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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're wondering why
the figure's so low (srsly, palantir raises 200mn, whatsap sells for 20bn ?),
the reason'd be
that most of
this has
to be actual
turkey buying dollars.
mircea_popescu: "1. No
team. It’s really hard
to do a startup by yourself, especially if you’re a non-technical founder. No kidding, right? However, being non-technical wasn’t my excuse since WordPress came
to
the rescue and I basically bought
the development
through using cost-effective
themes."
mircea_popescu: tellingly,
the nut in
there ALSO
thought
time was
the
true issue. because hey, everyone's
time is valuable now, in lalaland.
mircea_popescu: "III. WHY I SHUT IT DOWN (ALTERNATIVELY, WHAT I WOULD’VE NEEDED
TO CONTINUE). Four reasons (in order of least
to most important): No
team ; No funding ; No longer aligned with my personal goals anymore ; No clear or predictable way
to sustainability (B2C is extremely, extremely hard
to monetize)"
mircea_popescu: "More importantly, it does a
terrible job of giving people like me actual relevant information for gluten free: Does
the restaurant
train its staff? Do
they have separate cutters for
their gluten free pizza? Are
they flexible and accommodating? Do
they have a separate gluten free menu? What ingredients do
they use? etc."
mircea_popescu: motherfucker,
the entire city of buenos aires has like... ONE actual restaurant.
mircea_popescu: "|Yes, Yelp has a
tag for “gluten free” but it only has 44 restaurants in San Francisco with
that
tag (do it yourself if you don’t believe me and NYC actually has double
the number of restaurants
tagged gluten-free), which is a very low and deceiving number."
mircea_popescu: While I know
there might be a possibility I could hustle incredibly hard and
try
to set up partnerships,
the
time investment required far outweighed
the already incredibly slim chances of generating revenue."
mircea_popescu: "I didn’t want a startup, but an actual business
that generates revenue, and Cusoy would not fulfill
that personal goal for me without a full-time
team, 1-2+ years of funding, multiple years of hard work (3-5+ years at
the very least?)
trying
to answer
the if/when questions of whether or not Cusoy could make money (very expensive questions
too, might I add — not only in money but
time, my most valuable asset).
mircea_popescu: by
the
time your country has failed
to
the degree
tsa exists, you ARE bee. whether you're ready
to admit
this or not is entirely in your own mind.
assbot: Logged on 13-07-2014 03:53:10; asciilifeform: BayAreaCoins: what you don't appear
to understand is
that
this is a 'military' puzzle, not a 'legal' puzzle.
assbot: Logged on 26-07-2014 18:48:15; asciilifeform:
this is why i simply don't get people who continue
to
think of
their relationship with
the u.s. court system in legal, rather
than military,
terms.
mircea_popescu: it will alright. for as long as
TSA disputes end up in federal court rather
than in burning baltimore, it'll be
thinking right about how well being naughty works for its goals.
punkman: "professional
troublemaker"
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, so
the guy rewards
the naughty child with attention in
the hopes it'll stimulate it
to...
think about how it's been naughty ?
mircea_popescu: "Good’s final sale price down
to $425 million, less
than half of
the company’s $1.1 billion private valuation.
The paperwork also showed
that Good’s board had
turned down an $825 million cash offer just six months earlier, in March."
mircea_popescu: "r. In an investor document about
the sale
that was distributed
to shareholders, employees discovered
their Good stock was valued at 44 cents a share, down from $4.32 a year earlier. In contrast, preferred stock owned by Good’s venture capitalists was worth almost seven
times as much, more
than $3 a share."
ben_vulpes: why
the everloving fuck would
trb care about rtrees
mircea_popescu: "Page Not Found We’re sorry, we seem
to have lost
this page, but we don’t want
to lose you." << apparently nyt piece you linked diappeared.
mircea_popescu: and all
the
talking heads i fucked
to date were not common prostitutes but journalists and so forth.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> gigantic dir full of straight-out sp4m0l4d3 << surely it was an accident for which nobody paid anyone inside
two happy meals.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (why
the everliving fuck should
there be a sql interpreter in
the binary? or runtime interpretation of hardcoded sql proggies ???!!!) << because at
the
time satoshbi made it he didn't have a clear design document and
the usg stoolies anchored
themselves on such chinks in
the armor
to "extend" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> even 2. << 2 is
technically many in computing.
mircea_popescu: "To pay
those
taxes, some employees emptied savings accounts and borrowed money." << ahaha loot at
the cute chumps!
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> lulzy, nyt reads
the logz and rips off mircea_popescu's summaries <<<
then forgets
to mention
this, muppets sit around and wonder who could
this guy be etc.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'cnn' hosts spam now ?? <<<
the "mainstream media" is sinking, and has been, for
twenty years now.
there is no bottom for
them.
punkman: asciilifeform: even 2 yes, can only have one writer at a
time.
punkman: asciilifeform: it does say on
the
tin
that it's not great when you want many concurrent writers
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2015 15:13:51; asciilifeform: ;;later
tell phf
http://mikhailmasl.livejournal.com/4852.html << mega-b00k. afaik never published in dead
tree.
the only known memoir of mathematician working in kgb, lived
through
the '90s no less.
the fella who designed
that crackpot calculator for central bank.
mircea_popescu: in fairness,
the guy wasn't exactly dumb, and
the problem itself is not exactly
trivial.
mircea_popescu: it didn't work (imo
the best summary of
the problem is -
they ran into recursive cyclic graphs and couldn't recover)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except
that's
the local symbolic name for
the global
that's HER OWN FUCKING GAZE\
mircea_popescu: hmm... free and open cuntware. now
that's an apt observation.
mircea_popescu: chicks wanna-be a feminist and lalala women's rights, is not sufficiently self-possessed
to pose
topless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a font of endless amusement
to me, how
the limits of people's heads reside in people's heads
to much obviousness for everyone but
the limited in question.
mircea_popescu: shouldn't i get brownie points for
taking all comers ? eh ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this chick's been rather obsessed with me for a while now. hey sciencehatesyou... i'll pay for your
tits you know ? just like everyone's else.
mircea_popescu: "This guy barely ekes out a living wage in Romania. Rule #1 in building a cult of personality is
to pose as if you're raking in
the cash, no matter how poor you are. But any idiot can see
that (a)
this guy cannot even
travel
to
the US because of
the legal problems with MPEX, (b) he makes no money from any source, and (c) he's a loser."
mircea_popescu: i'm a fundamentalist rather
than a realist at heart. who knew.
mircea_popescu: anyway, 100kb is not required, about 512 bytes would
trigger atm.