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cazalla: don't forget the 180m he owns
USG despite em selling his proceeds
trinque: I wonder if it will ever be known how many
usg intelligence agents have been planted in various public offices
decimation: he was indicted by a grand jury for... not telling
usg what he was going to do with his cash
ascii_field: 'Bitfury developed a light bulb that automatically mines Bitcoin when you screw it in' << for
usg, aha
ascii_field: good riddance and three cheers to the eventual replacement of all
usg aircraft with paper airplanes.
mircea_popescu: soon enough
usg folk will be able to eat paper and so on.
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't to make it impossible for the
usg to pretend like itexists.
decimation: ^ result of
usg policy, housing sex offenders in a trailer park is a thing
mats: should be interesting to see how
USG power projection strategy develops with fielding of the S/VTOL F-35s and rail gun
mats: once
USG loses a carrier or two the whole show will cascade, followed with binning of most of the sub fleet
mats: god forbid
USG actually trains people in HUMINT gathering
gabriel_laddel: To those who would say "Oh you can't possibly sell a 3D CLIM, no one needs that" I will note that we *know* the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Weapons and Complex Integration) built VisIt on top of OpenGL. They accept it as a given.
USG doesn't want to win wars, but I'm willing to bet that someone on Earth does. One easy way to free up eng
decimation: I suspect
usg will withdraw because they don't want the court to rule that thier little export regulation house of cards is unconstitutional
decimation: mircea_popescu: of course, but that would give ground for
usg to attempt to throw you in jail
decimation: right, which is why
usg isn't going to test it again
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.