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Diablo-D3: Im a godlike software
tester for both id software and valve on linux.
mircea_popescu: i guess i was a senior software engineer on
the blizzard
testing
team back when wow was in closed beta, right ?
mircea_popescu: Software Engineer on
the solaris
testing
team, quite impressive what can i
tell you
kuzetsa: yeah, Jim MCDonalds or something like
that.
mircea_popescu: don't feel
to bad, inaba lost it when he found out what mpex goes for.
Diablo-D3: said rant: millions of dollars, none of
them going
to dmc.
Diablo-D3: because
the bitter was going for a different rant and you sidetracked me
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: you forgot
to clip
the bitter line
Diablo-D3: he cant explain how
the math works
mircea_popescu: people do not deserve any improvement. let
them wallow.
Diablo-D3: and
then retire as a multi-billionare.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: I dunno, I just want
to do something
that actually improves computing for people
Diablo-D3: pigeons: it was fucking up
the microphone
mircea_popescu: actually i'm publishing
this.
too much
truth content
to let it slide.
pigeons: then
takes a phonecall during his presentation
Diablo-D3: its a C-like language
that is very erlangy in
thought process
mircea_popescu: why ? if you wanted
to be in showbiz your best bet would be growing
tits and working vegas anyway
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: maybe Im in
the wrong business
mircea_popescu: and
they do... what you see in
that youtube. cockgrabbing basically.
mircea_popescu: sort of like
the 419 nigerians, except
these are usually poor inner city youths (with or without an acne problem)
mircea_popescu: even if
they don't understand either capital or engineering.
mircea_popescu: because
there's some idiots who
think
they
too can be "investors" in "technology"
Diablo-D3: like, just
to say reinventing
the wheel doesnt cover it
Diablo-D3: why do people keep implementing
things again and again
mircea_popescu: sorta like, you know, retarded pgp implementation
that fails
to work i bet.
mircea_popescu: "The only way
to prove you are who you say you are purely online"
mircea_popescu: i dunno who were
the other schmucks around
there, but i guess yet another service going nowhere on half a mil of angel capital.
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: who is
the guy speaking in
the first video?
pigeons: nothing, i just knew linking
to a genjox video for rile mircea_popescu up
mircea_popescu: it boggles how inept someone must be
to
try and leech bitcoin creed off genjix.
dub: I build one little house for
these habitat for humanity fucks and
they hound me
till I die
dub: is
the latest flash completely fucking broken
Namjies: that
there's a database error?
Namjies: Although I suppose it's more
the lack of warning
that bothers me. I stay around for bitcoin * asset news and you always present
the links as "In other news/This is interesting/etc."
Namjies: No. I just
tend
to click all links before checking
them and I'm not particularly interested in seeing intercourse.
mircea_popescu: the person gets raped, maybe,
the person gets arrested for conspiracy, maybe,
mircea_popescu: in
the us/canada whatever
the cop feels like will happen.
Namjies: Maybe in Romania, but in
the US/Canada?
mircea_popescu: the officer
then
talks
to
the person in question. if
the guy gets all beligerent yea he's getting arrested. was he arrested for being naked ? well... not really.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, people
tend
to confuse
things. police gets called cause "omg naked person",
they have
to show up (cause
they were called, it's how it works)
mircea_popescu: people are funny anyway. last
time i
took
the girls out for a shoot last winter
there were some people happening
to walk
their dogs now and again.
Namjies: Try just walking on
the sidewalk naked. You'll get arrested.
mircea_popescu: ya ya, but if people start crowding and blocking
the road and stampeding each other
this'd be a problem.
Namjies: Well someone seeing something not directed at
them is not disturbance.
mircea_popescu: again, nudity is not banned afaik. causing a disturbance is, which i can see
the point.
Namjies: Or anything else someone might not want
to see.
Namjies: If we ban public nudity based on
the fact it can bother some
to see it, we might as well ban breathing because some could be bothered by seeing it.
Namjies: It's usually acknowledged
the human body is not in itself indecent.
Namjies: I guess Canada/US is not part of
the civilized world.
Namjies: It's not legal
to go around public places naked.
Namjies: It's
technically going
to get you arrested.
mircea_popescu: prolly a good idea
to pick more sensible laws
to repeal.
Namjies: I'm just saying, if
the population wanted, repealing laws would be easy.
mircea_popescu: and quite another
to have
the general population in say
the bus
mircea_popescu: Namjies i do have a nudity-for-slaves rule in place, but it's one
thing
to have nubile young women naked around
the house
Namjies: Something like 10% of
the population should just go one day
to work naked and keep it like
that. Instant impossibility
to apply nudity ban.
mircea_popescu: suppose you could have a btctalk
that consisted of only
the 0.1% of comments worth reading from
the 1% of people you actually
think anything of.
mircea_popescu: for one, how many
times do people comment on your clothes ? and is
this an argument in favour of going around naked ?
Namjies: Doesn't look like people are reading your blog much. No comments. We only get
to read something when you link us
to it.
Namjies: In your case, useful
to hear yourself speak?
iz: Bugpowder: is your name a bomb
the bass reference?
Namjies: The new, automatically provisioned VPSes will be on Xen with a specific provider
tho.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i like
the Shop by Price $0.00 - $1,000.00 (5) $1,000.00 - $2,000.00 (1) part best.
Bugpowder: Actually...
the 10BTC silver one is not horrible either.
Bugpowder: obviously not updated in a long
time