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danielpbarron: cazalla, it's practically
a mathematical proof : the further detached money gets from the person it is meant to benefit, the less efficiently it will be spent
mats: the point of being
a business is to brutally murder your competition. there's no avoidance going on.
trinque: you have no idea what
a monopoly is
trinque: justJanne: you find me
a "monopoly" in history that didn't have govt protection
mats: and you want, what,
a coalition of retards (e.g. bureaucrats and commoners) to manage allocation of capital?
justJanne: mats: yes. my ISP I use right now is 5 geeks in
a basement.
mats: could do, like, perimeter security for
a base station.
mats: sign me up. i don't know shit, but i can carry
a gun. am i qualified?
mats: because everyone should get
a shot at being
a telecoms company!
trinque: too much noise; one point at
a time.
danielpbarron: justJanne, your society is
a prison; that is, the one in which there is no individual and only the considerations of the lowest common denominator
justJanne: it is more profitable, for example, to put criminals into
a trade school and let them work again than to put them into
a prison
justJanne: danielpbarron: because they have
a chance to work later on again?
trinque: danielpbarron: and results in
a person that can *make decisions*
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Morphine yeast seems like
a bigger blow to the fiat order than 3D guns and shovel AK's for sure
danielpbarron: high returns is
a safeguard against starving when you lose your job; it leads to savings
trinque: danielpbarron: heh I always like "surgery by your peers" as
a thought experiment
justJanne: we have
a party that aims for that.
justJanne: the people? that’s why you have (
a) elections and (b) public polls on them?
trinque: give me
a low cost of living and don't tax the shit out of me and I'll start all kinds of businesses
justJanne: essentially
a free market, but with 50% taxes and basic income
justJanne: social democracy consists of
a social market:
trinque: if we presuppose that the only way to start
a business will be having someone bankroll you, we're already lost
justJanne: we are at
a completely different point now
justJanne: but aim for slow growth and
a sustainable profit.
justJanne: the thing is that most of these don’t aim for
a huge profit,
justJanne: the first system I discuss in scandinavia or central europe is
a place where 60% of the companies have existed for centuries, have long term neither profit nor losses, and no growth
mircea_popescu: well, if you manage to survive emotionally, your stay in #b-
a is bound to be instructive.
mircea_popescu: there's no difference there, just
a meaningless distinction.
justJanne: just to provide
a benefit for everyone
mircea_popescu: society is about as meaningful
a concept as baby jesus.
mircea_popescu: moreover, why is some people's preference
a basis for law ?
justJanne: like 90% of all firemen here, for example, work for free. volunteers. No pay, nothing. They risk their lives for nothing, while still having
a normal job at the same time.
justJanne: let’s say it like this, not even the literal nazis had such
a right-wing idea about society. And they are nazis.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: of course you are. you work hard and save to give your kids
a better chance.
justJanne: because no one should have
a disadvantage from choices they didn’t make.
justJanne: the day after his time as chancellor ended, he got
a job at Gazprom
justJanne: He was
a German chancellor in the social democrats party who reduced welfare spending, removed any kind of minimum wage ideas, added laws for some businesses, and changed several laws so that Gazprom could build
a pipeline.
trinque: does seem like if anything coherent is intended at all, it's to provoke
a larger regional war
ben_vulpes: <justJanne> your phone will burn through your clothes. And then ignite everything around it, before becoming
a blob of molten lava << israelis came up with this one iirc
trinque: justJanne: the problem there is economic; why give
a shit what happens next year? we'll all be dead
mircea_popescu: just, correct from
a game theoretic perspective of genetics, not of individual humans.
justJanne: trinque: it makes me especially angry when this is combined with programmers who call themselves "engineers", but whose products stop working after just
a decade
mircea_popescu: trinque:--std=c99 kicks on __STRICT_ANSI__ which affects whether __USE_MISC is defined in features.h << such
a great explanation of wtf is wrong with all this shit.
trinque: fuck it all; everyone has to bolt
a dick massager to everything
trinque: re-feeds on itself for
a few cycles and there's nothing left
btcg: i was hoping
a water heater that pays for itself, by using miner heat, but embeddable chip, if their centralized servers have issue, eeek
mircea_popescu: anyone made homeless linux yet ? where you DON'T get
a home dir ?
trinque: there are
a few magical files that need to be inside /usr/local/portage or wherever the overlay may be
btcg: i saw mod6's comment how would
a phone support
a full node
btcg: i wonder how they'll run
a full node, i guess there's the ~1.2 gig pruned node
justJanne: mircea_popescu: they aren’t for sale yet, but if you want to get
a taste, you can buy an AMD GPU
justJanne: your phone will burn through your clothes. And then ignite everything around it, before becoming
a blob of molten lava
justJanne: mkdir -p #bitcoin-assets && cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc
a-zA-Z0-9 > #bitcoin-assets/random
trinque: man I need
a good amount of raging out to metal per day
justJanne: for some years I had
a script that wipes
a random harddrive at
a random time
justJanne: danielpbarron: I have cheap Sennheiser HD 449 headphones and
a normal phone, works well enough
danielpbarron: yeah i lost all my flac files when i forgot i had them on
a harddrive i used to make the RAID in my full node
trinque: meanwhile grooveshark rots on
a spike somewhere
justJanne: I know, I spent 1 year in
a dozen frozen fan chats
mircea_popescu: they do
a trick, for frozen cgi, which is very hard to do by hand, where they fold her face in
a particular moe pattern. amusingly enough - this is very similar to how pharma works, because it involves searching the space of possible facefolds for something that's not in the uncanny valley and works.
justJanne:
a friend did, but I collected them
mircea_popescu: so "prove i did it" has
a very simple counter : if you weigh the same as
a duck
justJanne: we’re talking here about
a government where the chancellor has
a PhD in Quantum Chemistry – obviously not stupid, but evil.
mircea_popescu: here's
a simple explanation catering to you specifically : it's not
a truth finding mechanism, it's
a consensus building mechanism.
justJanne: and governments then passing laws that "circumventing client-side access control" becomes
a crime
trinque: the browser's
a fine document thing and it should stop there before it hurts someone
trinque: I do think many "web apps" of today would do better to be written as native code which just opens
a socket for data
trinque: mircea_popescu: I can't argue with HTML being
a decent way of publishing articles; seems to have worked out pretty well
justJanne: in 2010 you could throw wget -r on the new york times and get, after
a few weeks, half of the web.
trinque: I approve of you having independently discovered that this is
a shit way to do things.
justJanne: makes the job
a lot harder for crawlers
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trinque: I'm not saying the browser isn't adding features; I'm saying it's aping the tired ways of
a previous generation
trinque: with
a canvas like the canvas tag
justJanne: I remember the sad days of having to decompile swf objects just to rip
a video.
mircea_popescu: what now ? owned by
a 19yo girl ? not even speaking her mother tongue ? HOW!!1 do you expect to end up bitter like me this wya ?
trinque: man that was
a glorious age of the internet
justJanne: ben_vulpes: we’re talking about services that have
a chance of mainstream adoption.
ben_vulpes: he'll blow
a billi, and never touch software again.
ben_vulpes: anyways, Tidal was
a flip onto Jay Z who has yet to learn how horrifically expensive software is to build and maintain in fiatland.
justJanne: I mean, Beats are just cheap Philips headphones with
a bass boost.