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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
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years. <<< you know, the clerk maxwell guy, arguably a novel result, WAS in fact achieved by doing the exact same thing men have been doing to women for a hundred years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition. << the idea is to transform things around it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: ethics schmethics. newspapers have been funded by ads from forever <<< yeah but i find the entire goldline glenn beck thing pretty objectionable.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think it can be nothing more <<< yeah, but then i noticed there's actually two, and they're pretty close.
mircea_popescu: devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor." <<< what, tor isn't safe ? incredibru.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : if any reader feels like building a botnet / expanding his botnet, you can probably hit the earlier linked list of ips. if you're carefgul going in you can probably blame whatever mischief on the original derp, too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By this time next month Amtrack business will be booming. US air travel is on its way out. <<< can only go where there's track.
mircea_popescu: Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them? ThickAsThieves: because racism << ok i lolled. because colonialism.
mircea_popescu: then beggar can talk to king dracula any time he wants.
mircea_popescu: so you kill them and then hang the alchemists by their guts.
mircea_popescu: the solution, as practiced in history, was to teach the drunks restraint.
mircea_popescu: sure, and at a bunch of unintentional other mishaps at that.
mircea_popescu: suppose you, unknown stranger of razi level, have a q. takes you three years and a dozen idiotic answers ?
mircea_popescu: this is fine, but if you actually calculate the computational load you'll get more than the current star model
mircea_popescu: you're never going to escape the fact that a 3 person sitcom crew can fuck three different ways whereas a 4 person crew can fuck in 6 ways
mircea_popescu: so yes, avoidance is the name of the game. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: granted, this is not a problem that can actually be solved
mircea_popescu: ddos is an intrinsic property of the world, like bitcoin, like falling to your death, like the nuclear bomb
mircea_popescu: same thing here : the more people you add, the exponentially more potential connections in the graph.
mircea_popescu: nah, consider gravity. your potential energy increases with your height, but your speed of ultimate impact with the square of the height.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but the fact of ddos still being a thing at all, reveals catastrophically broken design at large. << not really, it just reflects a major problem of the world at large (the quare-linear problem, specifically)
mircea_popescu: (this, of course, excludes the wordpress stuff, which is about 90% or so of the entire thing, but also easy to filter)
mircea_popescu: roughtly reads to me like a disertation on surgery written by waiters next to the hospital on the basis of what they overheard during their jobs would read if i were a surgeon