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punkman: "If
the government seizes
the Wu-Tang album, does it run another auction, or just release it for free as part of our cultural patrimony?"
mircea_popescu: don't ever hire one of
those schmucks, it's as good as signing a blank confession.
mircea_popescu: "Greebel, who worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and served as lead outside counsel
to Retrophin from 2012
to 2014, helped Shkreli in several schemes, prosecutors said." <<<
the principal utility of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP being
to provide
the US Dept of Inquisition with false witnesses for its numerous prosecutions.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 15:06:52; mircea_popescu: how are we on
the "can
take a reboot" front ?
mircea_popescu: that
the schmuck was dumb enough
to actually reside within reach...
mircea_popescu: punkman
the fraud consisting of you know, "being-not-usg".
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no, it's only common in
the more stupid lands.
kakobrekla: >By age 26,
they said, he got nine investors
to place $3 million with him, began losing
their money and covering it up. Within a year, his fund's account was down
to $331.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano <<
they say castellano in peru
too, but if i'm not mistaken
this is not universal in south america?
mircea_popescu: this will also add a 0.7-.8 expense on
the s.nsa books, but hey, whatchagonnado.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, asciilifeform : i comissioned a server with 128gb (ecc) ram, on
the understanding
that
they'll upgrade it
to 256gb just as soon as
they can get
the sticks in
the dc. will be passing you
the coords later
today, so phuctor can live again.
mircea_popescu: then spent 2 more weeks of creating
the initial version of ratemyspeech.co."
mircea_popescu: But around July I just couldn’t
take it anymore. I wanted a product. A real one. Not just a mockup. So what did I do? Instead of fully focusing on finding a CTO, or looking for other ways
to get somebody creating
the product, I decided
to learn how
to code and do it myself. Coding was on my bucket list anyhow, so I figured,
this is
the best opportunity
to make it happen. So I
took a 2 week crash course in Rails, and
mircea_popescu: "As a consequence of #2, we didn’t have a CTO who dedicated enough
time
to our product. For some months, we got away with a slideware,
then with mockups and paper prototypes. For a while it was even fun. It felt like we are doing
the proper
thing, follwing
the Lean Startup way of quickly building something (that is crappy), learning from it (unfortunately, many
times not
the proper
thing) and adjusting (after a while
mircea_popescu: "Today. Eventually, we ended up leaving hardware and IoT as a sector and decided
to work in
the content sector (which we understand better)."
mircea_popescu: "here are
the
top 5 mistakes we made in Lumos and what we learnt from
them. Mistake 1: We were neither experts nor
target users of
the product
that we were building." << sigh.
mircea_popescu: "We built like crazy.
That’s
the
thing about us engineers; if you give us something interesting
to build, we will forget everything else and just build. Our first prototype, which automated lights, was ready in 45 days.
The second prototype, which could automate lights, fans, ACs and water heaters was out in another month.
This is really fast according
to hardware standards." << i wish i could disagree.
mircea_popescu: and i feel it's a peety you folks manage
to find 2k calories' worth of roadkill each day.
mircea_popescu: "Let me back-track a few months
to give you some background. In July, we started building smart internet connected switches
that learn from user behavior and automate all
the electronic appliances in a home. We felt
that it’s a pity
that our search results and news feed are personalized
to us but our homes, where we spend most of our
time, are not."
mircea_popescu: "We had never used
the existing home automation products in our homes. We were not experts in
the IoT sector. When you have new at something, you give yourself
the famous Dunning Kruger Pass on your decisions."
mircea_popescu: "However, our growth rate did not meet our expectations, and
the service does not scale as we would have expected
to." aka "trying
to leech of bitcoin while doing
the usual fiat bullshit doesn't work."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Brawker lets you order anything with #bitcoins and save up
to 20% anywhere online."
mircea_popescu: Everything was going good. But we always had one issue. We never had enough money in our bank. and
This became
the cause of our death. We ran out of money."
mircea_popescu: see, when i say white westerners aspire
to be dead,
this is very pointedly, very exactly what i mean.
mircea_popescu: ican
theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman,
the community as a whole would actually converge upon a globally optimal mix of popular patterns, and hence, come full circle,
the average user wouldn’t have
to spend
time wondering if
their personal creation was something
they’d actually wear. Based on
the seemingly automatically generated feedback from
their community,
they’d just know."
mircea_popescu: Perhaps if someone customized
the clothing for
them? Like a designer? But
that’s actually what UDesign™ would have been all about. By employing a naturally occurring genetic algorithm, spurned by
the social interactions of users actively generating
the plethora of patterns (some bad, some good, and some ugly) available on
the edge of our very own little creative “adjacent possible,”
to borrow
the
term from Amer
mircea_popescu: o Facebook, and reached out
to many more of our followers via Instagram.
mircea_popescu: "Look, it wasn’t
that women didn’t want custom clothing. Designer clothing by nature is custom, in a sense.
The real problem was
that while on average our users spent up
to 7 minutes per session (insanely impressive I might add),
they weren’t sure if
they wanted
to purchase
the clothes
that
they spent all
that
time personalizing. We knew because we asked. We (creepily?) added almost all of our initial customers
t mircea_popescu: cue nubbins for a dose of "the reason advertising doesn't work is not
that advertising doesn't work, is
that you're not doing it right", because hey, everyone's gotta have a church and "always pay more for advertising" is as good as any other church.
mircea_popescu: "Instead of sucking it up, discounting our losses, and moving on, we did what every good economist should never, EVER do: we incorporated our sunk costs into our expected future outlays. We decided, on
the basis of our spending,
that what we should be doing is spending EVEN MORE on marketing."
mircea_popescu: "We shirked on paying for programming because we
thought ourselves experts enough, and what ended up happening was
that we spent everything we could have spent on polishing
the product itself on marketing instead, under
the assumption
that we could finish whatever
tasks remained effectively ourselves."
mircea_popescu: "It
turns out we underestimated
the complexity of
the project, and overestimated our ability
to complete it on a limited budget should, closer
to launch, any complications arise. We
thought we could wing it with our existing coding experience (2–3 non-formal years of Java, Objective-C, and XML between
the
two of us)."
mircea_popescu: "A search warrant
to have
that child
taken
to
the hospital for injection with an erection inducing drug followed by photography was approved by a judge in
that case."
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure "being able
to watch fire forever" is indicative of mental issues.
mircea_popescu: e of
the largest armies ever
to visit europe, led by sinan pasha, a guy who lost his last
teeth in
the encounter.
then got liberated by
the russians. if we're not counting
the occasional german, austrian, hungarian or polish commonwealth / cussack invasion,
that's only "all
the empires outside of china".
mircea_popescu: "Han or Haan[1] is a concept in Korean culture attributed as a unique Korean cultural
trait which has resulted from Korea's frequent exposure
to invasions by overwhelming foreign powers. " <<< unique my foot. burebista & decebalus fought
the fucking romans for
three centuries, eventually ended up pacified by
three legions.
then
the principalities fought
the
turks for five-ish centuries, including
the lulzy defeat of on
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:40; asciilifeform: y'know,
the kind of
thing
the lizards fought ww2
to exterminate
mircea_popescu: in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano, soy argentina" mp on okcupid : "It's not your fault you're Argentine. It is however your fault you're a dumbass.
That's what I wanted
to see, if you're just Argentine because your parents were dumb, or whether you are actually dumb yourself. Having established
that point, a bon entendeur, salut."
mircea_popescu: which is
turning out
to be pretty
tolerant, incidentally. but
then again it's historically famous for
that.
mircea_popescu: actually
the differences between
these
two are dwarved by
the similarities. for one
thing,
they BOTH live or die at
the pleasure of "teh celestial empire".
mircea_popescu: nk "survived" because derps composing nk are cowardly. just like
the us "survives".
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:42:33; asciilifeform: nk was a successful exporter of heavy machinery prior
to usg proclaiming it excommunicated and anyone
trading with it likewise excommunicated from
the mother church
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345340 << and i also don't buy into
this narrative. soviet russia was also a middling successful economy up until... what, hruschev decided
to bury you ? i guess.
the fact of
the matter is
that
there's a shelf life for all delusion, printed right on
the box. seoul adapted, pyongyang did not adapt. yes, it's
true
that neither had
the resoureces
to force
the adaptation of
t ☝︎ mircea_popescu: i guess
they're sovereign, in
that lord-of-the-flies sense. whatevs.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:40:19; asciilifeform: anyway
the nk
to go
to is prolly
the pre-1980 one. which is approx. when
the 'internashinal komyoooooniti' blockade started
turning it into what it is now.
mircea_popescu: "nobody wanted
the visual of website failing while
the President is learning
to code BECAUSE what it might conceivably be seen
to mean [by racists and wreckers] is
that perhaps random bureaucrat should drop his droning and help put out
the fire ? INCONCEIVABLE. he'll document
the fire! on paper!"
mircea_popescu: this is an incredible depth of rot in
these heads by now, i am persuaded
that what
they PERCEIVE as
the problem is
that it's... get a hold of youself... it's NOT META ENOUGH.
that's
the fucking
thing,
these dickless, otaku imbeciles feel deeply
threatened by
the fact
that a guy learning
to do what his country generally sucks at is
TOO REAL.
mircea_popescu: but
the other : why
the fuck NOT ? what is
the big fucking problem with
the president learning
to code as some $10 dollar website
the gubinmint paid 10 bn for is misbehjaving ?
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:16:55; BingoBoingo: impossible
to get
the president
to actually write any code
that year —
the administration had just launched its Healthcare.gov website, and after
the infamous
technical failures, nobody wanted
the visual of website failing while
the President is learning
to code.""
mircea_popescu: now... does all
that pass your parser or does it need breaking down ?
mircea_popescu: space of existence from whence
this difference is genuinely not visible, nevertheless it must be pointed out
that
their inhabitants are definitionally called
troglodytes.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> starve.' << how does
this differ from mircea_popescu's classical prescription 'go shoot a policeman' ? <<<
this question is indistinguishable from where i sit from asking "how does saying 'you see a girl you like ? go fuck her.' differ from saying 'you see a girl you like ? go raise her children by another man!". while i grant
that
there could in point of fact
truthfully exist nooks and crannies in
the
jurov: ben_vulpes: i'm using konversation, it always asks politely when pasting long/multiline
text
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 02:47:47; asciilifeform: ( aaand if you know why, you're prolly as ready for
the glue factory as i am... )
BingoBoingo: In other news Qntra has now passed
the 300 more comments
than posts mark. Had been flirting with
this line, but now its happened.
nubbins`: every now and
then
they find another one
nubbins` visited seekrit
tunnels
that nk had dug
towards seoul
nubbins`: 3-4 feet into nk is as far as
they let you
BingoBoingo: impossible
to get
the president
to actually write any code
that year —
the administration had just launched its Healthcare.gov website, and after
the infamous
technical failures, nobody wanted
the visual of website failing while
the President is learning
to code.""
☟︎ BingoBoingo: "Interestingly, according
to a recent Quora post by Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi, plans
to have President Obama 'learn
to code' a year earlier were
torpedoed by
the Healthcare.gov debacle. "We launched
the first Hour of Code campaign, in 2013," explains Partovi. "We launched
the first Hour of Code on
the home page of Google, in every Apple Store, and we had convinced
the President
to issue a speech about computer science. But it was