Today, there is no point in spending 30KB per transaction. Call me unsurprised that no one is doing it today.
When ECDSA is crackable within a meaningful timeframe (a few hours)? It'll be cheap. Either actually cheap, or at least relatively cheap compared to not having bitcoin at all.
Oh, and if you haven't been paying attention, segwit moves the signature out of the permanent part of the block. I'm personally not a big fan, but it seems to be here to stay. More network traffic, more disk cache for the UTXO set, but not a permanent storage burden for the entire world.
Project Veritas doesn't make claims. They secretly film other people making claims. In this case, it is 8 or 9 Twitter employees (some of them apparently not junior flunkies) claiming that they can and do read your private messages.
There are public key encryption systems that appear to be quantum resistant. It is really trivial to add another script type - just reassign one of the many OP_RETURN codes.
Oh, and the entire rest of the world will be replacing every single deployed cryptosystem during the same window.
Senators make a few hundred thousand dollars salary per year. Most of them who have been there for more than a term or two are now worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. This is really easy because there are 100 of them.
If the senators were appointed and recalled by state legislatures on a whim, the corrupting influence would need to be spread to thousands of state legislators instead of 100 people. This is also one of the advantages to having 10,000 congressmen - anyone with corrupt ambitions would need to spread their effort throughout the country.
This. But it needs to be coupled with a return of Congress to the people. These three parts need to be done together, through an Article 5 convention.
Part 1: We need to return to the original ratio of 1 representative per 30,000 citizens. Yes, that is over 9000 representatives. They don't need to meet in person. Each of them can have an office in their district and a staff that also lives in the same district. They can exchange documents online, and vote online. They can deliver their fundraising speeches in person to local audiences instead of nationally on C-SPAN.
Part 2: Repeal the 17th Amendment. State legislatures need to be able to hire and fire federal senators instantly with a simple majority vote.
Part 3: Districts need to be contiguous, convex and of roughly equal population. Allow some wiggle room in cases when a district boundary is suboptimal because it is following a city, county or township boundary.
Any of these could be enacted alone, but together they'd do more for citizen government than anything since the Bill of Rights.
I can't wait for the war on the gender occupational safety gap. You know, the one where men make up virtually all workplace deaths and a large majority of workplace injuries. Where are the vagina hat marches against this inequality?
it is right there in the name. And in the party platform. And in the books. And in the speeches. And in the policies.
Any democratic policies in North Korea? Does Rocket Man campaign on a platform of broadening democracy? Does he give speeches about increasing democracy? Do they encourage their citizens and politicians to read books about democracy?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you should be aware that I have lots of experience with little shits who try to play word games, which is why I didn't stop with just "right there in the name". For context, I was responding only to dunkelfuck's preposterous claim that Germany's hate speech laws were intended to suppress the socialists while the socialists were tolerated.
If you read my whole post, you'll notice that I didn't put any value judgments in it - it was just a straightforward recitation of facts. I fully understand why modern socialists want to pretend that the Nazis were right wing, or at the very least pretend that they weren't socialists, but that is contrary to history. I'm also fully aware that they aren't hated today because of the socialism, but that is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
Believing fairy tales about the past is a sure way to be surprised when it comes back around.
I repeat that because I'm begging you all to understand that Naziism didn't spring into the world fully formed, like Athena popping out of Zeus's head. There was a context, and understanding that context is important if you want to avoid a repeat.
Unfortunately it has been only used to prosecute socialists, just as it was planned right from the beginning, while the Nazis were tolerated.
You do know that the Nazis were socialists, right? I mean, it is right there in the name. And in the party platform. And in the books. And in the speeches. And in the policies.
The "right wing" in Germany was terminal by the 1920s. Germany was getting socialism ASAP, the question was - who is going to be in charge of German socialism?
On the broadest level, the debate was between the communists who wanted Germany to be ruled by Russians, and the Nazis who wanted Germany to be ruled by Germans. The two platforms were identical in regards to pretty much all economic matters - socialist healthcare, socialist retirement plans, socialist education, socialist employment and labor practices - all the same. What was different was that the Nazis rejected the anti-national planks of the communist plan. For example, they didn't want the German people dispersed across Russia and Russians brought in to fill the vacancies. (See Holodomor)
The Nazi party actual rose up because the government was not suppressing the communists, who then felt like they had free reign to attack the people.
The SA (which was later absorbed by the Nazi party) was a non-government organization originally set up to protect the political process (rallies, meetings, elections, etc) from communist groups like the RFB. They were doing the job the government had failed to do.
Believing fairy tales about the past is a sure way to be surprised when it comes back around.
Bitcoin has "crashed" 30% SIX TIMES in 2017. Each "crash" has been followed by an increase of: 76%, 237%, 183%, 165%, 152%. Bitcoin takes 7 steps forward, 2 steps back. Every 2 steps back is heralded as the end of #bitcoin. Relax!
Are we sure that "tech enthusiasts" is the right word for someone bringing a spy device into their home? In my mind, the only people with "smart" speakers in their homes that can reasonably be called enthusiasts are the guys who build their own and leave out the "report all of my conversations to Google or Amazon" feature. Or, you know, the guys who have been running Mister House (which does all the same stuff) since the 1990s.
Just some nuance. There isn't anything inherently wrong with short selling. The problem is with naked shorts, which is where you sell first without having to actually borrow the thing you are selling.
The bitcointalk forums are littered with the corpses of accounts of people who had gained some credibility in some other realm and couldn't resist the urge to display the ignorance they wallow in outside of that narrow domain.
One of my favorites was Nagle, who made an ass of himself repeatedly in the 2011 timeframe, prompting this quote from an actual economist:
Nagle made some interesting points (e.g. about SEC, GLBSE) and I think these have merit. But he still does not understand what Bitcoin actually is, he's comparing it to stocks, which can lead to misleading conclusions. But I don't blame him, understanding the consequences of Bitcoin is very complicated, I have been researching it for about half a year and find out something new almost every day.
On the other hand, Bitcoin may still yet fail, however it wouldn't be for the reasons typically presented by Bitcoin detractors.
Replace "stocks" with "dollars" and remove the bits about making interesting points and he could have said it about Perens.
Generally, on a mass-produced board, it is real gold. But only on permanently exposed connectors, like the fingers for the PCI-e socket, and in an extremely thin layer. Literally nanograms of gold per board. If the board is going immediately to population and soldering, they won't bother doing that to the device pads.
Some small-run boards are done with ENIG too. OSH Park, for example, does Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold with purple solder masks. Looks fantastic and has a long shelf life.
Gold is still very important in places where people need a visible display of wealth. India's upper middle class, I'm told is one example. Lower middle class who aspire to move up tend to buy, but don't display it as much. Again, so I hear.
The alt-right you are talking about is an alternative to the right, while the alt-right that you actually encounter in real life is an alternative for the right.
That second sort of alt-right is very much on the right - the goals of the two groups are nearly indistinguishable. The difference is that the alt-right isn't content playing noble loser while the left wins every battle over and over again for decades. We want to win, and we don't run and cower every time someone calls us a bad name.
President Trump was the alt-right flexing our muscles. (Notice that there is no President Spencer.)
Depends on the guy, the blog post and the quote. In this case - yes. Yes it does.
If you want to argue around the edges, that's one thing. But when two groups disagree on ~90% of core fundamental topics, they clearly are not close to each other, philosophically.
You are confusing the alt-right with various other non-right groups, such as neo-Nazis. The press has been doing that on purpose for the last couple of years, and some people who have nothing to do with the alt-right have been trying to pretend that they are for fun and profit.
And here is an article about a writer going to a meeting organized by Richard Spencer. Spencer likes to pretend that he is alt-right, but he supports about 95% of the Democrat platform/Socialist agenda, which makes him not only not alt-right, but also not any-right. Money quote:
Because the white supremacists' views on economic issues sound a lot like, well, like views espoused by the Nation and Democratic party progressives. In what could pass for Bernie Sanders campaign literature, she quotes Spencer saying "I support national health care" and railing against "the trillions spent in insane wars." Minkowitz also quotes Spencer blasting the GOP tax plan as "stupid... Reaganite nostalgia" and supporting a universal basic income. Another speaker decried that everything is seemingly becoming "corporatized and capitalized." Wait - is this a white supremacist conference or a New York Times editorial board meeting?
I just checked my watch, and the public input was still not a popularity contest. Considering the slander campaign waged across nearly the entire internet for the last few months, I'm surprised that only 83% of those polled were opposed to restoring the open internet. When you are bombarded with messages that some action is going to unleash biblical plagues, knock the moon out of orbit and give birth to the antichrist, it is hard to publicly support it - even if you don't particularly believe the nonsense.
Oh, and the mug memes are (mostly) not making fun of Ajit. Reee!
He has a hypothesis and wants to test it. That's more "science" than anything the hockey team has been up to for the last 20 or 30 years - and we give them billions of dollars taken at gunpoint from the unwilling. What's a couple of bucks here and there given by volunteers? And if you aren't going to pitch in anyway, what do you care if his approach is sub-optimal?
Flat-Earthers make me feel the way I'm sure I make climate alarmists feel, but I believe in science (the process), and I'm willing to put a few bucks towards an independent verification. And maybe a bigger factor is that if a schmuck like this can get to space, that can only mean the day is getting closer when I can too.
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
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Today, there is no point in spending 30KB per transaction. Call me unsurprised that no one is doing it today.
When ECDSA is crackable within a meaningful timeframe (a few hours)? It'll be cheap. Either actually cheap, or at least relatively cheap compared to not having bitcoin at all.
Oh, and if you haven't been paying attention, segwit moves the signature out of the permanent part of the block. I'm personally not a big fan, but it seems to be here to stay. More network traffic, more disk cache for the UTXO set, but not a permanent storage burden for the entire world.
How old were you in 1992? Any analysis of "How Bill Clinton became President" that doesn't begin and end with Ross Perot. is wrong.
Project Veritas doesn't make claims. They secretly film other people making claims. In this case, it is 8 or 9 Twitter employees (some of them apparently not junior flunkies) claiming that they can and do read your private messages.
Calling John McCain and Lindsey Graham "moderate" is the best use of scare quotes I've seen in a long time.
Unintentional?
There are public key encryption systems that appear to be quantum resistant. It is really trivial to add another script type - just reassign one of the many OP_RETURN codes.
Oh, and the entire rest of the world will be replacing every single deployed cryptosystem during the same window.
Where does the legislature come from again?
Senators make a few hundred thousand dollars salary per year. Most of them who have been there for more than a term or two are now worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. This is really easy because there are 100 of them.
If the senators were appointed and recalled by state legislatures on a whim, the corrupting influence would need to be spread to thousands of state legislators instead of 100 people. This is also one of the advantages to having 10,000 congressmen - anyone with corrupt ambitions would need to spread their effort throughout the country.
This. But it needs to be coupled with a return of Congress to the people. These three parts need to be done together, through an Article 5 convention.
Part 1: We need to return to the original ratio of 1 representative per 30,000 citizens. Yes, that is over 9000 representatives. They don't need to meet in person. Each of them can have an office in their district and a staff that also lives in the same district. They can exchange documents online, and vote online. They can deliver their fundraising speeches in person to local audiences instead of nationally on C-SPAN.
Part 2: Repeal the 17th Amendment. State legislatures need to be able to hire and fire federal senators instantly with a simple majority vote.
Part 3: Districts need to be contiguous, convex and of roughly equal population. Allow some wiggle room in cases when a district boundary is suboptimal because it is following a city, county or township boundary.
Any of these could be enacted alone, but together they'd do more for citizen government than anything since the Bill of Rights.
I can't wait for the war on the gender occupational safety gap. You know, the one where men make up virtually all workplace deaths and a large majority of workplace injuries. Where are the vagina hat marches against this inequality?
Please point me towards any evidence you can find for "my extremism". I won't hold my breath.
Name one. Name one "socialist idea" that they abandoned.
Any democratic policies in North Korea? Does Rocket Man campaign on a platform of broadening democracy? Does he give speeches about increasing democracy? Do they encourage their citizens and politicians to read books about democracy?
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you should be aware that I have lots of experience with little shits who try to play word games, which is why I didn't stop with just "right there in the name". For context, I was responding only to dunkelfuck's preposterous claim that Germany's hate speech laws were intended to suppress the socialists while the socialists were tolerated.
The right wing in pre-war Germany was the aristocracy. Think President Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. They were, as I said, terminal by the 1920s and the only remaining debate was over which of the two competing groups of socialists was going to take over.
If you read my whole post, you'll notice that I didn't put any value judgments in it - it was just a straightforward recitation of facts. I fully understand why modern socialists want to pretend that the Nazis were right wing, or at the very least pretend that they weren't socialists, but that is contrary to history. I'm also fully aware that they aren't hated today because of the socialism, but that is completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
Believing fairy tales about the past is a sure way to be surprised when it comes back around.
I repeat that because I'm begging you all to understand that Naziism didn't spring into the world fully formed, like Athena popping out of Zeus's head. There was a context, and understanding that context is important if you want to avoid a repeat.
You do know that the Nazis were socialists, right? I mean, it is right there in the name. And in the party platform. And in the books. And in the speeches. And in the policies.
The "right wing" in Germany was terminal by the 1920s. Germany was getting socialism ASAP, the question was - who is going to be in charge of German socialism?
On the broadest level, the debate was between the communists who wanted Germany to be ruled by Russians, and the Nazis who wanted Germany to be ruled by Germans. The two platforms were identical in regards to pretty much all economic matters - socialist healthcare, socialist retirement plans, socialist education, socialist employment and labor practices - all the same. What was different was that the Nazis rejected the anti-national planks of the communist plan. For example, they didn't want the German people dispersed across Russia and Russians brought in to fill the vacancies. (See Holodomor)
The Nazi party actual rose up because the government was not suppressing the communists, who then felt like they had free reign to attack the people.
The SA (which was later absorbed by the Nazi party) was a non-government organization originally set up to protect the political process (rallies, meetings, elections, etc) from communist groups like the RFB. They were doing the job the government had failed to do.
Believing fairy tales about the past is a sure way to be surprised when it comes back around.
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Are we sure that "tech enthusiasts" is the right word for someone bringing a spy device into their home? In my mind, the only people with "smart" speakers in their homes that can reasonably be called enthusiasts are the guys who build their own and leave out the "report all of my conversations to Google or Amazon" feature. Or, you know, the guys who have been running Mister House (which does all the same stuff) since the 1990s.
Just some nuance. There isn't anything inherently wrong with short selling. The problem is with naked shorts, which is where you sell first without having to actually borrow the thing you are selling.
The bitcointalk forums are littered with the corpses of accounts of people who had gained some credibility in some other realm and couldn't resist the urge to display the ignorance they wallow in outside of that narrow domain.
One of my favorites was Nagle, who made an ass of himself repeatedly in the 2011 timeframe, prompting this quote from an actual economist:
Replace "stocks" with "dollars" and remove the bits about making interesting points and he could have said it about Perens.
Generally, on a mass-produced board, it is real gold. But only on permanently exposed connectors, like the fingers for the PCI-e socket, and in an extremely thin layer. Literally nanograms of gold per board. If the board is going immediately to population and soldering, they won't bother doing that to the device pads.
Some small-run boards are done with ENIG too. OSH Park, for example, does Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold with purple solder masks. Looks fantastic and has a long shelf life.
Gold is still very important in places where people need a visible display of wealth. India's upper middle class, I'm told is one example. Lower middle class who aspire to move up tend to buy, but don't display it as much. Again, so I hear.
The alt-right you are talking about is an alternative to the right, while the alt-right that you actually encounter in real life is an alternative for the right.
That second sort of alt-right is very much on the right - the goals of the two groups are nearly indistinguishable. The difference is that the alt-right isn't content playing noble loser while the left wins every battle over and over again for decades. We want to win, and we don't run and cower every time someone calls us a bad name.
President Trump was the alt-right flexing our muscles. (Notice that there is no President Spencer.)
Depends on the guy, the blog post and the quote. In this case - yes. Yes it does.
If you want to argue around the edges, that's one thing. But when two groups disagree on ~90% of core fundamental topics, they clearly are not close to each other, philosophically.
You are confusing the alt-right with various other non-right groups, such as neo-Nazis. The press has been doing that on purpose for the last couple of years, and some people who have nothing to do with the alt-right have been trying to pretend that they are for fun and profit.
Here is the core of alt-right philosophy: What the Alternative Right is
And here is an article about a writer going to a meeting organized by Richard Spencer. Spencer likes to pretend that he is alt-right, but he supports about 95% of the Democrat platform/Socialist agenda, which makes him not only not alt-right, but also not any-right. Money quote:
I just checked my watch, and the public input was still not a popularity contest. Considering the slander campaign waged across nearly the entire internet for the last few months, I'm surprised that only 83% of those polled were opposed to restoring the open internet. When you are bombarded with messages that some action is going to unleash biblical plagues, knock the moon out of orbit and give birth to the antichrist, it is hard to publicly support it - even if you don't particularly believe the nonsense.
Oh, and the mug memes are (mostly) not making fun of Ajit. Reee!
He has a hypothesis and wants to test it. That's more "science" than anything the hockey team has been up to for the last 20 or 30 years - and we give them billions of dollars taken at gunpoint from the unwilling. What's a couple of bucks here and there given by volunteers? And if you aren't going to pitch in anyway, what do you care if his approach is sub-optimal?
If he had said atmofrustum would anyone have understood what he meant?
I'll pitch in $10.
Flat-Earthers make me feel the way I'm sure I make climate alarmists feel, but I believe in science (the process), and I'm willing to put a few bucks towards an independent verification. And maybe a bigger factor is that if a schmuck like this can get to space, that can only mean the day is getting closer when I can too.
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