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mircea_popescu: not a bad idea, considering they probably want exposure. dubious if it's worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: how does ziri work or w/e was apple calling its paperclip ?
mircea_popescu: (it won't scale. if one day i want to do 1tb i can just throw more chickens at it, provided it runs on chickens)
mircea_popescu: people are not for steady work. machines are for steady work.
mircea_popescu: and seeing how the very purpose of this stuff is for people to be able to do deep searches for impredictable later interests, it'd be less than useful.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i wouldn't trust random fiverr derp not to mess up the words
mircea_popescu: cazalla the point being that it's easier to format/spellcheck a predeturdified turd than to write from scratch
mircea_popescu: and i mean, i can tell anjie didn't sleep to do that one, which is exactly what she should have done, but once.
mircea_popescu: you'd think everyone's got a college degree means they are god damned good at exactly that. but...
mircea_popescu: not that anyone actually even exists in the cloud of vaporized shit comprising the kids-of-www that even has the drive or the intellectual werewithal to take down an hour of speech or an acre of blackboard anyway.
mircea_popescu: and if you get it to where you have to fix a letter per ten words you're way way ahead of someone who has to press pause every five seconds
mircea_popescu: being able to take a turd and turn it into readable content within an hour or a day, and being able to so process gigabytes of crud a month is, by itself, more barrier to entry than all the collective "press" has
mircea_popescu: you seriously should spend a week or w/e it takes trying out ocrs and voice recognition tools and whatnot, because going forward this will remain an issue
mircea_popescu: iirc asciilifeform mentioned some pdf textualizer in the logs ?
mircea_popescu: but im serious about the ocr and the text to speech. it can do the bulk of the work.
mircea_popescu: and prolly best to make it a page rather than a txt file. people want what they want when they click.
mircea_popescu: automate as much of it as possible and then automate the remainder. twice.
mircea_popescu: textifying all the pdfs/scans idiots dump online, as well as textifying audio/video are very legitimates avenues for qntra to add value
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you going to make that court document scan a text btw ?
mircea_popescu: the very definition of a rogue state is "one which construes itself more powerful than the private citizen"
mircea_popescu: “The government posits two standards of behavior: one for private citizens, who must adhere to a strict standard of conduct construed by the government,” read a final filing Tuesday. “The other for the government, which, with its elastic ability to effect electronic intrusion, can deliberately, cavalierly, and unrepentantly transgress those same standards.”
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the technicality known as "technically, i gotta eat, and these people are paying for it."
mircea_popescu: if and seems like were rowing in a boat. if if weren't there, seems like seems like'd have drowned.
mircea_popescu: or in romanian, "daca si cu parca se plimbau cu-o barca. daca daca nu era, parca parca se-neca".
mircea_popescu: gerstein addressing known shill, scammer and general clueless derp : "you're just like us! we love you here!"
mircea_popescu: "SENATOR GERSTEIN (1:50:40) Mr. Antonopolous, your reputation preceded you prior to your arrival. You may recall that in my introductory remarks, I did not introduce you as a Bitcoin guru, but as THE Bitcoin guru. I think that I could speak on behalf of all of the members of the committee in saying that you have more than lived up to that reputation. We greatly appreciate your presentation today. Thank you very much, t
mircea_popescu: cazalla dude this chick can write. let it not be said all qntra articles are short ever again lol
mircea_popescu: and it was pretty derpy/insane to boot. i mean literally, going by shops, telling random people that hey, this is as much a dollar as that.
mircea_popescu: something anyone with any sense could have told him will never float unless he also has an army.
mircea_popescu: and fuck whoever came up with the soap-rest false dichotomy, too.
mircea_popescu: but there's a bunch of them. the retarded crowd that does videos instead of articles tends to send links to them instead of plain text.
mircea_popescu: then everyone copied it. casetext.com in this exampole
mircea_popescu: google has this "document" format that's basically just a bunch of spurious javascript
mircea_popescu: now if only someone made a site that wasn';t a retarded ball of javascript
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> quite clever IMO, but no dice. sovereign immunity. << exactly.
mircea_popescu: there's not that many handlers, they drive cars, they have wives, it's a solved problem.
mircea_popescu: what/how much they paid him, but he won't answer that one.
mircea_popescu: if the code stops working you shouldn't have been using it in the first place