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mircea_popescu: speaking of which, yo funkenstein_ how much woodcoins does a btc buy me ?
mircea_popescu: sounds more like a gay spat than anything, two people who figured "they" were the embassy or something.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo from what i hear, the entire polish embassy thing is bs. for one thing, they really didn't do much / nobody even knew existed. for the other, no police reports, or what exactly happened there ?
mircea_popescu: dude polish looks like a fucking dragon wrote it down.
mircea_popescu: but that speaks to how they're assigned, the discussion was about how they're used.
mircea_popescu: Adlai people associate shorthand names with keys. sorta like nicknames/callsigns work in the army/airforce.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein : id as funkenstein_ and you can self voice.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.funkenstein_.1:08f17d910038511d7eb6dd50c053622072b2d77774b05f63de70f50240b6bd83
mircea_popescu: mostly because the sort of sluts i hang out with don't even have panties, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: egg-vest. i guess i may be the only one still wearing three piece suits,
mircea_popescu: this is like... the frist time i saw something intelligent on tardstalk in... years ?!
mircea_popescu: hm, no, that's an exageration. bout 5k an hour more like it.
mircea_popescu: kinda like cccp was a "major airtrafic hub" for internal flights only.
mircea_popescu: i guess this is a point. istanbul is a major airtraffic hub. the us... not.
mircea_popescu: <chetty> << plans to have eulora hemp << what, no pot ? :D
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: if you aren't a miser, and don't want to layover in two separate banana republics summing to a full 24 hrs' journey each way << this however doesn't ?!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i paid around 0.8k << ftr this sounds about right.
mircea_popescu: "A key growth hack we developed was the ability to show different headlines for social and search so we didn’t impact our search traffic."
mircea_popescu: but gotta appreciate the "shared hosting for idiots thinking themselves corporate" thing. myths never die! INFINITE BANDWIDTH!!1
mircea_popescu: you could have bought that and driven it to a ytmnd for all the good they do anyone.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the thing's just been buying those spammy "related stories from across the net" slots. which... whatever. TRAFIC!
mircea_popescu: "The amazing thing about the platform is that it is a flat fee. This means that although our traffic has grown 350% year on year our costs have not changed. The depth of their out of the box features plus ecosystem of plugins ensured that we did’t have to worry about commodity features such as SEO, site maps and editorial workflows as someone else had built and open sourced an approach."
mircea_popescu: "We also migrated to the hosted platform as a service provided by Automattic on vip.wordpress.com. This enabled all of our costs and resources to be focused on growth as they didn’t have to worry about caching, servers or anything that didn’t improve experience for our readers or editorial users. "
mircea_popescu: interesting : he tries to fight obscurity, going to extreme lengths to put a spotlight on himself
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ^ chgeck it out, the internet breaks a little more.
mircea_popescu: the kicker, of course, being "She seems to think that professional careers require flawless writing ability, which I don't feel is the case."
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the "reddit principally exists as source of pre-spun spam text, because the cult of bayesianism really does work", jesus christ check out that life history.
mircea_popescu: wait, i thought her fucking tupac was public knowledge.
mircea_popescu: "Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . .
mircea_popescu: lol i remember when she was teaching leterman wardrobe terms
mircea_popescu: "We don’t think of bitcoin as being [...] an alternative currency [...]. We think of it as a medium for exchange"