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decimation:
I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were
Adlai: on one hand
i'm pretty pleased about that, it enabled me to have tons of free time growing up, and
i think
i used it reasonably well
Adlai: and yes, it's fair to say that
i was "mistreated" by never having to work for money until
i stopped accepting my parents' charity
Adlai:
i'm not sure what's humane or better, but
i'm open to the possibility of there being better treatments than what we do now
mircea_popescu: Adlai
i think english speakers mistreat their children horribly.
Adlai: and then
i stop thinking about it because bacon
Adlai: whenever
i think about such ideas, my disgust at the theoretical treatment of people turns into disgust at the actual way we treat animals today
decimation:
I have a friend who made his teenagres pay the utility bills
mircea_popescu:
i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
i've yet to meet adults that made less than teenager allowance.
mircea_popescu: * Adlai is a bit puzzled by the incentives arising from s.qntr's share model... authors are incentivized to write the longest possible article which will pass review, while the editor is incentivized to pick the shortest available article on a specific subject << works
i guess.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> so regards to finding additional author, on the about page
i added must be in wot + 6 months #b-a logs,
i'm happy to loosen requirements if article quality is up to par, what do people think? << yah if they're in the wot at all and they submit something that's decent should be ok
xanthyos: much of the btc criticism
i read online hearkens back to mtgox, like mtgox is this powerful buzzword that trumps all arguments, like rudy giuliani did with "9/11"
Adlai:
i'm imagining a situation where authors are competing,
i realize that qntra has a smaller author pool atm
cazalla: and why would
i be incentivised to write short articles?
i can earn from the same pool of shares other authors do
decimation: asciilifeform: that 'spytainment' paper is hilarious.
I especially like the part about re-classification of previously publically released material.
cazalla: Adlai, providing contributors adhere to quality guidelines,
i don't see long articles to be a problem for the website
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: if so, the simplest device is... a bank. the infected cash is brought to the bank, and given to the hapless devil inside. afterwards, one walks six metres to the cash machine and withdraws clean cash (generally, where
i live, only newly-printed money is ever placed into the cassette, to avoid jamming rollers.) << Out
I get some used, but pressed bills out of the cash machine
BingoBoingo: Adlai: Depending on where one places their cut off for "life" it could be.
I'm of the opinion that fire meets the minimum qualifications for living though.
mats_cd03:
i am realizing the West Key system is not going to be helpful in doing this legal research
cazalla:
i didn't really make it clear
cazalla: so regards to finding additional author, on the about page
i added must be in wot + 6 months #b-a logs,
i'm happy to loosen requirements if article quality is up to par, what do people think?
Adlai:
i've been seeing "you won't believe what happens next" since the first banner ads
mircea_popescu:
i suppose the user-friendliest solution would be to get a cheapo cert and then redirect it via mod_rewrite
cazalla:
i assume it'll go away once cert expires
Apocalyptic:
I know,
I thought your statement was general and not related to qntra
cazalla:
i never added it so how do
i remove it
cazalla:
i didn't reg an ssl cert, the domain was dropped by qntra.com at some point
i believe
cazalla: and this is what
i link to from qntra?
kakobrekla:
i dont know the details - not registered.
Apocalyptic: it's on btctalk,
I'm confident you can find it yourself
kakobrekla: as for the infrastructure -
i am quite confident they have less than half of what they had a year ago
Adlai: LOL
i didn't realize one could "welsh" on a bet, that's a new slur to me
ninjashogun: No, those log searches don't show anything. But at least
I personally think it's big news. This is from sept 30th.
thestringpuller:
i dunno where we've discussed it to be honest. so the log search is not helping me.
i'm also an idiot with archival retrieval sooo
Apocalyptic:
i didn't ask about rating, but he made some voice here a while ago
thestringpuller: Apocalyptic:
i only rate people when
I do extensive interactions with them. or interactions highly dependent on trust.
ninjashogun:
I mean they give the impression of being based on something (transactions with me etc).
thestringpuller:
I'll just take refund/credit on future project or something
Adlai: oh, multiple threads full of lemmings crying manipulation.
i hadn't paid this thing any attention until
i saw this enough times to be sick of it.
kakobrekla: no
i mean <Adlai> any of you watching the th1btc drama?
assbot: Logged on 31-03-2014 20:40:50; mircea_popescu: artifexd
i dunno, it's been illo tempore policy that people accidentally spamming or otherwise unintentionally misbehave contribute to the port fund
xanthyos:
i meant for it to all paste as one line
Adlai: expired batteries are pretty gross though.
i'd rather throw out an appliance than clean a bay that held expired batteries.
Adlai: one of my earliest memories of being factually incorrect is being informed that cash is the dirtiest object
i touch on a daily basis
bounce: <mircea_popescu>
i have no idea what their codes look like,
i go by "is there anything past the address". in this case www.amazon.in/God-Gamer-Ravi-Subramanian-ebook/dp/B00MY74DJG << makes me think that's an affiliate code. << the only thing that actually matters is the item code; what looks like the title is replacable fluff.
xanthyos: in retrospect, what an irresponsible teacher.
i learned nothing about cad use and played the hamster dance all semester long
xanthyos:
i found a warez copy of autocad for a teacher of a class
i took in high school, and he said that
i'd get an A no matter what
mircea_popescu:
i guess what you mean is that the better pr is built atop of news
thickasthieves:
i really dont see soliciting leads and leaks as something related to the size of your britches anyway
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu:
i haven't been using the west key system to search. instead,
i've been filtering for proceedings involving USG and then pruning for terms like wiretap, warrant, email, hard drive, paperwork, and suppression of evidence.
chetty: haha money laundering takes a new twist,
I been hearing folks talk about how to sterilize cash
kakobrekla: when
i was a kid
i got to know the real inventor of the water scooter (his prototype was stolen and replicated). anyway,
i did get to ride his underwater bike prototype.
xanthyos: using the public log to declare now before anyone can steal my idea that
i am modifying the amphibious bike design to have parallel water screws instead of a loud splashy paddle for its propeller
cazalla: mircea_popescu:
i'd rather see aff links put deliberately than allowing random derps to send their "press releases". it'll turn it into a trade mag, which is bad. <<< it might result in good stories, failing that, scammers out themselves, win win
cazalla: thickasthieves:
i might also suggest qntra have a news/press release/leaks solicitation area <<< a good idea for the future,
i don't think we have enough authority that people will come to us yet but in time they will, hopefully
cazalla: <BingoBoingo> thickasthieves is having connectivity issues with the qntra <<< tat mentioned it before but seems to be the only one experiencing it, it loads fine here so not sure what
i can do
mthreat: mopery?
i'll have to google that
thickasthieves: bingoboingo if you need anything else from me to test pm,
i'm polluting the chan :)
kakobrekla: >Open a ticket to unblock port 25.
I got a response within an hour saying that port 25 is unblocked and they've sent me a link for some anti-spam policy. No other questions asked. You have to pay $5 per each spam email you send, but if your server was hacked, you are not responsible.
mircea_popescu:
i guess thickasthieves has a point, how's that different from someone being an author. it all boils down to sending stuff to cazalla see if he approves it.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
i'd rather see aff links put deliberately than allowing random derps to send their "press releases". it'll turn it into a trade mag, which is bad. <<
I'm thinking more a known slush pile, but
I guess the contact page already offers that function
mircea_popescu:
i'd rather see aff links put deliberately than allowing random derps to send their "press releases". it'll turn it into a trade mag, which is bad.
thickasthieves: bingoboingo, nope,
i can also add that it seems like it might only happen on the 2nd thing
i click on
BingoBoingo: <thickasthieves> haha
i see your little smiley face, but the problem is still showing < smiley is WP/jetpack
thickasthieves: haha
i see your little smiley face, but the problem is still showing
thickasthieves:
i might also suggest qntra have a news/press release/leaks solicitation area
thickasthieves:
i have to agree with cazalla that putting aff links is crap
gabriel_laddel:
I was in the DFJ offices (Draper Fisher Jurvetson, VC firm) at one point and they had the big stop sign with the lettering "DON'T THINK" "DO". this from the same people who invested in d-wave. idiots. and people wonder why everything is breaking / broken. Don
mircea_popescu: generally it's not understood that money is a burden, not a boon, and this current child porn cultural trend (
i don't just mean squirreling away pictures of 12 yo girls split open,
i mean the actual trend, a widespread and cvasi universal obsession with youths) is mixing the worst ingredients : child-hydrazine with money-methanol (it WILL make you blind, if you drink it!)
mircea_popescu:
i know numerous such wrecks, trying to make ends meet at 40something, after having run exactly on those premises, "too much opm, too little time to think" a decade or two ago
mircea_popescu:
i mean they don't get it, because at 29 it seems like it's forever.
RagnarDanneskjol:
I know him, nice kid - still reefuses to see the light, been trying to get him on WoT for years...
i recall mpoepr also had a nice exchange with him on the forum years back when he announced coinsetter
mircea_popescu:
i guess the original lulz, "3 years' experience" has meanwhile morphed into "30+ hours' research" ? what's next ?
mircea_popescu: but
i tell you he coulda said it about buenos aires, comuna 1 just as well
mircea_popescu: so cash went "On a Sunday morning sidewalk,
I'm wishing, Lord, that
I was stoned. 'Cause there's something in a Sunday that makes the body feel alone. And there's nothing short a' dying that's half as lonesome as the sound of the sleeping city sidewalk and Sunday morning coming down."
RagnarDanneskjol: nice.
I'll point it to some hollywood guys
I know, might have legs
RagnarDanneskjol:
i just got to the third chapter. rather interesting, nice atmosphere. can see a decent screenplay in there