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mircea_popescu: why's anyone's poverty, intellectual or otherwise, a criterion ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine as long as "9 volt batteries or hunt rats by candlelight" is the choice, there's going to be a lot of "9 volt" systems out there too.
mircea_popescu: lmao check it out, liberia as well. that poor country.
mircea_popescu: just because some colonies have mental issues it does not follow anything except that some colonists need to extract head from ass.
mircea_popescu: i guess you could get 120 if you absolutely want it, via generators
mircea_popescu: raped-for-being-white is, i hear, a fact of life for the losers of the 3rd boer war
mircea_popescu: i'm sure all sorts of things are not daily curious to various troglodytes.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this happens with some regularity in history
mircea_popescu: they're just broadly speaking acultural and unseflwarare enough, unlike the romans, so they don't spend three centuries waxing poetic over this understood situation
mircea_popescu: all the diddling it's gonna do, it mostly did already.
mircea_popescu: looky here : "there's no blade of grass in the forest that the doe could not shit on, at its pleasure". perhaps. fact : grass will grow through where the antlers were, and not know the difference.
mircea_popescu: recall the thread with the sluts living there wearing "D&G" purses ?
mircea_popescu: i guess you get to see the wonder to believe the wonder then.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, it'll fall into the ocean and nobody'll even notice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because you bought into the ridoinculous "us=world" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: as the bear was getting ready to stomp the anthill, the anthill in question was very animated by the following political debate : some ants wanted to tear down one wall, while some other ants thought this is stupid.
mircea_popescu: if you think the dispute as to how internet won't be available in the future in the us comes down to what anyone wants, usg or not usg...
mircea_popescu: usg is arguing that "olympics are bad mkay, not because we can't afford anything, but because <<<gentrification>>>".
mircea_popescu: you are aware the usg can't maintain infrastructure anyway, and if you persist in staying there you will one day connect to b-a via satellite phones provided by, likely, fucking spain.
mircea_popescu: if you imagine bitcoin took off because the muppets, you're inhabiting a very special place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the absence of a solution is not an argument in favour of shitpiles.
mircea_popescu: Azelphur the part of my business that consists of redditards opining would never have existed. to my benefit.
mircea_popescu: they do not belong outside of the walled gardens, keep em there.
mircea_popescu: no dude, your solution is right. want "internet" ? sure, 50 dollars a month gets you gawker, washitpo and crapple dot com.
mircea_popescu: i don't care what you need. fuck you and your needs. the infrastructure can't support udp in the current configuration. you don't get udp for this reason.
mircea_popescu: i wish it were made a law that no isp may provide udp connectivity for a price under the minimum wage.
mircea_popescu: once aol was allowed online, it necessarily followed no udp. i'm sick of having to deal with it.
mircea_popescu: yup, that's the only time so far 3 appears alone as a factor.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, intrigeri is something crazy with the bug reports, may be all-internet record holder)
mircea_popescu: decimation check it out, they need a metalocale. hopefully implemented as multibyte too!
mircea_popescu: just like phantomcircuit still goes around, an aethero waiting to happen.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing will be that this schmuck will still be going around pretending like he actually exists and so forth even after this idiocy goes the way of neobee and "bitcoin security experts group"
mircea_popescu: no but just for my curiosity, what's github to do with a quarter bil ?
mircea_popescu: decimation you kiddin' me, it could buy out all the russia!
mircea_popescu: at the very least draw a schema of what and how needs done so people's offers to help can be plugged in
mircea_popescu: anyway, you should prolly take a bit of time away from the hands on work you love and do some management stuff.
mircea_popescu: decimation that's what makes it suspicious. 20mn slashdot, 2bn github. because... reasons.
mircea_popescu: but i'm pretty sure can't simply abandon the entire userland question, it'd be a major strategic mistake.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'm not entirely sure how the specifics should work out. bit of an open question atm
mircea_popescu: it could happenb to sf, it can and definitely will happen to github etc.
mircea_popescu: and do not buy into the illusion that it was an isolated incident.
mircea_popescu: can't even afford this for eulora, let alone for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: sourceforge goes down, there goes youre entire project, seriously ?
mircea_popescu: this sounds patently insane, i agree, but i just recently discovered in unrelated proejct that it's unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: we will have to at the very least maintain packages we want to use, in the basic sense of, archival for download.
mircea_popescu: otherwise struggling with installers etc is a horrid trudge, but it is also an investment in human capital.
mircea_popescu: yeah. still, it's valuable to try, because if you help people they'll help you.
mircea_popescu: mod6 so far 90%+ of the problems have been with installation, from what i've seen
mircea_popescu: that said, obviously the effort to make anything work on the stack of shit we inherited from our retarded ancestors is nothing short of immense. but, chipping away at it is going to deliver, and confronting it is definitely going to show us a few useful things.
mircea_popescu: you don't belong there, and moreover that's just not our company style.
mircea_popescu: mod6 just don't go to this dark place where "omg it's the 29th and i must have a working final version of bitcoind to announce
mircea_popescu: sure, not to date. but we're not going by the criteria of what is easy, so we don't really care. if we won't have success for the next decade we'll be here trying it in 2026.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: useful work is useful work. taking responsibility for the whole world is a different story.