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mircea_popescu: shows great promise of much enjoyments. just tell her ppl on irc said you should give her tiem
mircea_popescu: i was shocked to find most us couples still don't do it
mircea_popescu: it's like saying fucking your wife in the ass is not breaking ground and doesn't require any resources
mircea_popescu: dub they are breaking ground, for one, and it takes 10 to 100x more money than they have.
mircea_popescu: dub well in practical terms it'll be a miracle if they have anything to ship anyway,.
mircea_popescu: a well. fyi, what the romanian revolution was is this : ohio state students taking over the troops, then executing nixon.
mircea_popescu: but romania never had a civil war ? or you mean the revolution ?
mircea_popescu: everyone thinks ny is blue, they're so pissed at democrats right now it'll happen.
mircea_popescu: you watch new york return a full complement of teapartiers for the senate.
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 here, power crews from out of state are trying to come work in ny. they're turned away BECAUSE THEYRE NOT UNION
mircea_popescu: sure, eligius has all the promise of becoming a fortified compound in utah
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't think the devs have either the balls or the peabrains to actually go ahead with algo change
mircea_popescu: and so the devthreat to change algo only has the merit of the interest of gpu miners, who are doomed anyway
mircea_popescu: if miner group A uses hashing algo a and miner group B uses hashing algo b
mircea_popescu: in the context we;'re discussing 51% simply means the majority decides by what rules the chains are built.
mircea_popescu: BTC-Mining that's a different 51% attack you're thinking of.
mircea_popescu: this is the old anti-dictator argument. i'm just rehashing roman republicanism here.
mircea_popescu: not because they're bad people, but bcause we don't want any respected people.
mircea_popescu: the only value of btc rests on the fact that nobody can actually matter.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares about the toothless threats of some pasty-chested "devs".
mircea_popescu: the EXACT system that's the problem with politics in the us, and the EXACT reason we can't use fucken fiat anymore.
mircea_popescu: patrickharnett is in default, i have to say it. if i don't say it nobody does. buddy-buddy
mircea_popescu: clearly displayed in the "let's stick together" around pirate.
mircea_popescu: in my eyes the only thing that will ever devalue btc is agreement.
mircea_popescu: in a sense the current dev + gpu miner pools are creating that problem as it is
mircea_popescu: once the diff is high enough they'll ship to lock in the payments and avoid refunds
mircea_popescu: but anyway. the shipping problem is that companies don't have an incentive to ship for as long as what they're shipping is worth more than what the people paid for it.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin won't die just because some old boy's club tries to keep newcomers out
mircea_popescu: what, you think where the crowd of 5000 atlas sockpuppets lies matters ?
mircea_popescu: if bitcoin allowed them any advantage because of some such crap it'd be doomed anyway
mircea_popescu: they will have support of old miners against new miners
mircea_popescu: so likely they will ship the entire backlog simultaneously
mircea_popescu: smickles this is actually a very interesting problem. the companies have no real incentive to ship
mircea_popescu: i for one don't think there's going to be asics in 2012