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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, if you're ready to drop 100mn on this, pick some random christian rock band from mobile, make a movie about the lead vocal, send them on tour,
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard definitely. but i dunno who's in charge of spends there. they have nfi what the job even is.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, bitpay is probably the better in that space, on a purely ops/technical perspectrive.
mircea_popescu: so like 150 an hour or so... not bad. almost what force made.
mircea_popescu: clearly reddit is a legitimate source of news and commentary where actual people post things that legitimately interest them.
mircea_popescu: aren't now filling it with news and commentary about bitpay's neobee-esque failure mere months down the road.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski speaking of which, funny how the spam accounts overflowing reddit (specifically reddit, not any other random social spam platform) with news and commentary about the epocal all-important move of bitpay to waste some money
mircea_popescu: this doesn't makle them fit for a wife. just, work for some purposes.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the principal advantage set of the qr pass : 1) widely available for cheap 2) limited size.
mircea_popescu: actually, if you could have < 1kb floppies i'd prolly use those too.
mircea_popescu: nowhere was there any requirement you use the stock thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will recall the discussion was a narrow use case : you print them, you use them etc.
mircea_popescu: Naphex is running a b-a sanctioned webcam thing, maybe give it a look.
mircea_popescu: dacha is kinda designed for man wife and girlfriend. du nthink the lot of us would fit.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, "advertising" will probably survive in the charity part.
mircea_popescu: invent new shnit, like sponsor kicking around enemy's severed head competition.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, my two bits would be : do not sponsor the stupid shit of the old world. so what if the plebs like to watch basketball ? we don't like plebs.
mircea_popescu: then a week later the thing blew, because the cleanning lady disconnected the power and the data sockets, and reconnected them backwards.
mircea_popescu: it is fresh enough, sure. i dun think we really give much of a shit about any particular derps, so kinda wide grate.
mircea_popescu: i guess they read the logs, looked up this new word "roi", had a mindblow.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski speaking of which, didn't the bowl thing they sponsored ditch the bitcoin logo recently ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pity it's the same 2-3 derps that keep pushing it. i recall some goon or other was having fun with them on tardstalk last year. "really, it's not mps fault X scammer touched you"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o look, we progressed to "fictitious exchange" ?
mircea_popescu: i was like... o look how nice, he did that on the toilet.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` have you ever lelled at the circumstance that if one ever sees pgp used like we use it, it's invariably with a ridoinculous line-and-a-half signature ?
mircea_popescu: SquirtPrincess well normally no, because it's just a bodypart rather than you know, you. but at any rate, i'm feeling generous so, put ae654537 on your tits, take a picture, report back.
mircea_popescu: if your profession is law enforcement. << that law enforcement should be in scare quotes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "increases the cost to and adversary and might permit" <<
mircea_popescu: you know if you're trying to make a living with this you gotta have them like in a holster. like your business card.
mircea_popescu: how is it not exactly like having ... you know, a router that runs, as Chillum well points out, decade old binaries ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " This is not akin, for example, to two people using the same model of mobile phone but both having software that is out of date. Rather, the outdated version that both "French Maid" and FORCE (as Nob) used is more of a "signature" given the greater number of versions available." << such a bizarre notion, this.
mircea_popescu: no. previous work = pictures of you nude that you have previously published. this is not a 100x100px icon, and it is not a R rated thing.
mircea_popescu: not that it's such a big deal to add 2 and 2 and get 4.
mircea_popescu: so these people here... they didn't like the set-up where the half week off for easter didn't bridge twoi weekends, so they called a general strike.
mircea_popescu: and he's desperate for some capital, because jew boy really thinks that's how you survive prison
mircea_popescu: also, they think they're edgy giving him 50 cans o tuna or w/e they use,
mircea_popescu: o, that's their job. amplifying stupid is what the press does.