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mircea_popescu: a bunch of derps in beirut getting
together and agreeing
to have bombed new york is how new york will have been bombed.
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, if honest cartels don't make it we can only hope about "maybe assurance contracts, maybe bonded identies
tied
to
transaction fees"
assbot: The real reason Ryan Charles was fired from reddit: he spent
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mircea_popescu: [–]wonderkindel 5 points 8 days ago Gavin sees a major shitstorm ahead, does not know of any way out, but hopes
that cartels of honest miners will materialize
to keep
the dream wet.
mircea_popescu: [–]Institutional_Invest 1 point 9 days ago
TLDR of
this discussion?
mircea_popescu: ahh, i recall
the age of
the romanian pond, when a bunch of retarded ~romanians~ similarly entertained delusions of, you know, we will HURT
THIS GUY!!111
trinque: the write on
the screen bit -> my sides
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone ever
trolled
themselves off
the internet.
mircea_popescu: so i just re-read
this article, it's getting
to
the point where i manage
to piss MYSELF off.
trinque: doesn't matter
though, nanny bama will burn your house down if you
try
to introduce hierarchy
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
trinque well have you looked at
the sort of shit he outputs ?
ben_vulpes: it's actually a manual walking of
the shop wot
trinque: asciilifeform:
the fuck; you never do peer code review?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes fucks with bigger
tits
that last longer should be paid more!
trinque: but doesn't have
to be flat
trinque: is
that faiaaaiiiirrr? *wiggles eyebrows*
trinque: ben_vulpes: it just occurred
to me
that perhaps
the group could somehow quantify
their mutual perception of who has contributed?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
that'll scale about as well as "i don't need condoms, i only fuck clean girls"
ben_vulpes: i'm apparently in
the unique situation of reading
through all code
that gets produced in my shop and having more or less everyone's eyes on everyone's product.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you like balzac much, but
the only reason
the fat lazy fuck exists as a writer is because he had
to pay his eternal debts and
the newspapers paid by
the line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know precisely one place where
this approach worked.
trinque: the incoherence of it all sets off instinctual rage
that if nothing else keeps me hammering away at
the wall
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into
the darkness, perhaps
too bold.
trying it with coding is
taking a bold ~train
trip~ into
the wilderness. << Well with Qntra and prose having editorial controls helps
to level
the problem. I can not imagine a similar arbiter existing for code.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, you're right. qntra was a bold step into
the darkness, perhaps
too bold.
trying it with coding is
taking a bold ~train
trip~ into
the wilderness.
mircea_popescu: it's
that fabled lightsabre
that only lightsabers if wielded by master.
mircea_popescu: trinque yes, capitalism does not work in
the hands of idiots.
trinque: seems dangerous
to give stock at all
then, if
there's anything at all on
the books about "fairness"
to whoever
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> with something private like you know, coding work,
this may prove unfeasible. << Also as unequally as prose may be weighted, code is especially unequal when it comes
to volume versus value.
mircea_popescu: maybe you don't understand
this whole "fairness" concept.
trinque: well presumably I own
the fucking
thing, at least in my own delusion
trinque wonders if
there are rules on "fairness" in regards
to giving employees stock
trinque: maybe
that's applicable
to stock as well; just issue shares as you personally see fit
trinque: seems just issuing bonuses when
times are good is more manageable
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what do your men do,
the profit from which is at all proportional
to
the
time spent? <<
this is a well pointed question. it'd seem your business is ass-backwardss : people do
the job of computers, and i guess computers do
the job of people ?!
mircea_popescu: with something private like you know, coding work,
this may prove unfeasible.
jurov: they can give scamcoins according
to
time spent
there
mircea_popescu: qntra works very well, at least so far, because everyone's work is fundamentally public,
there's no meaning in "writing words' outside of obviously others reading
them. so
trying
to
thin out
the product as it were is painfully visible and liable
to cost whoever does it more
than it's worth.
jurov: ben_vulpes: sell
that idea
to reddit
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: i've been batting around
the notion of a qntra-style stock pool, where stock in
the operation would be issued in direct proportion
to hours clocked on
the project. << risky if it ends up promoting clockpainting.
mircea_popescu: anyone want
the clearly very valuable oyvey.eu domain ?
danielpbarron: "This will
take some
time but getting into
the Web of
Trust is something I have wanted
to do and have been studying for a few months now."
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mod6: that's neat. gonna
test RI on 'em?
mats: can you feel ma love from over
the
tubes?
mod6: wait until you get
to here:
davout: jurov: "now
that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will
that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?" <<< i don't
think so. if you have 8 peers you'll get
two different blocks at different diff for
the same height, hard
to feed you a bogus chain
jurov: now
that is something. if i secretly make 350k alternative blocks with minimal difficulty, will
that altchain get chosen if we have no checkpoints?
davout: ah, i
thought you were referring
to jurov's 'malicious peers' objection
to consider requesting blocks based on height
jurov: (just spur if
the moment idea)
davout: "malicious peers not even needed for
this" <<< how?
davout: if you're connected
to only malicious peers you're kinda fuxxored anyway
jurov: i'd suggest
to use difficulty
jurov: malicious peers can poison us with orphan chain up
to
that height
davout: being able
to request blox from peers for a certain height would solve
the whole
thing instantly
jurov: and does
the std limit of 750 help with oom after all?
davout: i can hardly remember who
this kakobrekla guy is anyway
kakobrekla: now,
this is just a one
time inconvenience, but say everyone would change all
the
time. nicht gut.
kakobrekla: but say you rated undata at some point, and
then he changes nick
to pirateat40 and you will wtf next
time you check your ratings
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 16:49:48; kakobrekla:
the
thing with
the phone was, when you were sending sms you had
to
type in
the destination phone number from your head, no way
to use saved entries.
kakobrekla: ben_vulpes
think of it
this way: why dont we just use FP instead of nicks ?
ben_vulpes: so long as
the fp doesn't change how does
that matter?