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mircea_popescu: and i am pretty certain
the specwork for it will involve fireworks.
mircea_popescu: phf notice
that
the gossipd
thing was specced,
the pgp one has not.
phf: so gossipd is "in progress", but fella's not been heard from in a very long
time. gpg has not been started, but ascii presumably has a lot of ideas about it.
then
there's pie in
the sky projects, like fabricating own cpus or rsa over udp routers.
mircea_popescu: call me crazy, but
the most often heard HONEST response
to "would you like
to cum ?" is no.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i
think b-a is really
the mental process of a nutty old guy
mircea_popescu: and
the different apporoach is not on
the part of
the buggerers either,
they still work nights and weekends with bare...
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf:
the back side of
this medal is
that problems which require something more
than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. <<
the only problem
that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 24 weeks, 6 days, 21 hours, 45 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got
to where it is.
mircea_popescu: why do you want
to rectally insert
the creation, alf ?
mircea_popescu: fits in head, i suspect, is just your bait and switch
to make
the world "fits in ass".
mircea_popescu: which is why i dun wanna encourage your heretic renaissance-orchestra-man ways by attaching more
talented young folk
to your crazylab.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as
the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
mircea_popescu: but i am positive
that either mod6 or alf could give you huge chunks
to do, if you're mostly into
that. prolly mod6 more swamped
tghan alf atm, even.
mircea_popescu: not
that
the strategy per se is bad, following
the log.
phf: i'm basically following along
the logs, looking for
things i can pick up and work on. last one i saw was memory limits in nursery
phf: whenever mp notices a problem,
there's a active search for a solution
phf: well,
this is eye of sauron kind of operation
mircea_popescu: so why don't you do something ? here's alf bending over
the
task of routing circuits in
the blockchain implemented in ada
mircea_popescu: so you're basically a nigger in prison (ie,
timed out by
the failures of
this world!!1) except not actually black.
phf: that's one way of putting it, except i don't have enough leverage
to last me
to
the end, so
technically no
phf: helping out a friend on his project ~3 days a week or so in a last authority on
technical decisions role.
mircea_popescu: "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned
that
time i stripped naked and jumped in
the pool was
the greatest party ever!" said many a
tall beauties.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under a lot of stress. at
that point
they didn't quite believe me
that i really am only staying on long enough
to wrap up
the projects i was responsible for.
the haircut cut off any attempts
to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> << who is
this and why would anyone care..? << Person who sold out
to Denton for minimal cash and a life
time of being
trolled by his media child
mircea_popescu: and otherwise... let's do a
test
to see if it comes out
the way we want it
to here it is it did!!11
mircea_popescu: and whoever
took over's paying less for
the copywriting and even less for
the artwork.
mircea_popescu: what has changed in 7 years ? oh...
the new yorker went out of business.
mircea_popescu: The fact
that
the experiment failed didn't stop
The New Yorker from
trying
to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even
though his performance
theoretically showed
that he was not a jerk, by
the outcome measure of
the study.
They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz
to accompany
the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: "To illustrate
this, consider
the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on
the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz)
that unfortunately failed
to show
the intended result, namely,
that he's a jerk.
shinohai: lmao phf .... makes me actually want
to make a Buterin costume.
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you'd want
to big fuck you
the firm you work for.
phf: last year i did
travis bickle for halloween, complete with haircut, which had a nice bonus of being a big fuck you
to
the firm i was working for. apparently it's fine
to have purple hair if you're an agile manager, but not so much a "warhawk" for a project architect.
shinohai: I'm certainly nowhere near fat enough
to be Gavin.
shinohai: At first I
though of making a giant paper-machie forhead and going as Vitalik Buterin, but it kept collapsing. :/
shinohai: I'm going
to paint "Dumb ideas and bankrupt companies" onto a briefcase and dress up as a VC for Halloween.
mircea_popescu: this one will kill it, of course, but even if it didn't, even without it : usg had been
tricked by usg.vc into missing out on pretty much everything. even fucking obvious
things like small biz.
mircea_popescu: A hilariously low percentage of
tech investment
targets
the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business,
the web, and
the consumer electronics
tie-in (the only interesting part of
the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin
that
the VC circus misdirected
the usg into losing out of.
mircea_popescu: "The elephant in
the room being
that
the ad market is falling apart because it isn't worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for
Twitter
to be in such
trouble, Arstechnica be struggling
to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes
to be forced
to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70
third party plants per page load."
mircea_popescu: so unless one';s willing
to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn't so refer
to "click analytics" and
the rest of
that shit.
mircea_popescu: "Most of
that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done,
though.
This is a red flag
to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other
things called "analytics" but really boil down
to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:05:20; davout: asciilifeform: is it really
that noteworthy
that a sub-minister of some sort opines on something she has really no business opining about?
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 14:19:04; diana_coman: he he davout
that is
true in general of course, but it's a matter of personal efficiency in a field or another
mircea_popescu: the people pretending otherwise are also not legitimate people. ask for
their fucking legitimations,
the matter's not resolved by simply being
there.
mircea_popescu: no
there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: ".
There's a legitimate concern
that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be
trivializing or mocking
the experience of
those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of
their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: and capitalizing
that shit is a lot more fucking bigoted
than saying obama is just a slave put
there
to do his white master's bidding.
mircea_popescu: what
the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is a fucking must for women's rights.
mircea_popescu: "I know
they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but
that would be more convincing if
they weren't also selling weapons
to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of
the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off
the more
than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has
to decide whether he goes
to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don't understand
they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 13:30:20; nubbins`: davout i've been on cbc, yahoo news, huffington post, several local rags... vice article is
the best one
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 12:13:40; punkman: "French governt endorses #Blockchain
tech ! #paymium awarded prize by Digital Economy Minister Axelle Lemaire" what's
this prize davout?
mircea_popescu: strangely, somehow, no one seems
to notice
THAT is
the premier, perhaps
the only appeal of crypto.
mircea_popescu: "James LaFond—a little prick I never much cared for anyhow—is dead, and I am
the ghost animating his
tottering corpse." << you know,
this is pretty
typical schizo stuff and im willing
to bet
the guy kills someone.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it has a point,
too. reddit is fundamentally
this, pretending moos are speech.
mircea_popescu: just, not for
the future husband she [thinks she] wants. certainly for
the one she deserves
mircea_popescu: just like dumbass chick with "i want people
to like me for me" and no nudies on facebook IS selecting for her future husband.
mircea_popescu: they just don't happen
to be
the sort of leaders it [thinks it] wants.
mircea_popescu: in other words, america is building its leaders of
tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: she'll get
the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of a lot of verbiage and
to and fro from
the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
shinohai: Well, she got valuable experience in little
time, sure beats going
to school and studying
that shit.
mircea_popescu: at any rate a damn sight better plan
than "i'll go
to college and become carrie bradshaw"
mircea_popescu: so basically
the girl's plan was
to be an activist, and she figured since all
the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
punkman: attempts such as: “I was on
the phone with him and he got out of
the car” because
the carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added
that she “told him
to get back in.”
punkman: "After his death, Carter became a self-proclaimed advocate for mental health. She organized a fundraising
tournament in Roy’s memory and posted on Facebook and
Twitter about her attempts
to save her boyfriend’s life."
trinque: a "counselor" comes running every
time
this kid lashes out. I say he wins
trinque: me: "And what if
they could punch him back? Do you
think he'd continue?" him: "hmmmmmm"
trinque: ben_vulpes: my brother yesterday was
telling me about
this "autistic" kid
that punches
teachers at his high school
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Texts reveal
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mircea_popescu: in order
to work, it DEPENDS on it. better dakka just guarantees more of
the same.