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mircea_popescu: anyway, sponsorships may work. it's just... they require some elements, such as lordship, that are absent for reddit's case.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much it. reddit is an apeman looking for a club to clobber things
mircea_popescu: "It’s a bit like a man grunting at a woman he’s attracted to. There’s no context, no clarity, no purpose, no potency, no efficacy. No finesse. No nuance. Marketing is an art, not some fucking blunt object for which to clobber your every desire. "
mircea_popescu: concerned as to her well being, convinced as to the dangers etc
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the editing dept sez : "deluded AS TO where you stand"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afaik labrats with dead litters get it too, and die.
mircea_popescu: obviously, lactating animals are all desperate to be milked.
mircea_popescu: "You see, other than by chance, it is impossible to properly communicate and convince an audience of your position when you are deluded from where you stand in the first place." <<< you just summarized us dating.
mircea_popescu: as is customary with the free market, the more you work the more you get :D
mircea_popescu: like next time WiredHerp comes here to ask questions and all he gets is a link to them being banned ? and an invitation to get his editor to fire the offending party and publish a retraction cum apology ?
mircea_popescu: nobody cares about usagi, but some people - such as for instance I - care about the fact that we were doing insider jokes in 2011.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, i see it more that way. it's a little nook, something to discover, some way to be "in".
mircea_popescu: "It’s an ugly thing, watching all these kids shoot from the hip." << ThickAsThieves haha actually i kinda enjoy it for the comedy value
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform afore or after the chinese took over the us ?
mircea_popescu: because, of course, "customers can have a car any color they want"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what's so stupid about it ? it's sort-of like Ford having "Got Black?" on its corporate website.
mircea_popescu: the rules are that contracts are mandatory if either party desires, but may be waived as unnecessary if both parties wish to
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron who's the guy and why's he refusing to sign a contract ?
mircea_popescu: yes, that's what brands are : stupid to the clueless. like say the word "brand"
mircea_popescu: and "we" need to stop because this can't be everything is a scam milk is a scam kjfdshgkshdkgjsfd
mircea_popescu: eventually usagi had a nervous break down, wroiter this post about how he can't get any sleep because he keeps having to defend "his good name" and he is selling his guitar and w/e to pay off debts
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves two years ago, usagi was doing this complex layered cake of very badly structured "corporations" that kept trading with each other then failing to execute the contracts etc. deprived kept calling him on it. for months, 100s of pages.
mircea_popescu: you know, "most military expenditure in the world", then russia pisses in your ear whenever it feels like.
mircea_popescu: well considering what the inexistend fighter jet has cost alreayd, i can only imagine what a shuttle would cost the usg
mircea_popescu: somewhere in the god forsaken thirld world where this isn't somehow self-obvious.
mircea_popescu: pankkake no. it's like writing "fraudulent pracitce of medicine will be prosecuted" on the hopsital
mircea_popescu: like you know, whatever fucking shaman in the depths of africa rubbing sticks together "knows" and consequently doesn't need to obtain a license to opine on matters of medicine
mircea_popescu: because why would he need to, right, because in the virtual reality he inhabits he is qualified.
mircea_popescu: there, 70% drop, go doublespend or w/e, show me how altcoin dies because whoa, sudden mandated diff changes.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing about that paper is, of course, that altcoin is being used currently exactly as experimental proof that his theory is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: did they stop sending kids to school altogether in the english space ?
mircea_popescu: "We claim that these built-in properties are not as brilliant as they are sometimes claimed."
mircea_popescu: and speaking of nonsensical us stuiff that's really just inherited from europe, does this melody sound familiar to anyone ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: pankkake when are we starting a business? we can call it "the Dropbox of water" << call it the dropbox of beer. you can go arounbd other people's tables and offer to store it for them.
mircea_popescu: steven-__: and they are just pushing him out now that his team is good << intel told me the same thing. "stfu with sterling, you're embarassing yourself. he's been an idiot worse than steinbrenner, nobody cared because the team used to suck."
mircea_popescu: damned shit. this read logs later and comment deal doesnt work because instead of being beaten by like .5 seconds
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: "Porn has never looked so good!" - Naphex with his new PC << "who said you can't mine btc on your pc in 2014 ?!"
mircea_popescu: ord money”. That schizoid insanity is still torturing our fledging northern colonies to this day. "
mircea_popescu: ntry. Within a generation or two the prevailing winds changed, and most all of “Victorian morals” can adequately be reduced to and explained in terms of, the lords pushing their sponsored priests to go to war on their behalf, under the banners of “other people should drink gin so as to make the lord money, but the people of this parish should not drink gin so as to be able to work long and hard, thus making the l
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: bounce: I've actually always suspected the religious case for prohibition was largely influenced by the cost of drinking taking money that could have been tithed << actually, it was leftover from english historical issues. "nitially gin was a welcome industry in England because it allowed a new class of consumption for grain, thus promising to elevate the prices of grain and so the profits of the landed ge
mircea_popescu: bounce: dropping php/mysql isn't a bad idea. but the replacement... some people are magnets for failure << i suspect mysql (just by itself) may actually be a better choice than mongodb.
mircea_popescu: bounce: eh, finance's not supposed to /drink/ anyway. << oddly, all good doctors i ever knew smoked like turks, and all good finance people were drunks. check out romania's cb president pro vita, his face has the distinct red marks of enjoying wine.
mircea_popescu: jurov on the other hand, gets meningitis of the uvula from not drinking enough.
mircea_popescu: bounce: two or three drinks a night does qualify for alcoholism in some books << it very much depends on ethnicity and culture. your average samoan doing three vodka shots each day will be fucking dead from it.
mircea_popescu: sanity shouldn't be difficult. in practice, nothing else is quite as difficult.
mircea_popescu: now, this certainly isn't to say that taking a break is not a good idea.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to negotiate, see ? whereas as long as you are your own master for all you know your adiction is making a deal
mircea_popescu: the only logically sound way this proof works is if you're a slave and your master orders you to stop, without a specific timeframe. then yes.
mircea_popescu: because inasmuch as it's in your hands, abstaining for an arbitrary period from x does not prove you don't have an addiction.
mircea_popescu: see, i can appreciate that sentiment, but it has a hole in it
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so I stopped for 6 months to demonstrate I wasn't << alternatively you could have belted her butt to demonstrate it's not her place to say. better for humanity, because she probably went on to write opinionful articles about things.
mircea_popescu: Naphex: garbage article, opionions and arguments how fun << they've been having an eve corp whose shares are traded in bitcoin/equiv MPOE shares for... a year now ? more ?