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mircea_popescu: have trouble understanding your proposal - ordinary users will be easily bamboozled by a government sponsored security update. Further, when the crisis hits, to disagree with the line, to doubt that the regulators are right, and the problem is the evil speculators, becomes political suicide,
as it did in America in 2007, sometimes physical suicide,
as in Weimar Germany."
mircea_popescu: er, more serious, and more disastrous,
as with the most recent one. Each attack is hugely successful, and after the cataclysm that the attack causes the attackers are hailed
as saviors of the poor, the oppressed, and the nation generally, and the blame for the the bad consequences is dumped elsewhere, usually on Jews, greedy bankers, speculators, etc, because such attacks are difficult for ordinary people understand. I
mircea_popescu: "The big and easy government attacks on money target a single central money issuer,
as with the first of the modern political attacks, the French Assignat of 1792, but in the late nineteenth century political attacks on financial networks began,
as for example the Federal reserve act of 1913, the goal always being to wind up the network into a single too big to fail entity, and they have been getting progressively bigg
decimation: old analog cell phones allocated 25 khz of dedicated bandwidth to each call (
as I recall)
mike_c: probably can't curse
as much
as on the forums
mircea_popescu: it's not nearly
as smart
as it would want to be. its direct equivalent would be "never rape anyone and enjoy being raped whenever it happens"
mircea_popescu: apparently tolerance
as in the libtard notion has a lot of drawbacks
mircea_popescu:
as much
as we'd all like to see little machine guns come out of the chassis and blow things away
ninjashogun: mircea_popescu, it's pretty hard not to see how making random USG accusations isn't exactly the same
as using a made-up hot-button "she used DMCA take-downs"?
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, actually, scammers don't hvae a problem building up a WoT reputation
as has been shown repeatedly through ultimately failed ponzi schemes, fraudulent exchanges, etc.
ninjashogun: asciilifeform, you are literally talking exactly
as described in the article I've just linked. This makes you feel better I guess?
mats_cd03: anxious to con someone with talent for which to substitute
as his own
TheNewDeal: TomServo what was the site with the charts such
as btc/gold btc/wti ?
mats_cd03: you should instead turn your attention to leeching from the government
as others like you
BingoBoingo: Just talked to the lawyer.
As long
as I stay patient I jsut might win this case through attrition, the DA... just... can't... retain... licensed... lawyers
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Best part. The authors and subjects... all white
as gypsum
mircea_popescu: "BRANSON, MO—Among the things that I dislike most in this world are patriotism, religion, tourist traps, country music, and the Walmart corporation. So I traveled to the one area of this nation that captures them all. It did not go
as planned."
mircea_popescu: probably wasted in the venue, but i do kinda see you
as this barefoot preacher to the huns.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> "And then divide by… uh, I think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5 times
as fast
as OpenSSL << honestly, at this point i'd want everyone to give a good look to libsecp256k1
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> they didn't forget
as much
as were attracted by the *new shininess* in the first place. now new thing is shiny. <<< or, moreover, aren't even bitcoin in any sense. notice the earlier guy with his strange "irc is insecure" notions. he probably thinks he's involved. his choices and mental processes however do not reflect that.
pete_dushenski: "And then divide by… uh, I think 5, because Pieter’s libsecp256k1 code is 5 times
as fast
as OpenSSL." << love this line by gavin.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: yet somehow the bitcoin crowd is supposed to have forgotten why it got into bitcoin in the first place, and apply the inflationary economy it's ran off from here << they didn't forget
as much
as were attracted by the *new shininess* in the first place. now new thing is shiny.
bounce: there's that. sort-of implied by the high finance and military
as proposed applications.
mircea_popescu: btw, im kinda surprised none of the evil-overgovernment conspiracy theorists have identified the oecd
as the mechanism.
gribble: Nick 'mircea_popescu', with hostmask 'mircea_popescu!~Mircea@pdpc/supporter/silver/mircea-popescu', is identified
as user 'mircea_popescu', with GPG key id 8A736F0E2FB7B452, key fingerprint 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452, and bitcoin address None
Quinn_: other than one article citing you
as a romanian billionaire which doesn't exactly sound in any way legit.
bounce: ``The Mexican natives in the encomienda system were treated
as virtual slaves, were poorly fed and clothed, and were greatly overworked
as farm and mine laborers. This harsh treatment appears to have left them particularly vulnerable to epidemic disease.'' -- worked to death, illness finished it
mircea_popescu: wow shit there's an actual word to describe the sheer ugliness of tshirts and chinos
as worn by the modern western plebs ?!
bounce: though
as time went on I find myself watching less and less video. curious how that works, or doesn't.
mircea_popescu: last i heard youtube traffix was waning, but be that
as it may,
mircea_popescu: there substantially isn't something
as interesting to people.
jurov: you completely missed my point,
as susual. it's difference between 1mm and 0.1mm wires
mircea_popescu: sure, for
as long
as you're rubbing sticks together, things can increase massively. once you start running up against the limits of the universe however, that's that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but see, the question is : govt doesn't want to be a wholly owned subsidiary of bitcoin, and used
as such, with its scrip a sort of ltc.
mircea_popescu: so one block will fit 100x
as many tx, and each solved block will yield 50x less in subsidies. that's a 5k drop over 20 years. it's high enough to kill the price, and with it mining, and with all that bring bitcoin back within the financial ability of the us.
mircea_popescu: because the troop has proven, multiple times, that they're not to be trusted. plenty of those are simple incompetence, but at least three or so can be well argued
as malice.
go1111111: inflation is 'bad' if the thing that is inflating is something you're holding
as a long term store of value. higher supply --> lower price per unit. "inflation" is used two ways: increasing the supply of the currency, and increasing price levels. i'm referring to the former
mircea_popescu: for all i care, everyone's welcome to try any theory they wish and then starve on it. what's however not acceptable, not now, not ever, is fraud. passing scamcoins for actualcoins and trying to pretend like shitpie is "just
as good
as pie".
BingoBoingo: The correct solution to limited blocksize is occasionally buying trashcans full of your local scrip
as necessary
mircea_popescu: go1111111 the arguments for a limited b lock size are the same
as the arguments for a limited currency base.
go1111111: if there are good arguments for high fees i'm curious to be linked to them or hear them. possibly my preference for low fees is
as dumb
as you're claiming, but it'd be interesting to know why you think that
mircea_popescu: you're better served by going through the logs
as relevant to your interest.
go1111111: mircea_popescu: I don't see the usefulness if high fees, except
as a means to secure the network. but fees will be a small portion of the reward to miners for a while. low fees enable transactions to occur that would otherwise be too costly, eliminating deadweight loss
Naphex: mircea_popescu: so yeah, i haven't found anything even close to stable
as bitcoind :)
Naphex: nubbins`: storage is not that much of a problem
as CPU Time
nubbins`: why is the header of the website
as ugly
as possible?
Naphex: i use this
as a "supernode" to p2p connect to the network, and use local nodes to scale
thestringpuller:
as of now you can run a full node on a raspberry pi with a 30 USD external storage medium
nubbins`: BingoBoingo, how long did it take you to start a node from scratch
as of this summer?
thestringpuller: starting a full node
as of now isn't trivial. ask BingoBoingo how long it took to start one from scratch
as of this summer.
mircea_popescu: there's this innate "fear", i suppose, among the primitive, illiterate hordes
as to the magical power of names.
mats_cd03:
as well
as vulnerability to things like swatting
pete_dushenski: "I have never owned much Bitcoin. I give away or spend what I buy. I am not a hoarder of Bitcoin. I don’t care about that aspect of Bitcoin, although many (most?) do. I care about it
as programmable money."
nubbins`: what i studied was the branch known
as "pure mathematics", which is a bit more on the esoteric side and a bit less on the practical
Vexual: well im sure i never scool any eaasy reader
as well
as mircea_popescu did
mircea_popescu:
as far
as everyone's concerned, google's a bucnh of geniuses. that they managed to fuck their market, well... that's just an accident.
mircea_popescu: and now it will be taken from them .
as it fucking should.
mircea_popescu: they'd be selling aluminum siding just
as well if they felt like it
nubbins`: he also made more money
as a producer than
as an artist
nubbins`: "music
as a product" and "music actual humans with taste listen to" are two completely different things
nubbins`: not so. there's a very vibrant music scene here locally
as well
as nationally. i can listen to this country's best music without ever listening to anything that's signed to a major label
nubbins`: thickasthieves:so
as the market becomes ultimately centralized, it's demise into decentralized pieces is inevitable, no? << uh, this already happened?
Vexual: i sure
as shit dont pandora or whatever
mircea_popescu: it'll re-hash starting from its roots
as entertainment, you'll go back to the performer, back to the instrument,
thickasthieves: so
as the market becomes ultimately centralized, it's demise into decentralized pieces is inevitable, no?
nubbins`: "given that the american senator had pornography on his computer, the glorious kingdom of saudi arabia hacked into his computers without compunction,
as any such 'hack' would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary"
nubbins`: "Given that the SR Server was hosting a blatantly criminal website, it would have been reasonable for the FBI to 'hack' into it in order to search it,
as any such 'hack' would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary."
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> mayo's not sticky enough << you can make it
as sticky
as you want
mircea_popescu: ok ok, horse works. cow -> moose is about the same amplitude
as chicken -> horse
thickasthieves: they dont get famous bands so much
as very popular cover bands
dub: '01 jdm zze123, sold
as sportivo in au
Vexual: you're probably tagged
as a pep
cazalla: sgornick: Hey cazalla and/or BingoBoing, ... check PM for message re: @Qntra twitter -
http://Twitter.com/Qntra <<< you can change email to info@qntra.net, happy to leave it
as a feed, ty for that
RagnarDanneskjol: i kno. fun fact: Ragnar played
as redshirt freshman for the bulldogs