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mircea_popescu: i, in all honesty and no exageration whatsoever, averaged 220-230/110 bp for about a decade.
mircea_popescu: of course pay was mostly hookers and blow anyway, best for health
mircea_popescu: if anyone's not petrified in fear yet, it'd be because they're either innocent or an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: there you go. culture war : won. only took like 3-4 years, too.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field : "Huge audience, mainstream production (Alex Winters directed and Keanu Reeves narrated) and the film was pro-Silk Road, anti-war on drugs, and pro-Ross Ulbricht"
mircea_popescu: the smart are undetermined. the determined are busy playing football.
mircea_popescu: which is why they're not doing this, or any other of a number of plans that start with
mircea_popescu: (if anyone still wondered what the crab bus was a metaphor for)
mircea_popescu: much the same reason vc idiots could do anything, choose to feed off our discarded tissue
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of, couldn't, physically, be done. it's a matter of couldn't socially be done.
mircea_popescu: altho natural engineering has over software engineering this marked advantage, that the horse will throw you off, whereas epistula non erubescit.
mircea_popescu: i'm calling it elegant. because fuck you, i'm a dragon and im out of words.
mircea_popescu: now, if your play manages to shine through all that and bring down the house
mircea_popescu: you write a play, and this company wants to do it. they're an odd couple really, not much of a staging company. he's on three different mental meds, she's a crack whore. they make the scenery out of chewed up used tissue.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha. so that makes three of us, like supermajority of those that got it ?
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe you two could get together! token black guy with token TV hitching it at 3rd conference'd be the tits.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field remember how some idiot was offering this in 2012 and we laughed him out ? well... the vc circus picked it up. because that's what they do, they feed off our offal.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` here's the kicker : "If your company meets theses requirements, fill in the form below and we'll be in..."
mircea_popescu: Global Innovation8:22 am 19 KiBLooking for $5M funding or above?
mircea_popescu: that the site isn't worth anything FOR THAT REASON idem.
mircea_popescu: that his hours aren't worth anything isn't a point he's well inclined to grasp under torture, let alone figure out on his own.
mircea_popescu: if you go through the insanities they [used to] drop on the forum, the way unemployed/unemployable css derp sees the matter is, "he put 1000 hours worth 100 dollars each into the thing that is not really worth anything. so how about the users split the damage ?"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "errying LEGAL that touches x will touch you too!!11" omfg who let the shamans out of africa.
mircea_popescu: car cleanning doesn't randomly switch your tires out with popsicles.
mircea_popescu: other than that, they probably should move to c# or w/e.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the only problem is the notion that power rangers = "core", somehow.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well i dunno, 've not been following so close.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahjaha oglaf is becoming exquisitely better with time
mircea_popescu: the fall guy, whether a natural or juridical person, is not "that which doesn't deliver at all".
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, apple also delivered to some degree. that's not the contention.
mircea_popescu: how about gigavps, for his bfl-will-deliver based items ?
mircea_popescu: people readily forget that the asicminer on mpex deal fell through once asicminer wouldn't sign properly. which was clear enoug writting in the wall in 2012 for mpex investors never went into it. and so...
mircea_popescu: basically, poor but smart chinese boy has figured out that if he uses dumb but prideful white boy as his own hand puppet, he can let HIM get all the "certifications" which are worthless anyway, then let HIM underwrite all the credit, which is what the investors want to do anyway,
mircea_popescu: the way foxconn is using apple as a detachable glove / investment point is exactly copied after the manner some chinese guys used "friedcat" / asicminer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im starting to get some appreciation of the chinese scam by now.
mircea_popescu: so i would humbly suggest that the naked emperor lives in a cage.
mircea_popescu: in spite of what was it, elsa the she-fox going around endless rows of nude chinese pubescent girls with a whip and two cobras.
mircea_popescu: in the same vein, it would be interesting to know how much of computing expertise lies in ibm as opposed to its gates contractors.
mircea_popescu: "apple's the world's largest buyer of some classes of items. while not the largest in any class of any import, and not the largest buyer in any sort of general perspective, one could select some items by a criteria more or less alligned with "items apple buys" to make apple apear like the largest buyer of items apple buys"
mircea_popescu: "Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. "