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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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me put it another way, maybe it washes better.
mircea_popescu: "i live in a shit country, borrowing directly from bezzle is way better than going through local banks"
mircea_popescu: this, mind, isn't jus comptuer. computer is the adjunct.
mircea_popescu: and yes experiment is entirely unworkable without it. there's no nazi genome sequence variant. know why ?
mircea_popescu: you don't need rocks for anything either, can just throw your own shit
mircea_popescu: recall that article about the new antibiotic found in soil sample ?
mircea_popescu: shit, state of the art 1930 plastics was linoleum and ebonite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has moved way far, you kidding ?! organic is more advanced as to what it was in 1930 than computing.
mircea_popescu: your statement was, and i quote, ' we're still cribbing off their tech notebook and can never hope to match'
mircea_popescu: look at the stupid rocket-planor thing. etc. derpy as it gets.
mircea_popescu: just look at enigma machine to get out of that infatuation.
mircea_popescu: sure it works, if you want the suckiest thing that'll still do the job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, "works" in this context is you saying "so there we go, c works"
mircea_popescu: mostly because early form of what was later copied by russians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only the unsuccessful ones that yet survive.
mircea_popescu: the notion that one shouldn't chat up the passing twelve year old, destroys.
mircea_popescu: no, that's not it. theknowledge that there's going to be food at the supermarket destroys.
mircea_popescu: the delusion of "stability' and cultural insularity destroy the mind.
mircea_popescu: archimedes was well over 40 when he proofed that crown/
mircea_popescu: felipelalli bare url wouldn't conceivably work. gotta deedbot- ur;