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quellhorst: she basically got demoted at google before
the yahoo job
quellhorst: but of course she won't do
that, she
thinks she can make a better google
quellhorst: mircea_popescu: you sell
the damn company
knotwork: Or less, yes. I was supposed
to sell for 500k CAD but financing of
the buyer fell
through
knotwork: four crew quarters for live in crew, full raised floors etc etc for all computer rooms, and on and on like
that
knotwork: For half a million Canadian or less I can get an ex military base with full backup power and surveillance and electric alarms fence and keypad operated gates and 60ft or so sattelite dish (the kind inside a geodesic dome with
tracking engines etc
to
track a satelite)
decimation: I wonder how many people automatically invest in Yahoo every week by virtue of
their listing on
the S&P 500
knotwork: I
think I might finally have a usable idea for something
to float as an asset.
mircea_popescu: i don't know
there's any coo willing
to work at yahoo, unless you end up
taking
twitter experts or something
quellhorst: eventually people will figure she is also
the wrong person for
the job
quellhorst: yahoo should have sold
to microsoft :(
pankkake: bernankoin claims it
though, since
there has been one
transaction at 1BEK=1USD
mircea_popescu: wait.
the claim is
that doge mkt cap > 2x ltc mkt cap ?
pankkake: and
theres at least 3× more active
quellhorst: As of January 13, 2014, 28% of
the 100 billion
total dogecoins have been mined
mircea_popescu: it couldn't have possibly mined 8mn in
the 6 weeks it was alive
KRS1: cant wait
to hear stories of
the bagholders
KRS1: thats like stealing pennis..why not
take
the good stuff.
pankkake: as long as altcoins will be a
thing…
pankkake: why wouldn't it,
they have billions of altcoins
there
KRS1: lol <nostrich> ppl saying
their wallets are empty on cryptsy now omg
mircea_popescu: that matter of
time will have
to wait for after i'm dead.
decimation: It's probably only a matter of
time until US citizenship is bestowed upon everyone who is a citizen of
the "international community"
mircea_popescu: pankkake i kinda liked
the guy with
the "funny how openbsd elec bill is paid by
the result of bitcoin mining"
decimation: Yeah. In
the US, "libertarian" means "someone who doesn't vote for either Democrats or Republicans."
pankkake: that wasn't in
the same argument, but well
mircea_popescu: pankkake so logically, if bitcoin isn't money and it's bad
to make money with money,
then bitcoin is good ?
mircea_popescu: decimation
that'd depend. i'm not a us citizen, so perhaps is like asking me if i'm a christian democrat
decimation: LoL. Would you consider yourself
to be libertarian, Mircea?
mircea_popescu: five minutes ago i didn't even know
that site existed. oh internets.
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: ie, you can never get rich under a fiat system, all you can do is become poor. it's at least
the consensus of pre-fiat economists everywhere.
decimation: His
thesis is
that
this has led
to massive overproduction by China
to game
the large aggregate economic figures
decimation: Hugh Hendry has made
the point
that China is screwed because its industrialization is
taking place under a fiat regime, wheras
the US was industrialized under a more-or-less gold standard
decimation: ?In 1890, professors salaries [at Amherst College] were $ 2,500, more
than
twenty
times
tuition.
The step up from laborer
to professor was immense, for
the average wage earner in 1890 earned $425 a year. ?
☟︎ ozbot: Philip Greenspun's Weblog » Prices back in
the old days
decimation: speaking of
the ruination
that fiat finance brings
to everything, here's Philip Greenspun on prices back in in
the 1890's
benkay: corruption is what people without access
to
the levers of power call access
to
the lever of powers
decimation: according
to his wikipedia page it appears it was part of a settlement of some kind
benkay: mircea_popescu decimation: can either of you help me source
the donation
to stanford claim?
benkay: decimation: what's
the
timestamp for
the options-backdating
thinger?
decimation: I donno. I
think
the Google model has shown
that's it's probably better
to run many dedicated servers and do your file redundancy/synchronization at
the application layer.
Diablo-D3: and all
their btrfs people left
to other companies
Diablo-D3: and can live convert low complexity zfs (ie, no features btrfs doesnt support) pools
to btrfs
Diablo-D3: oracle has an internal solaris version
that can natively boot btrfs and supports all
the solarisy zfs shit on btrfs
Diablo-D3: and
tried
to merge
the btrfs and zfs
teams
Diablo-D3: decimation: btrfs was started by oracle
to kill zfs
decimation: Diablo, is
there a relationship between
those people and
the btrfs people?
Diablo-D3: the one
that was jointly started by ZoL, fbsd zfs, and illumos
Diablo-D3: its maintained by
that zfs organization Im forgetting
the name of
decimation: "and
then, all other philanthropic work is
to Larry Ellison's Institute for
the Prolonging Of Life ... namely his"
Diablo-D3: most solaris shops are dying out and switching
to linux
pankkake: eh… I wonder which is
the most popular zfs OS now
decimation: "Larry Ellison has been involved with
two philanthropic organizations: first he made a 500 or 300 million dollar donation
to Stanford. Oh,
that sounds good. ... in exchange for not admitting wrongdoing in an options backdating scandal"
Diablo-D3: pankkake: fbsd uses
the same zfs code as everyone else
Diablo-D3: so
they've been locked out of zfs development
Diablo-D3: oracle refuses
to add
to
the spec
their changes
Diablo-D3: zfs is more
than just code, its a standardization
Diablo-D3: pankkake:
the whole point of using zfs is
that
this stuff is built in
the correct way
mircea_popescu: this log will be useful
the next
time
the clueless start-up ceo knowitall starts namedropping
tech stuff.
Diablo-D3: pankkake: yes, and I can also use mdcrypt, but
thats fucktarded
Diablo-D3: decimation: false.
the roman empire.
decimation: "There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance
to it
than Oracle."
Diablo-D3: lz4 is faster
than btrfs + early fail
decimation: at 35:15 "What you
think of Oracle is even 'truer'
than you
think it is."
Diablo-D3: pankkake: which is stupid because lz4 already does
that
pankkake: I like btrfs' smart compression system; if
the file doesn't look compressible it stops
trying
Diablo-D3: I actually switched
to btrfs from zfs
decimation: I wouldn't
touch it with a 10 foot pole
Diablo-D3: they all joined
together
to fork zfs away from oracle, since oracle is making changes just
to be incompatible not
to be useful
Diablo-D3: the zfs on linux project uses
the same source code as illumos
KRS1: imp
the fruits of
the open source efforts was derpy
decimation: I guess if you want a working implementation of zfs,
that's what you need
to use
decimation: The "illumos" project picked it up and made it work, "openindiana" is a distribution based on
that
decimation: when Oracle bought
them, Larry promptly closed everything.
The stuff
that had already been open (under
the Sun Community License) remained in
the open.
decimation: The upshot of
the video is
that
the smart kernel developers working for Sun spent years arranging
to open source
the entire codebase
pankkake: a bit like altcoins,
they often miss Bitcoins
to rename
mircea_popescu: i suppose since everyone linked my
twitter i should fish out a password for
that account huh