The spooky stuff - action at a distance and entanglement - might well simply be a very very basic failure to account for the topology of space, a kind of mis-use of units.

There seems to be a big tendency to claim a boolean is a boolean so that in essence the actual units get forgotten about, leading to massive surprise ("that is spooky!!!) when they (the units: the topology of the space) manifest themselves at the other end.

Hard to describe in easy familiar terms I guess, but maybe somewhat analogous to measuring volumetric booleans at one end, forgetting they are volumes (and thus actually speak volumes compared to scalar booleans), then being stupefied when measuring them at the other end rediscovers the fact they are, in fact, volumetric afterall.

Harmony Christian has been trying to explain this stuff for years, but physics forum inhabitants don't fancy it at all at all...

...If he is right, it seems one should be able to simulate quantum computers on classical computers by using octonians.

-MarkM-

Oh come now, surely it is obvious that other people not being forced to obey "the" rules is doubleplus-ungood?

-MarkM-

Doesn't Visual Studio collect the dependencies for you automatically like maven and netbeans and eclipse and, I had somehow imagined, pretty much any GUI build-system?

-MarkM-

Shout out those plays a little louder will you old chap, not everyone can hear you!

-MarkM-

It already is toy money, it always has been toy money, it just happens that toy money is better than fiat money. Increasing the number of coins by fiat is just another fiat currency debasing itself the way fiat currencies do, the way that caused Classic Bitcoin to be so valuable in the first place.

-MarkM-

On their fork, sure.

The Fed and its peons are the majority on the fiat fork too, that didn't stop Bitcoin Classic from arising. Cold dead hands, man, cold dead hands!

(Full node, remember. Not zombie drone peon slavetablet!)

-MarkM-

He both is and is not dead, and his resemblance to 007 in the photo at the link below is no coincidence!

http://archived.parapsych.org/members/e_h_walker.html

-MarkM-

Hmm a tiny possible-quibble there, as those who hold bitcoins are maybe somewhat out of luck/power if no one wants those bitcoins / is willing to trade things to them for those bitcoins.

So it kind of seems like really the economic power is in those who want to hold bitcoins, assuming such people even continue to exist for any particular fork, rather than in those who already hold them...

(Its in the economy, not the coins, maybe?)

Its in those who hold the economy, not those who only hold the coins?

-MarkM-

Name us with Paycoins?

Pay us with Namecoins?

The first for paying them via the name they registered in Namecoin, the second for actually using namecoins themselves to pay them, again via the name they registered in namecoin.

How about "Like us in Bitcoins", that could work for donations too, you'd have to get the target audience off of the habit of assuming "like means facebook", and maybe use a domain, or spread of domains, like bitcoins.in, in.bitcoins.com, in.bitcoins.org, in.bitcoins.net, in.bitcoins.ca, in.bitcoins.co.uk, etc...

How much did it cost to condition everyone to think "like means facebook", though?

-MarkM-

EDIT and don't forget to get facebook.com/bitcoins in case they do assume like does mean facebook, so you can explain to them there where it really means.

I have seen it posted that 0.7 can itself produce blocks that some instances of 0.7 will reject; if that is the case it seems to me quite to be expected that 0.8 can too, even when using default settings, because I haven't heard that it ever really went out of its way not to produce just the very kind of blocks that 0.7 can produce that supposedly some 0.7's cannot handle.

I am not really all that sure yet though of the authoritativeness of the claims that 0.7 can actually produce 0.7-killers, at least not without a bit of code-hack-and-recompile shenanigans.

-MarkM-

I get the impression that not everyone got used to it.

To the contrary, some people seem to take the position that the Fed can print more bitcoins when they pry their full node from their great great great great grandchild, last of the line,'s dying hand...

-MarkM-

Socks. Its to buy socks. First things first, after all. Once everyone has socks, time enough then for shoes.

-MarkM-

Maybe someone in the Alternative Cryptocurrencies can tell you more if you move this thread over there, but flash should have nothing to do with it, if you mean macromedia flash the graphical engine thingie for browsers. The web based Ripple client does use javascript though, so if you disabled javascript or turned on some kind of javascript nanny plugin or something that could possibly cause Ripple some troubles.

In theory I suppose theres no proof yet that that flash didn't break javascript...

-MarkM-

Ha ha, nice way of looking at it. I won't presume to check your math, but really, even if you dropped or picked up an order of magnitude that still sounds like its lucky for us that not everyone in the world is on the internet yet.

-MarkM-

Exactly, is just like if the government of a country decided to print more money, the people would throw them out of office and... oops...

...Well anyway, the moral of those stories seems to be that it wouldn't be elegant.

Bitcoin is mathematical, and mathematics is elegant, so obviously it cannot happen here.

-MarkM-

No one wanted to mine at a Massively Merged Mining pool that mined lots and lots of types of coins all at once, so the Massively Merged Mining project was put on back burner pending its ability to start deploying more and more ASICs to secure as many of the meged mine able coins as it reasonably can.

Ixcoin is reasonable to merged mine so it will benefit come that time.

-MarkM-

The Pentagon doesn't talk to the CIA?

Weird. It does in Clancy novels.

-MarkM-

Just collecting a few portable datacentres from time to time isn't so unfeasible though, is it, for the average hobbyist? I mean, like, how many Satoshis can those things actually cost, really?

-MarkM-

And that, kids, is why every hobbyist wants at least one Google-style portable datacentre-in-a-container in his garage, just in case...

-MarkM-

Each is in its own way perfect!

-MarkM-