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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, wouldn't that make perfect sense ?
mircea_popescu: even if theoretically the planet is part of "everything"
mircea_popescu: even the most accomplished anal insertion artist, who can take ANYTHING would not survive a parachute-less parachute fall
mircea_popescu: yes well. marketingis not intended to be that hard semantically.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine rebooting = pulling memory out
mircea_popescu: course if i had it'd not have linked all the darkcoin and "insurection" would have lead to something about the serenissima, but anyway
mircea_popescu: "Ever since the venture capital scene started talking about Bitcoin back in 2013, one of the most frequently cited comments from them is that Bitcoin is interesting for the technology, not the currency. In fact, this mantra has become so common that it almost sounds… scripted." << if you're curious as to the reason, it has to do with them not wanting to go under the yoke that's been awaiting patiently and quite unav
mircea_popescu: anyway, great blog, kinda shitty platform. mebbe pankkake adds it to teh irker
mircea_popescu: If cheating can be easily detected and reversed, then maybe it’s no longer essential to prevent it at all costs and you can build it with a more palatable set of trade offs. << in fact, there's a reason business has since forever run on "eventually correct" bookkeeping
mircea_popescu: anyway. it seems to me that adding anything to your latter turns the former into the latter's logical counter.
mircea_popescu: i don't see why anything more is needed or desirable than the latter.
mircea_popescu: ".I want to see a future digital economy in which nobody is excluded from participation." "No third party should have the ability to interfere in the voluntary dealings of other people." << do you see these as logically equivalent ?
mircea_popescu: "Given all these downsides, it should be apparent that decentralization isn’t something to aspire to lightly. In fact, it may be better to say that decentralization as a design technique is best reserved as a last resort, only to be used when there are no other suitable alternatives."
mircea_popescu: where he had found a tutorial on the net to make arbitrary length keys and was offering this as a sort of forum-level braindamaged saas ?
mircea_popescu: anyone remember usagi's long key generating business ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can get gnarly if you manage a lot of keys
mircea_popescu: you can self voice now, pm assbot !up once you're id'd with gribble
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i wonder what % of 4chan pics are steganographically loaded
mircea_popescu: an email can come from any arbitrary address you wish it to.
mircea_popescu: you're gonna tell me there's no privacy in email either ?
mircea_popescu: cause otherwise this discussion is exactlylike email privacy. i have all the email privacy i could want, because gpg
mircea_popescu: anbd what throne lol. a bunch of redditards with ten bitcoin between them that keep downloading the power ranger code ?
mircea_popescu: much in the way the internet has forced the brits into their first secret "trial", something they've not had in about 11 centuries.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that bitcoin is not actually traceable, and all the sophistry of taint can at most produce persuasion is one of the largest points of pressure applied by bitcoin to human society. it may result in the "reasonable doubt" standard being taken out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: getting caught with bitcoin can never be a forced mistake
mircea_popescu: so you know, getting caught with cash in your possesion can be a forced mistake
mircea_popescu: blockchain.info mixing is a joke. break bitbet mixing.
mircea_popescu: because correspondingly, you are forced by cash to physical interaction
mircea_popescu: or if you get caught with series-fixed bills after a bank robbery
mircea_popescu: anyone capable of busting in can count your cash as well as you can
mircea_popescu: all the cash that exists exists. by this it can be counted
mircea_popescu: justusranvier "Using the global public ledger that allows for multilateral decision making means that retaining financial privacy is, to put it lightly, problematic. It’s possible to achieve, but doing so is a difficult and delicate process where mistakes are easy to make and also permanent." i don't understand this part, at all.
mircea_popescu: well that's kinda how these thons work. not enough time really.
mircea_popescu: if the people involved were smarter, they'd be selling detergent and used cars.
mircea_popescu: this is to the conference circuit roughly what porn is to legitimate acting : the place failures go to die.
mircea_popescu: i don't believe this crap is aptly described as optimism.
mircea_popescu: just go to the hackathon as you go to the bar, not like you go to school. it's a social function.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, what difference does it make anyway ? not like any human being at an accessible pay grade can judge your thing anyway.