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mircea_popescu: Do not mention how
their use was pioneered by
the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how
they were used by
the US Air Force in Vietnam in Operation Inferno in 1968. Keep repeating, “barrel bombs, barrel bombs” and stating with a straight face
that
the Syrian regime is using
them “against its own people.” Against its own people. Against its own people. Against its own people.
ben_vulpes: search'll need redoing on
top of
the wot as well.
mircea_popescu: and strangly
there wasn't a reddit icrapple dedicated
to mocking
the funbux.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:38:13; mircea_popescu: o btw, do you have a reddit acct
that's aged enough
to make subreddits ?
mircea_popescu: 2009, back when apple istore was worth less
than a bar.
ascii_field: (well perhaps not ~any~ - but certainly it is more of a
thing
than
the 'multi-coloured pill' business in gringolandia)
mircea_popescu: "It's an interesting piece of info and it resonates a lot with
the issues and choices I and
to make with my game early
this year. I can see how
those numbers could be discouraging but I kind of agree with Sven,
they are not
that bad."
ascii_field: 'I can actually remember when Looney
Toons was yanked in favor of more PC Barney
the dinosaur bullshit. I remember when I got sent home with a note explaining
to my parents
that my pocket knife no longer acceptable. I remember when I got sent home with a note explaining
to my parents
that my pocket knife no longer acceptable.'
mircea_popescu: who
the fuckgives a shit, obscure studio making obscure app on
that old
tablet
thing you meanwhile lost.
mircea_popescu: "I
think it was great
to get
the game into
the hands of a lot of people for free, even if it lost money for
the studio.
mircea_popescu: "With
these ca. 100.000 dls we made a whooping $162 in
total. In other words form 100.000 people playing or at least downloading
the game 127 in App Purchases were
tracked by Apple, which means
that 0.13% of our user base as paid something inside
the App. Don’t get us wrong: We are
thankful for
those purchases and we hope
that you enjoy our game, but
to build a sustainable business
this won’t get us very far as an
assbot: Pictorial Essay: 18
Things I Did
That My Grand-kids Can’t Do Without Someone Getting Arrested «
The Burning Platform ... (
http://bit.ly/1Z3PE0A )
ascii_field: whereas
the fiat-megamoneybag folks also want 3) without nudging market rate
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 06:05:19; mircea_popescu: anyway,
the ever more feverish pitch of desperation is lulzy. "sell bitcoin
to me". dude... why
the fuck would i be selling anything
to you ? fuck you, your approval is not required, your desires don't matter, you're not being persuaded here. you're being raped. nobody gives a shit about your consent, let alone excitement
to use bitcoin. you'll use it
to survive, and marginally at
that.
ascii_field: but unlike mircea_popescu i sometimes have
to vivisect it.
mircea_popescu: i live in
the dirigible world past
the horizon, my shit dun crash.
assbot: Logged on 05-10-2015 09:18:42; mircea_popescu: but in general, what sort of information do you obtain by putting words in a box ? suppose you search for "chicken broth" and
they explain
to you it's a heavy fuel oil. do you believe
that ?
btcdrak: (not
the
title, but
the comment I linked
to lol)
assbot: luckdragon69 comments on Gavin Andresen: Bitcoin Core Won’t Make
the Consensus Rules in
the Future ... (
http://bit.ly/1JOx417 )
mircea_popescu: anyway, my
takeaway from
teh reading is
that s.mg should probably at least
try and support steam. so if
there's someone who actually has experience with
this,
talk
to me.
mircea_popescu: i actually have great hope for
the future ofthis system yes.
diana_coman: well you can grab people by
their irc nick I suppose, not really by
the
tie at any moment
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the original point ofthings likethe mit ai lab, or
the xerox parc, or etc, was
that people could grab each other by
the
tie in
the hallway
diana_coman: it
turns out like
that, yes,
though he'd be surprised
to find
that out
diana_coman: just
that he has
the wrong ideas as
to what is reliable source for btc
mircea_popescu: diana_coman
that's
the other
thing.
the odds of me giving
two pre-compressed, freeze dried rat shits on
the "article" of some random derp i dunno... hm.
PeterL: "I read it on
the internet, it must be
true!"
diana_coman: basically a uni professor who had no idea of
the
topic but just heard he had
to say something on it
diana_coman: fwiw I saw first-hand
the horrible
things google/search-reliance can do for lazy people
too -
there were some very sad (or laughable if so inclined) articles on Bitcoin in ACM magazine
PeterL: mircea_popescu has alot more pull
to abscond interesting people
than we do
mircea_popescu does a dozen or more of
these "so let me run
this by you" citizen arrests
things.
☟︎ diana_coman: well yes, but uhm, not really sure
they'd come all
the way from australia, nz and whatever else, every
time
mircea_popescu: the point of convenience, of course, and
the humane way
to do
this, is where you know
the people who'd have written articles on
that
topicanyway, so you put some bagels in
the oven, ring
them up, invite
them over, and
talk
the matter
through over wine.
diana_coman: whether it's
that
thread or
the other one starts with, doesn't make a huge diff
diana_coman: the rest is discovered
through connections anyway
diana_coman: the
thing is
that's usually just
the start of something anyway
diana_coman: well, if
the guy was an idiot and did not update his page, what can one do
mircea_popescu: and
then five years later you discover it hid for no reason one article out of 6
diana_coman: assuming
the guy doesn't have his own page updated for some reason
diana_coman: it's still kind of ok for specific stuff, more like bookmarking kind of
thing - I know what I'm searching for and roughly where it is, I just need
the quick path
to it (as in search on dl.acm for articles of X on
topic Y or in journal Z)
mircea_popescu: so yes in
this sense, google is here
to supersede "smart contracts" or vice-versa, whatever. either way really, nonsense's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i doubt
the google problem is in any way different from
the colored coins/ripple/ethereum problem, or generally "automated
trust" issue.
mircea_popescu: but
then once people are aware of
the scoring, you're lost and it's irredemable.
diana_coman: and when I got
there I had been right,
the key words were exactly as given etc
mircea_popescu: the original idea was superb,
the pr
thing. it's a great way
to score a graph.
diana_coman: well, I
think it might head
that way, in
the sense
that it happened more
than once
that I searched for
things with precise and specific keywords I knew were in
there
PeterL: What would a useful search engine entail, or do you see
that as even possible?
diana_coman: IF I have no choice but
to start
that way, I would afterwards check
the source basically
diana_coman: then again, I am NOT finding google useful
to find information in general
mircea_popescu: the general population may be happy
to pop sugar pills, but
that doesn't make
them medicine, right ?
PeterL: but
the general population is ignorant and does not care
to alleviate
their ignorance, so google works for
them. If
they can't find it on google, it doesn't exist
mircea_popescu: and
that said, i am probably in
the
top 1% when it comes
to understanding
the higher level issues involved, which means i canhammer
together a search string like few others. so google would probably be lot more useful
to me, were it
to be useful at all,
than
to
the general population.
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically) a foray into discussions of a
topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel). i read upwards of fifty pages, i did not use google at any point
throughout. because, here's
the snatch : you
try googling something
to get you
these results.
mircea_popescu: in short, google may perhaps maintain
the illusion of utility for as long as
the needs are superficial and stay
that way.but if you're mostly looking for specific stuff and
tend
to go beyond
the surface of
things, it doesn't actually do anything whatever.
mircea_popescu: (and btw, i found it by
typing se in myaddress bar which
took me
to search.bitcoin-assets.com/ rather
than
typing anything into google. because
THIS always works and is way faster)
PeterL: search google, click on what you want is
two steps; go
to site, search, maybe
their search function works
the way you expect is at least
three steps
mircea_popescu: anwyay, google as bookmark organizer, which is what you're describing, is about as useful as
that goes, sure. could just as well use any other
mircea_popescu: tho i have homebrew
talent, you know
those people who know ALL
THE ACTORS and ALL
THE SONGS etc ?
PeterL: another example, I am watching a movie and I want
to know who
the actor is. I google "cast of movie whatever", most likely it links
to IMDB, I could have gone straight
to IMBD, but it is easier
to just start all searches from one place rather
than
trying
to start at each individual site depending on
the search
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between
these
two classes of questions, you know, like in
tech support.
mircea_popescu: (i rarely ask "gimme
the recipe", because i'm actually sa pretty good cook. usually i ask "is
this white sauce or what did you do ?!"
mircea_popescu: not useful is like untrustworthy. doesn't mean "absolutely and in all cases zero use". it just means unreliable enough
to be 0.
PeterL: You ask at a restraunt for a recipe of
their dish and
they give you something?
mircea_popescu: ah, sure. it can. it can also send
them
to paycoin, just as well.
mircea_popescu: but see,
the only reason i could conceivably be interested in is because a woman made
them and i liked.
then i ask her, such as my mom, or
the chick in
the cofee shop, or whoever. i don't
think i ever wanted
to make a random item.
PeterL: think from
the other perspective, you say you are
the example for
things, how do people find your example
to copy? Something like google can link
them
to you
PeterL: another example, I wanted
to
try
to make homemade bagels, I
type in
the box "bagel recipe", and it gives me several sites with recipes
to
try. Clearly,
these are not all of
the same quality, but I only have
to look
through a couple
to find one wotrh
trying