mircea_popescu: "Turns out, the post is complete junk. It's about as thoughtful and informative as the Nigerian 411 scam. Let's analyze the post, top-to-bottom."

mircea_popescu: Brendon has since resigned on his own accord after realizing from countless emails of concerned readers that this was seen as an “attempt to grab money via guilt”. While this was not his intention he has since realized that it could be seen that way by many readers and independently felt he needed to go back and better hone his skills at this time.

mircea_popescu: well i imagine asciilifeform's theory is that snowden is kosher while i gave manning as an example of not.

mircea_popescu: that's an infinity of orders of magnitude better, or as many as you can count. flaws in bitcoin my left foot.

mircea_popescu: definitely useful as a counterweight to hearn & co.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/ this is for you.

mircea_popescu: that thing looks shaky as fuck.

mircea_popescu: the thing with it is that it's a minor liability, when compared to major liabilities such as banking pseudobux.

mircea_popescu: oh so you're not logged as x-rob ?

mircea_popescu: gpg started life as exactly this.

mircea_popescu: MolokoDeck actually i like the model whereby the actual string to certify is hashed as a privkey then made into a bitcoin address then have a little something sent there

mircea_popescu: now, in usual high fiction this is resolved as a bizarre order of sworn monks and so on

mircea_popescu: but if they are not in power absolutely, what keeps central government from investigating this vault as a possible alien landing site ?

mircea_popescu: what keeps central government from investigating this vault as a possible alien landing site ?

mircea_popescu: we are already accepting your hypothesis, im asking you q's as if your h was reality.

mircea_popescu: if you take "meaning" as a rough equivalent for entalpy, your thing is too meaningful to exist.

mircea_popescu: while in principle any configuration is as possible as any other, the configuration you propose is mod2. ie, if the cell index is odd, cell is dead, if not, alive.

mircea_popescu: you're trying to sell this conceptual model where in alt-nazi germany one can be hung for being a jew ONLY IF working as a clerk.

mircea_popescu: "It looked like a pile of numbered cubes as it bobbed gently and flew over the landscape and under the sea. It was Boxy and it had not a worry in the world nor in his head, for his head had holes shaped like one, two, three… But it had no purpose either and so it was in search of a purpose that he explored the whole land of Eulora – a land that was just learning to be."

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-woes-of-altcoin-or-why-there-is-no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrencies/#comment-105428 << why are people so mean to me ;/

mircea_popescu: it's almost as if argentines think alfajores are mana.

mircea_popescu: "as a derp bathing in the lake, i find it interesting to pretend like the lake fauna is pretending to be the whole world. anthropologically!"

mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> hey that's enough to keep a guy afloat in bsas for a few months at least << the theory that doge is worth dollars, as in over 1, is still lulzy.

mircea_popescu: the salem trials is the convenient case study here. you can decry them as "incipient government establishing itself the way government establiushes itself all time, all places : through murder". but just as well... people kill, and some killers are persuasive.

mircea_popescu: as distasteful as that reality may be.

mircea_popescu: the state as a voluntary association, all they who choose and wish to pay taxe sand obeys the law is what we have here already.

mircea_popescu: well, inasmuch as someone';s breaking the law and not paying taxes, yes. that'd be the definition of a rebellion.

mircea_popescu: and as to "never ever" : pre nurenberg, this trying of a foreign power's officers and ministers had also never ever happened.

mircea_popescu: "A proper approach to key management. This could be anything from centralized key management as in Apple's iMessage -- which would still be better than nothing -- to a decentralized (but still usable) approach like the one offered by Signal or OTR. Whatever the solution, in order to achieve mass deployment, keys need to be made much more manageable or else submerged from the user altogether."

mircea_popescu: as if you know, plaintext mail isn't end to end encrypted. why not ? i do it all the time.

mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, some people can't. which is fine. but don't go around claiming impotence as a virtue.

mircea_popescu: there is definitely something wrong if trying to present that as anything but fucking weird.

mircea_popescu: it's not just preston byrne or this or that derp. it's about a hundred of them by now, and as the old saying goes : the problem with this world is that while smart people are hesitant, government shills are full of words.

mircea_popescu: funny that it goes the same way as btc this thing.

mircea_popescu: there's a reason the traditional "taxi mafia" is prevalent all over the world. that technology may force the government to release its extractive grip of said mafia tho... this is dubious. works for as long as people have the upper tech side, but this pendulum swings.

mircea_popescu: the latter's too ugly, or as the kids today say, has no smv.

mircea_popescu: of course they also made financial speculation liable in excess of sanity, which didn't work out for them on a macro scale, but the point remains : there's no good reason to exploit the concept of limited liability as a sort of exclusive monogamous relationship with the company.