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mircea_popescu: the curse of being born in the best country in the world,
a few decades before it became the best country in the world.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "Adding
a picture" ? that article is kinda silly.
mircea_popescu: couldn't pay for my fucking coffee. not all the coffee i drink in
a week, either, just, one time.
mircea_popescu: the best she could find was this deal where she took ~12 hours' worth of examinations, and they got her
a thing for 3 hours / week.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, listen to this sad story : the mother of
a friend, who has been
a nurse all her life, 20+ years, and who is actually
a very good nurse, and who's got
a back injury from lifting people in wheelchair up to busses and so on, has been trying for the past 6 months to get
a job.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, venezuela is also
a federal republic. only... 30ish years more advanced than the us
mircea_popescu: in spite of the government having clearly made
a rule that there should be toilet paper!
bitcoinpete: TheNewDeal: it is looking pretty darn sure… i'll mull it over for
a day and let you know
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:incidentally, it occurs to me someone should do
a topic summary of this channel. what have we been discussing today, music, heaters, beating small children, points of history of cryptography academic publications minutia, radiobiology <- last time I suggested I got shot down:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-05-2014#653313 ☝︎ fluffypony: TheNewDeal: I'm
a poor gambler, and don't know enough about it to make
a commitment
bitcoinpete: just readin logs atm, looks like drew came by with quite the edm business proposal. mp's flowers must have put him in
a fabulous mood because he's !downed newcomers for less
bitcoinpete: benkay: mircea_popescu has
a standing offer on the table for people to promote the cardano <<say whaaat? colour me curious
peterl: let's break
a bunch of windows and pay people to fix them!
ozbot:
A Modest Attempt to Ease AML Rules Side Effects - Bank Think Article - American Banker
bitcoinpete: "AML regulations are meant to stop drug cartels and terrorists from using banks to conduct criminal activity. But the strict interpretation of those rules may be causing inadvertent harm to people in Somalia —
a war-torn country where large numbers of people depend on money transfers from friends and relatives abroad to cover their basic needs."
peterl: hmm, not
a real hot seller, I don't think that is where the mpoe action is going
BingoBoingo: Could be
a reduction in enthusiasm due to lack of MPEX chatter in mainstream press and X.eur and F.MPIF having whet the appetite for new listings
Drew: does query open
a private convo/
Drew: i'll prolly be lurking around here trying to have
a structured way of thinking beaten into me eventually
Drew: thanks very much for your input, it was
a pleasure meeting you
mike_c: penetrate 6 inches of steel, must be quite
a charge
mircea_popescu: Drew alright. see, now you're sounding
a lot less like dank.
mike_c: ok. so the 'suicide' part is that you have to get within
a pole's length of the tank :)
benkay: <mircea_popescu> ThickAsThieves yeah.
a good reason for bitcoin to start ignoring patents too. << bitcoin cares about patents today?!
mike_c: asciilifeform: does the soldier survive? it's not
a kamikaze thing is it?
mircea_popescu: anyway. this actually looks like
a sane budget. who made it ?
Drew: one day i would like to see
a bitcoin ticketing platform
benkay: <Drew> i would like to think that i ended up with
a structured thinking process << hang out here and you might be so lucky as to have one beaten into you
Drew: this format doesnt transfer well, that was
a test, brb
benkay: <Drew> but while buying an idaho bun may taste different than
a florida bun,
a meyer subwoofer rented from idaho would be the same as one rented in florida << the tastes and social mores differ wildly across the different regions. f'r instance, you'll have
a mighty hard time displacing red cube in portland (but again don't ever do anything in this town)
mircea_popescu: already working on it in the us to
a distasteful degree.
mircea_popescu: maybe with too many incentives stacked up, they'll figure out
a way to do it, and that'll be
a horror worse than any other.
mircea_popescu: "Let the trolls try to collect danegeld from
a hundred million consumers!" << this may be dangerous, in that putting too much weight on something "that will hold anything" never works. like you know, 19th century poliution and the ideas of "send fumes in the air, it can take anything" or "water will wash anyhing away"
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal no im just saying switching nicks is
a very expensive operation for everyone else
mike_c: gribble and oz differ by
a whole day on diff change
punkman: "You lost everything, you have no money, you have no career, you have no health insurance, you’re not even sure where you live, you don’t have children, and you have no steady relationship or any set of dependable friends. And it’s hot. It’s
a really cool place to be. "
Drew: in all likelihood we won't need the whole 1.25 million but there is
a cushion of about 300,000 built in
mircea_popescu: if you have 20 bux spare you'll get
a manicure, maybe you find some guy that's not an asshoel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform frame the question better : you've not had any decent sleep in
a week, you gotta make it in time to work cause else it's your ass.
Drew: sorry, had to grab
a shower
mircea_popescu: this is like having
a 40 yo chick come to you for dancing lessons and you telling her "missing ingredient is you being 20". why tyvm, mr expert guy!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "It is likely that the success of LZW and its thousands of implementations, especially among small developers, caught Unisys unprepared. Otherwise, it would be difficult to understand how Unisys could first allow
a very large number of small and big developers to use LZW for years, and then, after the establishment of various standards based on LZW, change its attitude."
mircea_popescu: no, just, innocent of the resources to get
a spare disk.
mircea_popescu: or else they put up with whatever nonsensical demands expectations and assorted nonsense someone with
a chicken coop available may wish to put forward.
mircea_popescu: so they either do it in the bushes, with the constant risk of
a stray dog taking
a piss on the couple during,
mircea_popescu: think of it this way : most women alive today can not afford to enforce the privacy of
a room to fuck in.
mircea_popescu: people keep "everything they have" in reach of the government, and i nreach of
a woman they met two weeks ago while drunk, and so on.
mircea_popescu: but sometiems one wonders how much of this malware serves
a useful government function.
ozbot: Your Android phone viewed illegal porn. To unlock it, pay
a $300 fine | Ars Technica
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah.
a good reason for bitcoin to start ignoring patents too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dangit it's gone. somehow that clip got edited
a little.
Drew: because it is spread out over
a 5 year period, 20 pages of excel
mircea_popescu: casual examination would indicate otherwise, but hey. you're
a millenial aren't you ? got plenty of time.
Drew: i would like to think that i ended up with
a structured thinking process
mircea_popescu: Drew the problem of not having completed formal education is that you don't end up with
a structured thinking process. this is not so bad for people like engineers, who don't really need it quite to the degree, but you're trying to go into business.
Drew: decided rapidly that
a field with
a glass ceiling of earnings proportional to achievement was not for me
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: So I've heard. I'm just thinking of
a local venture that has run into the localization issue hard as it expanded
Drew: i went to
a few years of aerospace engineering at Auburn University
BingoBoingo: Panera might be
a good case in localization issues to read up on
Drew: but sometimes there is no good reason why no one has figured out how to use
a stove yet, if we go back in time to that point
mircea_popescu: you see, "We will do this by having
a different approach than any currently existing brand." is no guarantee of success.
Drew: but while buying an idaho bun may taste different than
a florida bun,
a meyer subwoofer rented from idaho would be the same as one rented in florida
mircea_popescu: to have
a brand, you have to manage localisation issues.
mircea_popescu: see,
a good chunk of mcdonald's corporate expenditure goes to making sure that mcdonalds hamburgers are the same in atlanta and lincoln
Drew: if the brand identity was rooted in quality live music of
a few main genres, and the acts were tailored by city for maximum effect, what brand identity problems would you be mainly speaking of/
mircea_popescu: "we have 90-100 events associated with the brand across the country throughout the entire year to build promotion around, using each event as
a social media hub and continuing to expand our presence. This will create the most unified EMC related brand that has existed so far, making it the literal perfect company"
mircea_popescu: yes, i get the general idea that the us contains
a number of cities.
mircea_popescu: these aren't the result of throwing darts at
a highschool map
Drew: i listed those cities primarily to illustrate
a the way the shows would be spread out
Drew: our team has 6-8 core members and 5-10 more that are involved to
a lesser degree
Drew: his first acquisition was disco donnie presents....
a brand known for throwing terrible quality events
mircea_popescu: branson can say easily
a quarter billion. coming out of you it just sounds ... like
a millenial.
Drew: based on
a pattern of purchases and what those companies mean to him through those purchases
mircea_popescu: "4. Our strategy is designed to create
a brand which will cater to what this man and his company are trying to accomplish, which will value our brand at easily
a quarter of
a billion dollars."
mircea_popescu: this is quite important btw. never forget that the internet exists more as
a mpex contract than anything else.
mircea_popescu: "Much has been made of peering agreements. Many peering agreements were made between engineers in the early days of the Internet and consisted of not much more than
a single page of text – if there was anything written down at all. They weren’t really contracts in the way you might consider
a formal legal agreement."
mircea_popescu: "and develop it into the ideal acquisition target for the below company for the further below reasons" > can you name such
a brand that was acquired ? when, by whom, how much ?