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mircea_popescu: the destruction self-imposed blindness wreaks upon the lives of the wilfully blind is
a pretty sad sight huh.
mircea_popescu: Even those miserable moments in January 2014, cycling through the icy rain to buy
a single lemon, returning back to the dank cold warehouse, staring at the Dinnr backend, waiting in vain for orders to arrive."
mircea_popescu: "For these and other such moments, for the opportunity of having worked with
a fabulous team and dedicated investors, it was worth doing it all.
mircea_popescu: right-o. because the one thing we're truly committed to, beyond anything and everything else, is that there MUST NOT BE any god in the god damned machine. what if there were and he started spewing death warrants and whatnot! no, no, gimme lukewarm mediocrity as
a prior and let's see how well i do!
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. "this stupid shit i did never works - clearly i must do more of it. surely if 5 grand worth of advertising is
a waste, 5 mn is just the ticket. obviously every article in every "media outlet" i ever read that fell within my field of competence was below stupid, but clearly the way to inform oneself is to read more fishwraps."
mircea_popescu: "Having such detailed feedback wouldn’t require diving into the data, but having someone spend an hour stress-testing my thinking and assumptions would have been gold dust and could have prevented
a lot of effort wasted. I’m sure I’d have gotten that had Dinnr been accepted into accelerator programmes such as Seedcamp, TechStars or Wayra. But absent
a full-time co-founder, we weren’t eligible for the former two
mircea_popescu: "I really would have needed
a critic who said:" /me points out to Michal Bohanes that he has published no ready means of contact. not that it matters, you'll see your name in google next you look for it. anyway : next fucking time, ask #b-
a.
mircea_popescu: obviouisly if there WERE such
a power, the actual damage actual working people suffered would be minimal, but this is at no point
a consideration.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:46:20; trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright as
a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:44:38; *: trinque wonders if they can form sentences well enough in congress to actually write
a law remotely related
mircea_popescu: time for the irresponsible, delusionally-secure "coders" to figure out they live in
a world, and whether they're interested in this aspect or not is perfectly irrelevant.
assbot: Logged on 29-05-2015 23:16:21; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell sipa if you want to join #b-
a and actually work on bitcoin for
a change, i'll rate you so you can voice.
assbot: Logged on 28-11-2015 16:33:08; mircea_popescu: anyway, my data seems to suggest that the enemy will be pushing
a fork before the decade's out. whether we at that time have
a counterfork ready or not is pretty much what decides the fate of the free world.
mircea_popescu: all these original thinkers, it's
a fascinating world.
mircea_popescu: YOU are not business, schmuckaroos. WE are business. you're
a quaint historical accident.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 05:20:48; punkman: "“The current blockchain is
a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make that real for business?"
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 04:59:42; assbot: Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing
a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business ... (
http://bit.ly/1JfL05y )
mircea_popescu: they're actually
a pretty good study into "what not to do".
BingoBoingo: "I wish the devs were as active as they were in beta. Things got out of hand one time and all active players, save two, were permabanned over the course of
a 40 day ban spree. The two remaining players survived due to
a workaround and built the community back up."
trinque: I begin to believe they're just targeting the intelligent outright as
a matter of.. what do you call it... full spectrum domination?
☟︎ trinque wonders if they can form sentences well enough in congress to actually write
a law remotely related
☟︎ trinque: speaking of clinton's day, the "ban that encryption stuff" grows to
a dull roar lately in the media.
danielpbarron: "There is no one blockchain to rule them all. There will be multiple implementations of the blockchain. And it will be
a sin if they don't interoperate and work together."
punkman: "Patrick Byrne has been worried that the big Wall Street banks would “circle the wagons,” creating tech that locks everyone else out. But because IBM’s new project is open source—because anyone can use it and contribute to it—he’s pleased. He believes in more than
a single technology. He believes in
a big idea. “I’m not wed to bitcoin’s blockchain,” he says. “I’m blockchain agnostic.”
punkman: "“The current blockchain is
a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make that real for business?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg as
a default destination for users to share their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around the world - things to do, things to buy, travel, adventure, experiences and so much more. The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
mircea_popescu: i guess it boggles his mind because it makes
a point he doesn't wish to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out to carve your empire into the dust, or one of the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so that maybe it has some effect on reality.
mircea_popescu: this is
a PARTICULARLY insightful piece from lafond guy huh.
mircea_popescu perceives absolutely no value in any of these. last i had any interest, it was
a winamp install. 20 years ago or so ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is particularly
a difficult industry for me because i never listen to the radio ; i never commute ; if i do i use
a towncar and have live people to talk to ; etc.
mircea_popescu: " Its secret: free on-demand streaming, supported by advertising. By contrast, Rdio required
a paid subscription."
mircea_popescu: What is more, this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once
a month windfall, << exacerbated, exasperated, what the hells the difference!
mircea_popescu: under all the dumbass kid crud, there's
a good reason.
mircea_popescu: "There is no requirement to buy ten, but raising retails from 89-cents to 10 for $10 increases sales from
a case to
a pallet on most items, when you have the right customer base..." << which reminds me of
a point i wanted to make. yo ben_vulpes it's pretty dumb to offer grunt 30. offer 28.75. for one thing, it makes it look like real thought went into all that precision, and the sort of dickless imbecile he is will spe
mircea_popescu: "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you to know that supermarkets that do not embrace
a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not thrive in upscale locales. You might be able to keep the doors open—but forget
a profit. People with money make their food purchases at restaurants. You didn't buy that stunning piece of plastic surgery to hav
mircea_popescu: gotta build yerself
a castle, mr wannabe margrave lord.
mircea_popescu: "is
a jagers unit more valuable than
a cavalry unit ?"
mircea_popescu: similarly, there is not such
a thing as "what it takes TO bed beautiful women".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing as "
a price tag". this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:48:37; BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour
a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma. This is not
renart: run
a whois on this nick yet?
renart looks forward to buying flats in args for
a weeks worth of local wages
mircea_popescu: as
a result they misperceive their incentives and lose out.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 02:16:41; mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and
a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and
a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (this was counterintuitive to the grunts doing money changing in the street, we had
a good laugh over steaks about it, when discussing venezuela's plans to the same thing. after it played out they decided i was
a god. because hey, why admit you were wrong when you could think the guy who's right is simply supernatural)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is why it's always
a good idea to liberalize : the price on the black market ALWAYS drops as
a result.
mircea_popescu: should the damned thing liberalize the new price would be 1.1 bn dollars matching 10.5bn pesos, or roughly speaking... 10.
a 40% drop from it's black market rate of 16.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled as well as they can be (they can't be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn't break
a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
mircea_popescu: instead, it mostly went into
a game of real estate musical chairs. everyone in buenos aires is
a lawyer though nobody practices , and everyone owns property, which they keep trading to each other at ridiculous valuations.
mircea_popescu: because the stupidity of
a typical argentine is only matched by his pretentiousness, this worthless paper issue did not result in much devaluation of the currency
mircea_popescu: part and parcel of all this,
a LOT of empty peso printing, creating immense piles of worthless pesos sloshing around.
mircea_popescu: the government has for many years run it very badly. specifically, instead of borrowing in europe and then pumping those resources into development in the huge provinces (argentina is much larger than europe), it borrowed in europe, squandered most of it for supporting the pretense of dumbass, worthless middleaged women, and
a tiny sliver on buying cheap food for poor people to turn out the vote.
mircea_popescu: so : argentina has many problems, economically, all of which reduce to "it's
a country of 40mn useless douches, of which ~10 mn pretend to live like they saw in various imported tv shows, while the country is unfit to even export raw meat, so it lost those contracts and is now exporting soy"
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:24:37; pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency as part of
a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
mircea_popescu: what is this, socialism ? need ain't
a consideration comrade.
mircea_popescu: it's
a fucking convention. the notion that you walk in and it's yours is neither falser nor truerer than the notion you say hi to
a girl and she takes you to her place.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 22:25:37; ascii_field: tibet - originally
a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today
a usg-maintained 'antichina'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he has
a point when he says this is common in europe. it is.
mircea_popescu: alf would suspect this is deliberate. maybe it is. maybe they're just as dumb as
a box of rocks.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Maybe you just need
a worse neighborhood?