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mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> (they still flaked, saw it with mine own) << there's a reason thermosensors are made out of two different materials stuck to each other. that reason is that this problem of geometric affixing is INCREDIBLY hard.
mircea_popescu: oh i see, it wouldn't be "real" top quality if it weren't shit.
mircea_popescu: back before all the midwestern carrie-bradshaw-wannabes showed up
mircea_popescu: if it isn't in scamicon valley THEN ITS NOT REALLY TECHNOLOGY
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do not take the name of the dwwweb in vane!
mircea_popescu: "La 27 de ani, Vladimir Oane a riscat şi a reuşit. În doi ani, a pus pe picioare o afacere prin care monitorizează diverse reţele şi oferă statistici marilor branduri. Contractele au început să curgă." <<< for the lulz. romanian "airbnb could buy all of russia" thing.
mircea_popescu: guys at the local bar, you know, watching shark tank on tv...
mircea_popescu: of course that shit exists. it's about as lulzy an affair as "romanian press" or whatever, "romanian secret services caught romanian isis agent"
mircea_popescu: heh. check this shit out "Not all investors are created equal. The winners are persistently the same relatively small groups of investors time after time. Success not only has positive signaling effects in attracting the factors that drive success, but also talent enhancing effects for the venture capitalists themselves." << now why exactly would this be ? successful sicentists aren't "always the same small group time
mircea_popescu: it's not like yc will be displaced by b-a, it's like his derpy www-persona has a chance and all that.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "building his brand as an investor" is going to do exactly what "building her brand as an relationship expert" did for tlp's fave gori lottlieb. or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned as much as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand as an investor.
mircea_popescu: or if you will, they executed what groupon executed : a maddof in the background, in this case named graham, scammed some old ladies and wrote the details in a notebook bearing this title
mircea_popescu: "Airbnb has of course gone on to execute exceptionally well and become what it is today."
mircea_popescu: derp wants to think that hey, this is how i got bumped out of a great deal
mircea_popescu: the funny skit in that paige craig piece being that if paul graham and his merry band of spammers & conmen hadn't "invested", the thing would be worth tgoday what it it;'s been worth throughout : four digits in someone's shitty excel.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, if there's ANYONE that appears above, then that's someone above lenin. which they can't have. and so...
mircea_popescu: you're guaranteed to get it, the higher accomplished you are. it correlates with your visibility because the point, from the niggers' perspective, is exactly to try and make it a thing by sticking it to people.
mircea_popescu: this is like being accused of "wrecking" in the other-us.
mircea_popescu: not EXACTLY a tall tale, like the canadians got. crazier.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it bears pointing out, to round the "us www guide fiction" thread, that the donner party was the unfortunate result of that typically american literary genus, the wild west guide fiction.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the premier indicator of not-real-case is exactly "sting!!11"
mircea_popescu: by now i suppose the prosecuting attorney will suspect the case may not seem like a "real" case w/o one.
mircea_popescu: but these are places that've been continuously inhabited for a while, where the space of possibilities has been a little more explored.
mircea_popescu: i mean... this is what the village idiot would be in ro
mircea_popescu: it all really proceeds on the same great page of "i ain't got much lernin but i seen them buttes, here's how you too can get there!"
mircea_popescu: ) that he's very much a son of his country and a man of his age. there is still a very strong vein of "guide literature" from wild west in us fiction writing to this date.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, it occurs to me looking through tucker max's sad history past decade (random guy on the internet, thinks "he invented a literary genus" because wrote some bland, unoriginal "debauchery stories" ; burned out of that [the tucker max makes a movie in hollywood shit was pretty lulzy] then moved on to... being an investor! burned out of that, now writing advice books on how to be the perfect mate for some woman
mircea_popescu: now, granted that clinical neurology is still the vastly more important thing, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: minsky's probably the more advanced work on theoretical neurology to date.
mircea_popescu: you don't really like ANY of the classics lispers do you.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> ben_vulpes: tell your hopeful i'm stealing his cannswer << yeah, it's a very good can.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> << mircea_popescu hasn't made you make the "programmers spigot" plain-old-html view yet huh? << this is hate speech.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.unrate.adlai:7bf7b818136ae3748bea3f2745f74fd0cd5edd11bef55901d7fe407672638a2d
mircea_popescu: amusingly, there's actually a trilema about that derp.
mircea_popescu: my guess is that it's more of a configuration thing than a preservation thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is actually indicative of the very fucking problem : ethics means, how to live. such as for instance, how to drive a fucking airplane i nthe tax office if you live in the us. that's ethics. meanwhile the carefully-debilitated ustards actually think ethics means the exact opposite of what ethics means. to them ethics is "the ways to inconvenience your life".
mircea_popescu: ethical idiocy, where ethical does not mean what esltards think it means, but merely "how to correctly live".
mircea_popescu: average ustard is, i would guess, a 110 to 115 iq college graduate whose 110 to 115 iq is composed of 150+ iq in beating himself up, 25 iq in establishing relationships and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, fight "patriarchy", not the incredibly unhealthy system that makes you be dumb in the few spots it handles you by so your smarts in the rest of the spectrum can be best sucked dry.
mircea_popescu: so well selected for the convenience&perpetuation of the stupidity she comes from, one can hardly believe it's not deliberately trained.
mircea_popescu: punkman so it does huh. except it's a weird thing, i've seen this lots in us-born slavegirls. woman could be well above 100 iq, think herself stupid, and indeed exhibit ~30-50 iq in selected fields.
mircea_popescu: oh right, and i forgot, "c) there's a shortage of you suckers [and really, alot of money you can give right back to us is "chasing" this deal. totally.]"
mircea_popescu: these indians have time, the nature of which they also fail to understand, and well... it's the funciar good today.
mircea_popescu: which happens to be exactly what's happening, too. indians "had" land, the nature of which they failed to understand, but it was the funciar good for good reason back then.
mircea_popescu: yeah, totally. what you want when doing a start-up is to "raise" a lot of money so you can pay the people who you "rose" it from rent so their real-estate sidelines do really well (in exactly the opposite fashion of what's preached here), while "not optimizing for your size of the pie".
mircea_popescu: "here's the things we want you to think : a) that you need us ; b) that you shouldn't look out for yourself".
mircea_popescu: then we wonder why cuckolding is the primary lifestyle of white pplz.
mircea_popescu: there's something very appealing to idiocy about this process of "invention" through kidnapping a princess and dragging her through the mud of one's orcish abode.