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phf: asciilifeform:
there seems
to be a significant lack of modifier keys
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's worse
things i could be doing with my
time
than handcopying
teh masters.
mircea_popescu: i did
this gladly, and i consider myself well gained from
the exercise.
mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform : above, I
TYPED!!11, by hand,
the whole fucking lengthy
thing.
phf: oh i didn't realize
there was a whole series of
these
mircea_popescu: "in america is
type from arsenal of name arsenal. is funny name
to me. is like american cheese of name american cheese." ahh
this guy is fucking epic.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 05:17 ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball
that follows me around positioning
the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-21#1507789 << possibly because you never design computer in whole life. you look at fine desktop,
think it need crazy shit stick on all sides of unit. you have disease of american capitalist, change
thing
that is fine for no reason except
to look different from comrade. you put cheap rubber of chinese slave factory in keyboard, you put bad crt of mexican drug empire on other side, you put propel
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "clicked
traffic" as
the
thing is called in
the [porn] biz being about 500k
to
the bitcoin last i looked, sometime last year. meaning
the entire yearly value of
the global "online advertising" market is equivalent
to a few bitcoin blocks, meaning in
turn
that a choice
to occupy yourself with
that
thing is equivalent
to a deliberate choice not
to matter. nttawwt.
phf: irs claims
that he was selling direct, so i don't know how
that
translates into money at all, it's probably all fixed bid. if he was doing google now and
they didn't immediately kick him off
the network, etc. he'd probably be pulling more
than 5k but of course not "16mil", which is not enough
to pay entire gawker staff, but enough
to cover his server costs, etc.
phf: we had a
thread about advertisement i
think copule of
times
mircea_popescu: qntra made more
than gawker at any point of
their respective existence.
mircea_popescu: but no need
to reference my materia obscura.
take gigaom. on
the basis of "internet knowledge" would you have said he certainly makes "more from ads
than ukr polish guy" ? yes. did he ? no.
turns out he made less from advertising
than freelaqncer makes from fixing python code.
mircea_popescu: there's actually a lot of valuable data re eeuropean "advertising market"
there as a result of me running a large intel project on
the
topic at
the
time.
phf: or
to quote
The Guard "street value. you boys always go on about street value. i don't know which street you buying your coke at, because it's not
the same street i'm buying my coke at"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, silk road can't dispose of a kg of coke for 3 weeks over xmas ; and
the "ad revenue guy" can't pay for his coffee.
mircea_popescu: this is no actual proof, of course, "somewhere in
the sky
there may be". but from 100s of actually checked cases, every one
turned
to be an outright lie.
mircea_popescu: i have personally chased
the "Estimated ad revenue" of such people, for years. it never came
through.
mircea_popescu: you know, from my personal experience
this "estimated" is exactly like "silk road did an estimated billion dollar drug
trade".
phf: you understimate
the amount of fun
those little devices provide :> ukranian guy in poland raking estimated 16 mil in ad revenue, i'm sure he had bitches and bling, rather
than you know live in a safe bunker and infosec all day
phf: well, more specifically "Records provided by Apple showed
that
tirm@me.com conducted an iTunes
transaction using IP Address 109.86.226.203 on or about July 31, 2015.
The same IP Address was used on
the same day
to login into
the KAT Facebook."
phf: "The key piece of evidence
that led authorities
to Vaulin appeared
to come when Apple handed over his personal details after investigators matched an IP address used
to log in
to
the KAT Facebook page with one linked
to an iTunes purchase."
thestringpuller: So
the kickass
torrent raid was partially made possible by Coinbase?
shinohai: yes i need
tohave BingoBoingo change
that if he will
thanx
Framedragger: (so just
to be clear it's not ukrainian prosecutors)
shinohai: Yes I meant
to start
the sentence with "Polish"
to clarify
that.
Framedragger: "On Wednesday, law enforcement in Poland arrested
the alleged owner of
the site, 30 year-old Artem Vaulin of Ukraine."
thestringpuller: they are willing
to ride or die.
that's actually kind of refreshing
ben_vulpes: i did not begin
to collect
those until quite recently.
ben_vulpes: this was back when i considered it disposable and not a
treasure, mind you.
ben_vulpes: i have *sat* on
the
thing
to *zero* effect.
ben_vulpes: i have one of
the v2s, iirc. fits in back pocket of ~all jeans.
ben_vulpes: do not underestimate
the laziness of americans.
ben_vulpes: subject of fdr, yarvin is peddling epubs of moldbuggery on
the 'kindle store'
ben_vulpes: this was i
think before you were born.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 03:12 pete_dushenski:
https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/MeredithStatement.pdf << you can't resign from usg.trump just because you're illiterate and didn't do your job (resignation letter from speechwriterlady who not-so-lightly lifted bits from usg.michelle and gave
them
to usg.melania)
ben_vulpes: lithium ion laptop battery! eight hours of battery life, predicated on your only draining it
twice!
ben_vulpes: naught but
the economic pressures
that drive laptop producers
to make
their wares with
the fewest number of atoms possible
to satisfy
the cowsies.
ben_vulpes: and all on a 6-axis arm with other 6-axis arms mounted on a ball
that follows me around positioning
the monitor and kb just perfectly ergonomically.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i personally want a display
that detaches.
ben_vulpes: because how are you going
to cram a
tall display into
the portable formfactor?
ben_vulpes: anyways, laptop is not a workstation, we've done
this
thread.
ben_vulpes: which, if you'll let me finish omfg!, would suck in myriad other ways i can't wait
to hear you bitch about
ben_vulpes: are you not
talking about a
tall, instead of wide display?
ben_vulpes: you're just going
to have
to wait for flexible displays, asciilifeform.
ben_vulpes: sure, but how'd
they justify
the markup on
the shitboxen otherwise
ben_vulpes: but much like growing fond of fine wines,
this is a habit best not acquired.
ben_vulpes: i am at
the very least lucky
that emacs will eat CMD-<anything but
tab>
ben_vulpes: and it is heinous apple box, and so
there is no unified way
to split, shuffle, collapse.
mircea_popescu: yeah well your warm saltine box
that moves around molecule designs in a hologralcd is not yet on sale.
ben_vulpes: 1 usefully allocated
to emacs, another
to
term, laptop screen shows kandinksy, rockets,
turbines, etc on shuffle.
mircea_popescu: so yes, "gui" is for lamerz.
there's no point in having a fucking button
to click on like im serving mcfucksticks.
there's no need
to "shade"
the "part of
the window
that shows you how
to move it"
mircea_popescu: even
the fucktardation of "resizable windows". you know i never used
that stupid shit ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: did you nuke
the 'read only pg user' notion?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 00:45 mircea_popescu: alternatively, phpmyadmin is also just a script you can get standalone.
tho in generall it's a case of "people haven't actually ever
tried
to cli mysql because nobody ever
told
them
they could"
phf: same way you're supposed
to know he has more
than one machine
ben_vulpes: you were bitching about csvs! how'm i
to know what you do and do not know.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you understand
that
there's no difference between an "utf-8 character" and a number of ascii characters yes
phf: err, similar
to varchar, not literally a varchar
ben_vulpes: my worry is precisely
those constraints. "only ascii chars? utf-8 monstrosities?"
phf: ben_vulpes: you might benefit from sticking byte array into CHAR[] unless i'm misremembering psql constraints on what kind of chars can go
there. because bytea is going
to have a 4 byte overhead, numeric an 8 byte overhead
ben_vulpes is stupidly proud
to actually understand
this now