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mircea_popescu: liquidassets very good. good enough
to sign on, actually, even
though I've not written it myself.
liquidassets: Wheels
turning...The only lease I have
that I'm aware of is
to myself
mircea_popescu: "The dating continued a couple of
times more: I was definitely attracted by
the innovation of
the product (mining and mapping networks of Web content)."
mircea_popescu: did you ever find
the
time
to look into jurov's BN_copy/operator= stuff ?
mircea_popescu has set
the goal at 30 days w/o oomkill on 16gb box, and even
that
took some engineering.
mircea_popescu: the destruction self-imposed blindness wreaks upon
the lives of
the wilfully blind is a pretty sad sight huh.
mircea_popescu: Even
those miserable moments in January 2014, cycling
through
the icy rain
to buy a single lemon, returning back
to
the dank cold warehouse, staring at
the Dinnr backend, waiting in vain for orders
to arrive."
mircea_popescu: "For
these and other such moments, for
the opportunity of having worked with a fabulous
team and dedicated investors, it was worth doing it all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "fiecare pasare pre limba ei piere" being
the romanian expression.
mircea_popescu is vaguely pleased
that
the war of
the worlds is actually played out in
the central ideological core of
those worlds in question.
mircea_popescu: it's stupid, but it's exactly in line with how usg is stupid, so no big surprises here. by all means,
they should have 'em.
mircea_popescu: it looks like
trying
to suck all
the imbecile "talent"
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 13:15:12; mircea_popescu: and so now
they gotta make
this forced mistake. all
the better.
mircea_popescu: right-o. because
the one
thing we're
truly committed
to, beyond anything and everything else, is
that
there MUST NOT BE any god in
the god damned machine. what if
there were and he started spewing death warrants and whatnot! no, no, gimme lukewarm mediocrity as a prior and let's see how well i do!
mircea_popescu: "No Deus ex Machina will come and challenge you in
the right spots.
This is why you got your own experience, both
theoretical (those startup books DO help!) and practical for. You have
to do it yourself."
mircea_popescu: what
the everloving fuck is wrong with people already.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. "this stupid shit i did never works - clearly i must do more of it. surely if 5 grand worth of advertising is a waste, 5 mn is just
the
ticket. obviously every article in every "media outlet" i ever read
that fell within my field of competence was below stupid, but clearly
the way
to inform oneself is
to read more fishwraps."
mircea_popescu: "Having such detailed feedback wouldn’t require diving into
the data, but having someone spend an hour stress-testing my
thinking and assumptions would have been gold dust and could have prevented a lot of effort wasted. I’m sure I’d have gotten
that had Dinnr been accepted into accelerator programmes such as Seedcamp,
TechStars or Wayra. But absent a full-time co-founder, we weren’t eligible for
the former
two
mircea_popescu: "oh, i've went
to all
the witch doctors i could find, none of
them knew anything" "have you
tried
the hospital ?" "wut"
mircea_popescu: "I really would have needed a critic who said:" /me points out
to Michal Bohanes
that he has published no ready means of contact. not
that it matters, you'll see your name in google next you look for it. anyway : next fucking
time, ask #b-a.
mircea_popescu: "Although I would say
that I am reasonably well connected, have many startup CEO friends, go
to events and am regularly speaking
to mentors, no one ever sat down with me and systematically challenged me about
the Dinnr concept."
mircea_popescu: and
the chief instrument of
this picking is "raising awareness". do you care
that random IT offed another random IT ? no, because "hey, we only off each other". but maybe you should! if you were
to care, how many wonderful
things would become possible - none of which wonderful for you.
mircea_popescu: between mob-run ny, which functions smoothly and is culturally relevant and ghetto-choked baltimore, which does not function and is culturally irrelevant,
the usg will pick
the second every
time.
mircea_popescu: the same exact process used in "policing"
the ghetto, at
the
taxpayer's expense but in
the usg's own private benefit is also what
the us military does abroad.
the point isn't for iraq
to functyion or not,
the point is for
there
to not exist any gaddafi's. let
the euros deal with
the fallout, what,
that's what
the castrated suckers are
there for anyway.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviouisly if
there WERE such a power,
the actual damage actual working people suffered would be minimal, but
this is at no point a consideration.
mircea_popescu: in
this paradigm, it is not so important
that
there's mass
theft or rape, just
that
there's no organized power behind it.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:46:20;
trinque: I begin
to believe
they're just
targeting
the intelligent outright as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1346223 <<
this is exactly correct, by
the way. either
the recent lafond piece or else your own familiarity with
the ghetto will readily inform you
that police activity is not directed at preventing
theft or damage, but simply at preventing
the emergence of large or powerful organisations
that might in any way or
to any degree challenge
the sovereignity of
the usg itself.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:44:38; *:
trinque wonders if
they can form sentences well enough in congress
to actually write a law remotely related
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1346221 << seems
the process
they settled on is
to write many
thousands of pages, not as much on
the
theory
that hey, eventually something in
there will close (much like
the random-wiring approach
to making cpus), but moreover on
the
theory
that
then
they can ACT as if it did, and you're welcome
to challenge heh heh.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:40:17; asciilifeform:
the 'multi-sig' idiocy is clinton's key escrow plain and simple
mircea_popescu reviewed
them in 2012.
the answer was, come
to
think of it, very much like monero's. (oh hurr durr we're visionarily important and lalaal). so i decided
to give
them all
the
time
they could possibly need
to figure shit out and well...
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:35:52; punkman: OpenTransactions really missed out on selling
to all
these derps
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:31:59; asciilifeform: and
that his failure
to do so - is complicity.
mircea_popescu: same exact deal as for
that de raadt fellow, or
that auerheimer fellow, or everyone else actually.
mircea_popescu: time for
the irresponsible, delusionally-secure "coders"
to figure out
they live in a world, and whether
they're interested in
this aspect or not is perfectly irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: ditch
the idiots and come here on his own fucking motor power. i'm not going
to ask him anything,
the most i might do is nod.
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 23:16:21; mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell sipa if you want
to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, i'll rate you so you can voice.
mircea_popescu: and so now
they gotta make
this forced mistake. all
the better.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:23:35; asciilifeform: see, everybody who expected
that it'd be simply commissioned from 'lockheed' or similar, doesn't understand Phreeeeedom !1
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2015 08:53:51; mircea_popescu: if
this keeps up ima have
to fork
the pisschain.
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:33:08; mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems
to suggest
that
the enemy will be pushing a fork before
the decade's out. whether we at
that
time have a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides
the fate of
the free world.
mircea_popescu: all
these original
thinkers, it's a fascinating world.
mircea_popescu: "Patrick Byrne has been worried
that
the big Wall Street banks would “circle
the wagons,” creating
tech
that locks everyone else out. << ever since reading all about it on
trilema hurr durr.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:24:47; asciilifeform: btw, mircea_popescu, ever ask
torvalds why he doesn't shutter 'linux foundation' for pissing on ~his~
trademark ?
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:20:48; punkman: "“The current blockchain is a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief
technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make
that real for business?"
mircea_popescu: (if you have
two genders and gender dysmorphisms, for any objective measure you'll have one gender closer and
the other further, no matter what.)
mircea_popescu: the real driver is
that
the USG is much more adequate
to governing robots
than people.
that women are more robot-like
than men is just biological happenstance
mircea_popescu: the real driver isn't
that USG wants
to favour women over men.
mircea_popescu: now we finally understand
the deep driver behind
the "it's ok
to be fat in
the subway, it's not ok
to sit comfortably. eating doesn't cause obesity, it's genetic, notwithstanding no single "genetic" obese dude in all
those auschwitz pics ; meanwhile smoking causes cancer, it's not genetic and it's especially not
the sad result of all
the crap industry puts in
the
tobacco and also mark
twain didn't smoke
two railcars' w
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:59:51; renart: 2x
the human accident rate
mircea_popescu: they're actually a pretty good study into "what not
to do".
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:27:41; asciilifeform: as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20% cut, but had
to ~live~ in
the compound
BingoBoingo: "I wish
the devs were as active as
they were in beta.
Things got out of hand one
time and all active players, save
two, were permabanned over
the course of a 40 day ban spree.
The
two remaining players survived due
to a workaround and built
the community back up."
trinque: I begin
to believe
they're just
targeting
the intelligent outright as a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
☟︎ trinque wonders if
they can form sentences well enough in congress
to actually write a law remotely related
☟︎ trinque: speaking of clinton's day,
the "ban
that encryption stuff" grows
to a dull roar lately in
the media.
punkman: bitcoin vouchers will have
their uses
punkman: but
they didn't have "blockchain"
punkman: OpenTransactions really missed out on selling
to all
these derps
☟︎ danielpbarron: "There is no one blockchain
to rule
them all.
There will be multiple implementations of
the blockchain. And it will be a sin if
they don't interoperate and work
together."