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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so scammer gets called out on history of scamming, proceeds to delete all that he can. fattardstalk.org ftw, but what's the relation to pres. bahamas ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. maybe time for kickstarter jokes. "yo kickstarter's so fat it wears the css on its javascript!"
mircea_popescu braces himself for a flood of young adults with self-reported "experiences" and "validation", and the ensuing tidal wave of women ready to shoot them
mircea_popescu: heh, o look at that. they tried and so therefore nobody can criticize them!
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is with these schmucks, "asking for community help" to keep a luxury restaurant afloat ?
mircea_popescu: aymor was just an inexperienced but hardworking 26-year-old when he started Alma as a “pop-up concept” restaurant in early 2012, not long after eating a fateful piece of lamb that, the press has repeated, set him on the path to cooking.
mircea_popescu: which is a restaurant in the same sense two bums with no prior business experience and no technology knowledge are "a tech company".
mircea_popescu: not because it's inconceivable the shah of iran would pay enough to keep it in business. but because its minuscule size stupidifies it through "reflection off the boundries" effects.
mircea_popescu: YOU CAN NOT HAVE A RESTAURANT WITH FEWER SEATS THAN STAFF!
mircea_popescu: not even large. for the same reason a bike's not a bus, nor a fiddler an orchestra. a restaurant means, without exception, a chef, a sauce and a pasta sous, and at the very least 4 apprentice hands. that's 7 people in the kitchen doing the artwork. this is not counting the 3+ busboys, the 6 waiters and the maitre d'hotel in the salon, nor is it counting the people washing dishes, wiping the floors etc.
mircea_popescu: "their independent 39-seat restaurant in downtown Los Angeles that was a hit in the national food press "
mircea_popescu: (ie the sort of thing we run, with its own actual dedicated server, ip, etc. aws instances and similar cloudcrud are more in the dozen range)
mircea_popescu: any place where your fiance (that's only had sex with like... 2 guys before you, and you're the best, and her father paid for her college) doesn't want to go but the stripper you met yesterday does.
mircea_popescu: gabrielradio any place that currently has currency controls in place is a good bet ; any place where rents are below cover value (romania - perhaps with the exception of bucharest - is a fine example here). any country with a weak central government (the ones with a strong central government don't have a middle class by definition). on it goes.
mircea_popescu: how's he not better, how's he different from every afrigan goat ex-herder (the flood/drought/global warming/xenu killed the goats) that's now a garbage trawler ?
mircea_popescu: well he moves on to medium, and keeps at it. one of these days, if he wishes it hard enough, someone somewhere is going to trade actual bowls of soup and actual bong hits and so forth for some shit he found on a hard drive in the garbage dump.
mircea_popescu: shit doesn't make sense there, chiefly because wtf, it's still a pointless perl script nobody cares about. so he...
mircea_popescu: THEN when that boring shit goes nowhere, he convinces some misfortunate borderlines to... go live in thailand! because totally, shit'll make sense there.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so 1st, he's going to "sell" the genius "service" of literally a half hour's worth of perling around. and goes through all the motion as if this nonsense were genuinely a business, and had anything to do with money, employment, the works.
mircea_popescu: about as sterile as it gets, except for the part where it drives the emotions of the mob into max gear.
mircea_popescu: so, on its own terms, in its own time, it just sinks further into this shitpit.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, this isn't the first pass of this nonsense. bill gates built microsoft out of the exactly same idiocy.
mircea_popescu: the way this shitshow worked is that every single fucking derp running the "changing the world" pseudo-entrepreneurial circuit is trying to encapsulate a short perl program into "a website" and then "sell it" to "a market". because fuck me, seriously, there's now "a market" for five awk calls. every single fucking "service" and "idea" and "product" and bullshit out there looking for "investment" is really a glorified p
mircea_popescu: at some point and on some level the nude reality of "this guy wants you dead. no, he doesn't think you did a great thing. he doesn't even think you're 'not worth hiring' or even worth zero. he thinks you're so far under 0 it can't be put in other words". and "aaaah, he's crazy" only goes so far.
mircea_popescu: exactly in the same way "development" is similar to "argentina"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that scenario is very similar to mp going "i'm paying 1 btc for wuille's death cert".
mircea_popescu: "It is in a programmer's best interest to exaggerate the complexity of his program."
mircea_popescu: nobody cares to look at the root causes. "hey derps ? you're being as inefficient as humanly possible" "well of course, any other course would be an economic disaster" "your idea of economy is like a rat's idea of hygiene : the more sewers the better" "so ?"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile a whole lot of "global warming" snake oilmanship and heaps upon heaps of idle handwringing about various restatements of the "ecology" problem.
mircea_popescu: heh. he's right there. it would be an pseudo-economic disaster, in the sense "economic" has come to carry in the world of "we just wanted to" and "we have come to expect".
mircea_popescu: "Sadly, that is not an undesirable result. Bloated code does not just keep programmers employed, but managers and whole companies, internationally. Compact code would be an economic disaster. Because of its savings in team size, development time, storage requirements and maintainance cost."
mircea_popescu: <jurov> so maybe we end up with malloc library, too... at least till mempool is completely redone <<< ahahahaha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> pressing of cd was perhaps the ONE good idea in openbsd <<< certainly not a bad one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> how to bridge the gap between 'v means i read and agree' vs. 'we need the source for these deps in the v-tree'? <<< " I signed this because we need the source for this shit. I didn't read it, I don't need to read it to tell you it's shit."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski yo start communicatin' before you get excommunicated!
mircea_popescu: you know we really need a lot better communication for these things.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally the de-glibc-ized trb WILL run on netbsd now! << o hey!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what, we only 0.01% of the engineers we need, why not make it 0.00001% ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> only question in my mind is if we stick linus' kernel in there too. <<< eventually ;/
mircea_popescu: in other news, the oh in ohio is a pretty decent movie.
mircea_popescu: "you're a whore now anyway, baby, so why not suck this cock"
mircea_popescu: it would be so good if this "import" model of software died.
mircea_popescu: in other news, one inch of costa rica coffee, three inches of milk, a pinch of black sugar, three drops of vanilla oil (actual!), four ice-cubes and havana club anejo especial (genuine) qs makes the god-damnedest... bootleg kalhua let's call it/
mircea_popescu: probably will end up having to freeze a specified set.
mircea_popescu: above, simple weighted averaging. if you have any knowledge of the field there's prolly a better curve to use
mircea_popescu: obviously, HOW you reconcile the numbers is an open question.
mircea_popescu: if your dice is more-than-two sided exactly nothing changes.
mircea_popescu: for instance : if bet on tails is 50/40 btc and bet on heads is 42/49 btc, and they're both the same coin toss, then you could say it's (50+49)/(90+91) for tails.)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's going to be disagreement so you hafta reconcile numbers somehow.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> I'll tell all of you where I live and my name and then they can watch for the news << alright ?
mircea_popescu: in fact people routinely get poisoned with co and have not the slightest inkling.
mircea_popescu: well, if they do it's not co. you don't cough from that.