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mircea_popescu: Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away Рut Putin away, put Putin away
mircea_popescu: "Facebook is now buying out anything that 14 year olds might use for billions of dollars. Good thing they're using stock and not real money."
mircea_popescu: "WhatsApp founder Jan Koum signs deal with FB at social services office where he used to get food stamps. "
mircea_popescu: accepting credit cards is a skill. exponential, logarithmic, this year alone or whatever else. it's all a soup.
mircea_popescu: on the left vs the right, the effects of the deterioration of public schooling.
mircea_popescu: but when the girl is barefoot on the dirt floor, that's her own dirt floor she's barefood on.
mircea_popescu: if not exactly under the medieval conditions described.
mircea_popescu: you know visconti had amateurs shoot the whole thing ?
mircea_popescu: there is a lot of competition in being the best worst.
mircea_popescu: that you can't do for them, nobody can, and so until they learn to submit you;re not going to have business there.
mircea_popescu: the problem you run into is this : they do not wish to actually matter in the world that is, they wish to instead live in a world they'd prefer.
mircea_popescu: seems a combination of really shitty hosting and people running servers on their home broadband
mircea_popescu: i was talking to a friend earlier and i said "tis hard being a woman". she retorted "yeah, not only our brains don't work but tits and asses both droop with time too!"
mircea_popescu: when bitcoin gets close to about pi it's time to sell.
mircea_popescu: number of articles published discussing bitcoin / number of sensible things said.
mircea_popescu: i have a new formula for computing the market value of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: what was the lowest consumer license for windoze, like 50 bux ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i can't find people to take these easy bets with
mircea_popescu: and so... you know, economic recovery. we've hired more people to do nothing, go us.
mircea_popescu: there are entire career paths financed on the public dole which consist of nothing but pretending like the crap matters,
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan well, it's like in any socialist state : some people go along because they hope to get something from it,
mircea_popescu: play the "womenz in tech" angle for maximum butthurt later on.
mircea_popescu: go identify who the guys involved are, send girls to fuck each of them,
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, steal and distribute warez, get qt pissed off.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan the self-perception of importance is pretty much the whole of the compensation.
mircea_popescu: but hey, you know. cocksuckers making enough to pay for either their own coffee or their own sugar opine on matters.
mircea_popescu: half a bitcoin a month on average. how's that for a bonus.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : back in 2008 (ie, as the crisis hit) denton suspended their bonus package.
mircea_popescu: makes little difference what anyone working for gawker actually said, having worked for it is enough.
mircea_popescu: nah, that's one of those venues which gets blacklisted in integrum.
mircea_popescu: all this derpage re @wesuck or whatever that thing's called reads to me a lot like "o hey we here at dead-fiat-ventures wish to make a last stand against this evil bitcoin empire"
mircea_popescu: i suppose maybe maintain the appearance of things working in the eyes of complete noobs for an extra... hours ? coupla days ?
mircea_popescu: if you put an order to sell they'll just delay it until someone bids enough.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bloctoc there is oyur answer : it stopped dropping because they've stopped executing orders under X value.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no because each game could only be played once ?
mircea_popescu: it also includes basic crafting and skill training and harvesting and recipes and stuff.