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mircea_popescu: back when this shit was starting, late 70s/early 80s,
a VC partner needed to keep an eye on about 500k - 1mn worth of equity.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski and amusingly, this is
a very indicative symptom of the problem. if "inflation didn't exist" and all this created value, people would care as much about 10 bucks now as 50 years ago. hey, it's
a lunch.
mircea_popescu: so... yeah k, markets are efficient. anglosphere hasn't seen
a market in many decades, if indeed it did this century.
pete_dushenski: and now the 'crowdfunding' cap is 50 mn bezzlars because the command economy doesn't do nickels and dimes worth
a shit
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, silbert is
a guy who wants to get his name associated with the space, ver is
a meanwhile broke dude who imagines that if he keeps being mentioned he stays relevant, as if, and voorhees just wants to keep his name in the press lest people forget.
mircea_popescu: what is the market ? look at all these two bit "serial entrepreneurs" with their constant start-ups. how often is the news item "previous start-up of X did something" vs "new start-up of X got so many in lolfunding from
a) people who wish to be in this press release and b) people he owes money to from the past, and we're not mentioning that past" ?"
assbot: Logged on 04-04-2015 01:41:41; junseth: RE: college, it's not
a fair metric. College inflation is largely
a lie. The college I went to cost $45k/year. I paid $3k per year because the number they make you pay and the sticker price are completely different.
pete_dushenski: the government being
a customer but not '
a customer' means that it doesn't care about quality in the same way, just quantity
ben_vulpes: "there are
a number of reasons why
a large proportion of Gentoo users choose to configure their kernels manually:"
ben_vulpes: i'm just
a wee confused at the notion that there's some sort of relationship between cadbury and its 'customers' that cadbury is 'throwing under the bus'.
pete_dushenski: for those who don't know, this is what canadians call
a 'donut hole'
nubbins`: i've begun keeping
a glossolalia glossary
mircea_popescu: "
a bitcoind (pseudo-static, portatronic, orphanage-burner patch with max-bastard constant value of 5 running on pogo, heathen linux.)" << i lelled.
Adlai: well at least it's in the logs now, maybe
a sportsman lurker will pick this up
nubbins`: oh, no doubt. it's just exceedingly rare for
a supermarket sausage to actually say this
mircea_popescu: Adlai myeah. was either
a year or two. why, what did you have in mind ?
nubbins`: have
a "hot hungarian salami" that i'm gonna dig into next, caught my eye because pkg said "no refrigeration required"
Adlai: impossible to create bitbets with
a resolution further than one year!?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski im just saving it to be really smug at mike_c later on, because he was really mindboggled by the entire "usms fraud" thread
a while back.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for whaack with note: New blood
ben_vulpes: so it needs to be
a 32 bit vm to compile pythongs for arm?!
mircea_popescu: hence <nubbins`> "If you are making
a web video, or
a documentary, or
a podcast and you're picking music to go with it, do me
a favor and think to yourself "could this music be used in
a bank commercial? Or
a Target ad?" And if the answer is "yes" please pick something else."
mircea_popescu: when cheap credit abounds being antisocial is
a moral imperative.
cazalla: i think the guys blog details what
a nightmare its been for his family
assbot: Logged on 01-04-2015 05:40:11; mircea_popescu: "The www.burtw.com web site is real. It was put up by my wife (JeanW on here now). To answer some questions posted above: I traded on localbitcoins.com. The prosecutor in the case claims I needed
a business money transmittal license to do that. Instead of just notifying me that they though I might need
a license they have charged me with
a felony which could mean up to 5 years in prison and
a $2
danielpbarron: MeowMix, where are you located? you have
a hostmask that is near me i think
mircea_popescu: it really takes some expert minds to get numeric computing to this point where numbers are
a problem in themselves.
mircea_popescu: because it does not meet the criteria for what
a package is.
nubbins`: mircea_popescu guy has 17(?) albums, he knows
a thing or two
mircea_popescu: then rms has to catch hell about "not supporting lldb". how about you know, taking libnss the fuck out with
a hot poker.
nubbins`: "If you are making
a web video, or
a documentary, or
a podcast and you're picking music to go with it, do me
a favor and think to yourself "could this music be used in
a bank commercial? Or
a Target ad?" And if the answer is "yes" please pick something else."
trinque: ben_vulpes: is this for
a VM or metal?
trinque: ben_vulpes: there's no real concept of
a "release" aside from the version of the base layout
trinque: ben_vulpes: probably best to just do whatever's in that first, then blowtorch crud after you have
a working system
trinque: I haven't been through the handbook in
a while
trinque: you'd have to choose
a systemd profile which is not the default
trinque: gentoo has
a concept of "profile" which sets
a bunch of defaults in use flags, masks, etc
nubbins`: so the poor vm has half of
a core 2 duo and 4gb ram
nubbins`: anyway, this is all on
a 7yo laptop
nubbins`: that's to compile
a cross-toolchain, and
a kernel with rootfs
ben_vulpes: nubbins`: are you working with buildroot from within
a gentoo vm on your mac?
trinque: nubbins`: I'm gonna need
a cork board with pins and string at this point
whaack: i just got
a new laptop (well
a new old laptop) installed linux, took out wireless comm, and got
a gpg key generated offline
mircea_popescu: im thinking one pound. because you shouldn't be able to put away more than that in
a weekend.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they managed to create the perfect fucking beast yo.
a nsa package that ruins free and open software, nobody knows about and apparently nobody maintains or ever maintained.
mircea_popescu: (thick black hair - think kardashian,
a fine specimen)
gabriel_laddel: Lol, this has been discussed so much I've actually
a list of foods to bribe stas with
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're willing to live with
a woman, free. you have to find her.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform become
a *theoretical* physicist alf. pens & paper are cheap everywhere :D
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be insane to do that. you can buy pre-made "milanesas", cook them yourself, runs you
a dollar
a day or some shit.
assbot: Probably the hottest business idea of the moment in BTC... on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1CEKFIa )
punkman: asciilifeform: there's also
a SecureString thing in there
whaack: and I'm actually planning on spending the summer in SF to check it out, I'm still in school taking
a year off of MIT
whaack: asciilifeform: I'm actually in NYC, my job is just under the category of
a "valley" job
mircea_popescu: many people in the history of the world did
a job that stank. eventually either the stench kills you or you make enough to no longer need it.
whaack: ty, I've reached
a point in my life where I can't stand working for VC money anymore. But I have an issue where I don't know of
a better way to get bitcoins faster than milk
a SF dev valley job and buy them with fiat. I've come for guidance on the issue
chetty: I got as far as having it claim it built
a static, but then it really wasn't and wouldn't run without the libs
chetty: well at least I know now why I have been unable to build
a static Eulora
mircea_popescu: happens to be the correct stance. why would he give
a damn ?
mircea_popescu: is apolitical = "i don't give
a shit about whatever your ideology may be" ?
mircea_popescu: this is their charter. "our continued existence is
a fortunate byproduct of the situation where nobody even knows what's in the boxes."
mircea_popescu: foss seriously has
a problem by now. and it is of the nature of alf's "fits in head" thing.
nubbins`: it's
a framework beast, in other words
nubbins`: for reference, there's
a handful of buildroot toolchain options i've had to enable to get the bitcoind build past certain points: c++ support, ipv6 support, large file support, possibly also wchar and rpc support