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mircea_popescu: ironically enough, eulora IS technically "pay what you want".
mircea_popescu: they get a daddy-little relationship, she wears diapers, he does handiwork, it's perhaps the most functional couple of the western world.
mircea_popescu: for late teens/early 20s women that have trouble maturing. match made in heaven with jaded blue collar / low prof late 40s males.
mircea_popescu: tbh slut walks not bad idea. one spot where i and teh derpeminists see eye to eye
mircea_popescu: Do not mention how their use was pioneered by the Israeli Air Force in 1948, and how they were used by the US Air Force in Vietnam in Operation Inferno in 1968. Keep repeating, “barrel bombs, barrel bombs” and stating with a straight face that the Syrian regime is using them “against its own people.” Against its own people. Against its own people. Against its own people.
mircea_popescu: and strangly there wasn't a reddit icrapple dedicated to mocking the funbux.
mircea_popescu: 2009, back when apple istore was worth less than a bar.
mircea_popescu: "It's an interesting piece of info and it resonates a lot with the issues and choices I and to make with my game early this year. I can see how those numbers could be discouraging but I kind of agree with Sven, they are not that bad."
mircea_popescu: who the fuckgives a shit, obscure studio making obscure app on that old tablet thing you meanwhile lost.
mircea_popescu: Moving onto your next app, you should have a decent fan base who will be more willing paying up front for your game."
mircea_popescu: "I think it was great to get the game into the hands of a lot of people for free, even if it lost money for the studio.
mircea_popescu: "With these ca. 100.000 dls we made a whooping $162 in total. In other words form 100.000 people playing or at least downloading the game 127 in App Purchases were tracked by Apple, which means that 0.13% of our user base as paid something inside the App. Don’t get us wrong: We are thankful for those purchases and we hope that you enjoy our game, but to build a sustainable business this won’t get us very far as an
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no i meant, "sell it" as in, "convince me",.
mircea_popescu: (i really use very little software, and most of it either 30 years old or made by people i know)
mircea_popescu: i live in the dirigible world past the horizon, my shit dun crash.
mircea_popescu: works fine for lines of code. i guess if i programmed more.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway from teh reading is that s.mg should probably at least try and support steam. so if there's someone who actually has experience with this, talk to me.
mircea_popescu: i actually have great hope for the future ofthis system yes.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the original point ofthings likethe mit ai lab, or the xerox parc, or etc, was that people could grab each other by the tie in the hallway
mircea_popescu: diana_coman that's the other thing. the odds of me giving two pre-compressed, freeze dried rat shits on the "article" of some random derp i dunno... hm.
mircea_popescu does a dozen or more of these "so let me run this by you" citizen arrests things.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the point of convenience, of course, and the humane way to do this, is where you know the people who'd have written articles on that topicanyway, so you put some bagels in the oven, ring them up, invite them over, and talk the matter through over wine.
mircea_popescu: and then five years later you discover it hid for no reason one article out of 6
mircea_popescu: so yes in this sense, google is here to supersede "smart contracts" or vice-versa, whatever. either way really, nonsense's nonsense.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the google problem is in any way different from the colored coins/ripple/ethereum problem, or generally "automated trust" issue.
mircea_popescu: but then once people are aware of the scoring, you're lost and it's irredemable.
mircea_popescu: the original idea was superb, the pr thing. it's a great way to score a graph.
mircea_popescu: the general population may be happy to pop sugar pills, but that doesn't make them medicine, right ?
mircea_popescu: this is all nice and good, but it still does not make it useful.
mircea_popescu: and that said, i am probably in the top 1% when it comes to understanding the higher level issues involved, which means i canhammer together a search string like few others. so google would probably be lot more useful to me, were it to be useful at all, than to the general population.
mircea_popescu: even when i'm playing way out of field, google still fails.
mircea_popescu: and right now, im doing (atypically) a foray into discussions of a topic im not particularly familiar with (indie game devel). i read upwards of fifty pages, i did not use google at any point throughout. because, here's the snatch : you try googling something to get you these results.
mircea_popescu: in short, google may perhaps maintain the illusion of utility for as long as the needs are superficial and stay that way.but if you're mostly looking for specific stuff and tend to go beyond the surface of things, it doesn't actually do anything whatever.
mircea_popescu: (and btw, i found it by typing se in myaddress bar which took me to search.bitcoin-assets.com/ rather than typing anything into google. because THIS always works and is way faster)
mircea_popescu: anwyay, google as bookmark organizer, which is what you're describing, is about as useful as that goes, sure. could just as well use any other
mircea_popescu: tho i have homebrew talent, you know those people who know ALL THE ACTORS and ALL THE SONGS etc ?
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between these two classes of questions, you know, like in tech support.
mircea_popescu: (i rarely ask "gimme the recipe", because i'm actually sa pretty good cook. usually i ask "is this white sauce or what did you do ?!"
mircea_popescu: not useful is like untrustworthy. doesn't mean "absolutely and in all cases zero use". it just means unreliable enough to be 0.
mircea_popescu: ah, sure. it can. it can also send them to paycoin, just as well.
mircea_popescu: but see, the only reason i could conceivably be interested in is because a woman made them and i liked. then i ask her, such as my mom, or the chick in the cofee shop, or whoever. i don't think i ever wanted to make a random item.
mircea_popescu: maybe in the end the story reduces to "i'm just uncurious enough"
mircea_popescu: i simply do not care what those examples may be, i expect to be the example for them.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've used style templates in the past twenty years. conceivably this may be a difference of style.