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mircea_popescu: so most read trilema articles by the influx of new people from all the media ? mpoe-pr in the swamp antology, why i suspect schneier is a govt agent and the romanian language guide on cock sucking.
mircea_popescu: carpet i see. so make your own bet, zeroconf it, you're bound to see some action.
mircea_popescu: THIS month it will make like 25+ btc, out of actual fees.
mircea_popescu: previous month, bitbet made 20 btc out of some idiot's donation
mircea_popescu: halving is not /10, but anyway people were all "o, it dropped"
mircea_popescu: the way bitbet worked so far is quite instructive : had like 1k btc bet per month. then btc went 10x in usd, so bitbet bets halved.
mircea_popescu: who keeps adding all these banner ads on bitbet, it's confusing me
mircea_popescu: sorta works the other way, i've noticed, derps keep going "o mp is evil", some guy in chan yest was all like "it motivated me to check it out"
mircea_popescu: it's just funny this shit, people keep thinking they're bringing down a ten ton hammer of withering criticism which makes me go "hey, this shit sounds perfect".
mircea_popescu: t make any requests, and don't expect anything, ever. If you have a problem, fix it yourself or get lost. They're NOT writing this software for other people to use. They're writing it for themselves. That's it."
mircea_popescu: "With OpenBSD, you have a community of hard-core asshole isolationists who freely and openly express unrestrained disdain for the less-knowledgeable, don't care about their users, don't want more users, don't entertain requests from their users, and who would prefer that you get lost rather than bother them. If you can figure their shit out, they're not going to stop you from using it, but don't ask any questions, don'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what we need is a picture of taaki, the fat girl that broke the segway and her bf.
mircea_popescu: seems almost as if stupid arguments are a very small set that just keeps getting repeated whenever someone's half competent.
mircea_popescu: you know, possibly the funniest shit coming out of the openbsd story is the following comment on wired : "Yeah, an OS that almost nobody use is obviously "safe", since bad guys have no incentives to spend time attacking it."
mircea_popescu: the shoulds flow the other way. i tell you what you should.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef dude, do you see the problem in a) you're poor ; b) you're shoulding at rich people ?
mircea_popescu: rich people not being on irc is how the world ended up fucked in the first place.
mircea_popescu: VanCleef don't you think if i cared to impress people i'd go out "having fun" instead ?
mircea_popescu: copumpkin tell me you can't get paid as much as you want, mr ipad.
mircea_popescu: high level it jobs are a sellers market, and have been since before 1990, and it's only been getting worse.
mircea_popescu: low level "it jobs" are like social media experts or barristas.
mircea_popescu: that bash thing... whenever i go by i end up loling outloud
mircea_popescu: someone working for wired actually has a gpg pubkey on their blog.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have a shocker for you that may keep you busy for a week or two :
mircea_popescu: yeah. shame on you, kako. that's why somalia isn't going anywhere
mircea_popescu: i've just finished coding this. kakobrekla has been hanging around wasting time for the entire interval, talking to the press and whatnot. luckily i put the elbow grease in
mircea_popescu: yes well, that's your liver telling you you're fucking it up.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pretty much the only reason it's not hyperbolic right now is that the chinese basically don't allow leverage in that market.
mircea_popescu: mod6 that's actually outdated. it closed 138 +16. which... you know, O.O
mircea_popescu: their cds over 100 points again, after just having had a massive liquidity drop
mircea_popescu: this entire "is it eu or us" thing dragged on for too long