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nubbins`: talking about vanilla ice,
the rapper
nubbins`: yeah,
that's great, but I'm more concerned with
the fact
that all of london is
trying
to visit
the zoo at
the same
time
nubbins`: "If
the laws of probability completely broke down,
this bad
thing would happen
to ur moniez"
thestringpuller: "If every single person withdrew all
their coins
they would make less
than $3500.
This isn't a viable business model."
mircea_popescu: Always remember, dear fiat craptrepreneurs : sucking republican cock is a good start, but always remember
to make eye contact!
That's where your submission really sinks in,
to everyone (and especially
to your) benefit." ?
mircea_popescu: ated
time and again
that
they don't really have
the intellectual wherewithal
to find
their way out of
the fiat paper bag.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid
to generate revenue from users is set
to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid
to generate revenue
the social media spamming service Changetip is set
to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee
today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember,
the 1% fee exists as a Schelling point mostly due
to BitBet's i
☟︎ mircea_popescu: |Online culture has often placed emphasis on both social justice and purity—or at
the very least, humility.| >>> bwajhahjajaja
mircea_popescu: heh. and alf blames colleges. looky here alfie : without
the college scams,
these schmucks would go
to youtube
to be fleeced.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "She likened
trying
to get famous
through social media
to shelling out money for college—in each case, one suffers
through hard work and zero-to-negative income in
the hopes of a later payout.
The difference, Beggs said, is
that YouTube is more accessible “because
there’s no admissions committee.”
The
technical
term for
this is
the Dunning Kruger effect, where unskilled individuals believe
themselves
to be more
mircea_popescu: "The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week, I was stopped for photos six
times while perusing comic books in downtown L.A.
The next week, I sat faceless in a room of 40 people vying for a menial courier job. I’ve walked a red carpet with $80 in my bank account. Popular YouTube musician Meghan
Tonjes said she performed on Vidcon’s MainStage
this year
to screaming, crying fans without knowing whether she
mircea_popescu: and maybe a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are
the cause of his poverty,
through
the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 02:12:06; assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:51:36; mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up.
the freedom
to
threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for
the construction of effectual instruments
to squash
the socialists and
their golums.
mircea_popescu: that's not
the question.
the question is why is mp worth a billion and kim kardashian worth 10 million. when did death
threats > nice ass, by 3 degrees of magnitude ? is
this allowed by Obama ?
mircea_popescu: sites like Patreon (a Kickstarter-type site
that allows for ongoing funding) are at
the center of a communal movement
to fund “smaller YouTubers.” But
that definition gets blurry. Is someone with 50,000 subscribers worth supporting financially? How about 200,000? What if people assume you’re
too successful
to need money, and you’re
too proud
to
tell
them otherwise?"
mircea_popescu: "Platforms like YouTube mirror
the U.S. economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube’s “middle class” often means grappling daily with
the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet. Journalists kvell over stars like Swedish gamer Pewdiepie, whose net worth is around $12 million, or comedian Jenna Marbles, who’s worth around $2.5 million. On
the other extreme, fan-funding
mircea_popescu: all
these "successes" would make more money in plain prostitution in 1995
than
they do with
their "successful" internet bullshits
today. but hey, people would much rather "disbelieve" and carry on with
their idiocy
than stop and reconsider whether "women's issues" and "pop culture" are a decent use of
their productive
time.
mircea_popescu: was
the #1
topic back in romanian-trilema days, due
to
the readership being primarily interested in it.
mircea_popescu: and if
the consumer doesn't like
this situation,
that's fine : buy a gun shoot your president.
mircea_popescu: anyone wants
to read
things, read
them when
they can.
trilema's not a consumer good,
the consumer's at
trilema's convenience.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:32:39; ben_vulpes: grand shame considering
the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
nubbins` pushed a deed
to
the bc yesterday of his own accord
danielpbarron: hah BingoBoingo,
that's not my only account. You can share it with me if you want
BingoBoingo: Holy shit. danielpbarron is now a gurl on
twitter.
BingoBoingo: Don't
think changetip is even
that anymore
adlai: not
tagged Altcoins? :P
adlai: deeding
to uncompressed addresses has
the featurbugresult of requiring more satoshibytes
to spend, for
the same notarization cost
punkman: maybe
trb doesn't like compressed pubkeys?
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 22:36:39; jurov: don't know. electrum produces P2SH
transactions,
that's how i found out.
nanasho: so, everything as usual
today
adlai: either way it's good if you like watching
Tom Hanks cry
adlai: some of
the #bitcoin-cinephiles may enjoy Bridge of Spies (some may detest it as blatant promurican propaganda)
ben_vulpes: lemme put it
this way: it's hard
to run a global short on
the shartupconomy without finding
takers on
the long side.
trinque: asciilifeform │ lulzy climatocalypse here in mordor << I'm in
the woods in PA visiting; it's
t-shirt weather.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:32:39; ben_vulpes: grand shame considering
the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
ben_vulpes: first rule of ddos is dont
talk about its impact on
trilemma
ben_vulpes: ;;8ball should i fry an egg for
this hamncheese?
ben_vulpes off
to duct
tape more open sores
together
ben_vulpes would still attend, miserable multiday
train rides notwithstanding
ben_vulpes: grand shame considering
the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell bingoboingo many congratulations
nubbins`: thought
the details seemed familiar, did some minor snooping
mircea_popescu: and vodka was ~50 cents
the bottle, at black market rate.
mircea_popescu: how is
this possible! szabo was an intelligent, well read, erudite fellow!
mircea_popescu: except not, especially if
they work for a whole year, which everyone prefers
to do anyway seeing how winter's not summer.
mircea_popescu: ess
they had a securely independent standard of
time."
mircea_popescu: "Laborers were, even before
the advent of
the clock, commonly paid by
the day. But how long is a “day”? It couldn’t be just daylight hours;
this makes for a longer workday
than employer and employer might otherwise agree
to, and in northern latitudes it varies quite substantially within a year. With
the rather heterogeneous measures of
time, employer could cheat
the employee out of hours, or vice versa, unl
mircea_popescu: and
the introduction of piece rate a magnificent americanism.
mircea_popescu: "Time-rate employment provides a major productivity improvement over servitude or (usually) piece rates." << amusingly, according
to
the soviets
themselves, and
the "golden age" romanians
too,
the main driver of sovieteconomy fail was
the
timewage.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:45:53; mircea_popescu: i wish
to see
the car
the us manufactures out of ~300 bucks.
mircea_popescu: had a god damned
two-time engine worth what, 7 hp ? weed whacker level.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, a)
the
trabant was not notoriously ugly. in fact, beats
the beetle.
mircea_popescu: contrast, for example, between
the notoriously ugly and unreliable
Trabant of East Germany and
the BMWs, Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagens of West Germany).
mircea_popescu: Thus second main drawback
to piece rates is
that
they motivate
the worker
to put out more quantity at
the expense of quality.
This can be devastating.
The
tendency of communist countries
to pay piece rates, rather
than hourly rates, is one reason
that, while
the Soviet bloc’s quantity (and
thus
the most straightforward measurements of economic growth) was able
to keep up with
the West, quality did not (thus
the