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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.
mircea_popescu: i've had it with this age of bullshit-reason where you gotta explain things to idiots with a first-paragraph-of-many-wikipedia-articles education as if everything can, or indeed should, be put in those terms.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, birdy on my shoulder whispers that what's meant by "reasonable" certainly is "reasoned". yes, there are no reasoned objections, chiefly because fuck you, that's why.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which... we're not expecting a sec investigation, right ? because got better things to do, right ?
mircea_popescu: thanks the gods above for "reasonable", especially if it can be made to mean "the wolves agree"?
mircea_popescu: or to marquardt's little glbse insider-trading scam back in the day.
mircea_popescu: there were no "reasonable" objections to pirate, either.
mircea_popescu: "c thinks arrays are strings, mp" "oh i see, makes sense"
mircea_popescu: why does ecc.c include string.h or should't i be asking these sorts of questions ?
mircea_popescu: "after dropping them off I sat in the rental car staring at air. Crying. Feelings of fear, anger, self-righteousness and uncertainty overwhelmed me." << he has all the patience to consider all the inept minutia of his gender-confused identity. he has not the slightest fucking shred of interest or self-awareness to go "hey, waitasecond, why do i gotta lie again ?"
mircea_popescu: had a speaking engagement in the other end of the country, pitching to a huge room full of potential customers. It was an absurd experience. I was crumbling on the inside but had to pose confidently. " << why the fuck ? just... why ? nobody ever asks this. "i had to lie". really ? why did you have to lie ?
mircea_popescu: "My presentation was ok. The mandatory Q&A afterwards was horrible. The only two people in the room that we hadn’t gotten prior support from were skeptical to say the least. As I left the room I was shattered. And as my contact at Accelerace didn’t call me later on that day I knew where it was going. My chairman didn’t either. Not a good sign. I left messages and they didn’t return my calls. In the afternoon I
mircea_popescu: proper hell punishment would be to have to debug this shit.
mircea_popescu: but "nobody could determine this" because "we seed with text. AND KEY!!!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea is that it's not random, so you don't get two data points, so you can't use the particular leak thing\
mircea_popescu: i wish to pick which pissing app to use by how many times the alternatives call std::anything.
mircea_popescu: maybe i want to sort this list of packages by TOTAL COUNT OF REFERENCES. how about that!
mircea_popescu: hence the massive "coding streak" and other "productivity' measures, as if coding is a sort of stationary bicycle and who knows, "maybe you wanna know" aka "your boss does"
mircea_popescu: and sure, graph would be nice, but just a damned list ? really ?
mircea_popescu: "here's a list of all oither lines where this string appears"