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mircea_popescu: he's so hyperfucktarded, he's only going to be 50% behind actual entrepreneurs.
mircea_popescu: here's what i propose : paul graham eat 500 calories for every 1k calories he expends.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Now suppose you're so un-rapacious that you only extract half as much from your users as you could. That means two years later you'll be making $80k a month instead of $160k. How far behind are you? How long will it take to catch up with where you'd have been if you were extracting every penny? A mere 15 weeks. After two years, the un-rapacious founder is only 3.5 months behind the rapacious one."
mircea_popescu: "Some examples will make this clear. Suppose your company is making $1000 a month now, and you've made something so great that it's growing at 5% a week. Two years from now, you'll be making about $160k a month.
mircea_popescu: i thought graham was supposed to be a competent old lisp hand. is this the brainrot lisp instills in people ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: p, and when anything grows at the rate of a successful startup, the Y axis will take care of itself."
mircea_popescu: "I told him not to worry about it, because so long as he built something good enough to spread by word of mouth, he'd have a hyperlinear growth curve. If he was bad at extracting money from people, at worst this curve would be some constant multiple less than 1 of what it might have been. But a constant multiple of any curve is exactly the same shape. The numbers on the Y axis are smaller, but the curve is just as stee
mircea_popescu: /0xfe6404ba34ea4c30538ff4d058f4bf883220fd79 is the fucking aliens, how about that.
mircea_popescu: instead it's "hey, let's fix my being a monkey with more monkeying around!"
mircea_popescu: fucking monkeys already. so he fucks up, once by getting involved in a piece of shit scam, the other for sucking at math. and what he wants to know ain't "i wonder how i could be less fucktarded" at any point.
mircea_popescu: that's her right nipple and her left tit under that pinkish mess.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, at meta-kehlsteinhaus, herr metahitler plays metahide&seek with meta-y maids.
mircea_popescu never could have predicted the "should be enough for anyone" magic number really discusses "how manby people may be alive"
mircea_popescu: WHERE the actual cosmos is in this entire new "computer universe" never ceases to shock and amaze.
mircea_popescu: there's a limit on how many humans may be people at the same time
mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that doesn't actually benefit from periodic rebooting
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dulap may be the latest piece of software in actual use that yeah
mircea_popescu: i think the latter kids don't really grok this "don't reboot machine " thing
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "the man who really invented bitcoin" has a lot to explain re my cock up his throat.
mircea_popescu: like the scam foundation never pushed bfl and so forth.
mircea_popescu: trinque let them get invested, all the more shit to pretend like "never happened".
mircea_popescu: and iirc xapo founder was trying his darndest to elicit attention here to little result.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> that's the new usg catchword for 'bitcoin agrees to quietly kill itself because That Is How The World Works' ? << in a word, yes.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's mostly a private joke, between /me and ex osu undergrad
mircea_popescu: fat loser had it : 20 years later america went hius way.
mircea_popescu: JERRY: (sarcastically)Ya, then maybe baldness will catch on. This will all be turning your way.
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Really? (Jerry shakes his head) Maybe this will become like a cool thing, living with your parents.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be said that joining isis is both morally sounder and economically wiser a choice than applying to any us college.
mircea_popescu: cazalla pretty fucking stupid deal, yeah. who the fuck advises these people.
mircea_popescu: (much like the reformed us military is about as useless as sugared sardines)
mircea_popescu: mercenary troops wehre the late medieval/renaissance equivalent of art collecting.
mircea_popescu: "Furthermore, when the nobility went to war, they would employ foreign mercenaries as auxiliary troops." << this, in partiucular, is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: well they are, if you're looking at it. to the neurologist or w/e.
mircea_popescu: you can contrast it with ontology, or gnoseology for that matter. and obviously you can build other quite clever sturctures. but yours didn't mean anything is all.
mircea_popescu: not the point. the point is that "phenomenology" is directly equivalent with "which discusses things that happen"
mircea_popescu: trinque in any case "phenomenological thinking" is a void concept. thinking is not described by the subject it's applied to. you said something roughly like "lighting electrictiy". sure, it can be used to bring light.
mircea_popescu: (and the difference is quite understood by native english speakers, at that. consider how "universal karma" sounds vs "cosmic karma". which evokes govt bureaucracy and why ?)
mircea_popescu: as if you know. but hey, the sets are rheaaallly very important to them i tell you.
mircea_popescu: the latter are preoccupied chiefly with entrance barriers, and are debating, predictably, if building a wall across colorado is worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: and as you might realise, cosmos-focused cultures write fundamentally differfent software from universe-focused culturesa
mircea_popescu: trinque quite exactly : a cosmos is the graph of perceptibles. a universe is the set of perceptibles.