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mircea_popescu: this is the original spark of mob turf wars, too. it's basically free money.
mircea_popescu: decimation listen, the market in security is such that various groups always tend to posture as you know
mircea_popescu: while it's not much a matter of perception. pure thermodynamics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem here is that you're thinking this in terms of perception,
mircea_popescu: decimation like one did when patriot didn't sunset, right ?
mircea_popescu: take the 2-3year average lifespan to 16 monts, what of it.
mircea_popescu: just on a general "well, vote for the underdog" thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'd personally hold on to acquitting anyone accused of shooting a swat derp, if in his home.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, considering the line of work, a 2-3 year average lifespan for anyone involved would be reasonable.
mircea_popescu: nothing worse than an aparatchick with a delusion of invulnerability.
mircea_popescu: truth be told, a lot more swat derps need to be kiled on a daily basis, to balance that shit out.
mircea_popescu: "In 2009 Mayor Cheye Calvo proposed a measure that would require every Maryland police department that operates a SWAT team to submit biannual reports on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures, or injuries."
mircea_popescu: <decimation> like, you leave package on the postman's door? << pay homeless dude 10 bux ?
mircea_popescu: because if one can joejob people this way ima put nuland in prison on federal drug charges ?
mircea_popescu: "Yes, I2P or Tor would work for such a website. Freenet is probably more secure because there are no entry/exit nodes to monitor, but Freesites can only serve static content, and anonymous Bitcoin payments don't have a way to include a message with them."
mircea_popescu: "we know you must convict this guy and won't tell you why or how we found out. sign here."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to build a case out of that if rigurously observed outside of fed-fiat.
mircea_popescu: yeah, some base of prepared articles for sopme stuff is not a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: that's what trilema's for. eldritch horrors for everyone.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Effect will probably be to make BTC to USD transactions a bigger pain in the ass on their platform the next runup << yup.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work! << real do-ocracy over here.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> qntra is not #b-a news, it is 'better than coindesk' news. i doubt they use otc. << this is a point, but srsly, write it.
mircea_popescu: just like you know, pissing on an anthil is "ant deluvionation" if you're looking at the world from an ant.
mircea_popescu: i think that's an artefact of approach. in this sense, my pieces loling at usg feminists are properly "Feminist studies"
mircea_popescu: adlai generally, you only need it to twist the arm of pois.
mircea_popescu: Compensation can be in the form of equity or a salary, or somewhere in-between."
mircea_popescu: itecture is a must. Experience in a start-up environment is a plus, or just being super hard working, self-motivated, and creative.
mircea_popescu: "Hello, sorry if there is another thread for this kind of post, but I couldn't find one. I'm looking for the best and brightest IT pro in the bitcoin community to be the lead developer in a venture backed bitcoin startup company. The ideal candidate would have at least several years of web application development experience, having built applications from the ground up. A solid understanding of oop and software arch
mircea_popescu: it's good he didn't spend all those donations on "forum software" then
mircea_popescu: their absence "would crush the industry", except they never mattered in any sense.
mircea_popescu: undata yeah, bitcoin totally depends on the sorts of derps that care what some government says.
mircea_popescu: what are you talking about, tons of people working on it from what iv'e seen ?
mircea_popescu: well, actually, it currently has enough for a few lunches,
mircea_popescu: "tl;dr: The Bitcoin Foundation exists so a few people can pay themselves generous salaries and play important. Also, they seem to depend on the Bitcoin price rising seeing they lose money on revenue vs. expenses."
mircea_popescu: Lindsay Holland, assistant director, received $160k + $2,512. I have no idea what she's doing, other than writing press releases, uploading conference videos to YouTube and giving interviews about how she's paid in Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: Gavin Andresen, "chief scientist", received $209k of "reportable compensation" + $2,884 of "other compensation", for more than $212k. Apparently the foundation thinks it's better to pay one guy $212k for writing blog posts and giving talks and interviews than paying three guys $70k each to work on the software the whole pyramid scheme currency depends on.
mircea_popescu: we're back to the fucking state crap and we've not even revolutionized yet!
mircea_popescu: so now since the b-a notary system is down, i can't check on wtf taxes mpoe has to pay
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you totally have to read more qntra. help fix the quantcast demos.
mircea_popescu: how about the cia's strength and effectiveness as a potato ?
mircea_popescu: which can't happen because hey! where is my nsa letter ?
mircea_popescu: i thought so too, kinda wy i asked. he seems in the prime market to care about em
mircea_popescu: it's not like there;s an actual dichotomy. you can have a ramdisk or a diskram for all it cares.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: science died. << "and yet we can't conserve tech in amber".
mircea_popescu: btw, asciilifeform speaking of the fast memory thing, did resistive ram go anywhere ?