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mircea_popescu: at some point dodgy promoters are going to run out of angles to try and spamvertise donations. then what ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i can remember i always used tos as toilet paper and never suffered for it.
mircea_popescu: if some random schmucks manage to get you fired you're better off weithout the idiots anyway.
mircea_popescu: my friend freud says that since you said it just as i was going to bed, clearly it's the case.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 meet my friend freud, he has some observations to make.
mircea_popescu: bounce well if you're dealing with stalin, you're not getting punished.
mircea_popescu: one of the chief complaints of my slavegirls is that they have no measure of control over x
mircea_popescu: bounce i used it as a metaphor for a guy who says "you do what i tell you or i kill you" and then proceeds to stick to his word.
mircea_popescu: (even should it come at a cost of a few genuine heads impaled)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or moreover, to make sure that none of the imitators survive
mircea_popescu: bounce i suspect that risk is mostly mitigated by stalin
mircea_popescu: as in, well, this application will require a start-over anyway
mircea_popescu: this discussion neatly maps on the cellphone/landline discussion.
mircea_popescu: bounce also known as "plenty of people in the us cannot drive"
mircea_popescu: what's a free market other than an endless caleidoscope of a mexican standoff
mircea_popescu: you know, simply shot gates, instead of merely throwing pies.
mircea_popescu: mike_c my meta-point is that, even if not epxlicit, what it really did was it kept people like me pacified
mircea_popescu: in soviet russia this also has a name. vrag naroda etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c which kind-of explains WHY microsoft kept apple alive.
mircea_popescu: the general idiocy of "the community" ie, the paying public, being the field on which technical solutions have to live.
mircea_popescu: so perhaps it was quite free market : we just got the better alternative, which sucked.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it, i don't know there's something in the world i ever hated more than a mac, and in this sense a ms-dos pc seems a muchly preferable alternative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is sucvh a thing as idiocy through absence.
mircea_popescu: fucktards running tablets today don't even realise they should be able to interact with their hard drives
mircea_popescu: shitty macs could have been synonymous with home computer
mircea_popescu: i'll readily grant that it didn't operate in any kind of free market in the 90s. but your statement was as of product
mircea_popescu: so now, the "competition on technical merit" leg of your statement, i see
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do. what part of that is not free market ?
mircea_popescu: when microsoft was born, ibm was much larger. how did it eat ibm's lunch ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c but how dares microsoft tell x y z ppl what to do!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a brave man and a fearless man don't map well.
mircea_popescu: just another way of not being dumb as rocks, as it were.
mircea_popescu: B007 fear is when you understand what kills you before it actually does.
mircea_popescu: i think it'll be hard for anyone born after 1990 or so to even understand fear.
mircea_popescu: "It's hard for anyone much younger than me to understand the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995."
mircea_popescu: soo... inb4 500 bitcointalk threads where all sorts of experts explain how mp was indeed right and they were indeed clueless ?
mircea_popescu: "If circumstances had been different, the people running Yahoo might have realized sooner how important search was. But they had the most opaque obstacle in the world between them and the truth: money."
mircea_popescu: should have a bet as to wehen the first bitcoin corp makes the top
mircea_popescu: tbh procter and gamble may be the first item on that list able to duke it on its own