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mircea_popescu: "I really would like you to contrast that with what you have to do with HTML on the Internet. " asciilifeform re your article, god help us if we end up executing code off the data
mircea_popescu wonders wtf TheNewDeal is. then has dejavu moment. then remembers it's testing123.
mircea_popescu: punkman favela if memory serves is the precarious squatting living arrangements most south america enjoys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well that's my pov. i mostly care about, interact with and experience the world through womenz.
mircea_popescu: 'm like pavlov's dog over here punkman, i see your name i expect great links.
mircea_popescu: Drew that was the shittiest summary in recorded history. try again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically it boils down to, your sorting algorithm of evil not matching theirs.
mircea_popescu: if you have 20 bux spare you'll get a manicure, maybe you find some guy that's not an asshoel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now tell me about getting spare drives. when ? with what ?
mircea_popescu: and if you get fired you'll lose the apt and thus the deposit and thus homeless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform frame the question better : you've not had any decent sleep in a week, you gotta make it in time to work cause else it's your ass.
mircea_popescu: this is like having a 40 yo chick come to you for dancing lessons and you telling her "missing ingredient is you being 20". why tyvm, mr expert guy!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, seriously, it is so very difficult to understand. couldn't have even predicted it, either. o.O
mircea_popescu: "It is likely that the success of LZW and its thousands of implementations, especially among small developers, caught Unisys unprepared. Otherwise, it would be difficult to understand how Unisys could first allow a very large number of small and big developers to use LZW for years, and then, after the establishment of various standards based on LZW, change its attitude."
mircea_popescu: no, just, innocent of the resources to get a spare disk.
mircea_popescu: or else they put up with whatever nonsensical demands expectations and assorted nonsense someone with a chicken coop available may wish to put forward.
mircea_popescu: so they either do it in the bushes, with the constant risk of a stray dog taking a piss on the couple during,
mircea_popescu: think of it this way : most women alive today can not afford to enforce the privacy of a room to fuck in.
mircea_popescu: people are poor, and while the little they own is still all they own, the security they can feasibly deploy is nil
mircea_popescu: people keep "everything they have" in reach of the government, and i nreach of a woman they met two weeks ago while drunk, and so on.
mircea_popescu: coupla years ago ukash was just taking over from... i forgot who
mircea_popescu: currently paysafecard is going up and ukash is going out
mircea_popescu: they change about every 2 years, which consequently is the experimental period of law enforcing
mircea_popescu: but sometiems one wonders how much of this malware serves a useful government function.
mircea_popescu: so you know, gotta have some mechanism to force people to not be retarded
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you seen the earlier bit about the php/objective-c key mismatch issue ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah. a good reason for bitcoin to start ignoring patents too.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy explained romanian ethnogenesis in those terms. he meant dacians and thracians, not that that version'd have been any more sensible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dangit it's gone. somehow that clip got edited a little.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the words of romania's first 3rd republic president, "we come from the ducks that come from the trucks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not quite to the degree, but god help you if you seem to think there's no such thing as "thracians", as distinct from whatever sarmatian cloud
mircea_popescu: which differs in unexpected places from commonly accepted history, of course.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know romanian citizenship requires you to know... official romanian history ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, so run me through your expense structure. you need 1.25mn (exactly), which is to cover what ?
mircea_popescu: casual examination would indicate otherwise, but hey. you're a millenial aren't you ? got plenty of time.
mircea_popescu: of course, the us college hasn't been giving people thinking tools in 50 years, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: Drew the problem of not having completed formal education is that you don't end up with a structured thinking process. this is not so bad for people like engineers, who don't really need it quite to the degree, but you're trying to go into business.
mircea_popescu: airbnb to this day doesn't realise that it's much more successful in canada than in the us, or why.
mircea_popescu: perhaps excusable on the grounds that few higher level thinkers end up in busienss school
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo about half the case studies in us business school are actually this or applications of it, if memory serves.
mircea_popescu: but your answers to this problem will have to be much much better than merely not appearing like you ever heard of it.
mircea_popescu: sometimes there are reasons nobody else is cooking by holding the stove on their head.
mircea_popescu: you see, "We will do this by having a different approach than any currently existing brand." is no guarantee of success.
mircea_popescu: you're setting yourself for this task of herding 100 cats, and THIS is why nobody else is doing it.
mircea_popescu: this is an extremely complex, difficult and resource intensive endeavour.
mircea_popescu: neither insulting the locals, nor allowing them to dilute you into nothing
mircea_popescu: to have a brand, you have to manage localisation issues.
mircea_popescu: similarly with coca cola, and all large consumer product brands that use local anything
mircea_popescu: see, a good chunk of mcdonald's corporate expenditure goes to making sure that mcdonalds hamburgers are the same in atlanta and lincoln
mircea_popescu: do you comprehend the problems of creating brand identity over 100 geographicallyh disparate items ?
mircea_popescu: "we have 90-100 events associated with the brand across the country throughout the entire year to build promotion around, using each event as a social media hub and continuing to expand our presence. This will create the most unified EMC related brand that has existed so far, making it the literal perfect company"
mircea_popescu: yes, i get the general idea that the us contains a number of cities.
mircea_popescu: these aren't the result of throwing darts at a highschool map
mircea_popescu: but you're supposed to do the research. do the demographic work. KNOW why X and not Y.
mircea_popescu: (Atlanta, Dallas, LA, NYC, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, etc) < the count is 8, and this stinks of poorly researcher. why denver and not seattle, for instance ?
mircea_popescu: then how is this supposed to work ? is your team made out of 10 people ?
mircea_popescu: what about georgia can support 10 medium/large scale events ?
mircea_popescu: 8-10 medium/large scale events << this is where you show the demographics of the area.
mircea_popescu: branson can say easily a quarter billion. coming out of you it just sounds ... like a millenial.
mircea_popescu: "4. Our strategy is designed to create a brand which will cater to what this man and his company are trying to accomplish, which will value our brand at easily a quarter of a billion dollars."
mircea_popescu: also generally speaking, this sort of thing we're doing here is paid on retainer, and by the hour.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking the prospective investor will run into one of these, and just drop the thing silently.