Bagatell
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Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
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Iirc, Lombrozzo has used a nick with Cobra in it before.
[doublepost=1467467729,1467467052][/doublepost]Somehow I was lead to believe that "coders" were going to representa new improved form of idealistic staunch libertarian who emphasized free spirits, free thinking, free speech, and free markets. They were supposed to represent a higher form of intelligenc. They were supposed to represent Silicon Valley replacing Wall Street. As well as the young millennial taking back their futures froma corrupt boomer generation.
Seems like i was naive. Some of the best coders have turned out to be the worst forms of authoritarans/totaliItalians I have ever seen. Actually i still have hope. But the kore dev idiots have
definitely list my support. Too bad cuz they could've used my money.
[doublepost=1467467729,1467467052][/doublepost]Somehow I was lead to believe that "coders" were going to representa new improved form of idealistic staunch libertarian who emphasized free spirits, free thinking, free speech, and free markets. They were supposed to represent a higher form of intelligenc. They were supposed to represent Silicon Valley replacing Wall Street. As well as the young millennial taking back their futures froma corrupt boomer generation.
Seems like i was naive. Some of the best coders have turned out to be the worst forms of authoritarans/totaliItalians I have ever seen. Actually i still have hope. But the kore dev idiots have
definitely list my support. Too bad cuz they could've used my money.
Who would have thought, that I would agree with btcdrak one day:
pekatete
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More like money corrupts.or one could claim theyre one and the same.
pekatete
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Who'd want to bribe you if you did not have any power (and for what)? Power, and not money, is the root of all that is evil (and paradoxically good)!
Zarathustra
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The Release of the Isolated Verification.
(I am making fun of Google's Chinese to English translation of this 8btc.com post, even though it's rather impressive).
Ok, that's my opinion, but I stand by it. And last I was able to check, 78% of people agreed with the view that SegWit has NOT been released.
That number will hopefully increase because SurveyMonkey limits me to see only the result based on first 100 responses, and so that percentage was the last I saw. Now there are already 120 respondents.
So maybe you would be willing to consider that your interpretation of "release" does not match the public's perception of reality?
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lunar
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I really like this line of thinking. As a personal preference i'd love to see Unlimited focus on UX - functionality and design with the main goals of empowering the Node - Slicker, Faster, Stronger.
From a certain perspective Coding is really just the translation of philosophy, ideas and ideals transposed into a machine readable format. In other words if you don't understand Why other people do what they do, you can never really write good code to help them do it better.
A computer scientist's wife asks him, "would you pick up a loaf of bread at the store, and if they have eggs get a dozen?"
He gets home, throws 13 loaves of bread on the counter, and says "they had eggs".
A rich man can not take from you, your things, your life, your freedom, your reality. He cannot steal, it is not allowed, nobody can. He can only give you a better offer.
Someone, allegedly given the authority to steal, does.
pekatete
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One'd forgive her if she hit the roof, after-all she said a dozen if they have eggs, not 13!
One could argue that the power they have, to the extent you actually believe they do have power currently , was only enabled by the money ($76M) that allowed them to aggregate ~10 kore devs under one roof under the whip of a natural dictator like nullc.
Things worked reasonably well before that.
Things worked reasonably well before that.
[doublepost=1467474067][/doublepost]You would make a great kore dev
pekatete
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Or conversely that the position(s) they occupied gave them power, and the moneyed corrupted them. The root, for me, is still the power, as they could have refused to be corrupted.
lunar
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This article gives quite a good perspective of silicon valley ideals 'vs big money government.
https://news.bitcoin.com/circle-luxembourg-clash-blockchain/
Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna
Dear Big money and Governments ... if this is what you want, please start mining.
https://news.bitcoin.com/circle-luxembourg-clash-blockchain/
Circle’s Jeremy Allaire and Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna
Gramegna
It seems Big money government and Blockstream have aligned incentives. Desperately seeking a way to siphon off fees from the transaction market.
Dear Big money and Governments ... if this is what you want, please start mining.
So its up to us to take that power away from them and return it to the community. And maybe their money too. But only metaphorically, as that $76M is essentially a short that Bitcoin can't scale.
pekatete
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What, did he make two trips, one for the bread and one to check for the eggs? And out of curiosity, does the analogy fit well with SegWit for 2MB on-chain scaling?
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Logged in during my week on call to say that the attempts to 'correct' the white paper by the usual suspects are nothing short of disgraceful.
Time for the ecosystem to move away from these toxic people once and for all. This is the line that cannot be crossed.
Time for the ecosystem to move away from these toxic people once and for all. This is the line that cannot be crossed.
