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mircea_popescu: and laziness in monkeys is perhaps the most complex self-writing piece of software ever
mircea_popescu: is the guy actually nuts or just being an internet person ?
mircea_popescu: and you bitch about the pile of turd that's c++/python software built on top of a c os ?
mircea_popescu: apparently stevieboy's idea of apt-get is a sort of mozilla
mircea_popescu: if you search for a generic term in their package manager and keep scrolling... eventually iot crashes
mircea_popescu: decimation a well that's a diff story. but the problem are the generous options then.
mircea_popescu: the traditional route is to pursue "sexy" mergers and go bankrupt a decade later. this is better for everyone.
mircea_popescu: they're overcapitalized and downsizing. what's wrong with that ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get how cash distribution can be held against the management.
mircea_popescu: "I designed a 3 axis stepper-motor-driven milling machine 1996-1997 with a CAD/CAM package for a company I started called Home Automation and Robotic Equipment."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guess what you and mr davis have in common.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, no. reversedly. for instance, germany claims to hold some gold it doesn't, and doesn't claim to hold any bitcoin, tho i think they do hold some.
mircea_popescu: it's improbable they'll move significantly either direction.
mircea_popescu: but since losethos has been mentioned : i do suspect ninjashogun is of a similar brand, without of course the technical ability.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> you'd have to buy 'xilinx' or 'altera' - the company - to go with the chip. and publicly gut it. << it will happen.
mircea_popescu: unfortunately ubiquitous crud like www <<< there's a major paradigm shift underplayed here. for approximately 1980 (kiler micro) to 2009, the ONLY utility of computing was www. with bitcoin, the www is a minor point, other things are major points now.
mircea_popescu: decimation and, note, they also display the mild, 1700s skepticism.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you know how to use this thing to self voice ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla BingoBoingo for the record, i like the slightly skeptical tone of qntra reporting. tech reporting has been awash in gushing for too damned long. some classical skepticism is in dire need.
mircea_popescu: decimation i don't get this. all machines are multi-core
mircea_popescu: i like how the b-a search function is self healing. not found anything ? try again!
mircea_popescu: well boys, this approach of yours has only the minor disadvantage that it goes exactly against the constitution of the city you live in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it'd better be because im betting on it getting blown out of the water.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you kidding ? i doubt anyone even keeps track of mn granulairty.
mircea_popescu: because marginal hires won't ruin your codebase quite as badly ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in practice that sort of manager is a dictator.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller "other than being uncommon, common lisp is also not lisp"
mircea_popescu: this is an interesitng theory. i suspect it's actually true.
mircea_popescu: e lessons of the 45 years of languages that have followed it."
mircea_popescu: "(yeah, there are a bunch) are going to have to realize that if Lisp is ever going to be massively successful, it needs an overhaul. Or maybe a revolution. Contrary to what some might tell you, it doesn't need a committee, and it doesn't need a bunch of money. Linux proved exactly the opposite. Lisp needs a benevolent dictator. Lisp needs to ditch the name "Lisp", since it scares people. And Lisp needs to learn from th
mircea_popescu: saying that the only thing this apple's good for is the pigs doesn't amount to a suggesting feeding the pigs.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BlueMeanie4 so what about that nxt/devwork story ?
mircea_popescu: i thought that guy was in here but apparently gribble never saw it
mircea_popescu: well, luckily you're not a codger, so who knows what the future brings.
mircea_popescu: irl, ruby got raped with an insecurity stick almost as big as my schlong, and perl still reigns
mircea_popescu: "Perl will be gone soon, too. That's because a new language called Ruby has finally been translated into English."
mircea_popescu: turns out that C/C++ are sorta like me. keep being "in the process of" being superseeded periodically, then the would-be revolutionizer dies.
mircea_popescu: se Microsoft was able to stall it before it became ubiquitous on the desktop. But for server-side applications, C++ is basically on its way out."
mircea_popescu: "Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones. C was replaced by C++, at least for large-scale application development by people who needed performance but desperately wanted data types too. C++ is being replaced by Java, and Java will doubtless be replaced with something better in seven years — well, seven years after it finishes replacing C++, which evidently hasn't fully happened yet, mostly becau
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd rather sit in a hazmat suit and read good prose than live in a meadow of paper.
mircea_popescu: "these are my children" ? "this is my house". most property owners don't own their own torens title bureaus
mircea_popescu: "To soften my comment, I would not want to replace Gavin with some loony that thinks the USG is competent enough to undermine bitcoin in any organized way. All this talk about Mike and Gavin being stooges is absurd, and undermines my respect for much of the other (very insightful) stuff you guys write on the Internet. They can be wrong, without being corrupt."
mircea_popescu: (there's an extra bit in there, where people with a lot of exposure, financial, intellectual, emotional, w/e also run full nodes - but generally they also won't be following patently insane notions a la "let's make the blocks infinite")
mircea_popescu: this is the ad-hoc, market driven fix to the problem of node disenfranchisement as ordained by his satoshiness.
mircea_popescu: "It doesn’t matter what the minors feel like “honoring.” The miners will follow the full nodes; they won’t waste energy mining the fork when its coins aren’t worth the time it takes to send them to an exchange." danielpbarron << all the miners run (multiple) full nodes.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski wouldja consider adding a recent comments list ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did anyone write a full analysis of it, or just mention it in passing ?
mircea_popescu: fucking hell romania is going to end up accidentally famous by mistake.
mircea_popescu: "Perl has the best marketing in the world. You could write a book about how brilliant their marketing is. Sun has marketed Java with money, and Perl is almost keeping up, popularity-wise, purely on the on sheer marketing brilliance of Larry Wall and his buddies. Folks at Harvard Business School should study Perl's marketing. It's astonishing."
mircea_popescu: after they're done with congress. "all laws fit in 500 pages. you want new ones ? delete old ones."
mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
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