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mircea_popescu: bitchslapping the redditards "we need free shit because that's what we're worth" is one thing. actually making txn cost what they cost is a whole other can of whipass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is an infelicity of puberty. we can't do anything about that yet.
mircea_popescu: jurov honestly i think the original design intent was that.
mircea_popescu: but you surely recall the original discussions of "bitcoin-as-filesystem" as a precursor to bitcoin-os
mircea_popescu: and odds are std::map is not even correctly implemented, and we don't even know exactly where.
mircea_popescu: so work hygienically. diligence is good, hygiene is non-negotiable.
mircea_popescu: this is not a sprint. it's not even a marathon. the most important thing, by a large margin, is plox don't kill yourselves fighting with it. if anyone goes "i'll tend to my ulcer once i sorted out THIS thing", that someone's going to be remembered as naggum 2.
mircea_popescu: gotta very carefully do raids and incursisions with a clear retreat plan.
mircea_popescu: i am firmly convinced that you can lose an entire team of engineers in there, permanently.
mircea_popescu: 98.x% of my contribution as far as fucking up my own tech dept goes to date has been variations of "STOP WITH THE DAMNED CODE" and such.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason nobody really touched the spaghetti monster in five years jurov and this'd be that reason.
mircea_popescu: somehow this gargle thing works do. it does something. it drives the kids loco.
mircea_popescu: ace from our friends at OneLogin, our burnrate wasn’t yet gone through the roof. But close.."
mircea_popescu: "From the comfort of the backyard cabin we moved to big city San Francisco and faced the totally hopeless situation of finding a place to live. We survived the first two weeks by renting office space at Tradeshift and sleeping on their couches at night. Not sure if they ever found that out. Finally we managed to get a 9 m2/97 sqft room through our Y-Combinator network. Rent $1,250. Dang! But since we had free office sp
mircea_popescu: but hey... "online advertising is an industree. because google "makes revenue" from it, which is to say some people recycle bezzle funds through there and everyone outside actually believes someone somewhere paid 5bn for ppc.
mircea_popescu: ming through PPC were converted at a lower rate than those originating through SEO. Even as we sharpened our targeting, experimented with messaging, and sought advice and consulting from more experienced parties, we found that paid channels just weren’t good enough to merit real focus."
mircea_popescu: In our first year, that conviction drove our experiments with a series of other channels: PPC, partnerships, deals, guerilla type tactics, targeted mailings, craigslist posting tools, etc. Each experiment produced results inferior to those from SEO. The acquisition costs through those channels were significantly higher than what was allowable based on our revenue per customers. We also found that potential customers co
mircea_popescu: That worked brilliantly for us. We acquired users for practically nothing by using the content and site structure generated as a byproduct of our tutor acquisition. However, that success was also a trap. It convinced us that there had to be another channel that would perform for us at the level of SEO.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Tutorspree didn’t scale because we were single channel dependent and that channel shifted on us radically and suddenly. SEO was baked into our model from the start, and it became increasingly important to the business as we grew and evolved. In our early days, and during Y Combinator, we didn’t have money to spend on acquisition. SEO was free so we focused on it and got good at it.
mircea_popescu: they don't want that part of bitcoin anymore. it's "blockchain technologies" now as far as reddit is concered, with spv mining, 0tx fees and hopefully increasing block subsidies in the future.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and while you're hanging, everybody who was connected ~to you~ has a hanging socket << yeah it propagates holes.
mircea_popescu: maybe i should dig out / give you comp details or something ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, seriously, the only time i rented in that part of the world, place came with complete everything. boxsprings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform insurance co does not give you new matressess because kid pissed it ; nor new shoes because dog chewed them.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski most of your "repairs" expenses when you have kids are sadly not of this kind.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so simple as all that, not really. what, you leave water running each week, landlord fixes ?
mircea_popescu: i was under the impression something else's discussed there.
mircea_popescu: nobody said the life on the farm ain't easier, prikoke.
mircea_popescu: "We could have and should have used the proceeds of the convertible note to get out from under Facebook’s thumb rather to invest further in the Facebook Platform."
mircea_popescu: "oh... there's no difference between that velociraptor that ate my arm, and that other velociraptor that ate my arm. wanna come play with my velociraptor ? no ? what do you mean no!"
mircea_popescu: "We exposed ourselves to a huge single point of failure called Facebook. I’ve ranted for years about how bad an idea it is for startups to be mobile-carrier dependent. In retrospect, there is no difference between Verizon Wireless and Facebook in this context."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nice paste, for it includes the fee schedule huh.,
mircea_popescu: what was that group of idiots that died of hunger/ate each other in nevada ?
mircea_popescu: the fate of such folk, especially when unparented, is fundamentally speaking the
mircea_popescu: he has an excess of will and a shortage of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: derp ? how is "secure on its own" work when you're not actually looking at confirms ? nonsense alreadyt.
mircea_popescu: "I can even get it up to 2 or 3 block confirmation before the real network overtakes it with a longer chain. This is a risk accepted as a tradeoff by SPV clients, but not acceptable for full node clients which are expected to be secure on their own."
mircea_popescu: anyway, lulzy read for me. "what do you mean coming up with this complex theoretico-fantastico-nonsensical echaufadage did EXACTLY NOTHING ?!?!?!?!? but i thought thoughts alter reality! we rose the awareness to lilac levels!"
mircea_popescu: this is pointedly not happening. because they're bees.
mircea_popescu: the "go shoot a cop" strategy would be where bee activates her ovaries, other bees kill her offspring, she kills [one of] those other bees.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bees are technically social media journalists. vestigially female, overweight, buzzing around for the buzz.
mircea_popescu: here's where you went wrong : power is power. you're you. figure it out already.
mircea_popescu: you can't fight power. you can think you do. and then fail and wonder where you went wrong.
mircea_popescu: fuck me... who came up with this entire "labels on things" bullshit ? and what did you think it was going to do ?
mircea_popescu: o look at that, NOW the labels on things are a good thing ?
mircea_popescu: ’re adding vanilla extract to the cake instead of arsenic.
mircea_popescu: My feelings, and the feelings of many people I know, are more hurt by the prolonged waiting for a concrete answer while we sit quietly with our feigned Chill. It is as if I’ve broken some unwritten law when I ask what they are looking for and am dissatisfied with the answer “I don’t really like to put labels on things.” But putting labels on things are how people find the exit during a fire and make sure they
mircea_popescu: "here's where we stand : until and unless you burn down the entire politico-juridistical establishment of the entire faux-free world, i ain't signing any paper with you."
mircea_popescu: "I routinely happen upon men who are perplexed when I eventually declare that I want to know where we stand. Indecision is not a noble virtue."
mircea_popescu: it's funny how this shit works - all teh victorious 4-th shitwave feminism somehow left actual females on the ground with a thicker implement with more barbs on it up their ass.
mircea_popescu: " I don’t think that it is so much to ask that I be considered a thing — at least some kind of thing — if I am engaging in emotional or sexual intimacy with someone."
mircea_popescu: that's where she's got the idea for accountability. obama's doin' aite, i guess. it's the schmuck sort-of dating her that needs more of the gel.
mircea_popescu: ur phone into the nearest volcano. Chill asks you to be like, “LOL, what volcano?” Chill presides over the funeral of reasonable expectations. Chill takes and never gives. Chill is pathologically unfeeling but not even interesting enough to kill anyone. Chill is a garbage virtue that will destroy the species. Fuck Chill."
mircea_popescu: "But Chill is not the opposite of uptight. It is the opposite of demanding accountability. Chill is a sinister refashioning of “Calm down!” from an enraging and highly gendered command into an admirable attitude. Chill suggests that young love is best expressed as competitive ambivalence. Chill demands that you see a Read receipt followed by a “Hey, was asleep” text three hours later and not proceed to throw yo
mircea_popescu: "hey... these guys put in some good sweat! briefly...."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently some guy trying to inform the tardstalk ?
mircea_popescu: god damned it. /me says to woman, "just set the soup on a low fire, i'll serve myself", promptly forgets about the entire thing. soup boils patiently for 40 minutes.