BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Usually here they wait until the hospital. Traditional mixture here is B-52 comprised of Benadryl, 5 mg haloperidol, 2 mg ativan.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the old taser.
punkman: asciilifeform: no, in some schools of thought, one is supposed to emplace them in orbits << the not-harem
mircea_popescu: (one has to have shitty sex to imagine literotica is a good description of sexuality and the really really important part about a great piece of ass is her bra size)
asciilifeform: no, in some schools of thought, one is supposed to emplace them in orbits
mircea_popescu: i thought the idea was to always get rid of them, which is why they keep getting shitty sex
mircea_popescu: they do ?
punkman: is there a "paleo pickup" branch? "work out a lot so you can actually pick them up and walk off with them"
asciilifeform: as envisioned by the practicants!
BingoBoingo kind of wants fMRI for investigating this brain damage at some point. Maybe it can live in the belly of 30 foot golden mechanical tiger.
mircea_popescu: which is the zero sum game ?
asciilifeform: (well, rather, sell you a book that's worth something)
asciilifeform: incidentally, anyone ever wonder what kind of brain damage is necessary to think that someone will sell you a book on how to win the ultimate zero-sum game?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I think the spoiler improves it.
mircea_popescu: dude really, it's very easy to pick up girls. tell her what to do. if she does it, fine. if she doesn't, there's more.
mircea_popescu: i missed that line. what, see if they're ovulating ? drunk ?
asciilifeform: more of less 1 sentence summary of the sane parts ^
mircea_popescu: actually i'm being whispered in ear that a) it's called manosphere now, and b) the central point is that women lie a lot and guys hafta be confident.
asciilifeform: they break yer legs and stretch in a specially made frame.
mircea_popescu: hm, i guess the actual practice evolved under selective pressure more towards the cold calling / stage magician thing
asciilifeform: one of the facts known to all dedicated students of 'psychoceramics' (study of crackpots! what else, lol) is that genuinely new idiocies are invented quite infrequently
mircea_popescu: exact fucking equivalent of the "expert systems" failed msword&excel-based approach to hard ai
asciilifeform: it started, iirc, there.
asciilifeform regards 'pickup' literature as a very low kind of sc4mz0ry, like shady cancer cures pitched to the desperately ill
mircea_popescu: so money, which someone CAN get , is right off. but being tall, which someone CAN NOT get, and is certainly more on the button than money when hitting on a woman, is ok.
asciilifeform did not invent this particular flavour of crackpottery, but has seen a good sampling thereof
asciilifeform: in the words of tlp, 'if you're reading it, it's for you'
asciilifeform: and such feats of fish-catching are not of interest to the serious scholars.
asciilifeform: the car, as i understand, has to come -after-, or you fished with dynamite - and any idiot with a stick of dynamite can then be a 'great fisherman'
mircea_popescu: if i don't buy her a car and some fat and bald goofball buys his "daughter" whom his wife had with the plumber the car
asciilifeform: afaik the pickup folks have no position on which, if any, car, boeing, planet, one should buy -after-
mircea_popescu: why the fuck not ?
mircea_popescu: and now the idea is, i can't buy her a car.
asciilifeform: afaik they don't have a position on money per se, except that it can be used to travel to faraway lands where the great satan has not perverted womankind
mircea_popescu: why the fuck WOULDNT you pay the woman. this is beyond me. i am not discussing a whore here. forget that part. i go out, and notice a girl sitting down. i chat her up, she comes with me and i fuck her. turns out she's 17, she's a virgin, and she's never even THOUGHT of doing anything like this, in her life.
asciilifeform: in the philosophy of the 'pickup' folks, you don't grade as 'l33t' if you pay the whore
mircea_popescu: Most would say that Tucker Max was nothing more than a brief flash-in-the-pan, a pony whose only trick was vulgar frat boy humour. But the reality is that Tucker Maxs stories were more than just entertainment: They articulated a new male identity that was unapologetically masculine and intellectual."
mircea_popescu: "Tucker Max was a hero of mine. I discovered his writing at the age of eighteen, and idolized his literary persona for the next five years. His descent into mediocrity has been painful for me to watch.
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2014 19:38:32; asciilifeform: as a boy, i read about an 18th c. book, 'Triple Power over the Forces of Hell'
mircea_popescu: i guess the time to read it dun count.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the book costs as much ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise whatever, pay her a hundred.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, there's three different bars within ten blocks of where you live, you can just go there and LOOK at a girl.
asciilifeform still has trouble picturing anyone for whom the book - specifically - makes the difference
mircea_popescu: uh... i dunno, go to any of the campuses, pick a girl and take her out to lunch ?
mircea_popescu: hanbot well somehow it turns out you can't be an emperor on the support of 20something us boys.
hanbot: <assbot> Tucker Max Is Lying << dude clinton should've been made emperor stead of impeached. clearly this is the sort of shit they're interested in.
asciilifeform: they had a period of adding 'moldy' folks
mircea_popescu: o hey, made the splc kill list.
asciilifeform: although his colleague, 'heartiste', once referred to yours truly as 'the moldbug of computer science'
mircea_popescu: but yes, the general idea is that these are people who trasnform the culture and are well read and etc.
mircea_popescu: well afaik he identifies as a capt'n of the whole "how to get laid" thing.
mircea_popescu: or wtf is going on in there ?
mircea_popescu: this guy is supposedly a big deal internet marketing thing. why the fuck does he live in half a kitchinette separated by a pressedboard pane from the other half ?
assbot: Logged on 29-01-2015 04:14:19; asciilifeform: they 'which room'
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVcYP3OhlUU << speaking of the http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-01-2015#996778 thread
scoopbot: New post on The Whet by han@thewhet: http://thewhet.net/2015/line-betting-on-bitbet-january-2015/
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge9Ou3-YyqU << this is perhaps the oddest set for a pop song.
BingoBoingo: And you know where they mine lead? Ozarkistan.
mircea_popescu: hm. no lead obama, now that'd probably help the environment.
BingoBoingo: Y. Pestis does not occur in the singular
adlai: actually if we go full anal, strunk & white specifically mentions that the plural of a singular ending in s includes an additional apostrophe+s, so it'd be « Vessenes's »
BingoBoingo: I am blind to the things I write.
BingoBoingo: how about: In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers, the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers is being passed over in favor of actual solutions.
asciilifeform: 'In the interest of the reference implementation being a robust solution that requires minimal trust of its peers the header's only approach favored by the Vessenes' foundation's forks' developers.' <<< wat?
BingoBoingo: Indeed. Would have been nice to see Seattle win on the ground and close the book on the Air Assault era that ushered in
BingoBoingo very disappoint the game didn't end with Whitey getting Lynched
BingoBoingo: Even when he was on the Rams he was old having bagged groceries and played NFL Europe.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Kurt Warner's always been old.
BingoBoingo: thestringpuller: Bullshit ending. Also I really want a 30 foot golden mechanical tiger to ride for when the times come.
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: what'd you think of the game?
BingoBoingo: Have any pogo people run the ArmV build with a preloaded blockchain (i.e. minimal initial sync before current)?
mircea_popescu: so apparently there exists a real estate firm in ba called "asses propriedades"
asciilifeform: 'gentoo' is sufficiently malleable, presently, to fill the role.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Will put in on the list.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unrelated - recent re-read, recommended to you specifically - 'the design of the unix operating system', m. j. bach.
BingoBoingo: It's pretty much been of couple of decades of marching in the opposite direction of AOL Time Warner
punkman: they even got Star Wars now
mats: they own a lot of hollywood now
mircea_popescu: i guess there's lots of things i don't really understand.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, they got the super heros which are followed by the fanboys. From there they release a bunch of movies the fanboys use to get other idiots comfortably with Marvel. Then ??? Profit.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> holy shit, it turns out Marvel's The Avengers is the highest grossing and highest opening movie of all time. << The power of brand and using 5 previous feature length films as trailers.
asciilifeform: flipped, like the prices at filling stations.
asciilifeform: the story of inflation << one of the streets i frequently drive through had a housing development (row homes) under construction for the past ~3 yrs. there was a billboard, advertising 'From the low 300s!' (10**3) recently the '3' was flipped to a '6'.
mircea_popescu: not to mention that not a fucking thing in there is even watchable.
mircea_popescu: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/pastrecords.htm << if this doesn't tell the story of inflation, i have no idea what does.
mircea_popescu: holy shit, it turns out Marvel's The Avengers is the highest grossing and highest opening movie of all time.
asciilifeform: mod6: snippy snippy is very easy. and satisfying. i encourage others to try.
mircea_popescu: dude the smpoe war...
mod6: asciilifeform: thanks for the submission for removal of dnsseed
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: the way it's set up is extremely wasteful, yes; fetches many blocks for which there can be no use at all
BingoBoingo: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8zt-c6CUAAVG3-.jpg << Far less stupid than the game's ending
cazalla: lol ppl are still posting their credit cards on twitter https://twitter.com/Exodus_Res/status/548642193800704001
cazalla: well i figured "my" would act as a qualifier for actual girls posting their own tits
mircea_popescu: i wonder if my%20bras is the magic word.
mircea_popescu: gee, look at all the fucking bras.
BingoBoingo: The golden cat apparatus had legs, walked
BingoBoingo: Half a yard from the end zone and Captain Nigger tosses an interception. Bullshit ending to the game.
mircea_popescu: why do businesses in a country that's struggling with the spectre of deflation - businesses locate in the prime rib of that country, even - have problems typical of hyperinflating environments ?!
mircea_popescu: instead of pretending like we're fixing the problem like preet, let's try and think about the causes. why do firms perceive the need to artificially cap salaries ? this seems only rational in an hyperinflationary environment.
mircea_popescu: incidentally i suppose, the quote also throws a harsh light over the widespreadness of price fixing in silicon valley. seriously, fucking law interns ?
mircea_popescu: "strategist". what is your strategy ? "i pretend like i matter on the internet" why ? "YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW THE WORLD WORKS".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform generation... ...hoping they will be able to make a living off this << straight to butugychag. http://trilema.com/2014/yo-trilema-fratires/#footnote_2_57239 < example.
mircea_popescu: well i can't seem to find it, but he has a bit about "you don't believe me ? then believe x, she was stupid enough to quit medical school to join x shartup and now is a relationships expert"
asciilifeform: generation... ...hoping they will be able to make a living off this << straight to butugychag.
mircea_popescu: by now, there's an entire generation of essentially useless men hoping they will be able to make a living off this model.
mircea_popescu: the author is one tucker max, famous for nothing in particular (and whose life story is instructive, in case any chickies born yesterday actually believe amanda hess or randi zuckerberg are "feminist" models, and something good for her, and failed to understand that http://trilema.com/2015/the-worm/ is simply a fable about gawker.
mircea_popescu: About a week after Fenwicks announcement, and the resulting Infirmation.com message board explosion, Wilson, a Fenwick competitor, announced they were paying summers $2,400. Each of the other Silicon Valley firms quickly fell in line after that, including Fenwick.
mircea_popescu: . I even used one of my aliases to play the other side. It was beautiful. Of the 20 messages on this topic on the first day, I probably posted 10 of them. I kept this up, at a slightly lower output, for about three days.
mircea_popescu: I was unhappy with this, so I immediately posted this info on the Infirmation.com Silicon Valley/SF Greedy Associate board, and then, using four or five different anonymous screen names, proceeded to have a thread discussion on how horrible this was, how Fenwick was insulting its summers, how no one was going to accept their offers because the firm was so cheap it wouldnt fork over the extra $300 a week, etc, etc
mircea_popescu: How does this relate to the story? The summer salaries had already been announced in New York at $2,400, and everyone was waiting for the Silicon Valley firms to announce their summer salaries [Fenwick had four major competitors in Silicon Valley at the time: Cooley, Wilson, and Brobeck (these are abbreviated names of law firms)]. Fenwick was the first to announce; they did so sometime around late April, and they annou
mircea_popescu: As a result of these developments, partners at all the majors firms monitored these message boards, looking for the latest gossip about their firms and their competing firms. They had to stay up to date, because a change in benefits in Firm A could mean a flood of ass
mircea_popescu: a few others like it, junior associates at all the major firms started sharing info with each other about the relative benefits and detriments of their particular firms on these Greedy Associate boards.
mircea_popescu: ith each other about salary, benefits, work conditions, anything they choose. One of the sparking events was when Gunderson, a relatively small firm in Silicon Valley, raised their starting associate salaries from somewhere around the industry average of $100,000 to $125,000. One of the first places this information was posted and disseminated was the messages boards on Infirmation.com, and from that event, as well as
mircea_popescu: Infirmation.com is a job-related website that has message boards on it, where anyone can anonymously post anything. The message boards are divided by region, one being for New York associates, one for Silicon Valley, one for Chicago, etc. These message boards, called Greedy Associate boards, had vaulted to fame in the preceding months as a means for associates at different firms to anonymously share information w
mircea_popescu: What does this have to do with anything? Well, I was almost single-handedly responsible for Fenwick, and basically every other Silicon Valley firm, raising their summer associate salary from $2,100 to 2,400. How is that possible, you ask? The beauty of the internet, and the influence of an amazing website called Infirmation.com.
mircea_popescu: During the spring, Fenwick announced that they were going to pay summer associates only $2,100, which was below the $2,400 that most big firms in New York, LA and Chicago were paying their summers. Yet, right before we arrived in Palo Alto, Fenwick, along with every other Silicon Valley firm, announced that they were going to pay summers $2,400, commensurate with the big firms in other major cities.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone's curious as to how exactly stuff like reddit or tardstalk work, here's a blow by blow, by a guy in the know :
asciilifeform: what else do gavin et al intend to silently lose, is the inevitable thought
asciilifeform: did the phoundation so much as try to justify this?
asciilifeform: i mean, i like 'muntzing' as much as anyone, but this here looks more like an actual moving part they snipped off
asciilifeform: if lacks the blocks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it very transparently follows the overall pattern (create, nurture problem, then propose 'solution' glued with glass that introduces subtle boojum)
asciilifeform: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/341735eb8f42e898cf9d4d130709471e5d01abe2 << ben_vulpes et al: this is what they ended up replacing the block loader with...
assbot: Logged on 01-02-2015 21:41:09; BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I was mostly interested in linking the zombie's name to the NeoBee thing yet again. There's little left in the Ulbricht case capable of being interesting until appeals are filed.
ben_vulpes: 'twon't even be around forever. it's part of bootstrapping a slimmed down codebase that doesn't need all the trimming etc
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's not too bad for my health. definitely worse for the long term prospects of the heathens
mircea_popescu: then soon enough the HABIT of innovaton forms, and it's set. becomes culture, and win.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [] ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: am i the only one who wonders why 1) checking hashes, inside a pgp-signed script, when patch sigs also are checked 2) patches & their hashes, sigs, listed explicitly, instead of iterating over directory << consider it an excess of paranoia
mircea_popescu: when there's money to pay for it, and necessarilty in the shape of "fallen from the sky", the marriage with absurd constraints is the most productive thing known to man.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> "blood pressure boost" << can't tell whether this is good or bad for your health
mircea_popescu: these absurd constraints are a great driver of innoivation. for instance, the "lawless", "rugged" and obviously unwashed rapists of the wild west ?
mircea_popescu: er. All the bullion was shipped in bars by stage to San Francisco (a bar was usually about twice the size of a pig of lead and contained from $1,500 to $3,000 according to the amount of gold mixed with the silver), and the freight on it (when the shipment was large) was one and a quarter per cent. of its intrinsic value."
mircea_popescu: e was traceable clear across the deserts of the Territory by the writhing serpent of dust it lifted up. By these wagons, freights over that hundred and fifty miles were $200 a ton for small lots (same price for all express matter brought by stage), and $100 a ton for full loads. One Virginia firm received one hundred tons of freight a month, and paid $10,000 a month freightage. In the winter the freights were much high
mircea_popescu: here : "Speculation ran riot, and yet there was a world of substantial business going on, too. All freights were brought over the mountains from California (150 miles) by pack-train partly, and partly in huge wagons drawn by such long mule teams that each team amounted to a procession, and it did seem, sometimes, that the grand combined procession of animals stretched unbroken from Virginia to California. Its long rout
mircea_popescu: these arrangements, the making thereof, that's what the whole tinseltown is built on.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : the cost of hay in carson city was 250 dollars per ton in 1962, and had been as much as twice that. at the same time a horse could be had for 30.
Nemesis3: I never thought of that, it really makes sense (about gold rush), i'm still blow away by phoenix and other metropolis in the middle of nowhere
mircea_popescu: for that matter, cca 1890 a japanese invasion of the entire west coast was regarded moderately likely and entirely feasible in principle.
mircea_popescu: nothing existed there prior, or in the words of sinatra (a man the age of one's grandparents), "this place was sand before i came here and it'll be sand again before i'm done with you!"
BingoBoingo: http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/02/01_hacking-on-the-satoshi-codebase-some-pointers.html
mircea_popescu: anyway, people readily forget history. siegel had to beg and steal new york money to build, what essentially was, the first building in the desert.
asciilifeform: iirc archaeologists believe it (predecessor) to have been the first 1M+ city ?
mircea_popescu: there would be, yes.
asciilifeform: aha so just what i suspected. i.e., there would be no major population centres in western usa if not for gold rush
mircea_popescu: it took 50 years, that could only be built because of the previous 50. and so on.
mircea_popescu: it took time and money to drag them away.
mircea_popescu: but with it, "that's california for you", something conceptually entrenched already in the times of mark twain. on the basis of which, hollywood, and shockley.
mircea_popescu: california minus the gold rush, and the resulting adaptaiton, would have been washington with a coastline.
mircea_popescu: the actual physical gold rush
asciilifeform: the actual gold rush?
mircea_popescu: (btw... the reason silicon valley as a marketable product exists today ? that.)
mircea_popescu: so much wastage has never seen, not since the great california gold rush at any rate.
mircea_popescu: "The "Bitcoin Foundation" poured an unforgiveable number of coins into the market to feed Gavin Andresen and his family
and for what? 3 years of development that's just about to get flushed down the drain? The appearance of relevance without any of the hard work of thinking and making things work correctly? [...] Consider the tragedy wrought by an internet forum accidentally blessed with untold riches and weep."
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 02:32:39; mircea_popescu: including the actual bitcoin foundation is the correct move there. mod6 ben_vulpes are in charge.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nothing hypocritical about it : if WE fork bitcoin, then it's ok. if nobody claims to do it, nobody gets quashed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: before very long, this thing will not be readable in the usual sense of the word.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1 because allowing two ways to do things never killed anyone and 2 probably because i want to see the stuff. i suspect it's a derivative of the general "fits in head" principle.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu: am i the only one who wonders why 1) checking hashes, inside a pgp-signed script, when patch sigs also are checked 2) patches & their hashes, sigs, listed explicitly, instead of iterating over directory
mircea_popescu: (no you don't have to redo the history, it was copied over)
bitstein: Do I need to re-rate everyone using assbot for the asswot?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes http://cascadianhacker.com/blog/2015/02/01_hacking-on-the-satoshi-codebase-some-pointers.html << just reading this thing gives me a blood pressure boost.
mircea_popescu: you know how to voice yourself on the new model bitstein ?
Nemesis3: mircea_popescu hey thanks :) came mostly to keep an eye on the conversation here, I enjoy your website.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski you know these log copies where you capitalize the first letter in a line but not subsequent sentence leads nor 1st person pronouns is very odd looking.
mircea_popescu: "the nonsense we belive in is not really nonsense, which is why we can't hoild a conversation with random people. let's instead talk of sports!"
mircea_popescu: let them fucking come and worship instead of going around in circles like headless chickens pretending the whole world's a chicken and someone severed its head.
mircea_popescu: The most recent poll showed that the majority of Americans no longer believe the conspiracy theory that a species emitting only 3% of the worlds supply of a poor heat-trapping gas are magically cooling the planet
I mean heating the planet
. or wait, I mean causing the weather to change now.
BingoBoingo: I'm adding "Giant Golden Tiger driven by invisible slaves" to the wishlist.
trinque: I took aikido for a while; the teacher always pointed out that while you were using their own movements against them, you could for instance break their neck here, dislocate shoulder with a push an inch that way, etc
mircea_popescu: in other words, there's a lot of value in ~actually being the nightmare~, on the side.
mircea_popescu: but yes, that is unrelatedly the winning strategy, and sure, it's working splendidly. in spite of sustained pretense of everyone to you know, "who is mp".
trinque: this seems a winning strategy, find the top, discover their nightmares, convince them that you're it, you're everywhere, and they're fucked
mircea_popescu: the two are really unrelated.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I remember you talking about whether Stalins rust; I understand him to have succumbed to a great deal of paranoia about underlings coming after him
gribble: The operation succeeded.
trinque: mircea_popescu: is this the classic paranoia that the underlings are all out to get the leadership, as manifested in tech?
mircea_popescu: clearly... "they lie".
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/o-hai-let-me-wanna-be/#comment-111914 << meanwhile from the sufferers under the "code is poetteringy" mullenweg regime.
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm sure "they" lie, notwithstanding that "they" doesn't even exist as such outside of the sufferer's sufferances.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the steve dutch piece is funny because... "i lie" gets transmorgrified into "they lie" in such a predictable fashion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "yes, as a matter of policy, in the sense an addict's untimely death is a matter of his own policy"
mircea_popescu: trinque obviously it does not work in the favour of the bureaucracy. for the simple reason that the incentives of the talented, the smart and the valuables never are nor ever could be alligned with socialism.
mircea_popescu: " community" or w/e they are.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and the notion that it is, is purely a mirage created by the hairball << bitcoin is certainly simple.
asciilifeform: works in their sense, not ours
trinque: as you point out, the things that really matter use crypto that (afaik) works
trinque: seems to rule out what I said too. That they might have underlings use weakened crypto provides them greater control over them, and eh, if they get intercepted/caught/etc they were expendable in the first place.
trinque: asciilifeform: I think I see your point; the answer is not "yes, oops" but "Yes as a matter of policy."
trinque: put more clearly, does the thing committing industrial-scale corruption of software provide the rest of govt a reliable map of which things are unsafe to use. I'd think not
trinque: asciilifeform: at least one might hope that even they've lost track of which pieces of tech they've weakened over the years, such that they've weakened themselves as well
ben_vulpes: side note: that's the informal name for the infrastructure provisioning tool i wrote for internal use
cazalla: oh, garza never ceases to provide the lulz.. his $20 honour program was to go live today.. posts this a few days back https://i.imgur.com/1RjXbe4.png and now the day of launch.. http://blog.paybase.com/status-of-honor-program/ " As previously reported, we are reviewing with counsel the features of the Honors Program and what if any aspects of the program may require regulatory approval. We intend to proceed based upon advise of counsel and
asciilifeform: the original birth of said hairball may have been unintentional (mr s couldn't really program) - but its present state is not.
asciilifeform: and to answer the objections of possibly lurking idiots in advance - no, it is not because bitcoin is mathematically complicated
asciilifeform: point of this story is that 'open' source that is not accessible to the human mind with reasonable effort, may as well be 'closed'
asciilifeform: and these were winblows binaries.
asciilifeform: and i will say that none of the items i have worked with (and they were samples of malware, in some cases elaborately obfuscated) remotely approached the ugliness and gnarliness of bitcoind.
asciilifeform: had an early draft where it was phrased in a particularly comedic (unintentionally) way, where, parody of rms and his 'software freedoms,' the sqrt(-1)-th 'freedom' was to be 'freedom to understand'
asciilifeform: i've been meaning to write an article on the subject of 'pseudo-open' for... ~5 yrs now
assbot: Logged on 31-01-2015 19:52:45; asciilifeform: the solution to turdlangs is, to crib from clinton era anti-dope slogan, 'be smart - don't start'