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mircea_popescu: what was the hands-down, no question asked, no doubt possible dominant party and c ultural force of the 1930s ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and how well that worked for the nationalists is evident everwhere around us!
mircea_popescu: subjonctive died out in english because it was stupid, time to reimplement it out of javascript and call it something else!
mircea_popescu: a bunch of derps in beirut getting together and agreeing to have bombed new york is how new york will have been bombed.
mircea_popescu: that "assurance contracts" in particular is such insane dumb only hearn could have sprouted it.
mircea_popescu: [–]wonderkindel 5 points 8 days ago Gavin sees a major shitstorm ahead, does not know of any way out, but hopes that cartels of honest miners will materialize to keep the dream wet.
mircea_popescu: [–]Institutional_Invest 1 point 9 days ago TLDR of this discussion?
mircea_popescu: ahh, i recall the age of the romanian pond, when a bunch of retarded ~romanians~ similarly entertained delusions of, you know, we will HURT THIS GUY!!111
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone ever trolled themselves off the internet.
mircea_popescu: so i just re-read this article, it's getting to the point where i manage to piss MYSELF off.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes trinque well have you looked at the sort of shit he outputs ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes fucks with bigger tits that last longer should be paid more!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that'll scale about as well as "i don't need condoms, i only fuck clean girls"
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you like balzac much, but the only reason the fat lazy fuck exists as a writer is because he had to pay his eternal debts and the newspapers paid by the line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know precisely one place where this approach worked.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into the darkness, perhaps too bold. trying it with coding is taking a bold ~train trip~ into the wilderness.
mircea_popescu: it's that fabled lightsabre that only lightsabers if wielded by master.
mircea_popescu: trinque yes, capitalism does not work in the hands of idiots.
mircea_popescu: maybe you don't understand this whole "fairness" concept.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do, the profit from which is at all proportional to the time spent? << this is a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do the job of computers, and i guess computers do the job of people ?!
mircea_popescu: with something private like you know, coding work, this may prove unfeasible.
mircea_popescu: qntra works very well, at least so far, because everyone's work is fundamentally public, there's no meaning in "writing words' outside of obviously others reading them. so trying to thin out the product as it were is painfully visible and liable to cost whoever does it more than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i've been batting around the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in the operation would be issued in direct proportion to hours clocked on the project. << risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
mircea_popescu: anyone want the clearly very valuable oyvey.eu domain ?
mircea_popescu: it only works for rich, smart people, but then again let gavin have africa, and graham sillycon valley, they'll have fun together.
mircea_popescu: coderwill yes, that and the frankness are the predicates of this place, and why it works, and why qntra will sink gawker and so on.
mircea_popescu: "you'll be eating dogfood off the floor until you can X"
mircea_popescu: <trinque> maybe someone external can force them to do otherwise, but they never will << main point of slavery.
mircea_popescu: traditional employment of the "that's a firm to put 30 years in with" isn't a loan particularly for that reason.
mircea_popescu: coderwill think of it in sexual terms. "honey let's fuck". "are you going to be around in ten years to raiuse my children ?" "nope" "so i'm loaning you my taxed income in the future ?"
mircea_popescu: well the only way to survive is to nmot work for a worthless one.
mircea_popescu: peopel tend to forget that working for a start-up is a LOAN.
mircea_popescu: trinque pushing for equity is an essential tool in evaluating the company.
mircea_popescu: next time tell them "listen bub, i'm not fresh off the turnip truck. you want to hire me on pure salary, it's $1,5mn the first year payable upfront and increasing by 1mn each eyar after that.
mircea_popescu: (it didn't last tho, meanwhile romania joined nato and every college prof is hawking his own dumbass books)
mircea_popescu: apparently growing up in the civilised world has its advantages
mircea_popescu: you know the one time a smarmy teacher tried to be all american and make the class buy a book we complained to the provost and he nearly got kicked out.
mircea_popescu: however, it can be implemented as rolling window, which is how in point of fact "relay set" works
mircea_popescu: it will cause trouble at some point down the road, because eventually the blockchain will overwhelm the index.
mircea_popescu: well technically it's improved, over the 200/hour earlier :p
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well really it was a point from ever since gossipd was discussed, but w/e, not mature yet.
mircea_popescu: except they're not orphan, they're just "not in the presence of their parents"