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decimation: mircea_popescu: " foss is fundamentally immune to this bs" < not clear. however I suspect
usg would not want to try to stick someone posting foss - because the courts would likely find that this kind of regulation would contradict the first amendment
decimation: (unless you get a license and permission from
usg of course)
decimation: ^
usg is proposing to implement a treaty (purely via executive fiat) to ban the export of 'intrusion software'
mircea_popescu: b-a is the sitting authority, not some random twerps on the mailing list of some random
usg-mandated security theatre "product"
decimation: "premeditated disregard for
usg's rules"
ascii_field: if zimmerman isn't in the pay of
usg - he oughta be sending them a bill.
ascii_field:
usg -has- his genuine private key when it wants to.
ascii_field: (or what,
usg hasn't graduated from hogwarts yet and doesn't do poison?)
assbot: Logged on 20-05-2015 06:57:41; isaackl: And if Balaji is a
USG shill he's a damn good actor
isaackl: mircea_popescu: OK, to connect it to reality. Sovereign wealth fund, has a lot of USD. Realises
USG is shaky and wants to diversify. How do they decide how much to allocate to gold or bitcoin?
isaackl: And if Balaji is a
USG shill he's a damn good actor
☟︎ isaackl: So who are the 5%, how has
USG compromised them
ben_vulpes: <decimation> [01:51] or is the 'price signal' one of those things
usg can will into existance? << are you familiar with the "winkdex"?
decimation: or is the 'price signal' one of those things
usg can will into existance?
mircea_popescu: you've done what a hacker news reader would do, reading the
usg piece instead of my piece and imagining "oh i read about crypto"
williamdunne: Africa might actually stand a chance of doing something if it weren't for various restrictions placed by EU,
USG and co
decimation: one wonders why the hell
usg doesn't investigate this kind of stuff
mats: which is why you can buy MREs for three bux when
USG pays twelve per iirc
decimation: mats: I shudder to think about what the rest of
usg is up to
decimation: sure, and rather than trusting in his judgment,
usg sees fit to shower him with thousands of 'requirements'
mircea_popescu: that aside, the question of how exactly weak keys came to be, and what are they doing there and so on and so forth is not nearly as uninteresting as the
usg agency would like to make it.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> they got
usg's nukes on call if they need them << nope, not anymore. new king is trashing the alliance.
decimation: they got
usg's nukes on call if they need them
decimation: asciilifeform:
usg friendly 'liberal' majors are subsidized, of course
decimation: some young officers - tought from entry that lying is very bad - find the real working of
usg to be shocking
decimation: mircea_popescu: in this particular case, the guy claims that
usg levies so many 'requirements' on its employees that no human could possibly fulfill them
decimation:
usg's style is to seize someone's bitcoin and put it in their vault
decimation: I find it terribly unlikely that any formal
usg employee is mining bitcoin
mircea_popescu: how is a derpy
usg with delusions of separation and self importance different or better from the numerous groups of derpy miners with similar delusions that came and went over the years ?
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 22:19:52; danielpbarron: i don't have a problem with
USG getting 1/3 of all the bitcoin; the can only spend it once
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you gotta appreciate, the
usg is not the only one mining, nor has it been. at this point, the deployment you contemplate might allow it to catch up, but won't do much more than that.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: hm i guess my hypothesis is that
usg won't claim enough of remaining unmined btc to throw a wrench in the individual sovereignty of those in #b-a.
mircea_popescu: does
usg-effective mean "bitcoin needs a decision making process which a) doesn't include mp as we've been pretending was the case all along and b) overrepresents us, as we've idem" ?
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 21:27:38; asciilifeform: re: l0ltr0n1cs: today i found out that ed felten (formerly 'freedom to tinker' blog, lawsuits against riaa, etc.) has been a
usg stooge for several years now.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: here's the test : within 12 months (or 12 years ?), the '
usg' will be unable to double-spend a bitcoin transaction.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: another problem with the "oh noes
usg" card is that, as you well know, it's not monolithic. the infighting over any coins it gets its hands on will be considerable. and divisive.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: my counter is that calc ^. so within 100 years,
usg is as deadly as pirate or karpeles !
danielpbarron: who would accept a transaction from
USG ? and why should I feel sorry for them?
jurov: asciilifeform: and where
usg gets the extra terawatt?
danielpbarron: i don't have a problem with
USG getting 1/3 of all the bitcoin; the can only spend it once
☟︎ pete_dushenski: in any event, if the
usg ends up with 18% of hashrate, albeit briefly, and throwing the kitchen sink at the the thing in the process, it would be about time they did something so productive.
danielpbarron:
USG would have to further inflate the dollar to do that
trinque: the idea that the whole
USG is the decrepit post office is laughable
pete_dushenski: so by this time in 2016 the
usg has 10 mn gh/s at its disposal.
trinque: asciilifeform: I'd expect some broken off appendage of the NSA to accumulate a sizable stash of coin even if the rest of the
USG falls apart
assbot: Successfully added a rating of -10 for gavinandresen with note: Perennial Bitcoin lolcow and ex
USG asset.
mircea_popescu: !rate gavinandresen -10 Perennial Bitcoin lolcow and ex
USG asset.
decimation: although note that
usg is fine with 18 year-olds voting and dying in the military
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the size of that cohesive group is merely a function of the resources wasted on it. << But consider what
USG spends on keeping NBP alive to only have Maybe 200 new Black Panthers vs. what Femen spends on Maybe 200 topless agitators.
ascii_field: (attempting to be something other than slavishly transparent to
usg tendrils)
lobbes: Why India though? Aren't they essentially an arm of
usg?
decimation: asciilifeform: things are already heading that way. there's a 'Schelling point' that enlarges every year around the "
USG sucks" idea
decimation:
usg event wants to sit upon hobbyists who fly r/c aircraft
decimation: actually I think aircraft could become much more 'personal', but
usg has sat upon them
williamdunne: 23:50:20 - mircea_popescu: if you're serious about this, go to a country that's not part of the
usg, run a proper exchange. no kyc/bs.
mircea_popescu: if you're serious about this, go to a country that's not part of the
usg, run a proper exchange. no kyc/bs.
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 17:41:02; ascii_field: at any rate, the reason to hold off creaming your pants on this occasion, is that 1) it's yet another von neumann turd 2) enjoy trading
usg boobytraps for ru variant
ascii_field: at any rate, the reason to hold off creaming your pants on this occasion, is that 1) it's yet another von neumann turd 2) enjoy trading
usg boobytraps for ru variant
☟︎ pete_dushenski: for all the bitching about
usg chip diddling in this place
mircea_popescu: thatr's exactly what it is. the whole thing that made
usg work makes us work. it'll make us great long after it buried it.
mircea_popescu: you know, where the
usg actually gained the ability to make bad graphs
mircea_popescu: davout the amount of herd-herding that the
usg has been putting into this is so incredibly useful because a) it really can't do anything but! b) it really does expose the tools.