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mircea_popescu: specifically, " there was some marketing/dev mismatch"
mircea_popescu: GinAddict1 so when you say lawrence from greenaddress what do you actualy mean ? you code ? you manage ? you pr ? what ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i don't recal, were we hating this thing
mircea_popescu: o no wait, that was pankkake. i got the fake identities mixed up
mircea_popescu: i thought you were my sock puppet. when did this merchant thing happen
mircea_popescu: Est. % Change: 4.55 is what it is. it didn't have a period like this in 3 months
mircea_popescu: when that window widens, the economy necessarily is losing contanct.
mircea_popescu: in general a working economy exists to close the zero-infinity price window
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know this polarization problem is perhaps the largest pile of conclusive proof that the official indicators are all fake.
mircea_popescu: this doth not work for anything that's an actual service. to be coca cola you have to be both valueless AND pointless.
mircea_popescu: is that sugared water with some pee in it is really trivial to make, so the entire product is the package.
mircea_popescu: the reason that shit works for coca cola (and immitators, a la red bull)
mircea_popescu: mthreat not really. they dropship some gear some azn companies designed, made and assembled.
mircea_popescu: that doesn't mean kickstarters are valuable. it just means shit like gopro and airbnb are valueLESS
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what tat's saying : whole thing can now be upheaved by a well placed kickstarter
mircea_popescu: and when i say fake, i include things such as, every year it gets easier and easier to amass headcunt, provided you promise you'll never charge a cent.
mircea_popescu: it's basically dotcom bubble v2.0. nothing easier to fake than headcount. except perhaps clicks.
mircea_popescu: this is the lulzy thing about "headcount-based" ipos and perception of value :
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete that instagram doesn't load anything for me. what is it ?
mircea_popescu: Confirmed total: 15001 BTC << look at that, bitbet passed 15k bet
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: how can this be in the same line, "100% profitable" and "no scam" << maybe you should be banned from reading advertisings.
mircea_popescu: so i'm going to check out uruguay. if i don't show up for a day or so, don't panic, i still love you.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Little do they realize that this channel is largely a bunch of happy paupers << it wouldn't surprise me if stoics were indeed the majority.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> hey asciilifeform you've done it too get off my case << best argument ever </sarcasm>
mircea_popescu: <benkay> i need a caning << talk to moiety, she's gotta unionize after this
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform from what i recall, the mentall ill sort.
mircea_popescu: sidered placing him on probation, a fate prevented by his parents successfully lobbying the authorities."
mircea_popescu: "He developed an antagonistic relationship with his tutor, Patrick Blackett, who was only a few years his senior. While on vacation, as recalled by his friend Francis Fergusson, Oppenheimer once confessed that he had left an apple doused with noxious chemicals on Blackett's desk. While Ferguson's account is the only detailed version of this event, Oppenheimer's parents were alerted by the university authorities who con
mircea_popescu: what did oppenheimer do, other than derp about peace and assorted libertard bullshit ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, afaik he was more haunted for having dared to piss on some random jew
mircea_popescu: anyway, re teller, he did have important contributions. beta decay etc.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> actual english word << i know what it means, but i also never met a von newman that couldn't code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'we've a bunch of hooligans here. let's develop access agent.' 'what theme hooligans?' 'business theme.' 'is pg around? get him on the line' << lawl. hooliganism eh ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> lesson appears to be, nuttery does not entail originality. << quite.
mircea_popescu: "been a hundred years with Banksters at rule making money from sratch charge the interest to fools" << le esl ?
mircea_popescu: dudes stop upping ninjaderp it makes the logs impossible.
mircea_popescu: polymath ? is that like polyamory without cunnilingus ?
mircea_popescu: "The myth started after The Polymath Poet aka Christine Ann Sands aka WikiPoet acquired a park permit for the Washington, DC Million Mask March."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> woman: 'i am member of anonymous11! i support wikileaks! but i haven't any idea how to program, i write poetry.' << shoulda asked her "how do you know ?"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (usg) nsa needs to hire a new script writer << outsourced.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> wow paul graham doesn't appear to have published a pgp key. << why would he lol.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> mthreat, you should crawl the links in the logs and let us search them from the same interface << holy shit this is inception.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> so what is fanon then? << canon is the story as written by the author. fanon is the story as "it could be", written by the fans.
mircea_popescu: <benkay> no no it's a great movie with a great ending in libertard canon << nothing libertard can be canon. we make the rules, they make the whines.