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mircea_popescu: in
that you can always have
them inform on anyone else stupid enough
to be in business with
them.
mircea_popescu: eh, currently
the usg policy is something along
the lines of "well why put away
the scammers,
they're useful players"
jurov: and
that will be his undoing
jurov: kenna strives
to have his scam documented in IRS-compliant manner
BingoBoingo: Well, it's by
the Wired guy who got pissy on
twitter.
mircea_popescu: and now imagines somehow he'll be allowed
to hold customer funds.
mircea_popescu: and
then
tried
to come back
to bitcoin for more and got smashed
mircea_popescu: and
then ran off and made a real estate development which floundered
jurov: in
the US most of it is
jurov: yall don't understad.
They are Proudly Officially Recognized for once!
benkay: the planet where
the führer's shit is
the only cake you've ever eaten.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: On
the planet where
the rectothermal is repackaged as a fashionable relaxation on par with massage and enemas here.
mike_c: ;;google 4mm
to inches
mike_c: that's weak. it does measurements for you. i guess
timezones aren't as popular
dexX7: ty, i guess it's only a matter of
the right question ;)
dexX7: gribble: can you
tell me what 4 pm et in utc is?
mircea_popescu: at some point dodgy promoters are going
to run out of angles
to
try and spamvertise donations.
then what ?
benkay: and
the service ain't
that great anyways so fuck 'em.
benkay: great
thing about
the USG is
that
there's enough
ToS for an entire lifetime of butt wiping.
mircea_popescu: as far as i can remember i always used
tos as
toilet paper and never suffered for it.
diametric: mircea_popescu:
though, I guess
they ultimately did me a favor. It broke my addiction
to MMOs and gaming in general,
though I do play casually from
time
to
time.
bounce: if you look at
the (wikipedia) list of acquisitions it's
the userbase
they pay most for. actual
tech doesn't sell well, databases full of users do.
diametric: well, I was never actually in danger of getting fired, I just did not enjoy having
that much personally identifiable information hanging out
there.
mircea_popescu: if some random schmucks manage
to get you fired you're better off weithout
the idiots anyway.
diametric: mircea_popescu: i didn't sell gold, but i did other
things
that caused
them
to actually
track down my place of employment via linkedin and
try
to have my fired. I should actually state it wasn't Blizzard. Blizzard was not bad about it, it was
the brass as Activision.
bounce: $4G + shares and
things, apparently
diametric: benkay:
they didn't buy whatsapp for 16b,
they bought 450 million users.
diametric: though after
they banned me I was very
tempted
to rape
their policies in as many ways as I could.
benkay: zuck wants
to point and laugh at carmack
the code monkey
ozbot: Facebook purchases VR headset maker Oculus for $2 billion | Ars
Technica
bounce: I don't suppose
there'd be a way
to get a ban for selling wow gold overturned on
the grounds
that blizzard isn't paying
taxes over it
mircea_popescu: my friend freud says
that since you said it just as i was going
to bed, clearly it's
the case.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 meet my friend freud, he has some observations
to make.
Mats_cd03: i find
the boobies
to be
the most erotic part of
the woman
bounce: not being in control and getting punished for
things not under your control are different
things
though
bounce: you more or less sound like
that
turkish guy in one of
the bond novels
mircea_popescu: one of
the chief complaints of my slavegirls is
that
they have no measure of control over x
bounce: oh. AIUI he'd be wont
to kill you for reasons entirely outside your control,
too. well perhaps
that's apt
too.
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i
tell you or i kill you" and
then proceeds
to stick
to his word.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or moreover,
to make sure
that none of
the imitators survive
bounce: this
the bloody-handed dead guy or some metaphor I'm missing a reference
to?
bounce: 'sdies, even without need you can, iff you have some vision or other
to back it up.
that's apparently a rare
thing, seeing how
there's only only jobs and a fsckton of imitators and NIH-botching immitators
mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect
that risk is mostly mitigated by stalin
bounce: has risks
though, qv second system effect
mircea_popescu: as in, well,
this application will require a start-over anyway
mircea_popescu: this discussion neatly maps on
the cellphone/landline discussion.
bounce: anyway, with flash-backed ram
those days could be here again
bounce: hm
think I read about it elsewhere
bounce: in such an environment it's perhaps easier
to see a different abstraction
than
the "files in directories on drives" we more or less
take for granted
bounce recalls reading someone lamenting
the world didn't go
the wossname "persistent" route -- run a program, it'd auto-save
to disk. next
time you start it, auto-picks up where you left it. but on full OS level.
bounce: no need
to generalise
the point in obvious irrelevancy
though
mircea_popescu: bounce also known as "plenty of people in
the us cannot drive"
mircea_popescu: what's a free market other
than an endless caleidoscope of a mexican standoff
bounce: er. should kids on
tablets be able
to interact with
the hard drive? it's a bit like asking if drivers should be able
to interact with
their motor. plenty people prefer stick. esp. in
the us plenty people *cannot drive* without automatic
mircea_popescu: you know, simply shot gates, instead of merely
throwing pies.
mircea_popescu: mike_c my meta-point is
that, even if not epxlicit, what it really did was it kept people like me pacified
mircea_popescu: in soviet russia
this also has a name. vrag naroda etc.
mike_c: keeping apple alive prevented more DOJ attention at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: the general idiocy of "the community" ie,
the paying public, being
the field on which
technical solutions have
to live.
mircea_popescu: so perhaps it was quite free market : we just got
the better alternative, which sucked.
mike_c: the 'dark age' of apple would have been
the 'no apple' age if microsoft hadn't given
them money
to keep
them alive.
mircea_popescu: come
to
think about it, i don't know
there's something in
the world i ever hated more
than a mac, and in
this sense a ms-dos pc seems a muchly preferable alternative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is sucvh a
thing as idiocy
through absence.
mircea_popescu: fucktards running
tablets
today don't even realise
they should be able
to interact with
their hard drives