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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.
mircea_popescu: generally, i rarely think someone is as smart as they think themselves. similarly, i rarely think someone is as dumb as they think themselves. so there :D
mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is that i don't have an actual personality, i just do the opposite of what y'all are doing.
mircea_popescu: because life's too short to re-do all the shit all the time
mircea_popescu: the world in here is quite opposite. if someone does something well everyone breathes a sigh of relief and uses it.
mircea_popescu: mdev there's a world out there made of agglomerated shitheads, who imagine themselves innovators and revolutionaries, but in practice live out of not-invented-here syndrome and bad pr.
mircea_popescu: they've sold "virtual chips" to forum derps for 500-1k btc
mircea_popescu: ok, but you understand the cost for 50% of the hash is like... 2 to 500k btc
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the gear they sold is sold. i thought he meant sold hashes, ie, rented gear
mircea_popescu: pankkake btc guild somehow never was the big bad guild
mircea_popescu: <mdev> them at the helm that insult and put down everything, from andreas, to blockchain.info, to /r/bitcoin to altcoins, list goes on and on << you know this sounds like cheap copying -assets :D
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah, you know, like Blazedout419 did here :D
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they thyemselves do not. the unfortunate noobs that they try to buddy buddy however do.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo aff is kinda intended for the peeps that don't even know there's something to check
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're 'mad hatter' enough to have these baked, i'll send you the vectors. << i'm not. too big (thick, bulky) for my taste.