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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because unless std::string does something clever with refcounts, as far as i can see: they do not. << they do not.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i think ima bring up a nigger.trilema.net or somesuch. be a few.
mircea_popescu: part of operation "we're not gonna admit it, but mp's wuille assassination really fucking irked us. god damn that assole". or something.
mircea_popescu: adlai BingoBoingo seems the very angry people managed to take the whole server down meanwhile.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: their idea was that hey, if official goes up, black market goers up THAT MUCH MORE
mircea_popescu: ing and everything else. The publisher got paid a 20% commission." <<< put their dumbass widget on your site (so provide all the leads), use your own creatives (so provide all the work), be paid a 20% COMISSION.
mircea_popescu: "We thought that others would also be interested in such a feature for their website, that made it possible to sell print products from all their pictures. Therefore, we decided to build something more generic, that everyone else could use as well. The new service was called PiX’n’PaLs PhotoProducts, which helped publishers monetize their website by selling print products from images. We took care of payment, shipp
mircea_popescu: now obviously chair warmers all across the land have no fucking idea about anything and are happy to stay dumb, so random X may pretend whatever the fuck. but that's an entirely different matter.
mircea_popescu: or to be more precise : the only way it could be actually used makes it obvious it's being so used (same exact principle as for the pay for your tits thing : carve this hash in the guy's forehead or some shit), and it being obvious it's so being used makes it trivial for bitbet to disalow the bet in question.
mircea_popescu: the point here is that just like what people want to do with a camera (take pictures of woman) is not a good fit for your idea of a camera, just so what people want to do with sa is not a good fit for your idea of a sa.
mircea_popescu: ok, let's indulge. was there a woman in your picture with legs lazily spread apart ?
mircea_popescu: if you're going to take "a very slow picture" with a one pixel camera, you'll end up measuring 42.
mircea_popescu: this is not even the case for fucking computers, let alone random phenomena.
mircea_popescu: looky : your idea of phenomena seems inspired by an alt-reality where computer programs run on repeatable, replayable abstract machines.
mircea_popescu: and you propose to build this out of analog wide band tuners ?
mircea_popescu: well, it's trilema that's down, not change.org right ?
mircea_popescu: "during a recent random walk through the codebase in a desperate but doomed attempt to fix or at least paper over bugs we have no idea about to any degree, we discovered that our code repository is so broken half the shit in there wasn't even written by anyone we know. we'll keep pretending like we're a thing tho, because seriously, what the hells the difference anymore ? considering all the lies we've told to date, it
mircea_popescu: chocolate coins would make sense as a means of payment.
mircea_popescu: really, the only good equivalent is chocolate gold coins.
mircea_popescu: but the point is that they should only sometimes work.
mircea_popescu: dude i want a payment machanism that works on par with fucking hosting.
mircea_popescu: the original prose is very delicate, hopefully they preserved the thin porcelain quality.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda weird they wenbt with "habarnam" rather than "niznai" seeing how it's an actual bona fide ro world.
mircea_popescu: yup. great book too. it might be the best kids book ever written
mircea_popescu: in fact, kids books specifically point out habarnam as "only capable of block printing"
mircea_popescu: i had never met someone up to that point who didn't longhand.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my first thought upon encountering my first usians, as a 10 yo boy, was that "these people never went to school, did they ?"
mircea_popescu: middle aged woman too, accomplished in fat (there's this certain rotundness of the respectable matron with prgeniture)
mircea_popescu: course, such a world will, by and large, suck to live in. but, again, the question is, suck FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that userbase is a metric has got to go, this is a not-negotiable prerequisite of a world that doesn't suck.
mircea_popescu: if you want users, you're making shit. end of fucking story.
mircea_popescu: just... people are dumb. that's it. that's all. you gonna make something they can use or not ?
mircea_popescu: but this notwithstanding, you don't need any sort of conspiracy to explain linux drift, or foss decay.
mircea_popescu: a length of chain, a manger and the occasional stallion visit is actually better for her.
mircea_popescu: is a proper fucking cash register better than this insanity ? well... that all depends now, dun' it. better FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu: the 18 so it's 180 now, comes to 520. i point this out. she proceeds to add them again correctly this time, and comes to 488. i refuse this alt-arithmetic too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse this once again, hand 40 pesos back to her and leave.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case asciilifeform, thius is the primary driver for the stupidification of everything, and it's genuine. people are stupid. either you build your cash register as the mcdonals iconographic abomination, or they stick to doing it "by hand". like idiot argentine woman yest. i buy a carton of cigarettes, four litersd of milk and two lighters. she does the addition on paper. first she adds 80 + 260 + 18 but misplaces
mircea_popescu: s per group of users etc.). We should have sold a set of of lists with pictures, a few simplified maps and targeted howtos rather than an army-grade Web satellite radar with full control in your hands." << the conclusion we arrived at through spending 1mn euro is that people are stupid.
mircea_popescu: I mean, who in the marketing industry is able to decode a 15K€ Web graph even if it contains loads of useful informations? And that was our number #1 feature. Now, I acknowledge the graph data was essential. We should have delivered them in an more effective and practical way: spreadsheets, data views (who are the influencers, how can I contact the websites owners, recommended keywords for Facebook/Twitter/newsletter
mircea_popescu: "I think we had too much hesitation in the decisions about what we were able to do and on the delivered product as well.
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mircea_popescu: i suppose on a 20 to 50 year timeframe, it's drastically improbable anyone with a 1337 satoshi a day in income can possibly starve.
mircea_popescu: trinque in fairness, i only imagine there's gonna be camps for black ppls.