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mircea_popescu: Framedragger if you wanna do data visualisations, the thing to do is the wot explorer. that i actually miss.
mircea_popescu: often though i'm happy with just a bash. i think like once i actually wanted sql syntax
mircea_popescu: Framedragger ok but if one actually wants to sql on it, dumping it in a table isn't much work.
mircea_popescu: yeah but by now it includes so much we actually wnat to structure it ;/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you want to integrate it there. and next week someone observes really Y thing should also be and you're unbound.
mircea_popescu: i dun wanna have to resolve record matching every time i want to query the joint set.
mircea_popescu: this, as an evolutionary superset of "i'll just dump a db of banners and you're more than welcome to match yourselves" ?
mircea_popescu: ok so you aim to take some data from phuctor, integrate it with some data you already have, and perhaps with other data you can obtain, and present it conveniently ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so if grep already allows me to do this... what are you doing ?
mircea_popescu: the part i don't follow is where isn't this a waste of your time ? you seem to be trying to do something akin to "i will create a gui atop this command line". ok... how will you guess aforehand what buttons people want to push ?
mircea_popescu: so you want to pipe data from phuctor to a vps, and display it there ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suppose he reloads the phucked page every time he gets a rss feed which doesn't include items he already has.
mircea_popescu is amused how the collection of crap pisses off someone particularly. dns, rss, if it ends in s it's shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally he gets the phucked page once and then follows rss.
mircea_popescu: for starters, explain it to me. so what do i do there ?
mircea_popescu: not terrible, has all the needed parts except "which shall provide a platform for those interested in analysing RSA keys and the surrounding metadata collected and provided by Phuctor" could benefit from (such as : by x, and y, and z) as it's currently not even vaguely clear what i could do on that platform.
mircea_popescu: should be judged on terseness not on bureaucratic notions of value ("it's long! and full of platitudes! let's count the platitudes!")
mircea_popescu: slippery slope, "and iof the internet runs away i'll try and run after it, and if it rains i;ll wear umbrellas and..."
mircea_popescu: not really the place to discuss contingencies i dun think.
mircea_popescu: it is quite possible mod6 's ticket infrastructure eventually turns into the hiring interface we were discussing yest.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger could be, and mod6 is also working on making private ticket trees and other things
mircea_popescu doesn't believe in this whole virtualization thing as implemented by cloud/vps/etc. the only virtualization that makes sense to me is via teh uci.
mircea_popescu: won't be worth anyone's time to dick around with monthlies
mircea_popescu: then once approved someone can write a qntra piece about the whole thing and lo and behold, crony republicanism!
mircea_popescu: alrighty, you write the application, make it short and to the point.
mircea_popescu: also : mkay is resistive okay. not what you mean here amirite ?
mircea_popescu: how about you apply for a grant to the foundation and i lean on ben_vulpes / mod6 to approve it ?
mircea_popescu: no, it simply will be "nobody knows how to turn it on without the talking paperclip, and they can't muster the energy to try and find out". that's it. what, you think argentines fail because they're not connected to the same internet we are ? they're connected, i'm living proof. but to them, it's all netflix.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the whole "oh, microsoft secure implants" is really just so much narcissism. as the raped girl angrily if unsuccessfully points out (
http://trilema.com/2013/the-dead-jew-and-the-raped-girl/ ), the peasants could at any point not have been peasants. "could". the pretense that "couldn't" is exactly what kept them in line them, and it's the source of this "secure implants bla bla" wet dream.
mircea_popescu: if danielpbarron ever visits ima feed him a sarma there :)
mircea_popescu: in lighter news, found delicious armenian restaurant yest. manned by actual to god armenian. the difference from the local cows is shocking and immediate.
mircea_popescu: was in some 2013 article iirc, "history usually flows in the direction of most fucking common man"
mircea_popescu: the common man is made out of bad choices, informed by his laziness.
mircea_popescu: $1k was nothing in 2012 like it is today ; and would have done nothing more for me then than now. what i bought for it was pretty stupid, according to the experts of the time, and doomed to failure. a working computer is pretty stupid, according to the experts of 2016, and obviously doomed to "it can't work".
mircea_popescu: but the battle is on, and it's the battle for souls. once the door closes there's no redemption.
mircea_popescu: and NOW we shall come back to your
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1570510 : it's easy to misperceive that whatever, the republic, take it or leave it, in 2016. it's easy to think that hey, maybne i;ll make myself a computer that works, or maybe i won't, who cares. in 2016.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: similarly "it's the way of the future" isn't going to make shiny happy people out of the populist party that used nothing but this all through 1800.
mircea_popescu: the same dorks who were all happy with us electoral system up until nov 8th.
mircea_popescu: as this realisation grips the masses, watch for the populist politicians display a turn of heart about the term "future".
mircea_popescu: is nary a spec in this history and soon forgotten like bell bottoms and whatever other fashionable nonsense. 80s hair and 1790s sociopolitics.
mircea_popescu: by and large, the notion that the common man may have a say in his usage / fate is coming to a close. it's some weird shit some dudes pulled out of their ass and then argued persuasively a few centuries ago, it was tried in a massive social experiment, and showed to not work in any conceivable implementation. to call this a trend reversal is to entirely miss that the alternative dominates millenia by the hundreds ; "humanism"
mircea_popescu: just because i'm influential doesn't mean i'm universal. a grass eating quadripede in south america is just as much a herbivore as the common horse, even if they never met.
mircea_popescu: yes, and they are part of the republic. per definition.
mircea_popescu: for the derps, it is mandatory because they are powerless ; and for the elite it is the only viable alternative (and thus also mandatory).
mircea_popescu: right. because this isn't another lollapalooza or w/e.
mircea_popescu: it does not work for all, of course. but if it didn't work it means there was nothing there.
mircea_popescu: there is - the common man is lazy. the only thing that can support his transition to actual human is the experience of furious impotence.
mircea_popescu: that is the proper place of the common man : angry powerlessness.
mircea_popescu: no, i want him to be as upset as he can muster about it ; and then still not actually manage to do anything about it.
mircea_popescu: so no, i don't want joe q mschmucky to "understand" why if he fucks up his payment we keep the txn. or to accept it, or to think it's a good idea.
mircea_popescu: because the common man consists principally of shit, and as something becomes "popular" it becomes shitty.
mircea_popescu: attempts to get the common man involved is how the various socialisms, be they hitler's or stalin's fail.
mircea_popescu: the battle is for the elites and for the elites strictly. the common man is unwelcome in any capacity outside his physicality.
mircea_popescu: we absolutely do not want for the common man to "see", in his own, common man terms, the "benefits" of the republic, and then "become part of it" and in the process start selling tmsr keychains at hot topic.
mircea_popescu: the idea is for the republic to be imposed, preferably at the point of a sword, and painfully, VERY painfully, depersonalizingly painfully, to the common man.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger see, but there's a larger point here. i dunno if you followed the recent discussion re nirvana, but in any case : it is specificlaly NOT the intent of the republic to become popular.
mircea_popescu: and the obvious response "we have no fucking idea" isn't on the table because coinbase ISNT a bitcoin company.
mircea_popescu: "no, i found it in a plastic bag in the alley behind the hotel where i used to work."
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in today's installment of the gueto files : hanbot says to woman "nice vest, did you make it yourself ?" and the woman answers...
mircea_popescu: apparently "independence" of this kind is an improvement over being naked in my dungeon. somehow.
mircea_popescu: "the college debt is worse than you tihnk", aka girls being 2/3 overweight, living together, no degree after decade of "work" and obviously, all this paid for by promises that can't be kept.