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mircea_popescu: hiring interview "mr X we will need you to debug all the browsers." "that's fine, but i will need all the moneys" "we only have a fraction of the moneys" "then i can debug a fraction of the browsers" "well... that isn't useful is it now."
mircea_popescu: but i can't be sending people on this snipe expedition because i am a poorfag.
mircea_popescu: if any of you ever getting unexpected behaviour feel for some unknown reason a compulsion to debug the whys and wherefores, i would certainly listen
mircea_popescu: he did seem of the "i feel like hacking on this so fu" persuasion.
mircea_popescu: the notion that one'll make money from "licenses" in the future... heh. not such a great plan.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes in particular it's unclear to me how wise the "licenses" angle is for a serenissima derivative. while i declined to anull IP when diametric asked earlier, i am very very far from any sort of belief that the current model of that stack of stupidity has any sort of hope for survival.
mircea_popescu: especially seeing how plenty of the conjectures that are still open problems are around a century old.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell asciilifeform here's a thought : we had 15 broken keys when phuctor had seen 159k keys ; and we have 19 now, it's just a shade under 200k. curious if the 1 in 10k thing keeps throughout the 4mn
mircea_popescu: and back then it was all "nowai it rocks!111 time will show!!1"
mircea_popescu: now that they buried the world under their xml crapolade, they can just go away. nobody's going to go "hey, the shit sucked!111" NOW.
mircea_popescu: and at some point not so long ago this was supposedly a big fucking deal.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly the full blown version of my original doubts.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel that is a game for much older and richer folk than you, to create a new world.
mircea_popescu: the spanish invented the new world mostly to make the dutch (and their later english colony) richer for it. etc.
mircea_popescu: the first railroad company didn't make money, tho railroad was a money maker eventually.
mircea_popescu: not saying that money can't be made out of america, obviously.
mircea_popescu: among other things, i am saying that people only move to america if it's free. if it's not free they stay home.
mircea_popescu: but if your thing needs classes you conceivably failed by your own criteria.
mircea_popescu: yes, they buy classes, and no hyperchem lite is not Chemistry.
mircea_popescu: this would be in the category of ipad jackpot simulators i guess.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ironically, if it's any good it does lack it. if it actually sells then it has it, which is what windows is, basically.
mircea_popescu: if th efield had needed such a thing, it wouldn't exist at all.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't believe that's the only approach, nor did i think it actually was yours, before encountering that line.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i was replying to " you wouldn't shell over $100 for it?" strictly.
mircea_popescu: the idea here being that people wouldn't pay for a sane os for the same reason they won't payfor the sun.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: mkay. lemme explain something about markets to you. the sun is infinitely valuable, to the exclusion of all else. nobody (tm) would consider paying for it, and in no case would they pay anything close to fair value (why this is so should be thermodynamically obvious). meanwhile, ipads have no utility and go for hundreds by the million. on top of them, jackpot machine simulations sell for more $$$.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel portage already exists. not only would i not pay for it, i'd pay to have whoever packages gentoo atm whipped.
mircea_popescu: much more interesting would be an assay of the various windows and perhaps mac implementations
mircea_popescu: Hasimir minus the fact that it imports unsigned keys (badly signed it rejects, but unsigned at all seem an exception ?), gpg generally doesn't import the diddled exponent keys yeah
mircea_popescu: all the way up to an afore-unknown property of the mathematical structures involved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we were idly discussing the "what could have causes weak keys", i pointed out that so far it could be a lotta things
mircea_popescu: what you mean by deep in gpg py bowels ? is it exploitable even ?
mircea_popescu: "I walked out of the back office in a state of absolute shock. I’d just become a twenty–first century sharecropper. I couldn’t find outside work without winding up homeless — and I couldn’t leave the state because three bucks of gas money won’t get you past Walnut Creek — and I couldn’t get paid because there was no money to pay anyone with."
mircea_popescu: so your deedbot is going to break over someone citing a nick ?
mircea_popescu: decimation i dunno anyone gave a shit, just, whatever freenode takes.
mircea_popescu: (pretty much exactly same story, separated by two decades and a gender gap_
mircea_popescu: decimation we're not enforcing that policy re irc handles tho
mircea_popescu: they should be thankful the names don't get translated!
mircea_popescu: somehow the obvious "Don't do drm, you'll be involved with the sort of people who do drm" doesn't occur to his mind.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o check me out, i have the day's first line in log. yay.
mircea_popescu: if you must include blobs, include them apart from whatever it is you're deed-ing
mircea_popescu: Hasimir: cool, will do << for the record, this non-readable dump of text stuff is annoying.
mircea_popescu: jurov: heh seems there will be leaks.b-a.link soon << nb, nb
mircea_popescu: they don't even know whom to jail for the most recent leak on trilema.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and the line a lot more visible in topics you care about enough to study in detail..