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diana_coman: well yes; but I was struck by why
this particular
thing
to latch on; perhaps "easiest" and
the approved anti-whatever or something but anyways
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 19:59 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706369 << how about focusing on your own fucking problems! clean up
that pizza wrapper! cook for fucking once. go out and walk
that misfortunate dog of yours. instead of pretending
to "solve"
the problems of distant others for
the
transparent reason
that you can avoid having
to confront not having done ANYTHING in a whole decade
this way.
diana_coman: perhaps a combination of "I'd much rather NOT have
this responsibility so passing it
to some abstract group/network HAS
to be great" and "all people are ~same and X is a crook
therefore all people are crooks
therefore can't
trust someone"
diana_coman: this "trustless" echoes some students' insistence
that it's "better
to not have
to
trust someone" - I couldn't quite get
to
the root of it
beetcoin: asciilifeform, of course we have
to
trust
that our CPU isn't backdoored unless we start our own fabrication facility. Bitcoin isn't perfectly
trustless because of
that, i'm just saying it should be
the goal of governance
mircea_popescu: no problem, i suppose for as long as
they keep feeding you, you'll keep vegetating in yourself.
mircea_popescu: does deliberate, stubborn stupidity pay something, somewhere ? or is it just
the internal "satisfaction" ?
beetcoin: Bitcoin having
the property of
trustlessness means
that you may use it without
trusting anyone
beetcoin: but it's even clearer now
that
the purpose of governance is
to optimize for
trustlessness
beetcoin: i was never a big-blocker, idk if being perceived
that way was
the origin of our dispute in 2015
beetcoin: well, in 2017 we saw
that
the governance model was resistant
to miners signalling for a doubling of max block weight
a111: Logged on 2015-02-10 21:16 beetcoin: bitcoin is not a democracy? what is it
then? an oligarchy?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-15 18:26 mircea_popescu: in
the end
the question comes down
to, do you feel like a man, or do you feel like a woman ? just don't lie
to me or lie
to me prettily ?
mircea_popescu: nevermind kids never being
taught how
to write a fucking legal document in school. how about
they be
taught HOW NOT
TO BRING FEMININE ARGUMENTS.
mircea_popescu: this guy is fucking
terrible, where's
this whole crop of new model wykham professors of logic spawn from anwyays ?
mircea_popescu: looking into
the intro/outro derpitudes, it looks like
the nobus-encryption afficionados in usg.blue
that survived
the clinton era are looking
to build "scientific basis" for ulterior nonsense.
mircea_popescu: well, so now we know what
to do should robert d mcleod aka robert.mcleod@umanitoba.ca show up.
mircea_popescu: and it even begins with
the usual pantsuit signature, "as an X", huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the abstract claim, "one random round of fermat provides same error probability as 32 rounds of m-r" is pretty striking.
mircea_popescu: 99.99x% of all
those who interacted with
the object online had never before perceived
the functioning of
these mechanisms
to any degree. romania has ~0 civic education in
the school system and so on. even
the modicum of "teach dork
to write a formal application" or w/e
they used
to do in home ec was abandoned.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all
these were strictly unthinkables in
the place and
time.
mircea_popescu: anyway, item did what such items do, in
the us
too : it blew a hole in
the party-that-the-guy-was-fronting's skirts, and he retired.
mircea_popescu: well what was he going
to write me perfumed billets doux ?
mircea_popescu: so did
they -- went in 2nd, right AFTER
the sitting ro president's salutation and right above what
they judged as
the
top economiasm.
mircea_popescu: but
the orig piece is precisely
that, i published
the complaint.
mircea_popescu: (i mean, i realise in
the us
they aren't, but w/e, nobody really gives a shit about retardistan)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't copyright legal proceedings,
they're public.
mircea_popescu: it started like
that, you realise. back in
the early days of
the confederacy,
the us president couldn't on his own merit summon enough credit in europe
to afford a meal at a decent restaurant. if
the local dukes of dorset didn't invite
them
to
their
table,
they'd eat poached eggs brought from home on
the side of
the road.
mircea_popescu: so now... let's go ban huawei
top keks, make america alone again!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
too inept dood, what.
they can't do shit.
mircea_popescu: which puts us in
the following amusing relation :
the romanian academy perceived
that not only i'm
the competition... but have
the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: ie, mostly
tv stations perceived blogs as competition, but ~because
they actually were~ competition, and winning, couldn't omit stealing
their conent. and so
the expression "found on
the Internet" was invented
to avoid saying "we suck, go read
this-dood.com instead"
mircea_popescu: (romanian academy published a book in which it included
the fraud complaint i issued against
their at
the
time sitting head as "found on
the Internet", an expression at
the
time famous in ro for being used by various derps)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-24 15:19 BingoBoingo: Well, overnight alt-President invited
the US Embassy garrison
to remain over Maduro's expulsion order
mircea_popescu: it'll be a pretty funny decade, ustards crowding retarddit
to coordinate wikitardia articles about who's
the "real" president of
the most serene republic &c
BingoBoingo: Well,
that's Nancy Pantsuit's latest failure
to engage
Trump in
the shutdown. Exactly
the sum
Trump wants
to start walling, but restricted
to more Boeing camera/drone/robodog wank in
the
tradition of Dubya
mircea_popescu: they got
that world-famous logician anyways, VIRTUAL WALL
BingoBoingo: Well, not much since
they gave up
their wall
technology
mod6: asciilifeform, BingoBoingo :
Thanks!
a111: Logged on 2019-01-24 15:22 mircea_popescu:
there's no option here : if
they stay, maduro arrests
them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position
than kim ever was.
mircea_popescu: in other mildly concerning news, i notice
that
there's a header-article relation developing. if
there's naked girls ima pen a frisky article, if
there's a serious doctoral mug ima pen a serios
theoretic piece, yet i swear i have no idea at
the onset (the box where i put
things in dun load
the header, for one). it's sheer coincidence, yet it seems
to have held for
the past 3 or 4 pieces!
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-23 02:10 asciilifeform: wonder what happened
to subj d00d
BingoBoingo: Maybe Pence at all saw how well destablilizing
the neighorhood works for Israel?
mircea_popescu: granted if
they don't leave and maduro doesn't put
them in ice,
the situation's resolved
the other way.
mircea_popescu: if
they leave, derpy imaginary president has
to explain it. experience shows he WILL, and
the "followers" WILL swallow whatever he says.
mircea_popescu: there's no option here : if
they stay, maduro arrests
them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position
than kim ever was.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 0 bombs fly roflmao, what, so
there can be a case of us ambassador hung in bolivar square ?