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mircea_popescu: or i suppose for
the same reason i'd visit a viking boat.
mircea_popescu: and
the only reason i'd go
to a movie
theatre is
to get a public blowjob.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 10:38:43; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-07-2015#1213025 << it never left, you know. it's still here. if you're willing
to
take z80 as "state of
the art",
the whole shebang is still here. problem is you want a different state of
the art, because we actually need it, because z80 mined bitcoin can't survive in
the field. and so...
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 10:31:47; mircea_popescu:
the plain sad factual
truth of
the matter is,
that
there was no manna
there
to begin with.
chetty: pdp 8, wow blast from
the past
mircea_popescu: man has a point.
there has been NO inovation worth
the mention, and no "HDTV" and stupid ass bootstrap don't count.
mircea_popescu: if
the past
two decades of rapidpace never happened, we'd be in a much better position, not having
to waste
time
trying
to figure out how
the fuck
to even get static binaries made anymore.
mircea_popescu: why is it
that
the greatest republic in history uses "antiquated" software from 1990 as in
the case of gpg, why are we on irc, etc etc ? because rapid pace of what ?
mircea_popescu: ft
today.
Their "innovation" is _purely_ restricted
to more shiny wrappings, because
that is where
the money is in
today's market." << ahaha yeah! check it out...
mircea_popescu: "The software industry has
turned into a pyramid game because
the government valuation strategies for software have penalized longevity. It has absolutely _nothing_
to do with
the so-called "rapid pace" of
the
technological development. It isn't rapid and I'll dispute a claim of general development,
too. It's all about marketing old ideas in new and ever more shiny wrappings, and nobody does
that better
than Microso
assbot: Logged on 24-07-2015 18:13:48; mircea_popescu: so now owner of palantir goes out and buys himself fiddy million
twenty dollar hookers, amirite.
solrodar: so I ended up
two degrees of separation away from
the person paying me :P
mircea_popescu: s
to _continue_
to play (read: lose money
to)
the lottery for him
to get monthly installments." ahaha check it out, naggum gets infinitesimaly close
to comprehending
the nature of
the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: "Instead of being a guarantor of stability and long-term safety
that each of us cannot build or even maintain on our own, policies in
the information
technology industries have
turned into guarantors of instability and short-term profiteering, effectively betting
the future on
the fun we can have
today, a massive lottery where everybody loses, especially
the guy who wins $25 million and discovers
that everybody else ha
solrodar: but
then he wasn't able/willing
to
test it himself
solrodar: asciilifeform didn't like
the graph layout but was willing
to accept it as long as I released details of how it was produced
mircea_popescu: actually looking at
the ratings i would guess
this was actually accepted and i just didn't get
the memo. all
the better.
mircea_popescu: b6f7f5ce3ab9bddf0bf5c32ec4b01d7ac5a590396ff87ae0a846975cd5303458 solrodar.
thanks for your help!
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: specifgically i will put asciilifeform, ben_vulpes and everyone else on notice
to
the following fact : if you don't effectually and effectively
take delivery of
these sorts of
things, it's not
that my 1 btc or w/e is wasted. it's
thjat
the remainder of my stash is wasted, because lo! i can not use it
to direct activity. help me help you over here wouldja.
☟︎ solrodar: mircea_popescu: I don't want
to pester
the developers
to deal with something
they're not really interested in
mircea_popescu: anyway, i
think
the proper
thing
to do here is pay out.
mircea_popescu: (and yes
this is why
tort laws are building socialism. "we sell you
the coffee - if you kill yourself with it
that's your problem" is
the correct position, and what
the courts should, and what
the b,tmsr~ courts do enforce)
mircea_popescu: better exam of idiocy could scarcely be had. and so here we are. no "conditional royalties", no "apple store", no "charge for runtime" and none of
that jazz. not because it's wrong, or evil. because it's stupid, and because it enacts an unsustainable model.
mircea_popescu: i personally knew my father was a retard when i was about
thirteen, and he
threw a fit insisting i "stop using
tools for other purposes
than
they were made".
mircea_popescu: the reason being, obviously,
the eternal problem of unforeseen utility.
mircea_popescu: all
that remains is one single entity which starts with
the grassy knoll and ends with
the satellite, and you will never EVER be able
to make
this wholly integrated pile of nonsense compete on any sort of footing with actual capitalism
mircea_popescu: trhis is not even a moral issue, or some sort of bullshiot about rights.
this is
the nudest, rudest self preservation at work. if you wish
to force (and by allowing, you force)
the knife maker
to have opinions of knife usage, you have created
the worst sort of socialist centrally commanded economy possible.
mircea_popescu: if i buy a knife, I OWN
THE KNIFE. and whether i use it fifty
times or
three, whether i am
the most frequent user of
the knife or least, whether i make most money from its usage opr least,
this is entirely my business.
mircea_popescu: for
the record,
the notion
that some
twerps may charge "per runtime" is such corrosive nonsense i have no fucking idea who or why would ever defend it.
mircea_popescu: " If we apply an interpreter of British understatements and general vagueness in preference
to precision, however, I get
the impression you're
trying very hard
to have an opinion about another company, which _does_ have royalties as part of
their business model and
that you are
trying
to invalidate
that model by implication."
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 07:58:50; jurov: "In my research, I looked
to see how old
the idea was
that medieval Christians believed
the earth was flat....No one before
the 1830s believed
that medieval people
thought
that
the earth was flat."
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 05:35:30; asciilifeform:
the world of 1985, where
there were a
thousand ~state-of-the-art~ chip fabs, under
two+ separate civilizational systems, and running perhaps a dozen ~entirely independently developed~
toolchains - isn't coming back
mircea_popescu: what do you
think
the "human batteries" would have done, were
they not "in
the matrix" ?
mircea_popescu: just like women gotta "be sluts" or else your paniced bipedal dog is
too afraid of black holes
to stick his wee wee into
the right hole, just so microsoft must be
there for a hundred milion autistic schmucks
to be even able
to get out of bed i nthe morning.
mircea_popescu: which is, and has been, and will forever remain
the only function,
the chief utility and
the very point of abstractions. it allows men
to survive
their fears.
mircea_popescu: they're not wasting anything,
they're just giving a bunch of fuctards
the illusion
that
they actually belong here.
mircea_popescu: but even after
their blood gurgles,
the fact will stand.
there was no productivity
there from
they one.
mircea_popescu: just as soon as we're done with
the festivals dedicated
to
their dressing up as
the sacrificial goat.
mircea_popescu: which is why all
the charade and all
the dancing. and yes
the various jews, selected goats, ibms m$ and usg will be beheaded for
this fault "of
theirs",
mircea_popescu: the plain sad factual
truth of
the matter is,
that
there was no manna
there
to begin with.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 05:35:06; decimation: but you make a point -
the software industry (and usg in general) has mastered
the art of wasting
the productivity of its population
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 05:29:00; asciilifeform: just as was
the case after
the fall of ibm.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 05:24:04; decimation: unfortunately it seems
that
the "cl logs" are quite scattered and need
to be reconstructed by a student (unlike b-a logs)
mircea_popescu: anyway, just more nails in
the coffin of bullshiot "higher resolution".
mircea_popescu: Making matters worse, HEVC Advance says
their licensing
terms [listed in detail here] are “retroactive
to date of 1st sale”
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 04:45:09; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: iirc
this is standard sendmail behaviour
assbot: Successfully updated
the rating for hanbot from 5
to 5 with note: extremely productive manual
tester
assbot: You rated user hanbot on 30-Mar-2014, with a rating of 5, and supplied
these additional notes:
The forum loves her a lot..
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 02:55:08;
trinque: motherfucker... I google
this AWS issue I'm having, and find myself bitching about said problem here
two months ago
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2015 02:26:44; decimation: policies like income & capital gains
tax can be seen as a method of exhausting potential suitors
to power
jurov: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: no
turdatron runs on linux. so far all
the cases happened on client, i won't mind
this further until you say "i have checked my outbox and it's not mutilated
there"
jurov: "In my research, I looked
to see how old
the idea was
that medieval Christians believed
the earth was flat....No one before
the 1830s believed
that medieval people
thought
that
the earth was flat."
☟︎ decimation: "Each of
their [the Western government's] decisions is an atom unto itself, made
through an almost ritualized process by a large number of very intelligent,
talented and ambitious people, whose abilities
tend
to cancel each other almost perfectly, leaving nothing but a chilling bureaucratic continuity."
decimation: the vaguest precedent or bureaucratic ruling sews
that business up
decimation: it's even easier
to steal 'having imaginary
things been stolen from'
ben_vulpes: rentiers are extracting all of
the "productivity" gains.
decimation: yarvin wrote about
this pattern in
the policy side of usg as
the smartest bureaucrats exactly cancelling each other's efforts
ben_vulpes: re previous
thread: "profits of 1% on revenues of 1 billion! we're rich!"