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thestringpuller: nubbins` yea i can't get in contact with
the designer. He's being really sensitive right now.
mircea_popescu: apparently couch surfing isn't all it's cracked up
to be
mircea_popescu: "I had
this notion
that it would be interesting
to meet people from all around
the world and show
them Galway, but most of
the visitors we got were extremely boring eastern Europeans who kept
their food in a separate plastic bag and got up early
to do yoga."
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 00:24:55; nubbins`:
thestringpuller shirts finally arrived, printing films; your design doesn't have
text converted
to outlines
nubbins`: so your
trademark "TM"
thing shows up as Arial, dead-center
nubbins`: the fonts in
the .ai file weren't outlined, and i don't have
the fonts on my system
bounce: yeah uh, where's
the protein pills?
bounce: also, you're now
thoroughly in
the "waste of
time" bucket by saying
the same vapid
things five
times in a row. of course, our fault. so sorry.
mircea_popescu: "Guilt is sexy. You can really only
talk dirty
to a person if you have been blessed with guilt."
qq1932: it's okay. Nobody has self-qualified. Without
the self-qualification, it 100% sounds like a scam. But
then, so would
the Watt steam engine.
qq1932: This project is discretionary for me and if I don't find a backer based on
this pre-qualificaiton
then it is not happening. I have
two other outside commitments
that are very serious.
qq1932: here's
the deal guys. if you google >patents public disclosure< you will see
that
there are limits
to what can be said in a public channel, since I do not plan on entering
the manufacturing field of
the project. privately after a brief agreement I can and am happy
to share 100%.
tihs is part of why I need someone who would self-qualify as being able
to discriminate and, e.g., understand
the Watt steam engine in 1700.
qq1932: oh, I
thought he was agreeing with bounce.
qq1932: but
thank you for your
time guys.
qq1932: los pantalones - I'm afraid nobody has self-qualified as yes
to
this, so it is not.
los_pantalones: so is
this non-pitch pitch gonna happen or it's only private shows ?
qq1932: People can decide who
they are and what
they're interested in.
qq1932: Would anyone else self-qualify as yes
to my question?
mircea_popescu: then a generation down
the road, you get
this derpage.
mircea_popescu: now
they're all going about calling each other sir and acting as if
they're fucking people. it's a sickening display.
qq1932: It might not be
the right audience. I've had interest in other places, but
they did not have money. However, I would not like
to refer
to
them, I would really only pitch
this specific project, in full,
to someone who
thinks
they have
the background, specifically in basic physics.
mircea_popescu: but
the god damned idea
that politeness is something
that may be afforded
to
the horde.
kakobrekla: if only you could harvest
the energy of people
trying
to make
this happen.
mircea_popescu: i would submit
that
the worst invention of
the 20th century was not
the a bomb, nor
the concentration camp, nor statal racism
bounce: show of hands. is anybody amused by
the pitch? does it anything for you at all?
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I don't know how else
to put
this. I want
to pitch just someone who has
the level of physics understanding
that
they would have understood and funded
the Watt engine (as an IP play, which is what it was) in 1700 (70 years early.)
mircea_popescu: qq1932 i didn't selfanything dood.
this ain't about me.
kakobrekla: there are more groups
trying
to build
that scam
than
there parts needed
to supposedly make it.
bounce: fuck no, I just got bored of
the repetetetetetetetetive sales pitch.
bounce: it's just updated for
the modern age with some ancient-sounding modern physics. best of all worlds, see?
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I realize
that you have self-qualified above with "no". I do not want
to convince you based on appeals
to authority, collaborators,
third-party
things, etc.
This is a suitable partnership with someone who would self-qualify as 'yes'
to
the above question.
Thank you however.
bounce: this project needs self realisation. with, of course, copious fees
to dear supplicant
to make
that all happen.
qq1932: mircea_popescu:
the other projects hvae employees, progress, etc.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: well, I am not in a position
to drop my other projects
to pursue
this discretionary project.
mircea_popescu: you are not in
the position
to even remotely as a joke consider anything but slavish 100% dedication 16 hours a day with no sundays
mircea_popescu: dude, let me
tell you something
to help your head calibrate yourself. i recently wrote
to a famous illustrator, whose work is celebrated by an actual fanbase and included in successful franchises. he committed, on
the basis of
that conversation, and
the whole
thing is costing me bitcoin fractions so far.
qq1932: mircea_popescu:
there is no "secret" component
to
this, I don't need
to hold anything back. Of course,
that only matters
to
those self-qualifying as having enough understnading
to discriminate between
the Watt's steam engine 70 years early (1700) and snake oil.
qq1932: mircea_popescu:
this means, however,
that I am at liberty
to share 100% of it within hte limits of what IP law permits (as
this is a licensing play, like Watt's engine).
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I have not committed any resources
to it, and cannot commit
to full-time work on it; I have
two major existing outside commitments. I may not do
the project at all.
qq1932: Basically, I agree with you. At any rate anyone who is interested in hearing in
this needs
to self-qualify as having enough understanding of basic high-school physics
that
they actually could have understood
the Watt steam engine 70 years early, if Watt had described it. If you self-qualify (it sounds, mircea_popescu,
that your answer is no) we can discuss.
This is a
totally discretionary project.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I agree with what you're saying, and most innovations in, e.g. battery
technology, or fusion reactor design, and so forth, are far
too difficult for anyone other
than a non-expert
to evaluate.
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I can understand
this but in
this particular case
the principles are no more advanced (by comparison)
than
the Watt steam engine at
the
time. It's a different field,
this is an analogy.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the
time honored
tradition of con artistry is
to flatter people who are
too stupid
to understand how stupid
they are by making
this confusion, between "highschool understanding" as required
to understand well known and widely understood
topics, and extremely advanced fundamental understanding required
to understand similarly just as simple, but not widely known
topics.
The20YearIRCloud: lots of people are like
that qq1932 ,
those are
the people
that rarely amount
to anything
qq1932: mircea_popescu: I disagree with you
that it always
takes much more
than "highschool understanding" of any
topic
to recognize fundamental innovations
that eluded people. In fact,
this is
the reason a lot of people
think
the "obvious" bar is
too low and no patents should be granted . I had someone
tell me
that
there is no fundamental innovation of any kind in
the past 200 years
that was not "obvious".
fluffypony: I was in a pm with BingoBoingo briefly
too
punkman: do
they still have physics in US high schools?
fluffypony: I'm interested in
this self-qualification
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud
tthe problem with it is
that it only works one way, and at a fixed speed.
mircea_popescu: qq1932 dude,
there's a major difference between "highschool understanding" of any
topic and fundamental understanding of such outstanding quality as
to recognise fundamentally correct but contemporaneously obscure advances.
qq1932: Note
that energy is a RIPE field for actual scams.
This is open
to someone self-qualifying as having enough basic high-school physics understanding
to see
the distinction.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm going
to infer Angela was
the blond
mircea_popescu: and i mean literally. i place a bunch of blonde krautzettes in
the shape of my signature on a lawn in which
the nda was cut.
qq1932: There is no spam here. I have a remarkable discretionary project. It is open
to people who self-qualify as understnading enough high-school physics
that, for example,
they could have understood
the steam engine in 1500. (Or
the Watt engine in 1700, 70 years earlier.)
qq1932: I asked you
to self-qualify on a basic physics level in PM. Depending on your answer, may have an interesting proposition for you. Unlike
the
two outside ventures, I am acutally prepared
to share 100% of
this (privately, due
to IP considerations) because it is a discretionary project for me.
mircea_popescu: that was more like "ok we're screwed, how do we pretend
this wasn't a
terrible mistake"
BingoBoingo: I was under
the impression
the board wanted
to
turn "IBM" hence a few years of Sears selling "Mac Clones"
mircea_popescu: well sculley is making it all about himself, but no, my (not necessarily very valuable) understanding is
that endless friction with various engineering
teams over
the 80s eventually bubbled up into it
mircea_popescu: twasnt
the board, wasn't it bitching about how
the office was going
to be ?
mircea_popescu: breaking
the barrier between "what we're doing" and "how we're doing it" is unhealthy in all cases
mircea_popescu: i'd have fired
them all
too, and impaled a few, extra.
mircea_popescu: the incredibly cheeky engineers in question had
the unmitigated audacity
to outs him from his own company because "they're merituous"
mircea_popescu: and
the cardano should have been implemented on
the apple ipad. "just make sure you run it on battery"
mircea_popescu: there should not have existed a raspberry pi if apple had a
twinkle of a clue.
mircea_popescu: instead of selling diy robots and wall attachment accessories,
they
tried
to make money selling a longer proprietary power cable.
mircea_popescu: "o let's push bezos into not paying engineers we shouldn't have hired salaries
they shouldn't get anyway"
mircea_popescu: instead he wasted his
time fighting idiotic union wars.