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mircea_popescu: shit. i could have written for "bitcoin news" ALL THIS TIME ?
mircea_popescu: Make sure your article is easy to read. People familiar and not will be reading the articles.
mircea_popescu: best use of one's time in this field, deeply recommended for any gentleman anyway.
mircea_popescu: as if any judge has the authority to order such a wonder.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad << ofcourse it is ? just like soviet ruble vouchers were void in bonn ?
mircea_popescu: this is whjat i get for going "who the fduck is vincent canfield"
mircea_popescu: lol " The Maine college drop-out, 21, at center of hoax terrorist threat emails sent to schools across the East and West coasts that sparked college evacuations "
mircea_popescu: it's about this world. a small town next to bakersfield (a sort of california's own ohio)
mircea_popescu: maybe that's the issue. what "turd world" ? third world ?
mircea_popescu: or did i misconstrue your question and you weren't asking something along the lines of "how COULD you stick your penis in brown!!1"
mircea_popescu: it's about california being dumb in a different color scheme , i guess.
mircea_popescu: as someone who actually fucks third worlders, i do not buy this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently yes, had to ask teh womenz. really fucking retarded movie.
mircea_popescu: fucktards are advertising coca cola with their own money, out of every single drink coca cola makes a dollar fifty if they make a dollar.
mircea_popescu: some bright minds decided to advertise it. they actually paid money to get outdoor space, and on it they're selling... rum and cola. huge, block lettered 4 stage recipe, 3rd being "bebida cola".
mircea_popescu: heh. here's the thing : by far the finest alcohol available in this country is havana club 7 yo.
mircea_popescu: "The growing public attention sparked by the investment became both a heaven and a hell. On one hand, during the course of Gowalla’s life we received more tech press coverage than is right and holy for any startup. On the other, I dare you to find a post about Gowalla that doesn't mention Foursquare."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think it's africanization, to me it seems very ... surfer culture, to be honest. the whole trend with walla this and palooza that traces back to that idiotic aussie band of the 90s wtf was it called.
mircea_popescu: it's apparently very hard to underestimate just how little these people do with their time.
mircea_popescu: apparently that pointless foursquare thing is somehow a success that had it's own wanna-bes that meanwhile died.
mircea_popescu: these idiots aim to "revolutionize", "improve" and ultimately save a world they do not wish to ever see.
mircea_popescu: this is not a trend among the newly "creative" worthless class, not getting out of the building.
mircea_popescu: "But we never defined clear hypotheses, developed experiments, and we rarely had meaningful conversations with our target end-users. And while we had some wonderful advisors in the parking industry, we should have met with everyone we could get our hands on. Worst, we rarely got out of the building."
mircea_popescu: shinohai the problem is that for someone to later verify the bundle deed one needs to keep the whole bundle.
mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;" << i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in general, socal ditz does not call the other socal ditz "like, totally, a slut" for any other reason than you know, the slut getting the attention of the boys she wanted for herself.
mircea_popescu: "Socialists revile the church not for its promulgation of irrational faith but because historically churches have championed the improvement of the world as a thing that the devoted do—not a thing which may (or even should) be outsourced to le etat." << quite exactly.
mircea_popescu: hm... well, other than the cost of keeping the stuff around forever to verify blocks.
mircea_popescu: moreover, there's no extra cost for adding more items to one block
mircea_popescu: technically speaking all that goes into the chain is 32 bytes per paste
mircea_popescu: aha, and now we understand teh point of the entire exercise.
mircea_popescu: "Jeff Bezos of Amazon has, according to HBR, toppled from #1 to #87 in their list of Best Performing CEOs."
mircea_popescu: This year HBR changed the evaluation criteria from "stock price only"1 to an agglomeration of fuzzy metrics that include stock price in addition to Sustainalytics' proprietary "goodness evaluation" metrics.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Quennesson had noted that the more photos he took, the less likely he was ever to look at any one of them ever again. "People take more and more photos, but paradoxically, they become more and more disconnected from them," he said last month in a conference room at their co-working space. "You don’t want to go back to this whole life that you’ve captured, which is counterintuitive. It's the most important thing —
mircea_popescu: here's a fun fact : the classical gestapo didn't know what to do to keep the idiot population from givingthem tips.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and for this exact reason medicine is a losing proposition. except THAT gets swept up into "obamacare" and so on. there's not going to be an obamacare for photographolalia, your ft meade wet dreams notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: after reading that sort of nonsense i half expect the author has some "science" in a jar in his basement
mircea_popescu: "By 2009 both men had left Apple and were working at Cooliris, which makes photo viewing software. Latour set up an office for Cooliris in Japan, and after spending some time traveling through Asia with his girlfriend, he became frustrated with how difficult it was to store and organize all the photos he was taking. He discussed an early idea for a product with Quennesson, who was interested in using math and science t
mircea_popescu: people take pictures in total violation of the economic cost of the energy expenditure for the camera, let alone any other considerations.
mircea_popescu: if you pay 35k monthly for hardware you'd better be doing something more interesting than "we store 400 million photos"
mircea_popescu: dude wtf, a) never heard of it and b) it fucking sucked, get lost.
mircea_popescu: "Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business. Everpix was great. This is how it died. The immediate concern in the room was a forthcoming bill from Amazon Web Services, which hosts the 400 million photos stored with Everpix; the team estimated the bill would be about $35,000."
mircea_popescu: We should have packed it up early right then, but we felt like we had already gone too far to quit. We rebuilt (and re-designed) the majority of the software, got approved by Amazon, and reached out to over 1,700 artists (each individually through different platforms). We got between 1 and 10 artists interested. Again, this just screams “PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY!” But we kept going.