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mircea_popescu: decimation looking forward to the special cosplay division of the nypd
mircea_popescu: "With the rise of Google, the gurus of Web 2.0, and the call from business leaders (often seen in publications such as Business 2.0) for a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserts that the contemporary relevance of his research is easy to see."
mircea_popescu: boolrap well, you could export all the pronz the chinese could ever want
mircea_popescu: it's not that the lesbians flock to the places where rich people live, because they need that trickle down effect to survive in their incredibly inefficient lifestyle.
mircea_popescu: "Florida's theory asserts that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development."
mircea_popescu: that spring water has complaints does not mean sprite doesn't have 500x that many complaints.
mircea_popescu: takes you 20 minutes, helps the network, all further thinking is not needed.
mircea_popescu: after your first payment fails for whatever reason, you get a full node client, pre 0.7 and run that.
mircea_popescu: then you need to write support in the 50% of cases it did not go throught
mircea_popescu: with cb/bp you need the address, then you need to watch it make sure it went through
mircea_popescu: with bb, you need the address, send the payment, are done.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla acting as if this is a thing makes it a thing. not a good idea.
mircea_popescu: you've stumbled on the very heart of the somethingawful forums over there.
mircea_popescu: wasn;t that lead by the very picturesque Richard Florida ?!
mircea_popescu: i remember a time when newspapers were worth reading, they came in wet ink and you knew the names of the editors.
mircea_popescu: the fuck do people know what their needs are, you might as well be the veterinarian that offers pet-managed pet care.
mircea_popescu: not just one man. the man with something to say. there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs"
mircea_popescu: it narrowly maps the makeover from "a good place to invest" to "a good thing to short"
mircea_popescu: decimation note the change of apple, from the ipad 1 "fuck you, it's not going to come in white" to the ipad 6 "we're doing what the customers think they want"
mircea_popescu: the bitpay/coinbase invoice model is basically doing everything from the perspective of "what's the most we could do so bitcoin never works"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. if one's goal is not to shit where one eats, then there's no incentive to cater to idiocy. if on the contrary, then on the contrary.
mircea_popescu: the only reason "people demand" pop music and buzzfeed derpage is because that's what mtv and buzzfeed want to sell.
mircea_popescu: there's no intrinsic reason to buy soap, nor any good reason not to eat the soap you bought, on the strength of this approach.
mircea_popescu: people would still demand huts and saddles if anyone asked them.
mircea_popescu: nonsense. there is absolutely no reason to cater to idiocy.
mircea_popescu: look, your whole argument is based on the entirely insane proposition that "people could never know what an originating address is"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was using the term people in the limited sense of "people in bitcoin", not in the general sense of "mouthbreather kept on life support by usg"
mircea_popescu: "we're a bitcoin company that's trying to make bitcoin work as badly as possible, and fail that as closely approximative of fiat as possible. because reasons. please invest."
mircea_popescu: but no, why not try and microsoft all over bitcoin and then wonder why people hate you.
mircea_popescu: yes, it would change, if "industry best practices" were aimed at best
mircea_popescu: decimation that's not even the problem. all those together ? worth half a watsapp.
mircea_popescu: and they won't be able to get out of it by aggitating the "us legislation" dog, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: not really my problem, they'll learn some lessons in fragility once anyone gives enough of a shit.
mircea_popescu: and they BOTH did it, hurray for us-style "competition" ==== "industry best practices"
mircea_popescu: basically they picked a solution that fell out of the fail tree and hit every branch down
mircea_popescu: brothel1 : if you fail to spend in 10 minutes, there's a surcharge. brothel2 : if you fail to spend in 3 days, there's a... nevermind.
mircea_popescu: relying on a 10 minute interval when blocks are routinely a half hour, help me rwanda.
mircea_popescu: and supposedly these things hire engineers and have ceos and market value. psssssst
mircea_popescu: then you can just send 1 even for a .75 invoice if you absolutely must have it filled, and take .2whatever in change when it happens
mircea_popescu: "here is the address to pay to. if you pay in the next 10 minutes, you need to pay this much. if you don't and the price moves in your favour expect change in your originating address ; if it moves against you expect a new invoice generated for the difference"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the implication being that what exactly ? your weight is their fiat.
mircea_popescu: it's nice supporting foss authors and everything, but i doubt the guy can or would spend atc.
mircea_popescu: chalbersma suppose you just re-write it so it gives that to the highest ranking address.
mircea_popescu: yet there's a whole collection of reddit wailers derping about how bitbet is a scam and ty bitpay for having fixed your X error that cost me my business you're such a great company.
mircea_popescu: but i mean, bitbet works just fine without expiring addresses
mircea_popescu: someone has to explain to me why both coinbase (10 minute) and bitpay (15 minute) use this idiotic "expiring invoice" model.
mircea_popescu: mmm no. it's like 120g/mol. 1/3 of a mol, like 7 liters.
mircea_popescu: lethal dose is 45 grams, which is just about 1 mol, or ~22 liters of pure, unconstricted gas.
mircea_popescu: it is difficult to store, because if air gets to it they make phosgene and hcl ; however it can be trivially washed in a solution of baking soda, which removes the decomposition products safely.
mircea_popescu: by the way : chloroform can be trivially manufactured out of either acetone (nail polish remover) or ethanol through addition of chlorine bleach.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how would you know ? you don't check people's peckers do you ?