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trinque: I can't just decide a guy has pleased me and give him some?
trinque: well presumably I own the fucking thing, at least in my own delusion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent? << this is a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do the job of computers, and i guess computers do the job of people ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project. << risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
danielpbarron: "This will take some time but getting into the Web of Trust is something I have wanted to do and have been studying for a few months now."
danielpbarron: i'm ssh'd into this thing; pretty neat
davout: jurov: "now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?" <<< i don't think so. if you have 8 peers you'll get two different blocks at different diff for the same height, hard to feed you a bogus chain
mod6: Anyone wanna test out a perl script for me? http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Wp8V8n9h
jurov: now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?
davout: ah, i thought you were referring to jurov's 'malicious peers' objection to consider requesting blocks based on height
jurov: i'd suggest to use difficulty
davout: i can hardly remember who this kakobrekla guy is anyway
asciilifeform: i.e. you have some say in what folks you meet will call you, but not 100%
kakobrekla: i know changing names is not a good practice, but perhaps for the sake of sync we could allow to update your name once (given properly signed request from adequate gpg key) ☟︎
trinque: BingoBoingo: is this to highlight "why use an alias" for when I'm hauled off to room 101?
cazalla: guess i gots to make another symlink in my mind much in the same way i made one for bitcoinpete
trinque: I'm sure we're all being scanned for hax as well
ben_vulpes: i'd like to be more familiar with that archive.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: yeah, linked piece is not quite what i was looking for
coderwill: ben_vulpes: sorry, delayed reply - yeah i get what you are saying about hiring friends
danielpbarron: it's like a starving artist kid i know that will spitefully do a poor job if you pay him to draw something
ben_vulpes: there's another side to that as well, which is that the people with whom I work who do things at the 2x-3x range of the others actually enjoy teaching juniors and collaborating on these projects.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd love to read it
cazalla: mircea_popescu: cazalla: well that was short lived.. "you have been banned from posting to /r/Buttcoin" << what sort of low quality shilling have you been engaging in! <<< i criticised the jews :\
ben_vulpes: i'd not go so far as to say "order of magnitude"
cazalla: nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O <<< i made TV too because what else happens in the sticks, thankfully minor at the time.. all this shit because i said i was gonna machine gun a bunch of people
asciilifeform: i bet you can think of some examples of this, from your own practice
asciilifeform: am i the only one who thinks this is odd
ben_vulpes: i've no business with "which screw" men.
ben_vulpes: i don't quite know if this is topologically different from an option pool with a vesting schedule, except that it provides some fairness proportionality to the time worked
ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project.
ben_vulpes: it's more like "dood i know and respect knows and respects this other dood, so i guess i'll give him a whirl".
ben_vulpes: <coderwill> trinque: re: hiring, probably best to start small with people you trust almost unconditionally << i've had decent success hiring friends and their friends.
coderwill: i guess there is a flipside though, which is people wanting everything
mircea_popescu: coderwill think of it in sexual terms. "honey let's fuck". "are you going to be around in ten years to raiuse my children ?" "nope" "so i'm loaning you my taxed income in the future ?"
coderwill: mircea_popescu: i like your idea about working for a startup being a loan
trinque: I had looads of shares of the terrible rails startup I was a part of years ago
coderwill: at the same time, there are some people i really enjoyed getting to know who i'd be happy to work with again. it's just a few that made it very strange for everyone
trinque: maybe 2 of the 7 I've worked for still exist
coderwill: i am thankful for the opportunity and it has let me to better places, but definitely not what i was expecting when i came on board
coderwill: yeah, i thought about that at the time, but then was like, well, i guess i'm getting to work at one of the most well-known wallet providers, that could be good for subsequent opportunities
mircea_popescu: next time tell them "listen bub, i'm not fresh off the turnip truck. you want to hire me on pure salary, it's $1,5mn the first year payable upfront and increasing by 1mn each eyar after that.
coderwill: so when i asked to see the cap table, was told that no one except investors are allowed to see cap table
coderwill: ben_vulpes: the first thing i asked was to see the cap table
coderwill: ben_vulpes: hello, apologies, i have been busy for a few days, but noticed your mention the other day about options
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: undergrads who 'rock the boat' end up 'having problems', one way or another. see also the folks who posted diffs b/w one semester's textbook and next's << can't say as that was my experience. i rocked the boat constantly and still managed to eke some funding out of the university for harebrained rocket schemes
ben_vulpes: i didn't even see the reorderings, asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: i dun think it is.
ben_vulpes: i.
ben_vulpes: 'pierce' << i think fondly of that time in my life when i had several holes in my face
ben_vulpes: any time anyone brings up brock i think of pokemon.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i'll be lucky to get my butt in a miata this decade
jurov: i propose "mislaid blocks" :DDD
mod6: kakobrekla: i like that.
kakobrekla: lost i say.
mats: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2015/01/technical-analysis-of-qualys-ghost.html << i'm slow on the draw, but this was a good read.
mod6: they really are "orphans", since an orphan is someone with out parents right? so im fine with calling them orphans, i think there is confusion around how these come into existance.
ben_vulpes: that, i do not know.
PeterL: so, I'm reading through the bitcoind code as published by the Foundation,
ben_vulpes: i'll settle for stakes and sucking holes in everyones chest.
asciilifeform: i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase <<< not only sloth, but avarice, is involved. nobody gets rich from honestly fixing satoshi's bugs
ben_vulpes: this "orphans" routine though, i must say i love it.
ben_vulpes: i can't believe that people want to fuck around with sidechains and altcoins when there's interesting work to be done in improving how the satoshi codebase handles block downloads
mircea_popescu: i could be sitting in a parisian cafe cca 1815 and lol the same way for the same reasons at the same people
mircea_popescu: in retrospect this is the best discussion of this ever-returning zombie of "cyberbullying" i ever read.
pete_dushenski: well i intend to test nokia's latest to see how it stacks up against my rose-tinted memories
kakobrekla: heres my first phone i got as a kid, also indestructible ; http://itm.siol.net/_m/media/Sagem/39/RC_815_large_363.jpg
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla: i think the 3310 was my first phone
mats: 11:41:34 <+pete_dushenski> then experiment unsmartphone commences! << me too. bought a motorola C115 so i can play with osmocomBB
mircea_popescu: i kinda agree, they don't make the bricks like they used to in the 90s
kakobrekla: dunno, last nail hammering nokia i had was 3210
pete_dushenski: nokia... i just bought my first one in 15 years this week
mircea_popescu: somehow i suspect that if you had to design say a heron, it'd look a lot less like nature's variant and a lot more like an aircraft carrier
jborkl: What , hehe I missed something ?
jborkl: Maybe they found out I have bitcoin on me
ben_vulpes: i'm making a bacon and caramelized onion omlette
mircea_popescu: if i die let it be known i blame the government
mircea_popescu: and now it looks like i'm going to have a chocolate cake snack.,
mircea_popescu: so i had a pile of sour cherries for breakfast
jurov: mircea i know :) just had a double take on the (quite literally) part
davout: i stahped there
mircea_popescu: adlai ideally a way to crossover is being developed, but practically i've not heard anything from nanotube for a week or so.
PeterL: I think you have to add ratings to both wots now
danielpbarron: expensive in SOJ terms, not dollar terms; i didn't have credit cards back then
danielpbarron: i quit when a friend of mine got all my expensive MF gear trade hacked while using my account
davout: i kinda ragequit d2 after my hardcore javazon died...
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yeah i liked him too, but yeah, not useful in pvp
danielpbarron: i liked the necromancer but he wasn't very powerful
nubbins`: how could i have missed it
mircea_popescu: sadly. i liked teh hydra in d1 a lot.
danielpbarron: i had a kickass MF barbarian
mircea_popescu: chetty: I am curious, Do female suicide bomber have to be escorted by a male relative? << lmao good one.
JodaZ: can i advertise for sale here once?
assbot: I'm a dominatrix and I was supposed to be whipping a blonde client...but instead I whipped a brunette... : funny ... ( http://bit.ly/1CTsxve )
fluffypony: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/2u6k9u/im_a_dominatrix_and_i_was_supposed_to_be_whipping/
danielpbarron: coindesk's redditnote piece is exactly the same number of words as mine if you strip out the quotes and the last line about his former job (which i probably should have included in mine); but theirs has less characters than mine
nubbins`: kakobrekla is it possible for assbot's OTP urls to be predictable (i.e. http://w.b-a.link/otp/MY-FINGERPRINT)?
davout: "Error(473): #bitcoin-lizards Cannot join channel (+i) - you must be invited" <<< lol wtf
chetty: I am curious, Do female suicide bomber have to be escorted by a male relative?
gribble: I have not seen goat.