mircea_popescu: "i am now at a point where i'm so butthurt with the internets i'm going to think the whole of it is just this guy in 8th grade that doesn't like me"

mircea_popescu: "There can't be 1 person that has a stake in this that can be happy with how it is proceeding. Bet Yes or No it doesn't matter. Anyone with a legitimate bet wants a statement from BitBet about what is happening with this bet. I'm not at the point where I assume the admins of BitBet place a lot of their own bets on their site, and a lot of the comments are also from the admins. No one in th

mircea_popescu: someone said this isn't feasible. that someone is wrong : takes you about the same time to wait for gnupg to cook up a new keypair whether the source is dev/random or your dice.

mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea: the chance of a random integer from 1 to x being prime is about 1/ln(x) << you just use the entropy to seed, much like pgp does. you don't actually roll the prime itself.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform looked into it. won't work : no good msdos db.

mircea_popescu: but anyway : the eventual winner doesn't quite have the same needs from his equipment as the eventual loser does.

mircea_popescu: "didn't care enough to use them"

mircea_popescu: think of the young russki kids and their street culture. who is going to be respected who doesn't know to take a punch ?

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the winner wins specifically because doesn't care about scathing.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that it ain't gonna happen.

mircea_popescu: one needs to come up with very exotic avenues to realise it, now that simple coal soot isn't gonna cut it

mircea_popescu: you can't fucking expel ideas.

mircea_popescu: that can't be a matter of content.

mircea_popescu: of course he started censoring once he didn't like what he was hearing.

mircea_popescu: http://srphsph.harvard.edu/wp-content/exchange-bitcoin-for-real-money/ccbill-bitcoin.php << harvard edu isn't what it used to be

mircea_popescu: just as long as he doesn't allow people to talk of guns in his presence ?

mircea_popescu: mike_c these weren't random people.

mircea_popescu: in other words : we don't have a conversion problem before our eyes.

mircea_popescu: mike_c http://trilema.com/2013/noob-mp-or-how-it-all-began/ if you didn't see it.

mircea_popescu: the idea immediately popped that people who are doing this as a matter of course can't be as stupid as i had thought.

mircea_popescu: i thought i knew, and i thought i wasn't interested.

mircea_popescu: problem here is this : i don't want these people on any random terms. they have to come on our terms to be useful. that's a big part of it, smart people are great, educable smart people are actually useful.

mircea_popescu: obviously my servers can't handle it.

mircea_popescu: the idea forms that either a) they don't need management at all, which yields all the bizarre "decentralise" things trend, among others

mircea_popescu: somehow as people start to smarten up and realise how shitty us management is failing them, the idea doesn't form that they need better management,

mircea_popescu: that wasn't the disagreement.

mircea_popescu: orlov specifically isn't here because when i pointed out to him he fucked up, his reaction wasn't the sane and natural "ow fuck me, i fucked up", but the much more common, and much more human "oh it's not really and i didn't really" and so on.

mircea_popescu: "yes america, it won't work. herp."

mircea_popescu: t to pass these higher costs on to the consumers. Concerted efforts at cost containment, championed by senior management, burn up more money than they find in savings. Second, turnover among the engineering staff starts to creep up, and after a while employee retention becomes a major problem. An effort is made to boost recruitment, but paradoxically this only increases the turnover rate, until the average tenure of an

mircea_popescu: excellent. guy really should stick with what he understands well (apparently, engineering and production problems) and forget stuff he doesn't get (like, politics)

mircea_popescu: tactical and strategic are properties of abstracts for crying out loud. you can't have a plapable tactical anything anymore than you can have a concrete idea.

mircea_popescu: "This, then, should be the new main thrust of industrial activity: to manufacture and distribute products with the understanding that this process will run out of resources and stop. These products must be designed to outlive the process by which they are made, by as long as possible." << i can't fucking imagine why this would have to appear as new.

mircea_popescu: the cash in mail doesn't scale so well.

mircea_popescu: mike_c another rule is that you can't send people mail as single-image pdfs.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves is't on a computer. what else ?

mircea_popescu: which is a GREAT thing. nobody's making new "fully featured" irc clients, which then don't work,

mircea_popescu: fluffypony: can't we have assbot ban people that do that for an hour? << this actually is a good idea. kakobrekla could assbot put a ban on anyone it sees part/joining 12 times within an hour, with a ban message that "please get in touch once connection is fixed, ty"

mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it can't possibly be monotonic

mircea_popescu: this is why some prefer blowjobs while others don't.

mircea_popescu: i don't recall what the major drawback was

mircea_popescu: you don't just up and walk away.

mircea_popescu: i'm gonna start asking "aren't you supposed to be cutting some sugar cane or something ? what are you doing here boy ?"

mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound like a psychopath act, "i am now Maria and Maria doesn't want to pay you"

mircea_popescu: what, you're telling me because the us as a whole is in freefall because pretty much any field you look at consists of people given tasks they can't do with tools that can't do them ?!