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mircea_popescu: ""The evidence we have from these academic studies is that quite often [soap opera viewers in developing countries] take away different attitudes toward things like how many children they want, what is acceptable behavior for
a husband toward his wife, what is the breakdown in
a household of responsibilities over things like finances, should we be sending girls to school," says Charles Kenny, an economist at the World
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: suppose instead the streetwalker is
a bank in distress, and you decide to prop it up. you don't do jack, all you do is SAY you're going to do it.
mircea_popescu: this is usually
a transaction between you and her holder, involving one or more crumpled up pieces of paper.
mircea_popescu: suppose you desire the use of
a streetwalker for half an hour.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: from this standpoint this Qntra is more like
a media conglemorate than
a simple new agency.
ascii_field: so then it doesn't need
a profit model in the usual sense?
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: 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: 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.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whether you're alone or not should make no fucking difference. more importantly, it shouldn't be
a point of consideration. why is it ?
mircea_popescu: you don't wanna go to the fuckfest because fucking is by its nature public, but you wanna be thinking in
a herd because thinking by its nature is private ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares and when did you start giving
a shit if you're alone or not. what's this nonsense!
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
☝︎ 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: "Shocked, and also frightened for his safety due to the fact that Johnson is
a “big girl,” the 140 pound security guard said he ran out until police arrived. When they did, female officers entered the restroom with Johnson still “putting in work with the sausage.”"
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
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski just saying,
a dossier on all the ways alphabet mitigates tax is definitely
a qntra worthy research project for the actuarialy inclined.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu alphabet would seem to be
a tax mitigation strategy from this angle, but maybe it's one of those libtard jokes gone wrong, like 'czar'
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
pete_dushenski: "After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of the remaining employees by giving them 6.8 million shares of the stock he owns in the online messaging service." << so noble of jack to take
a tax write-off on these shares before their value plummets to zero.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: or integrate whole thing into
a pythonatronic www thing,
a la phuctor
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there were
a bunch of important things which did not work.
ascii_field: i don't need
a 100MB pile of shit in my browser, ty
mircea_popescu: how about what you want is
a # in front of each file, linked to [path]/filename#hash
ascii_field: really needs
a wwwtronic thing that takes
a vhash in the url and
a line num.
mircea_popescu: no you're right... so basically each line needs
a # in front of it, which should link to that... hmmm...
ascii_field: in order to do this, there would have to be
a www widget that displays the tree he patched against. and will continue to do so
a year from now.
ascii_field: well, more concretely, today i wanted to link to one of the places where funkenstein introduced
a mistake
mircea_popescu: ie you may be asking for
a .1 reference in
a 1 metric space.
ascii_field: well yes, which is why
a link has to encode ~which~ point in the patchspace it links to.
mircea_popescu: but derived from what,
a line of code is just
a meaningless string
mircea_popescu: specifically : does this actually need to make
a "line of code"
a graph node ?
mircea_popescu: that's
a different problem. but merely the "individual lines of
a page" part of it
ascii_field: so it is not simply
a matter of highlighting text on
a www page.
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
thestringpuller: oh wow cad-comic is still around and they have
a physical publisher now and an ongoing?
ascii_field: afaik every single webcomic that actually pays somebody's rent is produced by
a charismatic reddit-panderer
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: this is why thinkgeek is still around
a decade later, yet they sell nothing but "tyos"
thestringpuller: enough that he doesn't have to get
a "real job" and can subsidize gf's medical bills
thestringpuller: iirc "What If?" (munroe's book) did quite well. i had
a dream about
a Qntra book.
ascii_field: notice that when we discuss books, i eventually end up linking
a w4r3z copy here.
ascii_field: because
a thing like qntra works at least partly by being linkable
☟︎ 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)
jurov: lxr down again.. prolly must drop db and reindex everything, will be
a while
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:44:20; mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don't open until after that - for lunch << there isn't
a bunchy of these things to pick one from. this was THE ONLY THING HAPPENING THAT DAY IN THE WHOLE 12 MILLION STRONG "CITY"
punkman: I can get belgian slabs for 10-15eur/kilo from
a local bakery
thestringpuller: ascii_field: you gotta find
a local chocolatier, the one near my house has access to "real chocolate"
pete_dushenski: as long
a the goal of 'chocolatiers' is more people, that's what they'll get
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'
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 05:19:47; BingoBoingo: For
a while Hershey was advertising that shit as chocolate... since the ruling they just don't sell chocolate now, just "chocolate product"
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:33:53; mircea_popescu: "Washington was
a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land" << and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
pete_dushenski: "Alphabet beat earnings estimates by 14 cents with Q3 profit of $7.20
a share. Advertising revenue on its Google sites pushed sales to rise 13% to $18.68 billion." << stock +9% today
ascii_field: what? your computer is from 2007 and you expect to use it
a decade from now? terrorist!
ascii_field: the mega-vlsi of recent years was bought with the price of 'don't expect to run this chip for more than
a few years'
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)
ascii_field: and, ideally, eventually we will have
a thing that eats'em in real time and doesn't need human hands to update
ascii_field: jurov: thing is, every time
a new patch comes to exist, this is
a new version.
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: so with V, you can use
a command called "press" that will patch up through
a given HEAD.
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
mod6: thanks for taking
a close look at that, much appreciated.