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mircea_popescu: which is why and how the entire "don't sneeze on people" thing was introduced.
mircea_popescu: what are we talking about then ? the five or so people that mp ?
mircea_popescu: forget being an independent agent. she cant' even deal. she's not even a representative.
mircea_popescu: lacks the authority to make a deal in her purported field of expertise
mircea_popescu: today, someone who has the unmitigated audacity to misrepresent herself as "senior" SEC counsel
mircea_popescu: if not idem then at least somewhat approximting the same
mircea_popescu: and a few millions lawyers, doctors, journalists and other liberal professions,
mircea_popescu: bounce but hear the contrarian view. in 1814, there were about 1k actual scientists in the world, ie, people making their own moral judgements, as independent agents
mircea_popescu: they shoulkd be happy to get whatever it is that reaches them ?
mircea_popescu: because historians are generally regarded like the rats in the sewer
mircea_popescu: this bounce-asciilifeform debate will probably live in the annals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to follow that model. qntra isn't a seller of 0-dioxin, 1814-equivalent tomatoes, but a greengrocer where they don't hire retards and don't mix shit in the fruit sala.d
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so it's one of those "while you're away at boot camp your wife is sucking snails out of the lesbian couple next door" ?
mircea_popescu: but whatever you care about, that's what alternatives investors have.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, s.qntr is only slightly better than the blue chip fiat company.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, whatsapp has yet to make any money. etc.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, every news outlet to date, pando, gawker, you name it, was started with a nest egg and no perspective to make money.
mircea_popescu: well, i suspect there's a lot of unresolved questions in there.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves the newspaper business isn't really for poor people ya know.
mircea_popescu: Breaking : A Trilema Article I wrote about a Song I wrote about some Music I wrote.
mircea_popescu: Romanian Billionaire And Unrepentant Murderer of Anton Derpopoplus Claims Foreign Interest Manipulate Dow
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves bad title tho. i got better titles than blogger, and the big thing there is the dow manipulation
mircea_popescu: <bounce> "free software a mediocre idea" oh well <<< who ?
mircea_popescu: bounce my idea was to make it contrary forces. so the wordcount should result like the stuff in colorado, a splendor.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves news will have a pov. want it to or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform idea being, everything needs to be done. cables are needed too.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure in time it can branch out and grow and w/e, but as an anchor, that's how it was born
mircea_popescu: i think mike substantially has it, tbh. that's pretty much the mission.
mircea_popescu: that was baked in the design. "take their subjects, write them better"
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves wel no, this is the sort of shit that happens. one day cazalla was minding his own fucking business. suddenly, it's "make a news site!" then the next week it's ddosed to hel, and then the next week it's "here's an artikcle from mp, everyone in chan wants to make a call, it's on your head. make a decision"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can see your angle. if you feel like doing one sometime...
mircea_popescu: bounce lol i think im good either way, not about to starve if they reject my contribution :D
mircea_popescu: bounce think about it, if i never submitted anything to qntra wouldn't ppl want to know why i don't ?
mircea_popescu: the blog is the superset of the written word. tom sawyer is a badly implemented blog.
mircea_popescu: yes thickasthieves. the issue is as follows : no matter how much fun you'll have, there's more people making more people having more fun than you out there.
mircea_popescu: bounce so they can't report on derpy stuff like moolah or w/e ?
mircea_popescu: ideally people do their job because of their job, not because of their carrot
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves he means that by the time there's 10bn, a few more added won't make a difference
mircea_popescu: well yes. so there yo uhave it : any way you go about things you're going to be selecting something.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves looky. factually the btc bottom happened. factually the dow movement happened.
mircea_popescu: the reason accuracy is a concept at all is that news can't ever be correct. which is why estimates are accurate and calculations are correct.
mircea_popescu: but things that actually happened that you personaly can't verify are what ?
mircea_popescu: nope. im putting some pressure on your quaint but broken notions of truth, factuality and so on