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mircea_popescu: the
thought of your average joe when confronted with a vacuum is never "holy shit ima make SUCH A fucking earthquake here..."
mircea_popescu: the problem with people, generally, is
that
they never aim
to destroy.
decimation: then
they realized
that
they occupied a massive vacuum left by sun and old purveyors of unix
to usg
decimation: I remember
the early days of redhat, when everyone
thought
they were
the heros for
trying
to 'make money' on open source software
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 02:36:21; livegnik:
trinque: So would we. Sirius spent 1.5 half years working on
the proof-of-concept, and I've spent
the last 8 months working on
this project full-time. I've actually quit my dayjob for it and am burning my savings.
mircea_popescu: (but i do recall a kid who, whenever asked what he aims
to become in lyf, would answer "pensioneer")
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 02:32:01; livegnik:
The idea for business model for
the company we have in mind probably comes closest
to Red Hat, without
the Enterprise edition.
mircea_popescu: "everyone can drive a car" results sooner or later in
the "nobody could have foreseen
that curve" soccer mom and old person automotive club
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture of
these asinine imbeciles, from altman
to fetlife
to automattic
to you name it.
mircea_popescu: because gravatar, which is a subsidiary of automattic, which exists in order
to shit on
the internet.
felipelalli: mircea_popescu: not only emails but
the photo
together. :)
mircea_popescu: im going
through ~100/s, fished out a few dozen already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah.
this is going
the other way
tho : make emails, hash,
test.
mircea_popescu: oh i recall
this identi.fi
thing being discussed at some point cuz anduck was in it. maybe a year ago ?
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 02:22:45; livegnik: danielpbarron:
The main difference between Bitcoin-OTC and Identifi, if I understand correctly, is
that
the Bitcoin-OTC WoT acts as a WoT-for-all, whereas with Identifi each identity has it's own WoT, and
there's no 'general' score.
decimation: asciilifeform:
the frontier railways are pathological cases, going between indian and bangladesh, nepal
decimation: apparently neither india nor pakistan have upgraded anything since
the brits left
felipelalli: I searched on Google by "india crowded
train" ahahah
mircea_popescu: there was a great pic of a loaded
train yest, where was it
mircea_popescu: and i suspect (the math on
this is fuzzy and still bneing worked out)
that
the critical mass for wot is exponentially more expensive
than
the critical mass for bitocin.
mircea_popescu: kind-of what i'm
trying
to build
too, kind-of what's utterly required : until critical mass, danger will robinson!
mircea_popescu: yeah. but even if construed favorably,
the point remains : you will have some hierarchies of
trust.
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:52:03;
trinque: aside
that it just strings
together analogies
decimation: asciilifeform: he does have rounded corners on
the wot listings
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:49:19; asciilifeform:
try
to answer
this one compactly, it should be answerable. who composes
the whitelist ?
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:46:40; livegnik: Yesterday I've written an extensive comment on Ian Grigg's article about ID issues, especially in combination with
the blockchain. It's quite
the read, but I
think it'll be worth your
time, if you want
to get a more in-depth view of Identifi:
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's my experience
that
the unconcerned asker usually does fine. it's
the hedger
that ends up in
the soup.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you
think just erryone gets
to be a pet ?
decimation: you don't even have
to be a missionary for your shit cleaning
mircea_popescu: you know women are possessed of speech. you can
talk
to
them.
mircea_popescu: you don't have
to pay anyone for leads
that way, don't have
to commute
to work... with a little luck can do a dozen numbers and make more
than
the manager makes per month
mircea_popescu: perfect spot. guy alone ?
take off clothes, do
the work naked, see what he says.
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:34:01; asciilifeform:
this is unheard of in usa
decimation: it's almost like
these guys are a broken record
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 02:37:01; decimation: livegnik: what do you have
to offer over properly using gpg?
decimation: some guy made a web 2.0 version of nanotube's wot,
thinks he is gonna make money
mircea_popescu: yeah right.
these chicks looked like
they haven't even mastered
the blowjob yet. what weed.
mircea_popescu: "oh, better keep
this in
the purse ever as i pretend smoking disgusts me, who knows, maybe hott gringo asks
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck carries matches/lighters around if
they don't fucking smoke.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of penalties and actual deterrence : it's as you may know rauchen verboten here. so i pull out a cigarillo and head
to a
table where
three girlies are derping (at starbucks). ask for a light.
they... all have it.
decimation: exactly.
there's nowhere for all
the vast slosh of bezzlars
to go, other
than real estate and
the stock market
mircea_popescu: the sad
truth is
that "quantitative easing" essentially ends up as a real estate bubble.
mircea_popescu: A car is pretty much a requirement in
the suburbs. Even without accounting for car payments, gas and insurance and
tolls will eat up $200-300 per month easily. << i
thought
tesla is free!
decimation: I
think a small flat goes for 0.5-1 mil
mircea_popescu: "Let’s assume we want a $1.0M, below-median house in Redwood City. You’d have
to start by coming up with ~$220k in savings for
the down payment + closing costs, and
then
take out a mortgage for
the remaining $800k"
assbot: Logged on 05-05-2015 01:25:57; asciilifeform: <danielpbarron>
there's yer answer: it's sha1 << why do we have sha1 anywhere
assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 22:08:54; assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 15:07:09; Adlai:
this is a good point... even if each wot rating is signed,
this can be a false friend - what if you're not looking at
the latest version of
the ratings? if only we had some way of achieving
trust-minimized consensus...
Pierre_Rochard: “we’re more religious
than
the next guy d00d!! we only worship helping consumers with javascript!!”
Pierre_Rochard: “You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.” <- well let’s say
their are fewer missionaries in
the labor market
than
there are missionary positions. You have
to compete for
them somehow.
decimation: Pierre_Rochard: exactly. also, given
that if you are making less
than $150k in silicon valley you are literally a bum - it won't
take much for 'salary fashions'
to change