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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"
mircea_popescu: this is what i meant : while the thing's not necessarily useful, at least it's trying.
mircea_popescu: that idiocy aside, using skein's not necessarily a bad choice
mircea_popescu: did you shutdown your pc uncleanly ? such as for instance power fsailure ?
mircea_popescu: 2015-03-14 08:29:22 LevelDB read failure: Corruption: block checksum mismatch
mircea_popescu: just assign costs to cpu/bw usage, and price to information obtained, and there you go
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ideally it'd have a performance based model, where it sorts the connections according to a "value", periodically kicking the bottom one and taking a new one in
mircea_popescu: dude, we went over this. the list is strictly made out of wot nodes. nothing else.
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mircea_popescu: i mean it's traditionally a device to humiliate the girls, but the degree!
mircea_popescu: well considering all the bezzle poured in, it should be d.cbse
mircea_popescu: and so for them erring that way is sensible. but in actual fact... good god, the world is better off.
mircea_popescu: im sure if someone burned down reddit loads of future intellectuals will be all "o noes, the treasures lost". because they don't exactly know.
mircea_popescu: if the people that wrote them weren't idiots, the books wouldn't have been burned.
mircea_popescu: which is why i don't particularly share the worries of most intellectuals abnout the various books burned during history.
mircea_popescu: that's the important thing about colonialism : it is a plain statement of the fundamental worthlessness of the locals. what it says is that their culture is not worth reading.
mircea_popescu: that's the point of colonialism : much like b-a, you may only join it nude.
mircea_popescu: colonialism is about coopting the locals on its own terms only.