24400+ entries in 0.016s
mircea_popescu: ("theymos" "rassah" 8 3572807706 "Holds BTC for the forum.") << aaahahaha epic luzl.
mircea_popescu: cazalla's comments meanwhile beleted, but lulzy reddit thread he links
mircea_popescu: o look at that, "I helped run plenty of conferences. I do have an idea. The priority is to make sure you have a conference that runs well enough that people don't notice the problems, and that everyone who paid to attend it gets their money's worth. Who actually paid to make it happen is a bit lower on the priority."
mircea_popescu: get out, rassah spent whole life writing social media crap. like that david gerard animated scarecrow thing.
mircea_popescu: you utterly misunderstand. all these wankers did 0 work, precise to 6 decimals.
mircea_popescu: i still recall with amusement rassah's story about how he bought a bunch of coins without bf's permission out of their retirement fund, at 8!! and sold it all! at 13!!! RICH NAO FOREVER, because will pay off car.
mircea_popescu: similarly for people of 2013, you realise ? "it was expensive"
mircea_popescu: in five years one'd think "oh, the people from 2018, bought millions' worth of btc, are now rich". to the people of 2018, bitcoin seems, somehow, "expensive". which is necessary -- if it didn't, price'd rise.
mircea_popescu: smickles was very active, bright and clear minded accountant guy.
mircea_popescu: an attempt to "make tapestry scriptable also" is the sure sign that women-in-general are now involved in that concern.
mircea_popescu: scripting fundamentally IS NOT THAT ; moving the steer will result in changes of direction, but will NOT result in changes of tapestry.
mircea_popescu: but it's way the fuck better to maintain this car than to try and what, 20k for last year's kia ? noty.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform will replace engine with other car's engine at some point.
mircea_popescu: but take bartholomew, the early 2000s bmw. all it needs is maintenance.
mircea_popescu: "let's do new orleans continent-wide, that worked so well for us!"
mircea_popescu: "i know... the way to win is to be as vulnerable as possible!"
mircea_popescu: and then when it starts blinking, konsoomer will be in the exact 1989 position.
mircea_popescu: "we have this website, can order anything" "you mean besides plastic cup holders ?" "WHO WOULD WANT THAT!!!"
mircea_popescu: yeah, usg supply lines going to shit at a seemingly exponential rate
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know i suspect one of the washing machines could do with fixing...
mircea_popescu: on one hand people shouldn't be sent to do things that can't be done ; on the other hand somethings gotta can be done or else we're all sunk eventually.
mircea_popescu: whether there is a hole there or isn't is an iffier problem. i am not overconcerned with it ; understand that wheever, in the großer generalstab or corporate boardroom, the story's always the same : "and we should send brigadier-general X to reduce the bulge" "it can't be fucking done, are you out of your mind ?!"
mircea_popescu: "yes it's true telco gear is mostly openbsd box with nics glued on ; but it's also true that is mostly old ; replacing it, when it happens, is mostly with nobusisms baked by the chinese to order, and it's a tough racket."
mircea_popescu: at least we managed to come to a narrative that stands to cursory examination.
mircea_popescu: well yes, but the question before you is, "have i actually sat down, thought this through, and it dun work" or is it a case of "my first impulse was so and so and now i'm stuck with it like any 9 yo" ?
mircea_popescu: you know, the 2nd thing i know from watching you is that this conversation suddenly spinning in circles pretty well predicts you knew you were wrong re other call.
mircea_popescu: you don't really gain so much by having your special packets encapsulated in tcp
mircea_popescu: which is not coincidentally how everything works, bitcoin, the republic, the lordship, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: however, before you make dies you gotta know what you put in ; and i know of no other way to find out.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, part of the reason i've been working on getting some chinese ppls is that i entirely don';t believe single die fabbing is as expensive today as you think.
mircea_popescu: if it can process 100Gp/s rather than juniper's mahahahaybe 10Gp, nobody cares it eats a kw.
mircea_popescu: actually, i was thinking, the tiny ices you use could be an intermediate step -- think alf, instead of fabric-of-transistors, fabric-of-ice
mircea_popescu: this doesn't sound like more than a few hundred adalines.
mircea_popescu: if i've learned anything about you over the years is that you're absolutely never right as to what anything costs.
mircea_popescu: so it's your expert oppinion you can't actually make a better one ?
mircea_popescu: we have TWO metallic squares ; and ours have holes in them!