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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.
mircea_popescu: well it's a shitty movie, but i guess it makes this particular sidepoint well.
mircea_popescu: all this because they refused to implement anti-inclusiveness, hierarchy, closedness, etc.
mircea_popescu: jesus what a promising thing ted was, and what a smoldering shitpile it turned into.
mircea_popescu: huddled around two 386 hooked into a dialup modem (cca 2004!), at the Luxor Center For Businessmen.
mircea_popescu: much like when i hear smeone's an entrepreneur, what i think about are the poor egyptian kids in luxor.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i confess when i hear someone's a rapper, that kid is what i think about.
mircea_popescu: anyway. retarded cop, gets out of car, has interraction with rapper 12 yo black kid
mircea_popescu: ends up involved with some cokehead, sister of tom cruise who's a total dudebro
mircea_popescu: they see a cop, the underdevelop part of their brain that regulates behaviour gets a jolt.
mircea_popescu: also, idiots tend to think nothing they can't see exists. best way to keep compton in line is keeping cars on patrol.
mircea_popescu: if you can give them someone to shitface, then you can get the dangerous to be useful.
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it could not. because you oculdn't motivate anyone to join it.
mircea_popescu: then again, that's what they said about fags, too. look into stonewall inn.
mircea_popescu: and since the actual niggers are rioting... they moived to fags. those also rioted in the 50s
mircea_popescu: benkay no, it's not a war. the way i see it, to keep a police force going you gotta give it some niggers to pick on.
mircea_popescu: dub people deal with the problem of global warming by giving the bums involved more money to do more "research"
mircea_popescu: and holy shit year and a half average relationships ?! what the fuck sense does that make, it's the uncanny valley of relationships. either a few good fucks for a coupla weeks or else years, who does this middle of the road bs ?
mircea_popescu: i have an idea, just deliver add medicine with the whale.
mircea_popescu: Frequent tweeters have shorter real-life relationships than everyone else, probably via some bit.ly hack. Unfortunately, we have no way to tell who's dumping who here; whether the twitterati are more annoying or just more flighty than everyone else.
mircea_popescu: i don't know that many women that don't like sucking cock.
mircea_popescu: and i think women just about need 20 years to learn to orgasm, yes.