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> what Trump has masterfully signaled as “political correctness” run amok

Yes, that is masterful rhetoric, and not at all a tired cliche being pushed by the right for decades.

This is one of many audaciously disconnected from reality moments in this piece. Clearly the author can't bear to face clearly his own complicity in this state of affairs.

Though some part of him that feels the guilt forces him to recite all the Trump-like things his precious Republican elites have done to undermine his own argument.

But at the same time he can't break out of his programming, and accuses liberals and gays of not caring about the white working class. Exactly the kind of argument Trump would make if he was not, ironically, the most pro-gay Republican candidate ever by quite a margin

All the others chose to demonise that group for political benefit, and now we have a gay conservative pundit shocked, shocked that a Republican presidential candidate would demonise groups like Muslims or Hispanics. How naive can you be?
The Economist reporters did.
I should have thought of that... of course it's easy to see the code was probably wrong in hindsight. Thanks for the explanation.
We changed the URL from http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21698060-..., which points to this longer story.
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Will the real Satoshi please stand up? I repeat, will the real Satoshi please stand up?
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https://www.facebook.com/sumyangriani.cieimouetz?fref=ts
Yeah, it seems bizarre that he won't publicly sign anything else.
Bitcoin creator confirms identity as Australian Craig Wright
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The fact that Craig didn't go to a media outlet/reporter with any real computer expertise like Ars etc. makes me suspicious (GQ? REALLY?).

He says he doesn't want publicity (GQ?? REALLY?!).

When he was first explored as a potential Satoshi awhile back, when a "hacker" supposedly broke into his computer and leaked emails linking him to Bitcoin, there was reason to believe that it wasn't true.

There is also a tax case and a legal case around this.

More from a few months ago here: http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie...

Okay so evidence is mounting that it's true, but I always had a theory about who Satoshi was and why he went silent (he passed away a few years ago).
More like the regressive left.
There's no real proof here that Craig is Satoshi. If he really wanted to prove it to us, he would need to sign a message saying 'Craig Wright is Satoshi signed 2016-05-02' using the genesis block key.

Read his post: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... he goes into all sorts of details but then glosses over the fact that the arbitrary Sartre quote could have been signed by anyone at any point in the past.
What is the point of that base64 string at the top? In the context of the article, I thought it would be a signature of "Craig Wright" or "Craig Wright, Satoshi", but it's only a base64 encoded string of one the earlier things he wrote:

% base64 --decode <<EOF
IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNhdG9zaGkuCgo=
EOF
Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi.
Hopefully Hal comes back in some years in the future and sets the record straight. (He's at Alcor now)
...and if you find yourself trying to explain concepts that took you forty years to understand... then you probably only recently turned forty. :)
>> voters probably agree that even people with low incomes should be able to live in the city

Why exactly should they? I mean, I don't want to forcibly remove them, but there are many cities in Germany other than Berlin.

If one city is getting richer and richer, then the average price of an apartment goes up. More rich people start comming,
because they see oportinity to do business there. At the same time poor people have a choice of moving to smaller, more affordable cities.

The biggest pitfall of a mankind is that we cannot grasp that the world is constantly changing. Life itself is a process of constant change. Just because your parents lived in Berlin and you were born in Berlin does not imply that things have to stay this way forever.

Trying to stop the flow of time and inevitable change is what makes us miserable.
Craig: But how will those who don't get ECC believe that it's me?

X: Set your hostname to be wintermute, that should remove all doubt people might have.
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I don't think that you really can make that separation. True, reading Salon or Alternet or something equally "progressive" you very much get the same ditohead feeling as when you listen to Rush Limbaugh's callers.

Then again, try to leave a comment on any "conservative" site, which does not conform to the virolent idiocy sometimes encountered at such sites and good luck with ever getting it published. (And if it gets published: good luck with handling the abuse, which follows)

Both camps seem to reside mostly in their bubble, completely intolerant to other opinion, which don't match their group think criteria. Which is sad, because it makes meaningful discussions with differing opinions impossible.

At a loss to us all.
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> A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well

Funny story. Although the UK has one currency, Northern Ireland and Scotland have different designs for banknotes compared to England & Wales (and too each other).

In December 2004, approximately 10% of the cash (~£26mil) in circulation in Northern Ireland was stolen. In response the bank recalled and reissued all the notes, to prevent the theives being able to use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Bank_robbery
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He found, maybe by brute force, maybe some other way, a comment signed by whoever mined block 9 (Satoshi himself?) and now he's using this to claim that he just signed this himself.

He's making all this up. Unless the message signed contains Craig Wright's name it's not proof of anything.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609619
That's the opposite of a 'democracy'.
Just another instance on why an employee shouldn't consider stock options as adequate equivalent to compensation.

In theory, those employees were promised to receive x shares of the company that now (partly due to their personal performance) are worth some significant amount.

In fact, that was a lie and they are not actually able to receive that part of their compensation despite having been promised and earned it, vested, etc.

Beware of scams (the legal details cause similar sized of equity options to have extremely different de facto value) and/or treat the offered equity as having near-zero value when comparing compensation offers from different employers.
To play devils advocate, if I had private keys that were tied to a not-small fortune, I'd keep them so far from my computer that even the proof he's provided would be out of the question.

...On the other hand, the screenshots are from Windows. Windows! Are we really to believe Satoshi uses Windows?
In the short run, people should have social protection. The first generations are going to be jobless and penniless otherwise.

But in the long run people are not going to just sit around collecting UBI. They can still work, but on other things. Society will develop new areas of interest in which it will invest the available money. The focus will fall on science, sports, culture and social projects, which are going to keep everyone busy and at the same time advance us even further.

As society changes, education will have to adapt to the new requirements. There will still be jobs, but in domains that perhaps now are not even imagined.
Still, questions remain. Mr Wright does not want to make public the proof for block 1, arguing that block 9 contains the only bitcoin address that is clearly linked to Mr Nakamoto (because he sent money to Hal Finney). Repeating the procedure for other blocks, he says, would not add more certainty. He also says he can’t send any bitcoin because they are now owned by a trust. And he rejected the idea of having The Economist send him another text to sign as proof that he actually possesses these private keys, rather than simply being the first to publish a proof which was generated at some point in the past by somebody else. Either people believe him now—or they don’t, he says. “I’m not going to keep jumping through hoops.”

This is a quote from the Economist article [1], and it succinctly summarizes the biggest criticism of this blog post. This blog post presents a single signed message, of a quote from half a century ago. Why did Dr. Wright not sign a message that is more direct, such as "I confirm that Craig Wright is Satoshi, and am making it public as of May 2016"?

Along that line, why is he refusing to sign more messages? A smart individual such as Satoshi would recognize that given the context, people would naturally doubt a single statement. It would not take him more than a few minutes to sign a dozen or two messages from various sources, which would essentially guarantee that he holds the private key.

I do not care for the non-technical arguments that other people presented, such as difference in personality, etc. However, it would be incredibly easy for the true Satoshi to put the issue to rest, by simply:

1. Sign several custom messages with his PGP key dating to 2008

2. Sign several custom messages with his block 9 private key

3. Prove that he owns the first blocks by moving them around.

Doing these things (even if he doesn't do all 3) would take him a few minutes at most. I question this roundabout 'sign a Sartre quote and call it a day' method, which would probably increase intrigue and reduce his privacy, which doesn't seem desirable.

This action by Dr. Wright is rather futile- it doesn't positively confirm anything for those who doubt him, and it won't affect those who believe him.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...
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Don't forget 8 years or so of "emergency" low interest rates.
Instead of banks spending millions on fraud detection how about they invent a system of moving money around that doesn't require you to give your username and password to a 3rd party and hope they only remove the amount of money they say they will?
This story already came up about a year ago, I have written something about it back then:
https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/872-About-the-supposed-facto...

To sum it up:

* If you do a batch gcd / mining ps and qs attack on the pgp keyserver data you will find a bunch of broken keys. However most of them are not valid keys, they are just broken copies of valid keys with errors in them. I don't know why they exist, but most likely either due to data transmission errors, disk failures or software bugs. But they don't pose any risk. Their self-signature is invalid, therefore gpg won't use them.

* There are two very old keys that can really be broken with this attack. According to what I know and heard from other people researching this stuff they were created with a no longer developed email encryption tool called CryptoEx by a no longer existing company called Gluck&Kanja. (afaik this hasn't been public knowledge, so I'm dropping it here)

This has been researched before by Arjen Lenstra, Nadia Heninger and myself:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064
https://factorable.net/
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/262.pdf
(On the factorable webpage there is an efficient free implementation of this attack by Nadia Heninger - in case you want to play with it)
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Probably just weathering another DDOS attack.
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Of course generalisations are stupid. To understand where the grandparent's coming from, though, try e.g. /r/europe sometime.
The real answer, as always, is to stay away from the default subreddits because The Public is shitty.

There's a spectrum of communities, ranging from obscure and niche to mainstream and general. Too obscure, and communities become insular; it's boring because nothing happens. Too mainstream, and it gets overrun by dickheads and yelling. You always want to be on the cusp between the two.

Hacker News straddles a pretty good line - it's popular enough that cool things get talked about by lots of people, but it's niche enough (Yes, it's niche when comparing it to, say, 9gag or /r/AskReddit) that it keeps the worst of The Public away. As a result, it keeps that happy medium.

Subreddits tend to be the same way. If you're finding that a default subreddit is shitty and hateful, chances are very high that there is a very similar subreddit that is specifically made up of people who are fed up with the bullshit from that default. Of course, give that subreddit time to become popular, and it'll become just as shitty and hateful as the default. Then you move again, and again, and again, forever. That's how the Internet always has been, and I'm sure that it'll continue to be that way forever.
I agree.

>>Learning these things is not as difficult as trying to use an RDBMS without learning them.

Very aptly put. But I guess mastering SQL is a rather difficult task as SQL is a very high level language (may be even higher than Haskell minus the great type system of Haskell). It may be because of such a high level SQL seems difficult for many people. No wonder, the ORM crap sells so much, they sell almost impossible dreams (read snake oil) to naive people who don't understand much about SQL, data modeling, database system and OS.

Also the relational modeling requires a lot of deep thinking to get yourself an effective schema. The magic art of getting indexes right to a large extent, relies on your understanding of the particular domain and the basics of relational modeling, the database internals don't come in picture too much. Of course, getting enough performance gains and squeezing time/space here and there requires some knowledge of database internals but when you reach to those levels of optimizations, NoSQL based solutions may as well require you to know enough details of their implementations.

Take home lesson I learnt: these things (very high performance, efficiency, scaling) don't come for free.
How I met Satoshi
Agree - there's no doubt that where transactions are needed you need something that can manage transactions (in the particular way you need them managed).

I actually think that transactions on Hadoop should be strictly limited to data import a-la HIVE but my arguement is that the enterprise data master is best on Hadoop rather in the slave systems.
Or he could just use the PGP key he used on the mailing list for months at the start of bitcoin's life.
Everything you highlight is basic level knowledge to work with databases. If you don't know that, you should either learn or not go near them.

However I will agree that "scalable" is starting to get a little complicated with all the various scale up/out options and strategies out there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11607056
> The central tension alluded to here is "database people" vs "big data people".

Then there's the group who think they're big data people, but actually fall within the domain of SQLite.
Perhaps "hissing out" more than "bursting".
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Well, he'd still want to keep them in a safe place he can access if he ever wants the money. And he's had at least 4 months to do something with the key.
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Hal Finney (sadly) died two years ago.
Last time I watched a video of Craig, I was so completely convinced he was not the type of person to be Satoshi.

Now, given this blog post, what I'm wondering is: maybe Satoshi offered his private keys to this guy to avoid problems in the future, and so that they stop chasing him?

EDIT: s/sold/offered/ (because I believe Satoshi doesn't have the need to sell anything these days)
As others have noted elsewhere in this thread, all RunAbove products are 'in beta', and they have a tendency to terminate these services with very little notice given.

I wouldn't rely on them for anything that needs to stay up.
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A little OT, but whenever the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto is found, what does that mean for the lawsuit that Dorian Nakamoto has against Newsweek and its 2014 claim?

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/dorian-nakamoto-f...
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For infrastructure companies, Once you have a national monopoly if any small company undercuts your prices you can cut your prices in their area only, subsidised by profit from the rest of the country, so the upstart loses money on their investment.

Thus preventing them from bootstrapping, or demonstrating profits to investors.
> I don't understand why 'i' has been given a pass.

The reason is that in FORTRAN variables starting with i, j, k..n were defined as integers.

Back in the day I learned fortran first, then basic. People that learned basic first often would use the letter 'a' as a loop index instead of 'i'

Now days I still use 'i' but often use indx instead because my editor doesn't highlight single letter variables easily.
See Dan's recent post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588730
legally dead, yes. However: http://www.alcor.org/blog/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-pa...

I have more confidence Hal Finney will be back in some form, than that Craig Wright is Satoshi.
Indeed, but I was curious about the community's take on the topic since startups are so focused on hypergrowth.

Instead, I got crickets (beside your answer, thanks for taking the time to respond).
I don't think you can equate press coverage with hipster-ness.
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No, it is (supposedly) a longer document of which only a portion is shown in a screenshot.
The whole point of this article is that the employees have stuck around for the agreed vesting terms, the company has been successful, and the "later" has arrived now - but they are still prevented from exercising the promised gains and will be, potentially forever (e.g. if the major owners decide to keep the company private indefinitely under current terms).

That was not the initially accepted bargain. The bargain was that they take the risk of options becoming worthless or them not staying through the vesting period. Those risks didn't happen, this is the point where they would have earned the right to cash out, but now it turns out that the option isn't actually there.
> maybe Satoshi sold his private keys to this guy to avoid problems in the future?

That's the best theory I've heard so far. That would explain why he chose a weak verification message (the Sartre quote, instead of a message that proves the signature to be recent). The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof, but Wright doesn't know any better.
Your categorisation of my speculation assumes too much.
No. He was cryonized. Hopefully, the future makes it possible to resurrect him to life.
A queue is the usual solution. That makes it pretty much "right to live where you were born" since that is when you add yourself to the back of the queue.

It's not a very efficient solution (no one can move to the city for a job since you need somewhere to live within months then - not decades). It also needs very draconian rules to avoid a large black market in contracts.

There are no good solutions to this problem. If you are a socialist you argue that the lesser evil is inefficient queueing and if you are an economic liberal you argue that allocating via market prices is better and gentrification/segregation is the lesser evil.
I was convinced at the first outing 2015 already: https://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakam...
Craig Wright interview (2014)
x86 was designed back when people wrote significant chunks of code in assembly not because they wanted to shave some time off a critical subroutine, but because they didn't even have a compiler. Under those conditions, I'd rather have x86 than PowerPC or ARM, it's just less typing.
Will it also delete the content?
From reading the blog post referenced here it seems Craig signed other messages besides the JPS one to Gavin Andresen and other people
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It would be pretty annoying if he was making all this up. Posting a signed random quote does not prove anything. Signing something provably recent is better, especially if that is message akin to "Satoshi is Craig".
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Ongoing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609611
I'm curious, why are people downvoting this?
So in the end death and taxes caught Satoshi.
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Well, to be fair: Airbnb is run by people who intend to profit from the toxicity of their business -- for places like Berlin, where what they "disrupt" is not so much the hotel industry but the city's housing politics, and many local communities.
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I don't want to sound like a nerd-snob, but isn't weird that the potential Satoshi Nakamoto uses Windows and notepad?
http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...

I mean, to each his own- especially when talking about dev tools- so why not I guess?
> I'm not even talking about supporting reproducibility by outsiders -- they can't even achieve reproducibility within their own labs, because they don't follow practices that are baseline in industry (version control, configuration management, standardized environments, etc).

True that. Four years ago, when I was writing my thesis in computational physics, I attended a research group meetup. One session gathered all the students and had them showcase their research. When there was still some time left at the end, I asked the audience who was using version control systems for the programs they write, and only 5% or so raised their hands. I then immediately ran them through a Git tutorial, and people were amazed by what is possible.
> I don't understand why 'i' has been given a pass.

Because it is well enough established (in both programming and mathematics) that it communicates literally no less information to the reader than "iterator" or "index" would in the same context.

> The argument boils down to saved keystrokes.

Not at all. I, for one, find it easier to see the shape of the whole expression when the variable names are shorter.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609611
> arguing that block 9 contains the only bitcoin address that is clearly linked to Mr Nakamoto (because he sent money to Hal Finney)

Block 9 contains no transactions other than the mining reward.

https://blockchain.info/block-index/14858/000000008d9dc510f2...
Did you put "Paper" in italics to suggest that paper was the primary cost in book making in the medieval era?

Because I would have thought that manual copying by scribes - the above link says it took 15 months to copy the Bible - would be more expensive.

Also, I believe the price of paper also dropped significantly in Europe when the paper mills were introduced in the 1500s. So dates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_paper#Europe .
I'm not convinced that's a big deal. You just end up using a register of your choice and sticking a flag in it.