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mircea_popescu: there's a lot of paradoxical movement (dub was referring one of the more documented types recentyl)
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- it's a weak supposition this, linear generalisation from fiat to bitcoin markets. we're still working at getting the hang of this
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic point of fact is, the only way we know how much implementing it cost is by devteam saying "we spent 5 hours doing this"
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- do you mean .1% by headcount or by coincount ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic sadly power-ranger team has not the time to do any auditing or reporting, so no.
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- this is true. i'm just saying, i think a lot more people held btc than .1%
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic do you have the figure for "how much unencrypted wallet.dat" cost ?
mircea_popescu: i learned about it when it was 15. bought like 1k worth
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- they would if they could. so far their consensus seems to be they're not smart enough to do it.
mircea_popescu: that's what midnightmagic means by concorde fallacy : the mistaken idea that the current codebase is useful because it cost people a lot of money through all the bugs it pushed on them so far.
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- i mean that's what's coming next, "guise our shit has taken too much blood sweat and tears to be abandoned and we should forever wallow in it"
mircea_popescu: preparing for the "too big to fail" arguments, it'll be a warm summer.
mircea_popescu: when they're barely qualified to write code. but anyway :
mircea_popescu: is ample proof this wasn't even seriously considered, let alone settled.
mircea_popescu: just the butthurt when somebody finally says, wait, you think you people matter ?!
mircea_popescu: but not really. the burried problems that caused the fork however most definitely will end btcoin if unadressed.
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- that fork itself could have festered if anyone ddosed the attacking pool.
mircea_popescu: LameCoin- it's closer to vienna than bucharest indeed.
mircea_popescu: back in 2007 it became obvious the us is sinking. didn't want to be on that part of the world. had to go somewhere.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, some people don't like me. they run things into the ground.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr he's somehow bothered with everyone mocking you for trying your damnest to pass yourself off as a dev
mircea_popescu: well that's unfortunate for them because i happen to be better at politics than they're at coding.
mircea_popescu: in an ultimately doomed effort to prop the dirt as respectable.
mircea_popescu: stalin said "everyone vote" and evertyone did. what democratic process is this ?
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic that dispute as to reality will have to come to my grave.
mircea_popescu: benkay do you know how the most recent fork was resolved ?
mircea_popescu: and on a related point, you don't go to heaven by never saying "jesus sucks" etiher.
mircea_popescu: people who lie by presenting the mining corruption as "consensus", they are being uncivil.
mircea_popescu: being civil is not a formal concern. it does NOT mean not calling people idiots. if indeed they are idiots then that's that, verity proof.
mircea_popescu: i'm not affraid of commitment bitch. i just don't care for your definition of it.
mircea_popescu: you know, girl wants to get married. after tears have washed pointlessly about the room, her new line becomes "why are you affraid of commitment"
mircea_popescu: just so, it'd seem to me, you've been told how to identify independent thought, and what great evil it is, and now when you discover it in the actual world you immediately jump to the conclusion tis evil.
mircea_popescu: you are bound to misbehave wehn confronted with actual black people.
mircea_popescu: if you spend your childhood living among white people, abnd being told niggers are to be identified by x y z and they do k l m things,
mircea_popescu: seriously midnightmagic, i think you're abstracting your past history of interaction with who knows who and painting it on me.
mircea_popescu: so i'm takingthat as a sort of up and down and all about no.