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mircea_popescu: i rest the case on the representation of southpark. this guy is mj, and i'm ignorant.
mircea_popescu: dude so meta and self absorbed and awareness rasing this.
mircea_popescu: to think people actually BUY drugs. whatcha got endocrine glands for, ya tits ?!
mircea_popescu: anyway, i woke up after six hour's sleep with two article ideas in my head and ended up writing a third in chat while taking a break from writing my first ;/
mircea_popescu: well, science employed to dominate idiocy is the idiot's definition of sinister.
mircea_popescu: in fact, she's so novel that people that go by "what i've seen" generally imagine she's a poor pr.
mircea_popescu: because the scammors can pay, and can scream, whereas the idiots can't pay, and can scream too, and they will scream against their interest.
mircea_popescu: "ll the obscure web "financial experts", or bet picking experts" :)
mircea_popescu: this allows you to actually extract a profit out of the stupidity of people who are too stupid to realise just how stupid they are.
mircea_popescu: that latter list is your money maker. the merged list is where you mine for idiots.
mircea_popescu: 4. you subdivide both divisions. now you have a list of people who know you fucked up twice, this you discard ; two lists of people who think you go tone out of two. these you merge ; a most valuable list of idiots who think you got 2 out of 2.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now you have 50% of the list worth of people who think you must be on to something.
mircea_popescu: 3. you split them in equal halves and give one half one pick, the other your opposite.
mircea_popescu: 2. you gather leads for your "special picks" list, which you contact via email. this is your stable of suckers.
mircea_popescu: 1. you put up a site with some content and drive a ton of traffic to it. google ads, whatever. this is your start-up cost.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this is how idiots like keiser work, too. all the obscure web "financial experts", or bet picking experts, or so on work on the same business model :
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if memory serves i was up 50 btc or so, whenever that was
mircea_popescu: Vexual the first time it happened it spooked doog to all hell.
mircea_popescu: you can bet on any self-chosen odds, including 95% for a 4% gain or w/e.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids jd is a dice site. people gamble on it. its house edge is 1%. the returns it pays investors vary wildly.
mircea_popescu: predictive. ie, that somehow a numeric manipulation of the past yields the future.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids his question is simply this : both qa and ta rely on a fundamental predictive presumption.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate thestringpuller 1 I dunno that he's ever pulled any strings.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you know you gotta read the log before linking stuff
mircea_popescu: ;;everify freenode:#bitcoin-otc:3dd75e1e1e35261f5cd9fbf33c902e58cae06d9217ebbfc20e59d872
mircea_popescu: tell him you'll list it if he puts at least X btc bids.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves at their level, not like they can make a decision. if you say "i'll put a bid wall for x btc" they can't say no.
mircea_popescu: figure out based on mining cost what diff you want, put a bid wall around there on whatever altscam marketplace