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mircea_popescu: xinxi: do you guys trust coindesk? << the reason qntra.net exists is because we emphatically do not trust coindesk
mircea_popescu: <xinxi> I am from a country without racism, so I am not very sensititve to that. << a) are you kidding ?! b) why'd you care ?!
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 the proper avenue would be to put all this into a large file and then grep the hell out of it ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell RagnarDanneskjol send it to punkman's thing once it's up
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 and i got a meeting now, so we'll resume in a few hours.
mircea_popescu: so tell me what you're doing and what the problem is ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i'd love to, but i can't do it in the abstract.
mircea_popescu: * PTR "() { :;}; echo CVE-2014-6271, CVE-201407169, RDNS"
mircea_popescu: wifi enabled printers are great, you can send people pronz
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yes, but a gullible public is scarcely an excuse.
mircea_popescu: the entire "monsanto increases yields" fallacy is based on the fraudulent proposition that shit-tomatoes are = tomatoes.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so i pay, you install it, and lo and behold, i am producing 50% more units
mircea_popescu: suppose i have a car factory, and you came by and proposed to sell me a patented mechanism which when added to the factory, "increased yielkds' by 50%.
mircea_popescu: no but i mean... "joe thinks 3x4 = 12, moe thins 3x4=13" this isn't a difference of opinions, inasmuch moe's thing isn't an opinion.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that i can in good conscience call that an opinion.
mircea_popescu: "it's okay for things to go to shit, as long as there's more of us" ?
mircea_popescu: either feed more people with better or feed fewer people with better. but less... no.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember the russian dynamo-flashlights ?
mircea_popescu: vegetarianism as a chosen lifestyle != vegetarianism as a path towards untimely death.
mircea_popescu: i doubt you seriously are proposing starvation diets as your model.
mircea_popescu: which accounts for why it only appeared after the industrial revolution made everything cheap and abundant
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i thought vegetarians had more needs on a distribution network than normal people
mircea_popescu: which i guess brings the side point for all the latter day big pharma purists : you oppose monsanto's genetic novelties ? how about margerine ?
mircea_popescu: how their digestion works in humans is mostly a matter of chance
mircea_popescu: but becauise the process is random, a good chunk of them are innovative, which is to say, not found in nature
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 margerine (which is what all this crap is) is made by random esterification of various vegetable oils. results in longer chains, which are technically triglicerides
mircea_popescu: fun fact : crisco was invented in order to broaden the supply base for soap production
mircea_popescu: imagine, thousands of girls that'll never know lesbianism.
mircea_popescu: well so get it, you're in such diff timezones you can do 100% coverage, gotta be able to talk
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo look in your mail, i made you an account, should be fine.
mircea_popescu: if this country doesn't go bankrupt and with food riots in 2015 you may call me names.,
mircea_popescu: their idea being that getting locals to use ccs more instead of cash will be worthwhile on the long term.
mircea_popescu: argentine govt came up with a "buy anything on 12 months' time without interest, using your cc" plan
mircea_popescu: speaking of worse deals : to counteract what they call "inflation" but is moreover a very drastic "batten down the hatches" middle class response, which sent durable goods tumbling 70%!!!!
mircea_popescu: ;;google you've got two coinuts and you're banging them together
mircea_popescu: it can't be hacked, it's in c. says so on the /security page.
mircea_popescu: jurov: was it said anywhere what will be s.qntr revenue source? iirc ads and affilitare links were ruled out << well, a venue like that can be supported by subscription or advertising. leaning more towards subscription core with an advertising supported outreach, but it's really much too soon.
mircea_popescu: this place is different from pretty much anything you could have seen before
mircea_popescu: cazalla: assbot is racist too << lmao. leave britney alone!
mircea_popescu: "here is my ten line c program that does something, here are the 45479586947 lines which make sure it doesn't do something else"