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mircea_popescu: think for a moment lol. wtf, nuke plant doesn't put out 1pw
mircea_popescu: from what i hear smallest kitten in the room if that room'd be in the 50 contiguous fattes.
mircea_popescu: the animal ~is~ powerful as all hell. so if it decides to get you you're in trouble.
mircea_popescu: yeah. some visitor with bad hygiene and brusque manner.
mircea_popescu: similarily to how chickens are perfectly safe with housecat that has history of playing with chickens etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah. it's a very strong version of i suppose westernarck. if it's seen you for a long time it's not likely to attack unprovoked.
mircea_popescu: think : the first time people found out there were 300 tigers in moscow was when they went to look for them. not when the 500 people were eaten, sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: i suspect that may be the deep driver, guy knows the animal is harmless, much more so than wife, but visitors shit pants.
mircea_popescu: nah. contrary to popular imagination, domestic tigers aren't particularly ferocious.
mircea_popescu: ~chuka, or if you prefer iroquis level of mental retardation.
mircea_popescu: wtf, "violation of animal rights" ? what is this bullshit.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are they quoting an english "life" article.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt any english speaker read enough evola to distinguish him from, whatever, eco
mircea_popescu: hey, nobody cares "our democracy" was built by no less a man than mussolini.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe they just minded who you were with :D
mircea_popescu: i never bought into that "gotta be the better guy" theor.y
mircea_popescu: on occasion. yes with teeth. i also pluck their legs and let them die. in general i torture a good half of all mosquitoes.
mircea_popescu: "There is nothing smoother then this rum. I recommend everyone to get this. I bought it in Costa Rica for $45. It goes great with come." << bwahahaha that site. teh sluts know.
mircea_popescu: ok. THAT's exclusive. not because it's expensive but because you can't fucking get it.
mircea_popescu: "Dramatic label. Frenchness. Premium exclusivity." are you FUCKING KIDDING ME ?~!?!?! you can buy it at thew supermarket! wtf exclusivity!
mircea_popescu: they really gotta hfcs all the things, don't they. it's not enough the difference between beer and fanta is the label. now gotta fuck up the liquors too don't they
mircea_popescu: yeah, i have nfi why teh putin isn't flooding the usg with red notices for usgtards.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heh now THAT is going away only with the physical dismemberment of the beast.
mircea_popescu: lmao, the libertards are nao in "plox don't expect evidence for that trump-russia thing" mutual grooming mode.
mircea_popescu: conceivably the nobel prize committe could confer on them the auld mug.
mircea_popescu: cutting own throat = "not able to participate in bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: that the absence of such miracle dieters will scarcely be felt is true ; but not sure if that's relevant to you.
mircea_popescu: it's safe to say you probably missed some PARTICULAR arguments ; but it's probably safe to say you did get the fundamental argument, which is : you do, you die.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like asking for particular arguments against cutting your own throat.
mircea_popescu: it's apparently the most deeply cherished delusion, of the young-man-and-his-biddle, that "alternatives!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what'd the usg love more than for it to fade! to become "technologies"! to etc.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin really doesn't have that many nodes active, nor has, for a while now.
mircea_popescu: currently, blockchain is a ~whole~ story which has to check out. this can be verified. a partial story can never check out, and consequently can never be verified.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i see no need for the subertfuge. if tomorrow thing is pruned to include "last 1k blocks" i'll just mine a 1k long chain in which everyone donates their coin to me, and bomb all the miners who refuse to mine on it. pie.
mircea_popescu: blockchain replacement in a "pruned" scheme costs... whatever your pruning interval is.
mircea_popescu: which is EXACTLY how it works : blockchain replacement now costs the whole weight of 400k blocks.
mircea_popescu: to which the only sane lucentio answer is "fu, i own them, and if you don't like it ask me."
mircea_popescu: and this situation you wish to replace with "because we say so, and if you don';t like it ask another one of us".
mircea_popescu: no but consider. we currently have the situation where lucentio of pisa comes to padua, and inquires, "who owns these houses ?" and gets answer "x, y, z, k" and then inquires "oh yeah ? how do i know that ?" and gets answer, "because they bought from endless list tracing back to the dude that built them".
mircea_popescu: this delusion of contextless existence, "i am me" hurr.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure what the thought process is here, beyond "i don't want to store books because momstate makes libraries and oh, where did anything but cosmo go ?!"
mircea_popescu: davout because who the fuck are you and why do i have to take your word and if your house burns down what do you do.
mircea_popescu: it'd necessarily be a scheme with expiring coins, seems to me.
mircea_popescu: as to the direct question, a pruned chain may make sense, if someone came up with a way to do it sanely. this seems impossible on bitcoin-as-it-is, and perhaps unlikely in the general.
mircea_popescu: the defense to something stupid isn't picking something else that's stupid to be yelled at top of lungs.
mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing the solution is acceptable. i am showing you that your OVERSTRONG STATEMENT is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: davout in principle nothing ; in practice if you can't justify whence the coins came then what do you have
mircea_popescu: mpoe-pr didn't have "dev" talk on her list and who else read that shithole lol.