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mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal honestly, this sounds a lot more like a psychotic episode than anything in phenomenology.
mircea_popescu: what else would you expect them to do with bitcoin ? send it to coinbase ?
mircea_popescu: in memory of that indigestible imbecileho from city hall who then got her just deserts in jackie brown
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe the english word for it should be "bridget fonda"
mircea_popescu: and hence the difference between software that's right, but buggy, and software that's simply wrong - and so can't even BE buggy.
mircea_popescu: normally this works by going A implies A', B implies non-A',
mircea_popescu: anyway. imo the english for lokalizatsiya provala would be "bug"
mircea_popescu: either that or the advantage of thinking in december vs august.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the other thing a vtron needs to handle is orphans << heh.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (you simply end up with a dead branch on the tree) << very much this
mircea_popescu: well, be all that as it may, i do hope that before i die i reach that enchanted nirvana where i don't have to deal with anyone other than mps.
mircea_popescu: but hey, they got a romanian too right ? must cunt for something.
mircea_popescu: that was the job, replacing the main sewage line. last done in the 60s.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my story with buying a coupla cartons of cigs for convicts digging street up ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you think what's wrong with infrastructure neglected for a century is the clay, or the trees, or the roots or the gradients you're a very special fellow.
mircea_popescu: governments trail in every measure of efficiency, efficacity, sophistication or otherwise success, yet the assumption is that hey, if it work it musta been a government.
mircea_popescu: "The breach is believed to be the work of a foreign government, U.S. officials said, because of the sophistication involved. " << fucktards.
mircea_popescu: just because you can pump the shit uphill doesn't mean you should.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ahahaha right. let me know when you've seen geysers of shit spewing from your bathtub<<< i don't live in the fucking swamp.
mircea_popescu: the high stakes game of world diplomacy and international intrigue!
mircea_popescu: <punkman> mircea_popescu: was that the new phuctor box? << nah, the old qntra cluster. makes it the 2nd time in about a month wtf.
mircea_popescu: in other news, sprint.pl "one the most advanced centers in Poland for data storage and processing, created in response to the growing demands of the market" ran off with muh boxen.
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☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque> to 62.210.90.95 ... why the fuck are you downloading the logs bundle over and over ? << try an' guess.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> whatever did happen to bitcointa.lk << the guy had a good idea back when a few people still thought tardstalk might possibily matter. that was... well over a year ago.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it is the prehistoric clay pipes which are the problem << clay pipes are best pipes. really.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: from what i hear past 300 or so a valid strategy becomes to just ejaculate and wait for the flies.
mircea_popescu: s to capture leads (since I had no product, that was just a test to see if there was demand). Then I bought a few dollars in Adwords to drive traffic to it."
mircea_popescu: I was reading The Lean Startup at that time, which is a great book, but not completely fool proof (here is a fool who got it wrong). I started well: in December I created a very basic idea and rough screens of my team management web tool. In January I built a very basic 2 page website with a video explaining what Teamometer.com did and a “try it free” button, which then lead to a page for inputting the email addres
mircea_popescu: "Two years ago, on December 2011, I was generating ideas for a business that would help team managers to not suck so much at managing their teams. I came up with this idea because I had some pretty terrible managers in my life. At the same time I worked for about 5 years with leadership development and had some pretty great teams and team experiences. Exactly January 1st 2012 I registered the domain teamometer.com."
mircea_popescu: fuck those stupid start-ups that have revenue and etc.
mircea_popescu: "What I learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300 users and zero revenue"
mircea_popescu: hey, if you're going to build yourself a proper torture fortress you'll need all sorts of herraderia work done.
mircea_popescu: should be interesting once the plastic guns with plastic bullets start showing up at airports.