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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform honestly, having read this thing you linked i actually come to like the guy, whoever he is. why the fuck isn't he in the wot ? dja have a contact ?
mircea_popescu: email interoperation is from a time in the 2020s as they appeared to come in 1980s.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you have any idea what yahoo mail penetration is among 3rd world whores ?
mircea_popescu: iirc this was even broken on ro trilema at some ancient point, to usual chorus of "but what proof do you have this proof you have is proofing" and other theguardianisms.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: trinque add pipe between "cancelled at" and "rejected at" fields when nil ?
mircea_popescu: !!v 5DAAA44B71955F14EB7E3934961B02394EC02C170B56BF1CDD23EE972D996F11
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with having both `stalin and `cтaлин if anyone can be arsed with that.
mircea_popescu: this is convenient seeing how not having to terminate is a + imo
mircea_popescu: what happens if rando starts loading up "your" concept with bs ?
mircea_popescu: what do we do to people who spam it ? and most importantly, how ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, demanding anchors for our irc clients is tempting (i know many times i want to give my words as trilema refs directly, like say above cuban), but i suspect not so smart.
mircea_popescu: but turn it as you will, auctorial adnotation is very hard to beat.
mircea_popescu: trinque amusingly hanbot was working on something in this vein
mircea_popescu: but it can'tself-standardize so everyone ends up with his own metasyntactic system
mircea_popescu: so then make space the @ ? this is stupid, space is alreadfy semantically loaded.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, but if you do "ffa" you will get eg hoffa
mircea_popescu: searching for "@ffa" delivers @ffa-tronic, searching for ffa does not.
mircea_popescu: say @ffa instead of simply ffa so ppl can !#s "@ffa" and not get junk
mircea_popescu: at this rate we'll end up with metasyntactic. something like introduce @concept as a notation for concepts so they get indexed.
mircea_popescu: so what is the idea here, if i wish to review the state of this, other than asking you, i could also what ? !#s ffa ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: would be much better to have a working pullable infrastructure for your item, than to say this thing can't be pulled
mircea_popescu: she has a legitimate problem though -- interested parties can't follow the matter in their own time. it's currently push not pull, which is always a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: which is i suppose the moral little girls learn out of watchingt the trade press : your future is as a whore ; will be paid TO LEAVE.
mircea_popescu: o, speaking of "women in tech" : after thoroughly wrecking yahoo (eerily reminiscent of carly fiorina's "performance" at meanwhile disappeared compaq/hp), melissa meyer disappeared from view ; leaving verizon to pick up teh pieces.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: branson himself doesn't wanna be rich, as proven by the fact that whenever he almost gets rich, he blows it away.
mircea_popescu: stephane gautronneau doesn't wanna be rich, he just wants to hang out with denni, except impersonally.
mircea_popescu: so now. what impact does any of this have on ... on who exactly ? denni dun wanna be rich, she wants to have fun.
mircea_popescu: his contribution to this world is "it's easy to make a small fortune in whatever -- start with a big one".
mircea_popescu: eh wtf's his name, the one who sold some sports entertaining thing to yahoo and has been posturing as "entrepreneur" ever since.
mircea_popescu: moreover -- branson is exactly another version of socialist state - krysha'd pseudo-entrepreneur, exactly like
mircea_popescu: except the photog is not rich. well, not monetarily, anyway.
mircea_popescu: and self-same boyfriend proposed that prop #1 (his gf, with the tits) sit so and so with prop #2 (his client, with the gray hair) so HIS picture comes out good. which it did.
mircea_popescu: sadly the story behind that is that denni parkinson was there with HER BOYFRIEND, who's some photog there to shoot some bs about branson's hobby (some kind of new and improved surfing)
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