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mircea_popescu: i guess if you took a vote among the domesticated ducks, they'd agree wild ducks must either be all shot or else a ceiling put over the village.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/CNsNN << pretty lulzy thinking tho. "how dares this mp guy act independently! this should not exist! i will call upon my liege lords to efface this abomination from the face of the earth - if not in reality then at least from the earth as i can see it. for it bothers me so."
mircea_popescu: derps accusing me of "seeking attention", when i own their mother, in a fucking trasnparent ploy to seek attention. herpitty-derp.
mircea_popescu: which makes me suspect it'll be "raising awareness" on his dozen-followers twitter.
mircea_popescu: conveniently omits to mention WHAT the fuck he'll contribute
mircea_popescu: to comprehend how fundamental this all is, look at a leaky toilet sometime, or any flow on an incline. you should be able to observe regions moving UPSTREAM. "oh it's not supposed to do that" "said who ?" "newton".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is why all plumbing is full of cockroaches and all sewage has rats nests.
mircea_popescu: and whatever enthusiasm may tell you about this, there's a very fucking fundamental problem here. you don't get to control backflow and complex emergent behaviours just because you don't want to think about them
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "why did function flush return flood ???" "uh... it's not supposed to do that" "no shit"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the practical implementation promises from experience to create the undebuggable situation where the dumb blonde in 7a flushed her diafragm and now the results of your flushing will be a bathroom flood.
mircea_popescu: this example happens to get at the core of my misgivings about the model (which yes, is as seductive and great and promise-y as ben intuits, sure) : while the theoretical machine may have all the nice properties,
mircea_popescu: there exists exactly one billionaire involved in bitcoin, what the fuck are they smoking ?
mircea_popescu: so they're earning us slack. not that it HAS to be used, obv.
mircea_popescu: pre hearn&fail-bip, the standard was pretty high. by now it's a lot easier to argue "hey, at least it's not as bad as THAT dumb shit"
mircea_popescu: so in a sense they're actually working for us, unintentionally, in their idiocy.
mircea_popescu: the more inclined to break the protocol the power rangers become, the less important it is to actually maintain all the warts.
mircea_popescu: mod6 a perfect backward compatibility <<< every month less perfect.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what they imagine they're doing, but more power to them and their clown car.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron so this entire MONTH trilema got exactly 3 clicks from twitter.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron> aaaaand the trilema twatter account is suspended <<< now i gotta go in the logs, see what all that does.
mircea_popescu: then they DIDN'T want to go in pro-rata on the new round.
mircea_popescu: "CountOneInterrupt 2 points 1 hour ago Gotta love that classy web design with a butt next to the name. It's our sister site!" << check it out! someone fucking got it!
mircea_popescu: "edmundedgar 6 points 1 hour ago Why weren't people like this around when they were designing CSS?" << also, buttcoin is about 50 iq points over bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> top kek, mircea_popescu made buttcoin << eh, they've got a fascination with me ever since back when the subreddit was called somethingafwul
mircea_popescu: <cazalla_> yeah that guy, i actually bought a hard copy of the book though, been working on in it 1-2 hours each evening, trying to make a Legend of the Red Dragon mud type game meets bitcoin <<< ahahaha check out the guy that took a year off from btc biz :D
mircea_popescu: or maybe someone really has it in for mpoe-pr, wants her to lose all bets.
mircea_popescu: in me eyes tis entirely passive. does what "teh people" "need".
mircea_popescu: the usg is mere detritus resulting from malfunctioning metabolism
mircea_popescu: life is the foremost value, yo! notwithstanding that the delusion of "freedom from consequence" is the fundamental corner stone of "creativity" as understood on the internets.
mircea_popescu: try screaming "YOU MAKE EXCELLENT PIE" at the top of your lungs @woman, see if she takes it as a compliment.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the emotional angle is really hard to get past. which is why the thing's so effective in the first place.
mircea_popescu: well, people gotta form their own opinions on things neh.
mircea_popescu: all these people with the higher moral ground calling peeps names and shit.
mircea_popescu: "ltv" being one of the lulziest snakeoil products the marketing scambunch has been pushing down the throats of public cos
mircea_popescu: consider this blog post (
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-to-calculate-lifetime-value/) from KISS metrics, a company whose aim is to “help you make smarter business decisions.” Not only do they include a version of the model that specifically ignores future costs, but also they recommend taking an average of three different results, two of which are clearly flawed. This voodoo-math has no place as part of a multi-mi
mircea_popescu: “purchased.” If you have organic customers, they shouldn’t be included in the spend calculus. They would have arrived regardless of spend. Also, many people discount “revenues” rather than marginal cash contribution. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution. As an example of the sloppiness that exists around the formula,
mircea_popescu: "The Model is Confused and Misused. Frequently the same group that is arguing for more spending is the same one that “owns” the LTV calculation. (This is a mistake – finance should monitor LTV). As a result, it is not uncommon for one to see shortcuts taken that allow for greater freedom. As an example, marketers often divide spend by total customers to calculate SAC rather than just those customers that were
mircea_popescu: shinohai in fairness, wouldn't by any stretch be the first person we/i've driven to excuse themselves.
mircea_popescu: myeah. i had a mp sitting on my shoulder going "Doh" as i hit enter
mircea_popescu: except this approach handed their country to china on a silver plate.
mircea_popescu: so no more unix philosophy, just... everything expands to read mail ?