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mircea_popescu: and bad software, and everyone wanting to make their own web app and so on
mircea_popescu: generally, most infrastructure in all times and places operates at a loss, which is why commodification is not particularly welcomed by business people, which is how you get apple.
mircea_popescu: yes, for the special case where you're running a ponzi equal to the monetary mass.
mircea_popescu: because at that time, had he not also run a "buy new coinbases from miners at 110% "business" on the side, people would have noticed they're being paid with their own coins.
mircea_popescu: so is the idea something like "it costs 10x more to move this one guy than to move these 450 other guys" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation then it's a not very well written/researched article ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what machine you're gonna buy for 700k again ?
mircea_popescu: maybe double, but certainly not the 10 to 100x the article would need it to be
mircea_popescu: trinque im still in shock someone proposed 7k a seat as outrageous. i must be buying in all the wrong places.
mircea_popescu: i think modern eyes still understand bulgaria's a shithole.
mircea_popescu: you don't actually want the president to travel with the immigrands ?
mircea_popescu: sooo... ? his point being that airlines are robbing us blind ?
mircea_popescu: so i guess they decided they could make more money by keeping fewer clone tanks
mircea_popescu: omfg! i totally called it. ITS THE SAME LIFTED PHOTOS GUYSE!
mircea_popescu: more importantly, how do we know it's not "buncha anon hags are driving the star-fluid movement, wherein everyone thinks they're a star"
mircea_popescu: How Stars Like Cara Delevingne, Kristen Stewart, & Miley Cyrus Are Leading the Gender Fluid Movement for Millennials << who the fuck are these "stars" ?
mircea_popescu: "because technocomputerology is not masses accessible sufficiently!111"
mircea_popescu: decimation no no, there was a shitty series of 486 processors
mircea_popescu: there was a huge cost to, basically, gavinize computers around that time. it's how "mmx" processors came about, and "streamlined" mobos with no batteries etc.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> turned out, it lacks a bios battery << oh i recall those shitty boards.
mircea_popescu: may be a bridge too far, too thin, too short and too fallen in the water too long ago.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what they mean is, "someone with experience with crapple software that doesn't suck"
mircea_popescu: so, it may vary but it won't vary as drastically as you propose. prolly more in line with coffee/caffeine.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, people who sell very weak stuff prolly lose their custom
mircea_popescu: well ok, getting 2 grams of nicotine would put you out
mircea_popescu: wasn't it the case caffeine tolerance actually builds to degrees of magnitude ?
mircea_popescu: not "our brothel really fucking sucks, who ever heard of this"
mircea_popescu: and incompetent pinoy brothel owner decides "gringos are assholes"
mircea_popescu: but my proposition is that perhaps he found this because it's what he wanted to find.
mircea_popescu: this is then mis-represented as "there's something wrong wit hthe patrons"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field to round up what i mean, class A are perhaps "the shooters in the dark". which means, they have an idea what they want, and programming [as taught] fails to satisfy [which is the fault of the teachers].
mircea_popescu: fluffypony haha. nothing of the stealth plane yet huh.
mircea_popescu: now, which would you say is likely to contain the largest proportion of intelligent people ?
mircea_popescu: necessarily. the latter propose to select from the set given, the former have a preformed set they compare to.
mircea_popescu: which of the two do you propose are more likely to spend money ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field incidentally, i suspect the dataset there has a major flaw. to model it : two classes of brothel patrons. class A comes to reception, asks "do the girls here to X ?" ; class B comes to reception, asks "what can girls here do for me ?"
mircea_popescu: he said it, and directed it at me, which is why my name is in there.
mircea_popescu: apparently recent research actually settles this point
mircea_popescu: in other news, "the proportion of female faces that are more feminine than the most feminine male faces is much greater than the proportion of male faces that are more masculine than the most masculine female faces."
mircea_popescu: other than "this adult exhibits intellectual neoteny".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field that's nothing but the infancy/adulthood divide. it's not a personal descriptor
mircea_popescu: and the relationships a good two layers deeper/more complex.
mircea_popescu: the advantage is that c++ grease doesn't irritate the skin. the disadvantage is that well... this thing has i would estimate about 10 to 100x more moving parts than a car,
mircea_popescu: hazirafel_ it's really a lot like racing. to be into racing more than someone cheering in the stands / swimsuit model crowding the finish line, you gotta take an engine apart. grease and all.