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punkman: mircea
_popescu: or maybe that's how he chose the quote
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 23:08:32; BingoBoingo: ;;later tell Peter
_L ty for that submission.
BingoBoingo: " Historically arbitrary code execution has been a TLS feature." << lol ben
_vulpes
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> pete
_dushenski espn was never a start-up. it was rassmunsen backed by getty. << As far as I can remember all Disney
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 19:26:43; mircea
_popescu: why the fuck does google even have an "alphabet" parent, since we're discussing these things ? doth qntra know?
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski espn was never a start-up. it was rassmunsen backed by getty.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:11:38; ascii
_field: whereas ~thinking~ btc folks are not easily separable from their btc.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:03:04; ascii
_field: because a thing like qntra works at least partly by being linkable
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field apparently they can't afford to lose 150 BTC THIS BAD. thinkaboutit.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: well, it's all the media of the new republic. << This was my point. The 'intellectual property' or whatever you want to call it spawning from qntra is the value. For instance a movie or book, or some other form of media published under qntra. I see royalties in the future perhaps?
ascii_field: as in the story with 'what does mircea
_popescu's flat cost' ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i suspect the very notion of PAYMENT is going to be destroyed by btc. let me illustrate what i mean.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: from this standpoint this Qntra is more like a media conglemorate than a simple new agency.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: "successful" webcomics usually survive by selling their brand.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field and yet, as much they dislike paywalls, they love paying for ipads.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 19:56:17; mircea
_popescu: ascii
_field not even about me. why would ~you~ argue it like that ? you don't argue like that for anything else, certainly not anything else you know well / understand in depth.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:20:02; *: ascii
_field does not actually know enough on the subject to comment further
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i really was thinking 'qntra is a propaganda machine primarily for speaking to non-#b-a people.' ergo 'thinking folks other than myself dislike paywalls' is a relevant hypothesis
trinque: pete
_dushenski: heh. some piece of inane, unnecessary complexity for sure. died during a netsplit so I assume he handles this rather poorly.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field the point i'm coming to is that it's, unlike something you/those thinking people have actually thought about, merely an aculturation. ie, "this is how we dress". and i know where it comes from too, and so forth. nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: now that you say this, i'm not even sure i correctly apprehend the purpose of qntra.
mod6: ascii
_field: for lxr should jurov and I just put up the code to HEAD that includes through 'maxint' and 'verifyall' -- and we'll label it "HEAD" or "v0.5.4-TEST2"? There isn't any actual reason to have two versions of code going up through each leaf is there?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field not even about me. why would ~you~ argue it like that ? you don't argue like that for anything else, certainly not anything else you know well / understand in depth.
☟︎ ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i get that the phrase triggers your allergy.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field besides the point what you were tryingt to say. the important thing to notice is how your mental flow went. and it went to "i am not alone". why would it ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the point i was trying to make was not that some 'silent majority' (tm) of thinking people dislike paywall and 'therefore paywalls suck', but that, if my hypothesis is true, it may pose a practical problem - how many of the folks in #b-a would have taken an interest in it if merely reading the logs had cost money ?
mircea_popescu: yeah pete
_dushenski but i recall we briefly interviewing a moderately talented fellow in this very chan and he wanted a billion euros or some shit.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field whether you're alone or not should make no fucking difference. more importantly, it shouldn't be a point of consideration. why is it ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i did say 'thinking people'
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:00:47; ascii
_field: and i don't think i am alone among thinking people in this position on paywalls.
mircea_popescu: how much money does the pet earn you ascii
_field ? and what P/E do i need to pay to buy her ?
ascii_field will have to remember to ask for this pill when next visiting mircea
_popescu
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: '...this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was' << how does this work ?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:00:09; ascii
_field: that'll be when i stop reading.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:58:38; ascii
_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306139 << advertising has no future in a sane world. but has anyone invented even a hypothetical profit model for qntra that doesn't in some way involve it? i've been wondering this since the day q opened
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:53:24; ascii
_field: go and find an ice cream shop which uses it!
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:49:30; ascii
_field: thing is, it is necessary to explain why i can get ru chocolate (and without breaking a sweat, really) at some mere 3x
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski just saying, a dossier on all the ways alphabet mitigates tax is definitely a qntra worthy research project for the actuarialy inclined.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu alphabet would seem to be a tax mitigation strategy from this angle, but maybe it's one of those libtard jokes gone wrong, like 'czar'
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski check you out, you're actually understanding how rich world works.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i was thinking about this, there's no way to avoid a v dependency anyway, in principle. so it will have to be a python www anyway
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: or integrate whole thing into a pythonatronic www thing, a la phuctor
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:53:18; pete
_dushenski: "Our 36 years of continuous growth and success has been driven by our consistent willingness to reimagine our future" << heh
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: all the useful, correct parts, were published, they are in the 'v' article on your www.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: there were a bunch of important things which did not work.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: not trivial. see thread. it has to not break when new patches appear!
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:45:38; ascii
_field: because i can't link to individual lines of code there.
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: there has to be something Qntra could publish you would be willing to purchase
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: do you subscribe to any magazines (even if they're comic books)?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:53:41; mircea
_popescu: jurov no one is even buying the bitbet spot.. says something about bitcoin economy << or about advertising.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:44:20; mircea
_popescu: <funkenstein
_> re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don't open until after that - for lunch << there isn't a bunchy of these things to pick one from. this was THE ONLY THING HAPPENING THAT DAY IN THE WHOLE 12 MILLION STRONG "CITY"
jurov: there are only two: asciilifeform
_add
_verifyall
_option.vpatch asciilifeform
_maxint
_locks
_corrected.vpatch , right?
thestringpuller: ascii
_field: you gotta find a local chocolatier, the one near my house has access to "real chocolate"
punkman: pete
_dushenski: real chocolate is still cheap enough
pete_dushenski: ascii
_field pretty much that. and lose 'market share' instantly to those who don't add zero
ascii_field: pete
_dushenski: nato chocolate has sucked donkey arse for as long as i've been alive, afaik
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:35:14; mircea
_popescu: he certainly wasn't poor, but that's as far as that goes.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:33:53; mircea
_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land" << and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:34:43; mircea
_popescu: PeterL i space question marks but that's really my mental problem, nobody else.