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mircea_popescu: "during a recent random walk through the codebase in a desperate but doomed attempt to fix or at least paper over bugs we have no idea about to any degree, we discovered that our code repository is so broken half the shit in there wasn't even written by anyone we know. we'll keep pretending like we're a thing tho, because seriously, what the hells the difference anymore ? considering all the lies we've told to date, it
mircea_popescu: chocolate coins would make sense as a means of payment.
mircea_popescu: really, the only good equivalent is chocolate gold coins.
mircea_popescu: but the point is that they should only sometimes work.
mircea_popescu: dude i want a payment machanism that works on par with fucking hosting.
mircea_popescu: the original prose is very delicate, hopefully they preserved the thin porcelain quality.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda weird they wenbt with "habarnam" rather than "niznai" seeing how it's an actual bona fide ro world.
mircea_popescu: yup. great book too. it might be the best kids book ever written
mircea_popescu: in fact, kids books specifically point out habarnam as "only capable of block printing"
mircea_popescu: i had never met someone up to that point who didn't longhand.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field my first thought upon encountering my first usians, as a 10 yo boy, was that "these people never went to school, did they ?"
mircea_popescu: middle aged woman too, accomplished in fat (there's this certain rotundness of the respectable matron with prgeniture)
mircea_popescu: course, such a world will, by and large, suck to live in. but, again, the question is, suck FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that userbase is a metric has got to go, this is a not-negotiable prerequisite of a world that doesn't suck.
mircea_popescu: if you want users, you're making shit. end of fucking story.
mircea_popescu: just... people are dumb. that's it. that's all. you gonna make something they can use or not ?
mircea_popescu: but this notwithstanding, you don't need any sort of conspiracy to explain linux drift, or foss decay.
mircea_popescu: a length of chain, a manger and the occasional stallion visit is actually better for her.
mircea_popescu: is a proper fucking cash register better than this insanity ? well... that all depends now, dun' it. better FOR WHOM ?
mircea_popescu: the 18 so it's 180 now, comes to 520. i point this out. she proceeds to add them again correctly this time, and comes to 488. i refuse this alt-arithmetic too. she does it once more, hands me 82 pesos in change for my 400. i refuse this once again, hand 40 pesos back to her and leave.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case asciilifeform, thius is the primary driver for the stupidification of everything, and it's genuine. people are stupid. either you build your cash register as the mcdonals iconographic abomination, or they stick to doing it "by hand". like idiot argentine woman yest. i buy a carton of cigarettes, four litersd of milk and two lighters. she does the addition on paper. first she adds 80 + 260 + 18 but misplaces
mircea_popescu: s per group of users etc.). We should have sold a set of of lists with pictures, a few simplified maps and targeted howtos rather than an army-grade Web satellite radar with full control in your hands." << the conclusion we arrived at through spending 1mn euro is that people are stupid.
mircea_popescu: I mean, who in the marketing industry is able to decode a 15K€ Web graph even if it contains loads of useful informations? And that was our number #1 feature. Now, I acknowledge the graph data was essential. We should have delivered them in an more effective and practical way: spreadsheets, data views (who are the influencers, how can I contact the websites owners, recommended keywords for Facebook/Twitter/newsletter
mircea_popescu: "I think we had too much hesitation in the decisions about what we were able to do and on the delivered product as well.
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mircea_popescu: i suppose on a 20 to 50 year timeframe, it's drastically improbable anyone with a 1337 satoshi a day in income can possibly starve.
mircea_popescu: trinque in fairness, i only imagine there's gonna be camps for black ppls.
mircea_popescu: liquidassets just being "acquihired" into the other dying usgtron.
mircea_popescu: "They will most likely not eat out of your hand if they can perceive you need them at first." << bwahahaha. they will not eat out of your hand if they perceive you need them ; and they will spend every dime they got to ignore you outright if they perceive you don't need them. so it goes.
mircea_popescu: shinohai they've been working doubletime to keep that thing afloat. pretty lulzy.
mircea_popescu: atever exists is at best a paraeconomical concern surviving more on ideological fit than in satisfying objective measures. what, if "customers" are dissatisfied with the usg food or pills dispensaries they'll do what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: However these companies made their life without you, most probably for years." << the fundamental delusion of start-up-ers is that the market is free and efficient, and therefore there exist objective measures of worth. the sad reality of life in socialist states (ie, any state that acquires through any means any measure of control on 10% of the production of the citizens or more) is that the market's distorted, and wh
mircea_popescu: "The promise is the following: a startup thinks it has an innovative solution. A startup thinks many other companies would pay for it.
mircea_popescu: who knew that answering a bunch of pre-made questions nobody could care less about and then trying to mechanically "datamine" them isn't as good an approach as "hey, check out X, she's exactly right for you"
mircea_popescu: (in other news, okcupid's "ai" matching system is an utter useless pos. my own network creates usable hits with a 50% probability or better, by the 100s/day - and i didn't even KNOW i know chicks on okcupid in the first place. their crapolade made me click no about five hundred times in a row.)
mircea_popescu: well attention seeking behaviours are the invisible glue that keeps society together n'est pas.
mircea_popescu: (the counter doth actually exist - men that genuinely hate women. i suspect the driver is that men are, for some inexplicable reason, actually petrified of cunt. it seems innate.)
mircea_popescu: but that unicorn, the woman that actually hates men, i've not encountered myself.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i've yet to meet a woman (not mayo-gendered abominations, i've really not met any nor do i intend to) that actually hated men. there's a very mean streak in women generally, but visible with the naked eye in just some, where they truly and irationally haet beta boys, for some definition of beta that may be at first confounding.
mircea_popescu: and no, there isn't a local equivalent. they're just primitive souls, computers = windows ; internet = facebook ; world = argentina etc scl.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : the grand total okcupid offering for "women < 30 > 1.70cm within the 15mn buenos aires conurbation active in the past day" is... half a dozen people. clearly okcupid's not doing advertising correctly amirite nubbins ? :D
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "any flaws were god-given ; any qualities are my own" is just another rewrapping of that stale old jeder nach seinen fahigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedurfnissen cumbiscuit.
mircea_popescu: what's "pussy crushing" anyway ? simply getting laid ? or some bizarre fetish i never heard about ?
mircea_popescu: apparently "yo bitch, wanna make some motherfuckin' money ?" works better on barefoot womenz.
mircea_popescu knew a pimp that actually had a day job - working in a mall shoe store.
mircea_popescu: if it's cuz you feel like it, then minesotta richboy's rather funny. if he's not funny, then wtf accomplishments were they.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, why the fuck would you be working a menial job if you've ever accomplished anything fo real ?
mircea_popescu: liquidassets there's something fundamentally wrong about those accomplishments.
mircea_popescu: Birdman yeah they've been blaring it out of all horns for a coupla days now. it makes a stark contrast to how quiet they'll be about the end results of this yet-another GTO (glorious tikrit offensive).
mircea_popescu: the internet became its own self-parody sometime in what, 1995 ?
mircea_popescu: really puts into perspective all the dumbass stevensons out there, doing srs bzns on teh interwebs.
mircea_popescu: (mostly because the skin is not designed to protect its insides from osmotic processes driven by outside chemicals)
mircea_popescu: soviet soap (like cheap usian soap, for that matter) is a kind of detergent. this isn't what good soap is.
mircea_popescu: yes, americans are poor and getting poorer. yes the Ministry of Packing Cattle Tighther has a solution.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that soviet soap was a start-up. "hey, it's this or not wash. what dove ?"
mircea_popescu: the difference being that businesses happen at the tip of a large pushing force, such as the airbnb scam pushed by paul graham-madoff, or such as "green energy" scam pushed by president bahamas-madoff. to be a start-up is exactly opposite to this, you're alone.