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mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: hmm do comments not yield trackbacks? << wut ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: this represents a 200% greater loss than last year while revenue doubled. <<< yeah, the time to short the pos approaches.
mircea_popescu: take yer javascript an' shove it. fucking ajax things.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: ;;later tell DanielKrawisz Looking forward to seeing you rationalize this gem <<< i dunno, it's like the guy went off the deep end past coupla weeks.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i still got the impression it was discussed before. maybe im just confused, maybe assbot was down right then, dunno.
mircea_popescu: i guess a fairer evaluation is to say oop got the blessing of suck, the way www did.
mircea_popescu: undata as actually encountered, pretty much. asciilifeform i guess so.
mircea_popescu: "you have been raped. i understand this can be frustrationg as this is usually a sign that you are in fact a slut."
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: well, its not hard to beat "hi you have incoming ddos, I understand this can be frustrating as this type of attack is usually a sign that your droplet has been compromised" <<< ahahaha wut ?
mircea_popescu: which... whatever, when i start fucking boys i might care.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that article is all about how arron s is great and wonderful.
mircea_popescu: "The Lisp newsgroup, comp.lang.lisp, was upset about the switch that they’re currently planning to write a competitor to reddit in Lisp, to show how right they are or something." << never happened, of course.
mircea_popescu: Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. << lawl.
mircea_popescu: Adlai how come everyone's smart yet the concept of stupid exists ?
mircea_popescu: anyone trying to divorce any of these gets to burn in hell.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh i don't even agree. fuck all this subtlety of amuk idiocy. a character, its encoding, the representation thereof and its numeric value are all THE SAME THING. forever.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo we probably should send them some letters too.
mircea_popescu: dude omg. not like he didn't say and get quoted x times.
mircea_popescu: decimation all submitted deeds during one hour go in the same bundle./
mircea_popescu: til wget has no fucking way to specify maximum ram usage
mircea_popescu: los_pantalones you gotta understand, this is not economic activity, this is political activity.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl what's the status on the rss thing ?
mircea_popescu: i don't recall, was that supposed to work or not work ?
mircea_popescu: i imagine the idea is that perhaps bitcoin futures may be made to work like gold futures. which won't work, but hey, if google got too much dough we can always take some.
mircea_popescu: doubt there's that much interest for usd futures, but hey.
mircea_popescu: this is roughly like someone purporting to have an appartment for rent, comes with a "list of forbidden activities" : no opposite sex visitors, no masturbating, no drinking, no playing videogames
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: some derp host obv << "banned software" ? wtf is wrong with these people.
mircea_popescu: then you use the extra to make an exclusive deal with the supplier and that's that.
mircea_popescu: well, it would work in the following way : those other sites get sold out, you still have a stock.
mircea_popescu: what happened to "we are sold out. if you want to preorder it's going to be $100 extra. if you do not want to preorder, you can have it when we get it, at a $250 surcharge"
mircea_popescu: <TomServo> 2014-09-09 Note: We have sold out and are waiting on the next production run batch which will be delivered in a few months. We are sorry for the wait, but if you pre-order now we will send you a $20 gift certificate. <<< this is so braindamaged.
mircea_popescu: however, he doesn't hold a large balance, maybe that's the first thing bitcoin foundation can spend on
mircea_popescu: alive, yes. standing... hard to say. shy of politics ?
mircea_popescu: the guy that made the recent tx relay streamline thing
mircea_popescu: actually, bluematt did maybe 2/3 of bitcoin testing to date.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes either you or mod6 gotta start managing people!
mircea_popescu: good games are always abstraction of real life mechanisms.