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mircea_popescu: i intend to use it for the eulora new accounts process, and well...
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron hey, mind writing a "for total noobs" guide for deedbot in the b-a wiki ?
mircea_popescu: And studied all their OPSEC and legalities of what to say
mircea_popescu: I downloaded all five seasons of The Wire from The Pirate Bay
mircea_popescu: i've been saying plenty about it, here and on the blog
mircea_popescu doesn't really do this entire private thing. ask him here, it's what the here is for after all.
mircea_popescu: of course, exactly how the color revolution's gonna go...
mircea_popescu: if they pack it and leave everyone else's reduced to hunting wooly mamooths with bows and arrows.
mircea_popescu: anyway, brazil's actually in a better position in sa than the us is in na.
mircea_popescu: decimation one that got pretty well corrupted at the petrobras trough
mircea_popescu: i think undata's going for that whole "manic customer support" angle.
mircea_popescu: something like that, yeah. fucking scary by the looks of it.
mircea_popescu: decimation you seen that btw ? delma found herself with like 2mn people in the capital.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as to the interest rates, there was a discussion recently, and no, business rates aren't per month, you want to pay what, 3ish% a year or some shit.
mircea_popescu: it's an accident, and from the equity perspective, it's a disaster waiting to happen.
mircea_popescu: and this is incidentally why i said earlier that they are not a business in the first place. it doesn't fucking matter what "others think". others don'tthink, others bray. thinking is above. and the thinking is, it takes two days for them to lose half the userbase that matters.
mircea_popescu: visible across the whole spectrum, how do you think myspace went from selling for a billion to turner to selling for 18 mn or w/e it sold off to.
mircea_popescu: which, again, is why things go certain ways, invisible hand and all that.
mircea_popescu: and so then you leave, and so they lost like, one of the two guys that actually did something, and that's the end of it.
mircea_popescu: but for them, going from a 70 aggregate to a 100 aggregate is a net gain.
mircea_popescu: in short : you were so diluted by idiots you didn't even realise your sum total human effort was worth less than a systematic, spammy approach to things.
mircea_popescu: if they change it like they did, willy nilly it's 0.02 per, which comes to... 100. which is more.
mircea_popescu: there's another 48 dudes who are kinda derpy but still useful, their avg "wot added value is 1 each.
mircea_popescu: now, out of those 500, there's like ... 2 ike you. your "wot added value" is say 10 each.
mircea_popescu: well yes : suppose they have 500 users, which is about where intel puts it.
mircea_popescu: felipelalli has the opportunity to become a sort of speaker for the dead as it were, for a certain set of dead.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the wot system is that it readily fragments, and whoever bridges bridges.
mircea_popescu: there are market forces pushing things certain ways and into certain niches, invisible hand and al lthat.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2015#1063215 <<< note the important takeaway here. nothing keeps people in other places with shit banks from being intelligent, getting in wot, becoming part of the actual bitcoin marketplace. there's people here from all over the world. over time, a low effort / consumer thing like btcjam HAS TO devolve into the typical check advance / spam loan operation.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the end, the z's were not really useful past psychology, were they ?
mircea_popescu: think in terms of women, easier to think. "is this the right woman for me, for my life ?"
mircea_popescu: "what should do" is management just like "what voltage" is e e.
mircea_popescu: it would seem to me you are managing like an illusionist not like a manager, which is to say, comparing with some sort of null hypothesis / god's footsteps / whatever.
mircea_popescu: the proper form is, "here's the problem, here are 3 solutions, which do we pick", and he should fucking know this by now.
mircea_popescu: if an underlying comes to me with "here's the problem, what should we do", i fire him.
mircea_popescu: at my day job, i am a manager. it's what i do. or used to, b. b., but w/e.
mircea_popescu: the burning question, however, is why do you think your seeing is the pivot of this matter.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck should i know, and what difference does it make you don't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least formally this irritates me, because it's the ancient "la ce-mi serveste mie radicalurile" sophomore complaint.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i am not in a position to make this call. for which i am thankful.
mircea_popescu: so, this given : i dun care who dun like it, i'd rather have silence than the motherfucking deluge of shit
mircea_popescu: if you persecute gays, you fuck up turing. if you don't, you end up with that transhumanist singer-songwriter with the turkey hairdo schmuck.
mircea_popescu: this is a given : no matter which way you go, you lose something.
mircea_popescu: i am not going to be swayed by examples, for the following reason : of course you're going to lose something.
mircea_popescu: but people who can not support self are not fit to think,
mircea_popescu: before you get to think you get to have "ideas" you must do sufficient useful work to support yourself with. whether you do it in a year or a decade or over rest of your life, your choice.