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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you're missing the point. he won't be there in 2025.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why these folks renamed it, i cannot say. << guess/
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> and mp had direct contact with the man iirc << who this again ?
mircea_popescu: "LSU football equipment is leased to student-athetes, who are not allowed to give it away or sell it." fucking outrage.
mircea_popescu: "So let’s learn from the Swiss. They’ve been careful; they’ve maintained sound money for generations. And now they’re paying the price."
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of remarkable (not really) just how self-labeling stupidity actually is. the difference between trying to "explain yourself" as an idiot and simply wearing a lot of large "hey everyone, i'm the idiot!" signs and tags is hard to notice.
mircea_popescu: they were left on this other side with nobody, and putin.
mircea_popescu: those people just failed to "enter the looking glass world" when "everybody" did.
mircea_popescu: that what the us considers important thinkers have no access to basic data, because they're isolated on a WoI, should speak volumes.
mircea_popescu: "And for three years it worked. But on Thursday the Swiss suddenly gave up. We don’t know exactly why; nobody I know believes the official explanation, that it’s a response to a weakening euro. " << ha-ha. everyone you DON'T know knows the explanation. it was published on fucking trilema for crissakes, not even as a news item.
mircea_popescu: Hey! This page will never end! Just keep on scrolling to see more posts! < lol busted. anyway! i guess it goes back i nthe pile that has been holding "open transactyions" since about 2011.
mircea_popescu: "With the two attacks we thwarted in 2014, the GUI development had to take a bit of a backseat." << in depth description ? links ? somehow for me to evaluate if they're due to the world being full of idiots (ddos ?) or the devs being idiots (we were using ruby!!1)
mircea_popescu: in any case it'd benefit from an explanation of itself.
mircea_popescu: (when what looks like a term of art has basically two apparently divorced meanings via google, it's suspicious if they don't seem mutually aware)
mircea_popescu: "OpenAlias is different. Not only does it "square Zooko's triangle" " << the entire discusison of that thing (my mind went, ok, let's try and poke one particular thing and see" is nice and all for the zooko discussion, but a) it's not clear to me what's the relation to open alias corporation if any
mircea_popescu: Testing infrastructure consists of a Mac Mini hosted at MacStadium, as well as a beefy testing box hosted at Hetzner in Germany, on which we have a number of VMs for the various operating systems and variants we target. >> much better.
mircea_popescu hated that "illustrative" graph too. fucking sleek but meaningless graphics.
mircea_popescu: 35 weeks of development (245 days) since Monero was inherited by the Core Team 594 separate commits << inherited by whom ? how ? if that inherited had linked to a gpg signed testament...
mircea_popescu: this would explain the shockingly large 50 btc donations figure for an altcoin i guess.
mircea_popescu: aid at all, but we've put a significant amount of funds into Monero)."
mircea_popescu: "Expenditure for the year comprised of 3 totals as some costs could not be settled in BTC or were preferably settled in XMR. Our expenditure was 190.513492 BTC + 1 891.31 XMR + US $5 732.80, which is around the 212 BTC mark. Thus the shortfall of 164.5 BTC was paid out of the Core Team's own pockets in the hopes of recovering the funds later on (ie. just in case anyone was wondering, not only do the core team not get p
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " So far it hasn't been enforced due to its extreme vagary, but in the unstable environment of applied United States law. Not with the sudden resurgence of threats to invoke the All Writs Act reentering the public discourse in late 2014."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol always great to read the comedy gold classics every time us policy backfires massively.
mircea_popescu: you can trivially make it out of silicone. it'll suck.
mircea_popescu: there must be some shop left somewhere that still does it. they make chain mail by hand and whatnot, i can't imagine shoemakers all died out.
mircea_popescu: twenty years ago you could have leather shoes made by design to order in quantities of one, up in harlem.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic they look to me like a steel frame tied to the calf and foot.
mircea_popescu: because somehow inexplicably cuntpuss has purchasing power. for shame.
mircea_popescu: hard to be found and find peers when drowning in sewage & assorted cuntpuss
mircea_popescu: now if in question were shoes... or rifles... but they aren't, are they.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cloth unquestionably exists ; so exists bad code.
mircea_popescu: they probably learn more useful & important stuff playing counterstrike than mashing the kbd for code.
mircea_popescu: it's what computer geek means, these days. "shy, socially awkward teenager that doesn't know how to use computers, in spite of spending a lot of time with them"
mircea_popescu: like gavin, or the rest. the million people that's a million extra hands on github
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean mostly the ruby and web2.0 "we r code" bunch.
mircea_popescu: dunning kruger is not reserved to idiots. it's just another name for the aspie's sufferance.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow their inability to score girlfriends or be the life of the party does not even begin to hint to them that perhaps they're ill prepared to judge economic phenomena.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of things seem obvious by simile to people with no experience and not much intellectual curiosity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if ever there was a social experiment to illustrate just how little computer geeks understand, bitcoin's it.
mircea_popescu: not like you're going to do anything whatsoever BECAUSE of the usg.
mircea_popescu: you know, for an ironclad case the prosecution claims, and for an independence from the state the judge pretends,
mircea_popescu: decimation it's as fucking unbriliant as a lump of coal. at the end of the week, instead of having a decent steak and a game of bridge with intellgient people,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: socialistoids of all flavours praise this system of "dilute ownership"
mircea_popescu: hire some derp to work your company, pay him by share price, next thing you know he;'s buying up your stock.
mircea_popescu: buffett explained this scam back when he was still you know, possessed of himself.
mircea_popescu: "well i guess that's fair, they also sell for 20-30mn"
mircea_popescu: "yreah, my gf sells romance novels, it was like 3 of her books"
mircea_popescu: x company sells for 100 mn. you talk to the founders... they made 50k off the deal.
mircea_popescu: these magical money that make anyone rich up to the point where they'rer to be spent...