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mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you stil lthink 18mn units sold means something ?
mircea_popescu: "Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs." szus nothing to me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, "uni studends" right. "use" mhm kay.
mircea_popescu: what's widely, 50 actual usecases which all depend on the same three contractors ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your idea of widely differs from nature.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform overheard right now "o yeah ? well the gentoo manual was down for likle... 3 days. i don't think this is a good sign"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of a "deprecated symbol" boggles my mind.,
mircea_popescu: i remember a time, maybe 10 or so years ago, when having a paypal was like, a point of pride.
mircea_popescu: this "private language" thing is a lot easier said than done.
mircea_popescu: looking in the logs, apparently alf created a new word nao, "portatronic"
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mircea_popescu: if you want to run it at 100% doing shell forks for five months, your problem.
mircea_popescu: lobbes ideally, colocate. but otherwise, sure, get a dedi, if they start discussing what you run on it tell them to get lost./
mircea_popescu: lobbes anyway, stop running vps' get a damned server. it's not THAT much.
mircea_popescu: so, logically speaking, if the cia were anything like a secret service, we'd know who exactly is^H^H was the lizzard hitler by grepping sudden deaths for warfarin.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, beria actually picked up women off the street, raped them for a while and then dropped them off.
mircea_popescu: they have nothing. this is proof positive that the cia is as worthless as the vassar feminist book club.
mircea_popescu: if you don't have a pointed stick driving it, it's not real.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing all the castrato "experts" with "degrees" fail to grasp. it doesn't matter what "reality" is, may be thought to be, could be inferred etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it doesn't count unless it's on the pointed end of a stick.
mircea_popescu: and also included "your job is to sell me on how much leverage you put at my disposal to make that revenue, nothing else."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ancient article on trilema, back in romanian decade, "half of the revenue or gtfo".
mircea_popescu: pretty much erryone but you, alf. models promoting consumer items. athletes. lawyers. financial anythings. business consultants. you name it
mircea_popescu: but generally, liberal professions / highly skilled professionals. which pointedly does not include coding monkeys, as per us law.
mircea_popescu: they're great at wearing coats and hiding in hallways.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the derp party is slowly learning that they can not purge things.
mircea_popescu: the current foundation is an embarassing shell, nothing but obligaitons for them so they're trying to shed it.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, the bit of history they're trying to purge is that vessennes was the head and treasurer of the thing, in total outrageous breach of common practice, and he got all the early bitcoin donated to it in his own name and used it for his own purposes.
mircea_popescu: you don't pay free men what you want to pay them. you pay half of what you make or you die at their hands.
mircea_popescu: e money has to go somewhere, and it’s not going to go to the providers of capital because the providers of capital to professional services companies have no negotiating leverage."
mircea_popescu: "If you think bankers make too much money, focusing on how much they are paid will get you nowhere. If they are not paid 50% of firm revenue, they will go to another bank that will pay them that much. If no bank will pay them that much, they will go start a new bank. If that sort of compensation is outlawed at any bank present or future, they will start a bank where they are the equity owners and get paid that much. Th