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mircea_popescu: anyway, you're right, it was parry that was the souped up eliza
mircea_popescu: i read them and feel roughly on par with a good session of reading the torah
mircea_popescu: putin is ok, but what if ballas was dictator-general of latvia or something
mircea_popescu: i threatened my bank's clerk with having her write me one penny cashier checques for a few hundred lei coupla weeks back
mircea_popescu: i imagine the costs of "making sure this never happens again" will be happily borne by everyone then
mircea_popescu: probably cause it's written by perlispers stuck in a basic body
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a wait, this is the source for the markov chain predictor innit
mircea_popescu: moiety it can possibly be done in javascript i suppose
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ever saw basic look so close to lisp anyway
mircea_popescu: you are possibly the worst pedagogue i have ever seen.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your project may be outside of what she conveniently approaches.
mircea_popescu: moiety you ever managed to compile bitcoin or any altcoin from source ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what does she do, import blockchain ?
mircea_popescu: the fact that the author eschewed the 10% notation (which is like a symbol by now) for 1 in 10 is kind-of telling
mircea_popescu: "10% of respondents will lie in any study" is the adage of social sciences.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's exactly 10%, which is why i quoted it.
mircea_popescu: moiety maybe you're not the sort that learns by books, but work better with examples.
mircea_popescu: time is the essence there. everything becomes public eventually.
mircea_popescu: and i guess moiety. she... hm. hey moiety do you code ?
mircea_popescu: then there's crystal space, which is a collection of tools including networking and tons of other stuff
mircea_popescu: nah, there's cal3d, which is a gfx library mostly. open source.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller what are you up to these days anyway ?
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure everyone here'd manage to feed his children with or without me.
mircea_popescu: actually, a better expression : over a short week, youv'e gone from some random scum nobody'd consider seriously to someone that everyone would make a point out of never doing any sort of business with. sort of from 0 to -100
mircea_popescu: ok, which one of you trolls is impersonating satan over here ?
mircea_popescu: maybe if the post office quit being a whore it'd actually not go bankrupt every 15 years.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless the net worth, average expenditure etc of married women exceeds that of prostitutes.
mircea_popescu: consider the situation of prostitutes. while fucking random men for money is in fact more income than your average married woman makes on a day by day basis, cash in hand basis
mircea_popescu: but if you gave it up suddenly the post office wouldn't be floundering anymore.
mircea_popescu: perhaps i'm being silly, but i suspect there's actually a hidden barb in there. ie, superficially it seems there's too much money to give in,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ideally they stop delivering admail altogether.
mircea_popescu: actually... he's probably in desperate need of a friend.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what roger ver pays for a list of losing bets
mircea_popescu: at least that guy had a decent whine about noisy laptops and naked wives in eastern russia
mircea_popescu: and to top it all off, i actually took the time to point out to him the previous beggar that ended up here drug in by the openbsd story
mircea_popescu: pLambert we've not even come to the part where he's taking a BTC denominated loan.
mircea_popescu: you've chosen your road, you're too good to do what you're supposed to do, go do it somewhere else.
mircea_popescu: then copme back a week later going "hey guise pls charity ???"
mircea_popescu: you have to be incredibly fucking retarded to go "hey guise, i don't give a shit about you bye"
mircea_popescu: "Feb 25 08:13:06 <ninjashogun>guys I've received some suggestions to "lurk" and "read logs" here, which I wouldn't really have time to do. It was nice meeting you all though and I may be back as the project progresses. Overall I don't think I will be spending a ton of time building WoT, advisors, etc - as I have real-world references for the moment that I would expect anyone to consutl."
mircea_popescu: anyway, taking ideas on how exactly one manages to help the dunning-kruger crowd of entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: god forbid anyone ever tells you when you're an idiot.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, because the hip thing to do is to come here each week and not wot, and then ask mp to tone it down a bit