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mircea_popescu: jborkl i think everyone gets more traffic from yandex than bing.
mircea_popescu: they're fucking quotes. the point here being that i comfortably define myself in the terms of the would-be insults various folk tried to tack on over the years. the years of me being and their coming and going. whereas you're stuck aspirationally trying to add labels to yourself. it's a fundamental difference at work.
mircea_popescu: Past : simpleminded psychotic. Currently, cult leader.
mircea_popescu: X-Rob im not going to bother with a coupla cents, just make sure the thing stays online.
mircea_popescu: you designed, as in, software architecture. db models and whatnot. tho you don't code ?
mircea_popescu: o you don't mean what is normally meant by design online, ie, drawing up mockups of webpages. do you ?
mircea_popescu: this is like having painted the wall of the unbuilt house innit ?
mircea_popescu: Kamuela no, but you're welcome to that strawman if you wish.
mircea_popescu: as far as plumbing is concerned, i'm a negligible entity.
mircea_popescu: i guess i could be the plumber's manager for as long as i stfu and don't go much in the way.
mircea_popescu: okay. so you know what an office manger is. sorta like a glorified receptionist, hires the cleanning crew, takes a weekly salary.
mircea_popescu: don't get all bristly lol. anyway : there's tools to organize all that, use 'em.
mircea_popescu: none of this is to say you personally are a bad guy or anything.
mircea_popescu: not eliminating ideas, but the brand of "ideas", or whatever it reforms as. this concept that one's personally important for no reason whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: you can'rt ever know this, can you ? that means you're not part of the pie, not adding value.
mircea_popescu: Kamuela approach it from another angle, perhaps it's more digestible that way. suppose the worker's work was no good. you know this because the code doesn't compile. suppose the capital's no good. you know this because the check bounces.
mircea_popescu: much like you'd have starved cca 1920 trying to be a buggy manufacturer.
mircea_popescu: Kamuela no. i say that within your lifetime, you'll starve with this model of trying to ceo that i perceive you're trying to impl;ement
mircea_popescu: it only isn't the rule because up until now there didn't exist this chan, and this ideology.
mircea_popescu: and that means the only way you'll be able to give them a worse deal is for as long as this elephant in the room stays secret.
mircea_popescu: what i'm trying to impart to you is that this "take capital from idiots of type A and labour from idiots of type B" that silicon valley was built upon is dead in the water.
mircea_popescu: there's no value in "ideas" and rebranding them as "vision" won't wash.
mircea_popescu: Kamuela you know you're just calling it "vision" to avoid saying "ceo is the guy who wants money for nothing and thinks this wil wash"
mircea_popescu: but anyway : specialisation is not a good thing just for the mere fact that it's specialisation.
mircea_popescu: this being a recurring discussion these days it seems.
mircea_popescu: im running counter to some very particular, bad implementations of capitalism.
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to "start it" i'd have started it in 2012. but i don't, because i can't nor should i do everything.
mircea_popescu: Kamuela no, it wasn't "let me start it". it was "let the coder start it, and run it"
mircea_popescu: only in a very distant sort of manner. not in the traditional sense the term is used.
mircea_popescu: half the value of b-a is taking the entire layer of would-be ceos out of business completely, as there's nothing really they can usefully contribute.
mircea_popescu: Kamuela: briefly, a bitcoin work market a la odesk. development team ready << well, the thing is this : we;ve been wanting something like this built for about a year. finding someone to do it is hard, however, and moreover i won't support a would be ceo on op's work. i'd rather deal with the coder guy directly.
mircea_popescu: this is a lulzy proposition, but too complex a point to try and explain it. cheaper to just let people try and pick up the pieces later.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1: looks like he was credited, but i can't tell what the website is supposed to be << best i can determine, it's aiming to be a b-a without the ba, predicated on the theory that you can somehow have ideologically neutral sources of power.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: uh, if Bitcoin is the French revolution, I'm out << the discussion was to amplitude. it is just as large an event. as i say there, it just happens to be going the other way, that's all.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: what a waste of silicon with such a limited lifespan.... << one of the more abundant elements and what sand is made out of. i never thought i'd see one feel sorry ~for silicon~
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: yeah, you can liquidate it by throwing it in hot magma << if you can throw things into it (-> air exposed) it's probably not hot enough to liquidate Si.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if he spent too long working in some large corp and it... changed him.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: tyvm for the pre-announcement 8) << it's out of this world how the guy does things innit.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: What brings you round these parts. (apologies If I've asked before, I drink) << i'm stealin gthis one.
mircea_popescu: interesting "When a buy or sell order is submitted, the ANXBTC platform receives matching orders from an extensive number of buyers and sellers who have registered as part of the ANX Open Dealer Network. " << "we selftrade. deal with it"
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> it seems decent - based out of Hong Kong, so that's their primary market the cards are backed by a bank in Poland << so weirdly contradictory.
mircea_popescu: In 1933, Bankhead nearly died following a five-hour emergency hysterectomy due to venereal disease. Only 70 pounds (32 kg) when she left the hospital, she stoically said to her doctor, "Don't think this has taught me a lesson!"
mircea_popescu: now why do i think "all about eve";s margo is drawn after bankhead ?
mircea_popescu: Once, while in attendance at a party, a guest made a comment about rape, and Bankhead reportedly replied, "I was raped in our driveway when I was eleven. You know darling, it was a terrible experience because we had all that gravel."
mircea_popescu: fun fact re the old stork : milton berle was banned there. along with bogart.
mircea_popescu: An organist playing old Stork had a prick that could hold a small fork, and between obbligatos he'd munch on tomatoes to keep up his strength while at work.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how the government works. it'll never pay you to do something you're already interested in.