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mircea_popescu: may have other problems, sure. generally we don't see th eproblems we don't have anymore. like in this oglaf comic :
mircea_popescu: so my rationale is, make a place which actually only lists legitimate venues, people won't have the problem i had anymore.
mircea_popescu: and the thought in my head was "i'd buy the whole book, if i had a guarantee your book is all respectable folk, no mfa, no shit. no torrents w/e"
mircea_popescu: what did i buy on ? i couldn't care less about the "numbers"
mircea_popescu: from the position of the ad buyer, i was more than once confronted with endless lists of "venues" to buy space on.
mircea_popescu: maybe this doesn't make me any money, or maybe this is the last thing that keeps playable games available which is what keeps me from killing andreas for realz.
mircea_popescu: i played solforge, some card trading game, and as for the past 500 games i played for more than 2 hours, i paid them something
mircea_popescu: i mean, reality being complex, evaluating how you make money becomes untrivial.
mircea_popescu: the fact that when openssl got shot in the head there was someone there to pick the pieces...
mircea_popescu: well... there's apparently reasons. have i made money ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c your adhominem religious leadership aside, this whole discussion dovetails neatly into the converse, ascii's curiosity as to why am i giving bitdimes to random sluts.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` does the average canadian also get more food, shelter and clothing from the government than he gets on his own dime ?
mircea_popescu: to get back to fucking, ever left money on the nightstand of a woman that ~wasn't~ a whore ?
mircea_popescu: not that the two are divorced or orthogonal or anything.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea if it helps them make money or not, but it allows them to get places they wouldn't get otherwise.
mircea_popescu: if advertising is to survive, it'll have to invent itself as something else than medieval "fuck so wife makes more peons which make more koku"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i confess i'm somewhat suspicious of anything which suggests to 'monetize' my site, which is more or less the polar inverse of 'monetizable' in the usual sense. << in fairness, i don't believe 90%+ of the derpage emitted by "advertising industry" in any way applies to van stuff.
mircea_popescu: mike_c gotta appreciate trilema runs a custom string of hacks off 6 yo wp
mircea_popescu: mike_c one of the things i did was have ppls prepare code so i can show ads to non-cookied users only.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i'm open to it, so long as serious money and i don't have to promise any kind of detectable result to anyone. << van is kinda tailored for that last part, at least.
mircea_popescu is suspicious of distortion but definitely more thinking will go int this
mircea_popescu: i don't net buy or net sell based on what i want, but based on what everyone else is doing
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's more like, van is a piggy bank. if i start pulling money out rather than pushing money in it'll prolly debalance it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: you're probably already smoking it. you need to have a valuable audience. << the proposition that tardstalk has a valuable audience is outrageous.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: or, more to the point, say trilema was actually running an ad slot (hint hint). << i'd rather buy, honestly.
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:clientsfromhell.com "it's easy if you know what you're doing"
mircea_popescu: eventually. once ben_vulpes figures out the basics of how to install servers and stuff
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ideally van will be able to do that on its own
mircea_popescu: i have three holes in my wall about ten square inches total, wind blows through freely. i burned > 100kwh this month so far. they dun give a shit. thsi is normal here.
mircea_popescu: so for the ecologists still clinging on to the logs somehow : argentina heats on electricity, has no insulation and does not care.
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to call me a religious leader and complain of ad hominem
mircea_popescu: o look, btcscoop.com already live and getting accolades ?
mircea_popescu: but if you;'re gonna be subversive, you gotta actually be subversive.
mircea_popescu: so whatever, if it's successful nubbins` will love us for it.
mircea_popescu: because if one ca'n't get paid "designiong" ads anymore, they can't get paid designing period.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the notion is to leave the whole "profession" of designers without employment.
mircea_popescu: if you just want to make specified banners, fine, do that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the idea being that you can dump whatever text/images you have/care to and van will sort out some kind of ad out of it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: how so if you don't support basic news print ads? It's 2014 not 1014 << you know people can just upload their jpg and be done with it if they want,.
mircea_popescu: more of a culture sort of thing than a business sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> mircea_popescu:mike_c hey, how about a bitcoin mud platform ? << zork for bitcoin? the grue ate your coin? << more like a platform, so people can make their own muds but have some basic tools (btc payments, [blockchain based] random dungeon generator etc)
mircea_popescu: the guy is saying "o pula roz din fier cu luminite" which means "a pink iron cock with blinkenlichten"
mircea_popescu: lemme share a high water mark in the history of romanian cartoons
mircea_popescu: hehe i had suspected that my and that band are tenuous.
mircea_popescu: there's no victory outside of oppressing the other side into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: get the whole lot in the wot, start opressing the little timmys of the world.
mircea_popescu: princessnell what i want to know is why isn't your cause using the tools of victory.
mircea_popescu: princessnell so what happens after your merry band of radicals gets defeated ?