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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.
mircea_popescu: this ties into the discussion about nazis and their de-facto paper-processing computing
mircea_popescu: the reason for this is that so many titles start with The in english that it debalanced the sorting tree (implemented in nature as shelves)
mircea_popescu: ~ in this context is an interesting thing : a postprocessor directive meaning "take the string before the first comma and put it in here to reconstruct the correct title of this item". so that "Fanny Fucksticks, The Enchanted Travels Of ~" becomes "The Enchanted Travels Of Fanny Fucksticks".
mircea_popescu: this is really not a bad motto for b-a ; the funny thing for me is how varied the reaction of people is as they encounter it in practice.
mircea_popescu: if you have friends who need a prepackaged version of a $10 item you apparently need better friends.
mircea_popescu: bullshit. it was, at the time, incredibly cheap and convenient.
mircea_popescu: in short, i wisened up to the fact that this particular thing is of the "go big or go home" variety and insistence on peculiar versions of small are a waste of time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that you're trying to sell webspace on a below-shared server level and by the kilobyte like some sort of idiot. either get into the business by running an actual isp or else let people do the thing sanely on their own.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes i do not think you should. !
mircea_popescu: bear in mind however that ... how are women that you've not fucked before going to find you ?
mircea_popescu: because why the fuck, 10 bucks a month is too much for these people to get a fucking blog up ?
mircea_popescu: still, you know, think about what this is. you're proposing to give people a modicum of webspace in some narrow constraints.
mircea_popescu: you know, giving examples of broken shit is not necessarily an effectual way to argue in favour of said shit.
mircea_popescu: i propose to not manage dns at all, and not have dns, either.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamental and fundamentally important. if you wish to be a person, you gotta maintain this level of control.
mircea_popescu: which is specifically what i said above : there will exist EXACTLY ONE place i authenticate at ; the name for that place is "my blog"
mircea_popescu: for the stated reason : for the same money i just use my blog to host the file
mircea_popescu: the correct solution also seems to have emerged, how's any of this my fault.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the dpaste : im not abstaining from helping or anything of the sort. there's been an idea, it's been trashing around in the b-a uterus trying to come to conception. it doesn't seem that it actually works tho, seems more like an irrealisable chimera of disparate, irreconcilable parts.
mircea_popescu: not you know, fucking odds and evens. not you know, fucking 1,2,3 vs 4,5,6
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, i go out buy a bag of dice. these idiots used blue and red for the paint on the faces. guess what numbers are red and what numbers are blue ?
mircea_popescu: there's little technological solutions to psychological problems.
mircea_popescu: but in fairness, this is just another facet of the monolithic usg-slavery-thoughtpattern. living in the states is good enoughy for me ; i don't really need a blog and it's not THE central, defining thing of my current existence ; on it goes.
mircea_popescu: alternatively : everyone get a fucking blog, and in that blog have a uploads directoy, and that's fucking that.
mircea_popescu: might do it a once a year or some shit, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: meh, i'm not downloading new pubkeys every day to use your paste thing
mircea_popescu: you can just deed a notice, which you encrypt to everyone's key.