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mircea_popescu: have a bunch of techs and mandatory clothing insurance.
mircea_popescu: tailor tailors for the body, it's sinnewy depths, not for the skinshape.
mircea_popescu: well... my tailor here'd prolly do it. it'd be weird as all fuck... but hey.
mircea_popescu: it'd seem to me it'd be more painful to have panties made for no particular cock than you know, a shirt.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem is that you always have a finite workspace.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't, the square eye wouldn't put 3x more focus on horiz than it puts on vert sync.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you're eliding the point. the fact that your misshapen pixels allow you to not see the distortion means your meat is made to look through a tank periscope in the first place.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don't hate scrolling. i hate the situation where my field is fixed.
mircea_popescu: but the pixels themselves! every inch is 100 sideways and 40 vertically.
mircea_popescu: given that people's horiz precision is what, 3x their vert precision.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't, seems to me you're looking through that tank periscope anyway
mircea_popescu: do you also hate inequal pixel sizes ? like, you know, is your monitor square ?
mircea_popescu: as in "what everyone does" normal or as in "what should be done" normative-normal ?
mircea_popescu: i grant you, if you hate scrolling you'll have to engage in strange to compensate.
mircea_popescu: me being a folk who reads maths, and historeical documents. even the original blueprint.
mircea_popescu: actually trilema as-is works better for ALL of these than pdf.
mircea_popescu: but it still seems to me a narrow corner case notrly contemplated here.
mircea_popescu: now, one's experience may vary, i've not printed a book in a decade,
mircea_popescu: but fwiw, my experience as an actual author is that the html format is WAY better than the pdf format for the web, which is why trilema is not delivered in pdfs.
mircea_popescu: so because -unprocessed- pdf doesn't actually exist you figure this is an argument ?
mircea_popescu: so does pdf, in same conditions. except you gotta use either a windows bundle or else more perl crud munged together.
mircea_popescu: the failure of widgets is a problem of the widgetmaker. do not ask me to solve it till i market a widget.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field how about forget .ps which is fine, and .tex
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, it's not only the most valuable thing you'll ever have - it's outright the only one.
mircea_popescu: oldest scam in the book, this identity transfer. keep your identity, it's yours.
mircea_popescu: now that you wish to be facebook inc, suddenly *they* gotta be you know "people", to take the place of the vague "we".
mircea_popescu: "because people follow us". well fuck you, back when YOU were anonymous, joe schmoe and lucy lue followed you. not "people".
mircea_popescu: 'cause that's all they know, facebook model. pretend like "we" are interacting with the stakeholders but stay anonymous, and then if/when this gets big enough, assert a new identity and whoopdeedoo, claim you're worth a billion.
mircea_popescu: "o look, they're hippy dippy cool and got cat pictures". what "they" ? and it's not THEIR fucking cat, either.
mircea_popescu: no dude, that's how *they hope to make money*. later on. once "we" and "contact us" have got enough of this fuzzy baseless trust made by appealing to a certain naivity of the intelligent.
mircea_popescu: then people wonder about kaminsky. EXACT SAME THING. you lot have been so mentally stunted by the stupid welfare state, you do this sort of shit. "oh, i wonder if arxiv backwards . org paid funkenstein_ anything". no dude, they didn't, he's just silly like that. like everyone in that country.
mircea_popescu: fuck them. you want me to tihnk "i wonder if you have more"
mircea_popescu: you don't want me to think "hey that was a great piece, i wonder IF ARXIV ORG HAS MORE"
mircea_popescu: own your content, AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. you don't need someone else deciding anything whatsoever. not what url to use. not when to "put up a warning page". not. ANYTHING.
mircea_popescu: the difference between this stupid diqus shit and just writing for gawker is 0.
mircea_popescu: dude...srsly. a walled garden/proprietary platform is bad in and of itself. it's not bad only if it becomes big.
mircea_popescu: and im not reading a pdf. what the fuck funkenstein_ .
mircea_popescu: <mats> conned or what? lent his name for a buck to some trash? << intelligent people have a lot of trouble avoiding locklin's mistake.
mircea_popescu: <mats> such incompetence. how hard is it to use sed? << real muppets use excel.
mircea_popescu: bitstein the observer makes the valid code replace point, but STILL names its article "the race to replace bitcoin". as fucking if. "the race to waste imbecile capitalist money, the new hot valley term for what was once known as a venture capitalist" was radioactive or something.
mircea_popescu: you're like the guy going "so mp you're saying the perpetuum mobile could not exist because X ?" sure, x if you want it.
mircea_popescu: i'm never going to be able to show you ALL the things that are wrong wqith it, being that it's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: model this attack and i'll show you one thin that's wrong with it enough to sink it.
mircea_popescu: mats well, it's training, i gather. trainee pieces aren't either useful or valuable, per se. so you're not really "buying" anything.
mircea_popescu: "In order to encourage participation we would like to be able to award more substantial prizes. If you would like to donate to this cause, please contact us!"
mircea_popescu: dude with the article must have had some pretty odd searches in the past. my "google images" for princess leia consists of 20 hits of the woman wearing some sort of white overalls, with the 17th being her in actual atire.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, i had no idea leia is supposed to be anything BUT the slave chick.
mircea_popescu: no it's not fucking anonymous. it's pseudonymous. different fucking things. identity still exists!
mircea_popescu: the rub, of course, being the entire "oh but bitcoin is anonymous"
mircea_popescu: which is what this is : inexistent problems that don't exist being misunderstood as existing by people who don't understand how anything works, and then failing to see that even should they exist, the solution also exists.
mircea_popescu: so i give you nonces 1-100 to hash , and fluffy nonces 101-200. and you report nothing found, and he reports nothing found. and then one day a block on nonce 76 is found and you are forever fucked.