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mircea_popescu: the financial notion of monetary commitment is DIFFERENT from the grocery notion of monetary commitment.
mircea_popescu: govt comes out announcing it's "commitment" to so and so.
mircea_popescu: suppose instead the streetwalker is a bank in distress, and you decide to prop it up. you don't do jack, all you do is SAY you're going to do it.
mircea_popescu: this is usually a transaction between you and her holder, involving one or more crumpled up pieces of paper.
mircea_popescu: suppose you desire the use of a streetwalker for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suspect the very notion of PAYMENT is going to be destroyed by btc. let me illustrate what i mean.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well, it's all the media of the new republic.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller successful webcomics also aren't usually attached to behemoths set on destroying the entire world. note that qntra is NEVER going to be successful, because it's not here to obtain praise from daddy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and yet, as much they dislike paywalls, they love paying for ipads.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the point i'm coming to is that it's, unlike something you/those thinking people have actually thought about, merely an aculturation. ie, "this is how we dress". and i know where it comes from too, and so forth. nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not even about me. why would ~you~ argue it like that ? you don't argue like that for anything else, certainly not anything else you know well / understand in depth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field besides the point what you were tryingt to say. the important thing to notice is how your mental flow went. and it went to "i am not alone". why would it ?
mircea_popescu: moreover she didn't want to / understand she has to make a gpg, and i dun wanna encourage the demuring damsels.
mircea_popescu: she'd prolly go for it, but she'd still have to be paid, and so far qntra is not so keen to spend cash.
mircea_popescu: yeah pete_dushenski but i recall we briefly interviewing a moderately talented fellow in this very chan and he wanted a billion euros or some shit.
mircea_popescu: you're alone among thinking people thinking computing sucks. what now ? it doesn't suck ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whether you're alone or not should make no fucking difference. more importantly, it shouldn't be a point of consideration. why is it ?
mircea_popescu: you can paint the box whatever color you want. what do you think elen degeneres says, "degenerates" ?
mircea_popescu: you don't wanna go to the fuckfest because fucking is by its nature public, but you wanna be thinking in a herd because thinking by its nature is private ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares and when did you start giving a shit if you're alone or not. what's this nonsense!
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306332 << and if you were to be against gpg, or against signed commits, or against "not everyone is/can be a contriobutor" or for "women in tech" in the sense of lipstick in the optic drive or a bunch of other equally nutty notionms, you could equally say "i don't think i am alone" and more importantly, FIND YOURSELF INCLINED TO SAY IT
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i just gave you some lsd (by permission) in the shape of serotonin or whatever you fired in your own brain.
mircea_popescu: how much money does the pet earn you ascii_field ? and what P/E do i need to pay to buy her ?
mircea_popescu: so far, gutting the pretense of "press" of the oposition, that DOES advertise, is good enough.
mircea_popescu: i don't explain 'em mr seinfeld, i just exterminate 'em.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306325 << trilema is for instance making decent money on subscription model. this is not to be discounted. also, no press IN THE HISTORY of press has EVER made money. not ever. it didn't happen (yes there are exceptions, in particular, temporary, self limited nooks). this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "Shocked, and also frightened for his safety due to the fact that Johnson is a “big girl,” the 140 pound security guard said he ran out until police arrived. When they did, female officers entered the restroom with Johnson still “putting in work with the sausage.”"
mircea_popescu: sex is by its design the one, the first, the best public matter.
mircea_popescu: they also don't put chunks of mango in the mango icecream i bet. you knolw ?
mircea_popescu: (tru story : doctor's visit. "why do my knees hurt me doc ?" "oxalates" "what do i do ?" "no more chocolate" "OMGWTFBBQ".)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski just saying, a dossier on all the ways alphabet mitigates tax is definitely a qntra worthy research project for the actuarialy inclined.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does google even have an "alphabet" parent, since we're discussing these things ? doth qntra know?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski check you out, you're actually understanding how rich world works.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i was thinking about this, there's no way to avoid a v dependency anyway, in principle. so it will have to be a python www anyway
mircea_popescu: course callouts from www to python will have to be supported.
mircea_popescu: looky, there's sometrhing dysfiunctional in this process of "i want this thing, and i want it to work exactly like this thing i made, that i'm not publishing". what is this, tru love mating ?
mircea_popescu: which is wjhy you break it open publish the parts that work
mircea_popescu: so you want the www server to see [path]/hash/ and spit out the right file ?
mircea_popescu: how about what you want is a # in front of each file, linked to [path]/filename#hash
mircea_popescu: no you're right... so basically each line needs a # in front of it, which should link to that... hmmm...
mircea_popescu: \and want actual meaningful LINE, that's complex suddenly
mircea_popescu: but if you're not happy with the mere "meaningless line" as seen i ntrilema selection
mircea_popescu: ie you may be asking for a .1 reference in a 1 metric space.
mircea_popescu: but see, you wish to link to "lines of code" except these are lower than the minimal granularity ; they only catch meaning after the ast was derived from the whole program
mircea_popescu: but derived from what, a line of code is just a meaningless string
mircea_popescu: well this actually changes everything... should we be saving directly asts ?
mircea_popescu: specifically : does this actually need to make a "line of code" a graph node ?
mircea_popescu: of course the other problem in question may actually be one of those "ensconced rock" type of things, ie, we've not fully conceptualized the implications.
mircea_popescu: that's a different problem. but merely the "individual lines of a page" part of it
mircea_popescu: moroever, if your five days of research can just be dreamed up by the next guy, you've not done any actual research.
mircea_popescu: here's how a qntrable 3 would look : the first hardfork occured on x date, y days after launch, and did z. the second x' y' did z'. the third etc. and now coming soo nthe nth, doing etc"