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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:trying to "play" it to what you think the client will accept << what the fuck self-sabotaging second guessing bullshit is this, seriously! bejaysus.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves:hourly from the get-go just doesnt work << it does work in some fields. lawyers are the typical usecase, but also many high-demand few specialist engineering fields. you pay the hourly rate to qualify yourself as an actual customer
mircea_popescu: but the man doth have a point. i find it shocking that us pretend-academia will offer "women's studies" shit about that twerking girl, but there's no actual airgapping programme anywhere.
mircea_popescu: you're asking "so how do i build my house". well... hire an architect ?
mircea_popescu: to actually implement it you hire someone to do it you know ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well that general question has been answered in the general as best it could on the post man.
mircea_popescu: basically, always and everywhere take THEM as the joke, see how long they last.
mircea_popescu: before you know it, you now control peer review in your field.
mircea_popescu: get the hottest 12 chicks to boothbabe topless, only invite to present those professors who you owe favours to.
mircea_popescu: cads do this as a power play. it's what i'd do if i were somehow inexplicably interested in math academia.
mircea_popescu: "you" can have a girl hang around the whole day for the cost of two beers, except not YOU.
mircea_popescu: course in typical nerd fashion he misrepresents what happened, but hey.
mircea_popescu: the rough equivalent being the it corp dudes that go to check out the babes at it conferences.
mircea_popescu: 5th wheel intern-ish girlies without clear responsibilities, which'd be the ones answering to a call like that, those you can seduce.
mircea_popescu: and secretaries you don't seduce. they're always busy at work.
mircea_popescu: which you only actually comprehend months after the event.
mircea_popescu: cads only if you're the sort of type that enjoys failing in a humiliating manner
mircea_popescu: turns out buncha eager shaved beavers work for low end publishing houses in 2000s boston. i ended up with many new friends.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves incidentally, best fun i ever had in boston was the day i decided ima coldcall small publishers for my book.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 what decent size budget when his entire line is like 20k a year ?
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda curious what happens should cads coldcall some random doods and then proceed to "get someone medium level on the phone and then explain something like"
mircea_popescu: check that out, ThickAsThieves finally figured how to run a client for atc :D
mircea_popescu: "Hey, we're looking to expand, can you think of anyone who could use our services ?"
mircea_popescu: cads: hey guys, where should I learn marketing? << for srsly.
mircea_popescu: there's a standard, every fuckwit dimwit and captain foreskinhead out there thinks they know better.
mircea_popescu: start by getting everyone to FUCKING REPORT BY STANDARD!
mircea_popescu: bounce let's not bounce ahead of ourselves by leaps and bounces.
mircea_popescu: but until then, whatever. too much stuff to remember anyway.
mircea_popescu: my brain actually works like this. once you become stupid i might start caring about the details of whart they did.
mircea_popescu: far as i'm concerned it's still "kako didn't like them"
mircea_popescu: apparently more poeople were tuning into tardstalk to check out the lady with a chainsaw at the special olympics
mircea_popescu: jborkl the theory i heard was more like "well now that mpoe-pr is not there to walk all over their faces, kinda lost interest in the whole show"
mircea_popescu: jborkl apparently doing less volume on their exchange than i do buying stockings.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic as far as i know, stamp's problems in our heads all trace to kakobrekla not likeing them, which was a year ago and he never really explained past "i met them and they're fucktarded".
mircea_popescu: o wait... the girl is no longer on the forum. inexplicably, all the rubes muchly relieved. d'oh.
mircea_popescu: a well. live and fucking learn, when the girl tells you to stfu and fix things you stfu and fix things.
mircea_popescu: so kraken pretty much sunk post theyr 600 btc debacle did it.
mircea_popescu: (you can tell they're strippers by the back grill they sport there)
mircea_popescu: bounce waits for a couple of /good/ devs and assorted other techies to team up and find themselves /competent/ management to lord it over them. that'll be the day. <<< how the fuck do you think mpex works.
mircea_popescu: so people who have been following asicminer a lot closer than me... how bad is it ?
mircea_popescu: CheckDavid i nearly said "well fuck them", but then i checked myself.
mircea_popescu: do you want me to go practice my pistol skills on leah's range ?
mircea_popescu: news at eight : tall young white women in everyone's style, this reporter has learned.
mircea_popescu: ahaha so you want mpoe-pr sent to teh planets ? noted.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather give to Worldwide Nude Whoredom Foundation.