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mircea_popescu: it'd have blossomed again, im sure, but europe bleed it twice in 50 years
mircea_popescu: yeah, well. the people whose retarded children followed lincoln in his nazi adventure.
mircea_popescu: what was her name, peaches, rosy, eve ? something with apple in it maybe.
mircea_popescu: party's over, but yeah, that one chick with nice tits that took her top off... what a hoot.
mircea_popescu: you can feel it, in retrospect. all this govt money everyone had... greatest party of all time.
mircea_popescu: the 1990 us (lots of people with lots of welfare money to throw around) is not coming back. ever.
mircea_popescu: decimation well, don' go fighting the war of the past.
mircea_popescu: ie, it's a cube. basic geometric shape. "herp derp i can recognise this in my surroundings"
mircea_popescu: what you take for "good engineering" is really just what nintendo was trying to do with the "game cube".
mircea_popescu: to create product you can sell in the 1990s us, you create something that people CAN IDENTIFY and push their want buttons. is all.
mircea_popescu: apple gets this the other way around : the SHOW itself wants to gain value from the association.
mircea_popescu: think about this : all OTHER mass market folks need to PAY celebs and producers to get product placement
mircea_popescu: if you only buy +ev packages for 10 years and have the bankroll to buy anything, eventually you end up king of the hill
mircea_popescu: this is strictly because apple had at the helm for a decade+ a person who actually understood how worthless advertising is, and just told the horde to get fucked
mircea_popescu: decimation apple has unmatched strengths in marketing and advertising
mircea_popescu: would you say the lack of coca-cola competition for healthy fizz drinks proves no major pharma company is well managed ?
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps it's proof that apple hardware is not well designed.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` suppose tomorrow I decide i want a diff video card.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, executive assistant chicks with 4 feet worth of leg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't a laptop by its definition ALREADY an oddity ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that is exactly the sort of idiocy. it has all the markings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well that's where things get debated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're selling about 100k parts a year by the latest numbers i saw.
mircea_popescu: they send recruiting teams in the poor farmland, give kids laptops take their kidneys.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's a flattering point, but i very much doubt it.
mircea_popescu: if btc had actual economic adherence in 2012-2013 we'd have been fucked with a capital CK
mircea_popescu: yet again one of our major strengths turns out to have been what clueless noobs imagined is a weakness.
mircea_popescu: well... your calculation sits atop and intends to represent an economic reality. which is very fast chaning.
mircea_popescu: i don't think any current sovereign could survive such depression at all.
mircea_popescu: after pirate we had a 4 month freezeout which was the worst i ever saw, almost killed the s.dice ipo
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids many things. in jan last, there were ~7mn btc. now there's 12mn.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform once the space stabilizes some i expect tontines will actually work great.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids mind that you are calculating something over a very fastly changing curve.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids something like that. depends on how exactly you calculate the reference price.
mircea_popescu: dub notrly, we're mostly just reading the guardian about how fucking exciting it is to be like at the guardian. also diets.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves thick, lucscious, shimmering pink folds of goodness.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's possibly more rng customers than gpg customers imo
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids no approx. 1 bn. it's in the contract.
mircea_popescu: not as high as using the thing as intended, but still.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` dun be telling dub it's a lefty conspiracy, he's been sayin' it since b4 you were boarn, son.
mircea_popescu: yeah they got troubles. i was just making light of it because i'm an asshole in a tropical climate 70 miles away.