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Mon Mar 07 23:31:53 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i suspect that they, supposing there were brains anywhere involved, ~tried~ to fight the octopus but eventually lost.
Mon Mar 07 23:31:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform even so, i don't think banning sybil reduces to "unable to talk to white devils".
Mon Mar 07 23:29:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> davout i don't mean it as an attack or anything. and the question of exploring the negative is open now and will remain open until spec.
Mon Mar 07 23:28:41 UTC 2016 <davout> mircea_popescu: well, it also "doesn't not work" in the sense that I sometimes have got transactions stuck because I'm a cheap zero-fee jew, that I got unstuck by issuing a double-spend
Mon Mar 07 23:28:34 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> "not our own" ?
Mon Mar 07 23:28:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i mean... miners can just... ban it.
Mon Mar 07 23:27:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform but in order to maintain itself!
Mon Mar 07 23:27:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is very different from the negative, "it doesn't not work".
Mon Mar 07 23:26:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> davout that's what i mean by positive. yes, "it works".
Mon Mar 07 23:26:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> my telescope, in it being man made not god given, is not much more than a tool.
Mon Mar 07 23:26:24 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in the windows definition of running code (hey, click items till it works) you are. but the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how to check for that nor do you specifically care.
Mon Mar 07 23:26:11 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: i conduct own 'intel', and yes, i don't have a radiotelescope like mircea_popescu's, only eyes.
Mon Mar 07 23:25:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so i guess you do balance, after all !
Mon Mar 07 23:25:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> it is also the first time i've seeing you err on THIS side ever before.
Mon Mar 07 23:25:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> well... this is hard to argue against.
Mon Mar 07 23:24:39 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but i dunno how to carry that particular discussion in a way that'd dispose.
Mon Mar 07 23:24:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i'm not saying what you're saying is provably impossible. i am saying to my eyes - it is very improbable.
Mon Mar 07 23:23:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a supernode only grows in the shade of miner cartel.
Mon Mar 07 23:23:51 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> because the other miners would have an incentive to destroy the miniminer's supernode, and there's jackl the miniminer could do to protect it.
Mon Mar 07 23:23:28 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: tell how not stable ?