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ben_vulpes: it's actually
a manual walking of the shop wot
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you like balzac much, but the only reason the fat lazy fuck exists as
a writer is because he had to pay his eternal debts and the newspapers paid by the line.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was
a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking
a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness. << Well with Qntra and prose having editorial controls helps to level the problem. I can not imagine
a similar arbiter existing for code.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was
a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking
a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness.
trinque: I can't just decide
a guy has pleased me and give him some?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent? << this is
a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do the job of computers, and i guess computers do the job of people ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of
a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project. << risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
danielpbarron: "This will take some time but getting into the Web of Trust is something I have wanted to do and have been studying for
a few months now."
mod6: you're running with
a 250 size limit cap now right?
trinque: he said, inching closer, staring without
a blink
davout: jurov: "now that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?" <<< i don't think so. if you have 8 peers you'll get two different blocks at different diff for the same height, hard to feed you
a bogus chain
davout: being able to request blox from peers for
a certain height would solve the whole thing instantly
kakobrekla: now, this is just
a one time inconvenience, but say everyone would change all the time. nicht gut.
kakobrekla: i know changing names is not
a good practice, but perhaps for the sake of sync we could allow to update your name once (given properly signed request from adequate gpg key)
☟︎ trinque: and
a properly configured irc client
trinque: felipelalli: you're going to want to get yourself
a cloak
ben_vulpes: we have relationships with our clients, get to know their business and make
a nominal difference in how they do it.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: we definitely diverge from the original topic significantly here, but "community" and "belongingness" is
a core part of what we do.
danielpbarron: it's like
a starving artist kid i know that will spitefully do
a poor job if you pay him to draw something
trinque: that one makes django
a breeze
trinque: ben_vulpes: is being drunk
a mental model or
a tool
ben_vulpes:
a bit of economics: in training those people, their value delivered goes up disproportionately to their wage hikes.
ben_vulpes: in our snowflake of
a case, that's more due to the difference between people who've seen things like the bug under the microscope before, and people who've yet to learn the myriad of tools and mental models to cope effectively.
cazalla: nubbins`: is there anyone here who hasn't made the local news for threatening people? o.O <<< i made TV too because what else happens in the sticks, thankfully minor at the time.. all this shit because i said i was gonna machine gun
a bunch of people
ben_vulpes: but someone must invest the capital to justify loading it into
a team's shared understanding.
ben_vulpes: as we get up to speed on
a given codebase/ops story, shit moves vastly more quickly.
ben_vulpes: each
a snowflake with its own peculiarities.
ben_vulpes: others: read, think, occasionally produce
a UI layout.
ben_vulpes: read, think. occasionally commit
a line or two of code.
ben_vulpes: everything we touch gets the shit automated out of it as
a precondition of touching it.
ben_vulpes: i don't quite know if this is topologically different from an option pool with
a vesting schedule, except that it provides some fairness proportionality to the time worked
ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of
a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project.
ben_vulpes: it's more like "dood i know and respect knows and respects this other dood, so i guess i'll give him
a whirl".
coderwill: or maybe
a better way of saying it,
a person who comes to the table thinking "what's in this for us" instead of "what's in this for me"
trinque: if
a person can't reason enough to reason that they'd better improve their reasoning, fucked
coderwill: i guess there is
a flipside though, which is people wanting everything
coderwill: it's
a bummer people can't be more straight-up with potential hires
mircea_popescu: traditional employment of the "that's
a firm to put 30 years in with" isn't
a loan particularly for that reason.
coderwill: mircea_popescu: i like your idea about working for
a startup being
a loan
mircea_popescu: well the only way to survive is to nmot work for
a worthless one.
mircea_popescu: peopel tend to forget that working for
a start-up is
a LOAN.
trinque: I had looads of shares of the terrible rails startup I was
a part of years ago
coderwill: at the same time, there are some people i really enjoyed getting to know who i'd be happy to work with again. it's just
a few that made it very strange for everyone
trinque: that said why fight for equity if the businesses wont even be there in
a few years
trinque: everyone in the industry under 30 is
a perma-intern
trinque: coderwill: nah man, that "this will at least be good for my resume" thing is just
a way of learning to love the pole
coderwill: correct, that was
a naive thought in many regards
coderwill: ben_vulpes: hello, apologies, i have been busy for
a few days, but noticed your mention the other day about options
mircea_popescu: you know the one time
a smarmy teacher tried to be all american and make the class buy
a book we complained to the provost and he nearly got kicked out.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for TomServo with note: Helped me test
a script for The Bitcoin Foundation
mod6: !rate TomServo 1 Helped me test
a script for The Bitcoin Foundation
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i'll be lucky to get my butt in
a miata this decade
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well really it was
a point from ever since gossipd was discussed, but w/e, not mature yet.
mod6: pblock is probably not
a good name, since in most of the code "pblock" is what is denoted for
a pointer to
a block.
ben_vulpes: "reference node should only keep track of
a single chain: the longest discoverable"
mircea_popescu: parentless blocks are blocks which arrived to
a node before their parents, and so can't be evaluated for validity (yet)
mircea_popescu: PeterL orphans are short lengths ofchain that were abandoined in favour of
a competitor.
mircea_popescu: which explains why suicide is such
a big deal in zombieland.
mircea_popescu: antonoderpopo no longer has
a chance, because he's dead, because
a rich guy killed him.
mircea_popescu:
a sudanese, poor as the dirt hre sits in, still has
a chance.
mircea_popescu: the only poor people are the "rich people" making 500k to 5mn
a year to pay for their mortgage and college loans.
mats: why do any work when you can generate an altcoin from
a bootstrap website and watch netflix
mircea_popescu: people interested in actually doing stuff have b-
a. everyone else can be "
a contributor" (for bois), or "part of the community" (for womyns)
mircea_popescu: i could be sitting in
a parisian cafe cca 1815 and lol the same way for the same reasons at the same people
mircea_popescu: no but you know, the fumes of confused teenagers are going to somehow coallesce into moving as much as
a hair of actual matter. ANY DAY NOW
mircea_popescu: the mirror-image infantilized 20something bois are idem fighting for paul graham's right to pay them nothing while turning them into
a strange sort of pulp fiction's gimp
mircea_popescu: e'd backhand slap you right out of the glee club: "it discourages women from writing and earning
a living online." Earning
a living? From who, Gawker? Most of the women writing on the internet are writing for someone else who pays them next to nothing. None of them control the capital, none of them get paid 1/1000 of what they bring in for the media company. You know what they do get? They get to be valued by work, and
mircea_popescu: oo-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can't make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe
a criminal problem into
a civil rights issue using
a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad when you were 16 h
☟︎ mircea_popescu: your feelings-- but because criticism makes women want to be more private-- and the privacy of the women is bad. The women have to be online, they do most of the clicking and receive most of the clicks. Anonymous cyberbullying is
a barrier to increasing consumption, it's gotta go."
mircea_popescu: "Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of
a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn't be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form
a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is
a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about