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mircea_popescu: the major point about low
taxes is
that it makes
the pot of
the public
treasury
too small
to hold
the estimation of
the conman
decimation: real estate will always be an asset - but
the bezzle freshly printing
to fund it won't
BingoBoingo: decimation: I don't
think so. Nothing is more fashionable
than location.
decimation: my point being, does bitcoin represent a 'threat'
to
this arrangement?
decimation: so
this guy profits... and
the 'taxpayer' picks up
the $$bn bill for freddie mac and implicit bank guarantees
BingoBoingo: Also... Qntra's in
the
top quarter million nao
decimation: I had a conversation
today about some guy who knew a guy who bought a house for $200k in california in 2002 and sold for $700k in 2006
assbot: Qntra.net
Traffic and Demographic Statistics by Quantcast
mircea_popescu: was on qntra earlier, which is
the only reason she's notable.
decimation: mircea_popescu: you mean
that julia character
mircea_popescu: noably, romania's president announced in 2009
that "criza financiara va ocoli romania"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
they can all hold hands with
the canada chick and chant how "bitcoin is not coming and not posing a risk"
BingoBoingo: Indeed, but also a factor
that will provide
the catalyst for
the acceptance of Venetian Bitcoind
mircea_popescu: for all
these idiots
to fall back on once
the shit hits
the fan.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway, all
the more reasons
to have a proper, functional implementation of
the canonical bitcoin code
decimation: asciilifeform: supposedly
that socket wrench
that destroyed
the missile in
the silo in arkansas was 'ilegal'
BingoBoingo: I could seriously imagine
the chinese miners being coerced
to oppose a USGaving blocksize increase simply because it hurts
the payment processors. Bezelzebub bless
the
triad of mutual enemies working
together for our success!
assbot: Log In -
The New York
Times
mircea_popescu: but hey, who's
to argue with
the politico-experts, right ?
mircea_popescu: "Seriously, I bet
the ‘model’ is some kind of gunky spreadsheet. Or something little better, anyway. A mishmash of data being shoved
together
to reach predetermined conclusions, with
tons of ad hoc assumptions. " << sounds like exactly dub's brew :D
mircea_popescu: but
the actual professionals should hang, by
their own guts.
BingoBoingo: Because of course Vessenes' foundation wants bigger blocks when its only surviving members
that pay it need bigger blocks
mircea_popescu: "It all
traces back
to
the fact
that
the academy did not police itself properly.
They gave, or
through
their inaction/laziness allowed
to get,
this guy and his (retarded) output
the mantle of ‘expertise’. If
the bad PR spilling off of him now redounds back onto other academicians in his peer group I understand
that will be unfair in some cases but
they have only
themselves
to blame."
assbot: Atruk comments on Peter
Todd's CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY Means Bitcoin Escrow, Refunds and a Fork
mircea_popescu: peppering
this sort of nonsense in
the code is a prime way
to ensure
the rough equivalent of "atomic weapons" for future negotiations.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow large miner joins, doesn't implement it,
they hardfork all
they want, chainwarz.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo only workls for as long as
they actually do.
assbot: “I’d rather have
this bill
than not”, dictated
the Professor | RWCG
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Actual soft for yes, but "if all
the miners accept" softfork is a hardfork << "all miners accept" means what ?
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps
the most braindamaged nonsense i read
today.
decimation: They want
to bake it into
the protocol?
That's fuckin nuts
mircea_popescu: HECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY can be used
to create outputs
that are provably spendable by anyone (thus
to mining fees assuming miners behave optimally and rationally) but only at a
time sufficiently far into
the future
that large miners profitably can't sell
the sacrifices at a discount.
mircea_popescu: Proving
the sacrifice of some limited resource is a common
technique in a variety of cryptographic protocols. Proving sacrifices of coins
to mining fees has been proposed as a universal public good
to which
the sacrifice could be directed, rather
than simply destroying
the coins. However doing so is non-trivial, and even
the best existing
technqiue - announce-commit sacrifices - could encourage mining centralization. C
decimation: oh wait, I
thought
the delays
that
the scammer was writing about were simply 'private delays' on
the part of
the machine
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 19:04:36; *: asciilifeform admits
that he suspects bip64 of being a plot
to create usg-like bonds in btc. folks will be asked
to
trace X proper btc for X+epsilon 'locked' ones
that are
to land back in
their pocket 'in
the future', should
they live long enough, but are actually recovable 'because
this is how
the world works'
BingoBoingo: Actual soft for yes, but "if all
the miners accept" softfork is a hardfork
decimation: wait,
they decide protocol details on
twitter now?
mircea_popescu: so a softfork does not in fact do anything,
the dblspending party can just mine
their own dblspend and
that's
that.
decimation: although
to be precise,
the way
the military 'fires' officers is more of a 'pocket veto' - if you fail
to make
the cut for promotion (at higher grades) you are automatically discharged
assbot: Log In -
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Times
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
think one can genuinely be both simultaenously in
the us atm.
mircea_popescu: In one instance, one of Rubin's relatives claimed weekly income of $200
to get Medicaid and food stamps while claiming a net worth of $10 million
to banks in order
to get $7 million in loans.
assbot: NY Family Accused of
Taking Out $20 Million in Mortgages While Collecting Food Stamps | NBC New York
mircea_popescu: "So no, I'm not required
to be able
to lift objects weighing up
to fifty pounds. I
traded
that for
the opportunity
to
trim Satan's pubic hair while he dines out of my open skull so a few bits of
the internet will continue
to work for a few more days."
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, what ever happened
to aurora coin ? has it passed ethereum yet ?
PeterL: perhaps not
the best name
to drop as WoT cred?
PeterL: mrjr:thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for
the sidechain paper. << wasn't Meni Rosenfeld connected with a GLBSE scam?
decimation: but in
that case it wouldn't be an arbitrary delay enforced by a cron job for no reason
decimation: I could see some sense in a 'delay' in
the case
that an actual human examines
the
transactions before
they are released
assbot: Porting Doom
to Flash - Interview with Mike Welsh — Peter Elst
mircea_popescu: adobe's shit is written in c, nobody can be bothered
to compule it
mircea_popescu: then ben_vulpes is here going "hmm, where
the fuck is
this nonsense hardcoded in"
mircea_popescu: was famous before mullenderp raped poetry a new hole, because you could
tell from all
the <hea<he</head>ad>>> mess
that it had been used.
mircea_popescu: basically i got
the idea from reading
the piece
that he means code
that implements
the "cut problem into parts, implement parts, glue parts
together" approach
xanthyos: ok i may be wasting my
time but i'm going
to
try
to get
that guy
thomas_d into
the wot again
tonight
nubbins`: i
think if
the current smartest man can't say for sure,
then yes
mircea_popescu: for i x
to y output + Fizz if i|3 output + Buzz if i|5 output + i if output is empty.
mircea_popescu: "Write a program
that prints
the numbers from 1
to 100. But for multiples of
three print “Fizz” instead of
the number and for
the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For numbers which are multiples of both
three and five print “FizzBuzz”.
mircea_popescu: as it just so happens,
that
theory is about
to get
tested.
nubbins`: that 12yo must have grown up
to be
the smartest man alive
mircea_popescu: imagine
this, a 12 yo could figure out
the serial port interface in ms-dos, without even knowing wtf a port or an interface are.
nubbins`: openbazaar is going
to change
thzzzzzzz
mircea_popescu: then i plugged a led into
the serial port and had it blink when i lasered
too, and
this i
think was
the pinnacle of achievement.
mircea_popescu: i
think in
the end i got it, and so i could fire as much as i wanted, no concern for bs "laser heating"
mircea_popescu: i loved deathtrack, and i spent a while finetuning
the sound implementation of basic
to make
the same laser sound.
nubbins`: the day i realized i could just
type spcinvad instead of spcinvad.exe!!
mircea_popescu: "Is
that a real program or is
that something somebody wrote?" << ah yea, now
this makes sense. i had
the exact same notion, for exactly
the same reason. a "real program" was something
that didn't need
to use
the z80 basic interpreter, wasn't editable for
this reason, and
this immutability was cool.
then on
the msdos system, .exe binaries exactly mapped on
this same structure of cool.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you summarily introduce "menu-lookup" writing of glue code for
the innocent ?
nubbins`: digging in your heels is
the only way