mircea_popescu: "Gail insinuates that Albert Bates is an environmentalist hypocrite because he flies a lot. Albert does travel a lot but goes to great personal effort to physically mitigate carbon from his travel footprint, and this is obvious from even a cursory glance at his website. Overall, he is very much carbon-negative, while Gail goes on aimless drives through the countryside in her gigantic, gas-

mircea_popescu: ok well, i need a bunch of secretarial stuff done. you game ?

mircea_popescu: just like the guy i linked the other day, going nuts over someone having mocked him for wearing a gown, these idiots are so trapped in self-referrentiality that they imagine their shit is somehow universal.

mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone willing to do a $5 cc payment for me ?

mircea_popescu: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-i-want-bitcoin-to-die-in-a.html

mircea_popescu: it was supposed to be monday. since then, an ever endless list of various issues, which i am taking care of one at a time, at the rate of about six to ten a day.

mircea_popescu: http://www.sexgangsters.com/ lmao get a load of this.

mircea_popescu: shit that search is a great thing.

mircea_popescu: okay, who wants to make a 20 link care package for these ppls ?

mircea_popescu: mike_c that's a point.

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you bring a very good objection actually.

mircea_popescu: mike_c such as that b-a blogs thing is only half a year old ?

mircea_popescu: re "that kind of conversation" : what point is a boat, if one floats it on a prison lake ?

mircea_popescu: for instance, newton died convinced there's a god.

mircea_popescu: not that it'd be so hard to repurpose a botnet for utterly destroying twitter.

mircea_popescu: in other words : we don't have a conversion problem before our eyes.

mircea_popescu: i tend to bait a lot.

mircea_popescu: the idea immediately popped that people who are doing this as a matter of course can't be as stupid as i had thought.

mircea_popescu: problem here is this : i don't want these people on any random terms. they have to come on our terms to be useful. that's a big part of it, smart people are great, educable smart people are actually useful.

mircea_popescu: give a shit

mircea_popescu: but honestly, it lacks a hook. so there's a group somewhere interested in things. why do i gas ?

mircea_popescu: it's a start.

mircea_popescu: i mean, all the noobs a la neobee's "ceo", alongside andreas antonopoulos were doing exactly this : implement their idea of fun at the expense of investors.

mircea_popescu: this is going to be a major bitcoin problem, going forward.

mircea_popescu: "In fact, I know of at least one company just like that. It was run by an engineer who had produced a huge success for his investors, only to see the company fall into the hands of Company B type management. So he created a new company. For years now he has sucked in more and more capital from investors who imagine he might reproduce his initial success. But it's clear (to me) that he has no intention of doing so, exce

mircea_popescu: "Company C is not really a company but a consortium organized by a group of activists who correctly perceive the great need for this widget and decide to tackle the issue head-on through tireless community organizing. A group of retired community college professors..."

mircea_popescu: speaking of which, here you go nubbins, the dangers of trying to drive a sammich : http://www.bristol-storage.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/warehouse-destruction.gif

mircea_popescu: the solution is to get a better wife, not to make womanhood die in a fire.

mircea_popescu: the idea forms that either a) they don't need management at all, which yields all the bizarre "decentralise" things trend, among others

mircea_popescu: all we need is a few ideologically aware writers, and let's hope that they have the sense to give in to the groan-y siren song of a few cam whores

mircea_popescu: 'What d'you mean - scheduled? What d'you think science is - a magic wand that you just have to wave to get what you want? Supposing the problem's been put in the wrong terms or new factors crop up? You and your schedule!

mircea_popescu: 'But that means that the project will have taken two and a half to three years,' said the Minister indignantly. 'And it was scheduled to take a YEAR!'

mircea_popescu: the rest of that article hereby incorporated, it should be a matter of record this thing.

mircea_popescu: t to pass these higher costs on to the consumers. Concerted efforts at cost containment, championed by senior management, burn up more money than they find in savings. Second, turnover among the engineering staff starts to creep up, and after a while employee retention becomes a major problem. An effort is made to boost recruitment, but paradoxically this only increases the turnover rate, until the average tenure of an

mircea_popescu: a commanding market share.

mircea_popescu: necessary by annoyances or missing functions within the base product). They also build a profit center out of selling spare parts. They see to it that their product does not contain any commodity parts, and that no parts are interchangeable between model years, so that every replacement part has to be purchased through a dealer. Company B does quite well, becoming profitable, doubling in size several times, and gains

mircea_popescu: They work to boost revenue by offering an extended warranty or a service plan (made necessary by frequent breakdowns), charging for premium customer service (made necessary by their normal customer service, which consists of a robotic phone maze backed by a few trainees in India who just read aloud from Company B's public web site in a listless, stuttering monotone) and offering numerous enhancements and upgrades (made ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "Suppose you have a company that sets out to make a widget. Let's call it Company A. Its founders are all engineers, of an uncompromising sort, and the widget they design and manufacture is of tremendous longevity, durability and overall quality." << hey check out orlov. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: because what i had in mind was that two diff metals make a circuit element.

mircea_popescu: (hello people reading the logs, and welcome to mp's personal engineer training hour, where he bothers people who should be doing usefulk things with the task of educating him for free. and now a massage from our sposor.)

mircea_popescu: of much less interest to someone gilding a pcb than to someone trying to make a parallel connection.

mircea_popescu: "a flashlight concerning itself with implementation details, as opposed to broad theoretical considerations"

mircea_popescu: tactical and strategic are properties of abstracts for crying out loud. you can't have a plapable tactical anything anymore than you can have a concrete idea.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well google, like wikipedia, is only intended as a good enough first approximation.

mircea_popescu: the thing is that there's this large group of professional rent seekers who are trying to find a niche for themselves in bitcoin, not the normal way (buy some), nor the professional way (join bitcoin-assets) but the fiat way (politicing and derping around).

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves is't on a computer. what else ?

mircea_popescu: blind people gotta use a credit card whether they want to or not.

mircea_popescu: "As companies try to retain top employees and hit growth targets, some are ditching the annual salary review and doling out raises and bonuses several times a year."

mircea_popescu: which is a GREAT thing. nobody's making new "fully featured" irc clients, which then don't work,

mircea_popescu: fluffypony: can't we have assbot ban people that do that for an hour? << this actually is a good idea. kakobrekla could assbot put a ban on anyone it sees part/joining 12 times within an hour, with a ban message that "please get in touch once connection is fixed, ty"