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mircea_popescu: if you end in this situation where you have a beautiful prototype and a buggy implementation people are going to hate you.
mircea_popescu: write it in lua if that's genuinely what works for you.
mircea_popescu: phf you're not required to agree to this inasmuch as you're using your own time & hands.
mircea_popescu: so gossipd is practically going to be lisp hand-compiled ot c ?
mircea_popescu: if we manage to avoid the insane state of importing openssl bondogle to do crypto we're so far ahead of the game...
mircea_popescu: so in this sense the design is sane, as he has it. callout to "gpg", to be replaced by p
mircea_popescu: but i want it to be one thing and everyone statically links IT
mircea_popescu: they'll, if nothing else, help us understand the api to it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're not a dead end for the following reason : the P must be a stand-alone building block anyway.
mircea_popescu: publish a prototype, im sure alf will be more than happy to look through it, plenty other people will test it etc.
mircea_popescu: re the meat : all of these are major projects, the expectation, imo reasonable, is that whoever decides to work on one starts by publishing code, which will vehehehery likely need refactoring perhaps even redesign. because we're here shooting in the dark. so rather than managerial idiocy, i much prefer somnething like how v worked out.
mircea_popescu: they better be spending half the day on knees praying mr toupe wins, because if he does there won't be power vacuum for young corporal/painter to take over.
mircea_popescu: "look at me masturbate! everything fits the pink box in retrospect!"
mircea_popescu: nfi what that "longreads" thing's supposed to be, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dossiers, dossiers, but once they start coming out you know there's at least a guard change afoot
mircea_popescu: anyway, iac certainly stands to gain the most should the general gullible public be persuaded that normal social interaction "could be" rape.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they own zillions of spamsites, pretty much in every language iirc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes match.com, plenty of fish, okcupid tinder and the rest of the lesser known implementations of the social media dating scam are all owned by iac.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: my grandfather used to use it. i never cared for the thing myself.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, it's insane. im gonna end up making jewish pickles with wasabi
mircea_popescu: these schmucks know nothing of anything. i can't pickle cabbage because in spite of not having proper picking barrels, yet i found something, and in spite of not having picking salt, except i found some (they use it for curing meat!) and in spite of not having etc etc,
mircea_popescu: i can't possibly have more champagne but i'm celebrating with milk.
mircea_popescu: the problem is they've lost control, the orcs are running amok, and as a result there's not going to be any donations, there's not going to be any electoral support and moreover the opposition can mop up the entire democrat tammany hall machine.
mircea_popescu: protection racked overheated, and i somehow doubt they'll manage to moderate it back to usable envelope. used to be hillary got donations and grassroot support from wolfe n1...1k on the promise of protection from the democrat footsoldiers and/or hitting the opposition.
mircea_popescu: since they can't manage their own shit worth a damn ? the united failed states ?
mircea_popescu: maybe it's time to call putin, have some peacekeepers sent in ?
mircea_popescu: gee whiz, sounds like team obama got the country well under control.
mircea_popescu: st Baltimore beating lone white men on sight with bats, blubs and bottles, professional break-in crews cleaned out city pharmacies, cell phone stores and jewelers."
mircea_popescu: "In the dying days of April 2015, the student body of a City High school picked a fight with the entire Baltimore City Police department, and, as the world watched, won. In the meantime, as these kids basically tried out for membership in the three drug gangs that conspired to set the city on fire while they trucked in unprecedented weight of dope, and gangs of armed black man fanned out across north, northeast, and ea
mircea_popescu: anyway, gotta try. one of these days you're gonna manage to connect a mad dog, and it might even do some damage.
mircea_popescu: yeah, he does, and the lawyer's playing for the other team
mircea_popescu: roughly in the position of that fucktard shrem, "has a lawyer"
mircea_popescu: (should prolly be standing policy - whenever the horde picks a scapegoat, give the scapegoat a forum. if for nothing else then to bother the machine.)
mircea_popescu: offer the guy a honest chance to tell his story plain. im pretty sure he has no offers. get qntra to break the libtard media embargo.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this wouldn't have anything to do with bitterness over payola for "student" athletes hm ?
mircea_popescu: o wait, i know now! random guy who joined github in 2015, has absolutely no interests outside of bitcoinxt and totally absolutely is not a transparent front for any institutional player, 100% sure.
mircea_popescu: anyway. with any luck we'll be rephrasing Thing 1 to "actual Bitcoin" I guess.
mircea_popescu: imagine that XT had "consensus" and "expert support" a year before any sort of testing was done whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: anwyay. the only actually feasible approach is to unfortunate boating accident him, after which yeah, linux'll be all concern trolled into oblivion.
mircea_popescu: kidnap women in the steppes of washington, dc, for sale in the slave market at saigon ?
mircea_popescu: or w/e the magical measure defeated by magic marker were called
mircea_popescu: besides the point. under discussion here is specifically the unseating of linus from linux.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't wedge linus from linux, it wedges linux from the usg world (or vice-versa)