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assbot: Logged on 02-08-2015 16:29:55; mircea
_popescu: they have in common being either dumb per se or else i nthe crosshairs of the manacling-with-dumb cannon.
jurov: mircea
_popescu: one qntra share is missing, it makes together 10601, i got 10600
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: same 6 or so bozos working still
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: he's part of the annointed caste now. if the dough runs out, can dilute the shares, etc
decimation: ascii
_field: and if b happened it almost certainly was at the foot of peter thiel or one of his cronies
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i don't see anything directly wrong with that model.
ascii_field: two basic but imho entirely separate problems with mr mold - a) he wasn't entirely mentally clean of usg to begin with ( most of mircea
_popescu's observations fall into (a)) b) he was approached, as early as 2010, and told 'your crackpot os will be funded and you can sleep ad libitum, but there is a price'
ascii_field: for similar reason as to why mircea
_popescu doesn't want to buy his isp trunk line
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field if you recall, i challenged orlov and he came out with "I am a robot doing the above".
ascii_field: iirc already proposed in the mircea
_popescu article re: reddit spam
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the one twist is, as far as i can tell, most of these 'plowing flies' disinfo agents are... unpaid
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field like the whole swathe of "bitcoin experts", and also like "cryptography experts" of the ilk of some nobody in particular running "socklpuppet.org"
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the 'phuctor debunked' german
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field he is starting in the wrong place and therefore may never succeed.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: looks to me like he's trying to unearth names/faces
ascii_field: possibly mircea
_popescu was retching at the use of intel 'aes accelerator' instruction
decimation: ascii
_field: did you know that openssl has a pure c implementation?
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 16:03:01; mircea
_popescu: <asciilifeform> to which i answer << and to wich is answer, if memory serves you were brought by a woman!
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> BingoBoingo it just so happens it died like 8 times to date. << So did actual Greek, as did actual Fortran.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> heck, idish died but hebrew fucking survived! fancy that. << It didn't survive. They found a corpse and built around it.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It really only appears to have been spotted in use because some braindead adware used it on sudoers
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 16:57:30; ascii
_field: ^ somebody buy this man a small airplane.
Adlai: dat irc
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assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 05:10:01; gernika: pete
_dushenski: you familiar with Rao's Gervais Principle posts?
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 04:16:26; mircea
_popescu: romanian fucktarded kids did this to death. went to work abroad - sucked septuagenarian cock on cruise ships, manned boats off alaska, whatever, came back with a 20-50-70k and then... OPENED A RESTAURANT
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 00:28:01; mircea
_popescu: the latter is guaranteed to take a while. the former may take even longer depending on how familiar you are with mashing computers into shape.
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: It's never to late to embrace OS 9
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Now, you aren't still running OS X anywhere are you
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu "can be ridden for a lot of mileage, and simlarly"
gernika: mircea
_popescu on top of that he argues its not even worth being promoted
gernika: mircea
_popescu I had hopes, yes.
gernika: pete
_dushenski: cool. I think my problem with Rao now is that he bases the Gervaise Principle off of The Office which was written by kids like B.J. Novak - and how the hell does he know anything about what executives do? He may, I just don't see how he got the knowledge.
gernika: pete
_dushenski anyway I admit I was fond of the Gervais Principle, and it gave me a model to try and think about wtf executives and managers do all day.
gernika: pete
_dushenski sadly unfamiliar with their work. I totally missed out on the tardstalk madness.
gernika: mircea
_popescu: somehow they lead me here. They got me thinking at least. Or at least trying to.
gernika: pete
_dushenski: you familiar with Rao's Gervais Principle posts?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: and you're right. plato's lamentation of oral storytelling clearly wasn't his most serious gripe with technology
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: he actually admitted to reading summaries
gernika: mircea
_popescu I thought all usians dipped fries in the frier as teens or college students at least. Do the younger ones not go through that anymore?
assbot: Logged on 04-05-2015 18:55:44; ascii
_field: not even chumps, as such - many of these folks (i usedto work with'em) are laughing all the way to the bank, riding the thermodynamic waterfall between usd salary and cn cost of living
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 02:08:03; mircea
_popescu: decimation this doesn't explain why the old farts are getting most of the fake bills.
assbot: Logged on 21-02-2015 01:19:34; mircea
_popescu: "she's been going through 6-7k each month since autumn, but i get to go visit p diddy whenever i feel like it. it's a wash"
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 17:32:52; mike
_c: um, no?
assbot: Logged on 04-08-2015 00:49:35; mircea
_popescu: let him sign up for myfreecams and do anal until there's blood on the fucking dildos.
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 17:24:58; trinque: ascii
_field: I don't expect for a moment that you could possibly fake "stupid"
assbot: Logged on 03-08-2015 16:57:18; ascii
_field: 'As a final station, I'd like to describe what online freelancer markets look like for people like me. On freelancer.com and oDesk, you compete with hundreds of lowest-wage programmers from third world countries for exceedingly crappy "projects". It's an unmitigated race to the bottom. Even if I could land these jobs in an environment where the competition basically works for free, there is no way to ma