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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
mircea_popescu: general electric, ford and hp are all kept on respirators by public usg spending.
mircea_popescu: that's why start-ups can be easily destroyed by getting the wrong money sources early.
mircea_popescu: in other news, some guy sold 3500 records debuted in the billboard
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long till #bitcoin-assets gets the webby awards for the coolest place on the web
mircea_popescu: and omfg those iraquis don't even get pottery barn catalogs daily ?!
mircea_popescu: the only way to use money in 2006 would have been to lift up turkey.
mircea_popescu: same thing had the us the ballsack to make iraq the 51st state
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually it was sensible. turkey should have been taken into the eu in 2006
mircea_popescu: who thinks the crap is "sustainable" and what's sustainable even mean in that context
mircea_popescu: rror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?
mircea_popescu: And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with te
mircea_popescu: at any rate. the waco debacle has been perhaps the costliest enforcing action by the various bureaus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the spirit of that example, 1mn people killed on highways each year, no stalin.