mircea_popescu: i watched a middle aged woman and two young men. they were seated at some table being the usual monkeys adolescents are today

mircea_popescu: me. i should be. these fucktards who imagine the world exists like their stupid mother, just waiting for them to squeeze a tit a little are fine.

mircea_popescu: i should be less psychopathic!

mircea_popescu: i somehow thought you mentioned them once.

mircea_popescu: So what was it? Did we just pick the wrong videographer? Did we pay too much for what was being offered? Should we have paid more for a more experienced videographer? Or significantly less for someone of equal calibre? Maybe our product just didn’t need a video? I mean, we’re selling women’s clothing and the items themselves are undoubtedly “out there”. Perhaps leveraging word of mouth would have proved just

mircea_popescu: i don't mean what they're currently wearing, i mean all the underwear they ever used.

mircea_popescu: i wonder what will i be taking in my travels for the waitresses and secretaries. tp and jeans like before ? batteries, maybe ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i have a dog that speaks like this.

mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of seinfeld, "i give some guy the keys to my car because he's wearing a vest"

mircea_popescu: any mention of "i suck as a manager" eerily absent. "i don't suck as a manager - i gave all the people who had no responsibility in the matter all the data about what a shit job i was doing. this means i wasn't doing a shit job! this is also how i went through school - i told my parents about all the Cs i got! this is actually better than getting As!"

mircea_popescu: We had a user acquisition problem, and the best route involved a competitor…The best acquisition method I saw was tapping into an existing network of people who had filed 1099s: like Intuit’s hundreds of millions of tax returns, many with 1099 income. Unfortunately, Intuit released an identical competing product to us. It’s not ideal when your best user acquisition strategy is partnering with a company who has a

mircea_popescu: i dun see any alternative there.

mircea_popescu: epic. "i am exactly who i wanted to be : a failure. unfortunately, this also means i die now. so long!" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: on the basis of all the foregoing, i would say the market value of okcupid is definitely under 10 btc and perhaps over 1 btc.

mircea_popescu: this is practically a straight advertising deal, and i have the numbers : out of the ~150-200k people onlione they claim perpetually, the 1-2 dollar thing buys you about 300 over an hour, so that's superficially 1.5-2 per thousand but i suspect might be as high as 10% given that obviously, not everyone actually pays any attention to them.

mircea_popescu: but anyway. i imagine it's making a decent penny for them, being exactly the fuctarded "sit by lakeside and carefully dip toe in" thing that today's women of both sexes obsess over.

mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : okcupid makes money in two ways that i can see. one is to sell you "A list" status, which brings no obvious benefits other than "browse invisibly". they advertise the shit out of it too, "you are browsing visibly". what the fuck sort of deranged ustardian would actually make an account of a site specifically dedicated to finding people and then wanting stealth!

mircea_popescu: i do, actually. this line-at-a-time business is almost perfect.

mircea_popescu: but hey, i like to read.

mircea_popescu: jurov quite. i recall reading that thing years ago, too. understood as nothing of it then as now, obviously.

mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-12-2015#1344295 << having no expenses is great, aha <<< hey, i don't recall teh mod6 / ben_vulpes writing in any checks that bounced, so... it covers 100% of its expenses! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: they're taking the "i've been part of the bitcoin through talking" to the next level : "in my head, i could have been talking abotu this in 2012 so why the hell not!"

mircea_popescu: i stand impressed.

mircea_popescu: he's been doing that, has a regular stable of noobs going from what i gather.

mircea_popescu: wherever i happen to be.

mircea_popescu: i use slave labour for the most part.

mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal i mean, any psychotropics.

mircea_popescu: "i paid my taxes to these people that lol at you, problem ???"

mircea_popescu: it can't be something pointful, meaningful, "i get to move satoshi's stash".

mircea_popescu: i didn't care for proletcult either, and somehow i don't seem to be missing having missed out on that either.

mircea_popescu: i suppose every nigger gotta add his own hardfork out there now, it's the new hip thing. you ain't nobody if you ain't hardforkin'!