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Mon Mar 21 19:50:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and moreover, even with the best of intentions, the defense of the group is expensive and arduous, and everyone's got better shit to do.
Mon Mar 21 19:50:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much like it is cheaper for universities to universities than to actually teach anyone anything
Mon Mar 21 19:50:15 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and it is cheaper for this group to put forth an ideology than to do any actual investigative work
Mon Mar 21 19:49:58 UTC 2016 <mod6> mircea_popescu: formally, a group would have to be constructed to investigate and analyze failures and place blame where beyond required -- if it can be proved beyond any doubt.
Mon Mar 21 19:49:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yeah, sure, not a difficult one for as long as one lives on imaginary half mil a year and theorizes away. in practice, it will not be seen, nor has it.
Mon Mar 21 19:48:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> and, importantly, if it WERE to fail, how would we resolve the problem if it is or it isn't your fault.
Mon Mar 21 19:48:24 UTC 2016 <mod6> mircea_popescu: well, indeed. i mean, i can "swear and affirm" that my code won't fail you, but really, I can't be certain one way or another. too many variables.
Mon Mar 21 19:47:40 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: eh i didn't wake you up, did i
Mon Mar 21 19:47:31 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mod6 in any case, the idea of responsibility in software is a lot more difficult to implement than previously hoped.
Mon Mar 21 19:47:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> now plox to let me be.
Mon Mar 21 19:46:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform since you caqn't stop talking to them.
Mon Mar 21 19:46:46 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: since when do we 'most people'
Mon Mar 21 19:46:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> basically giving the day to the usual obamas with simple ideas and an insistence to repeat their nonsense.
Mon Mar 21 19:46:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> moreover, the issue of "it's kernel's fault" "no dude is program's fault" requires very complex analysis most people are unable to engage in, and in any case unable to finance even if they could somehow engage in it
Mon Mar 21 19:45:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mod6 that is the crux of the problem. there is no such thing as separatability in software anyway.
Mon Mar 21 19:41:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i imagine that's a rabbit with a whiplash sore penis huh
Mon Mar 21 19:41:24 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: imho single-bit scalar pgp is rather like car with sole control being a gas pedal.
Mon Mar 21 19:41:12 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> haha win
Mon Mar 21 19:40:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes> right now, i expect to sign something half-baked that then crashes on some dirigible and gets me excommunicated << this is a very cogent point ; and i feel rather the same way.
Mon Mar 21 19:37:13 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> jurov> and if your wot peer starts spamming with facebooky comments, just remove him << it's not so simple, really. it's not a sudden and visible thing, just slow slide towards shitworld where you wake up one day and wonder wtf happened. much like irl marriages.