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Vexual: and i f you were invested in yourself badon, i'd
trust you
to do business on
the net
Vexual: theres
the web of
trust
badon: If someone betrays my
trust, I can't punch
them in
the head with
their PGP public key.
badon: In fact, my business style is
to be suspicious of anyone who insists on formal contracts. If
they don't
trust me, I don't want
to do business with
them, and vice versa.
badon: My experience has been
that
these
trust models are useless.
They're better
than complete anonymity, because
they end up having some practical monetary value, but
the abuse of
the
trust always eventually becomes more profitable
than honoring
the
trust.
Therefore, if I don't
trust you, I don't care what your PGP key says.
BingoBoingo: Only a few weeks of inactivity before freenode drops
tham
badon: I feel dirty every
time I send a password
to nickserv or chanserv on IRC, but in my case, I use SASL and
the
Tor hidden service, so it's not plaintext like it might be for ordinary IRC connections.
BingoBoingo: The voice
thing
though is
that words have meaning, and
the strength of
that is predicated on
the person doing
the speaking. Hence strong identification as opposed
to weak identification.
badon: So I've been
told :)
BingoBoingo: Purpose of
the channel
takes a few months.
badon: ...like
the purpose of
this channel, haha
badon: maybe
there's something I'm simply not aware of.
badon: I can't
think of anything.
badon: Right, but what is being accomplished by
that extra step?
badon: Hmm, OK,
then I'm still skeptical anything at all is being accomplished by preventing me from speaking.
badon: Is
trading a part of
this channel?
badon: I'm very skeptical
that's necessary.
badon: BingoBoingo: Right, but why is
that second factor critical just
to merely speak?
badon: What does impersonating people have
to do with me?
BingoBoingo: But you have need of gribble if you want
to self voice. Defeating nickserv would make impersonating other people
too easy
badon: You could just handle
that
the standard way by requiring people
to be registered with nickserv
to be voiced.
badon: But I don't
trade bitcoin, I have no need of gribble.
badon: Is it accomplishing something
to prevent people from speaking?
badon: Is it accomplishing someone
to prevent people from speaking?
decimation: well I'm going
to retire, good evening gents
decimation: which is basically
the same argument as "but x86 has
the warez"
decimation: well, literally $$bn have been invested on
the current path
decimation: asciilifeform: is
that
the 'most reliable' alloy?
Vexual: sticks like poo
to a blanket
decimation: asciilifeform: no, more reliable
than lead solder with extreme
temp and vibration
decimation: with copper
too I guess. it's prone
to weird 'whisker' formation
Vexual: easier
to probe for errors perhaps?
decimation: I
think it is still used
today
to construct some satellites
decimation: properly done it is more reliable
than soldering
mircea_popescu: course bakc when i was a kid we had
this breadboard with springed clamps
Vexual: but
thats my favourite part
decimation: old-school electronics construction
technique
Vexual: oh hell no, it neads
tinning
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Vexual: i don't know much about electronics, but fuck i go
thruogh some hookup wire
decimation: I guess
that costs - need pins, wire, etc
decimation: asciilifeform: did
they do much wire wrap?
Vexual: the dog and
the banknote
ben_vulpes: love even more buying
them with pesos.
ben_vulpes: Vexual: or
take more btc. arsfolk love btc.
Vexual: pay more in bc, but arrive with 12
trillion pesos
Vexual: can you just buy usd
to offset expenses?
Vexual: "I certainly don't want anyone mining
technology ... away from my control" <<this would sound more intelligent if he was stuttering
decimation: mackay kind of revived gallager's work in
the 60's with ldpc codes
BingoBoingo: ^ Dude sat next
to Obama Monday, charged
Thursday
ben_vulpes: i refuse
to claim knowledge of anything anymore. downright dangerous.
ben_vulpes: well, someone with
the face plastered everywhere.
Vexual: i
think i may have met
that mastercard derp
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mircea_popescu: im starting
to suspect buterin is actually a manufactured identity.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform would hold
that "it doesn't work".
mod6: first make it work,
then we make it pretty
ben_vulpes: an 0.5.3
that needs a kick in
the ass a few
times a day but can still catch up
to chainhead
trumps a power ranger hardfork with no published and serenissima-signed alternative.
mod6: first, we just wanted
to bypass
the wedge block so we can catch up
to
the main chain.