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Dekker3D: And I stopped bothering. Now I found some possible hint on how to get it to work, but can hardly be arsed.
Dekker3D: chetty, I used to be Windows/Linux, but then EUFI happened and my old mobo got fried. Haven't been able to reinstall Linux since.
Dekker3D: Anyway, I studied the Bitcoin code a bit to see how the bloom filter is implemented.
artifexd: I'm in the "Down with Python" camp. C/C++/C#/go are my tools of choice depending on the task at hand.
Dekker3D: I haven't even tried perl. It looks like line noise, but we all know that.
mircea_popescu: i think most everyone here loves python and loathes perl
Dekker3D: It lacks curly braces and instead uses indentation. That's the main thing I hate.
Dekker3D: I've been doing a tiny bit of Python lately, though I absolutely loathe everything about it.
Dekker3D: I'm trying to be more confident about stuff.
Dekker3D: Well yeah. I have. I know I have skills and can get stuff done, but so many things around me have fallen apart that I can't help but blame myself at some level.
chetty: ok its just a idiomatic saying, basically I was saying that you had been tricked into believing you were useless
mircea_popescu: she's curious like any kid. so she... actually let me get it, i have a reference.
Dekker3D: I suppose
Dekker3D: I am trying to get that information out of one of you
Dekker3D: I honestly have no idea what the "bill of goods" means in this context
mircea_popescu: "i still don;t know what the idea is!"
Dekker3D: Heh. Okay. I still can't quite tell whether you're saying "aw, poor kid, he got handed a bad hand" or "damn kid, go make yourself useful". Knowing your type a tiny bit, I'm guessing the latter.
Dekker3D: So I'm full of uselessness? :P
Dekker3D: I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing?
Dekker3D: But one team member started becoming more of a burden than a boon, and he was an old friend so I found it hard to cut him loose. We also lacked programmers, as I was spending too much time just managing stuff.
Dekker3D: Anyway, I was the only one who made a remake project that got further than "gathering ideas and musing idly"
mircea_popescu: i'm part owner in s.mg which is a game maker which is why i know more than the average chap about indie games.
mircea_popescu: nah, i am not.
mircea_popescu: o i recall this shit lol
Dekker3D: Well, there was an MMORPG that I liked. Extremely casual, simple looking and the game itself was pretty stupid, but the community was pretty awesome.
mircea_popescu: i still don't know what that is.
Dekker3D: Anyway, he got the impression that I'm pretty damn good at what I do
Dekker3D: While I was working on yet another one of my projects. It failed like so many others.
Dekker3D: Eh. Bruno something, went by "BMG" on the forum I was messing around on.
Dekker3D: mircea_popescu, I've actually met someone quite like you before.
Dekker3D: I was simply diagnosed with a number of different nasty things between ages 8-15 or so, and I've been spending a lot of time (and yeah, government money along with some of my parents') to become a LOT more functional than I was before.
mircea_popescu: ll out a knife, place it calmly on the table, and say, "listen lung transplant, I'm not on SSI, I'm on SSDI. I worked.""
Dekker3D: mircea_popescu, I've read almost all of it by now. The main distinction here is that SSI is assumed to be poor people who receive money because otherwise they'd riot, and SSDI is assumed to be people who have worked and who simply can't anymore.
Dekker3D: mircea_popescu, I'm not sure I get what you're saying. "watermelon through your thighs" implies something about childbirth?
punkman: Dekker3D, I'm not judging was just wondering if that was a thing in .nl
punkman: Dekker3D, I
Dekker3D: So forgive me if I see the handicap allowance thing as something good.
Dekker3D: Anyway, I used to suffer from pretty bad depression, so if I had been forced to work when I got out of school I'd have probably ended up dead by now
Dekker3D: Anyway, I do actually program. Been doing it since I was 15-ish
Dekker3D: I get 70% of minimum wage. If I take up a job, it fills in the reminaining 30% until I get more than 100% minimum wage, at which point the ... allowance thing drops away
Dekker3D: A psychologist and a neurologist agreed that I won't be able to find a job because of that psychological thing. So, they declared me "unfit for work".
mircea_popescu: Dekker3D i'm asking
Dekker3D: So I build a 3d printer, play the guitar, program stuff, and teach people crap
Dekker3D: It's a psychological thing where I quite literally can't get started on certain types of stuff.
Dekker3D: "white knighting". Ow, right in the ego. But, I'm legally considered to be handicapped so I don't really have a job.
mircea_popescu: a) i only learned it like yest, and it's emphatically not part of the lingo here.
Dekker3D: "incel". Good gods, I'm going to have to find a different dictionary for this place, aren't I?
mircea_popescu: cazalla: for some time he has said we're all trolls yet here he is again pitching us, makes me think he's a scammer afterall << prolly just the weird sort that tries to do it on his own terms but isn't either bright or great enough to manage it. so he ends this sort of ... i suppose the word is incel.
indiancandy1: i was away
mircea_popescu: should be a crowdsourced project this. "i need crowdmoneyz to make a 380 km extendopenis to fuck this chick i met online that can't really be bothered to walk over, but i like tothink of as a prospect"
Dekker3D: Sadly, I don't have a 376.6km extendopenis.
mircea_popescu: do you know what i am saying ?
Dekker3D: I am almighty
Dekker3D: Yeah, I figured as much.
Dekker3D: Well, I wanted to learn a bit about the "web of trust" idea anyway, but never really knew anyone who was into crypto that much
Dekker3D: I exist!
mircea_popescu: from what i hear.
mircea_popescu: o god this fucking log is golden. i was originaly -.- cazalla but i take it back. lol.
Dekker3D: mircea_popescu, the difference is negligible because she's doing sexy stuff on the internet and I'm helping her do so. That could make me her pimp or her tech guy.
moiety: i dont make as much sense as BB when drunk XD
moiety: ohgod, i was scared to read the logs back this morning! was dying at first, but i'm ok now. sorry for being here
mircea_popescu: cazalla: are you her pimp or something? Dekker3D: I'm her tech dude << the difference is negligible ? :D
mircea_popescu: Dekker3D: As far as I know, mircea's "anyway, drop your address" means that she should put her bitcoin address in here, anywhere. I'd write it for her, but it's more trustworthy if I just vouch for her and she writes it <<< yup that's a good point. seeing how you own this nick for 5 years and she just reg'd hers.
mircea_popescu: i'll be here a while.
Naphex: 17:11 <+cazalla> shibe needs to be put to sleep << i loled hard
moiety: it's better his fiancee left him now before the wedding. i don't think she understands the whole "for better or worse" bit
punkman: " I should have read more about the technical aspects of Doge before I invested but like a lot of people here I had so much faith that the community could conquer these things. But it seems that community means nothing when it comes to the success of Doge, the price is being driven and manipulated by the big money, the chinese whales and big money speculators"
punkman: "I've tried to comfort myself with examples of Bitcoin's drops from $30 to $1 before but this doesn't mean it's going to happen again especially because of Doge's very different properties"
chetty: 30k to set up a meeting, I guess inflation is worse than I thought
moiety: i know, an added nice touch was preferring folk that didn't want to know what he was up to entirely.
moiety: the world must be trolling him if no one wants his proposals. i think he'll be back.
cazalla: well i figured he best call the federal police in my country and explain it to them
artifexd: There is this tv show called "Storage Wars" where they auction off the contents of storage units whose bills haven't been paid. I wonder if a cloud storage provider could get away with something similar. "Don't pay your bill? We auction off your data."
dub: I'll miss him
ninjashogun: moiety - it's been a 100% explicit proof of what I've been saying for the past few months whenever I've been here. Tihs channel is useless trolls. Cazalla "gave me his number" to call and discuss further (normally, quite a normal first step!!!) Except he gave Australian's police number. Useless trolling.
ninjashogun: Anyway, it sounds like nobody here has actually helped start startup-type businesses (off bitcoin), so I'm not going to waste more of my time. If someone is interested in learning more about either of the businesses I'm currently raising funds ahead of the seed round of, then you can PM me and I can give you all the details.
moiety: ;; later tell mircea_popescu kik is just an instant messaging app but it works across all platforms and has lots of wee add-ons. i like kik
ninjashogun: chetty, why do you think I have to spend my own money to get six-figure investments from them? Couldn't I just send a prospectus and have them wire some cash? It doesn't work like that. You need to do a TON and have a ton of meetings with them, sohw them EVERYTHING in minute detail.
ninjashogun: chetty - no, it just doesn't happen. I know VC's. I know founders. Scams just don't happen after you do due dilligence.
chetty: ninjashogun, I dont think VC lets it make the news when they get scammed ...they get even
indiancandy1: so i type that here
indiancandy1: so i type it
indiancandy1: where i find out
ninjashogun: chetty - I will also say this. How come VC's (venture capitalists) don't get scammed - when they write six, and seven-figure checks? If you Google "vc's scammed":
ninjashogun: cazalla, now you also see why if you've never invested in anything or anyone, why I don't want to offer to be the first.
ninjashogun: cazalla - btw the above - linking "Contact - Australian Federal Police" - is exactly why I call this channel useless trolls. It takes about 15 seconds of talking with me to determine who I am and what I'm doing.
ninjashogun: chetty - yes, I agree. If you want to give money but have no references, they're the only ones who will take it from you.
chetty: if I want to give money without refs there are plenty of beggars on the street corner
ninjashogun: cazalla, now you see why I need a reference. It's very easy to waste someone's time.
ninjashogun: thanks, chetty. cazalla, I Googled your number to try to do some basic DD. https://www.google.com/search?q="61%2B+02+6131+3000"
ninjashogun: cazalla, OK. PM me your number, I'll call you soon.
ninjashogun: cazalla, I have a lot going on including raising this bridge from my exisitng network and VC network.
cazalla: i'm gonna need that phone call before we proceed
ninjashogun: cazalla, I might still be able to work with you. Maybe if this would be a first investment for you, you can team up with someone from here and do it together.
ninjashogun: cazalla - the issue is, I don't know. You could waste weeks of my time. (It's happened before - that's post-closing documents. meaning, everything has been agreed and closed.)
ninjashogun: If this would be the first time you invested in anything/anyone then we might still proceed but I'd like to know this ahead of time.
ninjashogun: I was just asking if you would be able to furnish one.
ninjashogun: I didn't need a reference now.
cazalla: if you're unable to afford to call me i'll assume you're not a serious player
ninjashogun: I have now. Google results don't look great :-D :-D