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pete_dushenski: "As far as Overstock, which has said it plans
to offer blockchain-recorded securities
to a wider audience, Byrne says
the company’s had productive
talks with
the agency so far. "I
think," he says, "that
they’re gonna let
the crypto-revolution occur." " << oh pleeeease let it occur. with sugar on
top.
pete_dushenski: set
to be buried by useless piles of vc crud. good riddance.
pete_dushenski: "One London-based startup, called Everledger, is developing blockchain
tools for
the diamond industry, designed
to log information on ethical sourcing, insurance claims, and
theft investigations, associated with detailed digital descriptions of
the valuable stones. CEO Leanne Kemp: "You would be able
to identify whether
those diamonds are
truly certified or not certified," " << so like deedbot but less useful so
pete_dushenski: "[Volkswagen] investments are
to be reduced by some one billion euros per year,
the efficiency program is
to be accelerated." << never waste a good crisis. adios unionistas.
mircea_popescu: 30k is not really notable.
that's about 6 months pay (taxes apply
to severance
too you know)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's not like a large rock is more complex
than a smaller rock.
they're rocks. exactly
the same
thing.
mircea_popescu: mostly going
to conferences, selling adds,
trying
to hire more derps in fucktarded locations
punkman: and probably a bunch of
them
trying
to sell ads
ascii_field: the real question is why did
they need 4200 employees ?!
pete_dushenski: "Twitter has said it is cutting 336 jobs, roughly 8% of its global workforce, as part of a restructuring of
the business.
The job cuts will cost between $10m (£6.5m) and $20m in severance pay, while
the restructuring will cost between $5m and $15m,
the company said." << sex sells. except when it's a platform for sex.
ascii_field: not hard. but my attention span was. and
this was
the
time we finally got net access.
mircea_popescu: how far did you get ?
the
two laughing fat dudes with hammers ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it had a solo mode remember
that ? like, not
the proper campaign, just a sort of duel chain.
jurov: to
think
that ibm pc was universally reviled like
today systemd
mircea_popescu: don't give me
that, i had computers
that worked back when i was playing golden axe on
them.
ascii_field: today
there is just a hut with walls made of straw & monkey shit.
mircea_popescu: fucking ustards. everything
they
touch
turns
to shit both ways. it's like... a bunch of monkeys
that invaded a
temple, and now not only is everything covered in shit but you gotta listen
to arguments in between
the set of monkeys
that believes in
throwing
the shit at
the walls and
the set of monkeys
that believes in gently unctioning it on.
mircea_popescu: i never knew i could equally hate both sides of a "debate"
to
the degree.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: under a certain level,
the money'[s actually smarter
than you.
ascii_field: (has very little, if anything,
to do with money. can be it while having a billion)
mircea_popescu: is
the last line in
that rant "i'm so sick of you losers i'm going
to go find a master
to sleep at
the feet of" ?
ascii_field: we have a more specific
term, некультурный
mircea_popescu: being poor =
too dumb
to put your shoes on, by yourself.
shinohai: Perhaps my
time would be better spent complaining less, and learning how chocolate fountains work.
ascii_field: poor schmuck prolly used
to 'folding-at-home' etc.
mircea_popescu: you can't do anything, ands you wouldn't know what
to do on your own either.
this is what being poor means
mircea_popescu: because
that's what i fucking read in
there. "i'm poor and where's my chocolate fountain."
ascii_field: 'nah
that's a geysering shitpipe, not chocolate'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and do you go "shit honey, check out our place,
there's like... not even any chocolate fountain here" ?
mircea_popescu: the poor have no fucking rights
to pretend like
they're people.
mircea_popescu: but yes
the alternative is giving up
the delusion
that derp belongs
to a civilisation he once saw
through a window.
ascii_field: poor wild man controls nothing. what's he
to use ?
ascii_field: because
the alternative is sitting on a sharp broomstick ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> why is he using source he doesn't control from people he doesn't know ; and why does he imagine doing
this is different from being on windows. << Probably because Job
mircea_popescu: why is he using source he doesn't control from people he doesn't know ; and why does he imagine doing
this is different from being on windows.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i haven't any idea who wrote
the linked
text. but clearly it is someone fed up with having
to shovel
the shit
to create his local 'clean'.
mircea_popescu: who
told random usg
tard
that he is qualified
to "cure cancer" or even get out of bed at all when he can't even run a clean system ?
ascii_field: glyphs, 'clipboard', viewport shape,
the lot.
ascii_field: as it is, i can
take x11 proggy and
the result is ~indistinguishable~ from running it locally.
ascii_field: not in a generally applicable
to everything way.
punkman: but
there are other
tools
that can pipe
the graphics over
tcp, no?
ascii_field: but for it
to look
THE SAME as if it were running local
BingoBoingo: I like
the irony of new graphicx stax requires X11
to run on
top of in
this port
punkman: why should I want pipe x11 over
tcp?
ascii_field: yes, i get it,
they want winblowz, gui-in-the-kernel crapolade
ascii_field: FUCK
this-replaces-x11-but-won't-pipe-over-tcp
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2015 21:09:34; asciilifeform: PeterL: most 'alternatives for x11' dispense with
the everything-can-be-piped-over-tcp
BingoBoingo: It's
the rare actually interesting new comment on /.
that isn't copypasta
BingoBoingo: Its
too bad, in some way we,
the normal people who do good
things for ourselves and our customers and our employers, really have better job security with breaking fuckheads like you around. But I want
to have our computers spend
time you know curing cancer or designing a fusion reactor and doing useful shit rather
than cleaning up after your dog shit"
ascii_field: 'You have
the fucking
time
to fuck shit up.
That is what you are saying. Most normal people on nights and weekends fuck
their significant others, go
to parks with
the kids and enjoy life. But you spend your nights and weekends writing dog shit
that fucks up my weeks. We are paid
to fix
the damage you do.' << mega-winner
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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ok, upwards alabama
then <<
That one is pronounced Mo-Bee-le
jurov: and prolly he wasn't paying for
the grinder plates
ascii_field: you're sawing in
the middle of
the day, in a busy
town
ben_vulpes: i never understood why he used
the extremely obvious and needing-of-power grinder instead of a
torch
ascii_field: but perhaps mircea_popescu witnessed
the famous and respected hero, Angle Grinder Man
mircea_popescu: any ustard
that lives in
the same place for more
than five years is a failure anyway
ben_vulpes: those long
term residents actually can predict
the problems statal intervention will result in.
mircea_popescu: what protected class is
this "long
time resident"
thing anyway ?
ben_vulpes: the "get
the state involved
to fix
the states own mistakes"
thing needs a doing. again.
ben_vulpes: local long-time residents ability
to move around our neighborhood–it has become difficult enough, already!