving he was there by including descriptions of events, which establishes his presence.
mircea_popescu: the original impetuus driving herodotus was his own identity.
mircea_popescu: which incidentally coallesces into a very strong attack on IP
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem as stated is unresolvable. as the future includes the past, you can't by yourself prove you were anterior to a point. only ulteriority can be proven that hardcore
mircea_popescu: but anyway, since you're in bitcoin, clearly you could have the blockchain mucked.
mircea_popescu: blocks reorg. how do you know you won't end up on a dead chain
mircea_popescu: you can prove you know something and so establish it one way, but you can't prove you didn't know something.
mircea_popescu: the thing is, the hardcore future problem is not resolvable, as entropy only goes one way
mircea_popescu: to prove you signed it no later than X, publish it on the record date.
mircea_popescu: Block #305659 Hash0000000000000000118b4c104bd3cdf62ddcbcfdcb66af97aadff2116e86a842 could not be known pre 2014-06-13 23:ish
mircea_popescu: if you want to prove the date is no earlier than X, include a block hash say.
mircea_popescu: if you want to declare the date being x, include the date.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you have a tech run a team of techs he's technically management now
mircea_popescu: "Joe: No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow."
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419 it was honestly undistinguishable from trollage you gotta appreciate.
mircea_popescu: you know, back in the 2011 days something like this'd have raged for a week
mircea_popescu: lol that asciilifeform - Blazedout419 situation de-escalated quickly.