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Wed Mar 09 13:52:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> bitcoin, in any proper sense, means the republic, and the wot, and the forum, and so on. and similarly "cryptography" means "a bunch of derps on usenet" much in the same way space flight means chimps with monkeys. yes, the inclination to see inanimate objects fly is the same in both animals.
Wed Mar 09 13:51:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "bitcoin" in the sense of a collection of (whitepaper by satoshi, 2-3 shitty mutually exclusive prototypes by satoshi, even shittier code in prb) is much like "russia" in the sense of "the kiev kingdom".
Wed Mar 09 13:50:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> now, as to 2 :
Wed Mar 09 13:50:42 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (en passant : solution 3 is readily apparent, and it begins with selectively beating your children - the runts to death ; and then continuing in this manner. and there's plenty more.)
Wed Mar 09 13:50:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the statement was as to the problem and its expression.
Wed Mar 09 13:49:52 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform i am not discussing solutions, and plox not to mix it in we'll never end.
Wed Mar 09 13:49:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and more importantly, because once expressed the current situation becomes tolerable, or the statal / feminine definition of intelligence is "measure of capacity to adapt to environment [that we designed to suit ourselves]".
Wed Mar 09 13:49:05 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> the list is more or less endless. the problem, more or less felt by everyone (ie, by all persons) and not expressed clearly and rigurously by anyone, because dunno how.
Wed Mar 09 13:48:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> whose city ?
Wed Mar 09 13:48:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> oh, more radio stations ? great, now the cars are all designed by imbeciles for imbeciles. let's make more houses in autocad! this is how a city looks!
Wed Mar 09 13:48:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> sure, so you keep the nubbins` out of your house. great. they're going to put some shit on the radio. popculture!!1
Wed Mar 09 13:47:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> people are stuck importing the bleating of moo moos all over the field and in all sorts of capacities, without any sort of modulation at their disposal, even.
Wed Mar 09 13:47:30 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this problem is not magically limited to software, but universal.
Wed Mar 09 13:47:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> 1 should be easy to expand upon. you are familiar with the issues of maintaining software in the beleaguered c world, from what i've seen in the logs. such as you know, no more static linking now. gotta support utf now. (most relevant here : http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-02-2016#1418193 )
Wed Mar 09 13:45:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> aite, let's.
Wed Mar 09 13:44:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which part ?
Wed Mar 09 13:42:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> we're not fucktarded lunacharsky to imagine that "oh, will resist narkopomps in the field". fuck that stupid shit.
Wed Mar 09 13:41:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform very much, for the obvious reason. we care about the heads of things, not the tail of things.
Wed Mar 09 13:41:04 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> which is what, in any proper sense of the term, "bitcoin" and "crypto" even mean. not fucking pgp as seen by the zimmerman that "oh i don't even have the key anymore"
Wed Mar 09 13:40:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is a major problem, at least to my eyes. it was just as large, if not nearly as expressible, before the age of bitcoin. by which, to be perfectly specific, i do not mean satoshi crapolade. i mean bitcoinb as in tmsr, and wot and ba and such.