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mircea_popescu: anyway, re the "questions asked" : in
a total nod to asciilifeform's "merit washing" ideas, by now the point isn't even to have any sort of product, as it hasn't been for decades, noreven any sort of plan. they "invest" in "great teams", nao. "kids will figure it out later".
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: that sounds like
a great video game premise for learning purposes. "Flip the ponzi"
thestringpuller: "Hey thestringpuller, would you like to hear about this wonderful development opportunity with
a fast growing company you've never heard of?!?!?"
mike_c: because in the game you described, the VCs are getting taken for
a ride. which happens of course, but this just seems so obviously illegal.
mike_c: i'd love to be
a fly on the wall in the pitch meetings though when the investor says "so how are you not going to jail?"
mircea_popescu: seems
a decent gameplan. if you're
a stanford/harvard business major, or similar scum.
ascii_field agrees. so long as the answer isn't 'here have
a little rectangle of rdesktop crapolade instead of screen-filling display-agnostic remote gui on your giant vertical lcd'
mircea_popescu: x has no fucking business telling another process on its dealings with
a process.
mircea_popescu: "my house doesn't have
a hole in the roof - trivial fix" "whatever, i'm not dealing with those imbeciles".
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there is not
a non-retarded alternative today
ascii_field: 'you were
a usg academic? hope you like picking fruit.'
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 18:43:30; asciilifeform: perhaps this is worth
a brief digression:
ascii_field: i went through their material ages ago, and it set off quite
a few of the 'scammer heuristics' in my head
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: basically,
a rebranding of academiwank 'systolic processor'
mike_c: isn't there
a shadowban? ignore or something?
ascii_field: the 'identity politics' idiocy is
a kgb bomb set off in usa in the 1960s - at this point,
a historical fact at least as well-established as the 'business plot' of the '30s
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: It's
a fairly old service targeted towards activists explicitly.
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: My impression of it has always been as
a sort of zoo.
ben_vulpes: product vision and
a six-month commitment at 20K/mo.
mike_c: yeah, I read up
a bit. I like it.
dignork: mike_c: hawala comes up
a lot in discussions about remittance business.
nubbins`: ^ add
a servo motor and foot pedal for $800
HlySht: so he's just
a regular bloke then
ascii_field: dignork: what normally happens in
a case like this is - that the hole is sewn shut, but not completely shut - rather like 'infibulated' gurl partz in the middle east
dignork: ascii_field: yep, there was
a discussion on bitflip, but this one is too real, I wonder when active Xen exploit will drive DDR out of cloud business.
mike_c: and how the hell did you know what
a hawala was? i first saw that word today.
assbot: Logged on 18-02-2014 19:12:31; mircea_popescu: because it is impossible to establish malice at all,
a difference predicated upon establishing malice is meaningless.
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2014 02:50:50; asciilifeform: the best place to hide
a little malice is
a gigantic pile of incompetence.
ascii_field: cannot and must not recognize
a difference between these.
ascii_field: thing is, actual hawala isn't
a roundedcorners iPnohe turd app
mike_c: international money remittance without fincen. how is done? with
a mobile app and
a local 'cash dealer'.
ascii_field: rowhammer article << didn't we do that here
a while ago?
danielpbarron: very strange; seems as though bitcoind is causing my server to power-cycle all of
a sudden
nubbins`: speaking from my perspective as
a canadian, the usa has
a very strange relationship with religion
danielpbarron: she admitted that I was right, but decided that it was either
a bug, or an attempt to keep from "offending" christians
Vexual: youll need
a bit of hindi tho, coz variety
Vexual: it's
a pity it's gonna take google to put the steering wheel in the middle
Vexual: i reckon willie nelson might have an edge in
a poker game
Vexual: angelina jolie has 10 kids from zero births when ya round down, and
a mere photograph of one is worth 50k
decimation: that's probably why they threw
a shitfit over the kernel api
mircea_popescu: used to be
a time when that'd have been the absolute last thing one'd consider doing.
decimation: maybe one day you too will receive
a random ass email and 'say nothing'
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Feels like something is missing from this picture <<< someone giving
a shit ?
assbot: Logged on 08-03-2015 20:27:50; decimation: at some point, are you just driving
a replica?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was plenty of the latter even
a year or two ago << yeah, but "preponderence of derpitude" standard.
ben_vulpes: what is the correct data representation for the amount of bitcoin in
a transactino?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: cruise ship < well, there's
a reason they say it's for the 'newlywed and nearly dead'
decimation:
a skilled machinist's time isn't cheap either though
punkman: fun "
a thin film of
a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data."
PeterL: mircea_popescu:pete_dushenski they claimed circle defrauded them, threatened to sue. never sued, disappeared. << was Dwolla, I don't think Circle was
a thing yet then, but same idea
pete_dushenski: ya, not
a thing as much as
a ripple in the ocean, as it were
ben_vulpes: hey does anyone have
a link to
a multisignature transaction in the main chain?
mircea_popescu: “I feel like
a martyr—
a Bitcoin martyr,” he told me. “We’re bleeding out.”
decimation: at any rate,
a shapely young lady could probably make decent money working the bar on
a cruise ship
pete_dushenski: although jeez, after ditching facebook and
a smartphone, i seem to be moving in that direction.
mircea_popescu: lol you're at the wrong age tho. prolly get 12-20 ppl marry
a year.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the amusing bit is that folks think they are trading in
a 'free market', but then actually act like they are scared government lackeys << quite!
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I think there might be some of that, but I also doubt that britian's 'good men' could get much done trapped in the crazy monkey house of
a modern us bureaucracy << no, but they wouldn't be, see ? that's the very definition. "good men" is, obama comes and derps, they point and laugh, obama calls the national guard, they shoot it dead.
pete_dushenski: i went on
a cruise of se asia in 2002 when the post-9/11 deals made it... affordable.
decimation: turns out, this is
a private peninsula of hati, wholly owned by royal caribbean. since it would be far too dangerous for the locals to serve up the vittles, the entire crew disembarked to operate the various bars and amusements on the 'beach'
mircea_popescu: <decimation> the end result has maybe 30% 'original' parts << old men don't want the original parts of their wife, they just want
a construct that looks like the wife did, in 72.
decimation: for instance, my cruise ship also had
a port of call on "Hispaniola"
pete_dushenski: decimation sounds like
a normal cruise experience ! some islands are built up exclusively for tourists, but in real cities, whether shanghai or split, you can at least walk for
a few hours in one direction and still have room to explore
decimation: mircea_popescu:
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm " When she first recorded
a deer eating nestlings, she wondered if they would eat eggs, too. She incorporated the help of
a captive deer at the research center to find out. "We presented it [captive deer] with
a few quail eggs -- just to see what it would do -- and it munched them right up."
mircea_popescu: just like
a woman had to have relations with beauticians.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or cultivate
a relationship with an actual machine shop << this is how itworked in the 80s too lol.
a guy had to have relatiuons with mechanics.
pete_dushenski: if i'm going to do that to myself, i'll hop on
a cruise ship