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bitcoinpete: tweeting about
the importance of instagram minutes later
bitcoinpete: the best is how
they pretend i never called
them out
mircea_popescu: guess which got
the head start and which is
the funny one.
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete views on one of
the pastebins ? 190.
the other ? 201.
assbot: Erik Naggum A Long, Painful History of
Time
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp
to be a mass market language? Because
this kind of people will want
to exert influence over something
that is good because it has been restricted
to
the “elite”
that has made a conscious choice
to be different from /something/, indeed
to /be/ something.
The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth,
to stand out”." <<
this, incidentally, is why
the same splooge
tries
to
mircea_popescu: "the kind of people who have a strong desire /not/
to
think become not just a liability on
their immediate surroundings,
they force a change in how civilization can sustain itself when
these people
think
they should have some power, and indeed /have/ some power qua mass consumers, where everybody is in fact just like everybody else and were being a minority costs real money if not convenience.
mircea_popescu: So why do I not want Common Lisp
to be a mass market language? Because
this kind of people will want
to exert influence over something
that is good because it has been restricted
to
the “elite”
that has made a conscious choice
to be different from /something/, indeed
to /be/ something.
The very word “exist” derives from “to step forth,
to stand out”.
mircea_popescu: the kind of people who have a strong desire /not/
to
think become not just a liability on
their immediate surroundings,
they force a change in how civilization can sustain itself when
these people
think
they should have some power, and indeed /have/ some power qua mass consumers, where everybody is in fact just like everybody else and were being a minority costs real money if not convenience.
mircea_popescu: this is why never
to
trust google as an arbiter of relevancy.
mircea_popescu: betcha
there'd be just
the same folks as
today for whom itwon't build.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but 'everybody who wants, has' ; 'just have
to want enough'. ergo, not everyone who wants has.
mircea_popescu: davout but
that aside i dun see much problem with it. gavin is copying
the sec, hard
to find fault even should you be so inclined.
mircea_popescu: re davout's link , "take
the
time
to run bitcoind and p2pool." << running any recent bitcoind is much worse for bitcoin
than mining on ghash
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i kinda suspect
that usb disk wp is one of
those gizmos
that everyone who needs - already has. << not so.
assbot: Measurement of changes of relative
time density - Blog of Aleksey Zaitsevsky
gribble: You rated user Blazedout419 on Sun Mar 2 12:59:46 2014, with a rating of 2, and supplied
these additional notes:
trusted
trader.
nubbins`: what's all
this about me unrating
dub: I like
the css on
that page, makes
the blue hyperlink
text not actually be a link
davout: "There are some practical problems with carrying out
that attack,
though.
They are likely
to get caught, because it is impossible
to wire money
to a bank account anonymously. It seems very likely
they would find
themselves in legal
trouble for defrauding
the exchange."
davout: oh shit, it's actually
the second part
that's retarded
davout: "The first
thing
they could do would be
to double-spend already confirmed
transactions. For example,
they could send some bitcoins
to an exchange,
trade
them for dollars, wire
the dollars
to
their bank account, and
then announce a longer blockchain where
the
transfer
to
the exchange never happened. Now
they have dollars and bitcoins." <<< such braindamage
assbot: u3_tool -
Tool for controlling U3 drives
dignork: cheaper
than
to add usb-to-usb host with additional logic
dignork: but
there is much more common use-case, gave a usb disk
to colleague
to copy a movie w.e, now i need
to reformat it...
dignork: asciilifeform: i understand
the implementation complexity (not
too bad), and just wonder how come it's not a marketed
thing.
dignork: it seems rather
trivial gadget, but i've never seen it implemented so far
benkay: "well of course!
there's no IDE for pencil and paper."
benkay: we were
talking about
this in
the context of programming user interfaces earlier
today. "programmers are just so resistant
to formalizing and writing down
their problems, preferring instead
to just hack at
their computers until
the have something
that sort of works".
mircea_popescu: this is what makes shakespeare relevant,
today as in his
time.
this is also what makes marc andreessen irrelevant
today, and permanently.
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
this is genius : writing
things
that are correct as you write
them, and
then stay correct as later readers apply
them
to circumstances you could not have foreseen.
mircea_popescu: the issues of "entrepreneurship" as practiced by
the circus could not be better described.
mircea_popescu: another job fast. fourth, when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers
the most —
there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with
the individual “winner”, and instead of people being good at whatever
they are doing and proud of
that,
they will want
to flock around
the winner
to share some of
the glory."
mircea_popescu: er need as
the motivation
to enter
the field. second, an unskilled labor force will want job security more
than intellectual challenges (to some
the very antithesis of job security).
third, managing an unskilled labor force means easy access
to people who are skilled in whatever is needed right now, not an investment in people — which leads
to
the conclusion
that a programmer is only as valuable as his ability
to get
mircea_popescu: "something important happens when a previously privileged position in society suddenly sees incredibly demand
that needs
to be filled, using enormous quantities of manpower.
that happened
to programming computers about a decade ago, or maybe
two. first,
the people will no longer be super dedicated people, and
they won’t be as skilled or even as smart — what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes she
mircea_popescu: so someone kills
the president. big deal, bout 50mn unemployed lawyers ready
to
take over
assbot: Opinion analysis:
The
triumph of
the Lanham Act (and of federal private rights of action) : SCOTUSblog