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ben_vulpes: obviously it weakens the automatability of your processing to open up
a hole for contesting deposits
mircea_popescu: even the quoted statement is
a disguised tautology. "don't herd with the guy that's not herding with the herd." hurr durr, i totally needed
a degree in something of the other studies to figure this much out!
mircea_popescu: see, you lose. i "have
a history" of rape and terrorism. 1-0.
mircea_popescu: the "value" is that it has nothing to say ; from
a certain perspective this makes sense.
mircea_popescu: but it is reassuring to see that
a century later, the menshevik-bolshevik debate is all happily chugging along.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger objection against the "we'll do
a cicada thing".
a111: Logged on 2016-11-18 16:53 mircea_popescu: the attractor is the futility. the plain and unescapable certainty that if they succeed NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. the point about "yes white racism exists - it's white people hating themselves" isn't just some superficial flurry of rhetoric. it informs the deepest recesses of subconscious thought and minute behaviour, "if nothing happens then nothing bad can happen" is not just why sane kid chooses for himself "
a goivernment job"
trinque: this idea of marketing with some bait and switch proceeds directly to
a bunch of "fuck you, I'm just here to ..."
mircea_popescu: and no, it requires no skill, it requires
a specific representation to be believably made. that "nothing will happen". i can't make that, nor do i wish to (these two are related).
Framedragger: asciilifeform: marketing all of that requires
a different skillset from being able to formulate puzzles, tho
Framedragger: so if tmsr did something like that cicada challenge, with
a properly formulated marketing strategy, maybe motivated people would turn up. i haven't seen an honest marketing attempt by republican folk, but then, i've probably not seen enough.
mircea_popescu: the attractor is the futility. the plain and unescapable certainty that if they succeed NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. the point about "yes white racism exists - it's white people hating themselves" isn't just some superficial flurry of rhetoric. it informs the deepest recesses of subconscious thought and minute behaviour, "if nothing happens then nothing bad can happen" is not just why sane kid chooses for himself "
a goivernment job"
☟︎ Framedragger: there, as in say, in the challenge in question? i would imagine, curiosity, and
a deeper need to do something smart and meaningful, and hoping that the people organizing this give such an opportunity. and folx are willing to spend many hours pursuing that.
mircea_popescu: and yes - very similar with bitcointalk eulora thing also. imagine this, MILLIONS of fly eyes, not
a single one was capable of figuring out stuff explained plainly in documentation and coversation. but
a few tried to defraud.
mircea_popescu: the republic lives off tooling and infrastructure, and what is tooling and infrastructure develops out of you know, lived life. as
a matter of necessity this can't be aforestated in its entirety.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: re. bdsm board, sure it could be, the latter, as i understood it, would be
a general e2e encrypted forum board (permanent post) solution with signatures etc.
mircea_popescu: so you know, "why aren't there monkeys on this planet ?" "well, partly because life is hard, and partly because there's not yet the livers sufficiently advanced to support
a monkey's lifestyle"
mircea_popescu: there's on top of that also the question of tooling. consider : had i pushed hard on this three years ago when it first came around (and pankake tried to make it) we'd have ended up with non-v software. that'd have sucked ; but at the time i didn't know what exactly v is. trinque brings
a solid related point : infrastructure. just like tooling.
trinque: the payments thinger shall have
a way of invoicing someone
mircea_popescu: so, why doesn't $item exist ? because the $guy that's
a) intelligent enough to do it and b) dedicated enough to toil through however long it takes to get $item off ground hasn'rt come forward yet.
mircea_popescu: the long story is like this : that the world is made of friction. this is necessarily, and evident from the fact that it's still here (if self-limitation wasn't
a default property of all things, the world would have long exploded). meanwhile the republic is made of few people, and also evident from definition - selective means minority. now add these things together : every project suffers from low power and high friction.
mircea_popescu: we were also going to have
a republican this, so all my expenditure would be used reflectively to strengthen us, rather than you know, support ineptly named items not run by wot people.
Framedragger: well, to be fair, 1) the system shows people's portfolios and reviews etc, and 2) you can set
a project price, the whole 'hourly billing' is only one of the options
mircea_popescu: doing this as such is slated, for
a little later. but since i was on fiverr anyway from the article, well...
Framedragger: heh, maybe the "confusing blender UI [at first, anyway]" filter is
a filter after all :P
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's even
a blenderartists thing, which supposedly is actually good.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's
a reason the web keeps right on failing.
mircea_popescu: just like anything but
a basebat whack to the crying kid is
a bad move. and certainyl giving him sugar packets for crying is not any sort of solution.
Framedragger: that sounds like
a ridiculously hopeless platform / social 'network'
mircea_popescu: some guy asked for 500. his avatar was
a (bad) section of
a civil engineering project in cad ; and he assured me that he has experience and can build any housing to my specification.
mircea_popescu: trinque i put up
a fiverr offer detailing modelling work for eulora. i got
a bunch of responses, including "Hi I can regge". and such.
mircea_popescu: then people could verify identity to paypal with
a nicely chosen mare's face and get paid!
mircea_popescu: somehow getting right
a space 10^40 larger is an acceptable expectation.
mircea_popescu: we're even contemplating making
a proper gns to be fed through dns pipe, much to alf's chagrin.
mircea_popescu: except for the part they're completely imaginary, and only pushed by the sort of people who want
a bijective payment function to import the whole rest of equality's fruits, all is well.
mircea_popescu: jurov either there's an injective payment function, in which case you have strictly yes-no payments, either get it right or it didn't happen ; or else you can have
a bijective payment function, in which case you can have solutions to the "problems" you propose.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is an unidirectional payment mechanism for
a fucking reason, after all.
mircea_popescu: gotta kyc in case the fat tard over at the us park administration gets tired of asking for special booth at burning man and wants to peruse pics of subtards licking fish through
a screen of milk, gotta have the pics ready for him!!11
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ("but mp, 50 btc is too much for
a seat at exchange ; 1500 btc is just fine for...
a tld, whatever that is!")
mircea_popescu: perhaps
a better question would be "when didn't you run electrum", but let's jointly pretend.
BingoBoingo: ^Also after
a while some people start forgetting to do this
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "step" is not
a valid command.
shinohai: I know, but recently it seems
a whole new level of bizarre coming out of there.
mircea_popescu: the strangest thing about all this being the sher fucking age. really, 8 year old keys ? most people in bitcoin have trouble maintaining
a key for
a coupla years at
a stretch, how the fuck did this wonder work.
mats: i remember seeing
a pic of
a canadian with moobs
mircea_popescu: naphex was this guy who tried to get
a camwhore thing going but i think it ate him
ben_vulpes: well now i'm imagining that gif with
a 3-piece
mats: we haven't heard from that idiot anduck in
a while
BingoBoingo: First we get
a minor pestilence, now we have
a rape ghost, what spectre from the past is next
rg: mircea_popescu: you know anyone who used to mine BTC with
a buncha GPUs
shinohai: "Everyone I don't like is
a Russian hacker"
rg: well that was
a warm welcome
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yes but ii need to write
a visual basic script to track my own ip
mircea_popescu: but it'll be the only thing that'll buy anyone
a house. or perhaps the house.
BingoBoingo: Directed into vague categories. All in on Large Cap, Mid Cap, and International. Thing's
a toy.
BingoBoingo has to have something to work
a program on.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-13 14:28 mircea_popescu: goodwin is right,
a nyt bankruptcy / slashdot sale is very much in the books for 2017.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge stop with the relogs. either get
a line that works or read the web log.
ben_vulpes: if 15 buys
a house, .15 might get you
a car!