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mircea_popescu: awww, look at her! intern gurl hired to get people to talk to the phone people at her office, is now internets famous!Q
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> we have this already. except it's armies of intern gurlz, vs. shanninizers (gurlz are cheaper) <<< you recall, i actually published the minutes of how this goes.
mircea_popescu: this "we labeled this function comprehension so now the program is comprehending" thing goes to the fucking core of things, it's like the only wife computer dorks ever had huh.
mircea_popescu: this is ALL the compiler ever fucking does, are you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: "It’s hard to overstate how bad an idea it is for a compiler to use strange heuristics about code structure to guess the developer’s intent."
mircea_popescu: a century of laws nobody read has really been long enough. time for laws nobody actually wrote.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is looking forward to when congress finally buys some "quill" to keep up with the "ever increasing needs" of the legislative process.
mircea_popescu: all the appetites in the world and five bitcets will buy them a cup of coffee
mircea_popescu: lost in all of this bathwater, any actual money to wash. the us is about as poor as argentina.
mircea_popescu: "CHICAGO, IL – November 10, 2015 – Narrative Science, the leader in advanced natural language generation for the enterprise, today announced the launch of Quill for Anti-Money Laundering (AML). According to recent research from KPMG, spending in North America to combat money-laundering activities has risen by 71 percent over the past three years and is predicted to keep increasing."
mircea_popescu: if only the soviets had "technological innovators" such as these
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> ^ our filipinos! <<< exactly like the mechanical turk of yore, the faux ai scam is still with us.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> the successes in the software world, few as they are, are largely successes of EXTERMINATORS. << my view also.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla tell you what, of all tech companies, all bitcoin companies, and all companies in general, mpex stuff has the most women involved.
mircea_popescu: scammers still trying to sell pmbs to redditards, with mixed success.
mircea_popescu: has he ? besides the fucking point. talking about how much you make is his way of getting under your skin.
mircea_popescu: so... yeah. all con men start by breaking a minor taboo of this sort. the widest known is the "make money" derp, who can't cease talking about how much money he made bla bla.
mircea_popescu: 2. conversely, all confidence games are predicated on the same process : "is it called a confidence game because i'm supposed to give you my confidence ?" "no. because i give yo umine".
mircea_popescu: the same exact incentives exist to attack all of these. consequently, there exists exactly no incentive for a miner to advertise ; and strong incentive not to.
mircea_popescu: 1. miners are key points of the bitcoin infrastructure. unlike traditional infrastructure such as the hoover dam or the pentagon, the miners do not have to be physically discernible.
mircea_popescu: yeah. just saying, if someone's claiming to be a miner, odds are they're a scammer.
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't work you can let us know here, we'll twist kako's arms over it for many years to come :D
mircea_popescu: can't update cursor position until i have a hash of all the 50000 icons i put in that folder.
mircea_popescu: it's usually the wm going "oh, i caqn't have X ? THEN I WILL WAIT WITH EVERYTHING!!1"
mircea_popescu: phf i don'\t think this ever happened at the scheduler level.
mircea_popescu: this shouldn't be a problem, except they're written by ustarded children, and so they expect everything all the time or else drop to the floor and cry
mircea_popescu: afaik dumbass osen (such as windoze) end up looking choppy because they handle the swap poorly and the windows manager ends up conflicted with some higher priority item on "memory" access
☟︎ mircea_popescu: maybe it should drop everything and "just make it work"
mircea_popescu: and what the everloving fuck would you do with the mouse on a server
mircea_popescu: trinque i've not yet observed the mouse cursor lagging on any system that i can recall since mice became a thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <trinque> shinohai: somehow I'm doubtful boston's white thug population ever read anything <
mircea_popescu: why are we redoing the flame thing ? it's not 2012 anymore, and srsly, "one of the most sophisticated, md5-hash based, windows-only piece of crapolade ever" ?
mircea_popescu: clearly this thing is not coming from anywhere we've seen before.
mircea_popescu: the adequacy of bitcoin is eerly evident in this context : "what happens if someone sees my secret and steals it ?" "well... i guess you can pay again."
mircea_popescu: (make deed today that "i will pay sum so and so to foundation address tomorrow", then pay tomorrow.)
mircea_popescu: well, jurov is teh treasurer. he might be amenable to making arrangements for you, if it's a significant sum. alternatively, you can use the forward secret method.
mircea_popescu: ahaha that redditard guy. "i did not know you were stolen your honoars!!!!" "were they discounted ?" "well yes, but this totally happens all the time" "with what ?" "with for instance... stolen cars, if people sell it to the chop shop... or if someone is selling something out of the trunk downtown ? or like... if it's you know, like we say on the street hot" "..."
mircea_popescu: <gabrielradio> to the foundation, i guess << trhe whole point is that it's voluntary. so you can do whatever you want.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck do they teach in "information assurance" class if they've not gotten to plagiarism yet!
mircea_popescu: random ustard sucking commie cum out of miss columbia ?
mircea_popescu: if it stays piqued long enouygh there's prolly a qntra in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what are you like training for intelwork nao ? :D
mircea_popescu: incidentally, ima publish a post-mortem report of the latest rent server attempt these coming days.
mircea_popescu: is d-wave that supposed producer of pre-tangled quarks that was going to do relevant computation ANYDAYNOW ?
mircea_popescu: well that sarcasm line got me lulzing, maybe try and do something for qntra