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mircea_popescu: the general rule is that no bureaucracy can hide anything.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier not necessarily. pirate didn't have "some other source"
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone read zuck's 10 page whitepaper on future of internets last year ?
mircea_popescu: "if you gave us all this money for nothing, now here's 3x as much nothing"
mircea_popescu: now this is true... i guess facebook just used the capital judiciously.
mircea_popescu: hey mike_c you got like 10 btc with your name on it! s.wol mktcap like 400 atm.
mircea_popescu: punkman right ? remember the days back when 1% CTR was LOW ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier but that's your theory. i am a businessman, i read what's written.
mircea_popescu: so what, the reason i don't; buy an android tho i could afford to buy the engineer designing it is that... wait for it... it never occured to me to get... internet weather ?
mircea_popescu: this has got to be the most fucktarded business model i ever read.
mircea_popescu: drug of sorts – users who may be able to afford data services and phones these days just don’t see the point of why they would pay for those data services. This would give them some context for why they are important, and that will lead them to paying for more services like this – or so the hope goes."
mircea_popescu: According to a TechCrunch article, Zuckerberg's vision for Internet.org was as follows: "The idea, he said, is to develop a group of basic internet services that would be free of charge to use – 'a 911 for the internet.' These could be a social networking service like Facebook, a messaging service, maybe search and other things like weather. Providing a bundle of these free of charge to users will work like a gateway
mircea_popescu: yesterday i had a girl over, and the local girl and the new girl managed the use of the kitchen together.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even going there, we supplement "meaningful" to serve his position.
mircea_popescu: so by this measure marriage contracts are the most complex contracts that can exist.
mircea_popescu: in the news : whatsapp revenue climbs to record 3.8 bn for quarter 2 (about $8500 per user), making the ~250mn profit trickling down to facebook slightly better than what it'd have got if it simply bought gilts for 20bn.
mircea_popescu: one of the best things about a lot of floor space and stuff like parquet is that you can go for long chair rides
mircea_popescu: justusranvier "We’ll see why nobody uses arbitrarily-complex verbal contracts in practise by looking at what happens when something goes wrong." << this is nonsense. marriage is always and in all places the most complex contract, and almost always verbal.
mircea_popescu: time once and for all to put la vie sexuelle de tintin once and for all to rest.
mircea_popescu: they're starting to miss numbers in the paint-by-the-numbers set.
mircea_popescu: well this time ain't that time. ain't even close. now you got bladder cancer."
mircea_popescu: "hey us economy, remember that time in 1929 when you had lupus ?
mircea_popescu: "Frankly, it’s time to put the “scary parallels” between now and 1929 to rest. This isn’t 1929. Not even close. Anyone who tells you differently is talking nonsense."
mircea_popescu: we were starting to think you got like a regular job orsomething
mircea_popescu: pankkake: author of the article kills himself, 6 bullets in the head << 6 mysterious bullets to the head that'll make you believe there's a god ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that was the one most lulzy piece of lulz i have seen in my entire life. ty vm.
mircea_popescu: dude, exploitative greed. teenager. videogames. it's got it all.
mircea_popescu: "It’s like putting a disturbed, isolated teenager in front of violent first-person shooter video games all day. If we know that most Americans are scared to invest in their own future, what’s the reason to fuel that fear even further? Sadism? Or just plain exploitative greed?”"
mircea_popescu: clearly. i blame asciilifeform. he wrecked the us economy.
mircea_popescu: “The reason why this bothers me is twofold – first, it frightens investors into making poor decisions – big decisions that will have a major impact on their mental health and financial condition well into the future. Second, the more we see this kind of pornography, the more likely it is to have an impact on crowd psychology and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. "
mircea_popescu: " Daniel Wiener, chief executive at Adviser Investments in Newton, Mass., blamed the Internet"
mircea_popescu: "Here’s a look at the chart comparing point moves and percentage moves. On a percentage basis, this spooky comparison doesn’t look quite so frightful."
mircea_popescu: yeah dude totally, recall the email slamming of 1959 ?
mircea_popescu: "“I have been in this business for over 43 years, yet I do not ever recall getting as slammed with the same email as many times as I have about"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i like how the original title included "scary" but then editors took it out
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nice lol. "it is time, once and for all" too.
mircea_popescu: argentina paid its conversion debt and is going to stiff the vulture funds.
mircea_popescu: is this one of those "made roi hand over fist" ognasty situations ?
mircea_popescu: so basically poor investor can lose 50% ayear even with an achor ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c havelock share of s.mg is worth 54% of a mpex share of s.mg. << nuts huh
mircea_popescu: NO! I SHALL SAY UP IN HERE AGAIN unless assbot appeases me