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Just for a little context luke jr was infamous on cryptocurrency forums for being adamant that the sun revolved around the earth, all religions other than catho

Just for a little context luke jr was infamous on cryptocurrency forums for being adamant that the sun revolved around the earth, all religions other than catholicism are evil, there is an "ethical aspect to slavery" and that bitcoin's 1 KB/s throughput was too much and should be cut down even further. https://archive.is/sS5Ml https://archive.is/sS5Ml https://archive.is/DrP83 https://archive.is/DrP83 https://np.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/36w6nw/why_didnt_jesus_condemn_slavery/crhljba/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/36w6nw/why_did... https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/490dyi/serious_question_if_raising_the_max_block_size/d0o4mjl/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/490dyi/serious_ques... I would take what he says with a grain of salt.

vorpalhex 4y ago
I'm not going to comment on his overall opinions, but it does seem like his judgement is severely compromised. I wonder if that led to the negligent behavior which allowed the coins to be compromised and stolen - a discount server host with a history of being compromised seems like the absolute wrong place to store large sums of value.
- bbbbb5 4y ago
  Inclined to agree here. Luke is going on about Intel ME backdoors on Twitter, but in reality there will be a far less crazy explanation for how he got owned.
  - dannyw 4y ago
    In reality a $55 per month colo provider with a history of security incidents is not a reasonable choice for a high security application.
    - bbbbb5 4y ago
      You can easily protect your hardware from all but the most determined adversaries with extensive physical access. Epoxy in ports, case intrusion detection and locked down boot chain. Use TPM2-totp for verified boot. Your colo provider can be thoroughly owned, your adversaries can have physical access to the server for extended periods of time and still not be able to do anything because you've denied them access to any ports that'd allow DMA. Lots of cheap DIY options for fancy case intrusion detection going way beyond that offered by mfgs. USB camera and some tape?
Raed667 4y ago
> The funny thing is that they had to go back to the geocentric world view in order to get the satellites to orbit properly. So people are trusting Bitcoin with someone who thinks GPS is a lie
andoli 4y ago
Wow he really seems a full-blown moron
tromp 4y ago
Someone in the bitcoin parody group r/Buttcoin compiled this "gigathread" of all his hair-raising quotes https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_a_seriously_a_super_crazy_person_quotes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...
- throwaway128128 4y ago
  "Gigathread" would become a "bongthread" in Tonal.
ea550ff70a 4y ago
Shocked Pickachu face
hgsgm 4y ago
You are misrepresenting the slavery discussion. "Ethical aspects" means "analyzing the ethics of slavery". It "slavery is ethical". And the diacus5 was about (awkwardly defined) theoretical models of voluntary lifelong servitude (but still called "slavery"), in explicit contrast to existing historical models of slavery. But yes, Luke Jr's comment was a non sequitur for two reasons. (Any Catholic analysis of Jesus is necessarily a bit of a non sequitur, since Jesus and his disciples weren't... Catholic. ) The geocentrism discussion is interestingly similar: in the same thread he makes two claims, one saying that geocentrism is equivalent to heliocentrism (which is mathematically true, and which is better depends on what specific system you are modelling), but then also says that the Sun orbits the Earth is true and scientific consensus, contradicting himself. There is a very easy rewrite of what he wrote that makes it totally fine, and probably what he "meant": models are broadly equivalent, choose one based on convenience for the problem at hand, and spirtual truth is independent of science. But since he appears to have strict religious beliefs in the infallibility of Scripture, he can't go all the way to commit to saying that the Scripture is scientifically wrong, though he did hint at it. He's either a very poor communicator (like many forum posters are in forum posts) or his thought process is quite inconsistent and self-contradictory without him noticing.
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vorpalhex 4y ago

I'm not going to comment on his overall opinions, but it does seem like his judgement is severely compromised. I wonder if that led to the negligent behavior which allowed the coins to be compromised and stolen - a discount server host with a history of being compromised seems like the absolute wrong place to store large sums of value.

bbbbb5 4y ago
Inclined to agree here. Luke is going on about Intel ME backdoors on Twitter, but in reality there will be a far less crazy explanation for how he got owned.
- dannyw 4y ago
  In reality a $55 per month colo provider with a history of security incidents is not a reasonable choice for a high security application.
  - bbbbb5 4y ago
    You can easily protect your hardware from all but the most determined adversaries with extensive physical access. Epoxy in ports, case intrusion detection and locked down boot chain. Use TPM2-totp for verified boot. Your colo provider can be thoroughly owned, your adversaries can have physical access to the server for extended periods of time and still not be able to do anything because you've denied them access to any ports that'd allow DMA. Lots of cheap DIY options for fancy case intrusion detection going way beyond that offered by mfgs. USB camera and some tape?

Raed667 4y ago

> The funny thing is that they had to go back to the geocentric world view in order to get the satellites to orbit properly. So people are trusting Bitcoin with someone who thinks GPS is a lie

andoli 4y ago

Wow he really seems a full-blown moron

tromp 4y ago

Someone in the bitcoin parody group r/Buttcoin compiled this "gigathread" of all his hair-raising quotes https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_a_seriously_a_super_crazy_person_quotes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4936kw/lukejr_is_...

throwaway128128 4y ago
"Gigathread" would become a "bongthread" in Tonal.

ea550ff70a 4y ago

Shocked Pickachu face

hgsgm 4y ago

You are misrepresenting the slavery discussion. "Ethical aspects" means "analyzing the ethics of slavery". It "slavery is ethical". And the diacus5 was about (awkwardly defined) theoretical models of voluntary lifelong servitude (but still called "slavery"), in explicit contrast to existing historical models of slavery. But yes, Luke Jr's comment was a non sequitur for two reasons. (Any Catholic analysis of Jesus is necessarily a bit of a non sequitur, since Jesus and his disciples weren't... Catholic. ) The geocentrism discussion is interestingly similar: in the same thread he makes two claims, one saying that geocentrism is equivalent to heliocentrism (which is mathematically true, and which is better depends on what specific system you are modelling), but then also says that the Sun orbits the Earth is true and scientific consensus, contradicting himself. There is a very easy rewrite of what he wrote that makes it totally fine, and probably what he "meant": models are broadly equivalent, choose one based on convenience for the problem at hand, and spirtual truth is independent of science. But since he appears to have strict religious beliefs in the infallibility of Scripture, he can't go all the way to commit to saying that the Scripture is scientifically wrong, though he did hint at it. He's either a very poor communicator (like many forum posters are in forum posts) or his thought process is quite inconsistent and self-contradictory without him noticing.

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