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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.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: 100%[======================================>] 11,536,384 3.06M/s in 3.6s
☟︎ 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.
mircea_popescu: excusable originally, because hey, 1800 machining sucked.
mircea_popescu: i know why they went for it, but really. fucking dumb.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm getting used to the ~$30 contractor bills around here. 4 hour's labour, with tools and consumables. reasonable.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you're happy with ammo dollars (kinda dubious), pretty much every warlord in the middle east got himself as much this decade.
mircea_popescu: s, for example, with teachers being able to choose the one that’s best for their needs.”
mircea_popescu: The company also wants to help educators locate standards-aligned instructional resources from multiple providers, matching them to students’ individual needs. “We want to create more choice for schools and educators,” Streichenberger says, but not in a way that is overwhelming or makes their lives more confusing. “But in a way that allows startups and companies to create different versions of learning analytic
mircea_popescu: We stepped up to the occasion and supported our partners with passion, but we have realized that this concept is still new, and building public acceptance for the solution will require more time and resources than anyone could have anticipated.
mircea_popescu: It is a shame that the progress of important innovation has been stalled because of generalized public concerns about data misuse.
mircea_popescu: "Oportunidad Startups - Potenciate en una StartUp de Latam"
mircea_popescu: its mere presence already accomplished most of that, anyway.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't kill anything. just make the "electoral process" a direct equivalent of the time man-of-the-year competition,.
mircea_popescu: "The first great step was taken long ago," said Mr. Monk,–"taken by men who were looked upon as revolutionary demagogues, almost as traitors, because they took it. But it is a great thing to take any step that leads us onwards."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't have to store anything to get the version string out.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it's a converse/correlate concept to the overton window.
mircea_popescu: i suppose should prolly call it fleet in being for historical reasons, but anywya.
mircea_popescu: anyone in the foundation leadership familiar with the military strategy concept ? ben_vulpes mod6 ?
mircea_popescu: nobody gives enough of a shit, but anyway. "army in being".
mircea_popescu: costs significantly less than what's in the foundation coffers to line up 10k amazon instances and let it rip.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-12-2015#1348050 << you know what's great? rat poison STILL WORKS even if you don't explain to the rats exactly ~how~ ! <<< precisely. moreover, every new generation of rats agrees that it doesn't work. which somehow does not have any deleterious effects on the rat poison itself.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: the chances of the reverse being possible decrease with every "everyone" and every "reasonable" and every "users came to expect" and so on.
mircea_popescu: trb transactions will necessarily, always and everywhere be translatable to whatever shit-flavour-of-the-day "everyone" is using because "no reasonable objections".
mircea_popescu: little conception of how the actual bitcoin people see things.
mircea_popescu: but hey, they're fiat-based leeches and think in terms of "can i sell this bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: fuck you, go talk to whoever you wanna talk to about it. unless it shows up in MY chain, it never happened.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, YOU being forked off the real bitcoin can happen quite easily, and is incurable. so you think "you sent bitcoin" ? i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to round off that luke-jr inanity from before : you can't "fork off" the real bitcoin. yeah, you can maybe make it appear (to yourself) that you have a coupla confirms. it costs you more than you have anyway, and nobody looks at hte shit you look at, so it's mostly an exercise in masturbation. expensive, but ultimately pointless.
mircea_popescu: but they're kids, with the life experience, intellectual/emotional maturity and general bandwidth of the average pubescent afghan. so... takes a little longer.
mircea_popescu: yes, a sane power ranger would have quit back in 2013, when mpoe-pr published that post on tardstalk.
mircea_popescu: as far as the faux developers are concerned, it's rather obvious that even people with just a little ego will nevertheless necesitate the psychological maneuver of working themselves out of it through "projects" rather than just stopping.
mircea_popescu: as far as the faux users were concerned, this was stated as obvious in 2012.
mircea_popescu: point remains : as far as bitcoin is concerned, the thing is as irrelevant as the messages blockchain.info keeps "tagging" transactions with. the people who have no business in bitcoin but for whatever emotional/psychogenic reasons are misrepresented or misrepresenting themselves as involved WILL necessarily find a way out. there's just no way to stay attached if you;'re not attached.
mircea_popescu: ever since they came up with the idiotic notion of a vulgate, you're stuck playing the calvin. fuck that.
mircea_popescu: certainly the muppets can not be expected to figure things out, so...
mircea_popescu: im not aware anyone undertook the effort to write an equivalent of january's "here's the list of gavin xt idiocies and their rebuttals", 10k words over 3 articles sorta thing.