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mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.hdbuck.1:1dbf351613089fb79a798bdbb61614f211ae3e8f684a6abd682027df907aeb78
mircea_popescu: yo froggers : you don't have any "right to be forgotten", you don't get to abuse dmca out of fucking canada, and in general stfu.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is wrong with french speakers, they're so enamoured with this denial through legal process bs ?
mircea_popescu: "o mp, it has much faster string operations". fuck you.
mircea_popescu: fucking shit. i bet you the whole thing runs on c++ and nobody did any bounds checking.
mircea_popescu: it literally was, "play along for 20-30 years, you get mind uploads ands warp drives"
mircea_popescu: i was not told about this when we joined "the west" in 1990!
mircea_popescu: i had no idea when i was young i'll live in such gender role confusion times.
mircea_popescu: bring girlies along next time. or, you know... boygirlies i guess.
mircea_popescu: i bet you it's because all he had were cheapo units that always demoisturize to a certain % as result of their function, rather than actually CONDITION the air
mircea_popescu: aka, the world that could have been if we focused on the intelligent rather than on the fungal mass. mkay.
mircea_popescu: "UO is very much a view into the world that could have been, if WOW hadn't come along and MMORPGs became driven by addiction mechanics instead of depth. (I do not necessarily mean that as a perjorative... I take my own hits on the bong of grind-based (J/W/T)RPGs sometimes. But it's a fair description.)"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: apologiez for linking to the retarded, but im trying to bother asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: quite. being a libertard is very much a SEXUAL behaviour.
mircea_popescu: "20. Notice the masochistic tendency of leftist tactics. Leftists protest by lying down in front of vehicles, they intentionally provoke police or racists to abuse them, etc. These tactics may often be effective, but many leftists use them not as a means to an end but because they PREFER masochistic tactics. Self-hatred is a leftist trait."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: imagine, forty years later, still stands. what else in computin ?
mircea_popescu: you'd have to pick something for your ada port. and there's not atm any way to pick.
mircea_popescu: more importantly there's doubts as to the suitability of the curve in question etc
mircea_popescu: obv bitcoin can't continue pulling in random code. this is an assault on sense, as far as we're concerned, and an assault on their turf as they perceive it, as far as the pr group is concerned.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't that great or anything, but it doesn't have much competition either.
mircea_popescu: it's the result of a for-profit venture of some sort, gmaxwell went on a reddit rampage explaining hopw they "found bugs" and how great the entire process is etc
mircea_popescu: decimation the lib in question was discussed in log at the time too
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem that's how i end up with stuff like ;; and xse in my history file :D
mircea_popescu: most of the benefit of touch typing comes from not moving your "frame" above the kbd.
mircea_popescu: touch typing is good if you're going to do straight typing for mintues at a time. i normally do not. i suppose you do not either, need a mouse, a this, a buffer, a that etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem harem, actually. "if you have a ton of babes, doing it wrong"
mircea_popescu: this follows in the wake of a few threads mostly brought to a head by the opnessl idiocies you might wish to review phf if you've not seen them before.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185658 << this is not merely a difference of workflow, but a difference of philosophy. we are not interested in automation, we are interested in review and responsibility. the only concern that thing is adressing is that we find a critical bug tomorrow, i want to know who to negrate.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eh, these hirign someone to work on things deals never work out.
mircea_popescu: the roi for the first was 0, the roi for the 2nd not 0.
mircea_popescu: take the other side. i approved expenditure of ~7.5 btc on advertising as ceo of s.mg ; and of ~.25 (unreported, maybe next month i remember to put it in) on s.nsa.
mircea_popescu: see ag3nt_zero, syllogism. reductio ad absurdum. present the op with a dilemma, so he can either explain what was misunderstood or correct what he misunderstood
mircea_popescu: what's this "quantity is the determinator of quality" approach then ?
mircea_popescu: arguably intelligence is similarly of a capital good, and you have enough control of it to, for instance, contribute here. other people do not have this luxury - for instance because they agreed some employer owns it all.
mircea_popescu: as much as running your own server is controlling a capital good. not a very significant one, but that's a quantitative discussion
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem you're not going to redefine terms of art now, are you ?
mircea_popescu: even not counting the nsa etc ; pogo is a capital good.