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mircea_popescu: oh, perelman takes money now ? darn,
i should headhunt the original
mircea_popescu: anyway, thanks god for kakobrekla's idea of implementing that calculator on site, otherwise with bets like these that draw loads of noobs (
i don't mean to bitrcoin, or to betting,
i mean to thinking) we'd have had degrees of magnitude more idiotic spew.
mircea_popescu: "No kidding. What a scam this site is.
I suppose they're planning on people not really reading the FAQ.
I mean it calculates the odds for you and says 1 pays 1 but that's a LIE."
mircea_popescu: yaya.
i'm all about to encourage ~that~ sort of insanity.
thestringpuller: ah
I was thinking of little black book. was thoroughly confoosed.
danielpbarron: yeah the sane gentoo part
i can figure out no problem. just never coded in ADA before
mircea_popescu:
i'm not even saying that, nor is it even needed. even if you ~could~ actually, provavly, known from my personal discussion with the all-knowing god, do it, what the fuck sort of arrangement is this, "so b-a exists so that alf can fix it" ? how is it better than you know, hiring microsoft to do it.
mircea_popescu: looky, lashing at me is not liable to do much. the point remains that this "
i could do except alas" line is a total waste of time and utterly broken in so many parts it's not worth fixing.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 16:46:21; mircea_popescu:
i have a lawyer whose yearly budget for family is ~8k.
danielpbarron: asciilifeform> mircea_popescu:
i hauled it 3km in 2014 with own hands and spent more on ~petrol~. << gas was twice as expensive then as it is now
PeterL:
I'm not saying downshift, just get out of the land of outrageous rents!
mircea_popescu:
i can readily see a definition of freedom as "one has enough resources to protect himself from the outside world". this definition is impractical, however, belonging to the sphere chicken world.
danielpbarron: what is a free man in asciilifeform terms? do
I qualify by being someone who only needs to work full time for one season out of the year?
mircea_popescu:
i do not trust it at all.
i'm not sure you understand this, but AT ALL.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 13:11:00; asciilifeform: 'crowdfundings', as
i understand, have worked for mass crapolade
mircea_popescu: specifically : if miners come up with fork, what are you going to do ? so far all
i hear is "blame de gods".
mircea_popescu:
i'd rather we be prepared, if possible, and
i pointedly not care how unpleasant a discussion may be to anyone's/everyone's favourite assumptions. so here we are.
mircea_popescu:
i don't see the future well enough to judge what chances we have, but
i do see the future well enough to see that if you have no horse in a race, you can't win it.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 12:53:52; asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu ! unless
i misunderstood him somehow.
mircea_popescu:
i do not expect anything, this is why this is a discussion.
mircea_popescu: so basically you propose - wait and see on trb, meanwhile
i'll also develop a fork variant which
i won't either share or have ready in time ?
mircea_popescu: anyway - what isn't a strategy is "if the bad thing happens
i'll get really butthurt".
mircea_popescu: 2. is the usable interim continuation of the bitcoin prototype. which, obviously, doesn't HAVE TO exist at all points to 1, but it may help if it does. we're here mostly discussing 2,
i think.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 12:48:50; asciilifeform: so if you lot end up surrendering,
i will simply have to add 'bitcoin replacement' to my already tall pile of 'redo computing' pyramid, slowly grind it in my mostly nonexisting spare time, and wait another 20 years to find a new set of sane people, if
i live that long.
mircea_popescu: and note that
i include (continue with current bitcoin) in the same (intelligence outside the wot) pile. which it is.
punkman: diana_coman:
i just hated everything about it. moving/finding things in inventory, trying to equip things and and ending up with phantom copies if
I didn't click just right. Trying to walk and floating at a 45 degree angle, falling to death off smooth hills. The claim sticks that are "points" in space and keys and...
I dunno.
I suppose some of that might have changed already.
diana_coman: uhm, thestringpuller
I'll certainly have to study that, so
I'll possibly get back to you on this then
punkman: the whole game interface was a pain for me.
I'd give it another go when that changes.
diana_coman: depends on what you mean by "ideas" (
i.e. desires in that direction plenty) and by getting rid of planeshift (code is already quite far - in a good sense - from original planeshift and yes,
I absolutely want to take it further away)
punkman: diana_coman: ah
I missed that somehow
thestringpuller: jurov: not that
I'm a huge fan of unity, but after playing Kerbal Space Program you have to give it a little credit. What it does have is a large layer of middleware which allows for much better asset management. Whereas in Planeshift + Crystalspace it's all handled in essentially a textfile...
jurov:
i was thinking about it as potential learning practice for trb... but such things would make alf shit girder beams
jurov:
i have not looked to doing art, only to network (de)serialization in order for lisp to be able to send and receive messages