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mircea_popescu: that would be revolutionary, and disrupting and whatnot : have
a social media outlet where people can give themselves deeds for abandoned property, and everyone signs.
mircea_popescu: or
a bunch of hungry chinese "courtiers" doing exactly the same, pre-british invasion
mircea_popescu: you have already seen the floor.
a bunch of hungry people in ugly cheap suits moving flimsy paper around, with stamp ink shortages, as in moscow 1985
mircea_popescu: post-tsa,
a dollar is worth ten cents, and same exact airship is worth... ten million.
mircea_popescu: pre-tsa
a dollar was worth
a dollar, and an airship capable of taking
a few hundred people across the atlantic was worth
a coupla hundred million dollars.
BingoBoingo: There is
a rabbit hole, or mebbe gravity well to fall into
BingoBoingo thinks there is
a difference between dam and "superweapon". Sure F-35 gets to be boondogle. Drones? Get delivered.
pete_dushenski: for usg to think that way for death star would be like han solo, in the middle of
a fire fight, sitting down to pen
a phd thesis on whether or not he should pull the laser trigger
pete_dushenski: which'd be the strict inverse of sop for mega-projects
a la death star
BingoBoingo: "But the White House got its figures from this website which admits, after much public scrutiny that followed getting picked up by the White House, to have gotten the math wrong by
a factor of one hundred! We’re looking at much more like $8.1 quadrillion."
assbot:
A Scam of Galactic Proportions | Hackaday
BingoBoingo: punkman: Of course it is. USSA retired means You get 4 days
a week off instead of just mebbe 2
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 calculated as
a percentage
☟︎ 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."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Well, if the container ships are empty why would you burn fuel in all those motors capable of carrying loads instead of slowly floating them down on
a pallet with one motor burning fuel
pete_dushenski:
a naive observer would think that container boats would, y'know, travel under their own power between the factory and its first loading dock
pete_dushenski: "Government spending accounts for 40% of Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15% is the more usual level for other provinces. In
a cyclical sense this is beneficial, as Tibet is hardly feeling the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8% real GDP growth for the first three quarters of 2015. But the reason they’re not feeling the slowdown is that they didn’t have
a real economy to begin with. It’s
a bunch of civil servants
ascii_field: tibet - originally
a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today
a usg-maintained 'antichina'
☟︎ ascii_field: 'Because we live in
a landlocked territory, District residents’ interest is piqued by any mention of
a beach...' << holy fuck, did someone pull up the drain cork on the potomac river or what
trinque blows down his end of the tube, hears
a nice tone
pete_dushenski: might take
a while to show up, the intertubes are full of netflix
BingoBoingo: Scooty, because it's
a "mobility" scooter, puff because of the scents
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Of course that fraud doesn't rise to Qntra levels until it issues an Altcoin to buy
a scooty puff, or it can get
a nickname like COD (short for cock and dog) mongler.
pete_dushenski: and here i was thinking that new cars were
a raw deal...
pete_dushenski: "Boeing Co. fell after Delta Air Lines Inc. revealed it is purchasing
a used 777 jetliner for $7.7 million, reviving concerns that plunging values for some wide-body models signal that the market is glutted."
trinque: reframes it back to
a rectangle, lets you Tag and Share (TM) etc.
trinque: I'll wager it's
a "take
a picture of your whiteboard and d1g1t1z3 it" aka one bored afternoon's project.
mircea_popescu: infoDev. We could list countless press and media coverage from all around the world. But here is what we could not do: we simply failed in creating
a scalable business!"
mircea_popescu: "If success is defined by creating awesome products, we created apps that have been downloaded 15 million times across iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store. If success is defined by people using the product, we still have over
a quarter of
a million users actively using our apps around the world. If success is defined by making money for the business, we put in our bank account $1 million in total revenue. If success is
mircea_popescu: i mean don't get me wrong, it's
a theory, but that's about it.
ascii_field: l0l perhaps he's looking for
a new irctron
mircea_popescu: oh look at that, from back in the days ben_vulpes wasn't too ashamed of random mishap to show up in b-
a ? :D
ascii_field: classically, 'dumping' is supposed to have
a ??? and then
a 'profit!111'
trinque: bezos loves his razor-thin margins; there's
a previous thread on this
mircea_popescu: you can't run
a bar by giving out free drinks. you CAN however, and if you have any sense you DO run
a bar by giving away free tits.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it just happens to be
a very good loss leader. you know how casinos will give you free drinks for as long as you're playing ?
ascii_field: to the point where i EXPECT
a three dollar part to arrive sunday morning if ordered on friday night
ascii_field: but somehow
a. struck deals with all of the major shipping corps
ascii_field: (why there exists an 'amazon' which does this for ~$0 is
a mystery, but here it is)
mircea_popescu: otherwise your brain becomes
a "phd castle to be manned by 9k phds"
mircea_popescu: "i intend to one day be
a singer" is not how you get the fucking job. WHERE HAVE YOU SUNG BEFORE BITCH. that is it, that is all.
mircea_popescu: ut PAST behaviour: When was the last time they cooked something new? Do they dislike takeaway food? Do they feel bad about food wastage/spoilage? If so, what are they doing to minimize it? If nothing, it’s not
a problem waiting for
a solution."
mircea_popescu: "You must never, ever, pitch the product to the customer and ask for their feedback. Instead, the conversation serves the purpose of ascertaining whether the lack of recipe diversity and frustration with takeaway food or ready meals is
a big enough problem for which I offer
a solution that they would pay for. To reach this conclusion, don’t ask about their future intentions (“would you buy this?”), but do ask abo
mircea_popescu:
a random two immigrant illegal stand here, will take orders. and walk them over.
mircea_popescu: There never was
a need for
a service like ours in the UK in the segment that we picked (urban professionals, couples without kids or with one baby max). << ironically, the need does exist. argentina does one thing right, and that is they are FANATIC with deliveries. you can have ANYTHING delivered. i don't mean, walk into supermarket, order two pellets of mineral water and have the supermarket deliver it - you can do t
mircea_popescu: of radioactive fumes emanating from commercial kitchen equipment, all be zombified and eat patrons’ brains, yes, in that case I might be tempted to purchase
a trial product from you. Once. Then I’ll take
a risk with the zombies.”
mircea_popescu: However, we committed the big mistake of presenting people with the idea and asking them if they liked it and would buy it. And when people said yes, WE thought they meant “launch it and I will buy”. In reality, they meant “I’m not entirely excluding the possibility that one day, when Ocado trucks run out of gas, supermarket doors get blocked by red-hot lava and restaurant waiters will, due to
a mysterious leak
mircea_popescu: "Now, with the distance of
a few months, it sounds positively crazy to run
a “business” like this. But of course, one sticks to the guns because one has set out to make things happen and one has an obligation to investors. And then there’s the adage of “
a winner never quits”, tales of entrepreneur legends who lost all their money, got abandoned by family and friends, were so hungry that they ate cardboard, on
mircea_popescu: "In those days, I spent 9 hours
a day, 6 days
a week, sitting in
a cold warehouse in West Acton, hot air blowers creating 25 degree bubbles around parts of my body in an otherwise 14–15 degree room. The large industrial fridges were empty. Long gone were the days I pre-stocked ingredients for faster order fulfillment. Now, when an order would come through, I would jump on my bike and buy fresh ingredients at
a nearby
mircea_popescu: Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select
a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need to cook that recipe at home, all the items pre-measured with printed instructions. All you need at home is oil, salt and pepper and
a reasonably equipped kitchen.)
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the notion that people are actively interested in oppressing his dumb ass so that their world isn't littered with the byproducts of
a trillion adam zerners running around does not even begin to occur.
mircea_popescu: something like "why wouldn't mom go turn tricks for an hour each weekend, it only costs her an hour's worth of tricks, like 50 bucks or so, and she could buy me WoW from the proceeds, at
a value to me of OVER NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!11". supposedly this is how it worked with that dumb whore of Adam Zerner's mother. shame on you mrs zerner, really. being ugly is no excuse to fuck drunks. behold the unfortunate results in
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/u5LjB << the butttears piece in question (obviously what he links is his own verbiage, because what, we can't all be mp ?! why the hell not!). his idea is that people are assholes because they don't front what [appears to him as]
a small cost to them in order to get him [what appears to him as]
a larger benefit.
mircea_popescu: Feb 279 min read << ahahaha
a 10 minute read on the fucking clock is 279 minutes according to what the fuck is this ? us college reading comprehension data ?
mircea_popescu: And I when I asked people from my high school to answer questions and spread the word
a bit, I thought that
a bunch of them would have respect for what I’m doing and want to help out. Almost no one did, which I found to be quite selfish of them. I don’t think my initial expectations were too unreasonable given what I had known, but my beliefs have since been updated."
mircea_popescu: decent chance that they’d think, “Oh cool, look at this kid trying to start
a startup, good for him! Hm, he’s actually trying to do something that would be pretty useful. Let me check it out.”
mircea_popescu: "I overestimated peoples’ desire to help someone starting
a startup and trying to do something good. This will probably sound naive, but I don’t think it is. I thought that people would have some sort of respect for what I’m doing and want to help out. For example, the high school guidance counselors I tried to contact, maybe the default is for them to operate in
a bureaucratic way, but I had thought there was
a mircea_popescu: great, now you can be
a neuroscience relationship expert!
mircea_popescu: Throughout sophomore year I read all I could about startups, and about things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design, technology etc. The following summer I started learning some HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, but didn’t make much progress (I also started
a very early version of the website that I’m writing this post about)."
mircea_popescu: and using it to do something good would be
a better way of pursuing my goals of doing something important”.
mircea_popescu: My sophomore year of college I was
a neuroscience major and my plan was to unlock the secrets of the mind and universe. Then I realized that the path of grad school, professor, grants, and incremental research wouldn’t be
a great way to pursue this goal. At the same time, I read Paul Graham’s essay on How to Start
a Startup. I felt
a strong sense of “I could do this!” and “making
a lot of money from
a startup
mircea_popescu: and still EVERYTHING is on medium. medium.com, home of the new retard. are you the sort of guy who learns that "you charge not for how much work it is for you, but for how much the service is worth" in your twenties ? are you ready to start your entrepreneurtardism with 2 week's ruby cramming ? are you
a "content generator" with delusions of humanity ? MEDIUM IS WHERE ALL THE OTHER SIMILAR SCUM FOUND
A HOME!
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately we do not have the resources to fend off
a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic."
mircea_popescu: "I realized that many of the true money-making businesses in healthcare really aren’t about optimizing delivery of primary care. This is
a longer discussion but I realized, essentially, that we had no customers because no one was really interested in the model we were pitching. Doctors want more patients, not an efficient office."
mircea_popescu: don't ever hire one of those schmucks, it's as good as signing
a blank confession.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 15:06:52; mircea_popescu: how are we on the "can take
a reboot" front ?
kakobrekla: >By age 26, they said, he got nine investors to place $3 million with him, began losing their money and covering it up. Within
a year, his fund's account was down to $331.
mircea_popescu: this will also add
a 0.7-.8 expense on the s.nsa books, but hey, whatchagonnado.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, asciilifeform : i comissioned
a server with 128gb (ecc) ram, on the understanding that they'll upgrade it to 256gb just as soon as they can get the sticks in the dc. will be passing you the coords later today, so phuctor can live again.