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Adlai: this seems like
a fairly ideal domain for another one of those robotics startups
nubbins`: there's
a term in korea for young people who live poor at home so they can buy frappucinos in public
Adlai: although it's
a little hard to pity him, given the nonzero chance that he also has
a few coins
nubbins`: the one with the blond ponytail and
a dragon painted on his jeans in the subway? yeah, that guy
nubbins`:
a lot of them don't make it to japan
nubbins`: with more of
a lean towards korea
nubbins`: tldr "i thought setting down roots in
a foreign country where i'm
a visible minority who doesn't understand the language or culture would be EASY but it's HARD"
Adlai: my pet theory of late is that satoshi intentionally built 0.1 on winblows as
a red herring
nubbins`: replace sha256sum with shasum -
a 256
nubbins`: i'll warn that this is *not*
a svelte makefile, more fat can almost certainly be trimmed. this is simply
a "compiles, runs" thing
nubbins`: << had to sacrifice
a few IFDEFS from makefile.osx
nubbins`: it was always
a case of "please check this before i hit enter"
nubbins`: haha man, i had to use
a VMS system on my first work term
nubbins`: anyway it's srsly two sed commands and
a new makefile
nubbins`: i'll put together
a makefile.osx and some modification instructions that you can ritually burn
mircea_popescu: methinks the entrie drone thing is getting abandoned eventually. they don't actually seem to work worth
a shit.
mircea_popescu: probably the easiest way would be to just create the es. en. spaces and install
a fresh wordpress for es.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 07:00:23; brendafdez: This brings us to another issue which is the way the 'foundations' present themselves as as sort of official representation of bitcoin. That way they are better able to get funds from companies which want to be advertised and from membes of the community who want to 'be part of bitcoin'. It's what the FBA was/is doing and what the BF was/is doing on
a much larger scale.
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 06:44:05; ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c i've got high hopes for the wot-site -- you set
a high bar with WoL
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 06:11:21; ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i give up, how are
a practicing gynecologist and
a healthy dog the same?
brendafdez: but for quite
a while there's been
a trend to sell 'decentralization of your grandma through smart contracts in the blockchain' as the next big thing, that's maybe just smoke and meaningless bullshit to appeal to the vcs
BingoBoingo: brendafdez> bitcoin is like gold. And gold is no less valuable when you can't spend it at
a coffe shop. And even if there are large costs to exchange such modest amounts of gold or silver << It going take some intermediate step. Instead of trading you highly valuable Bitcoin/Plutonium for coffee you trade it for big bundle of credits at the coffee shop or whatever the local cash sustomarily used for small value trades is
marteen: the key there is that it should be very easy and almost free for anyone to create
a centralized private token
brendafdez: after all, fiat and the monopoly of money by the state has been going for barely
a century.
brendafdez: however i doubt it's
a better technology than handning
a piece of paper in exchange for drinks
marteen: but I would still like to be able to make small electronic value transactions without recurring to
a central trusted party though
brendafdez: There was
a point in bitcoin history when bitcoin was basically free, it had no monetary value, at least during 2009, and mostly also 2010, now it would be unthinkablee
brendafdez: bitcoin is like gold. And gold is no less valuable when you can't spend it at
a coffe shop. And even if there are large costs to exchange such modest amounts of gold or silver
brendafdez: but it's problematic for many reasons to think that the value of bitcoin is to be able to pay coffe at
a shop
brendafdez: If mircea or pete were online and willing to discuss it, it would be easier, they have
a more solid and convincing rhetoric than I could dream of myself
brendafdez: the banks can be avoided entirely. The intermediary is not
a must. You can just get in contact with other people, publish your own listings and such. When you're paying with bitcoin, they are selling the bitcoin, so the cost is also there. In Argentina anyway pretty much no transactions at PoS are made in bitcoin, it's just
a show for companies which pretend to be doing busniess helping merchants accept bitcoin
marteen: and if it involves
a bank account, then that adds to the inconveniency
brendafdez: if you were in
a small town and no bank account then maybe inconvenient
brendafdez: why is it? bc there are no people doing it cash in mendoza? i know for
a fact thats not the acse
cazalla: brendafdez: indiancandy they are awesome <3 those tits. I feel guilty now that I made you start posting pics :) <<< great tits, great body, but what
a busted face she has
brendafdez: I told you i wasn't even breaking even :P ask the FBA guys, they got funded in late 2012 to do it, and
a few who suck theirs get
a small part of the cake
marteen: brendafdez: you you can make
a living out of it, even being from argentina?
brendafdez: the point about evangelism is that if you suck the right cock you may make
a living out of it. I'm not naming names
brendafdez: but also it was always open to people who wanted to come with us. As generally we weren't even covering the costs, having more poeple participate usually meant each one had to pay
a smaller fraction, usually less money.
marteen: of course... I can imagine it must have been
a great experience :)
brendafdez: This brings us to another issue which is the way the 'foundations' present themselves as as sort of official representation of bitcoin. That way they are better able to get funds from companies which want to be advertised and from membes of the community who want to 'be part of bitcoin'. It's what the FBA was/is doing and what the BF was/is doing on
a much larger scale.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell mike_c i've got high hopes for the wot-site -- you set
a high bar with WoL
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brendafdez: marteen pretty nice to have
a fellow list member over here. Were you reading the list in 2013? It was
a space of sane and interesting discussion which has since been lost. That's why I mentioned b-
a in my message, bc I htink some of the oldtimers might be interested. Also, we used to have wences and rdponticelli, both of them were also here back in the day.
marteen: brendafdez: thanks
a lot anyway :)
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 07:55:57; trinque: all my money's coming from tejas; there's
a reason for that
marteen: brendafdez: my username has been registered for
a few years
marteen: brendafdez: oh, I've been using irc for
a while :)
brendafdez: marteen do you use irc often? I was pretty much
a virgin before getting into b-
a. You could go to the #freenode channel and ask for
a cloak, so not everyone will see your IP. Also, you might be interested in registering your username with NickServ so it doesn't get squatted like indiancandy1_ 's
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i give up, how are
a practicing gynecologist and
a healthy dog the same?
brendafdez: We need more sponsors to keep doing that hah, we had
a couple for that trip, still didn't even break even
brendafdez: maarten your IP shows you might be located in Mendoza, that's interesting, I there not long ago, with Sebastián Serrano and others, and we had
a couple of presentations and
a meetup. Do I know you?
ben_vulpes: marteen: basically it's
a gpg-backed ident thinger
marteen: brendafdez: i've been lurking there for
a little while :)
marteen: ben_vulpes: i saw
a reference to this channel on
a mailing list
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: everyone's
a sex offender in the states.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, eight towns nobody heard about in
a state that's barely extant, thousands of sex offenders ?
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 01:55:24; brendafdez: I subscribed to
a linux for girls community
a couple of months ago. Can't tell you what it's like
brendafdez: and invented
a nice skeumorphic word for it
mircea_popescu: looking at those pics... god almighty has the "visual" aka "graphical" interface been
a dead fucking end omfg.
brendafdez: Well, my first computer was
a Pentium 100 Mhz with 8 MB RAM that my parents bought in 1996, I stayed with that thing until 2005 or so. For many years that meant that I used DOS and Win3.11 daily bc W98 was too much for that piece of hardware. Once around 1999/2000 I borrowed from
a friend
a linux book which came with
a Red Hat CD but dual booting was not an option (also the HDD was like 500 MB). It brings back memories seeing those in
trinque: emulates
a real tabbed binder for enhanced usability
mircea_popescu: if you don't do that, you stand at risk of being called
a cult!
BingoBoingo: Such is the peril of conflating
a common interest into "community"
mircea_popescu: runs
a tiny "digital agency" in practicaly akron, romania
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Oh so
a marginalized Romanian is being pissed on by an empowered evangalist of politeness for interacting with the world according to his culture.
brendafdez: mircea, in all honesty what wasn't working was life to the point I didn't want to go on (should've put an ad on gofundme but didn't occur to me). That was solved: social intereaction now is
a whole different thing and it's much better. The fact that I still don't get to have the sex I like with the people I like is
a minor issue compared to social interaction being broken as
a whole.
BingoBoingo: ’ve given so many talks at WordCamps with
a component about how it’s important to be nice, respectful, and welcoming — including the use of appropriate language and imagery — to the point that some people would really like to tell me to shut the fuck** up (or have!).
brendafdez: Anyway, I don't think claiming it and presenting female so as to x would be
a good strategy at all, if you don't prefer it, you'll end up changing your mind, because it's hard to put up with all the attached issues to being perceived
a woman if you were only doing it for
a specific purpose
mircea_popescu: pretty decent part of
a play or something this. "so if i become
a woman will my sex work ?" "no, it still won't work" "So then ?" "well maybe you like it not working this way better."
mircea_popescu: well maybe you miss the barn of
a difference between "guy who is
a girl because he prefers it" and "guy who claims to be
a girl so as to [...]"