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Apocalyptic: when I look back a coupla years i realize I was wasting so much
time;..
Apocalyptic: that's one of
the hardest
things
to admit
tbh
mircea_popescu: whatever you do you'll have wasted your
time at
that age.
KRS1: case with understanding how my continued investment into bitcoin has value in
the face of scumcoins, for one.
KRS1: Thats very impressive
to say
the least. I've recently been involved in a conversation of
the value of a college degree in
the modern I.T. job market. I've actually been laughed at for
thinking it has value in
these waters. I suppose, even if I did waste my
time with a degree in
this field, being open minded and
thinking critically are benefits
that have value regardless. Such as
the
mircea_popescu: it's what i do / have been doing professionally. i'm a strategic advisor, and one of
the best. what i do is i sit down with boards/ceo
teams and guess
the future for
them.
KRS1: I already see some of
this has played out.
KRS1: Impressive. Almost as if you were able
to see
the future, perhaps by understanding how
the problem will play out. I suppose your understanding of philosophy was useful here.
ozbot: Bitcoin prices, Bitcoin inflexibility pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: dilution is not
the situation where
there being insufficient prime rib
to go around some people have
to eat burger patties.
KRS1: any relation
to whats called
the "shake out"
KRS1: yes i've noticed
this pattern before..not just coins..hmm.
mircea_popescu: it's bad enough we get
the collateral damage of unclehowells showing up here with
their idiocy cause
they saw somewhere
the girl mentioning
this
to someone else. let
the kids follow konye, yo. it's best for everyone.
mircea_popescu: the world works by fucktards following britney and obama around, not by
them pestering
the actual
technocracy.
mircea_popescu: you don't want
the stupid poor focused on important stuff.
KRS1: these bastards are good for
the one?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is officially under
the protection of
the gods, it's unseemly,
this.
KRS1: i cant see
through
the madness..not sure what
to make of it
mircea_popescu: i
tell you honestly, i could not have paid for
things
to work out better.
KRS1: It's called 42Coin, and one of
them is already worth 1,000 Bitcoin
KRS1: Its a good
thing
they don't charge for
this anymore, I was starting
to wonder if I really need
this software.
ozbot: The Cornfield :: Main Chat ::
The Origin of Modern Neo-Liberal Economy | Runboard
pankkake: asciilifeform:
thankfully I have written many little helpers so I can get a machine ready fast; otherwise, it looks pretty ridiculous starting a job and spending
the first week configuring
the base system
diametric: maybe I could make
the paper again
diametric: mircea_popescu: i actually have everything
to do
this
pankkake: I
think you can get away with 2 months
mircea_popescu: <diametric> i wonder if I can make money body scanning people and printing
them into onto cocks
that I can cast with food safe silicone and make edible dickheads.
diametric: They used
to have a policy against it, way back earlier
that no emerge sync should ever break a system
diametric: i mostly just ported packages
to x86_64
pankkake: I never followed
the drama, but gentoo seems
to be always full of it
diametric: gentoo went downhill when daniel
took a job at microsoft.
diametric: asciilifeform: yeah, but I can actually use my 3D scanner (that does full body now), and scan someones face, union it onto
their own dick if
they even want, and
then cast it
diametric: pankkake: i used
to be a gentoo dev
diametric: Panadol_: i used
to be a gentoo dev
diametric: i wonder if I can make money body scanning people and printing
them into onto cocks
that I can cast with food safe silicone and make edible dickheads.
pankkake: hehe,
trying
to build bitcoin is
the first
time I went away
diametric: i actually left
that web based miner running on a windows PC I never
touched
then
mircea_popescu: i had people fighting with my preconceived notions for months before i actually gave
the
thing a look
diametric: I was sitting in my office in 2009 when I was reading about bitcoin
the first
time. I loaded up
the crappy web based miner at
the
time while I read about it. I
tried finding some stuff
to spend it on, but
the list was like, 5 pieces.
The only one interesting
to me was a voip provider, but it was like 10 bitcoin a month or something.
mircea_popescu: diametric yeah,
they reminded me of all
the fiat-bitcoin stuff going on in
the 2000s
ozbot: BitBet - BTC difficulty
to increase by less
than 10%
pankkake: like
the easy crypto we
talked about earlier!
pankkake: more or less;
those "programming is easy"
tools will make people make mistakes
pankkake: I forgot about ColdFusion. what an horrible
thing
mircea_popescu: i had
totally forgotten just how damned good cuecat is.
mircea_popescu: aled
their name, email address, age range, gender and zip code.
This was not a breach of
the main user database itself, but a flat
text file used only for reporting purposes
that was generated by ColdFusion code
that was saved on a publicly available portion of
the Digital Convergence web server.
mircea_popescu: In September 2000, security watchdog website Securitywatch.com notified Digital Convergence of a security vulnerability on
the Digital Convergence website
that exposed private information about CueCat users.[14] Digital Convergence immediately shut down
that part of
their website, and
their investigation concluded
that approximately 140,000 CueCat users who had registered
their CueCat were exposed
to a breach
that reve
mircea_popescu: yes, well,
that's unfortunate. i suppose people
that wish
to starve will starve.
pankkake: lol, no. in
the media we have politicians always
telling businessmen what
they should do
mircea_popescu: clearly
that state does not fully understand its inferior position
to businesses.
mircea_popescu: i certainly can't see how anyone'd accept
to run his business in france.
pankkake: (especially when you have
to write accounting software)
pankkake: I
think
that's
the part
that bothered me; and it's probably
there for
tax reasons
mircea_popescu: who owns
the company,
the shareholders or
the french republic ?
mircea_popescu: ok, i've not had so much fun since reading
the forum digest
this morn
mircea_popescu: ahaha
the guy is so close
to sprouting a mpoe-pr line, and yet he somehow just... can't.
mircea_popescu: "the ones
that
the booth babes had no
trouble attracting were often low-level, overconfident IT nubs —
the guys
that were already always first at
the hosted bars and whose highlight for
the quarter was being authorized
to
travel for
the event.
They had neither
the authority nor
the budget
that made
them ideal prospects for our sales
teams. All
these guys do is lower your conversion from lead
to opp and lower your ROI
mircea_popescu: derp. some retarded 20something
that can't hold anyone occupied for five minutes is in no sense of
the word a "babe".
mircea_popescu: "Many
times I observed
that while my
team was busy in demos with other prospects,
the booth babes were unable
to hold
the interest of
these execs for
the extra five minutes
that I needed
to get a person from our
team
to engage. I had no such
trouble with
the other ladies since I had requested
that specific soft skill."
pankkake: yeah so at least dress
them properly!
mircea_popescu: in short, it
takes skill, skill which random muppets in
the freakshow do not have. big whoop. don't blame
the hammer for
the bumps on your head.
mircea_popescu: and you don't use
them
to "sell", you use
them
to project an image.
mircea_popescu: yes well, you can't go
to
the car race in a box with wheels glued on and
then decide "cars are stupid"
pankkake: the "babes" posts of shows are pretty sad, as most of
the girls aren't very attractive. or dressed like shit
pankkake: topless babes might attract because of
the novelty
mircea_popescu: they're fucking up
the babeness and
then pretending "it dun work".