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mircea_popescu: they have like... 3 types of games, and rehashed ad nauseam.
mircea_popescu: in fact, and i had this deeply reviewed, ipad is an approximation of "Flash games"/arcade website, which was always a bit player.
asciilifeform: s.mg does not live in the leprosorium.
asciilifeform: i wasn't speaking of success, but of a living wage in the leprosorium.
mircea_popescu: ipad didn't get any fortress-whatever that's called action either.
mircea_popescu: but this is true of all success, ever.
asciilifeform: like in the mid '90s 'shareware scene'
asciilifeform: when i wrote that piece, there was a very temporary phenomenon where the small-time independent programmer appeared to be a thing again
mircea_popescu: but the point is important, in light of your article.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can move btc using email, too. what of it ? your problem.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, very apparently, does not need the kolhoz, no.
mircea_popescu: or you're proposing that I need ~them~ or something ?
mircea_popescu: so : there is a thing. it doesn't go there. to their detriment. what of the monopoly ?
mircea_popescu: but forget this nonsense, focus on the business interest.
asciilifeform: as a non-player, am i mistaken that one can move btc using eulora .. ?
asciilifeform: aha but the first time anyone thinks of using it to move coin, it gets pulled.
mircea_popescu: same thing as with steam : i would not even accept money from them.
asciilifeform: with their vig taken.
asciilifeform: apple demands that any transfer of value of whatever kind inside an ipnohe proggy happen using their system
mircea_popescu: sure, they got a monopoly on all the candy crush. so ?
asciilifeform: it'd have to be sideloaded
mircea_popescu: do you not count it as an example of developer eschewing the monopoly ? and to apple's detriment ?
mircea_popescu: i could spend money to have eulora interface translated into some sort of an iapp. it'd prolly work, more or less. i... aren't bothering myself with actually doing this.
mircea_popescu: (the original, ie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZrgcSQRN0U says "why do you look at me as if i stole from you ? if you're gonna do that, i might as well...)
mircea_popescu: i think maybe the white rapper guy had some verse to the point
mircea_popescu: not the same sentiment.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in english they say 'may as well hang for a sheep as for a lamb'
mircea_popescu: what exactly does one have to gain by NOT doing it ?
mircea_popescu: "How long would it take for Toyota to start living up to these accusations in earnest? And why should it not do so? What is to be gained from corporate sainthood?" << "De ce te uiti de parca ti-am furat ceva. Daca tot te uiti asa, mai bine ti-as fura."
mircea_popescu: lol is http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1315827 <--> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316197 supposed to be like, trolling or something ? ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: eh that last one's not so hard
mircea_popescu: i can teach constitutional law to a rodent that's obedient and determined, enough of it at any rate to surpass the present mulatto in chief.
mircea_popescu: it is, contrary (to whose surprise ?) to what the derps try to tell them, pretty much the only important characteristic.
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu considered most of said flesh far too contaminated for any practical use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't mind in the slightest - more flesh for me.
mircea_popescu: if all females were she-rakims their life would be so smooth.
asciilifeform: or what, you think a prof can afford to defend himself ?
mircea_popescu: which is EXACTLY the sort the female-politics niggers HATE to see
asciilifeform: hey the chicken just wants to live
mircea_popescu: who suffers ? the middling comnpetent female.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 21:19:42; asciilifeform: 'This is SOP for STEM/Biz profs, too. Never be alone with female students. Never mentor them. Never supervise a graduate thesis. A bad review/grade turns into a sexual harassment claim far too easily.'
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316143 << this stupidity is perhaps the finest exercise in "how to fuck up women under the guise of protecting their rights". ☝︎
asciilifeform leaves it in the logz for the idlerz
mircea_popescu is sadly too busy to pursue this folklore angle.
asciilifeform: specifically 'образ "цыпленка пареного" как символ обывателя, который "просто хочет жить"' >> the image of a steamed chicken as a symbol of a jwz who 'only wants to live'
mircea_popescu: btw does that carry any petuk subtext ?
mircea_popescu: better model; always asks current ego to die because current ego is a piece of shit. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Nah, makes perfect sense you gotta bring your own orgy to the one night stand
asciilifeform: better model often asks one to die
mircea_popescu: yet it's not my fault the models you all learned as children are constructed to serve your society, not your own needs and interests.
mircea_popescu: a society that doesn't bitchslap them opens itself to this sort of gunkification.
assbot: From kafkatrap to honeytrap ... ( http://bit.ly/1ktx7KJ )
mircea_popescu: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 << certainly. this is how stupid women go for attention, ever since 6th grade.
asciilifeform: whole thing services by ancient 10mb link
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 21:14:52; mike_c: I am not understanding this romanian mess.. what the hell does some fire in a club have to do with the PM
asciilifeform: in a run-down part of town. office, not datacentre.
mircea_popescu: derpy resellers are right out. machines in natoland are right out. derps unable/unwilling to wot are right out. etc.
asciilifeform: b. has 4G of addressable ram. it is approx. the size of a hardcover book, and lives in a locked cage.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 21:05:09; funkenstein_: trinque: I don't know who they are but i have had some luck with bitcoincloud.eu vps
asciilifeform mildly surprised that bucephalus has not exhausted memory quite yet
mircea_popescu: eh dun take it personally, i'm talking of everyone else.
asciilifeform wants useful but there is only one of him
mircea_popescu: nobody wants to do anything useful.
mircea_popescu: but pretty much the only thing western kids wanna do is derp with webdev ; and the eastern kids wanna polish the kalash.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 23:46:19; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316029 <<< i have a faint recollection of the thing being in this "we'll draft it" position before and magically not getting drafted.
jurov: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316307 it was drafted and submitted to mpex and havelock, that did not work out, so we just coasted on. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: finding a solution to the hosting problem, a ~correct~ solution is actually higher priority than anything else atm.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 20:13:41; trinque: and two, I would like to move the hosting of the thing off AWS if anyone can recommend a friendlier host
mircea_popescu: a ton of orphan blasting, looking through the logs, but they don't actually do anything to me.
mircea_popescu: i'm up to date, 105 connections.
asciilifeform: with the selector respecting ordering.
asciilifeform: the most basic thing would be to permit a static nodelist.
mircea_popescu: i think you probably recall the design discussions for this ?
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 20:13:17; trinque: two things there: one I think I will begin looking into the connect vs addnode tangle this weekend, as it's affecting the proper functioning of the deedbot-
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=04-11-2015#1316103 << code to properly handle the republic's own nodes would be a good move forward. ☝︎
assbot: Rob Gronkowski offers financial tips ... ( http://bit.ly/1GMn4v0 )
BingoBoingo: for the cockroachologists: "The Patriots tight end claimed in a recent published memoir -- which he totally wrote all by himself -- that he has yet to touch one dime of his signing bonus or NFL contract money and that everything he has been spending has come from endorsements." http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/156348992/rob-gronkowski-money-advice-gronkonomics
asciilifeform: ssds are, as a general rule, made of old toilet paper, however.
mircea_popescu: says Hansjoerg Mueller of the Alternative for Germany party.
asciilifeform: (it is an inductive load, thinkaboutit)
asciilifeform: another thing is that the drives usually share power rail and one can cascade-kill the rest
asciilifeform: which brings out the duds.
asciilifeform: raid also tends to be used by folks who run boxes 24/7, and hot
asciilifeform: a solo disk doesn't get thrown out, typically, until it begins to smoke
asciilifeform: how's he to know
mircea_popescu: "fail new disk" error rate seems to be 5 to 10x higher in raid setups than in solo setups.
mircea_popescu: not like this doesn't happen
asciilifeform: but they must know without fail. otherwise the offending disk gets thrown out.
asciilifeform: but yes, if the disks 'know' (somehow) that you have a raid-5 of n disks, using a particular controller, they could, e.g., 'agree' to return a patched boot sector.
asciilifeform: let's say there are 4 of'em.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and how is one to conspire with the others ?
mircea_popescu: people tend to use the same exact hdd in raid
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 19:30:55; asciilifeform: incidentally hardware raid utterly annihilates (if used correctly - that is, for striping rather than mirroring) all known and unknown 'hdd firmware diddles'
asciilifeform: incidentally - there is a very convenient 1-byte flag, that, if 'poked', will instantly cause gpg to use ordinary (paged) memory.
asciilifeform: someone worked astonishingly hard to make this thing a nearly-incomprehensible morass.
asciilifeform: i cannot help but be surprised when i encounter, in the old words of ben_vulpes, 'clown cars glued to a spinning ceiling' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: aite. nothing wrong with putting the many warts in the log, either
asciilifeform: and the answer turns out to be 'precious little'
asciilifeform: i'm trying to salvage what is salvageable.
mircea_popescu: you're not trying to argue that gpg is to be replaced are you ?