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mircea_popescu: also known
as a whore bath in the rest of the world, except joe squarejaw has never heard of the rest of the world.
mircea_popescu: and if you're going to worship, pick something that's at least
as well designed
as reality permits
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mircea_popescu: Somers' anguish is palpable, and his catalogue of self-effacing remarks reads like an apology. He heaps criticism on himself, his job, and his entire profession. "Web start-up companies are like play-companies," he laments. Their products are "cheap, fun, and about
as worldchanging
as creating a new variation on beer pong."
mircea_popescu: The piece is a thinking man's struggle to understand the value of his profession. By Somers' own reckoning, his accounts are out of balance. He's paid handsomely, but the work is trivial.
As he says:
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, do you define inventor
as someone who has invented something before ? << i define inventor
as someone who is a) intelligent and b) completely contemptuous of rules.
mircea_popescu: "So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries. But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same
as they'd have paid an American. Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? "
ascii_modem: aha, recall naggum's picture of 'thriving perl ecosystem'
as, iirc, a carcass in the sun alive with vermin
mircea_popescu: re the "turned their nose, mainly on account of these pieces", there is something in there i can see
as well. it could be reduced to mere bad writing, but otherwise there's this recursive insistence on boring, banal shit that gives the impression the guy's not quite... you know, queenheaded.
assbot: Logged on 26-12-2014 19:13:33; asciilifeform: 'For us
as the Reserve Bank... ...we'll have to figure out how we make money because the way we generate most of our revenue is through forms of seigniorage, people are willing to hold currency free of interest and that's how we make money...'
ben_vulpes: going so far
as to build planes and fleets purpose designed to be vulnerable to swarm attacks.,
mircea_popescu: the correct focus, when it comes to airfight, is cheapness.
as the germans well proved, and then the allies well learned from them.
ascii_modem: for the record, 'clos' is,
as of today, the only non-retarded incarnation of that concept yet built
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or perhaps you're going to entertain polite doubt
as to the proper count of three beads to better fit with the lazy posing
as retarded ?
mircea_popescu: (i'm somehow confused
as to how the slackening btc affects you anyway, not like the conference became more expensive ?!)
mircea_popescu: you might
as well claim a tb patient is god, because he can kill people. sort-of.
mircea_popescu: and this without
as much
as considering the wilful part. to propose that the us has any control over the ineptitude it peddles (not just software - their politics of "democracy" are equally inept, and just
as eagerly exported) past the simple "it'll suck" strikes me
as nonsense.
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2014 03:30:09; asciilifeform: all that resulted was a leak, of facts which anglo media will never print - so it's almost
as good, from their point of view,
as 'never happened'
ascii_modem: just
as courts will be freislerized under herr bhararra
mircea_popescu: decimation: one gets the picture that usg 'leaders' think of themselves
as being above such trivialities
as secure communications << this is not
as unlikely
as itmay seem. at a time when caesar came up with the pgp of that time, most of the senate a) loled at the nonsense ; b) wondered which gods caesar was praying to to be that successful.
ascii_modem: that money only existed for
as long
as it wasn't put to work << definition of bezzle, aha
mircea_popescu: that money only existed for
as long
as it wasn't put to work, much like buffett's billions worth of chewinggum empires
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, thinking of bitcoin
as even having a dollar value other than infinity is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: all the asshole "lefties" for pay that helped the usg "react to" snowden have made money out of it. the old system where a "random hero" was selected to be held up
as a fetish for the masses, "explaining" their poverty and justifying their pointless struggle is giving way, out of sheer exhaustion of resources,
assbot: Logged on 21-12-2014 18:02:01; asciilifeform: which, it turns out, the systemd pushers reflexively defended
as a feature.
mircea_popescu: he succeeded
as an easy money usg moocher, which is i suppose something he justifies to himself
as "being an expert in a later version of the world"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to do to succeed
as a startup investor." << yes, you miss the part where he never succeeded
as a start-up investor.
mircea_popescu: and all the agents involved,
as well
as the plethora of idiots, will just duly update their cv to reflect their certified expertise and act
as if you know, they know shit.
mircea_popescu: how secure can one feel,
as a mid range us bureaucrat, given these revelations ? the usg can not protect you, yo.
mircea_popescu: the fbi
as it currently stands has not the werewithal to extract itself from a paper bag. and i mean that literally, if i kidnapped them all and dropped them in rural kansas they'd prolly never make it back to headquarters.
mircea_popescu: they even have the unmitigated audacity to add that violation of the indian diplomat on his cv
as if it were a positive.
mircea_popescu: "They spent several months testing my code, comparing its performance with their old database, which was pretty primitive but known to be reliable." vs "If their application went down for even a day, it would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was a common occurrence,
as their existing application was pretty buggy."
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing a service doesn't count
as providing a service except in those cases where the beneficiary is happy with the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: nanotube: it is being worked on. but have a lot of other stuff on my plate. once everything is signed, there will not even be a need for something like "auth". <<< this is a good point. having identity implemented
as a stateful thing is mindboggling anyway. stuff like cloaks and so on pale in comparison.
Apocalyptic: and probably not that qualified
as well, i'm no programmer in any sense, much less a C++ guru
mod6: no sweat. we're not quite at that point anyway.
as I was eluding to in the Address & ToDo, I'll update #b-a at some point during the month after we get this other leak sorted.
mod6: so, well, i dunno, i guess "works
as designed" or something, but a least do the guy a favor of a reach-around
Apocalyptic: so you meant to test such trivial things
as parsings ?
mod6: of course,
as always, we welcome any help that anyone wants to give to achieve these goals.
mod6: i'll stay the course on v0.5.3 and what we set out to do in january. will revisit this later in the month
as was the plan anyway.
mod6: spent, probably a total of 16 hours on it. didn't get very far. and seeing
as though the raw transactions api is 4 versions beyond (or something) v0.6.0, it might be very hard to do it that way.
mircea_popescu: and since the fiat world mostl yexists
as a staging scene for various social engineering attacks, from preet bharara onwards, this isn't a good design.
mod6: when trying to back port something i thought would be
as simple
as import/dump private keys, it turned out that the changes were indeed far reaching in the code.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: honestly im not sure whats worse, autoddos or autoban. << i really don't see much incentive to do anything at this point. i mean, the ddos guy was moreover useful, for
as long
as he kept iot up. i didn't think he's reliable, and he proved that much,so.. whatevs.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i think the least damaging way is to kick nicks that are idle sing sing-on. asciilifeform: wanna idle for >5 min, get in wot. << yeah. i can see this, especially
as people who wish to simply read logs can just
as well read the webpage.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2014 22:10:34; mod6: But yeah, it's still has some leaks in there somewhere,
as the R.I. died at least 2 different times from 1->current block, but no more than 3 times. Eitherway, this needs to get resolved. But at least we're headed in the right direction.
ascii_modem: ( for ram-rich / something one could use
as actual computer kind of affair)
decimation: ascii_modem:
as in, it draws massive current for short bursts and derps idlely otherwise?
undata: the vaguely defined dream would be to have something which functions
as a terminal, nothing more
decimation: there's a thing in academia/business where graphics (esp. on a powerpoint) are held
as some kind of standard for communication
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I'm not a visual thinker either - at least, never have been described
as such. That said, GUIS are nice in certain circumstances.
ascii_modem: from g.earth i learned the one solitary fact that the yard i played in
as a boy is now a parking lot. boo/hiss.
mircea_popescu: or whatever your definition of "enjoy personal interaction is", i suppose the discussion
as to how all that = fucking is too much to meld in here.
gabriel_laddel: <mircea_popescu> gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you,
as a "consumer" sort of thing. << So you do all your research by hand? Also, do you have a rotating 3D globe on your computer that allows you to highlight/heatmap known uranium deposits, nuclear reactors, oil reserves, population stats etc.?
mircea_popescu: undata: what is this doublespeak where they 'stand by their filmmakers' while scrapping the film? << business
as usual ?
gabriel_laddel: r.e., chair warming, there is such a thing
as interpersonal chemistry.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i get it i get it, my point was more along the lines of, nobody can really do this for you,
as a "consumer" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: The attacker obtained administrative access to all files in the CZDS. This included copies of the zone files in the system,
as well
as information entered by users such
as name, postal address, email address, fax and telephone numbers, username, and password. Although the passwords were stored
as salted cryptographic hashes, we have deactivated all CZDS passwords
as a precaution. "
decimation: "But be honest. H-1B visa demand is not high because companies are striving for excellence. The visas are being used to preserve the existing labor market (salary levels) rather than paying higher salaries
as dictated by supply and demand. Paul’s suggestion would help US companies find employees, but drain brainpower from the rest of the world, and leave the US workforce uncompetitive for US jobs. "
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact it'd have
as much truck with that concept
as the present day us has with a constitutional republic.
mircea_popescu: typical us-style academic, dress up something commonly known in the trade for a grant, act
as if he's done science.
mircea_popescu: "We need to work
as a community to buy advertising like normal people, and perhaps work on our collective image."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: If USia disappears Israel probably becomes untenable
as a state <<< i have my doubts. for all their noise, the palestinians do not seem genuinely interested in running a state.
mircea_popescu: decimation i dunno, seems to me all sorts of bathroom pics
as well
as sony's latest crud got public domaine'd just fine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: just
as the cattle rancher. he will be zapped, when the story is sufficiently forgotten and no longer media-enabled << "we never forget. expect us."
mircea_popescu: cazalla
as a general rule, the two bullet approach is probably best. (news outlet can write on any matter at most twice)
cazalla: 38c, windy
as fuck, watermelon vine taking a beating :\
mircea_popescu: obviously everything's going to become "Early"
as time goes by, but you gotta draw a line somewhere.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: it must suck to be universally accepted
as mind-numbingly stupid and yet not have the intelligence to be introspective enough to see it within yourself and change for the better << guy's wilful. intelligence can do relatively little, and it generally manifests in people who don't have much will to speak of.
ben_vulpes: i say "should",
as verifying this will entail building and booting an 0.8 or later node.
decimation: nearly all the great science of the era came from people who were spanked
as children
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i'd wager costco isn't doing too well here. aldi enjoys far more popularity
as an alternative to the main 2 coles and woolworths
thestringpuller: it's funny how Gavin is all "I want bitcoin to compete with Visa/Mastercard", when anyone in Payment Processing knows those systems are seriously nigga rigged
as is.
PeterL: I admit I was jumping up and down and shouting at my TV
as the MSU Spartans pulled out a tight win
xanthyos: each account authenticated
as a separate individual with wot accountability
xanthyos: pokerstars auth isn't
as complicated
as gpg so you might want to have a policy that each player has to prove themselves in irc before each game
xanthyos: thestringpuller: what if we created a #bitcoin-assets pokerstars home game club and had a way that every account generated was tied to a gribble-authed account, and use it
as both a gaming platform
as well
as a record-keeping ledger for off-blockchain track of wins and losses
danielpbarron: gribble is for keeping the ratings that determine who may play at the same table
as you
fluffypony: cazalla: Gordhan is a smart man, but they're doing exactly
as expected - they're just going to copy what everyone else is doign
adlai was always aware of the PR industry existing, but never thought of it
as a separate entity from, even a competitor to, the advertising business
decimation:
as asciilifeform has explained in the past, this isn't in their 'dna', but who knows
kakobrekla: ofc you need to make up the crime
as well.