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pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: have not. but i'm off
to
the races. chip chip cheerio!
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ThickAsThieves: there's a cool short about wearables in
The Black Mirror
thestringpuller: apparently people are now paying him
to ramble about bitcoin?
ThickAsThieves: once user boots both up and diddles with em in public,
they will feel
that nice rush of emarassment
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i'm not sure
that bitz
think any new
tech is cool on guys
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
that existed for a while now, and better adapted for
the job.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller until you said something i had
thought he had.
ThickAsThieves: itll be a pro security
tool or such maaaaybe eventually
mircea_popescu: if
the bitchez dun
think glass is cool,
the nerds don't buy glass, and
the whole story collapses
mircea_popescu: google glass will own
the watch on basic "wearables" and even google glass seems
to lose
the wider socioacceptance war, what with all
the glasshole sites and whatnot
ThickAsThieves: they couldve showed some grace by bowing out on
the wearables garbage
kakobrekla: china is very different. so same
tricks do not work as on mericans.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: xiaomi has people hooked with, get
this, weekly software updates
ThickAsThieves: by all in, i mean
they made it
their gimmick more
than
their charge
kakobrekla: supposedly a quality iphone lookalike
that runs some android for much less dorra
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: apple has always been "all in" on design.
though
the walled garden is an ios
thing
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because if you have a lot of money and not much
thought leadership you will be scammed.
pete_dushenski: kakobrekla:
they do nao
that
they've had a few years
to copy
the original. but
the fruit brand is still
the fruit brand. lv is still lv
ThickAsThieves: oh i wasnt meaning
to comment on
that aspect so much as
that i
think it's no biggie
to have 2 or 3 sizes avail
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu i dont see why
they wouldnt
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: no disagreement
there, but where do you see apple's decline commencing?
ThickAsThieves: the idea of being immediately available
to anyone irks me
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla honestly, my
thinking was, "either apple actually comes with holodisplays for a 2015ish horizon, or it won't matter by 2020"
ThickAsThieves: i dont keep a real cell phone, just a 7"
tablet with data plan
kakobrekla: the bigger
the screen
the bigger
the sales, with iphone.
pete_dushenski: then apple recognized its competition as such, rather
than as inferior pretenders, and it's been downhill since
pete_dushenski: prior
to
that, it was "fuck you, 3.5" is perfect" and
they were right
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: not just one man.
the man with something
to say.
there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs" <<
the apple watch is past
the inflection point. a point
that was, in my estimation,
the iphone 5's 4" screen
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: what
this means? is it something about security?
pete_dushenski: wyrdmantis: and i'm sure something will come up soon. stayed
tuned :)
pete_dushenski: wyrdmantis: o
they matter. collisions were
the catalyst for pete_d rather
than bitcoinpete
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> atkins diet is very shit-restaurant friendly << mystery solved. i had nfi why people still reference
that idiocy after all
these years.
kakobrekla: first econometric
task could be
to measure
the circumference of a bitcoin
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: and i've started study coding... but
the
topic is huge... maybe with a little guidance...
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: researching, i have PhD in communication, highly informed on bitcoin
topic
mircea_popescu: i
think he's looking for more ppls
to do econometric
type of work
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis
this loan for wot business is dimly regarded, but your best avenue would perhaps be
to intern with mike_c for btcalpha.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
they musta done a full 64 byte rewrite of
the engine or something
mircea_popescu: maybe excel picked up in
the meanwhile, but last i saw of it it was ridiculous.
punkman: I made a lot of
the open source ones crash last year, client was fine with his Excel
mircea_popescu: so i wiped a laptop, installed ubuntu, installed open office and had it load
the
thing and cut out
the spurious data.
wyrdmantis: pete_dushenski: i was wondering... would you give me a little loan,
to improve my WoT?
there are better ways?
mircea_popescu: because at some point a bunch of derps in an office "we dunno why our computers are all borkt we had ppl repair
them 5x but not able
to fix"
punkman: mircea_popescu: you ever
try
to open 500mb spreadsheet in LibreOffice or whatever?
mircea_popescu: <punkman> pete_dushenski: in all fairness, Excel is
the only viable GUI for big spreadsheets << wtf are you
talking about ?!
mircea_popescu: <punkman> pete_dushenski:
tabular data can be easily exfiltrated. Problem is when you have multiple sheets, VB scripts and other custom derpage. << vb scripts being untranslatable because of just how retarded vb is
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: gluten free menu only slightly
trickier
to manage
pete_dushenski: i
think
the only
time i've been
to a
tgif was in nyc in 2000. i'll never forget it because it was
the first
time i saw a menu with a whole page for "the atkins diet"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: "TGI Friday's <<
they actually had one of
these abominations in riga
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pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i stopped
the car, got out and spent
the next hour screaming at people on
the phone. << nao
there's a man who doesn't
take shit from people who are used
to giving it all day.
punkman: pete_dushenski: in all fairness, Excel is
the only viable GUI for big spreadsheets
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
the original 'salami slicer'
thief, if i recall, stole
the rounding error at a large bank. << as seen in canonical movie "office space" (1999(
punkman: pete_dushenski:
tabular data can be easily exfiltrated. Problem is when you have multiple sheets, VB scripts and other custom derpage.
kdomanski: mircea_popescu: I don't know about
the cams, but
the driver's front window is an array of mirrors, usually
pete_dushenski: ThickAsThieves: sometimes i feel like unconvertible Excel files are
the only reason MS still exists << xls has no problem being
turned into google docs.
though
that may be about as big a difference as bush and obama.
mircea_popescu: much cheaper
to just put
ten
thousand cams on
the body of
the
thing
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
tanks haven't had plain optics for a while now.
too hard
to shield.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: i can't fucking believe scientificamerican seriously is advocating making
tanks run windows. << i read
this as "building
tanks with windows for looking out of." funnily,
they may just replace seeing windows with mircoderp windows
BingoBoingo: There once was a mayor named Ford, of wood he cut a full cord.
Twas his abode! Oh how he felt like a chode. And
then
there was another Mayor named Ford.
mircea_popescu: if you live in louisiana you should be worried, isis is
the
top bidder so far
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm selling louisiana
to pay for haircuts.
pete_dushenski: notsakamoto: rumor has it ethereum selling 1/2
their holdings
to pay for dev. 15,000 btc hitting market soon <<
that's some diamond encrusted dev work right
there
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: now
the reports and
the contract are fucking diverged and jurov has legitimate complaint #873 << c'est possible!
pete_dushenski: then what of
that cia joke a week ago
that made me lol so?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: you
think i make joke?
the logs are really quite splendid
this 16th of september