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ascii_field: as
i understand, the ethereum thing was not purely a classical scam, but has abstract/usgtronic political aims
thestringpuller:
i guess royalty is bad word. qntra publishes something, people buy what's published, qntra receives revenue for as long as that thing is "in print"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well, it's all the media of the new republic. << This was my point. The 'intellectual property' or whatever you want to call it spawning from qntra is the value. For instance a movie or book, or some other form of media published under qntra.
I see royalties in the future perhaps?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
i suspect the very notion of PAYMENT is going to be destroyed by btc. let me illustrate what
i mean.
ascii_field: so, not a brainfart,
i really meant to say this. but it is possible that
i catastrophically misunderstand the purpose of qntra.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
i really was thinking 'qntra is a propaganda machine primarily for speaking to non-#b-a people.' ergo 'thinking folks other than myself dislike paywalls' is a relevant hypothesis
trinque: got another deedbot- hacking weekend coming up; we'll see what
I bite off
ascii_field: mod6: see thread.
i'd like to be able to link to known lines in known files of known vhash.
trinque: the day rapidly approaches when
I simply write my own IRC handling part, rather than using this golang bot
trinque: pete_dushenski: heh. some piece of inane, unnecessary complexity for sure. died during a netsplit so
I assume he handles this rather poorly.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the point
i'm coming to is that it's, unlike something you/those thinking people have actually thought about, merely an aculturation. ie, "this is how we dress". and
i know where it comes from too, and so forth. nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: now that you say this,
i'm not even sure
i correctly apprehend the purpose of qntra.
mod6: ascii_field: for lxr should jurov and
I just put up the code to HEAD that includes through 'maxint' and 'verifyall' -- and we'll label it "HEAD" or "v0.5.4-TEST2"? There isn't any actual reason to have two versions of code going up through each leaf is there?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 13:39:19; jurov: and on more serious note,
I miss anything about paragraph formatting, guess <p> should be allowed or even endorsed, too.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
i get that the phrase triggers your allergy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field besides the point what you were tryingt to say. the important thing to notice is how your mental flow went. and it went to "
i am not alone". why would it ?
mircea_popescu: moreover she didn't want to / understand she has to make a gpg, and
i dun wanna encourage the demuring damsels.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the point
i was trying to make was not that some 'silent majority' (tm) of thinking people dislike paywall and 'therefore paywalls suck', but that, if my hypothesis is true, it may pose a practical problem - how many of the folks in #b-a would have taken an interest in it if merely reading the logs had cost money ?
mircea_popescu: yeah pete_dushenski but
i recall we briefly interviewing a moderately talented fellow in this very chan and he wanted a billion euros or some shit.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
i did say 'thinking people'
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:00:47; ascii_field: and
i don't think
i am alone among thinking people in this position on paywalls.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306332 << and if you were to be against gpg, or against signed commits, or against "not everyone is/can be a contriobutor" or for "women in tech" in the sense of lipstick in the optic drive or a bunch of other equally nutty notionms, you could equally say "
i don't think
i am alone" and more importantly, FIND YOURSELF INCLINED TO SAY IT
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
i just gave you some lsd (by permission) in the shape of serotonin or whatever you fired in your own brain.
mircea_popescu: how much money does the pet earn you ascii_field ? and what P/E do
i need to pay to buy her ?
mircea_popescu:
i don't explain 'em mr seinfeld,
i just exterminate 'em.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:00:09; ascii_field: that'll be when
i stop reading.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:58:38; ascii_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306139 << advertising has no future in a sane world. but has anyone invented even a hypothetical profit model for qntra that doesn't in some way involve it?
i've been wondering this since the day q opened
mircea_popescu: they also don't put chunks of mango in the mango icecream
i bet. you knolw ?
mircea_popescu: (tru story : doctor's visit. "why do my knees hurt me doc ?" "oxalates" "what do
i do ?" "no more chocolate" "OMGWTFBBQ".)
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:49:30; ascii_field: thing is, it is necessary to explain why
i can get ru chocolate (and without breaking a sweat, really) at some mere 3x
pete_dushenski: better to understand that part of the world now than after
i'm already there
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
i was thinking about this, there's no way to avoid a v dependency anyway, in principle. so it will have to be a python www anyway
mircea_popescu: looky, there's sometrhing dysfiunctional in this process of "
i want this thing, and
i want it to work exactly like this thing
i made, that
i'm not publishing". what is this, tru love mating ?
ascii_field: atm
i desperately lack the time to do anything useful with this.
ascii_field: and
i now consider mod6's gadget to have superseded mine.
ascii_field:
i actually had this working in my unpublished v-wwwtron
ascii_field:
i don't need a 100MB pile of shit in my browser, ty
mircea_popescu: but if you're not happy with the mere "meaningless line" as seen
i ntrilema selection
ascii_field: well, more concretely, today
i wanted to link to one of the places where funkenstein introduced a mistake
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:45:38; ascii_field: because
i can't link to individual lines of code there.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:11:41; HeySteve: well,
I've accepted a freelance writing contract for this weekend so
I can't make any immediate changes. if someone is interested in editing it,
I think it's worth doing before Banx assumes its next form
ascii_field:
i really can't fathom how qntra could turn a profit any more than therealbitcoin could
thestringpuller: me either. qntra isn't a webcomic so
I don't expect it to monetize as such. but the webcomics have held their own.
thestringpuller: iirc "What If?" (munroe's book) did quite well.
i had a dream about a Qntra book.
ascii_field: because if
i can't link to it, it doesn't rightfully exist
ascii_field: notice that when we discuss books,
i eventually end up linking a w4r3z copy here.
ascii_field: 'if
i can't link someone to it, it isn't part of the conversation' or how did it go.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: thing is,
i only buy books because reading on electronic machines is unpleasant (and before anyone asks,
i own a dozen or so different types)
ascii_field: and
i don't think
i am alone among thinking people in this position on paywalls.
☟︎ ascii_field: but then again
i don't go in for consorting with strangers at all, so nobody-asked-me (tm)
ascii_field: jurov: for now let's have the ones
i've signed ?
ascii_field: punkman: you can get plutonium slabs, sure.
i was speaking of ice cream
punkman:
I can get belgian slabs for 10-15eur/kilo from a local bakery
ascii_field: anyway it remains simple to get actual chocolate, at least near major urban centers in usa (where ru immigrants live.) but as an ~ingredient~ it has become very scarce.
i've largely given up on ice cream, for instance.
ascii_field: thing is, it is necessary to explain why
i can get ru chocolate (and without breaking a sweat, really) at some mere 3x
☟︎ ascii_field:
i suppose they picked between soy oil and 'add a zero to the price'
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: nato chocolate has sucked donkey arse for as long as
i've been alive, afaik
ascii_field: (
i write a patch, sign it, throw in the hopper, everyone who has my name ticked - sees a tree with that patch applied. but OLD LINKS MUST CONTINUE TO WORK)
jurov: anyway,
i don't have any idea how you want it to be laid out. lxr's idea of versions is just a flat list.
mod6: and "press" will output this automatic patching process to an output directory.
I could bundle that up and send it to you if that's what you mean?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:34:43; mircea_popescu: PeterL
i space question marks but that's really my mental problem, nobody else.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:30:24; mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> and
I don't get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation << the wut ?!
ascii_field: (and
i've no time to make a proper job of it)
ascii_field: mod6:
i have a half-written one but it is no good
ascii_field: but now it will have to wait, until
i can link to lines of code.
ascii_field: all of this is because
i wanted to show funkenstein why his patch is catastrophically mistaken
ascii_field: because
i can't link to individual lines of code there.
☟︎ mod6: oh,
i didn't know that one was down. jurov any thoughts on that?
Zuardi: felipelalli somehow recently
I ended up on trilema, link of link of a link
felipelalli: Zuardi, Jampa didn't work with me.
I guess we know each other while we both were subscribed to "radinho de pilha" then "webees" email list.
HeySteve: well,
I've accepted a freelance writing contract for this weekend so
I can't make any immediate changes. if someone is interested in editing it,
I think it's worth doing before Banx assumes its next form
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
i have to dig it out of you with irons that "hey,
i researched this for five days, there's three dozen wrong things" ? why, because you hate the world ?
HeySteve: yes 36, not that
I'm an expert in spotting scams but it seems clear this is a company to be avoided
HeySteve: no
I didn't make up a number,
I covered all the data and tallied the red flags as
I went
HeySteve: now that time is wasted because arbitrary stylistic reasons which
I was never informed of