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mircea_popescu: y own problems. "It's not my fault that I didn'
t pursue a romantic relationship with her, she's just a friendzoning bitch." This projection would then just grow and grow to encompass all women.
mircea_popescu: e a "fat fucking faggot" while I was walking home from the grocery store. I know he was probably drunk and not necessarily in the best state of mind, but fuck that shit hurts. Because of that bullying, I really don'
t have much confidence at all outside of my own work. The first thing I think of when I meet a new person is "I wonder how disgusted he is with me." And because of that self-hatred, I've never sought out rel
mircea_popescu: he's the guy you immitate at the table, if you don'
t know how to eat at the table and were told "just do what they do"
mircea_popescu: they missed december. apple can miss. once. maybe. bitpay can'
t miss.
mircea_popescu: course, the coinbase can'
t be spent for probably longer tha nthe chain will survive
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: random: seems seeting cookies from mobile chrome doesn'
t work?
thestringpuller: We want both. And there's no reason we can'
t have both. << i want to be rich and poor
mircea_popescu: "o noes, bitcoin-assets didn'
t care, let's see if there's barely stable aspie boys somewhere else"
davout: ah yeah, i recall hearing of that, don'
t know much about it tho
undata: but yeah as mentioned above I use Press on android so I don'
t see the styles
undata: davout: minimal is fine but I otherwise disagree; that one can go mad with CSS doesn'
t necessitate doing so
davout: fluffypony: aah, didn'
t think of that, reader mode is even somewhat smarter because it'll also detect the actual content and do away with the rest
davout: "can'
t mobile drop css itself ?" <<< yeah, that would solve it, but afaik there's no such feature :/
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: don'
t get abducted. you say such amusing things. (No you don'
t amuse me like a clown. I do not view you as Joe Pesci)
mircea_popescu: tbh pleb funerals prolly beat fancypants funerals. tho maybe that doesn'
t hold in fake-usia
mircea_popescu: of course, all this wasn'
t exactly exceptional in 2002 or w/e.
undata: dude can'
t even opsec his pedo-ing and he wants my coin
cazalla: actually, i don'
t know the full story, i think thestringpuller has that
undata: I use an rss reader so it doesn'
t affect me either way
BingoBoingo: I still doesn'
t look like one of the many crap spewing anuses pretending to news because of forgoing bootstrap is not a design virtue.
hanbot: <thestringpuller> how did you not have a stroke while in the trenches of super retardism? << what matters are facts; doesn'
t matter how often idiocy is repeated by idiots, or how exotic it gets. also, cold showers.
mircea_popescu: "I think the bigger issue is that Bitpay doesn'
t have a long term business model. Even assuming that Bitcoin adoption grows, transfer of Bitcoin to fiat is a programmable function. People will immediately cut out the middle man if it becomes less expensive, and its a bit of a race to the bottom as people compete in the space for the best rates, quickest conversion and most apis."
mircea_popescu: "a well, bitcoin was a great idea, unfortunately it failed. clearly ron paul can'
t win office"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah. It really does. It's been a fight getting credibility from people on the fence. Took a few days for people to realize the BitPay layoff article wasn'
t bullshit.
cazalla: ;;rate -100000 davout__ doesn'
t like vegemite, attacks vegemite
cazalla: davout, well agreed there, i won'
t buy and eat them from fish market in melbourne but while living near Sydney, happy to shove as many down my gullet as possible
mircea_popescu: then it sudden;y won'
t ever be a topic mentioned again by the ~500 or so fake reddit accounts working at creating "consensus" of "the community"
mircea_popescu: <sgornick> The (bdb) rule wasn'
t (widely) known before v0.8 caused the fork, but it was coded into v0.8.1. << it is technially correct to say that the 8.1. version is in fact more restrictive than the pre 8.0 version.
sgornick: The (bdb) rule wasn'
t (widely) known before v0.8 caused the fork, but it was coded into v0.8.1.
adlai: and there wasn'
t a well-defined set of nodes that would prefer one block over another - the pre-v0.8 side would nondeterministically reject certain valid blocks
davout: sgornick: it wasn'
t a hard fork in the sense that no rule was changed
sgornick: Oh, ... I think I see -- you are saying I didn'
t go far enough? Not only are trxs with post-fork taint worthless, but there could be trxs with no taint that would confirm on one side but would be invalid as they were already spent on the other side?
davout: since you would be able to split coins, ie. even if your incoming tx isn'
t tainted with a post-fork coinbase you could receive funds that aren'
t spendable on both chains
benjamindees: mircea_popescu, you understand that the next, "bigger" too-big-to-fail entity is China, right? It's not Bitcoin... bankers don'
t take non-inflationary currency seriously.
adlai: i like how the idf doesn'
t put the number in the name (though they are planned for five), calling them just "multi-year plans", as though resigned in advance to the inevitable delays
mircea_popescu: <davout> trying to solve other people's problems that don'
t exist yet, the recipe for success :D <<< kinda the meat and potatoes of socialist government eh.
hanbot: davout lol, i don'
t know what the hubub's about. they're like two bux a box'a 16.
davout: trying to solve other people's problems that don'
t exist yet, the recipe for success :D
decimation: kakobrekla: if mining is costly, the miners won'
t relay dust
adlai: you can broadcast transactions on both chains, miners could even be incentivized to scan both chains for transactions valid in the chain they're mining on - but p2p broadcast probably won'
t work on its own, once the network has forked properly
adlai: i'm not certain if they'd get disconnected right away, but a node sending invalid-to-you blocks won'
t last long in your node's connection list
danielpbarron: all it takes is anyone watching both chains and telling each about the other's transactions; all the ones that aren'
t doublespends should get accepted by both chains
benjamindees: davout, well, the thing is, by the time it even matters, mining may be irrelevant anyways. I wouldn'
t bank on having a mining oligopoly twenty years from now. Mining is mostly a means of distribution.
adlai: if we look at the blocksize limit as a parameter of the tax system, this isn'
t inflation, it's a tax cut - which we may wish to reverse in the future
benjamindees: davout, no, it doesn'
t. Bitcoin isn'
t ultimately equivalent to debt-issued currencies in the way velocity is measured, or in the way it impacts the value. it just appears to be at the moment because inflation (issuance) is high.
davout: adlai: what BigBitz was saying is that an optic fiber isn'
t a proper airgap, which i concurred with saying that the idea of the airgap is definitely not to have some sort of permanent connection like ethernet over optical fiber should such a thing exist
adlai: don'
t tell me what not to do!
davout: benjamindees: inflation of block space supply doesn'
t count as inflation to you?
mircea_popescu: adlai that bet doesn'
t measure "successful" was discussed before, and i said "well, yeah, but it's better to err this way, give the bet a chance"
davout: i don'
t think sound is inherently flawed, as long as you are in a controlled environment
davout: BigBitz: yeah sure, but ethernet-over-optical-fiber isn'
t really the idea
mircea_popescu: "you can'
t fuck her unless she agrees" "that seems arbitrary, why her and not me ?"
mircea_popescu: "If the community can'
t hardfork today we could stop using bitcoin now and look for the better suited alt coin. If bitcoin can'
t fork-update it has no value."
mircea_popescu: "I agree a big discussion is necessary before changes are made, but we shouldn'
t act like a hard fork is somehow inherently an issue."
jurov: but i see, it can'
t be predicted in advance
thestringpuller: Ah. Didn'
t know everyone was gonna go Xbox live on each other - "I FUCKED YOUR MOM" and shit.
mircea_popescu: Confirmed total: 21122 BTC sheeit it crossed 20kdidn'
t evne notice.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron "This whole hard fork drama is part of the bigger brain-damaged notion that Bitcoin isn'
t about money." << you actuyally have an excellent point here.
thestringpuller: people are like "Yo he broke the rules but didn'
t know. Don'
t punish him too hard, just give him a warning."
thestringpuller: guess we still haven'
t left the ages of people wanting to play bitcoin banker
mircea_popescu: "Good permission-less distribution of coins is not possible without some inflation, that's exactly what's happening. Only private and semi-private systems have all shares distributed to stakeholders in one go, money don'
t work that way, sorry."
mircea_popescu: don'
t do that, all 30 kids are undistinguishable. up until, of course, they run against feynman's nature, that which can'
t be fooled.
mircea_popescu: out of 30 kids, 27 will fucking riot, 3 will buckle down and do fucking homework. that they don'
t strictly have to do.
mircea_popescu: reddit has to shadowban users because spam. bitcoin-assets does not. because wot works and "Feedback" doesn'
t ? awww, who knew.
mircea_popescu: clemens, centuries ago. "i don'
t care what people say that i don'
t know". duh.
thestringpuller: "We want free things. Make it all free! We don'
t want to pay for nice things! We are entitled to the world cause our parents told us so!"
mircea_popescu: "but people have a voice". orly ? turns out people don'
t want a voice, especially not in a fucking void. they really want signal and feedback more than they want voice.
mircea_popescu: decimation the much decried "penitentiary industrial system" doesn'
t exist because evil white aliens from alpha centauri opress the world into doing it.
mircea_popescu: that's what the "voter" is supposed to be. but ... he isn'
t.
mircea_popescu: however, the mechanisms that ensured value actually moves with the name there aren'
t present here.
mircea_popescu: "well if you all made the same decision you'll be poor too and there wouldn'
t be a difference to make us sad"
mircea_popescu: then they have the problem that "google has so much money, we don'
t!" well... of course ?
mircea_popescu: decimation so i can'
t find a stealing the future reference re one jaron lanier. any link or anything ?
decimation: even if you decrypt it, it might not be illegal as long as you don'
t disclose it
decimation: more or less. in the us, it is generally safe to listen to anything that isn'
t encrypted