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gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 24 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it
a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: there's also
a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for
a while) and
a proper redesign of pgp
phf: whenever mp notices
a problem, there's
a active search for
a solution
phf: that's
a much better way of putting it, yes
mircea_popescu: so you're basically
a nigger in prison (ie, timed out by the failures of this world!!1) except not actually black.
phf: helping out
a friend on his project ~3 days
a week or so in
a last authority on technical decisions role.
mircea_popescu: "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned that time i stripped naked and jumped in the pool was the greatest party ever!" said many
a tall beauties.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under
a lot of stress. at that point they didn't quite believe me that i really am only staying on long enough to wrap up the projects i was responsible for. the haircut cut off any attempts to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> << who is this and why would anyone care..? << Person who sold out to Denton for minimal cash and
a life time of being trolled by his media child
mircea_popescu: and otherwise... let's do
a test to see if it comes out the way we want it to here it is it did!!11
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as
a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not
a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned
a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's
a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: "To illustrate this, consider the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) that unfortunately failed to show the intended result, namely, that he's
a jerk.
shinohai: lmao phf .... makes me actually want to make
a Buterin costume.
phf: last year i did travis bickle for halloween, complete with haircut, which had
a nice bonus of being
a big fuck you to the firm i was working for. apparently it's fine to have purple hair if you're an agile manager, but not so much
a "warhawk" for
a project architect.
mircea_popescu: papier-mache does not make
a suitable replacement for pressed shit.
shinohai: At first I though of making
a giant paper-machie forhead and going as Vitalik Buterin, but it kept collapsing. :/
shinohai: I'm going to paint "Dumb ideas and bankrupt companies" onto
a briefcase and dress up as
a VC for Halloween.
mircea_popescu:
A hilariously low percentage of tech investment targets the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business, the web, and the consumer electronics tie-in (the only interesting part of the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin that the VC circus misdirected the usg into losing out of.
mircea_popescu: "Most of that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done, though. This is
a red flag to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other things called "analytics" but really boil down to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:05:20; davout: asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that
a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 14:19:04; diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's
a matter of personal efficiency in
a field or another
mircea_popescu: no there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never
a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: ". There's
a legitimate concern that sauntering into
a polling booth dressed like something out
a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: and capitalizing that shit is
a lot more fucking bigoted than saying obama is just
a slave put there to do his white master's bidding.
mircea_popescu: what the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is
a fucking must for women's rights.
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as
a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-
a person or oscar prize for b-
a person because hey, assholes don't understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-
a.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it has
a point, too. reddit is fundamentally this, pretending moos are speech.
mircea_popescu: she'll get the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of
a lot of verbiage and to and fro from the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
mircea_popescu: at any rate
a damn sight better plan than "i'll go to college and become carrie bradshaw"
mircea_popescu: so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having
a bf off himself.
punkman: "After his death, Carter became
a self-proclaimed advocate for mental health. She organized
a fundraising tournament in Roy’s memory and posted on Facebook and Twitter about her attempts to save her boyfriend’s life."
trinque:
a "counselor" comes running every time this kid lashes out. I say he wins
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for gabrielradio with note: Apprentice Trilema translator
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only problem is that it takes me ~20 minutes to translate one. it maybe takes me 15 minutes to read and fix his, except i'll also get angry. so it's
a sort of economical problem.
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 22:07:28; mircea_popescu: i never knew i could equally hate both sides of
a "debate" to the degree.
mircea_popescu: are these people off their rocker ? you can't name yourself
a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can't call
a thing
a car if it's under 1 meter long.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is
a "hedge fund" issuing stock and who the fuck heard of
a 10 mn "hedge fund"
davout: plus
a small paper diploma :D
davout: yeah, the whole thing materializes
a government grant
davout: asciilifeform: is it really that noteworthy that
a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
☟︎ punkman: one case it doesn't mention is that clueless client demands to use AWS and mongodb and hadoop, because "I heard these were popular and next week when I am
a big multinational I'll need to hire 10k developers and they'll only know how to use those"
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 11:25:15; funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's
a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 05:29:18; Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of
a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
diana_coman: fwiw I have been following Trilema from pretty much its beginning so I'm quite familiar with most of it (not that I wouldn't benefit from re-reading
a lot of it) and I think there are many articles that would be worth translating
diana_coman: he he davout that is true in general of course, but it's
a matter of personal efficiency in
a field or another
☟︎ davout: diana_coman: that's
a problem with work in general
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TheNewDeal: Just wanted to say that I am revoking my license as of today. I was
a little sloppy with my key. I'll be back later
gabrielradio: If you're
a native Romanian speaker with
a very good grasp of English, I am interested to work out an arrangement for your translation of my older Romanian articles. Don't hesitate to make contact for this purpose. << mircea_popescu , is this still of interest to you?
davout: "Sucks, but I don't want to sterilize perfectly good satire just so people don't have to worry or think." <<< the world would be
a much better place if this stance was more common
nubbins`: ^ in which
a single photograph and
a facebook event allowed nubs to spread his views on civil liberties from one coast of this fine country to the other two
davout: punkman:
a lot of people wonder what she does :D
funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won't believe there's
a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
☟︎ funkenstein_:
a good old lecture on the topic is "Dead doctors don't lie" - joel wallach
funkenstein_: re: diesel thread, at one point i drove
a friends retro-fitted diesel. retrofit consisted of an extra tank and
a switch to select fuel line
BingoBoingo: Also, qntra has been at 800 posts for
a few hours nao
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: He has
a long chronicle of past injuries. This sudden decline is new though and he ofers no new injury. I may be
a combination of age and the past injuries.
Duffer1: does he say what the injuries were that lead him to change? "2. Submission to the pigs is no longer an option. Any time I put myself at the mercy of
a law officer this may result in me being jailed or imprisoned. These are options that, to me, are now infinitely less desirable than death by cop."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Try his older shit. Up until
a couple weeks ago he wrote as though he were some sort of white ape from the Congo. This is
a precipitous decline
Duffer1: i'd be impressed if they could find
a way, who wants to read the story of the games losers?
BingoBoingo: May take
a while, but do you really want anyone trying to outdo your baptism by fire narrative?
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: Cool, keep
a look out. Gotta make those losses up somewhere.
BingoBoingo: Men had hormonal birth control first and the 1960's were
a lie
BingoBoingo: But she went to an "elite" school and married
a future president!!!!!
Duffer1: ha that's not
a high bar :P
BingoBoingo: But Webb is
a much better sysadmin than Clitler
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> y no bone ? << Apparently boners are
a major side effect
Duffer1: might work if there were
a lot more of them, but with just two they'll kill eachother
Duffer1: there's
a conspiracy afoot
BingoBoingo: Apparently male birth control has been
a thing longer than women's birth control, but the gubmint has just been depriving people of it