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assbot: Sergio Lerner: "1)
I'm finalizing a BIP: A new Efficient Compact SPV Proof scheme. A chain of 2016 hdrs can be compressed into 10 hdrs, proving 50% of work. / 2) This will be key piece for 2-way-peg system we (Rootstock) contribute to Bitcoin, via hard-fork. / 3) Yes, can also be soft-fork." : Bitco ... (
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mircea_popescu: then the site bitches about how getting whatever as an answer doesn't help it select matches. what the fuck am
i to do ?! care ?!
mircea_popescu: it's lead me to discover that
i really don't give a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90%
i'm like... whatever.
mircea_popescu: now
i gotta make an okcupid acct, see what the fatties are like.
BingoBoingo: sanity "
I have a kind of morbid curiosity.
I subscribe to rateme, amisexy, uglyduckling, MUA, prettygirls, and so many more just to see how attractive some girls are and how they're treated by men. Seeing their perfect faces weirdly makes me feel more at peace with the world- like
I know my place."
mircea_popescu: "
I'm FA everywhere. When
I lived in a big, glamorous city,
I was too ugly and fat for anyone to even consider dating. Now that
I'm in a smaller place, with lots of fat and/or unattractive people,
I'm more highly educated than the vast majority of men, so
I'm still FA."
BingoBoingo: "Last time
I went
I saw a few beautiful girls (something
I'd never see close to at home) and it made me so extremely depressed that it ruined the whole trip (
I went with family). It legitimately makes me depressed when
I see super pretty girls like that;
I just feel like a completely inferior subhuman.
I'm ok with regular hot girls for some reason.
I even had some hot friends in school. It's different when the girl is ethereally b
mircea_popescu: "
I am a downer most of the time,
I'm not outgoing, not funny, not talkative. The only thing
I have is my average intelligence. Being depressed makes you not want to do anything. The medication
I'm taking doesn't even make me feel better sometimes.
I hate that when you're unattractive or below average you have to wield so many positive traits just to get someone to like you. Attractive people get to be mediocre."
nubbins`: well
i don't print fake ones so yeah!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wouldja stop trying to salvage the "
i'm derpy from derpland and
i know of things
i've never seen because totallies" ? it's dead.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:38:05; mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here :
i'm the only entity that can't be held hostage. "oh, we won't do X until you Y" works when
I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can't say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn't for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (another tricky bit is that one of the things employers pay folks for is ~not working for competitor~ and this is difficult to monitor without on-site chair) << not many other worker bees
i came across in the trenches realized this, to their detriment
funkenstein_:
i thought every time you did anything which valued a fiat token, no matter what, it benefitted the counterfeitters thereof
ascii_field: 'Which makes me suspicious, and
I have no evidence, just an opinion that there seems to be a powerful force behind these guys like btcdrak, petertodd, etc., like perhaps that jdillon guy, who seems to be directing their actions. If you read some old leaks of jdillon chat with ptodd you can see that all/most of the stuff they are now publicly pushing were suggested by him, including the flexicap nonsense which gmax tried
mircea_popescu: every time
i talk to one of my chinese bankers here, moving some dollar bits against peso bits, both the argentine government and the us government bleed a little.
ascii_field: well
i'd happily move if
i were 1337 enough to take the gradient, rather than BE the fuel
☟︎ ascii_field: which is why
i say 'mircea_popescu wake me up plz when you've transmuted the x to a y'
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here :
i'm the only entity that can't be held hostage. "oh, we won't do X until you Y" works when
I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can't say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn't for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
☟︎ ascii_field:
i could speculate re: ~why~ (short version: it's what usa has instead of a berlin wall - otherwise mass exodus of programmers etc. to cheapo banana republics)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: possibly the hidden gotcha is that internet hasn't been invented yet on my planet. (
i.e. folks offering the sort of work that
i do, demand at least occasional physical chair parade)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field again :
i expect that all arguments work both sides for me and for me only. you, you don't need meatwot can go wherever. the argentine derp, can not use internet, may not leave country.
ascii_field: and mircea_popescu still wonders how come
i haven't moved ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but
i'll be the first to say that
i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-a! << you mean webwork. what else ?
mircea_popescu:
i understand "we"'d "all" love to be excused from the failures list, but that's not how it works.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> offer comments on why flyers are retarded if you dare << besides the fucking point, really.
i don't think they're not retarded. nevertheless, to the people who fail to take advantage of this, that failure is just another added failure.
jurov: actually now
i remember he did not like any responsibility, like, gpg signing the releases
mircea_popescu:
i need him like
i need more hair. he needs me like he needs more food.
mircea_popescu: he can starve to serve me and then
i might consider him. before that he can get fucked.
mircea_popescu:
i won't. because
i'm not spending money that way, and
i don't give a shit what the needs of whatever art derp are.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`>
i've got a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie << and the eulora splashscreen was done by jason juta (ie, the guy that did half the wizards of the coast franchise). and yes,
i could employ him (at his very reasonable rates) to do the whole thing.
ascii_field: but
i'll be the first to say that
i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-a!
jurov: so
i'd make a presentation at such place
jurov:
i did not get any further explanation
nubbins`:
i've got a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie
jurov: hahaha
i for one did the effort of pulling game dev/artist to #eulora. he was very weirded out of whole situation and bailed out of the job,
i had to compile stuff myself.
i can't at all imagine him reacting to some pole-stuck pulp
nubbins`:
i think your analogy generator needs a tune-up
mircea_popescu: but
i appreciate the "well since mom and dad filled the fridge clearly they have a responsibility to explai nto me why
i should get a job".
mircea_popescu: mno.
i just answer to random idiots derping on in here, because of a naive and perhaps misplaced notion that they'll learn something from the experience.
mircea_popescu: you wish to judge what
i do, you'd god damned better have some footing to stand on.
mircea_popescu: this is besides the point.
i am not held to justify what
i do to you.
nubbins`: for reasons which
i cannot begin to fathom, you seem to not equate these two things
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
i don't want to work with people who pay "for software" in this sense anyway.
mircea_popescu: "no,
i know this because
i can fit explanations ex post facto as well as alf used to can"
nubbins`:
i know this because nobody bothered reading your ads
nubbins`: and
i am saying that you've gone the polar opposite of "rounding up all the 10k".
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
i am saying that if
i rouded up all the 10k or so computer art majors in town and gave them the choice of paying me 100k in cash or dying in a fire
nubbins`:
i don't think you actually understand how many people in seoul make a living picking grubs out of trees, boiling them, and selling them in little paper cups w/ a toothpick
mircea_popescu:
i don't think you actually understand how poor these people are.
nubbins`:
i lived in seoul, 21mn people in metro area. know who's advertising on the poles?
ascii_field: nubbins`: where
i live, posters on telephone poles are pretty much exclusively for classical scams (ponzi, 'sell house quick', 'work to save the earth!111', etc)
nubbins`: in fairness
i've only been to maybe a dozen countries
mircea_popescu: the bar for "self-aware adult who lives in the world" is so fuycking high
i don't think
i'm necessarily there.
nubbins`: because
i'm a self-aware adult who lives in the world?
thestringpuller:
I think mircea_popescu underestimates the amount of effort that goes into tayloring game art skills.
nubbins`: and while
i've not lived many places,
i've visited plenty
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: laugh all you like, but
i went & found a new gig the 'mainstream' way, sans meatwot
mircea_popescu: let's play this game where
I use the argument both ways and nobody uses the counter-argument both ways against me
mircea_popescu: when
i want to hire the useless shitsacks perambulating in buenos aires, they don't need me. becuase... internet.
mircea_popescu: so wait, let me get this straight. when
i want ascii to move here he can't because HE needs meatwot.
nubbins`:
i know two argentinian artists. know where they live?
ascii_field: but afaik it has an ordinary cross-section of ameri-bezzle.
i.e. you can just as easily warm a chair at lockheed in kentucky as in dc.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` a) couple HUNDRED ; b) if
i taped up not a couple, a single "jeans and chewing gum" ad in soviet blok,
i'd have needed the canadian mounties to keep order.
mircea_popescu: they simply tend to gravitate to places where their dismal means to life are sufficient to survive. "oh
i couldn't live in kentucky"
ascii_field: but where
i live,
i see even street beggars get into at least a toyota at the end of a long hard day shaking a cup of coins
nubbins`:
i.e. the target audience is rooting for them and against mean old dad?
ascii_field: 'We give special attention to whether an AV should save lives by sacrificing its owner, and provide insights into (
i) the perceived morality of this self-sacrifice, (ii)the willingness to see this self-sacrifice being legally enforced, (iii) the expectations that AVs will be programmed to self-sacrifice, and (iv) the willingness to buy self-sacrificing AVs.'
mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be a wonder if
i didn't.
nubbins`: "we want everyone to be homogenous, somehow, even though
i'm fucking german and that didn't make sense even before this started happening"
punkman:
I'm guessing they are starting to build favelas in germany
thestringpuller: funny everytime
i see these old derps names in -dev logs always has a negative L2 rating
nubbins`:
i recall watching an interview with him once
nubbins`: yeah, that's great, but
I'm more concerned with the fact that all of london is trying to visit the zoo at the same time
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as a Schelling point mostly due to BitBet's
i ☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week,
I was stopped for photos six times while perusing comic books in downtown L.A. The next week,
I sat faceless in a room of 40 people vying for a menial courier job.
I’ve walked a red carpet with $80 in my bank account. Popular YouTube musician Meghan Tonjes said she performed on Vidcon’s MainStage this year to screaming, crying fans without knowing whether she
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 02:12:06; assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:51:36; mircea_popescu: which is why
i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.