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mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, so stated our dispute boils down to me saying that it is upon you either to present an outside criteria or else yield. (which is why i assumed your criteria is presented, and summarized it as "pre digital"). my point generally is that you can't present any meaningful criteria anyway.
mircea_popescu: jurov i bring as proof the difficulty real fags have in dating.
mircea_popescu: but by definition it can not. whatever it comes up with is actually the marketing-approved photography and all is well.
mircea_popescu: then yes, there's a market for marketing-approved photography.
mircea_popescu: bounce what is this market for "professionally done photographs", wherein the definition of "professionally" is coherent with pre-digital photography ?
mircea_popescu: not so many. just as many as poorly managed youth existed. it's a lengthy history full of gaps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes yes, all the benefits of being a prince in terms of the harem girls' awe, none of the risks in terms of the other dudes beheading you. i know all about the mental processes supporting adolescent frottage
mircea_popescu: bounce anyway, to summarize : the discussion as to whether a profession is doing ok or not, or even is still alive, can not rely on a discussion on they who call themselves followers.
mircea_popescu: i suppose since nancy reagan was hiring court astrologers the argument can be brought that the colonies were slower on the uptake, but be that as it may...
mircea_popescu: chick comes to me, "hey, this chick is born in so and so sign, marry her" i'm "leave here and never speak to me again"
mircea_popescu: chick goes to mp's great-granddad in 1514 "hey, this chick is born in so and so sign, marry her!" mp's granddad "hm, that;s an idea"
mircea_popescu: heck, i can probably find people soliciting to protect the us from alien invasion.
mircea_popescu: i can find even more astrologers taking comissions, does this mean astrology is alive and well ?
mircea_popescu: bounce why do you think "people calling themselves artists and asking for money" is an argument ?
mircea_popescu: punkman there's gotta be soemthing the matter owht the bot
mircea_popescu: gpg: Signature made Sun 02 Nov 2014 11:29:39 PM EET using RSA key ID F3251143
mircea_popescu: actually dali should probably get mention as the chief marketing whore rather than those two. makes little difference anyway.
mircea_popescu: there are, of course, still prohpets around. doesn't mean religion ain't dead.
mircea_popescu: bounce your argument that "there's still deluded idiots pretending that "painter" is an adequate synonym for "bum" " fails to support your earlier assertion that "photography hasn't killed painting".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes point remains, when you have a buy wall you increase the price, rather thna flatten yourself against it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes depends, maybe the 240 a month goes into creating a relationship with the provider or w/e. at that level, the skill of the manager is much more important than technical considerations. think of it, most embasies cost more than they have to.
mircea_popescu: "evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing." <<< there isn't going to be a professional photographer anymore than there's going to be a professional dresser.
mircea_popescu: 9k not the same, i don't care what the pretense at hand is.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:... $8500 << ... in excees of 300 dollars a month << you have to understand, 300 a month may well be the threshold of "minimum we'd pay for servers". because it's a tiny sum.
mircea_popescu: mostly because that reanimated corpse of buscemi is a very great weird actor.
mircea_popescu: punkman: saint john of las vegas ? << think I've seen that, what's mp's take on it << i thought it was somewhat similar to dead man. just as totally fucking absurd and meaningless, but not unpleasant neveretheless.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: either way, it does appear that every 5th mircea_popescu comment gets eaten by contravex's spam filter << just happened again lol
mircea_popescu: gpg: Good signature Primary key fingerprint: ADD7 A9A2 8F85 E5EF 1F51 904F 309B B8D7 F325 1143
mircea_popescu: pete is now so on top of things he quotes stuff i published minutes prior.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: no more fucking with browser versions, just abstract over one version in particular and never again upgrade. <<< this sounds just like...
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: heh <<< i like the guy's specifications skills tho.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how the fuck can these people make anything they touch stolid.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's getting published, what's the hgurry ?
mircea_popescu: and c-span organised a boycott against it, because, welll....
mircea_popescu: "elvis lives, feminism matters, we can save africa/the world/other entities that don't care to be saved nor do they care about us", stuff like that.
mircea_popescu: they believe things more akin to "the moon is made of cheeze" and "jews did nyc"
mircea_popescu: whether someone thinks the sun comes out for their merits or for their sins is entirely their problem, as it were.
mircea_popescu: well, "follow". you know ? whether usians believe X topic they have no control or influence over to be a or b, and whether they believe they have a lot or a little control over x topic they have no control over are in the end irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: so in short, nonpeople nonunderstanding nontopics. internet 4 winz.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller a) the notion that a reddit account = a person is rather bizarre. see
http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ by now i'd guess less than 10% are actual people ; b) this is in no way remarkable, they understand nothing of absolutely any other topic they consider, be it politics, sexual relationships or raising snails. this seems to have relatively little impact or importance outside of the
mircea_popescu: maybe pankkake tried to generate a bitcoin address, itcame out as 1systemdsux and his head explody
mircea_popescu: I wonder how many people hit on incredibly improbable but bothersome stuff like 1smallC0K or 1yoMOMMAisHO or 1JeSuSgAy w/e and as a result think bitcoin is evil and gather around the hater sites.
mircea_popescu: 1LAwr. hey punkman did you mine for it or pure chance ?
mircea_popescu: you can even code it in : when the queue exceeds 24 hours with more than 3 bundles waiting, or 48 with more than 0, increase tx size by 50%
mircea_popescu: this sounds bad but it is acutally good, because it gives us a method to manage the problem. ie, to distinguish between accidental and "we really should increase tx size"
mircea_popescu: yeah it is. you'll have to queue but not broadcast the next tx until this one gets included.
mircea_popescu: well scams are mostly targetted to the scammed. it's how that game works.