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mircea_popescu: this simple fact : the only solution is a wot, and when most men have fucked most women the serial killers stand out like sore thumbs.
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, the true driving force behind the "impropriety" trend, that took skirts from the ankle to the hip and women from no partners to a dozen a decade.
mircea_popescu: to make it plainer, how does a single woman distinguish a suitor from a serial killer ? they both approach her.
mircea_popescu: in fact, making that difference is the absolute best form of charity
mircea_popescu: from an investment perspective, no. from a community perspective, however, yes.
mircea_popescu: in any case, pattern matching is just by-hand bayesian filtering. it sort-of works, but it isn't a solution or anything
mircea_popescu: "r3wt: alright, did you have coins on OpenEx maybe? r3wt: but anyone here who may have invested in openex or be owed some money, i got you. i got a real job now so i'm on the ascent again"
mircea_popescu: i mean, i didn't pick up anything whatsoever in the case of this xinxi guy. nor did i look into it in any depth. however, consider the case of the r3wt kid. now there, i did pick up roughly the same vibe i imagine you peeps are discussing. and yet, months later,
mircea_popescu: incidentally, where have all the "are women more deceitful than men" studies gone ?
mircea_popescu: just as long as it doesn't reduce to a "she's a woman/politician/newbie and her lips are moving so -> lying"
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol im not saying that persona jkudgement is invalid in any case. obviously all we have to go on is the judgement entered by individuals. but i think the general point is nevertheless interesting, how does one tell ?
mircea_popescu: more interested in the general point tbh, i have no idea what this kid's story is, but in general derpy newcomers with a drive and deceitful scammers with a plan would look quite similar, at least during the first 1k lines or w/e, i think
mircea_popescu: in other news today, mp loves pulling people's chains.
mircea_popescu: like you know, math isn't news, even considering most people don't know it.
mircea_popescu: mayhap you confuse the newsman with the archeologist ?
mircea_popescu: yesterday's log about what's news and what isn't will be so lulzy once ~that one~ qntra article ends up in the position of the stormcaller, greatest news piece ever published etc etc...
mircea_popescu: anyway, if it was indeed over the growth SLOWdown they reported,
mircea_popescu: you know this is perhaps a good point... and trilema has a shitton of them
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski nothing like that can happen. aren't you aware the dow is the penis of the biggest greatest richest most important country IN THE COUNTRY !?>!?!
mircea_popescu: wywialm well the deedbot is atm dead, but being reimplemented
mircea_popescu: lmao. pro tip : if you put Deny from 50.97.161.229 in your droplist ;;isitdown will say it's down.
mircea_popescu: well this is a tiny thing was supposed to hold you know, low traffic blogs
mircea_popescu: btw, cazalla bingoboingo and everyone else in the same situation : if the blob gpg spits out when you sign contains a SHA1 you are using the older, and perhaps not all that secure digest algo. you should move on to sha512 either with --digest-algo SHA512 or else edit gpg.conf to insert personal-digest-preferences SHA512 SHA384 SHA256
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: wywialm it should just be a closed connection, page you see is whatever your browser feeds you
mircea_popescu: so qntra was back for a coupla hours there, but down again now lol.
mircea_popescu: while that proceeds (and it's a hot new datacenter where everyone wants a spot so it will take a few days) we'll continue to see sporadic service interruptions and so on.
mircea_popescu: it's expensive, but hey, was going to happen eventually anyway.
mircea_popescu: cazalla & BingoBoingo : i am having a dedicated server comissioned for this job.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's like reading a comic book written by the author about himself.
mircea_popescu: the narration of their concern that no, there will be nothing there in the end
mircea_popescu: they can come with the clothes on their back. or naked.
mircea_popescu: you're in a peculiar situation, of a man married to his craft. kids don't have that problem.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> point is - even a wildly optimistic figure for yield gives you... the salary of a very skinny engineer. << these are mostly kids trying to escape from the mines and not knowing how to ask
mircea_popescu: maybe if you're lucky and they're all gaming stations or something.
mircea_popescu: same thing as if you're a "senior counsel" for the sec, or anything else.
mircea_popescu: if you have any sense, come and grovel abjectly, who knows, maybe i'm feeling employer-y that day