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mircea_popescu: re kako's "cost 18k usd" thing : a financial economy has one benefit exactly, and that is, making the price point not a consideration anymore.
mircea_popescu: apparently couch surfing isn't all it's cracked up to be
mircea_popescu: "I had this notion that it would be interesting to meet people from all around the world and show them Galway, but most of the visitors we got were extremely boring eastern Europeans who kept their food in a separate plastic bag and got up early to do yoga."
mircea_popescu: "Guilt is sexy. You can really only talk dirty to a person if you have been blessed with guilt."
mircea_popescu: then a generation down the road, you get this derpage.
mircea_popescu: now they're all going about calling each other sir and acting as if they're fucking people. it's a sickening display.
mircea_popescu: but the god damned idea that politeness is something that may be afforded to the horde.
mircea_popescu: i would submit that the worst invention of the 20th century was not the a bomb, nor the concentration camp, nor statal racism
mircea_popescu: qq1932 i didn't selfanything dood. this ain't about me.
mircea_popescu: maybe, and i say MAYBE jobs can come up with "o i dunno, mebbe i feel like working on it" sorta deals
mircea_popescu: you are not in the position to even remotely as a joke consider anything but slavish 100% dedication 16 hours a day with no sundays
mircea_popescu: dude, let me tell you something to help your head calibrate yourself. i recently wrote to a famous illustrator, whose work is celebrated by an actual fanbase and included in successful franchises. he committed, on the basis of that conversation, and the whole thing is costing me bitcoin fractions so far.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the time honored tradition of con artistry is to flatter people who are too stupid to understand how stupid they are by making this confusion, between "highschool understanding" as required to understand well known and widely understood topics, and extremely advanced fundamental understanding required to understand similarly just as simple, but not widely known topics.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud tthe problem with it is that it only works one way, and at a fixed speed.
mircea_popescu: this is why fundamental mathematics only started in 1800.
mircea_popescu: qq1932 dude, there's a major difference between "highschool understanding" of any topic and fundamental understanding of such outstanding quality as to recognise fundamentally correct but contemporaneously obscure advances.
mircea_popescu: and i mean literally. i place a bunch of blonde krautzettes in the shape of my signature on a lawn in which the nda was cut.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i don't do private anything with people i don't know.
mircea_popescu: that was more like "ok we're screwed, how do we pretend this wasn't a terrible mistake"
mircea_popescu: well sculley is making it all about himself, but no, my (not necessarily very valuable) understanding is that endless friction with various engineering teams over the 80s eventually bubbled up into it
mircea_popescu: twasnt the board, wasn't it bitching about how the office was going to be ?
mircea_popescu: breaking the barrier between "what we're doing" and "how we're doing it" is unhealthy in all cases
mircea_popescu: i'd have fired them all too, and impaled a few, extra.
mircea_popescu: the incredibly cheeky engineers in question had the unmitigated audacity to outs him from his own company because "they're merituous"
mircea_popescu: and the cardano should have been implemented on the apple ipad. "just make sure you run it on battery"
mircea_popescu: there should not have existed a raspberry pi if apple had a twinkle of a clue.
mircea_popescu: instead of selling diy robots and wall attachment accessories, they tried to make money selling a longer proprietary power cable.
mircea_popescu: "o let's push bezos into not paying engineers we shouldn't have hired salaries they shouldn't get anyway"
mircea_popescu: instead he wasted his time fighting idiotic union wars.
mircea_popescu: had he not died, he'd have been old and by then formatted.
mircea_popescu: unfortunately the way this works, just exactly when apple grew big enough to fight and win,
mircea_popescu: yes well. i am not interested in buying technology made by legal depts.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sale volumes are no indication of management competence.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and that has a very faint but almost identifiable personality.
mircea_popescu: i imagine 50 million billion trillion chickpeas sold since the dawn of agriculture.
mircea_popescu: toothbrushes sell by the billion. what sort of argument is this.
mircea_popescu: listen here, you know what else sold 200mn ? that shitty japanese electronic toy thing.
mircea_popescu: the moral being, beat your children. if they don't know how to hate they don't know how to matter.
mircea_popescu: "o, we're going to change the world, watch us make gunpowder fireworks that change the world oooohhh"
mircea_popescu: the actually functioning touchscreen is the big challenge there, and they solved that. the rest is just trims.
mircea_popescu: serve the deeply seated human thirst for anthropomorphising
mircea_popescu: the tablet being basically a portable head to attach to anything you want.
mircea_popescu: make the tablet so you can put it into a robot. make your own dog, make your own buzz lightyear, make your own fucktoy.
mircea_popescu: make the tablet so you can hook it with any number of tablets and watch a film with your friends.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if the thing were made by me you wouldn't have the retarded "this is facebook running on javascript" game market, and the "this is unextensible" view.
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean the techs that made it were idiots, they were competent. i mean their managers were idiots)
mircea_popescu: honestly i think tablets will suffer a foss revival much like the pc did.
mircea_popescu: the thing is such a waste. if it weren't made by idiots it could have been surprisinglky cool.