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mircea_popescu: i suppose
to be cracked
the same way all of
them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes
through
the wot selection process.
then has enough spots specific and high level enough
to interest
the locals. seems a
tall order.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that seems workable on
the surface - until you realise
that
the one
thing being here promises is
that
those people won't generally WANT
to work for $cubefarm.
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the only way he could have made economic sense was by marketing
the spare cycles of well connected people here - outside.
☟︎ fluffypony: yeah, seemed a colossal waste of
time in
the end
mircea_popescu: when s.mg needed a
tech hand diana_coman got it ;
the job wasn't on
the market nor would s.mg have continued had
the job had
to go
to
the market.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony
tbh i did spend some
time
thinking about it -
then. i don't see how what he was
trying
to do could have worked. why
the everloving would someone here eschew
the benefit of
the wot and "hire someone
to hire" for you ?
Azelphur: At least,
the above is what I was
told by one of his supposed clients
Azelphur: something like
that, only minus
the
team I guess?
mircea_popescu: is
this basically one of
those freelancer coder
teams
thing ?
Azelphur: I worked for him for a little over a year, he stopped paying me, now I hear he's
taking web dev work and
telling clients I'm working on
their projects...I quit back in December and have no knowledge of said projects
mircea_popescu: a while back, yeah. don't
think it worked out
too well in
the end.
fluffypony: wasn't he
the headhunter
trying
to hire staff for everyone?
Azelphur: just
thought it might amuse you, gone from bad
to worse :)
gribble: RagnarDanneskjol was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 50 weeks, 4 days, 12 hours, 35 minutes, and 12 seconds ago: <RagnarDanneskjol>
trinque - i am occasionally using
the nick for continued development on punks ver. if anyone here's partial
to
the name I can pass it over. Wow
that xm42
mircea_popescu: about
the RagnarDanneskjol fellow ? i have no idea what he does
tbh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : ">
This last post from you indicates clearly
that your horizon is limited and you are allergic
to new ideas and cannot bring facts and rationale
to your statements. Pray
tell, just what are
the “new” ideas in Clojure?
The idea of setting up an ersatz Lisp on
top of
the JVM is not
the least bit new. Neither is immutable data." << readily
the best bit in
there. and it is pretty good as it is.
mircea_popescu: well, for
that you'll have
to get into
the wot, establish yourself, read
the logs for a while...
JBBetter: right, would want
to go into pm or private room
JBBetter: ok, hopefully can message me. Want
to discuss about
the platform
JBBetter: Are
there developers in here for bitbet.us?
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand, "confronting
tghe offender with
the inconsistency of his own view ~in his own
terms~" does not at all mean "geting him
to stop being an idiot". not in any sense.
mircea_popescu: yes, your dismissal of dear luc is, by some sort of exterior standard, correct.
this is not
the same as confronting
the offender with
the inconsistency of his own view ~in his own
terms~, which is what i had in mind.
mircea_popescu: eventually, all
the poor
turtle got out of
the monstrous party was one salad leaf.
mircea_popescu: all its friends in
the forest brought it gifts. items
that
they
themselves would have preferred.
mircea_popescu: "Dear Luc prefontaine, > Your last post shows how little you know about Clojure. Your arguments show how little experience (or memory
thereof) you have with genuine, interactive, conceptually-consistent Lisp systems."
mircea_popescu: you probably realise already
that once
the reference has
to be "whole
thread" i win.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my
takeaway from
that is
that 2012 alfie does not yet know how
to go for
the jugular of idiots. just identifies
things
to be angry about, gets angry about
them and flails.
mircea_popescu: yeah but
trilema is larger
than verge for
traffic, not quite
the same.
mircea_popescu: it's actually rare
that something penned
the current month is
the
top read item.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many wwwtrons
the same size actually have
this phenomena, where 3 yo article
tops
the charts. happens
to me rather frequently.
assbot: And Gavin moves on
to
the dark side.
The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1MvB8Kx )
mircea_popescu: ALSO for
the job of rescuing children, "social media", or rather,
the social media facade of b-a works better
than iq.
mircea_popescu: it only ever worked like
that "fairness"
thing, what was
the short story ?
mircea_popescu: "find
the children
that, on
their own strength, may see
through
the idiocy and give
them really heavy stones
to lift so
they don't".
mircea_popescu: useful in
the 60s or w/e, "find
the gomer pyles before gunnery sgt gets shot".
mircea_popescu: anyway, while we differ on what we color iq-ism in, or what you eventually expect it
to do, i don't
think
there's actual disagreement as
to what it does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even
that reliably. savant still stupid. it DID work
to destroy any usable (by us) notion of stupidity, as far as
the harpy wailchorus is concerned.
trinque: we've been and will be bolting
things
to ourselves for far longer
than understanding how we're capable of using
them
mircea_popescu: trinque you familiar with
the pigeon rewiring experiments ?
trinque: point was
the exact opposite
trinque: +asciilifeform | but
the 'brain learns'
thing is pure nonexplanatory obscuratronium. << what, you
thought I was satisfied with "learns" as a complete description?
mircea_popescu: heck,
the iq nonsense EVEN EXISTS because people get antsy and prefer
to pretend.
mircea_popescu: i can formulate
the flight equivalent of iq ; you can not formulate
the cognitive equivalent of energy.
mircea_popescu: fine, have it. we still understand flight
to a larger degree
than cognition.
mircea_popescu: the general complexity of
the cell is perhaps
the chief lie of popular conception of biology. "oh yeah, nucleus, cytoplasm, yeah i recall". you recall my left foot. golgi apparatus. a whole set of vacuoles.
the nucleus has a membrane in layers.
there's dozens of different items in
there we don't even fully enumerate - and your understanding isn't good enough
to stand for
the mithocondria, which, incidentally, also has
mircea_popescu: what 'explain' ?
there aren't
the
terms in which
the explanation would be made.
mircea_popescu: described
to any degree and moving electric impulses back and forth".