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mircea_popescu: "let's solve problems that don't exist through breaking the bitcoin protocol"
mircea_popescu: this latest hearn bullshit is even more laughable than gmaxwell's previous attack.
mircea_popescu: by proving that, for instance, kali-of-the-tits holds up houses
mircea_popescu: it can't be disproven by showing some houses standing.
mircea_popescu: the concept of load bearing can be illustrated by proving that the walls that stand actually have loadbearing ability in excess of the load
mircea_popescu: of fucking course it does, whether it falls down or not.
mircea_popescu: it's a discussion of whether it has load bearing walls.
mircea_popescu: no but listen, this is not a discussion of whether a house collapsed
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves but functional is no argument in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yeah, kinda how darwin's stuff ended up law.
mircea_popescu: people spending a while trying to find a contradiction with reality and failing to do so.
mircea_popescu: that's wehy it';s so important, that theory : because it describes the limits of the possibility of being,
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> all "sustainable" systems at least <<< all systems with moving parts.
mircea_popescu: HeySteve voice here is a wholly innovative, quite well designed thing. it has exactly nothing in common with "moderation" as used on the interwebs forums
mircea_popescu: blockchain would only add some further trust to the already existing states, is all.
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> timestamping doesn't initially seem to add much to a WoT, but I'm starting to think the more data points the easier to spot Sibyls <<< wot has timestamps as it is.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> first it is not yet proven that all systems require an "mircean" economy, though i suspect they do << all systems contain one, whether aware or not, i'd say.
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> I'm still stuck on this Sybil thing :) if you identify a puppet troupe, is there a mechanism to neutralise it beyond information-sharing? << no, by definition.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> Would it be correct to say that Reddit is broken economy in that downvoters are not identified? << yes, but at an "at least in that"
mircea_popescu: <Naphex> if i would've had more time i would deffinetly do a ISK/BTC exchange just for fun:D << or else just join 1BTC, bitcoin's eve guild, where shares are tradeable for mpex shares etc.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> who knows what's possible when you add a new feature that already exists << lmao
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves Hearn << "If things evolved naturally, I'd end up mattering much less, which is to say my current denial of my own irrelevance would become much more difficult to maintain, even in my own eyes".
mircea_popescu: <HeySteve> a possible solution is moderation << doesn't work for bitcointalk.
mircea_popescu: (they just spotted the radar and replied with a pulse, making it take its own pulse reply as random scatter and discard the measurement)
mircea_popescu: actually, i recall a time when romanian police used plain radars on the roads, and you could get electronic invisibility kits
mircea_popescu: bounce i wouldn't trust a tempest-proof case rated as such by a us institution and/or manufactured by a us corp
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre: how do you gage memory recall? << i'll tell you how. write 10k articles on your blog, then see if you can recall "where x was" when people ask.
mircea_popescu: artifexd: To be really useful though, it should be run on your own server. << unless you actually lock the thing in a cage, it's not any safer on some server you own or on some server google owns.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre: by the way, I'm really disappointed how bitbet posts latest bets to the front page. I sniped this coinlab bet from a few months , and someone just followed me << now you understand our evil.
mircea_popescu: mike_c tbh i half figured you moved for a day of hooker privacy.
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine that a)the us legislative process has much impact on us reality ; b) us reality has much impact on online reality ; c) btc has much to do with online gambling
mircea_popescu: or in the words of bogart, the fixations of some people in the us don't amount to a hill of beans in this large btc world.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose it would seem there's no particular relation.
mircea_popescu: wtf weird country is that. the merchant/customer specify wtf the transaction is
mircea_popescu: since when do banks classify transactions saying it;'s to x or to y ?
mircea_popescu: because the bitcoin poker site was doing great in 2011, and is dead now.
mircea_popescu: it may not be "just poker", but the case of poker seems to go exactly against the theory it benefited.
mircea_popescu: and the one poker site which was doing great in 2011 and 2012 meanwhile died.
mircea_popescu: well... bitcoin didn't exist in 2006. bitcoin gambling even less.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i dunno what sense that makes. so you play blackjack in tokens, and they have a random value each day. this deters you from playing blackjack ?
mircea_popescu: one question lingers. did you lie earlier when you claimed you can't do the article unless it's somehow related to... costa rica (?!) ? one'd have expected your interest to die there, were that factual.
mircea_popescu: but this is all speculation, and not too well grounded.
mircea_popescu: people who gamble wouldn't conceivably be much deterredf by the risk that their payoff is multiplied or divided randomly.
mircea_popescu: other than that, quite impossible to call trends. maybe it's growing.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i don't imagine the usg is any sort of actor in this discussion.
mircea_popescu: you're not in any sense qualified to discuss matters of law, are you ?
mircea_popescu: the point being, everyone's welcome to imagine they matter.
mircea_popescu: Nov 29 04:07:23 <firstblockchain>Trying to find people with rentable / purchasable land in Costa Rica who are bitcoin friendly. Want to set up a few solar powered yurts, wire up with some good internet, plant some tubers and coffee and operate from there. Going to be a pain to ship my roaster there from indonesia though... <<< this guy too.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose i doubt anything useful can be said on the topic of whether bitcoin gambling geographically concentrates like casino gambling.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose alright, there's 128 btc gambling websites.
mircea_popescu: alexsanjose you're roughly in the position of someone asking how many websites there are on the internet. it's by and large a meaningless measure of nothing in particular.