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mircea_popescu: also looks like it could quite enjoy a walk in the grass.
mircea_popescu: mod6, you know that there's a job where you have to handle rhino penis into rhino vagina at zoo ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, ah. well, so maybe his thing takes off, why not. basically the proposition as it stands is adding more piston. what can it hurt.
mircea_popescu: mod6, yes, but it's waited because of developments other places. let it be for now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, what's the piston in this extension of the metaphore ?
mircea_popescu: mod6, i know, right ? anything, don't get me wrong, i don't think you have to do anything about it. or anyone else. it's a problem we can't yet well aproach, let it lie.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, consider though -- we actually have unmatched synergy here too. if you turn usg moolah here and then lose it to pay for eg pizarro rack, you got an engine!
mircea_popescu personally finds the situation quite quaintly endearing.
mircea_popescu: well, if/when the douchebag show gets on the way, maybe you shoot him a line see if he wants to emerge.
mircea_popescu: so there, you have a pretty great plan for yourself out of this convo. keep doing dayjob to keep food on table. meanwhile a) deliver for trinque, deliver the rsa pubkey crawl and b) talk to potential employees, get them in the wot. then as all this matures you can pivot into your desired research firm securely and from a position of unmatrched strength.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you know, you can write your whole thought in a single line, we do actually read long lines. no reason to break up your stuff.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is altogether dubious, but, as they say time will tell.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why i wouldn't be. kinda why the whole platform exists in the first place, to allow such outgrowth.
mircea_popescu: use the time to get potential hires you may be interested in into the wot and there you go.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : do trinque's thing ; then do the ssh/ssl thing ; then we can talk about you running this thing exactly like pizarro is run, why the hell not.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, get a load of that : he basically did MORE work he does at work for 30k a pop (ie, talk a bunch of retarded crack whores / women in tech) through kleopatra, except he did it for free. we're on the receiving end of 30k x 50 crackwhores or w/e it was. he gifted us a million and a half. what now.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, incidentally, do any of your customers use/need any encryption ?
mircea_popescu: ok, the point here is : that the difference you propose is not borne by reality, but by the need of middle managers to mentally represent an ideal space fundamentally inadherent to the mental processes of middle managers.
mircea_popescu: well so far ... this is the third time at least he created three page + flamewar with innocent question. seems a talent alright.
mircea_popescu: yes well. one year -- one thing. this year -- the spreading. next year -- the eating.
mircea_popescu: kids asking insufferable fucking questions are the prime engine of any thinking republic.
mircea_popescu: now why don't you, like me, see the great promise of fundamental thinking in his approach ?
mircea_popescu: not to say that we didn't do heroic fucking work to fix it. but fixed -- it is not yet. ahead of anyone else as we may be.
mircea_popescu: unpleasant as this truth is, and readily obscured by republican optics as it may find itself amenable to, it's still fucking there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, think : you broadsided ME with it too. unlike him i am rather large mass, but the point is fucking there -- we don't actually even know the full dependency tree with any specified precision.
mircea_popescu: and in the instant case, as in the lengthy history of previous instances that drove inflammatory reaction in response, he does actulaly have a point. not only does he have a point, but if poorly communicated ALSO poorly understood in group terms.
mircea_popescu: yes, but what's the rush ; and perhaps more interestingly why such an overactive immune response. there's ~no benefit to repelling youth. moreover, it can not even be said that his work to date sums to zero -- it sums to a positive quantity.
mircea_popescu: you're here asking six year old girls whether they enjoy vaginal or clitoridal orgasms.
mircea_popescu: eh get out, he's young and he has no fucking idea what anything is or how anything works. it's so fucking oversoon to ask such questions...
mircea_popescu: it fails to make anything, of course, but gosh gollty does it break things!
mircea_popescu: but it must be said that the q is not entirely spurious (even though he didn't actually read, evidently enough).
mircea_popescu: yep. and far be it from me to disparage it in any way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yes, but it's just a sample of what works, not a mapping of what works.
mircea_popescu: the correct way would be to have a list of enumerated known-goods ; though this is understandably not done as it is -- because expensive. and satoshi didn't do it because he didn't even have any conception of dependency versioning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, nah. looky : "You also will need the following packages / binaries / tools on your system:bc" rather than "bc bc 1.06.95"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, srsly, like for eulora ? apparently i missed some steps here.
mircea_popescu: now that he's inserted enough to date locally, he can have privacy.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, the reason it was done this way originally was not a price consideration but forced societal insertion.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, afaik there isn't anywhere a complete list of specified versioning for trb, nor ever was.
mircea_popescu: yeah prolly about time he gets himself a bachelor pad. gotta be able to entertain the local cunt in style.
mircea_popescu: well, good thing you gave him a raise, just as this thing became one helluva anklet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the sort of guy who thinks like this also imagines the only reason he's not running an uruguay dc is because he didn't feel like trying, not because he doesn't have the juice in him to do it if he had a thousand years and the fed's own paper account at his disposal.
mircea_popescu lulz at the poor misfortunate cia strike team, belabouring in montevideo under the usual threat of "you never fucking know where that nut put a sleeper to shoot you in the face" and then stuck paying dollar-for-dollar import duty on all their spurious gear that doesn't even work AND THEN having to find a fucking spoke lost in transit locally and taking three weeks to still not do it.
mircea_popescu: nothing easier than to expose the magic in magic thinking.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the logic in 'why didja put it in UY, bw costs 4x moar than in usa and cia will still steal yer iron eventually' is pretty amusing. "doesn't it stand to your reasoning that 'cia will steal eventually' is 16x as expensive for the same reason bw costs 4x as much ? if not, why not ?"
mircea_popescu: to sell it has to be sold. no use trying anything else. to have clean sheets you must do a load, and to have sold items you must sell them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, rather the opposite problem : a stubborn refusal to properly sell fg has beheaded a few folk.
mircea_popescu: we're kinda only interested in the sort of heathen that's interested in veblen goods anyway. the collectivist-equalitarianist among them isn't worth anyone's time.
mircea_popescu: "full" text search is a misnomer, even. there's ways to construct conceptual search that anyone who's spent any time with dyslexic children intimately understands. words occur together in their own wot.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/ , if it's not obvious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, perfect test item huh. curious how this works.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, phuctor is a rsa super-collider, it uses some advanced maths to try and factor rsa keys. so far managed to factor about 2000. it needs to be fed, moduli. which is what you'd be doing, looking for all rsa moduli known to the internet. you understand what rsa is and how it works, what a modulus is, what N is and so on yes ? (if no -- straight to the library with you).
mircea_popescu: i'm humoring his add lonely young male style for unknown reasons.