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punkman: "Patrick Byrne has been worried
that
the big Wall Street banks would “circle
the wagons,” creating
tech
that locks everyone else out. But because IBM’s new project is open source—because anyone can use it and contribute
to it—he’s pleased. He believes in more
than a single
technology. He believes in a big idea. “I’m not wed
to bitcoin’s blockchain,” he says. “I’m blockchain agnostic.”
punkman: "“The current blockchain is a great design pattern,” says Jerry Cuomo, vice president and chief
technology officer of IBM’s software group. “Now, how do we make
that real for business?"
☟︎ punkman: "Overseen by
the not-for-profit Linux Foundation"
danielpbarron: with any luck
they'll program
those cars
to move out of my way when i come up behind
them in
the passing lane
renart: Google is working
to make
the vehicles more “aggressive” like humans << were it not for drag-induced inefficiencies
this'd result in 80 MPH highways
the
typical "$500 dollar car" owner'd not be able
to cope with, much less get insured
to drive on
renart: but you know your
taleb and
tail risk right?
renart: just like ubuntu,
totally adequate for 94% of use cases, and entirely inadequate for
the remaining 6%
renart: it'll never come down, i
tell you
mod6: thx for
the heads up
mircea_popescu: so intel reports
that medium.com is headquartered at 760 market st, sf. just like "dropbox" and pretty much every other ycombinator scam / "entreprenize"
to date. so
therefore "why are all
these derps with failed 'business ideas', 0 experience, 0 awareness, 0 clue on medium.com ?" "oh, because ycombinator
told
them
to".
mircea_popescu: you hung around shitty office space and derped on
the internet. learned ~nothing.
mircea_popescu: "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg as a default destination for users
to share
their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around
the world -
things
to do,
things
to buy,
travel, adventure, experiences and so much more.
The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
mircea_popescu: i guess it boggles his mind because it makes a point he doesn't wish
to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing
to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out
to carve your empire into
the dust, or one of
the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so
that maybe it has some effect on reality.
mircea_popescu: "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on
the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less
than half as likely
to steal as
their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous
than
the white girls in management. I won’t even
try and explain
this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
mircea_popescu: "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50%—fully half of
the ones I have worked with being confirmed
thieves." << lioness hunting for
the clan as opposed
to
the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
mircea_popescu: might be
the most competent
thing i read all week on
the open wwwbs.
mircea_popescu: "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not as effective as men, but are 100% loyal and never steal, ever.
This is
the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
mircea_popescu perceives absolutely no value in any of
these. last i had any interest, it was a winamp install. 20 years ago or so ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is particularly a difficult industry for me because i never listen
to
the radio ; i never commute ; if i do i use a
towncar and have live people
to
talk
to ; etc.
mircea_popescu: no marketing was involved. lizard king of ustardia
threw
the dart, picked one
that gets
the free shit for free
mircea_popescu: What is more,
this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once a month windfall, << exacerbated, exasperated, what
the hells
the difference!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm certainly not hiring you wtf.
that'd be sad.
mircea_popescu: under all
the dumbass kid crud,
there's a good reason.
mircea_popescu: all you can do with nonstupid people is partner, which is why
this entire all-consuming "start-up culture"
mircea_popescu: no. it is not possible
to hire nonstupid people.
the very definition of hiring includes "i am
too dumb
to live"
mircea_popescu: unless classee IS PAYING YOU, like
the fucking
tsarist nobility was being paid by
the fucking
tsar
to participate,
mircea_popescu: and yes asciilifeform, part of why mp is not hiring is
that mp despises how stupid people actually are, and can't seriously work with
the sort of idiots.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, if you go 28.75
to 29.45 he'll deduce he's lucky
to get 15.
mircea_popescu: moreover, if you raise 30
to 32 in negotiation, he'll deduce h's worth 100.
mircea_popescu: 28.75 is just below one, makes him feel like he's fucking lucky
to get
there.
mircea_popescu: the more important
thing is
the issue of [stupid] brains and
thresholds. 30 is just above one, makes him feel like he's worth more.
mircea_popescu: nd more
time
trying
to figure out why
than argue with you about it.
mircea_popescu: "There is no requirement
to buy
ten, but raising retails from 89-cents
to 10 for $10 increases sales from a case
to a pallet on most items, when you have
the right customer base..." << which reminds me of a point i wanted
to make. yo ben_vulpes it's pretty dumb
to offer grunt 30. offer 28.75. for one
thing, it makes it look like real
thought went into all
that precision, and
the sort of dickless imbecile he is will spe
mircea_popescu: "Basically, supermarkets just provide local jobs.
The CEOs of grocery chains are among
the lowest paid of
their kind." << exactly. government clerks.
mircea_popescu: but yeah,
the supermarket model is on its way out - and
thanks fucking god. it was stupid.
mircea_popescu: e her
tits melt in
the kitchen, did you?" <<< aaactually... yes, i did.
mircea_popescu: "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you
to know
that supermarkets
that do not embrace a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not
thrive in upscale locales. You might be able
to keep
the doors open—but forget a profit. People with money make
their food purchases at restaurants. You didn't buy
that stunning piece of plastic surgery
to hav
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:39:41; ascii_field: well i'd happily move if i were 1337 enough
to
take
the gradient, rather
than BE
the fuel
mircea_popescu: "is a jagers unit more valuable
than a cavalry unit ?"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but i don't get how living
there gives you an edge << obviously you never lived in new york. ask mike_c
BingoBoingo: Have
to be
there
to be first with rifle on scene
mircea_popescu: similarly,
there is not such a
thing as "what it
takes
TO bed beautiful women".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is no such
thing as "a price
tag".
this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 23:48:37; BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look
the other way, I’m willing
to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour
to clean up her mess. She is
the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or
the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma.
This is not
mircea_popescu: american speculators will get fucked in
the ass, publicly, and write
their senator
to complain
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, you're behing
the curve.
the chinese will.
renart: ah jesus i
thought freenode's nick grouping actually worked
renart: run a whois on
this nick yet?
mircea_popescu: what hruschev wanted
to make of ukraina IS actually what
the brits made of argentina.
renart looks forward
to buying flats in args for a weeks worth of local wages
mircea_popescu: but when
they discover
they can't afford both underwear AND stockings,
THAT is wqhen
the stupid women running
the show start getting open plam slapped across
the diner
table.