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Thu Sep 03 22:11:27 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261703 <<this never worked for me. because i don't just read, i have a tree of activites. it's not even a tree, its a graph, with cycles. line in log leads to documentation or to article writing half the time. and tablets are unusable for any purpose other than tv
Wed Sep 02 05:34:43 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> <asciilifeform> and just about everybody, right, left, center, happily buying in. << i'm buying in because i do not believe local resistence is a good idea. the whole thing should burn, and pockets of sanity just make the burn last longer and hurt more.
Tue Sep 01 17:56:49 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> don't credit newspapers just because they're newspapers when you know in your own field what a shitfest they are ; don't expect the laws etc are anythig but badly written, poorly maintained code full of holes. as reverse-engineerable as anything else.
Sat Aug 29 22:45:08 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> the nsa approach to software issues is not "how can we fix this" but "how can we pretend this is fixed while really we can just keep it in sleeve for later because you never know". fnargl through and through.
Sat Aug 29 13:56:57 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as stee
Fri Aug 28 19:50:06 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> but just because english makes a mess of vocative case / demonstrative pronoun / possesives etc doesn't mean much.
Fri Aug 28 03:03:33 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> but hey, we're also the only ones to want to have the P, because everyone else just needs summaries and narratives.
Thu Aug 27 21:02:52 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> (and yet he should be - in practical terms a population that spends x on sheltering women and x on sheltering men will fare ~35% worse than a population that just spends 2x on sheltering men. because women are for many reasos much much harider)
Thu Aug 27 14:05:18 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "This will quickly change if you are one of us." << heh, check it out, dude wants slaves an' doesn't even know it. because a) slavery is not a thing in the us, right, the idea just came to him out of nowhere, not out of watching the sv muppets and making the next teeeny tinsy incremental stop and b) it's a really fucking great idea to go slave for a dude that doesn't even know that's what it is. 2nd best after going fo
Wed Aug 26 20:24:38 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> ascii_field i dun see it, just because you ex post facto define that agenda (as do they) doesn't mean it;'s anything
Mon Aug 24 21:14:45 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> because srsly, trilema paid content thing "is just not done"
Mon Aug 24 18:09:10 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> "because why not just improve the scriptbook instead"
Mon Aug 24 16:03:32 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> wyrdmantis just because web-programmers suck doesn't mean asm no longer exists.
Mon Aug 24 02:07:47 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> (just like if major attorney firm loses major trial - it's not because the paralegals sucked)
Sat Aug 22 00:54:57 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> look, im not going to give back the major advantage of asym crypto keys just because nsa sponsored implementation and useful rms-ian idiots made a mess of things.
Wed Aug 19 17:44:01 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> <ascii_field> jurov: my point was that cpp allows considerable variance between what is printed on the page and what the code actually generated is. << to make it plain ; just because c let you push her into a corner once or twice (provided you bring sweets) doesn't mean they're not sluts mmkay ?
Wed Aug 19 00:30:36 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> anyway. yes usg can be rejected just by rejecting it. no, there aren't places where this actually hurts one. yes if one perceives to be hurt it's because one did something stupid in the past he'll have to undo. no this isn't anyone else's problem and no this calls for no sympathy.
Tue Aug 18 19:25:02 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> a more pointed example of how the entire thing just ground to a halt could not be devised if one tried. and yet the derp figures this bolsters his case. because he went to a school in the united states.
Sat Aug 15 17:49:42 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> incidentally, re <BingoBoingo> shinohai: I personally think this is the same process that slowly lead even Thermos to denounce Gavin, just... once enough time had passed to make MP espoused sanity seem original to the uninitiated <<< do not imagine that ms, yandex et all did not know same things i know. obviously trhey do, but they also had hoped they're somehow favoured sons. because "Terrorists will never do that, tr
Sat Aug 15 06:01:59 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> it is ok to seek a twitter wrapper of x, just not x. because twitter gotta eat, and all that.