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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).
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete so i just tried to put a comment in, but "forbidden please enable javascript". as if.
mircea_popescu: the place where everyone's a genius. unsurprisingly, somewhere in california.
mircea_popescu: "Pros – -Everyone at Clinkle is a genius of high caliber"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you're not drunk but you're drinking ?
mircea_popescu: except one of the most critical pieces of security infrastructure was NOT reviewed
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller im willing to share it with teh girls!
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jborkl the only thing asics are good for is that it's no longer perfectly feasible for an actor with a fab to take over the chain. it's not something wanted, but moreover something that couldn't be avoided.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand. it's best to have bigger shares of number.
mircea_popescu: what if there's going to be a scam report next from garr that goat sold him THE CHEAP SHAREs
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla but... he got repaid 0.6 for the shares he bought over .6 but he kept the others, bought at .1 ?
mircea_popescu: so your hypotethical dood going around nicking as other people to fuck up the logs paternity was being chastised.
mircea_popescu: you were like, o, someone could derp in here. and i was like, yeah, but they need voice. so you were like, well, maybe they have it.
mircea_popescu: you don't need technology to solve all edge cases. you just need it to give peoplez teh tools to do it themselves.
mircea_popescu: artifexd yeah, and if you keep doing this sort of shit you won't have voice anymore and problem solved.
mircea_popescu: ".6 for the shares I bought at .6 or higher. I have all the other shares, some were bought at .1 or so. I got 80% back and saved me a few years of courts and whatever (and he saved 20 years in jail). " this crap makes exactly 0 sense.
mircea_popescu: anyway, problem with colors is we'd rapidly run out of colors.
mircea_popescu: but yes, otherwise, you get kicked in 30 seconds by nickserv anyway
mircea_popescu: if the forum ever finds out what she's been doing with her salary...
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla dude could you believe that chick's dress ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd a major point perhaps not so specifically stated in the article is that an actually working wot has two parts, the wot (ie, graph of relations) and the channel (ie, graph of conversations). they support each other, and the "real" wot is their juncture, in a sense.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves would you stop being arrogant to other people's customers!