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mircea_popescu: andthey're going to somehow make a 100kg self moving robot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more's the point... they can't make supermarket carts with working wheels
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how they figure this thing has a fucking chance.
mircea_popescu: talk about bitcoin-mediated disruption of the electroal system
mircea_popescu: in fact, wots are not only different from votes, but really much better
mircea_popescu: and the thing is going down in flames faster than people can ditch it.
mircea_popescu: once gaps get bridged "industry best practices" develop,
mircea_popescu: the irony here being that an industry;s stability can be best measured by the wot divergence (well really, by wot graph isolation)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not in copumpkin's retelling. i was giving him space to see if he mentiones it.
mircea_popescu: moiety you can do plenty of things that ultimately won't matter.
mircea_popescu: and one of the best indications that this is actually the correct approach would be that the impotent-by-design feminist movement will readily recognise it as the ultimate evil.
mircea_popescu: but about 1bn dollars spent on "women in tech"-esque programs dedicated to highschooler girls would return about the same net value for the cause as about 600k spent on "fuck as many powerful people as you possibly can take, as well as you possibly can, starting today." programs for the same.
mircea_popescu: it's not the unshaven idiots blathering on tv about "Rights" and other stuff that do anything.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, most of the power women have in western society comes strictly from that bridging role.
mircea_popescu: incidentally i suppose you've stumbled on a perfectly valid business model, the translators among WoTs will be tomorrow's lawyers.
mircea_popescu: decimation i suppose it's like with everything else, blow the website budget on css.
mircea_popescu: sadly, it's not within what they can afford intellectually.
mircea_popescu: it'd be certainly within what they can afford, financially
mircea_popescu: on a lark i'd venture a guess that <1% of irl businesses have a truely global internet listening program going.
mircea_popescu: im still looking for someone to run a delivered gold future.
mircea_popescu: i kind-of wonder how long reddit will take to digest teh latest mpoe release.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the obvious response was to offer the whole pack for a bj
mircea_popescu: decimation pounds and euro ? i already got a euro future and what are these pounds
mircea_popescu: i wonder if hot chick lips and anus hot-dogs are a delicacy in china.
mircea_popescu: like you know, a rock falling down a cliff isn't a car.
mircea_popescu: and idiots aren't really assholes, they're just idiots.
mircea_popescu: ed and what you want, and the media will always, relentlessly give you what you want. Do you know why you have such poor candidates every single election? Because you want them, you want someone you can easily judge for some sexual indiscretion or because they called latinos chicanos. "Well, that matters to us!" Then you got what you asked for.
mircea_popescu: "We need a third party!" Come on, do you think the media will allow you to have a third party? John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader-- they let them through to "show" third party candidates aren't any more serious than Howard Stern when he ran for governor. Poor Ron Paul pulls in more people than porn but he can't get a break, sorry buddy, 100 years too late for your kind. There's a difference between what you ne
mircea_popescu: KRS-One that may be generallky true, but i come from transylvania, which invented wood shingle roofing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well detcord would make your house move somewhere else then
mircea_popescu: “Since we’ve been sitting here on the phone, I’ve seen three emails come in.”
mircea_popescu: it's hardly a community and it definitely has no resources.
mircea_popescu: gesell1 i think you grossly misrepresent the substance of the sort of clueless idiots that still; had btc on gox.
mircea_popescu: (they also represented the Blagojevich dood. also for free, also to no particular effect)
mircea_popescu: anyway : their top claim to fame is that they settled an amazon cas for ~150k
mircea_popescu: judging by the school he went to, he's being supported by either generous parents or generous husband.
mircea_popescu: and if he actually manages to get some dough from tibanne, all the better.
mircea_popescu: a noob lawyer with a shitty jd and no connection is basically equally qualified as a plumber.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the lawyer wants bitcoin fame. that's free to him, as he has no cases anyway.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla the way the legal profession works in the us is that sometimes lawyers take cases for free, when they figure the bread is buttered on the other side.
mircea_popescu: he's in it for positioning, which is strategically sound
mircea_popescu: MisterE i'd be much surprised if the lawyer charges anything.
mircea_popescu: gesell1 yes, it usually helps if the lawyer putting together a cas is smart.