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mircea_popescu: anyway, sane people, which is to say business people, take insurance in such a deal. whether the principal is a dumb kid or a warehouse, you insure against it's destruction specifically so you don'tend up in this "guarantor pays through no fault".
mircea_popescu: "let's break things for stupid people". recurring theme of "modern democracy" altogether ; so much so it's obviously at the core of the stupidity involved.
mircea_popescu: but as far as any possibility of working anything is concerned, there's nothing remarkable here. "i made my bed on highway, got run over".
mircea_popescu: yeah. i mean sure, it's cowsy interest "human piece" etc.
mircea_popescu: that's what a guarantoor does : "give x this much, and if he won't pay, i will". it's an ancient institution, the piece of shakespeare i butchered revolves around it.
mircea_popescu: default for the purposes of cosigning means the cosigner pays.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not remarkable, woman cosigned on a loan. this is the point of cosignature.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re teh state of the bitcoin - lettuce not allow all the countless things we're doing distract. even if the summer of forks was defeated politically, so we blessfully didn't have to fight the battle on the technological field, mod6 still needs all the help he can get.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform brontosaurus gotta graze. can has hay ? no ? can has grass ? no ? then can has hay ? no ? then can has grass ? no ? how about lettuce ? fern ? hay ? grass ? lettuce ?
mircea_popescu: nicely mirroring the situation a year+ ago, when i couldn't find any owners to borrow from for the life of me.
mircea_popescu: it's "going down" in the hopes of capturing the occasional dizzy derp. not going too well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you mean poloniex, it's been in wash trading mode for a week +
mircea_popescu: 50-50 odds it's even the physical buterin, the guy with the misshapen skull, actually writing the item.
mircea_popescu: anyway, swan's song. they know he's exposed ; gave up and are burning the asset.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like alf's dream, can parachute her with no resources on island, will be fine.
mircea_popescu: the young ones, i guess. but in principle, the definition of a whore is exactly that : woman that's fine naked.
mircea_popescu: in other cvasi-lulz, ro whore, ex wife & baby's momma of ro footballer, discussing their split-up : "you can't make a whore into a housewife ; nor an athlete into a respectable man"
mircea_popescu: too bad the bad bitcoin wolf fucked it all up for them.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, asciilifeform 's prediction proceeding right on schedule. the "indepedndent" usg tool and "ethereum developer" finds time to discuss bitcoin as that "innovative project" burns to the ground. because truly it wasn't all about trying to fuck up bitcoin all along. nothing of the sort, ethereum was a serious effort by serious people with their own heads and etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (best import phf's basic theme so you can see shit works)
mircea_popescu: everything except the theme stuff. that should be in theme.php
mircea_popescu: lulziest about this block thing is the derpy miners arguing against their interest on the basis of social media gargle.
mircea_popescu: once you get that you genesis it as a V tree, and then patching can begin.
mircea_popescu: that'll make the crud obvious and simplify the task of cleannup.
mircea_popescu: step 0 would be to apply phf's patches and get it up. step 1 would be to get everything (not the theme, everything else) into one single file, and have it still work.
mircea_popescu: and make it v'd. anyway, more than willing to mentor you along, you wouldn't be stepping into abyss.
mircea_popescu: everywhere you turn with this already. a sickening display.
mircea_popescu: yet again there was a right thing to do (network of blogs) and a fucktardedly wrong thing to do (www-"forum") and the shithead community chose to do the wrong one. for obvious social reasons, it's way the fuck harder to write a blog than to "participate" in a "consensus".
mircea_popescu: that requires users and sessions, neither of which is php capable to handle at all. but notice that blogs DO NOT require users, nor do they need sessions. nor, for that matter, cookies.
mircea_popescu: its crowning achievement is, no doubt, the blog. this is what php exists to do, blog software. not, ironically, "forum" (ie, web-replacement bbs) software, which is what it's mostly used to do.
mircea_popescu: receive in that total, meaning that out of 100k they rarely actually published as many as 1k comments. the rest's just spam.
mircea_popescu: " revealed to much lulz that many miners were using a simplified form of verification when they were selecting blocks to build off of which lead to splits when it turned out "soft" forks aren't so soft." << " revealed that many miners were using simplified (and dysfunctional) chain verification, to abundant lols and chain splits. Turns out "soft" forks aren't all that soft!" ?
mircea_popescu: nobody spetn as much time playing doom as it'd take to read trilema.
mircea_popescu: too much failed in one paragraph tho. "their beloved if irrelevant" ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "what started as a channel dedicated to lisp and assorted snobbery totally devolved into apache and php club"
mircea_popescu: phf same comments.php in my theme ; but in general wherever the theme outputs comments
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how you imagine making a monkey out of the reader's acceptable or anything.
mircea_popescu: at the rate we're going, #trilema is going to end up in google for php queries huh.
mircea_popescu: if ($comment->user_id==1) echo "<img alt='",$comment->comment_author,"`s avatar' src='
http://trilema.com/avatar.png' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' />"; else if ($url_parsed["host"].$url_parsed["path"] > "") echo "<img alt='",$comment->comment_author,"`s avatar' src='",str_replace("//avatar.png","/avatar.png",$url."/avatar.png' class='avatar avatar-32 photo' height='32' width='32' />"); else echo "<im
mircea_popescu: $url_parsed = parse_url($comment->comment_author_url);
mircea_popescu: because gravatar thing is utter bullshit also. but i'm not terribly convinced this scheme's so great either.
mircea_popescu: the other is that instead of calling gravatar, it just puts out avatar.png from commenter's webpage.
mircea_popescu: phf there's two main points of the split between mp-wp and automattic-wp. one is that i shot the akismet idiocy in the head (mp-wp antispam system works way the fuck better, and doesn't you know, run arbitrary code from the automattic equivalent of disqus, shambling abominable horror of untold proportions).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: seems more like a passive "bury this shit" measure than anything else. who's to trust js.
mircea_popescu: you can prolly fiddle with the knobs to make this work more to your liking, but in my experience it's ~perfect.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fi on trilema just now, i had to approve that Anonimescu;s fellow first comment ; as he never was seen before. his subsequent ones, i didn't need to touch.
mircea_popescu: gotta appreciate, you just made this, so everyone's yet a stranger.