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mircea_popescu: the20year2 moreover, that's phase 2 material. obviously the supermarket can train the clueless consumer in a number of ways to build a moat around itself.
mircea_popescu: had it succeeded to make it so "all the buyers are on groupon", it's model of "give us everything for free" would have worked on the merchants.
mircea_popescu: many lines aren't amenable to the supermarket model, but groupon tried to bring them into the same economics.
mircea_popescu: this allows them to buy everything very cheap and sell it as expensive as they want.
mircea_popescu: and it can similarly tell any town dweller to stfu and starve.
mircea_popescu: specifically : supermarkets exist to scam consumers, because the supermarket is large, so it can tell any small farmer to stfu and get lost
mircea_popescu: more complicated than that. the groupon business model was basically to try and create a scale advantage on both ends.
mircea_popescu: well obviously. the us can't quite afford to abandon the notion
mircea_popescu: "There is an empirical problem with the debate over United States military strategy towards China: aircraft carriers are “dead,” but they can still be seen patrolling the Western Pacific."
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's worse than that. the lolcats have the power to decide if your airbang opens
mircea_popescu: it was made sometime in 200x, never to be touched again
mircea_popescu: in this case, i doubt the people working at the ro firm actually have access to the server tho
mircea_popescu: kanzure i was just writing about one as ThickAsThieves posted that link
mircea_popescu: i think there must exist somewhere people doing email spiderin by hgand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, i had accounts on neither, but that doesn't prevent people from trying to phish and etc
mircea_popescu: kanzure how exactly did you form this opinion on coinbase ?
mircea_popescu: "you claim to be a human being, but you are actually subhuman, because look :"
mircea_popescu: they must be displayed for the general public, so the general public may learn that idiocy has consequences.
mircea_popescu: but it's not ok to let them suffer in silence and privacy.,
mircea_popescu: it'd hurt the idiots, but their pain and suffering is required to build greatness.
mircea_popescu: a generally available index of "idiots involved in Bitcoin" is a good thing.
mircea_popescu: excellent opportunity for coinbase to display some pr.
mircea_popescu: on pravda today : "Does socialism increase the welfare of the worker ?"
mircea_popescu: probably more adequate for high volume processing too.
mircea_popescu: also this chan, and iirc kakobrekla was selling the whole history db
mircea_popescu: if elvis were alive today, his name'd be fiona and he'd be doing my laundry.
mircea_popescu: “Switch just two people— the battalion commander and command sergeant major—from the best battalion with those of the worst, and within ninety days the relative effectiveness of the battalions will have switched as well,” I’d say. I still believe I was correct.
mircea_popescu: "Software makers led by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:US) say overly strict limits would reduce incentives to develop cutting-edge programs that detect when a car airbag should deploy or let people alter photographs."
mircea_popescu: i don't recall the last time someone gathered the guts to try and play a trick on me,
mircea_popescu: both of these being fairly uncontroversial and apparently the entire bag of tricks of us conservative pundits
mircea_popescu: does he say anything specific other than obama is bad and the country is going to shit ?
mircea_popescu: " Limbaugh is among the highest paid people in U.S. media, signing a contract in 2008 for $400 million through 2016.["
mircea_popescu: which, from all the reviews i've read so far, is really very bad and useless pr doing me a huge disservice.
mircea_popescu: funny, they don't want to splurge 30 on a mpex reg, but they do want to spend 35 on the mpoe-pr.
mircea_popescu: tho perhaps i should say him. that thread's basically reduced to one guy spazzing out and a bunch of people milking him for lulz.
mircea_popescu: i don't see anything substantially wrong with your 1.4%
mircea_popescu: just means the "total available" figure is broken really.
mircea_popescu: all business plans are a delineation of something which may or may not be worth finding out if it woirks.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves well you'll never know if an idea can or can not *really* work. you should aim to get them / see if they can be gotten to the point where qualified people want to find out if they can work.
mircea_popescu: indeed. and what the bouncer usually has to say is "sucks because what, or sucks because how" etc
mircea_popescu: (and before anyone lays into me, i'm not really claiming dreaming is unstructured, lay off)
mircea_popescu: (the difference is the same as between the rules of static forces on one hand and the facade of a house on the other)
mircea_popescu: or it can be a structured process. most industry and a good chunk of science, plus engineering (which includes good reporting and good police investigative work) is structured by this principle.
mircea_popescu: thinking may be an unstructured process, like say dreaming
mircea_popescu: some pope came up with the rule that all reports must be built on this structure