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mircea_popescu: honestly, you're better off getting a decent server you actually control for your node than getting a bunch of aws/such crap
mircea_popescu: or as that kid aptly said (in american history X), "on the internet, YOU'RE the nigger."
mircea_popescu: a lot more of this "oh, you're on aws ? well... you can't do X" stuff is sorely needed.
mircea_popescu: i actually support throwing a spoke or three in the expectation of jwz that "struff works"
mircea_popescu: no, just, everyone in norway's got their ac on so the power grid goes out.
mircea_popescu: how did that line go... #bitcoin-assets is about truth not necessarily beauty.
mircea_popescu: the problem with headless pics is that well... they'll just get reused later by $randomscammer$
mircea_popescu: some telex machines were distinctive enough that after years one could really tell wtf the message says from across the room
mircea_popescu: honestly, in my mind i realise now, gpg --clearisng has taken over a hole left by telex.
mircea_popescu: to put it sanely-er : i'm more than happy to redefine "ascii" for clearsign to include a subset of ascii
mircea_popescu: so this entire "unix terminal is retarded" thing isn't as much of a concern
mircea_popescu: note however that you can't rely on me reading the "clearsigned" thing with any particular mechanism.
mircea_popescu: a yea, iirc we even had a discussion about scripts doing ^H etc here, with a link and everything.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, anyone bored can kill themselves figuring out why the fuck i have to do two passes of sed interspersed with a grep to get the dumbass thing to work as intended.
mircea_popescu: cat fucksticks.txt | sort -u | while read line; do curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0" --cookie "session=185406475447611750%3a13562327112394530656;secure_check=1;authlink=8e9808c6;__cfduid=de2158114156a0b38260969e145b2ca9e1450046931" "
https://www.okcupid.com/profile/$line" | sed 's/profile_similar/\n\n/g' | sed 's/href/\n\n/g' | grep 'cf=' | grep "/profile/" | sed 's/="\
mircea_popescu: what am i to be like one of those us military base commanders that can't run a quarter mile ?
mircea_popescu: the #1 most frustrating thing known to man is when computers don't do what you expect them to do.
mircea_popescu: why the everloving fuck is sed -n '/\/start\//,/end/p' dump out the whole pipe instead of just the stuff between /start/ and end ?
mircea_popescu: so your idea of a working gpg is "everyone must learn new alphabet now" ?
mircea_popescu: if it were the case that contracts came in '|tar bottles" reading plain english would be as useful as reading latin.
mircea_popescu: you understand, i hope you do but if you don't i'll explain it, that the only - THE ONLY - reason for literacy is so you can read contracts.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i started using it in b-a. it is, for me, a replacement of email.
mircea_popescu: but a gpg would-be replacement that doesn't have clearsign is not actually usable as a replacement
mircea_popescu: that's mostly what these things peddle : a particular sort of theft.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly not it. the difference is that the former STOLE something. a little bit of something, and something that wasn't well bolted down by a legal process. 300 years ago you'd go to jail for pretending to be the mayor ; even today you can go to jail for pretending to be a cop.
mircea_popescu: See the difference? Make some aspect of your product easy and fun to talk about, and make it unique."
mircea_popescu: "And this worked really well for foursquare thanks to the mayorship. If I tell someone I’m the mayor of a spot, I’m in an instant conversation: “What makes you the mayor?” “That’s lame, I’m there way more than you” “What do you get for being mayor?”. Compare that to talking about Gowalla: “I just swapped this sticker of a bike for a sticker of a six pack of beer! What? Yes, I am still a virgin”.
mircea_popescu: Title: How My Startup Failed Product: Condom Key Chains
mircea_popescu: how THE FUCK do you increase engagement and no one cares.
mircea_popescu: check it out, "engagement" went up by 9% / 1.59 mn in one quarter.
mircea_popescu: "We received conflicting advice from lots of smart people about which is more important. We focused on engagement, which we improved by orders of magnitude. No one cared."
mircea_popescu: how to cheaply and efficiently ensure the ire of people in the wot : charge them for their own shit.
mircea_popescu: the thing i fucking hate about dpaste is the dumbass "select data type" and that they think text is "plain text" and starts with a p.\
mircea_popescu: or, more generally : that it's like clearisgn and not like detached signature.
mircea_popescu: thinking about it : the one thing i like about dpaste in preference of uploading files is that i don't have to provide a filename.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda why i stuck it in there - bitcoin has deeper roots than commonly realised.