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mircea_popescu: markedathome incidentally, didn't open office project implode a few years back ?
mircea_popescu: well mebbe one day if i get aroudn to it/figure out how to.
mircea_popescu: this "i can't follow" is like "error message : there was an error".
mircea_popescu: it also has to be used once it has. look at canonical's unite failure.
mircea_popescu: Bicknellski_ well, it has to make it in the main repo, for one.
mircea_popescu: "Although it shouldn't be a surprise, given the company is run by wankers, Coinbase is a leading player in the Bitcoin world that discourages anonymity, unlike similar online wallet services."
mircea_popescu: open source is exactly well implemented elitism : we are better than you, and here's why.
mircea_popescu: but then again it doesn't really need to be made explicit.
mircea_popescu: now, the people actually involved may be too polite to point it out explicitly
mircea_popescu: people who just dick around and suck cock (gmaxwell, taaki, who have you) aren't even part of it.
mircea_popescu: people belong or don't belong by how they contribute to the actual project
mircea_popescu: there's no similarity. open source is a venture centered around a project. that project actually exist.
mircea_popescu: this is like "water won't go uphill" "ok so icecream vendors are pervets". doth not follow.
mircea_popescu: by definition. that's what it takes to be an idiot : not think.
mircea_popescu: open source doesn't meet the commune definitions above either.
mircea_popescu: Bicknellski_ open source ain't manufacturing now is it.
mircea_popescu: or more practically speaking, any group in which a majority lacks a concrete and definite understanding of their inferiority.
mircea_popescu: group without hierarchy = commune. any bunch of people that make "we're all equal" a group norm.
mircea_popescu: those will have to be routed around by manufacturing/mattering/sanity in general.
mircea_popescu: there's always going to be communes of idiots who will firmly believe they can circlejerk reality into changing.
mircea_popescu: "Titan is going to buy a Chinese tire company or an Indian one, pay less than one Euro per hour wage and ship all the tires France needs," he said. "You can keep the so-called workers."
mircea_popescu: "The French workforce gets paid high wages but works only three hours. They get one hour for breaks and lunch, talk for three and work for three," Taylor wrote on February 8 in the letter in English to the minister, Arnaud Montebourg.
mircea_popescu: it's trivial to extract a profit from offering lines on top of bitbet.
mircea_popescu: nono, to fake line betting for the people too lazy to think
mircea_popescu: and i seriously can't believe nobody's written a bitbet bot yet.
mircea_popescu: it's seriously better than any api, just get py/perl going
mircea_popescu: i don't know what an api would do other than that tho ?
mircea_popescu: topace something like "Your request to push x of y to z has been received and will be processed." signed by mpex. and no.
mircea_popescu: i get t his feeling i'm missing out on like half the btc drama
mircea_popescu: whoever pushes them has a signed receipt they can show you.
mircea_popescu: topace you wouldn't receive a notification. you'd see the extra shares in your balance
mircea_popescu: i just hope and pray you won't be saying obama sounds like me.
mircea_popescu: lyspooner you think everything reads like me. mpoe-pr, gwern.net...
mircea_popescu: there's a rule that tghere must be one of these every month it seems
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the real world happily churns away on linux, using forks and knives.
mircea_popescu: basically a horde of maybe 1-500 mn people are marginally self aware enough to use a spoon (but not a fork) and windows, and they're running around explaining why everything should be made out of spoons running windows.
mircea_popescu: and obviously not being aware whart it's called. he has some bullshit (self developed ?) examples
mircea_popescu: completely blind to the fact that on such a system you can't buy more than what someone sells/etc
mircea_popescu: the advantages and none of the disadvantages of the system you've selected"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla just some knowitall dood, explaining why intrade system " would seem to have all of
mircea_popescu: into a thread of dicussion where they inform the presumably mouth-agape site ops of how the world works.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i absolutely LOVE people trying to escalate a request for "help" whereby they didn't read the faq