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mircea_popescu: us restaurants don't work like
this - consequently, loyalty is impossible.
mircea_popescu: back in
the old country, reservations worked like so : unknown plebe could get "reservation", only valid if none of
the important people showed up.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
there a) is no such
thing as loyal customers and b) no conceivable reason restaurant would care. which is why
they don't even bother
to keep lists.
thestringpuller: more like useful in
the sense of new local restaurant
trying
to
target
the most loyal customers
thestringpuller: given bitcoin is anti-consumer, marketing doesn't have an immediate value because any sane business should not care about what
the consumer
thinks
mircea_popescu: useful in
the sense playing candy crush is useful. gives you something
to do in
the subte.
thestringpuller: advertising is generally bastardized. analytics and metrics are useful (sometimes). depends on if you care about
the market reaction or not.
mircea_popescu: you can ask
the ethereum huffers
to be fucking sane already until you fall over. but #etherape and a few short weeks later
they've all woken up.
thestringpuller: the lets poke wordpress sites until one of
them gives and
then post a bunch of spam backlinks
mircea_popescu: kinda in line with
the diy ethos of
the rest of computing. you want
to be secure ? you're better off
taking out
the holes
than "hiring a
team of experts". whatever you want -
take it, don't ask.
mircea_popescu: from experience, "hacking" delivers infinitely better results
than "advertising". ie you're better off raping
the site
than paying
the site.
thestringpuller: (iirc from
the namworld campaign with coinroll or what not)
thestringpuller: How do you
turn an advertising business into a ponzi scheme?
Joshua-I: They didn't just permit it, but were studied in it, which in
the cases of
their private residences and gardens suggests
the opposite of what you suggest at
the end
there
Joshua-I: Those noble
types did like
to impress each other and feel an exclusivity in
their interpretations of art
Joshua-I: Well I'd say it
touches on a few more
things
than merely being some political indirection
mircea_popescu: Joshua-I nor of modern, for
that matter. it's
time-invariant, yes ?
mircea_popescu: also re
tiny : ro is 15% of ru or somesuch ; ru is 35% or so of eu or somesuch.
tiny country is monaco, diff story. otherwise, germany's a
third of brazil and saudi arabia a 15% of pakistan naimean ?
☟︎ Joshua-I: I see no mention of ancient art in your post, what's up with
that?
Joshua-I: Did he actually wear
that variant?
Joshua-I: I rewatched
True Romance
the other day (thanks
to you) and now I must have
those rad sunglasses Clarence wears at some point
mircea_popescu: the ridoinculous half-afro-and-mustache look of
the 70s and wtf-is-with-sunglasses-indoors 80s/90s
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 03:26 Joshua-I: Art is
the most supreme, most divine of instructions
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this may well work from
the "public good" interest, but what exactly does it do for lithuania ?
mircea_popescu: this is
the
typical characteristic of cults and quacks, of course, but who's
to notice
THAT.
mircea_popescu: eedom
to give us all
their shit for free, and romania really didn't need a nuclear activities agency",
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta admit
the "democracy" drivel is nothing if not incredibly flexible. can be spread on bread as "science not cults!!11", can be spread on bread as "say no
to silly (orly?) power games and ~~~sycophancy~~~" because if you call male independence
the bad word it'll
totally stick, men are really just a bunch of women
that deeply care about labels like
that. can obviously be spread as "the people of libya want
the fr
mircea_popescu: apparently one of
the direct, entrenched results of no woman being pimpslapped for
talking out of order in anyone's personal memory is a whole lot of
those "that's nice dear, now come
to bed" sorta vomits.
mircea_popescu: seems more like fella wants a "nice fort you boys built,
time now for us all
to agree house is better" sort of
thing.
mircea_popescu: what am i going
to hear next,
that
the people of libya want "freedom" ?
mircea_popescu: "Because I mean WOT is not
too revolutionary when it is just another name for a bunch of peoples' non-interoperable personal black books between which information can be exchanged only by explicitly manual means." << da fuck, "your working
thing's no good!"
mircea_popescu: "Y'all keep mentioning WOT, but do you actually run a keyserver with a published
trust graph accessible via any sort of standardized protocol?" << sick burn
trinque
trinque: we'll see how
the number of shooters dwindles
though
☟︎ trinque: seems moar like useful idiots
than conspirators
a111: Logged on 2015-09-02 04:15 asciilifeform:
the discreditation of local police apparatus, for its eventual demolition and replacement by unified fed gendarmerie, is going on schedule.
trinque: hey, maybe
they're gonna have a revival of allah snackbar, #blacklivesmatter edition
a111: Logged on 2016-06-15 20:49 asciilifeform: no word re
the american snipers in bucharest '89, or moscow '93, or venezuela '02, ...., ...
trinque: ah.
that's supposedly Pirateat40
trinque: holy shit, his name is
Trendy
Joshua-I: Now
the last mystery
to uncover is
the use of comic sans
trinque: check
this guy out..
the one
Joshua-I: Think
the gettin' will be good post-halving
Joshua-I: Easily fulfilling
the requirements of sense and intellect simultaneously
Joshua-I: Art is
the most supreme, most divine of instructions
☟︎ Joshua-I: Yet still sexually attracted
to
things I imagine
mircea_popescu: much like pole dancing, it's not something
to pick up late in life anyway.
mats: imma put
that... at
the bottom of
the bucket list
mircea_popescu: wouldn't go as far as need ; but
this is what it's for if you have it.
mircea_popescu: which is why people
teach
the upper class kids
these
things ;
the rest dun has
teh
time.
mircea_popescu: it WOULD be fucking boring ; without knowledge of
the history etc.
mats: i just dun find myself capable of looking at most pieces for more
than a dozen seconds or so
mircea_popescu: that
this rank nonsense of obvious source still survives is nothing if not a
testament
to
the ignorant, parochial ustardian society.
mircea_popescu: the expectation art would "move you" is a late revival of idiotic victorian-romantic notions whereby women, mentally stunted by
their gender and
therefore incapable of comprehending art, nevertheless "felt it" somehow, ovary-magically.
mircea_popescu: it's not sex,
to produce endorphins. it's used condoms.
mats: not sure if i'm broken or
the art.
mats: no endorphins moving around, no sense of
the
thing inspires a sense of awe or beauty in me, i literally don't feel anything
mircea_popescu: mats not sure how familiar with art history &
theory you are, but anyway,
the point is let's call it "essentialisation", ie, a very deep stylisation of form.
mats: i dunno man.
the vast majority of all art i have ever seen exhibited in museums and galleries or whut not do absolutely nothing for me
mod6: umm guess it wasn't a year or
two, more like 5. lol. 2011.
mats: the eyeball protrusions, is
that supposed
to mean something?
mod6: I
think it was just one season. was funny
tho
mod6: <+mats> and apparently mike judge plans
to bring it back <<
there was a new season
that he created a year or
two ago
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 01:20 phf:
there used
to be a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did
things with
their hands,
they would
teach all
these interesting retro
technology classes.
they are mostly gone now, i've managed
to catch
their last wave and got a distinct feel from
them "kids
these days fucking suck"
mircea_popescu: mats ~nobody finds it funny
that didn't know 5`000 various idiots
that, if brancusi'd, end up beavis and butthead.
mircea_popescu: i dun
think it's
the age. might well be a cultural
thing.
they're pretty white.
mats: and apparently mike judge plans
to bring it back
mats: i never understood
the humor in 'beavis and butt-head'
BingoBoingo: Qntra
tries
to cover all
the buttcorns and all
the altcorns
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: You forget
the soy-corn and
the wheat-corn and
the...
mircea_popescu: i keep hoping
the great cornholio shows up in comment section one day
mod6: i like
the corn related stories on qntra
mircea_popescu: but anyway, corn output doubled since
the 80s/90s. it can't be said agro
tech hasn't improved.
mircea_popescu: "just
the corn" = all soda ; all mcdonalds/etc hamburgers ; all sauce, icecream etc.
mircea_popescu: comes just a shade under 1mn / capita / year, which is
to say 2.8k calories.