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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so is this scam weather piddling or notrly ?
mircea_popescu: the various return-of-satoshi mysticisms will be fun to watch in the coming yearsd
mircea_popescu: so if these idjits manage to bomb israel off the face of the map and then we rebuild wit with bitcoin
mircea_popescu: fucking hell, btc went up 10x over this year, avg bet went up 10%
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves quick impersonate TheRealThickAsThieves and say embarassing things
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it turns out, by the way, that the ~average~ open bitbet is 20 btc pool.
mircea_popescu: and that place'd be all full of... annoying kindergarterisms. like... "remember to brush your teeth!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, there should be a noob channel where people kindergarten their first year(s) in btc
mircea_popescu: ArsKisS it probably alleviates the conscxience of the people running -otc ?
mircea_popescu: nanotube maybe add a counter and only tell people say... 500 times they shoulds pay attention ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, gotta be in assbot's l2 wot, id witrh gribble, pm assbot !up nao.
mircea_popescu: the stones buried under the earth have SPOKEN THROUGH THE MIKE!
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't be surpriosed if the above problem is actually most of the friction that site encounters, in its business
mircea_popescu: and the downside is i'd have to put "make acct with X site" on someone's workorder.
mircea_popescu: now, the upside i judge at what, a few hundred bucks. cause they're not gonna sell a million copies without advertising and marketing work.
mircea_popescu: dude. looky here : at this point the situation is, some site somewhere provided you do some things may maybe sell your book. things such as i dunno... make an account.
mircea_popescu: yes but they also don't do it by themselves, it seems.
mircea_popescu: i'd have to put someone on it and everyone's overworked.
mircea_popescu: meh, a few hundred bucks on yet another site account somewhere is at this point a net loss to me,
mircea_popescu: edlund10 link to 1st chapter in that link, then chains of links to following chapters.
mircea_popescu: writing books ~in romanian~ struck even 2005 me as a little silly.
mircea_popescu: da fuck, that'll be the laugh of all time, if it turns out my real talent was literary.
mircea_popescu: artifexd you know, im not proposing every engineer out there should be made sausage by nubbins.
mircea_popescu: "The sound technology, the source says, doesn’t yet work. A noise as common as a blender in the background at a coffee shop might cause it to malfunction."
mircea_popescu: facebook is responsible i swear. every nutcase imagines himself randi zuckerberg now.
mircea_popescu: HOW do these people expect a fucking company to work already ?
mircea_popescu: For example, only engineers, some designers and product people were given stock. And some of the other departments, such as operations, were asked to do menial tasks for the engineers.
mircea_popescu: One described the way engineers were treated versus everyone else as a “caste system” within Clinkle. Another said there was “segregation in terms of how departments were treated by management.”
mircea_popescu: this sort of retarded shit's becoming something like the new normal.
mircea_popescu: , the group could win a $500 party, spa visit or stereo-system package. None of the pitches included a demo of the actual app."
mircea_popescu: otherwise, almost neobee to a fault. "The growth teams met ambitious goals by targeting the most influential students on campus, such as group presidents and fraternity and sorority leaders. The leaders were shown some images from the website, and the deal was sealed with a compelling prize: If the entire organization signed up for Clinkle’s waitlist, then all of them downloaded the app on the day it became available
mircea_popescu: "There were culture-building events like parties and baseball games. Employees would dress up for Wacky Wednesdays, sip mimosas on Fridays during lunch, and sunbathe on the office roof deck. Duplan was quickly becoming a star around Stanford’s campus — prompting both awe and jealousy — and not everyone was a fan."
mircea_popescu: to college and letting the boys consult me as an experienced man of affairs. And having finished this process of “thinking” I wired Carroll that I was ready to join him."
mircea_popescu: "I was flattered by his interest, so I thought it over. That is, I indulged in what young men frequently mistake for thought. In imagination, I saw my name over the door and myself in a fine glass office looking out and watching clerks taking in money. I had, in anticipation, the thrill of buying one store after another and going from town to town on tours of inspection. I tickled my fancy with the idea of coming back