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mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids listen, a 5k satoshi tx is like... impossible to even propagate.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he's not a virgin, so there's the end of that.
mircea_popescu: it's wonderbread. i wouldn't use it and i don't agree it's bread. you could say this is me being elitist, you could devise some tests of breadess wonderbread passes
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids for the same reason you're not fucking all the floozies in your town right now.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo has been looking for someone to beat ever since truffles ran off
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what is customarily meant by unusable. "which can't be used for its intended purpose"
mircea_popescu: the resultant mess is unusable past about 0.6.x or thereabouts, for these reasons.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it has since been "fixed" in the hands of mediocre coders with no system design comprehension whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the original stuff was poorly written by one unexperienced coder with a lot of system design experience.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids the point in quesiton is "throw away the first chapter of your novel"
mircea_popescu: for epic lols : writing novels is listed under GARDENING,
mircea_popescu: well it's supposed to be funny by contrast. the one team that didn't need tech
mircea_popescu: the third is more flegmatic. either one or two bridges.
mircea_popescu: mike_c buncha teams are presenting offers to build a brige. they all start from both sides. one team has laser sensors and whatever, the 2nd satellite and whatnot
mircea_popescu: mike_c i suspect the code only came because the response to the paper was a particular brand of retarded.
mircea_popescu: why are you so focused on the building and implementation notional universe ?
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of agreeing how we'd like the vase to look, but a matter of representing how gravity actually and in fact does work
mircea_popescu: this is science, we're describing an actual real process.
mircea_popescu: no, because this is not art an we aren't making a vase.
mircea_popescu: how was one supposed to think logically before aristotle got around to writing logics ?
mircea_popescu: basically a pull rather than a push for now because we aren't yet as formalised
mircea_popescu: mike_c there's no particular requirement that people who don't already know the rationales sould be involved in writing any code.
mircea_popescu: there's some post where the girl's counting it much to pietilla's delight.
mircea_popescu: it's just in mpex' case it's been a private joke rather than the sad reality
mircea_popescu: for the lolz of it : mpex actually discontinued withdrawals first
mircea_popescu: MisterE who are you and what makes you think you have something to say ?
mircea_popescu2: i ended up having to connect by ip because chat.freenode.net for some reason was resolving to a suspicious ip
mircea_popescu: it's a state machine whether we know/admit/notice this or not.
mircea_popescu: the wet being water isn't an implementation detail, is it ?
mircea_popescu: a shoddy bitcoin #1 is actually quite useful, you can have bitcoin #2 all prepared in the background.
mircea_popescu: decimation as a point of strategy, the would-be dev team power ranges may be foolish, but they're useful fools.
mircea_popescu: and anyone else claiming to be the dev team is roughly in the position of various people on the forum claiming to be financiers.
mircea_popescu: decimation i merely observed that whoever is doing that is the dev team
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know that a) gox is lieing about it being a problem and b) all the other scammers happy to follow suit
mircea_popescu: decimation i was under the impression i had said exactly that :D
mircea_popescu: it's one of those "hey, let you give us free money" deals a la coinbase.
mircea_popescu: it'd be "private", as in romanian govt gives to some random third party the place and gets in exchange some nothing at all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe we're not talking about the same thing. what exactly is "hammering the fiat/btc" interface ?
mircea_popescu: (for instance, the leu is worth in dollars/euros/whatever else exactly as much as romania says it is worth)