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unbalanced: Tap and flick your way
to a food pellet and a little more water in your dish!
unbalanced: Steve Jobs is
training
the work force of
the future, who knew?
unbalanced: Instead of surfing Pinterest or
trying
to get Flappy Bird further along.
unbalanced: We'll whip up a few pages where a few seniors and students can
tap big colourful rectangles
to make
their selections.
unbalanced: Heh. For data coding I
think I'd have
to limit use
to
trusted/trained users... hence my child labor crack.
unbalanced: Yes, I remember when Amazon came out with
theirs, I read
that story...
unbalanced: I will be sure
to leave branded empties near schoolyards like
the Gallo salesment.
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: Maybe
that is
the point of
the exercise. Everything one could want
to know about "marketing" can be learned from Modern Drunkard.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> everything in
the ruby world is abandonware << everything in
the webworld is abandonware.
unbalanced: Bingo, I get Bartles & Jaymes confused with
the
two cranberry farmers standing out in
the marsh in
their hip-waders
unbalanced: Purely scratching my own itch
there. Not proposing a wetware CPU startup. No
Tesla coming out of
this one, just fewer manual SQL statements.
unbalanced: I can reduce
the data cleaning chore via buzzword compliance: gamification, cryptocurrency, micropayments... child labor... addictive push notifications,
the whole nine yeards.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Davout also cares enough
though
to run off of a name. Vircurex was run by "Kumala" who even mircea_popescu doesn't care enough about
to dox.
unbalanced: We get a lot of data coming in where users enter
things like "NHL" "Nat'l Hockey League" "N.H.l." or umpteen other bastardizations of whatever
the short
text field is asking for.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: it also runs davout's
thing
BingoBoingo: For people lacking history Vircurex was what cryptsy aspired
to be until Vircurex was robbed
to
the point no one bothered robbing it anymore
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: what do you seriously expect from
the language
that spawned
the framework
that killed vircurex
ben_vulpes: everything in
the ruby world is abandonware
BingoBoingo: "Television ads featured
the fictional characters “Frank Bartles” and “Ed Jaymes,”
two kindly old men so honest and down-to-earth
they ended each spot by
thanking viewers “for your support.”"
BingoBoingo: "Not surprisingly,
this misguided attempt at respectability failed.
Thereafter, Gallo disassociated itself from
Thunderbird by simply removing
the Gallo name from
the
Thunderbird label."
unbalanced: mircea_popescu: yeah,
there doesn't seem
to be anything
there... I was hoping for an API
to hook into but my needs are custom enough I'll likely have
to roll my own UI anyway.
BingoBoingo: 'Ernest Gallo
told and re-told a story about driving
through Atlanta and spotting a man drinking on
the sidewalk. “What’s
the word?” Gallo called out.
The response was instantaneous: “Thunderbird!” and both
the wino and
the millionaire dissolved into laughter.'
unbalanced: But
the question is, how do people driving by know I lurk here?
unbalanced: Ohhhh
that's why I get called asshat all
the
time.
unbalanced: Like captcha's I'd need a human decision for
the choices my code couldn't make... and would need
to run each one by say 5 people
then
take
the "wisdom of
the crowds" consensus answer.
unbalanced: cazalla,
thanks -- I was pondering a similar idea about how
to divvy-up boring micro data-cleaning work by pipelining it
to many users and doing micro-payments.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no hysteria, but i get very disinclined
to listen
to what excuses anyone may have.
cazalla: unbalanced, i don't believe so, exchanged a few emails with
the guy who built
that but unsure if he ever came here
danielpbarron: i went a few days without sleep and began
to hallucinate
unbalanced: I saw bitwork.io in an early qntra.net article... is
the maker from around here, an #asset-erian?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, sleep deprived hysteria? had
this after
the first week with baby, i have never laughed so hard and all i assume as a result from
total lack of sleep
mircea_popescu is one of
those rare folks
that can stand guard
two weeks and still appreciate humor at
the end of it.
mircea_popescu: i
think
the pathology results from not actually respecting
that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the
thing is, when i don't actually sleep i revert
to
these 4 hour cycles with about an hourish of downtime, and im fine.
unbalanced: BingoBoingo, I imagine anyone wandering
through
this channel must end up on a no-fly list within a week. I mean, if
there's a Persistence Division,
there must be an #Assets Assembly.
danielpbarron: i chatted with someone
the other day who claimed
to be using a "custom OS" / when pressed further he admitted it was ubuntu with some features disabled
unbalanced: I'd buy a used
ThinkPad but who knows how diddled
that would be now from 4 years of some shlub surfing porn?
BingoBoingo: unbalanced:
The cheapo lenovos come with AMD
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun
think you understand how pubescent male brain works.
BingoBoingo is coming around
to idea
that if linux is used msut be built from
toothpicks
unbalanced: Of course it wasn't a consumer Lenovo, but it seems if you buy
the latest Intel processor for security features you may be buying a factory-pwned unit anyway.
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: My online machine is still a 2011 vintage cheapo
thinkpad. Love it.
unbalanced: ...so I looked for a laptop
that would support all
the goodies in Qubes, and ended up buying -- wait for it -- a Lenovo.
mircea_popescu: 2 cents an email ? hey,
that's about what megalists cost.
unbalanced: Would you say Qubes is worth
trying as a more secure OS? I
think you mentioned it once wayyy back...
cazalla: looks like one of
the cloudhashing.com guys has a new scam at freebitcoins.com
to harvest emails at 0.0001 per
mircea_popescu: cazalla well... something else, sure. like a strong signal
to
the other females.
unbalanced: asciilifeform: my favourite part of
that was learning
that
there's a "Persistence Division" -- sounds like an 80's electronica band
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: Our most retweeted recently
though was me cribbing crunchbase, because fuck Superfish/TimDraper
unbalanced: Oh jeez, I see
the Dec statement, lots of authors. Nice model!
unbalanced: *nice work
to all involved meaning BingoBoingo / cazalla / mp, unless I'm missing anyone.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> picture autoimmune destruction of
the reward centres <<
This
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: Well
the MPIF ATC profit center died because MP ordered it when he saw continuing anything aTC would involve potentially unbounded costs.
unbalanced: Still, hard
to find "a greater fool"
to dump ATC on with me absent.
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: ATC's death prompted X-BT
to end, not
the reverse
BingoBoingo: unbalanced: On
the plus side ATC's death highlighted a critical vulnerability in mining economics for alts
cazalla: a romp in
the side alley = fear of being caught, but in full view of
the public and on display for anyone
that cares
to watch.. must be something else?
cazalla: i assume you mean in full view of
the public and not hidden away up a side alley
mircea_popescu: for plenty of girls being fucked in public is a major
trespass, and sexual arousal and
taboo breaking are intrinsically linked.
unbalanced: I
take it Altcoin is history? And Virtex and VoS here in Canada.
unbalanced: I wander off for a few months and sites fall off
the web like flies.
mircea_popescu: unbalanced happens
to me occasionally
too. {|||} etc stuff
cazalla: i'm not, but prob for reasons other
than implied (don't like
to eat in front of others i'm guessing, but
that does not bother me)
unbalanced: Sheesh,
the conversation always
takes a
turn in
the minutes it
takes me
to read a link and find a relevant reply
cazalla: no, not really, i like
the comfort of home where shameful acts remain out of sight