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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
mircea_popescu: i suppose the answer to "why would one bother to rewrite the much better flame warriors guide in shitty prose" suddenly comes into view.
mircea_popescu: "The number one problem with paranoid world views is the lack of proof on either side. Nobody can disprove once and for all any of these rumors. If you believe but one of them, step by step you will have to distrust your politicians, your government, the press."
mircea_popescu: jurov: kakobrekla: what about S.BASH? one share per bashed word <<< or S.BISH. one share per something.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: i'm going to write an amazing article and pad the fuck out of it <<< /me settles down for this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but code has a verifiable existence outside of its words. copywriting does not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what next? pay people by lines of code? << i've actually done that. "you get paid 1000 - code count"
mircea_popescu: well, cazalla is the editor in charge, BingoBoingo is his lieutenant and im here to fuck things up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and in people i know to be clever! << wait, do you mean me ?
mircea_popescu: i broke a quarter inch thick garlic press into shards etc
mircea_popescu: i broke tons of all sorts of cruddy kitchen implements
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 100 percent machined parts, nothing stamped, nothing made of shitmetal (e.g. 'zamac') << no, because metals can be purified, but organics not so well.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: infinite shares with no plausible picture of how they are to be worth something <<< this is similar to the problem of marriage neh ? "woman can bring infinite children with no idea how they;d amount to anything"
mircea_popescu: cannons are indeed out of fashion, but for whoever ends up crowned : consider making your crown out of the extracted teeth of us congressmen, imf directors and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: but speaking of crowns : romanian king (prince karl of hohenzollern-sigmaringen) had the interesting idea of making his crown out of iron
mircea_popescu: and like wsj, nyt etc, it's worth whatever the crown says it's worth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike_c: wsj, like nyt et al is an organ of the crown. << so is qntra.
mircea_popescu: just like you died and went to fucking warcraft heaven
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, you know how they announce job vacancies here ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, but also like slaves they're worth w/e they bring in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform besides the point tho. negotiable instruments, like anything else.
mircea_popescu: how much are ~5k zombie ips worth ? what's the current market value of a wordpress list like whatever, 100k or i didn't bother counting the new one yet ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: FTFY: build enough audience and capital to buy ukraine <<< here's a simple calculation : someone somewhere judges it worth his time to try to attack qntra for like what, a day ?
mircea_popescu: and now i got you in the corner. either you argue with the libtards that c. maxwell is not a novel result, tho his work is