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nubbins`: (know what doesn'
t produce good coffee? force-feeding cherries to parasite-infested weasels)
nubbins`: don'
t even get me started on the fucking civet coffee
ascii_field: as al schwartz put it, 'don'
t invest if the conveyor has to be staffed with ph.d.'s'
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of, couldn'
t, physically, be done. it's a matter of couldn'
t socially be done.
Adlai can'
t find the exact quote but some literary pundit, when asked "but isn'
t it great that kids are reading [harry potter] instead of watching TV?" responded that he'd rather they watch tv than read such garbage
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that the site isn'
t worth anything FOR THAT REASON idem.
mircea_popescu: that his hours aren'
t worth anything isn'
t a point he's well inclined to grasp under torture, let alone figure out on his own.
cazalla: thestringpuller, i bet the majority of tips came from people who didn'
t even get a ride.. 1 btc, almost worth the time to contrive a similar video
mircea_popescu: car cleanning doesn'
t randomly switch your tires out with popsicles.
pete_dushenski: because hushmail didn'
t do that a decade ago or whatever
cazalla: once you cut the obvious press releases, vc's funded such and such company and altcoin news, there isn'
t much to choose from on quiet weeks
ben_vulpes: "but you know you might want to move to a db that can'
t enforce constraints on itself like mongo, and then where would you be?"
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: they aren'
t owned by conde nast anymore. but you make a great point tho.
mircea_popescu: the fall guy, whether a natural or juridical person, is not "that which doesn'
t deliver at all".
decimation: the asicminer guys delievered to some degree. why weren'
t they willing to actually have a real company with a real existence, rather than some guy on a forum thread?
decimation: I didn'
t realize that asicminer had courted mpex
mircea_popescu: people readily forget that the asicminer on mpex deal fell through once asicminer wouldn'
t sign properly. which was clear enoug writting in the wall in 2012 for mpex investors never went into it. and so...
decimation: mircea_popescu: except they don'
t MANUFACTURE anything. < it would be interesting to know how much of the manufacturing expertise lies in apple proper vs. its chinese contractors
funkenstein_: stallman always did call apple products handcuffs didn'
t he
ben_vulpes: i mean, i love 'em, don'
t get me wrong.
mircea_popescu: the importance of electing presidents that don'
t actually love the country. not in a motherly way, at any rate.
ben_vulpes: i suppose that argetine protectionism isn'
t working because "argentines are a buncha retards".
decimation: heh well, they care if they don'
t own their own fab and depend on chinese/taiwan to make their chips
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think the usians were going to use the same chips as europe no.matter.what.
decimation: apparently the hustle isn'
t working very well
mircea_popescu: here's something i don'
t understad. so, qualcomm side : in q4 2014 it announced a 2.4 bn deal with csr plc, to deliver chips. then in q1 2015 it announced massive share buyback. from apple side : they moved the modem chip order from qualcomm to intel. from csr site : 50mn operating profit on 1bn gross revenue.
mircea_popescu: or moreover : hardware has lengthy history, hard to undo by a bunch of libertards. the person doing hardware css is known as "the cleaning lady" and doesn'
t get much pay.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo no strategist at the top. they got mostly marketing people these days. << Don'
t forget the Inertia people behind "Office"
BingoBoingo: I'm honestly surprised with the Azure and cloud thing MicroShaft hasn'
t forked a BSD to revive the Xenix brand
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's something I've come to recently. Surprised it isn'
t the offical Social Justice OS. When I first played with Open Source at a summer job in 2004 I grew an immediate dislike because it didn'
t work as expected on maximally vanilla hardware at the summer job.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> are you it's not just because athlon's were the cool thing to have back then? :P << I didn'
t know AMD existed until later... I am rather but not entirely sure I recall correctly
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> my boggle was related to the "you have done work, but we don'
t like your style of clothing, you're fired". << AH
mircea_popescu: my boggle was related to the "you have done work, but we don'
t like your style of clothing, you're fired".
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "politics is a waste of time" is the sister idiocy to "i don'
t feel math is useful for real life". << Seriously, shares most of the same stakes as war, but minus bloodshed
mircea_popescu: "politics is a waste of time" is the sister idiocy to "i don'
t feel math is useful for real life".
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yes but it is nice to read the emails and have names Hero Adam Glass quit NetBSD because he couldn'
t take Theo being shitgnomed in the name of politeness. Chris G Demetriou was the avatar of politeness who contacted theo on the importance of avoiding STFU in the name of adoption
mircea_popescu: but it's not at all what i meant. i just meant, it's to be expected, and as far as possible excused, that people old enough wouldn'
t immediately see where the fox is at.
ben_vulpes: kids on the internet pre 2001 are the only useful ones, provided they didn'
t form opinions until 2003?
mircea_popescu: heck, it couldn'
t even have been meaningfully articulated pre bitcoin anyway
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell danielpbarron Remember if you read that archive that Until Theo forked OpenBSD into being that public CVS read access wasn'
t a thing anywhere yet. 1994 was a helluva year
assbot: Logged on 15-03-2015 03:16:26; danielpbarron: "I would do but I don'
t really have time for IRC tbh. . and as a communication vehicle find it too inefficient."
thestringpuller: danielpbarron: how nice of you! hopefully n00b isn'
t buying Scrypt ASIC tho
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> sounds more like a gay spat than anything, two people who figured "they" were the embassy or something. << If this was their opening it wouldn'
t make the cut. But the part where it is closing isn'
t. Everything else is hedged appropriately.
danielpbarron: "I would do but I don'
t really have time for IRC tbh. . and as a communication vehicle find it too inefficient."
☟︎ cazalla: ben_vulpes, btw, puta shop is closed sundays, so i'm gonna try to sync up blockchain on another machine. i stuck the memory in the other slots in this machine and memtest86 didn'
t detect any errors over night so might be the motherboard instead
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo from what i hear, the entire polish embassy thing is bs. for one thing, they really didn'
t do much / nobody even knew existed. for the other, no police reports, or what exactly happened there ?
Adlai: callsigns aren'
t a good example, being assigned for uniqueness (and sometimes other properties such as perceived cleverness or snake-oil information hiding
Adlai: mpoe and bbet work, the others don'
t mircea_popescu: mostly because the sort of sluts i hang out with don'
t even have panties, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: if you aren'
t a miser, and don'
t want to layover in two separate banana republics summing to a full 24 hrs' journey each way << this however doesn'
t ?!
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i don'
t mind travelling 24 hours, one less night have to spend in hotel lol
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> but i even tried 0.10 out of pure frustration and it wouldn'
t work either.. i actually think it might be related to ram in this pc, memtest86 reports bunch of errors << Bad Ram can keep a lot of things from working
mircea_popescu: the kicker, of course, being "She seems to think that professional careers require flawless writing ability, which I don'
t feel is the case."
cazalla: as long as it doesn'
t blow it to over say 100gb, i can help, i have some older machines here too if of any use
ben_vulpes: please don'
t make me build and test more bitcoinds
ben_vulpes: Are you going to argue with Bruce Schneier? I didn'
t think so. << amazing pedigree
cazalla: anyway, point i was trying to make last night was drunk, bad decision or not, i have done this many times over past year and it would always get a full chain after a day, but can'
t since 0.10.0 came out
cazalla: i actually have older chain here on external hdd so im copying that over, it isn'
t a full one either though, i believe it is from other day when trying 0.8.6 so will try soon
cazalla: ben_vulpes, can'
t at this time, chain and client i have half done here atm is 0.10.0 from when i got frustrated and decided to see if this work, it didn'
t get to that blockheight
cazalla: i think this was from 0.8.6 or maybe 0.8.3 install, can'
t remember
ben_vulpes: well you have places to hunt now don'
t you? and a foundation to whom to report shitgnomery in the wild?
mircea_popescu: im sure if someone burned down reddit loads of future intellectuals will be all "o noes, the treasures lost". because they don'
t exactly know.
mircea_popescu: if the people that wrote them weren'
t idiots, the books wouldn'
t have been burned.
mircea_popescu: which is why i don'
t particularly share the worries of most intellectuals abnout the various books burned during history.
ben_vulpes: decimation, mircea_popescu: ksr, "We could be intruding on alien life." << isn'
t colonialism about coopting local structure if not eradicating them entirely?
cazalla: but i even tried 0.10 out of pure frustration and it wouldn'
t work either.. i actually think it might be related to ram in this pc, memtest86 reports bunch of errors
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no dude, iut's not a real thing. the idea was that somehow there's a cutoff : up to moment
t, imigrants are a ok. at
t+1 they're now cattle. well, how do you choose
t ?
ben_vulpes: wouldn'
t it be handy to have a thing that could watch the output of n different 'bitcoin's running in real time?
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 12:53:40; cazalla: and i am stuck using fucking electrum since then because for some reason, since bitcoin-qt 0.10.0 came out, my old 0.8.3, 0.8.6 throws errors and i can'
t fully sync and even lame attempt to try 0.10.0 falls flat.. i think maybe memory is fucked though unrelated, memtest86 throws a bunch of errors
mircea_popescu: if you can'
t use a bank, join a local community and do face to face.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think many people do that, on account of how unreliable it is.
bagehot: I think it'd be more fun to see what people do, if anything, with units of account that aren'
t like digital gold.