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mircea_popescu: lol the small amount of oppression. the oppressed don't even know about it!
mircea_popescu: the only thing that connotes in english is rastafarian
mircea_popescu: liberal is pretty much dead. libertard will probably survive.
mircea_popescu: same here. tovarasi was so commie-imbued in romanian it pretty much died out
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you find it odd if some othrodox country actually called the priest "cousin" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the part where they call party members bffs ?
mircea_popescu: jurov for a moment there i thought you may be off on something ungodly like i dunno, a 1st may vacatgion or something
mircea_popescu: now someone make a forum account put that shit up there.
mircea_popescu: "It involved skewing data in Google Analytics. They decided it was a good idea to alter the statistical data shown for websites. It first began with just altering data reports for Analytics account holders that also had an AdSense account, but they ran into too many issues and decided it would be simpler just to skew the report data across the board to remain consistent and implement features globally."
mircea_popescu: punkman that's actually quite well matched to market signals. i wonder if anyone'll ever investigate these matters. seems sort-of like a probe in gazprom.
mircea_popescu: The new policy; "shelter the possible problem makers, and fuck the rest" (those words were actually said by a Google AdSense exec) when he spoke about the new procedure and policy for "Account Quality Control".
mircea_popescu: I did not. I stayed because I had a family to support, and secondly I wanted to see how far they would
mircea_popescu: their gravy train needed to end. Many employees were not happy about this. A few resigned over it.
mircea_popescu: needed for the company, and that most of these publishers were ripping Google off anyways, and that
mircea_popescu: payout, we were to ban the account right away and reverse the earnings back. They kept saying it was
mircea_popescu: publisher had accumulated earnings exceeding $5000 and was near a payout or in the process of a
mircea_popescu: have to pay them a single penny. We were told to go and look into the publishers accounts, and if any
mircea_popescu: "Google reaped both sides of the coin, got money from the advertisers, used the publishers, and didn’t
mircea_popescu: but b) that he's fucking moved on from bitcoin and now is reduced to trying to leech geeks a la cody wilson. that's a net positive.
mircea_popescu: this plan isn't working, the guy lived in squalor in 2004 and lives in squalor today and will live in squalor in 2024 too
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's refreshing to see that a) taaki is continuing his gofer career, because that's what the guy does, much a la gmaxwell : he tries to associate with important projects in the hopes that people with money are stupid enough to go by what fucktarded ragazines publish, and so maybe he can get some.
mircea_popescu: "learn the secret nigerian dairy farmers hate : how an Edinburgh mum built a functioning goat out of tooth paste and some wood shavings"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony actually it ended there. what was he doing to say.
mircea_popescu: YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKWITS GET YOUR FUCKING HEADS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING POOP CHUTES AND DO SOME RESEARCH.
mircea_popescu: ok that's fucking it. wired is under embargo from now on.
mircea_popescu: "Taaki is an Iranian-British free-market anarchist and developer of high-profile bitcoin projects like the decentralized online marketplace prototype DarkMarket"
mircea_popescu: awkward moment ensues, im trying to recall if the girl's 16 even...
mircea_popescu: he had found it, because he was there with his wife... and they...well... they got a little frisky
mircea_popescu: he had found it, on this particular bedside niche hidden spot that's only accessible really if you're lying in bed
mircea_popescu: he had found it, at their 2nd town appt, where the girl's grandmother lived in the summers, which was atm empty being winter.
mircea_popescu: so the father of this cute schoolgirl gives me back my watch.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i once lost my watch. the only one time i lost my watch. i was completely wtf'd as to where i could have put the thing ?! or maybe... justmaybe... some handslight actually got it off me and now i'm never going to hear the end of "o lalala i stole mps watch lalala" *whack* ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: fluffypony, because someone smart left the keys on the door (on the inside) << were these... gpg keys ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: BingoBoingo: yeah, good food definitely wasn't on their priority list of "cool places to show Riccardo" << so what happened, her two boyfriends took you around town to party ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i could see people who aren't writers/thinkers being perfectly ok with the "cleanliness" of buried urls << yeah, because to the idiot everything that he doesn't grok is dirty.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares about some shitty us corps already, jesus christ on a popsicle.
mircea_popescu: i will burn apple and facebook in urine before i give up the url.
mircea_popescu: "Perhaps URLs are just destined to be an implementation detail that the next generation of users won’t even know exists. Maybe I was crazy to think that URLs were a permanent part of our culture. Still, I’ll miss the damn things. Let’s pour one out for the URL."
mircea_popescu: "I've been a few months there and no problem. If only they allowed btc/usd trading..." uh color me fucking confused. isn't that EXACTLY what bit4x does ?
mircea_popescu: someone not reading the logs is making a conscious and deliberate move.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: while this is a public place, it isn't necessarily fairly distributed to shareholders << that is an option the shareholders take on their own backs.
mircea_popescu: well this has been a productive morning. and outside... it's sunny, but rain drops are falling
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's more of a "go to college my son, not so you can do great things, but so you may understand why the men doing great things are laughing at you, and laugh with them."
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade if you'll stand the statement, i'll say that this has been an illuminating exercise as to the value of higher education. while you're a trained economist and the average forum dweller is a highschool drop-out, you and them are both about equally inept in business. the one difference is that your higher training allows you to understand what i say, and their lack of education denies them same.
mircea_popescu: whether the bridge is built well or badly is not related to whether it currently rains
mircea_popescu: numerisTrade but "currently" can not stand as an argument in a strategic matter.
mircea_popescu: pankkake the x.eur has the advantage that being supported by push txn and exchange sigs, you can enter into derivative gpg contracts of infinite complexity and actual otc quality on its basis.
mircea_popescu: preventing such a fate for bitcoin, for instance, has been 90% of all the work of 2012 and 2013
mircea_popescu: and a wrong side, where mostly the blacks were quartered.
mircea_popescu: it's an us idiom. old style (esp southern) towns had a "right side of the tracks", where respectable people lived
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what strategic planning for businesses is : "foreseeing" these problems and addressing them.
mircea_popescu: that is, what if all the good business flocks to one and all the scammers to the other ?
mircea_popescu: and the unrepresented risk you have here is that if there's two slightly different products addressing roughly the same market,
mircea_popescu: well that is also a point of strategic failure. because competition it is, definitely : one wanting to short btc can either buy euros for delivery on bc at his option, or enter in your cfd.
mircea_popescu: well technically yours is not otc either, it's on ripple.
mircea_popescu: moving on : how do you expect to compete with stuff like x.eur (which also gets no volume worth the mention, come to think of it)
mircea_popescu: the sort that are surprising to everyone except you know, businessmen.
mircea_popescu: but if you fail to even identify them, that's a strategic failure. failure to talk to them compounds operational failure on top of strategic failure and is how "surprises" happen