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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform needed some batteries for his demo yest, i had the maitre d' scare up some batteries, he came back with two alkalines
mircea_popescu: Diablo-D3 i bet you that i won't be able to buy a graphene supercap battery at a convenience store in 2019.
mircea_popescu: gonna put some pix up once i go through my mail and stuff
mircea_popescu: kinds funny how contrarian people are in their betting.
mircea_popescu: ;;echo assbot, you better behave or it's the ass boot camp for you matey!
mircea_popescu: we're like a polity over here, and assbot is the bureaucracy. we can pass whatever resolutions we want...
mircea_popescu: cuz what counts is when assbot gets around to doing it, not when i say it.
mircea_popescu: i was just about to say, people think they can do due diligence, but universally they can not. however, there's going to be a living to be made in the future for those who actulaly learn to.
mircea_popescu: there's all these fucktards that imagine derping about how saying nigger is bad will suddenly qualify them to opine on matters.
mircea_popescu: "But Andreas Topulopulus , our God And Bitcoin Leader said we can trust him?"
mircea_popescu: people rarely spend much time complaining about something that has no good reason to exist.
mircea_popescu: like the crinkle guy, except in fiat they don't let dorks trade on the company funds.
mircea_popescu: yeah. usually the painful reality being that one's, you know, 17.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, read the old pirate stuff, exactly the same broken sort of personality.
mircea_popescu: the rent becomes 90% of all your expenditure, and wd! you've created a new us.
mircea_popescu: cause of course it needs to be supported, you end up having to leave town in the middle of some crisis because you think people expect you to go to the crochet championship next town over or w/e
mircea_popescu: and within half a year just the rent extracted from you by all this bullshit
mircea_popescu: when you could claim you're an intenrational crochet champion, to the mouth gaping amazement of everyone.
mircea_popescu: guy becomes unable to motivate himself : why put in half hour of work to learn how to crochet
mircea_popescu: also breeds this habint of obtaining it by lying (like the early adopter stuff) which is pernicious, because it creats the habit of lying.
mircea_popescu: instead of seeking mine, he went seeking the publishers'. well fucking hell obivously they'll approve you giving them free money.
mircea_popescu: they all claim that sorta shit. this is part of why you don't want teenaged officers : they have issues with approval, and they seek it the wrong ways in the wrong venues.
mircea_popescu: but he didn't have brains enough to ask even, let alone push for it.
mircea_popescu: he had all the leverage he could possibly imaginably have : he didn't need a fixed date ; he was x-buying anyway. the publishers had nothing, he could have gotten any deal he wanted.
mircea_popescu: that's what truely separates the wayward (ie, erroneous) from the outright imbecilic (ie, rookie) : he didn't even fucking bother to get a good deal.
mircea_popescu: both rather useful life lessons, and the more likely to be learned.
mircea_popescu: finally, they could have learned that you do not grow rich by overpaying, and that retail is for suckers.
mircea_popescu: and even mutually incompatible lessons, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: so, while it's true that not every lesson can be learned from experience (usually because humans are too attached to their own, ego-defensive processing of experience), definitely any lesson can be learned from observation.
mircea_popescu: well so now... vastly different lessons available from experience.
mircea_popescu: neobee did not have more money than the average cypriot bank, and so a media overbuy strategy was a loser.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, they could have learned that advertising is the corporate equivalent of the cock measuring competition, and you don't buy it out of proportion to your market share unless you are significantly more capitalised than the average.
mircea_popescu: (to be clear, since he's made so many : the one where he bought out all the advertising in a market, for a day)
mircea_popescu: maybe they should have hired A cup chicks to dance in a circle around roger ver, in their underwear.
mircea_popescu: if they learn from that mistake that "they should have x instead" they're prolly pretty dumb anyway.
mircea_popescu: which was kinda the idea, there's an infinite space for experience, and in every iota of it there's an infinite space for observation.
mircea_popescu: basically, infinities are not all created equal, some are much larger than others.
mircea_popescu: hm, maybe that was opaque. what's your background fluffypony ?
mircea_popescu: the space of observation stands with the space of experience roughly in the relation integers stand with reals
mircea_popescu: the general population is in incontrovertible point of fact too stupid to live.
mircea_popescu: under it, an explanation claiming that it was the communication that kept them together
mircea_popescu: there's a post abouit how communication is inexistent,
mircea_popescu: "Danny’s plans before any of us came on board, were shortsighted on multiple levels. What kept us together through it all, was not the brilliance of the plan, but the coherence and communication of the assembled team and its skill sets. "
mircea_popescu: HeySteve: hmm, I should lay out my garden with hedges and such in the form of my GPU << then you could dress as an electron and run around there to mine.
mircea_popescu: is this the reddit where it turns out the "cfo" never got any accounts etc ?
mircea_popescu: i got this comment link from mod was all like omgwtfbbq fml!
mircea_popescu: pretty cool the faraday cages asciilifeform came up with huh.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete anyway, i was saying that teh yurpeans also had the sort of war-as-a-sporting-event thing, before the french "republic" invented socialism. they worked just fine for evereyone (yes, including those least qualified to form an opinion on the matter).