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mircea_popescu: as cazalla points out, there's other schools of thought on the subject.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's why your own name's so good (in my view) : cuz who the fuck else's gonna steal it from you.
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> gonna sleep on …. shit i dominate << it's how dogs do it.
mircea_popescu: About Dead-Eye Dick and Mexican Pete, And a harlot named Eskimo Nell.
mircea_popescu: branding is not self description, you're not looking for larger things to latch on to
mircea_popescu: you're not groking this. there's nothing specifically about you that's bitcoin. nor "philosophe"
mircea_popescu: think of it like having a really shitty name, like say your mom named you todd gack or something
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete not something new per se. most alternatives'd be worse.
mircea_popescu: perhaps for the obvious reason : that comic fandoms are the right venue ?
mircea_popescu: besides which, nobody here has any experience doing what you're asking for, excep perhaps for mpoe-pr and tat, and neither of them take the forum seriously enough to consider
mircea_popescu: VanCleef btctalk is kinda looked down upon as a shitty venue
mircea_popescu: there's this romanian joke about the man who begged god for to win at the lottery
mircea_popescu: "I know, I know, I don't have any real power, but maybe someday a man will give me some."
mircea_popescu: much better brand than any derivative of a trademark you don't own/
mircea_popescu: yeah benkay has a point. can you be omething else other than bitcoinpete, bitcoinpete ? you're driving others into sin, like rebecca the jewish irish
mircea_popescu: <bitcoinpete> 10 hits is something << ironically, if my wol comic ad campaign hit on one me that then plonked a large bitcoin stash down it'd have been worth it.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> only thing worse than a blog nobody reads is taking such down and having people pester you about it. << apparently someone read it.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i have yet to hear of a facebook campaign that made money.
mircea_popescu: The accumulated number of “impressions” — the number of times it has flashed by someone on the Internet over the past 18 months— runs into “the tens of billions,” estimates Steve Wernikoff, a government lawyer who has tracked it. “It’s just a tremendous amount.” << i dunno about "tens of billions". i got millions in mere days.
mircea_popescu: the govt should be using taxpayer funds to lure idiots with this type of ads and then rape and kill them.
mircea_popescu: right in there with the "find out this <pleb group> secret that makes <elite group> angry" and "it's not a joke you've really won"
mircea_popescu: dub> I guess the comics you mention are primarily for aspies and shutins << wol right ?
mircea_popescu: all the self=appointed "community" derps putting on their best airs of "professionalism" and "real world bla bla"
mircea_popescu: my lot is not to worry, my lot is to preemptive strike.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, teenager with no education, no value and no prospects entertaining delusions of self importance. the andreoderpulous school of nothing.
mircea_popescu: then as that sunk moved on to bizarre shilling of quantum computing and assorting other scams
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform derp who did "bitcoin magazine" copyediting for a short interval right after it was stolen from its previous owners by a bitpay-led alliance
mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin one'd think people hiring web designers are into publicity rather than privacy.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> do you find the kyriarchy oppressive? << should porolly be #b-a motto
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight not having a gf is considered the most nerdiest thing.
mircea_popescu: margaret thatcher got alzheimers, golda meir won the washington state beauty pageant
mircea_popescu: and also, noted the 15 years ago. you don't get to make yourself under 30 again that easily!
mircea_popescu: RebeccaBitcoin: I was hoping IRC wasn't going to be as nerdy as it was 10 years ago. Apparently I'm wrong. << how the fuck is this place nerdy
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: WOL runs on atc at the moment, doesn't it? << nah btc.