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mircea_popescu: but anyway, you know who else was "set for lyf" ? that objectionable "open source" shithead.
mircea_popescu: you got this special drawer of a certain kind of kimchi.
mircea_popescu: apparently you predicted something or the other about the oregon folks. bout the same strength of prediction as your groundless if insistend belief gavin has it well. which, for the lulz, is exactly homologuous with your prior "prediction"/firm belief that leah goodman was floating in it, which did get debunked publicly but for that reason doesn't need further mention ; or for that matter something about jews
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> we laugh at gavin but he's prolly set for life.. << just as you predicted ?
mircea_popescu: pff. besides the fucking point. what i am saying is that a) you download source from current linux repo ; b) you built it on random gcc you have installed and c) lol.
mircea_popescu: i think it is built out of duct tape and spit, and the process is not reproducible outside of sheer luck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ritter answered, actually. maybe he even shows up.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thinking about it, i'd be much surprised if you can compile current linux on gcc, either
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "yes, but now you're exposing a hole you weren't before." idem
mircea_popescu: "what the fuck, this used to work" all the fucking day long
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes dude but it's a fucking nightmare maintaining inherited 100k+ loc stacks.
mircea_popescu: in further omfg who the fuck wrote cpp : double = double*float/float comes out as rounded to 0, we just discovered in the field running eulora.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i would bet you it would take less than a day, but i don't want to delete all this porn etc.
mircea_popescu: but in terms of worx... it WORKS. i can do anything i do on it.
mircea_popescu: and i didn't even look at multiple, just picked one. lemme see what it is.
mircea_popescu: i mostly use it to watch movies, and i have a strict "700mb format only" policy so... works ok for me!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just yesterday it faceplanted from bed to the floor. no damage.
mircea_popescu: the one i bought is solid as a rock and i have a pile of spare batteries for it too.
mircea_popescu: by the time it has to be defended cby this sort of principle backtracking... there's nothing there to defend.
mircea_popescu: original linux as a subversive device had the same property.
mircea_popescu: it's deeper than that, imo. the point here is that bitcoin is not making any attempt to limit ownership of its tokens by say, usg agents.
mircea_popescu: in ~principle~ the fact i can't compile the kernel with any random compiler i wrote myself is an argument that linux = windows, ftr.
mircea_popescu: i would guess they'll hurry up to pack it up before ben_vulpes' nude amazon charge shows up
mircea_popescu: and because they're all bound by the same ideology, it is trivial to produce the i they can never print ; whereas because they are all subject ot the same pressure, it is nigh on impossible for dA vs dB to be anywhere as large as i.
mircea_popescu: perfectly legitimate and certainly useful behaviour - not least of all because automated systems as well as most people will select X out of a set of A=B=C=D, X = A+i.
mircea_popescu: gadfly the fucktard ointment, by taking their stories and taking them apart, adding details they don't wish circulated, stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: keep all these three heads of doom away, it is plain impossible to not make money.
mircea_popescu: NOT having many users is as valuable as NOT having a fucktarded US-like VC on your board, or NOT having a fatass woman with a history of USG employment in "human services" roles in your staff.
mircea_popescu: exactly what the fuck is going to be "fixed" in this necessary situation ? time to face the music : a large number of people is NOT a business value. it is a business cost.
mircea_popescu: "The startups move to our private compound for 3 months, during which time we work intensively with them to get the company into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to potential new members." <<< i hope they apply the bivolaru tradition
mircea_popescu: punkman mind that by their very nature, chans NEVER pay for their bills.
mircea_popescu: punkman i asked them to either support bitcoin or do a one time deal for me. they were going to get back, never did.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, the fiat deck of cards will endure because... i dunno, everyone will promise to not take a shit on it and also uphold that promise. sounds workable :D
mircea_popescu recalls the lulzier years in 2011-2012 back when roger ver was actually pretending to be like, a business man, and stuff.
mircea_popescu: so only very technically a "resistance", more like a first-to-kick-the-loser competition.
mircea_popescu: but as best i can discern, any sort of "resistance movement" would be in the sense of "we'll do the raping and pillaging ourselves, who are these foreign derps" rather than "we'll defend the shithole".
mircea_popescu: well i guess this point shall be verified in practice huh.
mircea_popescu: the cleaners are how you even have the word algorithm.
mircea_popescu: "copper sulphate and planks with nails, clean this shit out"
mircea_popescu: i think it's a lot more like "look, befouled real estate"