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mod6: thanks for
the updates danielpbarron
danielpbarron: i got 2nd pogo running; it's using my own compiled bitcoind (porta
tronic non bastard) and it's successfully pulling blocks from my other pogo (running ascii's porta-tronic bastard)
mircea_popescu: lmao. no, you dumb fucking schmuck. he didn't mean what unrelated
term you wish he had meant. he meant what he said :
the ridiculous notion
that random people may speak on random questions.
mircea_popescu: "[Note: It is interesting
to notice
that Mr Kennedy, USA Ambassador in London, remarked on his return
to New York in October 1940
that as a result of
the war "democracy is finished". By "democracy", of course, he meant private capitalism. (Author's footnote.)]"
mircea_popescu: in either case, what can't be had in
the socialist state is free market.
mircea_popescu: either way,
the only
thing a functioning market can expect is attack, either by government agencies masquerading as companies, or else by government agencies actually admitting
their government affiliation.
mircea_popescu: exactly in
the manner 40 euros are "just as good" as 48 DM
mircea_popescu: net result ? a frail, broken, centralized item
to
take place of
the vibrant original and slowly decay. it's "just as good',
mircea_popescu: 3) government steps in, sweeps
the whole
thing under itself, since 2 failed.
mircea_popescu: 2) client companies of
the state wish
to be important.
the market
tells
them
to stuff it
mircea_popescu: it's really funny how
the politics of
this worked out : 1) buncha companies, unregulated market, bring
the
thing into existence.
chetty: and you had
to rent
the state company ones// coming soon
to us, internet public utility will make it so
mircea_popescu: that's right, i come from a country where you USED
to have
to be cool
to be able
to fuck most of
the starlets on
tv (prhaps with
the show playing in
the background, if so inclined). nowadays any schmuck with a coupla bitcoin can do it.
mircea_popescu: more like 400, but
then you'd have
to explain 1k% inflation in 30 years,
mircea_popescu: obviously nothing's wrong with
the people, but plenty's wrong wit hthe "present values" equation, seeing how in 1985 ie 30 years ago it made perfect sense
to spend a week and cut out pipes and whatnot
to save "the equivalent of 40 euros".
mircea_popescu: well fuck me sally, if
they
truly cost 40 euros at
today's values
then what
the fuck's
the problem,
that's what internet costs
today. what is wrong with
these people ?
mircea_popescu: ie, it cost 48 Deutsche Mark, which "at
today's values" would be 40 euros.
mircea_popescu: and now,
the meat and potatoes : ". Modems waren damals in Deutschland noch verboten, mit Ausnahme der
teuren Mietgeräte der Bundespost. Anfang 1987 betrug die monatliche Gebühr für ein BTX-MultiTel 1 48 DM (nach heutiger Kaufkraft 40 €) und für ein MultiTel 2 78 DM (nach heutiger Kaufkraft 66 €)"
mircea_popescu: expensive enough
to get people
to where
they'd root for copies of
teh hacker bible, and
then build a modem out of repurposed materials by hand.
mircea_popescu: so
this article discusses
the famous ccc modem. at
the
time, germans being insane as
today, it was illegal
to own a modem, and you had
to rent
the state company ones, which were incredibly expensive.
mircea_popescu: truly atrocious sort of incomprehensible and unexplainable "you have
to be
there" sort of bad.
mircea_popescu: because in any line
there exists
this company, which is extremely bad, almost as if it's self-parodic level bad.
mircea_popescu: it's as if
there's a race of humans
that is really, REALLY bad at anything
they do.
mircea_popescu: twisty's is a fine example : how
to make atrociously bad porn out of ingredients found commonly in any porn studio.
mircea_popescu: ever since
the flaming idiots of get a freelancer bought it, it's seriously improved
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Warrior Forum8:03 am 54 KiBHow
to reach
the REALLY rich? - Warrior Forum"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony in case it wasn't somehow apparent, "someone" doth not mean you. it doth mean
the still unidentified publicly person in charge of handling
teh bitcoin problem.
mircea_popescu: imagine
that you know, if you had
to run boeing with some engineers
that went "oh, boeing makes planes actually ? gee i had no idea
ty for clarifying"
mircea_popescu: and he is learning about his company from obscure $300 an article
trade rags.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if you remember
this schmuck, he's
the "mr bigg" shill mpoe-pr unmasked on
the forum.
mircea_popescu: Now
this is some serious investigative journalism. I even learned a few
things!
mircea_popescu: but even better, 1st comment : ""Vinnie Falco ·
Top Commenter · Software Engineer at Ripple Labs
mircea_popescu: "
The most exciting battle in
this long war is
taking place in San Francisco, and
the
town isn’t big enough for both Ripple Labs and Stellar,
two of
the contenders hoping
to replace not just Bitcoin but
the almighty dollar."
mod6: 30 out of 40 people say gox & ripple guy is mega-genius and in same class with
Turing!!11
mircea_popescu: someone who was stupid enough
to ignore
the warnings, for
that matter. o, it's not his fault, "nobody could have foreseen".
mircea_popescu: at least we know where we're standing : what we got scares
them. we'll fork it later on an' be quite happy.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: >Stripe and Facebook are going
to sponsor @gnupg development with $50k/year each. <<
the only important point in
the ruckus being, now we know gpg 1.x is perfectly fine and 2.x not entirely broken, and
that
there's absolutely no need
to expect usable 3.x
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk: [...] < I wish
the banks around here knew what GPG/PGP was. << it's because i don't use actual banks, but
the well developed argentine underground system.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell phillipsjk: Is html allowed in comments on your blog? << some limited html. blockquote, a and i dun recall what else.
fluffypony: "Mr. McCaleb also happened
to be one of
the world’s foremost cryptographers, arguably in a class with Alan
Turing,
the father of artificial intelligence and modern computing."
mod6: fluffypony: ahh, yet another "genius"
thinks he's going
to replace bitcoin. *snore*
kakobrekla: >Stripe and Facebook are going
to sponsor @gnupg development with $50k/year each.
punkman: "There’s an increasing number of farmers placing greater value on acquiring older simpler machines
that don’t require a computer
to fix."
phillipsjk: that reminds me, I should complain about
that. Symbols were required, but did not include ,|^= and at least one number was required.
phillipsjk: mircea_popescu: well, you may not believe
this or like
this, but... my banking depends on my gpg signature o.O < I wish
the banks around here knew what GPG/PGP was.
The card-holder agreements universally say: "You acknowledge
that e-mail is not secure..."
BingoBoingo: While also bending his "code art" into ways nothing on
the web should be bent
phillipsjk: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu I enjoyed your latest blog post.
phillipsjk: I see a newbie got a "page
topper" in Deathandtaxes's
thread. (I was
totally going
to post a link) :)
phillipsjk: 6:35: "..For example..Mt.Gox.. I have a bad feeling about
them"
phillipsjk: "Tom Williams" paid people half
their Bitcoin and disappeared. Mybitocin.com had a private registration is some
tropical island country.
mircea_popescu: da fuck was his name,
the hipster with
the dumbass hat.
mircea_popescu: i wish i could remember
the idiot's name, he was a reddit star for a season or
two.
mircea_popescu: that
then "was hacked", but it's ok, because everyone's balance was just going
to be frozen and "repaid over
time"
mircea_popescu: the last episode of
that
thing figures prominently some hot shot kid
that made a
totally innovative super-great exchange
phillipsjk: "From
the desk of
Tom Williams, operator of MyBitcoin.com"
mircea_popescu: he massively pumped, and
then claimed
to have been victimized, by
tha
thing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember
the burt wagner, pedophile / gay prostitute / showman with
the camera in demo mode ?
phillipsjk: "Consider
the alternative of mybitcoin.com. It is a client portable
to any web browser. You could keep
the account/password in your head instead of on a stick. If you want
to
transact with another mybitcoin account
the
transaction is immediate
too."
phillipsjk: I mentioned in PM
that I assume
the year 2010 refers
to "mybitcoin" (found mention of it in a forum post Aug 17, 2010)
mircea_popescu: as i point out in some romanian article, denim bras had i managed
to import would have been gladly worn by
those women half
the current .ro calls mom.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, i
think one could scarcely have better political education
than a
tour of
the warsaw pact in
the late 80s.
phillipsjk: I
think
that is
the most subtle "Godwin" I have even seen. (had
to look it up)
phillipsjk: good point. Gavin's proposal is just
that: a proposal.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i am not seriously lowering
the discourse
to gavin's insanities. a matter of principle is being discussed
there, not
the irrelevant gargle of whatever derp.
phillipsjk: So you are implicitly expecting
the block-size will be much larger
than 20MB sooner
than we expect as well.
mircea_popescu: this is mostly important because considering on one hand
the uninformed low level arithmeticizing of reality prevalent in
the esl world, and on
the other
the utter insanities passed for "graphs" on
the forum, but also generally in
the world - say
that abject "cross model", people really need a little example of PROPER use of numbers.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk
the deleted 2020 is more of a playful rethorical device
mircea_popescu: this was my own experience, both under
the communists and after, and it was recorded in 1800 by
travellers