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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 ?
mircea_popescu: whereas the point i was making was kinda you know, in general.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, you're stuck in a paraeconomic crevice over there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it does, i can't see why you wouldn't have your own, terrahertz bus.
mircea_popescu: which is why "two oxen" is actually misleading. either it's one ox, or else it's an infinity of chickens. no twos here.
mircea_popescu: some things are discrete, an' being an ox is one of them things by definition.
mircea_popescu: but 31 bit doesn't work anyway. it's either 32 or 16. that's it. you don't get "closer"
mircea_popescu: what, and 31 bit registers are closer to functional than 28 bit registers ?
mircea_popescu: but, sure, every broom shoots once. if a broom shot you once, you have my deepest simpathies.
mircea_popescu: somehow having this magical problem that fits just right in this otherwise narrow space seems very improbable.
mircea_popescu: if your problem can be approached with 2014 "state of the art" killer micro, it can also be approached with killer micro that was state of the art in 2009. that's the whole argument.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm against oxen or anything. but seriously, trying to sell me on braindamaged chickens with three beaks as a sort of unavoidable oxen ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know what you're saying, but i think it's much rarer than you make it look, a problem that doesn't take well to chickens.
mircea_popescu: and nobody seriously reviews fraud that involves public funds.
mircea_popescu: this hasn't somehow magicked away just because whoever likes to sell to the gubmint
mircea_popescu: but i recall that even before the first cray, kiler micros did better than the mainframe.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty much yeah. and then Dull Gates dragged the entire "industry" of nitwits along with him.
mircea_popescu: they came up with "smart phones" ? fuck them, i never upgraded, i still use actual phones. samsung is jumping over backwards to supply the market. they cost nothing. etc.
mircea_popescu: but that ended a few years back, and "upgrade" is headed right into the "please install our browser toolbar extension" and "act now!" bin.
mircea_popescu: people didn't use to upgrade worth a shit not even a decade ago, when all the incentives were alligned for them to.
mircea_popescu: this idea that "we'll gavin all over the blockchain technology and everyone will follow" is out of a holywood movie. not how reality works.
mircea_popescu: half a cent a pill, indian factories dedicated to its preservation in amber.
mircea_popescu: wake me up sometime when i care. i've been using sulfmetoxazole forever, and i intend to continue.
mircea_popescu: fuck, for that matter, this thing is universal. so the us only makes "high performance" bullshit antibiotics of doom these days ?
mircea_popescu: so you get twice the clock, and i get two of them. sure, there are SOME problems that are provably unsplittable.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's a fine theory an' all, but i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am at this very moment running a 64 GB amd-a8 quad.
mircea_popescu: if he doesn't do worse than you, that's a prime signal that you're insane.
mircea_popescu: seems 1905 steel girder bridges still work just fine, and yes you can do anything you want done on 486s. heck, it's always been cheaper to buy last year's tech and buy a lot of it and network it than it is to buy the monolithic "custom made" tool.