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mircea_popescu: now we know how many muricans it takes to fill a cunt.
mircea_popescu: "Last month it took more than 20 firefighters to free a US student who had become trapped inside a giant sculpture of a vagina in Germany."
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the point of tshirts aside from easy access to tits ?
mircea_popescu: d) they... actually... run A DIFFERENT AD NETWORK in their dash.
mircea_popescu: c) their publishers include luminaries such as "fair ponzi"
mircea_popescu: so a) they advertise in google, paying top dollar (1st result)
mircea_popescu: dumb shit like "counting sites" and doing site per million inhabitants comparisons
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so not that terribly interesting, the sort of "i've done google research from the us" article.
mircea_popescu: We selected 526,000 OkCupid users at random and divided them into groups by their (self-stated) race. We then took all these people's profile essays (280 million words in total!) << ok this makes me fucking curious.
mircea_popescu: o lol you went by map. i think they just didn't fill it in
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this is false, i personally had drinks with a bunch of openly gay people there.
mircea_popescu: no mention of age, but I am ready to take a bet that your average highschool today is half-bi, half bi-curious gals.
mircea_popescu: this okcupid stuff is a goldmine. "Another inquiry that had unexpected results: we asked 252,900 straight people have you ever had a sexual encounter with someone of the same sex?". men : 7% did and enjoyed it ; 6% did and didn't enjoy it ; 5% didn't but would like to try. women : 26% did and enjoy it ; 7% didn't enjoy it ; 18% would like to try it.
mircea_popescu: decimation experience shows that approach is not only theoretically naive, but also actually leads to failure.
mircea_popescu: you know ? if you want to make whatsapp and there's no phone carrier, now what ?
mircea_popescu: so yes, it IS a gift to the community. just, not in the sense you'd think. it's the sort of gift you're not at a loss for giving, like sharing music.
mircea_popescu: but without, his options are "roll your own". which is in fact often inefficient.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact correct. if someone wants exposure to x market, with a company in x market listed his options are "invest or roll your own"
mircea_popescu: a more practical approach is to look at "why do people get into the wot ?" and go from there. why do people finish highschool ? why do people go on to college ? should everyone with a hs diploma strive to go to college ? etc.
mircea_popescu: but this is really like the discussion of whether bitcoin or network difficulty are too high or too low or w/e.
mircea_popescu: supposedly mpex manages to mitigate the drawbacks while supercharging the advnatages,
mircea_popescu: it also has some disadvantages, such as a loss of control, or association with another party or whatever.
mircea_popescu: these also work together, like n+s : more people are paying attention, so it works like open source for your accounting, for instance.
mircea_popescu: Scoring : you get to know how good you're doing, as a manger.
mircea_popescu: Networking : for one thing, your investors are your best pr.
mircea_popescu: Capital : a listed company has more capital, and more ready access to capital.
mircea_popescu: but in general : a listed company has some advantages, and some disadvantages. let's look into it.
mircea_popescu: much like you can't be delivered the notion of pear or the sadness of joseph.
mircea_popescu: the existential question either exploits or bumbles into this fundamental problem. it can never have an actual answer,
mircea_popescu: existential questions are fundamentally broken because things that exist exist in an infinity of ways, whereas things that are represented are represented in a finite manner.
mircea_popescu: it's like "why get married", "why make friends", "why eat a steak" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> but if i make a profitable thing, why list it on mpex? << nobody's holding a gun to your head no ?
mircea_popescu: ahahahaah okcupid blog links their competitor as sausageparty.com
mircea_popescu: ok so, mpex report : the servers are built and racked. they have power. os installed. networking isn't working properly, clustering software being hammered into shape.
mircea_popescu: also the fact they try so hard to re-do QT it's almost lulzy
mircea_popescu: did this have anything to do with giving away money for forwarding omething ?
mircea_popescu: "honey, i love you very much, but i just can't live without twentysomething yo cunt in the house"
mircea_popescu: maybe your father in law is considering it's unfair you shoulda got the vixen, and wants to get a replacement.