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mircea_popescu: TextPayMe. "Founded in 2005, TextPayMe is an SMS payment service that lets you send money to other people using cell phone."
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ i mean for curiosity's sake, re-do the same graph but not in log(10). in log(1024) instead. fucking flatlines.
mircea_popescu: on a log scale any two things are within an inch of each other.
mircea_popescu: if those two fit you're basically saying that anally inserting a pea and a horse's head is roughly similar.
mircea_popescu: because what appears "close" is way the fuck out over there. as in the original graph, midway. the thing's all over the place.
mircea_popescu: it takes a minimally trained eye to notice gross unfitness in a log graph.
mircea_popescu: artifexd I do understand your point that << that's only half the point. this much is valid, but!
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ their job was easier, as they prolly hadn't invented the adversarial system either, so they could actually reach some sort of a decision.
mircea_popescu: that's what i fucking had in mind. im entirely unsure why i thought /log(x) is a homomorphism of a log scale, but anywa
mircea_popescu: "munch on me, munch off me, either way lunch is on me!"
mircea_popescu: like you know... all the functionality of being on chatroulette without being on chatroulette.
mircea_popescu: SocialCam. "Socialcam is the easiest way to share video with your friends and on social networks."
mircea_popescu: VoiceGem. "Voicegem is the easiest way to send a voice message to anyone."
mircea_popescu: dude fucking hell. if it were, call girl services, so you can eat your powerlunch on a naked arts major, it'd have made more sense.
mircea_popescu: Munch On Me. "Munch On Me is a food discovery portal that connects people with great food at great prices in local communities."
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller no. to the pki they tried toi get in "for verifying merchant's addresses" in spite of... everyone's objections.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ things degrade naturally, the same vicious circle as exhibited by used car markets that lemon laws try to fix : any seller with above-average value is disincentivised from participating.
mircea_popescu: The Fridge. "The Fridge is a platform for lightweight single serving social networks for the functionality of Facebook without being on Facebook."
mircea_popescu: joecool i heard the same thing but notrly substantiated.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre because the server bleeds memory, in principle you can decrypt their 2fa challenge as well as anything else.
mircea_popescu: Cardpool. "Cardpool makes it ridiculously easy to buy and sell pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards for up to 35% off or sell unwanted gift cards for cash ."
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre idjits srsly. 2fa would have done exactly nothing./
mircea_popescu: joecool kenna tried to relaunch, the girl told him where to stick it, he wasn't heard from since ?
mircea_popescu: GEORGE: It’s called Sendrax. They’ve got some new kind of technique for televising opera.
mircea_popescu: Gantto. Gantto is a web based planning application. Users can collaborate in real-time to create and edit Gantt charts.
mircea_popescu: then there's vircurex, tho that's probably a case of pebkac
mircea_popescu: well we had bad experiences. in bitcoin i mean. there was that atrocious hole last year, pretty much put bitcoin-central on its ass.
mircea_popescu: rails is like... o god. i think only php is moar hated than rails here
mircea_popescu: Mailgun. "Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive and track email effortlessly."
mircea_popescu: look art that list. not a single fucking "company" in there does anything.
mircea_popescu: by now they're on tap as a "free trial" on every budged webhoster out there. gimme a break.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre because it is my considered opinion that that's what cloudflare is.
mircea_popescu: the bank clerk was all excited "oh, you're going ? i'm going too!"
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre true story : i was in the bank the other day, and they had these timberlake concert fliers. i picked one up and told my pa "doesn't this guy look just like a waiter ?". he did, dressed all up for the job, too.
mircea_popescu: and i mean if those two fit... then there's no fucking hope anymore.
mircea_popescu: just for your own education, take two random things, such i dunno... sin(x) and cos(x) then draw them on a log graph. see how splendidly they fit
mircea_popescu: i would say upon examination this is exactly typical of the reddit mental process. very circular, very brandy futility.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ actually they're using every trick in the book. most any two natural curves will look "fitted" in a log 10 graph
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ seems more like a fitted graph than anything. where did they get the n ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd we've had this thing going for ... 2 years now ?
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ but technically it's like... "i'm in the club", as in, "i am a barber"
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada i guess now you gotta bug benkay to rate you
mircea_popescu: cgcardona_ not really. the relatively high pricing of the usd is based on (baseless) speculation of its future value.
mircea_popescu: Resolution: in 3 months 2 days. that's more like 6 periods actually.