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mircea_popescu: it's as if every
teacher in
the hs left
to go attend pravda readings, and
the children are now stuck with
the cleanning ladies.
mircea_popescu: it's because
the smart people
that should be scoring
them left
their spots in
the local hierarchy, because "better
things
to do" and now a retard like altman is left herding
them around, as best he can.
mircea_popescu: why is reddit so fucking stupid ? "because it has stupid people in it" no. not because of
that, stupid people are universally present and as inert as dirt.
mircea_popescu: suppose nobody bothers
to manage (ie, even
TELL kids when
they're saying something smart or stupid) because everyone
that could be
that is
too busy attenting
the
teacher's unions meetings where
they discuss which class is more valuable.
decimation: by
they way
there's a
typo in your RMS article:
there is an "RSM"
mircea_popescu: it's not necessarily or striclty a matter of "pay" as in,
the obvious direct "gimme 20 bux i need for mcdonalds".
decimation: yeah, it kinda connects with your rms discussion over
the last days
mircea_popescu: specifically because by buying and selling stuff like watsapp or instagram or whatever as if
they were representative of something
they're merely SYMBOLIC of (their user's aggregated intellectual work) we're in essence going about carring handles of suitcases
decimation: his basic point is: if we have free wikipedias, who is going
to pay people like me
to 'be creative'?
mircea_popescu: regardless of
this, i do agree with
the original statement
that
the particular way in which intellectual property is handled
today makes
the world richer rather
than poorer.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly incorrect. power laws only result when
the group is decentralizedly sorting
the group. only
then.
mircea_popescu: decimation ok
this discussion is
too retarded
to read, i
threw up a bunch of warnings but a critical error at "So in
terms of networks, what happens is, if you have people all competing for
their place
to be sorted by a single central hub,
then you get a power law."
mircea_popescu: "Jaron Lanier is one of
the world’s great polymaths. He’s a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and
the author of a new book, Who Owns
the Future?, published last month "
☟︎ decimation: yeah I
think it was from a podcast. let me dig
mircea_popescu: decimation so i can't find a stealing
the future reference re one jaron lanier. any link or anything ?
mircea_popescu: (used
to be it was legal even if encrypted, if you disclose
to
the media)
decimation: more or less. in
the us, it is generally safe
to listen
to anything
that isn't encrypted
decimation: he wrote his own software
to decode Imarsat streams
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but if you could be bothered
to make a blogpost like
the guy's with
the dish...
mircea_popescu: words are apparently brands, which is
to say names.
they don't need
to mean anything anymore
than popescu needs
to mean something. (which it does, but who cares)
mircea_popescu: "would
the web go away if
there were no links between websites ?" "no because
they'd still be on
the internet" prolly
the best one.
decimation: plus lots of cheap gear exists
to inspect serial connections
decimation: kakobrekla: yeah, serial works
too, and one can clip out
the return path if desired
mircea_popescu: i call it
the moruzov discovery. check it out yourself, see what % of authors using both
terms in
the same
text display an awareness of
their meaning.
decimation: mircea_popescu: what was your 'ad hoc
test'?
kakobrekla has a serial cable with a buffer with visual confirmation of
the data and it does not need
to be plugged
to both computers at same
time
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well it's not clear what, "either" is improper. "commenting on nothing while misrepresenting
themselves as
talking about one or
the other."
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, /me is still reeling over a shocking ad hoc
test where he discovered
that a widespread inability
to distinguish internet and web does not apparent;y prevent young'uns from commenting on...
mircea_popescu: qr guns easier
to shield ; you can use an optoelement w/e it's called, if you wish.
decimation: although I would point out
that you could use
this without cables, but
through an air interface
mircea_popescu: anyway, i imagine it's just some "play around with computor"
thing, not seriously proposed as a solution
to anything
mircea_popescu: decimation i don't like it, because : as a way
to
transfer data between
the
two computers where
there's a cable, it's stupid. even serial protocol is better, but we have
tcp etc. as an airgapped solution is stupid, because sound.
decimation: it ought
to work over crap audio channels
though
decimation: minimodem is a much more robust waveform, but would
transfer more slowly
fluffypony: it's so
that
the spammers don't realise
they're banned
mircea_popescu: probably has
to do with how,
to quote altman, "It’s interesting
to note
that during my very brief
tenure, reddit added more users
than Hacker News has in
total."
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly,
this never worked before reddit, but it works splendidly
there.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic: what is a shadowban? << graham came up with
this brilliant "let's ban users but not
tell
them" on
the
theory
that users are idiots and won't notice anyway.
punkman: probably need
to go lower if not using cable
decimation: in
theory it could be used on shortwave, if you had
the hardware for it
punkman: decimation,
there's also an electrum plugin for it
mircea_popescu: "Imagine if we poured 1.7
trillion dollars a year into ending aging instead of satiating
Tea Party fucks need
to bomb brown people?" and stuff.
mircea_popescu: cazalla
that
thread's a fine example of why bitcoin "needs
to be more accessible". so
that more people who have no business running a computer can
tell
their friends about how bad bitcoin is.
BigBitz: did Bitstamp confirm
the attack vector?
decimation: asciilifeform: re: jaron lanier << his "open source is stealing
the future" idea seems rather silly
decimation: it seems
to me biology has regressed while becoming infatuated with computing
decimation: “The bacteriology community needs
to get away from culturing bacteria on agar plates, because
this will not lead
to new antibiotics.”
mats: comments are visible
to just
the poster
cazalla: what a pay day for
this guy
cazalla: yeah but
think of all
the machines
they
trojan only
to find like 0.1 btc
Vexual: he prolly used his email password on
the latest scam fucker website
Vexual: sure as shit cheap oil aint about making exactly 11
texases fit into australia, so whats left over?
Vexual: your secondary business is
the world economy, and
theres no exceptions
BingoBoingo: This Cook fellow finding OpenBSD is one of
the best
things
to happen
to linux in a decade.
ben_vulpes: couldn't be, it's only
three weeks old
mircea_popescu: from what i recasll
the guy was strugling with memory leaks and other such joyspots.
mircea_popescu: punkman ancient bitcoin-in-c
thing i
thought was abandoned cca 2012 ?
thestringpuller: punkman:
that's Boost C++ for you. Dunno why Satoshi used it...
ben_vulpes: is
there a distinction between "the priv key" vs
the "secret" used
to regenerate a key?
ben_vulpes: saw it, was
too
tired
to even muster a chuckle
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i
tell you, air conditioning blowing on one's ballsac post coitally is one of
those refined pleasures of civilisation
ben_vulpes: does anyone know what precisely
the "private key" dumped by bitcoin is? is
that
the secret
that can be used with EC_KEY_regenerate_key
to regenerate a key?
BingoBoingo: Pretty much just hooked one of
those asteroids full of gold and smashed kansas with it.
BingoBoingo: Also hard
to say when
those chips are comming
to
toilets.
mircea_popescu: i
think
the main point is, you won't be able
to
take a shit in
the forest without hitting one of
these chips soon enough