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mircea_popescu: drama chick after performance : "how come people on stage never throw tomatoes @ the audience"
mircea_popescu: "hey guise! check out this neat thing i did" "x" "o fuck me".
mircea_popescu: aka the "We must spy because you're sueing us about our spying" defense.
mircea_popescu: "A number of government lawyers involved in lawsuits over the NSA phone-records program believe federal-court rules on preserving evidence related to lawsuits require the agency to stop routinely destroying older phone records"
mircea_popescu: the argument isn't "o wow look btc is broken", the argument merely is "o hey, remember when gavin was a total asshat in 2012 ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ono. it pulls up something from the stack.
mircea_popescu: just establishing your credentials to bitch at them >D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look into bip-12 too while you're at it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is a sore spot power rangers would rather not go into.
mircea_popescu: in his defense they "updated" the site like 5x in the interval, because you defo need moar logos and shit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some braindamaged extension of innate scripting capabilities
mircea_popescu: this got him exactly squat, showing about how important control of the new releases was
mircea_popescu: gavin put in code that made everyone downloading the latest versiion vote "yes" cause he wanted to see a yesz.
mircea_popescu: supposing of course the tiny shitty pictures aren't lifted.
mircea_popescu: who do you think will fight it in the US ? those currently involved in X right ?
mircea_popescu: OF COURSE they would fight it tooth and nail. imagine someone invents a solution to all X problems tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: benkay tell you a secret : if all the people who had been up to this point claimed to be employed at or interested in bitcoin's business had recognised it and moved over,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i for one certainly would like to see it built.
mircea_popescu: i'm a very theoretical physicist. i have no fucking idea of the formulas involved in physics, but i can tell you when you're wasting your time.
mircea_popescu: you won't be able to establish the path of light after you've measured its position
mircea_popescu: but you can't determine the path for very good reasons
mircea_popescu: recall the early highschool physics "and now the light makes spots, and now the light makes lines"
mircea_popescu: i tell you, the most happening is "wow, look, likght does THAT too ?!"
mircea_popescu: you will end up with separation issues at the region boundries i bet.
mircea_popescu: i bet you the most that comes out of this is some new quantum effect.
mircea_popescu: every programmer ever has basically played this with compilers and errors and blabla.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was going to say, basically this game is the game of fucking life.
mircea_popescu: that in principle is clear, but it helps as much as "capture enemy pieces" helps in chess