mircea_popescu: how about the "i know you've won the war mr wellington, but what have you done for us lately???"
asciilifeform: how about the idiot brit officers with their purchased commissions, leading 'charges of the light brigade' one after another ?
asciilifeform: the only peculiar thing about being an admiral's son and another admiral's grandson is that you get to crash machine after machine
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you ever saw hot shots, the base commander there is also a sort of mccain/mcduck
mircea_popescu: the fact that republicans have a knack for this is kinda strange. recall the bush record ? BOTH of them ?
asciilifeform: aha. but m's flying career was long over by the time launchpad appeared.
mircea_popescu: but those accounts only popped up once mccain was in the news, whereas the cartoon looks like silver age/HB
mod6: nice town. probably will take a long time to rebuild. they had a hurricane that hit back in like 2002 or 2003 that hit them pretty hard, probably not nearly as bad as this though
mircea_popescu: so apparently there's a hurricane headed for mexico that's well twice the size of katrina
punkman: oh that's in the logs
asciilifeform: this sometimes leads to interesting contradictions. everywhere in usa there are strict laws against drunken driving, but if you go into a suburb you will notice pub after pub, each of them accessible ~strictly~ by car
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2015#1306871 << re: cars in usa: yes, ~everyone~ is expected to drive. something, anything with wheels. even cripples - in most places here you just need one arm and one leg. there are special shops that customize the cars for this, i used to work next to one.
asciilifeform: and the notion that it is somehow possible to program in 'strictly defined' c is a deliberate lie
asciilifeform: but the basic lesson, which is for some reason hidden behind a thick veil of shitsmoke, is that c is not built to be reasoned about mechanically, ergo relying on the compiler to save you from yourself is retarded.
punkman: asciilifeform: I found this interesting "the STACK UB analyser found that UB code occurs in 40% of all Debian Wheezy packages (that use C)."
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:32:27; asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified
asciilifeform: punkman: it is in the logz
punkman: mircea_popescu: or maybe that's how he chose the quote
mircea_popescu: (ftr, grounded windows are cheap and easy to make, just put mesh in between the two layers of plastic)
assbot: Logged on 12-12-2014 00:01:28; asciilifeform: emp arms powered by chemical explosives are 'sexy', suck in grant money like nothing else, even deployed (!) by usa in gulf war 1 - taking a tv broadcast antenna out of action for a few hours (they had to change an amp)
assbot: Logged on 24-10-2015 13:17:38; mircea_popescu: and for the daily lol, http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/10/new-material-promises-nsa-proof-wallpaper/123066/
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Are Certain Behaviors-- And Jobs-- More Masculine? And Out Of Our Control? ... ( http://bit.ly/1H13MfJ )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/06/are_certain_behaviors--_and_jo.html << excellent article altogether, should be mandatory hs reading.
mircea_popescu: No one in the behavioral sciences discovers something, and then constructs policy recommendations. "We learned that people are like this, so..." It's the other way around. The policies come first; the money is spent on the research that supports them. In questions about evolutionary psychology and behavior, the question they want to answer is always of the form, "how is it not the individual's fault, but we can medd
mircea_popescu: say that behavior is "innate" and out of our control, while still leaving us the door to intervene in people's lives for their benefit."
mircea_popescu: "The question that they are answering isn't "does environment matter more than genetics?" It's a more subtle, sneaky, social-policy questionr: "since we now know that genetics isn't as deterministic as we hoped, is there something else that we can focus on which is equally out of our control? What about the goings-on in utero? So that the environment factors matter only at that time, not later? Then we can safely
mircea_popescu: and from the word! department :
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://40.media.tumblr.com/0a4a7cef8f528ddbaf0c3255c16d89d1/tumblr_no67etsB3p1rzzxego1_500.jpg
mircea_popescu: sort of like once shit dries enough, you can just pick it out of the hair of the African in question, leaving behind "clean" hair.
mircea_popescu: by now the stupid "reporting" thing is so much a kabuki of its own you can often separate it from the actual event it parasitizes
mircea_popescu: and for the daily lol, http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/10/new-material-promises-nsa-proof-wallpaper/123066/
assbot: Heap overflow and endless loop in exfatfsck / exfat-utils | The Fuzzing Project ... ( http://bit.ly/1k0mRcH )
mircea_popescu: mock them, hurtfully. "what, you think it's 1999 ?"
mircea_popescu: so does any half-ass decent teacher. give a kid a pile of unplugged computers, pick the best one.
mircea_popescu: for the record, i do this regularly.
mircea_popescu: Aristotle was smart, but there is nothing he could ever learn about computers from his investigations. His science is all wrong for what he was doing. But Aristotle would think he knew a terrible amount about computers from his studies. In fact, he'd probably be considered an expert. "To fix this computer, we need to make it more rectangular. Get chopping, malaka."
mircea_popescu: If you gave Aristotle ten thousand unplugged computers of different makes and models, no matter how systematically he analyzed them he'd not only be wrong, he'd be misleadingly wrong. He would find that they were related by shape-- rectangles/squares; by color-- black, white, or tan. Size/weight; material.
mircea_popescu: in the nazi us, all kids have to have the same result : spend 50 minutes fucking with x.
mircea_popescu: not "oh, you finished the work, now do this stgupid shit" like us
asciilifeform: but the basic job of the priest is much the same everywhere - to convince his patients that the things they cannot have, they do not want, and 'no sane person would want'
asciilifeform: (has others, which appear when you pull this jumper off. but not this one)
mircea_popescu: it is the only christian one.
mircea_popescu: http://www.nassirghaemi.com/images/Nassir-210.jpg >> looks the job, too, and put so much effort into self-promotion you think he's the next martha stewart.
mircea_popescu: Born in Tehran, Iran, he immigrated to the US at the age of 5 with his family and was raised in McLean, Virginia by his father Kamal Ghaemi MD, a neurosurgeon and neurologist, and his mother Guity Kamali Ghaemi, an art historian. A graduate of McLean High School (1984), he received a BA in history from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, 1986).
mircea_popescu: mnope. turns out... another bharara
asciilifeform: but he's a heretical priest, not an atheistical one
mircea_popescu: interestingly, the focus of hate for ballas seems to be this Nassir Ghaemi douche. i put him on the list, expecting who knows what wizened old ass.
assbot: Logged on 24-10-2015 02:21:54; deedbot-: [Trilema] The peak of insanity. - http://trilema.com/2015/the-peak-of-insanity/
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-10-2015#1306752 << seems like a very basic thing: the 'hersheyization' of sex ('everybody gets a wife') inevitably leads to 'If you think it looks stupid when a 40 year old man buys a convertible or has to go find himself or chases a 20 year old intern' and a caste of priests tasked with convincing chumps that ~this~ is - somehow - sanity.
mircea_popescu: So yes, I would have liked to have posted day one; but I would have liked it better if someone else on the inside said, "umm, wait a minute? Really? We're going to CNN with this?"
mircea_popescu: Please don't misunderstand me, I am not blogging for money. I'm showing you that so much of what you think you know, what you think is fact, is established not by the force of evidence but by the absence of resources for the opposition. The ones with the money are all unanimously in agreement.
mircea_popescu: The people who get paid to look at ADHD are all unanimously on the same side, that's what conveys the illusion of objectivity. Pretending to be divided pro- or anti-Pharma, or "dopamine hypothesis" vs. "noradrenergic hypothesis" makes it look like there's a lot of vigorous debate, but debating what color is a ki-ran just means ki-rans are real.
mircea_popescu: What do you think would happen if the NIMH paid astrophysicists to look into psychiatry? Ain't never gonna find out, they have their own problems. Specialization doesn't mean I'm the best, it means stay off my lawn. Since I/us/astrophysicists don't have the resources to publish at all/as fast as Pediatrics or CNN, they get to decide what's true.
mircea_popescu: t it; I'm saying that those who thought it, or could have thought it, are busy with other things, and the people who should have thought of it physically can't.
mircea_popescu: Had it not been for the little money I do get from this blog, maybe I would not have written this post at all, because... why bother? And so all you are left with is their dogma. Search the internet, the Letters To The Editor. Anyone else saying what I just said in this post? You may not agree with my post, but you are nevertheless better for having read and considered it. I'm not saying I'm the only one who though
mircea_popescu: If you don't like something going on in politics, there are ways to voice that. But looking deep into a "scientific" concept requires a level of sophistication which, if you possess it, means you're probably busy with a day job. So you have neither the time nor energy to dissect articles in Pediatrics-- and, anyway, no forum. I, at least have a semi-popular blog; but even so I'm subject to the same time and monetar
mircea_popescu: You mean because the further away we get from the hot news cycle, the less you're interested in the truth? And so apathy allows it to stand as true, because it all seems plausible (face validity, bitches.) That's social science for you. But the answer to your question is simple: I don't get paid to criticize studies. I have a job and a life and an alcohol problem that doesn't leave much room for blog posts.
mircea_popescu: "Why didn't you publish this post earlier, when the story first came out????"
PeterL: The last position I took was a "temp-to-hire", I thought the hire part would come with a significant pay increase, it didn't so I walked away
mircea_popescu: in 2009, the 300mn strong us spent 300 bn on PSYCH MEDS.
mircea_popescu: "stereotypes are wrong mkay, unless the government's doing it."
mircea_popescu: h people as individuals, so it deals with them as groups, types, diagnoses and organ banks."
mircea_popescu: "Just a piece of advice. If you are ever arrested, make sure to ask for a jury. As for two juries. If your lawyer says the words "bench" and "trial" at any point in the same paragraph, flee to Argentina. Those 12 idiots, imperfect as they are, are one of the only things protecting you from a top down, hierarchical, classist, flow chart wielding government clusterfuck that has no time, interest, or money to deal wit
deedbot-: [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] The reason fathers hope for sons is because they’re too dumb to handle daughters. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/10/23/the-reason-fathers-hope-for-sons-is-because-theyre-too-dumb-to-handle-daughters/
gribble: The operation succeeded.
pete_dushenski wonders how the 'percent change' function died so horrible a death
BingoBoingo: But yes, at the moment Qntra's goal is better writing from more people
BingoBoingo: Learning so much about Qntra from the sleep logs
BingoBoingo: Learning so much about Qntra from the sleeping logs.
BingoBoingo: Updated http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2015/10/22/qntra-style-and-draft-content-guide/
BingoBoingo: Just like that bored on day, and tired of people bitching about stuff they did other than web advertising, so that is now Google and Alphabet is google, their med shit, and their killer robot dreams
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 19:26:43; mircea_popescu: why the fuck does google even have an "alphabet" parent, since we're discussing these things ? doth qntra know?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306465 << They rebranded the Executive board as a parent company
gribble: Getty Oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Oil>; GETTY OIL: <http://www.gettyoil.com/>; The Getty Oil Takeover Fiasco - Investopedia: <http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/09/getty-oil-takeover-fiasco.asp>
mircea_popescu: also, they shed what, 5% ? sport is going to shit everywhere, the world is sick of it.
pete_dushenski: bitpay, being the naive upstart, thought to itself 'hey if it works for espn it'll work for us'
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:52:15; pete_dushenski: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/10/22/espn-layoffs-will-gut-the-networks-production-staff/ << o hey traditional media is thriving donchaknow
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306232 << Price of getting in bed with BitPay, you follow their business tactics nao
pete_dushenski: they have 'rexall arena' and 'roger's centre', why not hospital ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless... a pile of rifles doth not give you even the beginning of force. it's just scrap metal.
mircea_popescu: what the derps are doing, roughly speaking, is "Becoming powerful" out of robbing monkeys of their rifles.
mircea_popescu: than there is in a satchel of a hundred gold pieces collected from the necks of a hundred dizzy cows in the field.
mircea_popescu: yes there is some value in money, for sure. but there is A LOT MORE value in a hundred gold pieces resting in a hundred pockets of men that made those pieces
mircea_popescu: now, what the scammer wants is to collect the sort of people who are dumber than him, and separate them from their money.
mircea_popescu: compare b-a and random scammer circle, "dollar vigilante" thing or the keiser radio show (hey, check it out, "Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency launched in February 2014 as an Icelandic alternative to bitcoin and the Icelandic króna. Its unknown creator or creators" < hard at work deleting the internet history of previous scams, as if THAT is how it works now)
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:11:38; ascii_field: whereas ~thinking~ btc folks are not easily separable from their btc.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306358 << a desire to separate man from his money is not separable from a nude statement that the man in question is an imbecile.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:03:33; thestringpuller: jurov: this is good point. XKCD is profitable because of it's merch store
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306346 << the only reason it is "profitable", i suspect, is because a shy socially inept guy like the author couldn't pay enough in okcupid fees to ever get laid, otherwise.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306344 << i'm aware of no sane paywall implementation (which is to say, other than my own) which violates this.
ascii_field: afaik usg does not even think in these terms
ascii_field: what's the roi of this week's 'minuteman' rocket test ?
ascii_field: as i understand, the ethereum thing was not purely a classical scam, but has abstract/usgtronic political aims
mircea_popescu: understandably, it's not clear the us fed is worth that much atm,
assbot: BitBet - The ETH scam won't see 2016 :: 73.95 B (35%) on Yes, 135.57 B (65%) on No | closing in 1 month 1 week| weight: 55`571 (100`000 to 10`000) ... ( http://bit.ly/1iDIjEg )
ascii_field: but is it coin they wish to avoid losing ? or 'intangibles' ?
mircea_popescu: it went to all shit (15 iirc last, 50% over the cutoff of the bitbet), only to get a dead cat's jump yest.
ascii_field has not kept up with the events
mircea_popescu: ascii_field apparently they can't afford to lose 150 BTC THIS BAD. thinkaboutit.
mircea_popescu: fuyck that shit. the world women's organisation is gonna publish studies about the CAUSAL relationship between domestic beatings and happiness.
mircea_popescu: this is what has to be uprooted, fucking WHO making studies about the impact of inequality ?
mircea_popescu: but yes : do you think sumner rothstein gives a flying fuck that his car producing subsidiary paid his tv producing subsidiary a billion in advertising with no roi, when the result of this expense is that china now THINKS the truth about china is on viacom released movies and argentines think citibank is a thing that may exist in buenos aires ?
ascii_field: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3pofdv/consensys_absorbing_whats_left_of_ethereum (from qntra commentz) << lulzy. yet again a new usg shill corp. to handle shitcoinatronics
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: China Needs Fewer TVs, Or A Billion Of Them ... ( http://bit.ly/1NYrK3d )
mircea_popescu: ""The evidence we have from these academic studies is that quite often [soap opera viewers in developing countries] take away different attitudes toward things like how many children they want, what is acceptable behavior for a husband toward his wife, what is the breakdown in a household of responsibilities over things like finances, should we be sending girls to school," says Charles Kenny, an economist at the World
mircea_popescu: anyway, he explained somewhere that ads aren't designed to sell the avertised product, but the SYSTEM that produces the product in question.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i dun see a future for royalties :D
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well, it's all the media of the new republic. << This was my point. The 'intellectual property' or whatever you want to call it spawning from qntra is the value. For instance a movie or book, or some other form of media published under qntra. I see royalties in the future perhaps?
mircea_popescu: the path of grasp is a long and arduous one.
mircea_popescu: it destroys the "notion of payment" = all payments are grocery, bitcoin should be visa, all peopel are equal and mp should be nicer to fucktard x.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't destroy the GROCERY notion of payment,.
mircea_popescu: what does the queen's mineral water cost ? "it would be an honor if you drank our water!"
ascii_field: but how does this destroy the grocery notion of payment ?
ascii_field: as in the story with 'what does mircea_popescu's flat cost' ?
mircea_popescu: the financial notion of monetary commitment is DIFFERENT from the grocery notion of monetary commitment.
mircea_popescu: suppose instead the streetwalker is a bank in distress, and you decide to prop it up. you don't do jack, all you do is SAY you're going to do it.
mircea_popescu: suppose you desire the use of a streetwalker for half an hour.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suspect the very notion of PAYMENT is going to be destroyed by btc. let me illustrate what i mean.
ascii_field: in the sense of somebody-pays-and-it-goes-to-shareholders
mircea_popescu: it's not clear what the sense is.
ascii_field: (any more than therealbitcoin does)
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller successful webcomics also aren't usually attached to behemoths set on destroying the entire world. note that qntra is NEVER going to be successful, because it's not here to obtain praise from daddy.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "successful" webcomics usually survive by selling their brand.
mircea_popescu: "the people" will do what told and like it.
pete_dushenski: me thinks 'depth' is the operative word here
ascii_field: and their economics
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:20:02; *: ascii_field does not actually know enough on the subject to comment further
ascii_field: so, not a brainfart, i really meant to say this. but it is possible that i catastrophically misunderstand the purpose of qntra.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i really was thinking 'qntra is a propaganda machine primarily for speaking to non-#b-a people.' ergo 'thinking folks other than myself dislike paywalls' is a relevant hypothesis
trinque: got another deedbot- hacking weekend coming up; we'll see what I bite off
trinque: the day rapidly approaches when I simply write my own IRC handling part, rather than using this golang bot
trinque: pete_dushenski: heh. some piece of inane, unnecessary complexity for sure. died during a netsplit so I assume he handles this rather poorly.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the point i'm coming to is that it's, unlike something you/those thinking people have actually thought about, merely an aculturation. ie, "this is how we dress". and i know where it comes from too, and so forth. nothing wrong with it, but it is what it is.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: now that you say this, i'm not even sure i correctly apprehend the purpose of qntra.
mod6: ascii_field: for lxr should jurov and I just put up the code to HEAD that includes through 'maxint' and 'verifyall' -- and we'll label it "HEAD" or "v0.5.4-TEST2"? There isn't any actual reason to have two versions of code going up through each leaf is there?
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306028 << just the line breaks are really enough
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i get that the phrase triggers your allergy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field besides the point what you were tryingt to say. the important thing to notice is how your mental flow went. and it went to "i am not alone". why would it ?
mircea_popescu: moreover she didn't want to / understand she has to make a gpg, and i dun wanna encourage the demuring damsels.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the point i was trying to make was not that some 'silent majority' (tm) of thinking people dislike paywall and 'therefore paywalls suck', but that, if my hypothesis is true, it may pose a practical problem - how many of the folks in #b-a would have taken an interest in it if merely reading the logs had cost money ?
pete_dushenski: how about the chica who did your last xt-memorial comic ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whether you're alone or not should make no fucking difference. more importantly, it shouldn't be a point of consideration. why is it ?
mircea_popescu: thinking people is the thing du jour.
mircea_popescu: you can paint the box whatever color you want. what do you think elen degeneres says, "degenerates" ?
mircea_popescu: you don't wanna go to the fuckfest because fucking is by its nature public, but you wanna be thinking in a herd because thinking by its nature is private ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares and when did you start giving a shit if you're alone or not. what's this nonsense!
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306338 << not really how news works, though the commentary pieces could be assembled as such, fetching perhaps $20 a copy with shipping
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306332 << and if you were to be against gpg, or against signed commits, or against "not everyone is/can be a contriobutor" or for "women in tech" in the sense of lipstick in the optic drive or a bunch of other equally nutty notionms, you could equally say "i don't think i am alone" and more importantly, FIND YOURSELF INCLINED TO SAY IT
ascii_field: 'would you, could you, in the zoo' (tm) (r)
pete_dushenski: to the zoo !
mircea_popescu: i just gave you some lsd (by permission) in the shape of serotonin or whatever you fired in your own brain.
mircea_popescu: well so there you go!
mircea_popescu: how much money does the pet earn you ascii_field ? and what P/E do i need to pay to buy her ?
mircea_popescu: so far, gutting the pretense of "press" of the oposition, that DOES advertise, is good enough.
ascii_field: can't be explained? must take the correct lsd ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: '...this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was' << how does this work ?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:58:38; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306139 << advertising has no future in a sane world. but has anyone invented even a hypothetical profit model for qntra that doesn't in some way involve it? i've been wondering this since the day q opened
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306325 << trilema is for instance making decent money on subscription model. this is not to be discounted. also, no press IN THE HISTORY of press has EVER made money. not ever. it didn't happen (yes there are exceptions, in particular, temporary, self limited nooks). this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was.
mircea_popescu: makes sense in all the ways.
mircea_popescu: "Shocked, and also frightened for his safety due to the fact that Johnson is a big girl, the 140 pound security guard said he ran out until police arrived. When they did, female officers entered the restroom with Johnson still putting in work with the sausage."
ascii_field: 'When they did, female officers entered the restroom with Johnson still “putting in work with the sausage.”'
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:55:57; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306117 << imho the very concept of a public sex club is inherently derpatronic.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306321 << what';s the alternative, incest ?
ascii_field: for some reason, even before the oil thing, 'hershey' is associated with diarrhea in my mind
mircea_popescu: be thankful for the hershey you have.
pete_dushenski: "we're like the nsa, fbi, cia alphabet agencies, but better !"
pete_dushenski: whoddathunk that the meta-nsa would only be meta... in name
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski just saying, a dossier on all the ways alphabet mitigates tax is definitely a qntra worthy research project for the actuarialy inclined.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306275 << naw, i've had perfectly fine swiss, belgian etc. you just gotta not buy the murican crap
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:41:00; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305949 << w's plantation is preserved to this day. museum. i've been there. 'not poor' does not begin to describe it.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306270 << it does. go see how fugger lived, about the same time.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:39:42; ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305946 << a good chunk of what he owned was nearly-worthless swampland. which he pawned off on the new government, and it became... modern washington, d.c.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306268 << a) they wanted to make him king. yes, that';s right, king. the guy declined ; b) wash dc wasn't even his fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does google even have an "alphabet" parent, since we're discussing these things ? doth qntra know?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i was thinking about this, there's no way to avoid a v dependency anyway, in principle. so it will have to be a python www anyway
pete_dushenski: "After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of the remaining employees by giving them 6.8 million shares of the stock he owns in the online messaging service." << so noble of jack to take a tax write-off on these shares before their value plummets to zero.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306235 << either that or cheap imports, whichever.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: all the useful, correct parts, were published, they are in the 'v' article on your www.
mircea_popescu: looky, there's sometrhing dysfiunctional in this process of "i want this thing, and i want it to work exactly like this thing i made, that i'm not publishing". what is this, tru love mating ?
ascii_field: atm i desperately lack the time to do anything useful with this.
mircea_popescu: which is wjhy you break it open publish the parts that work
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: there were a bunch of important things which did not work.
ascii_field: didn't need a db either
mircea_popescu: so you can use the url structure.
ascii_field: and then colorizes
ascii_field: really needs a wwwtronic thing that takes a vhash in the url and a line num.
ascii_field: it is the vhash (sha512) of his output's main.cpp
mircea_popescu: but what is it a hash of ? the whole file ?
ascii_field: 9cbe118c362dca5f4e340519d3ad48e79a1ef896f2fe297a3481067e8a3c0c1fdd6c09fe251918358e67bc90aa884f952454c051ddfca06f334ce359aadd688a#xxxxx where xxxxx is the line
ascii_field: in order to do this, there would have to be a www widget that displays the tree he patched against. and will continue to do so a year from now.
mircea_popescu: but if you're not happy with the mere "meaningless line" as seen i ntrilema selection
ascii_field: well, more concretely, today i wanted to link to one of the places where funkenstein introduced a mistake
mircea_popescu: but see, you wish to link to "lines of code" except these are lower than the minimal granularity ; they only catch meaning after the ast was derived from the whole program
ascii_field: well yes, which is why a link has to encode ~which~ point in the patchspace it links to.
ascii_field: derived from the patch set.
mircea_popescu: of course the other problem in question may actually be one of those "ensconced rock" type of things, ie, we've not fully conceptualized the implications.
mircea_popescu: that's a different problem. but merely the "individual lines of a page" part of it
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:45:38; ascii_field: because i can't link to individual lines of code there.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306217 << the solution to this may actually be trivial. there's a snippet of javascript i stole off the archive.is guy, it's now on trilema, alloows for this. see http://trilema.com/2015/that-spiffy-selection-thing/
mircea_popescu: moroever, if your five days of research can just be dreamed up by the next guy, you've not done any actual research.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306184 << there's absolutely no rush.
thestringpuller: oh wow cad-comic is still around and they have a physical publisher now and an ongoing?
thestringpuller: or just one of the anchors, a necessary component.
ascii_field: i really can't fathom how qntra could turn a profit any more than therealbitcoin could
thestringpuller: me either. qntra isn't a webcomic so I don't expect it to monetize as such. but the webcomics have held their own.
thestringpuller: this is why thinkgeek is still around a decade later, yet they sell nothing but "tyos"
ascii_field: whereas ~thinking~ btc folks are not easily separable from their btc.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: the one thing that always bugged me about r. munroe is his eagerness to play to the reddit/derp crowd
thestringpuller: ^- you do this with XKCD and they make money without ads, so something is going on here.
ascii_field: 'if i can't link someone to it, it isn't part of the conversation' or how did it go.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: there has to be something Qntra could publish you would be willing to purchase
ascii_field: thestringpuller: thing is, i only buy books because reading on electronic machines is unpleasant (and before anyone asks, i own a dozen or so different types)
ascii_field: thestringpuller: never have.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: no.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: do you subscribe to any magazines (even if they're comic books)?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:53:41; mircea_popescu: jurov no one is even buying the bitbet spot.. says something about bitcoin economy << or about advertising.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306139 << advertising has no future in a sane world. but has anyone invented even a hypothetical profit model for qntra that doesn't in some way involve it? i've been wondering this since the day q opened
ascii_field: but then again i don't go in for consorting with strangers at all, so nobody-asked-me (tm)
ascii_field: (the people who think they need this, are the ones you least want to meet. almost by definition.)
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:44:20; mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don't open until after that - for lunch << there isn't a bunchy of these things to pick one from. this was THE ONLY THING HAPPENING THAT DAY IN THE WHOLE 12 MILLION STRONG "CITY"
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306117 << imho the very concept of a public sex club is inherently derpatronic.