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mircea_popescu: stop losses are usually offered as a best-effort thing, not as a guarantee
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> implication is that this achieved something more than one can get by merely hashing & signing code. << fwiw i don't believe it does or could.
mircea_popescu: makes this observation how the only sort of people who seem to trive in his dystopia are bug-like
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your dream of software that's unauditable by the user is getting closer and closer huh
mircea_popescu: you can now have no bugs except that sort of bugs you'll never find
mircea_popescu: a howitzer can fire blanks on the football field just fine
mircea_popescu: benkay you don't have to make the shells actually do anything you know ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin once explained by satoshi is not actually hard in any sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe i'm blinded by zeal but seems to me sed is actually harder.
mircea_popescu: cs professors who failed to have the kids implement bitcoin in 2013
mircea_popescu: "humanities" "professors" that have no idea what a college is and can not speak latin,
mircea_popescu: so they can go around pretending like they're things they could never be.
mircea_popescu: we're fortunate to live in a world where nobody has any clear measuring stick to be able to measure exactly how tall the pile of shameful excrement they find themselves under is.
mircea_popescu: "what, you have not implemented bitcoin as a term project ? you're defunded. 100%"
mircea_popescu: and i seriously do not understand what a rector must be thinking to not close down their cs department after this
mircea_popescu: this'd have been anyone's term project if i were teaching.
mircea_popescu: as in a sane world no uni with a cs department could have done anything else in 2013 as a term paper
mircea_popescu: there are 5k universities proposing they have cs departments, which is a fraud
mircea_popescu: yet nobody went "ok, the ideas are quite clear, let's do this then"
mircea_popescu: one thing i can't for the fucking life of me understand is why on earth has nobody made an actual competing implementation.
mircea_popescu: well yeah in ashell environment. not quite that much flexibility in bitcoin scrupting
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the diference here being of course that you're not expected to run the whole turd
mircea_popescu: but apparently the php lolcat interpreter adds leading 0's to O RLY?/OIC blocks or something
mircea_popescu: mtgox was at least 5 times told to stop with the idiocy.
mircea_popescu: watch it abd blog about the experience, i never saw it.
mircea_popescu: like tits, they get cold and flop arouind and your nipples hurt and everything,
mircea_popescu: benkay you know he's the asshole who stole my bentley and gave it to a bunch of kids from like poor countries in india or some shit, and in exchange they hacked a bunch of iphones for him
mircea_popescu: because he likes you and would like to get to know you better.
mircea_popescu: i think it was a topic of discussion at least monthly.