asciilifeform: i confess i'm somewhat suspicious of anything which suggests to 'monetize' my site, which is more or less the polar inverse of 'monetizable' in the usual sense.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you want to pay 10/mo to display 'lol cockz in white africa' i'm game...
asciilifeform: i'm open to it, so long as serious money and i don't have to promise any kind of detectable result to anyone.
asciilifeform: ... it didn't work. ad revenue from the fine scotch drinkers did not suffice. magazine was: sold, dumbed down hilariously
asciilifeform: ad contents was heavily geared to the stuff aging 'imperial age' americans with intellectual inclinations might buy. primarily - whiskey.
asciilifeform: but as idiots, with some struggle, learn more 'adult' systems in their effort to mimic actual people, this useful heuristic stops working
asciilifeform: presently you can do a kind of basic 'iq filter' just by, e.g. ignoring anything whatsoever distributed as an ms-word turd
asciilifeform: but looks like everyone is missing the original point.
asciilifeform: there is no practical alternative to latex for mathematical typesetting (microshit is not a practical alternative to anything, ever)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what's wrong with latex << nothing. but plenty wrong with idiots
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: everyone with a copy of MS Word and Adobe Acrobat think they can self publish, with out the skills << wait till they get a hold of 'latex'
asciilifeform: 'she's pretty high of the ground; doesn't OSHA require spotters, or a hardhat...' << from comments
asciilifeform: lol, i get up for a little bit, and somebody links the world-famous menstrual painter.
asciilifeform: an improvement, even if genuine, will be condemned to grind out a meagre existence as an altchain.
asciilifeform: because the burden of proof on anybody pushing a 'pheature' to demonstrate that he isn't slipping in a semantic - or syntactic - pwnh0le - is just about impossible to meet.
asciilifeform: btc is probably, for better or worse, frozen solid.
asciilifeform: ace that will allow developers to use this language at all, _nothing_ happens. By mounting a constant attack on the standards process, the nutcases who are never going to be happy with the language, anyway, ensure that their negative attitude keeps everyone else from being happy and becoming happier, too.'
asciilifeform: raid that if they open up for any change at all, the destructive forces will win and the language they love will be destroyed by the hatemongers and destroyers who seek only their own personal revenge over feature wars lost. And that is precisely the case with Common Lisp. Strong negative forces want to reverse several decisions and threaten to destabilize the language, so in order to maintain the necessary pe
asciilifeform: '...people who hate parts of the language, some of the people who created it, or some of the process that created it, who hold personal grudges they cannot let go of, or who think the best way to "improve" the language is to stay in the community and spread negativity and tear down everybody else's enthusiasm, do just that. No improvement at all will take place when such negativity rules because everybody is af
asciilifeform: IF the community who uses bitcoin pretty much unanimously like your idea it would make it into bitcoin << increasingly less likely with every idiot-alt.
asciilifeform: mjr_: '... your idea is good, it will prob be added into bitcoin' << there is a set of ideas that are only 'good', from the point of view of their proponents, if other people are (made to) use them.
asciilifeform loves the presumed-winblows that always pops up in random n0obs' comments
asciilifeform: nothing so spicy. just the notion that analogue computing could come back (it was a gloriously interesting field back in the day, dust off some books, fun)
asciilifeform: decimation: nsa, cia, nga - not subject to the traditional 'gs' ranks system
asciilifeform: they aren't rich, in the customary sense (they must work, and are expected to follow a variety of curious social rituals, including living in very particular places) - but not paupers.
asciilifeform: paupers? you ever meet u.s. civil service folks?
asciilifeform: (that is, by folks who have lifetime careers in the service)
