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thestringpuller: you give them
a litle change, and they'll just ask for more
mircea_popescu: if you compare how you treat your pets and how the average liberal intends to treat "those people" you get
a scary identity.
mircea_popescu: every derp derping on "social media" about the libtard themes is really
a very badly brought up preteen crying for help.
mircea_popescu: and the point isn't to execute 10k derps. to make such
a claim is to bestow qualities upon them they never have nor will ever have.
decimation: "For example, to run Egypt -
a country of 10 million people, then - Cromer had about 1000 British civil servants. If you count all the Western diplomats, development experts, NGOistas, and the like, for whom the present parlous state of Egypt provides employment, how many do you get?
A lot more than 1 per 10,000 Egyptians, I suspect. How many Westerners are employed in bandaging and rebandaging the permanent ulcer of Africa? Um,
a mircea_popescu: i guess since legal matters so much all planes sohuld be equipped with
a congressman the way old ships were equipped with
a priest
decimation: yeah that would be
a pretty good way of doing business
mircea_popescu: if i ran
a country i'd give linus the right to pass death sentences, and sent the secret service to execute them.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the fucking problem. libtards don't want to live in
a country that works, they want to live in
a country run by obama.
decimation: Deep in the comments: "Friend of mine was
a mid level product manager on Firefox. What she told me is that Eich’s dismissal was entirely due to politics. Specifically, Mozilla is this interesting hybrid organization that relies on it’s global open source community in order to Get Stuff Done, and they couldn’t risk alienating all the volunteers and contributors who make Mozilla possible."
decimation: what I find amusing is that the lefties don't get that they are in
a relgious war because they don't even realize that what they are derping about is metaphysics
decimation: the guy who wrote is obviously fascinated with reactionary thought but is also
a liberal jew
mircea_popescu: "Tolerance is definitely considered
a virtue, but it suffers the same sort of dimished expectations forgiveness does."
decimation: but the masses instead demand
a kernel change
decimation: that-and - lots of hardware makers suck at actually making hardware, and their customers demand
a software fix
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> i am an early fan. needs more pics of casascius coins though. << this is
a point. topical, related, meaningful pics are
a good add.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> any insight into where qntra traffic is coming from? << cazalla ran off with
a lass, but he'll be back midweek, ima push him to put quantcast in there, then you can see directly.
gribble: Error: "googl" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i got
a spam comment from "Discount True Religion Canada Online". which seems just about right.
mircea_popescu: that's the model. that's the model that made video gaming
a thing, where there was previously no thing.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> herr poettering is quite close to destroying linux as
a going concern, imho. << no. what he is close to is destroying the notion of "updates" as
a going concern. which is
a fucking brilliant thing, they should have died ten years ago.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic> Linus is
a drunk, I don't know why anybody expects anything different from him. << linus actually has
a point.
assbot: Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite
a Sick Place To Be In" - Slashdot
decimation: it's pretty much
a crypto-rehash of moldbug's red/blue distinction but written to appeal to liberals
decimation: re: lennart << anyone who has done anything that deals with
a relatively unfiltered mass public knows how derpy and stupid the masses are. why should 'open source' be an exception?
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: My body is
a temple. Maybe it is some rural tribal arrangement made of straw held together with Giraffe shit, but god damn it, it is still
a temple!
BingoBoingo: If you get the success to get
a big old role of drink tickets with your invite to speak at an event not using the decreases your compensation. Also drinking to forget clears crud out of the brain.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, Red Hat gave him the platform. Fedora has close ties with Gnome... Basically one mole and
a turdware vendor set up dominoes.
midnightmagic: Also his drinking gets in the way of being
a functional human.
BingoBoingo: midnightmagic: What's wrong with being
a drunk? ALso his attidtude gets results.
midnightmagic: Linus is
a drunk, I don't know why anybody expects anything different from him.
BingoBoingo: Poettering on Linus: "But more importantly, I'd actually put some blame on
a certain circle of folks that play
a major role in kernel development, and first and foremost Linus Torvalds himself. By many he is
a considered
a role model, but he is quite
a bad one. If he posts words like "[specific folks] ...should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that?"
assbot: Lennart Poettering: Open Source Community "Quite
a Sick Place To Be In" - Slashdot
gribble: Error: "trust" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, "The term "palimony" is not
a legal or historical term, but rather
a colloquial portmanteau of the words pal and alimony coined by celebrity divorce attorney Marvin Mitchelson in 1977 when his client Michelle Triola Marvin filed an unsuccessful suit against the actor Lee Marvin."
mircea_popescu: it went up
a whole .1% in twenty minutes, that estimation.
assbot: The analysis of
a failure : Asicminer pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
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gribble: Error: "twontlast" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: "According to the report,
a work for successfully enforcing the schooling has been dynamically pushed forward as the one involving the whole state, all people and the whole society and signal successes have been made in it."
mircea_popescu: TomServo> Holy shit this 'seamonster' "crash analysis podcast" is
a train wreck. << but that's what you were there for right ?
gribble: Sent 7 minutes ago: <sgornick> Re: Qntra.net, I registered @Qntra on Twitter before some griefer /squatter did. Then put
a Twitterfeed to push tweets from the RSS feed. When you want the twitter acct, let me know what e-mail to assign it to. It can't be an e-mail already used for any other twitter account.
☟︎ gribble: Error: "messages" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: still the major problem will be that while on average say it's an ideal market, 0% bias, that average has
a poisson distribution of maybe 15% each way, so any individual buyer could see
a price fuzziness as close to 30% as his luck gets.
dignork: Naphex: still, as far as I can see they fail to provide any usefull functionality besides what already done in counterparty. Impossibility to spend/destroy assets by dumb wallet is
a nice touch, but that's it.
TomServo: Holy shit this 'seamonster' "crash analysis podcast" is
a train wreck.
assbot: Battle Rapper Daylyt Attempted to Poop On Stage After Getting Booed At
a Show This Weekend | Complex
mircea_popescu: and with this i'll have to take
a meeting, but will be back in an hour or so. cheers.
mircea_popescu: which is
a matter of the wot. lettuce find the relevant article.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, conceptually similar to your thing, sure. people agreeing on
a trade and exchanging the money and signing the contract in
a pseudonymous manner.
dionyziz: I'm familiar with the concept of GPG-signing
a personal contract.
mircea_popescu: dignork you can't have bias in
a decentralized market. you will instead have volatility. bias happens in central markets like ebay deciding to side with buyer
mircea_popescu: (and here's
a riot, 1.2k asicminer full shares ? aka 6k btc at the peak ? history!)
mircea_popescu: pseudonymous parties agreeing on
a trade, exchanging money and signing the contract.
dionyziz: Can you explain why you think it's
a solved problem?
dionyziz: I don't think it's
a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: anyway : this already exists, it's
a solved problem. why are you resolving
a solved problem ?
dionyziz: We want to allow people to agree on
a trade and exchange the money and sign the contract in
a pseudonymous manner.
brianhoffman: well i’d like to say we’re working on
a decentralized drone delivery network as part of this
mircea_popescu: brianhoffman well sure, but it doesn't so much matter if it's
a meatspace issue or not. what matters is that it's the controlling issue
bounce: not all trades involve items shipped, and where they do the users of any system, decentralised or not, basically have to provide their own safety. cut-outs and that sort of thing. it does put
a bit of
a damper as to what is reasonable to advertise.
mircea_popescu: dionyziz b ecause you're leaking information through the shipping. think of it in crypto terms, you're using
a 8 bit key on an amiga as part of the process.
dionyziz: I do not see why this is
a necessity.
brianhoffman: you do realize that
a large percentage of items shipped are most likely illicit. this does not stop it from occurring.
brianhoffman: but i don’t believe we’re proposing
a solution here at the moment for that challenge
brianhoffman: I think I see what you’re saying in regards to reimplementing gpg. This is
a valid point.
mircea_popescu: but anyway! thanks, and dun worry about it, you're not being griled in the sense of having been
a bad boy
dionyziz: Regarding your comments on shipping, this is
a different issue which we also have concerns about.
brianhoffman: I can play guitar but I’m not in
a heavy metal by any means lol
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