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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 calculated
as a percentage
☟︎ pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm
as 'toy crypto', i don't think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
☟︎ pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency
as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: next you're going to show me 777s strapped to the back of the spruce goose
as it's delivered from oregon to dubai.
pete_dushenski: "Government spending accounts for 40% of Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15% is the more usual level for other provinces. In a cyclical sense this is beneficial,
as Tibet is hardly feeling the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8% real GDP growth for the first three quarters of 2015. But the reason they’re not feeling the slowdown is that they didn’t have a real economy to begin with. It’s a bunch of civil servants
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it just happens to be a very good loss leader. you know how casinos will give you free drinks for
as long
as you're playing ?
ascii_field: i'm just not seeing the predicate here ('above median')
as being true
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 17:45:38; mircea_popescu: and at this juncture i'd like to inquire with the esteemed audience whether they'd allocate the "not
as terrible
as medium average" to the datapoint that he had 10's of k's of pounds to blow on this (ie, rich is not
as stupid
as poor, ceteris paribus) or to the fact that he's british (ie, pureblood is not
as stupid
as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
mircea_popescu: never ask people
as to their intentions. nobody cares, least of all themselves.
mircea_popescu: and at this juncture i'd like to inquire with the esteemed audience whether they'd allocate the "not
as terrible
as medium average" to the datapoint that he had 10's of k's of pounds to blow on this (ie, rich is not
as stupid
as poor, ceteris paribus) or to the fact that he's british (ie, pureblood is not
as stupid
as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: never has math been so cruelly raped
as it has been since the web 2,0 made these shits fashionable (lesswrong, medium, tedtalks, the "webayesian" approach to pseudoscience and so forth).
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/u5LjB << the butttears piece in question (obviously what he links is his own verbiage, because what, we can't all be mp ?! why the hell not!). his idea is that people are assholes because they don't front what [appears to him
as] a small cost to them in order to get him [what appears to him
as] a larger benefit.
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.
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: "
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: "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: 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: 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: "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
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 02:47:47; asciilifeform: ( aaand if you know why, you're prolly
as ready for the glue factory
as i am... )
nubbins`: 3-4 feet into nk is
as far
as they let you
punkman: asciilifeform: actually i'd love to know what that fella's job is << I do contract webwork, dataplumbing, (G)UIs, etc
as it comes but it's a hassle dealing with derpclients. I also dabble in selling physical/digital products and maybe with some renewed effort and a few good people I'll make some shit stick. I don't really aspire to having a job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform since you've decided to discuss magic for some reason.
as if THAT's what random derp making 30 an hour in portland is all about.
ben_vulpes: If the notion appeals, let me know that you're game. It would be fantastic to get the git exercise wrapped up by Jan 1, and yourself into the office
as soon
as you can make it after your return from Indiana.
ben_vulpes: Should you demonstrate speed of self-education, willingness to reach out for support if you need it, and the ability and willingness to cultivate your own beautiful little commit-trees, we'll offer you a contracting position paying $30/hr. This rate affords us the luxury of budgeting training and study time for you. Our hope is that
as you build familiarity with the ecosystems and projects, that you'll demonstrate productivity, mesh
ben_vulpes: Thank you for stopping by and meeting the team—we had a blast and hope you did
as well.
punkman: actual output that requires a signature. Instead, the outputs do not push these scripts that we required to be satisfied, they would be encapsulated, it would be pushed
as a piece of data. This allows us to, this effectively to every node, and every node not using this system, it's an ANYONECANSPEND. It's just an output that pushes data on the stack, the output doesn't do anything else.
punkman: "This seemed like a hard problem. I personally dismissed this
as a solution for a long time
as something non-viable, until Luke-Jr discovered that it's possible to do this
as a soft-fork. What we're going to do is inputs, we just deprecate the signature field inside of inputs. It's going to be an empty string from now on. Obviously, an empty signature is not going to be able to spend an
BingoBoingo: Well he still pushes jim crow
as "uncontroversial"
punkman: "I played cat-and-mouse with the fraudsters for a bit, adding various checks such
as e-mail confirmation, IP bans etc. but it only took hours for the criminals to adapt to these. Eventually I just ragequit and switched off credit cards, going back to PayPal-only."
pete_dushenski: lol it's exactly what i have in my place. same
as i had in last place too. and place before that!
mircea_popescu: well... you mean
as part of the commonwealth or somehow before ?
ascii_field: about the same cultural weight
as zimbabwe, and for very similar reason
ascii_field: ( i can't go and buy a pv panel with obama paying so much
as a cent )
pete_dushenski: pinball machine was then sent to only shop in town who could fix ~40 year-old machine, but delivery was same
as cost of repair, so parents borrowed pick-up truck, from whence the machine fell off the back and broke, again, on the very. last. corner. to. our. house.
kakobrekla: arent the store bought same
as wild but bread for quantity (size) ?
BingoBoingo: "Heiniger’s call-to-arms, reproduced in at least one local paper, predicts that solar farms could shift land use to such an extent that “it is highly unlikely this land will ever be farmed again.” Heiniger also denounced solar energy
as a government-subsidized boondoggle that is “highly inefficient at producing energy.”"
ascii_field: 'We wanted to make it so creating and selling hardware was
as easy
as writing and publishing a blog post. You shouldn’t need to be an electrical engineer or an industrial designer to create electronic devices. Nor should you have to worry about supply chain or distribution if you wanted to sell them. We believed it was possible to eliminate all of that complexity, so the average person could easily create highl
mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the end-of-life of a place which everyone uses
as a mine is... being a garbage dump
nubbins`: i like how they refer to the country
as "the homeland"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose with any luck the alien invasion discovers cold fusion
as an apple app or something. you never know, right ? hay mas futuro.
mircea_popescu: im starting to understand that part of the reason people still stick around is that they don't have a ready reference for their inferiority
as white people in the western world.
mircea_popescu: if i ever end up accused of rape in the crown's possessions i will point out that not being british myself, they shouldn't be
as presumptious
as all this. i'll tell them if i fucked them or not if i feel like it, no need to try and invent themselves merits scripturally.
mircea_popescu: even
as late
as 2004 queues were still reserved for subway and other subhumanities.
mircea_popescu: so while the girls tried to expedite a TWELVE PERSON QUEUE at the SINGLE OPEN COUNTER in what the argentinian fucktards fraudulently misrepresent
as a local instantiation of a usian chain
mircea_popescu: "the only apple app that celebrates women
as items in trade"
mircea_popescu: the notion that "uppity ustard talking out of line" is correctly represented
as "fellow human taking on too much risk" is a core example of this problem, actually. what, we're all sitting at a table in mutual equality deciding how much to put down on red ? gtfo, you're not even allowed in the parking lot.
mircea_popescu: gotta love "out there". it's almost
as good
as "self-aware citizen of the nubbins"
mircea_popescu: We started VATLER during the summer of 2014
as an on-demand valet service in San Francisco … We received a phone call from the police department telling us that our permits had not been granted and they gave us a warning because we were operating illegally in most of our locations…In 2 weeks, we lost major accounts and 30% of our revenue streams without any perspective of growth. We tried to make some restaurants p
nubbins`: we knew we'd run out of gas, but bobby steered and lisa worked the accelerator and we got
as far down that road
as we could. unfortunately we just couldn't pull over to the shoulder.
mircea_popescu: any mention of "i suck
as a manager" eerily absent. "i don't suck
as a manager - i gave all the people who had no responsibility in the matter all the data about what a shit job i was doing. this means i wasn't doing a shit job! this is also how i went through school - i told my parents about all the Cs i got! this is actually better than getting
As!"
mircea_popescu: Each member of our now pared-down team knew exactly how much runway the company had remaining, the status of our strategic talks, and the acknowledged long odds we faced
as a going concern. To their credit, they remained focused, productive and on-task until our final day — a remarkable expression of dedication to the mission and to each other. Sadly, and in spite of the achievements, we simply ran out of time and ca
pete_dushenski: this is actually an incredibly strong signal that the product in question is doomed, if their landing page says "
as seen in nyt, good morning america, etc."
mircea_popescu: In the email, co-founders Karthik Balasubramanian and Brian Moyer stated their belief that the movement of investor interest away from consumer-facing applications for the technology was also a factor. Balasubramanian and Moyer wrote: ”While investment and activity continues to occur it is focused on private and alternate chains rather than bitcoin or other public chains where Bonafide operates.”
As a result, the c
mircea_popescu: ah,
as per intel they actually bought okcupid for 50mn, so prolly should shed some zeros.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, of those 2-300 people, should you have the curiosity to include a link strategically in your profile, you might discover that exactly... 0%,
as well
as 0 per thousand actually click.
mircea_popescu:
as the boost takes about an hour, this caps the okcupid revenue from this line to somewhere around say 20 bux an hour ? which sounds just about right.
mircea_popescu: this is practically a straight advertising deal, and i have the numbers : out of the ~150-200k people onlione they claim perpetually, the 1-2 dollar thing buys you about 300 over an hour, so that's superficially 1.5-2 per thousand but i suspect might be
as high
as 10% given that obviously, not everyone actually pays any attention to them.
mircea_popescu: jurov quite. i recall reading that thing years ago, too. understood
as nothing of it then
as now, obviously.
assbot: Logged on 16-12-2015 05:10:53; ben_vulpes: ivan brightly, is a blockchain subject matter expert having been involved
as a core member of the bitcoin/blockchain community since 2012
ben_vulpes: ivan brightly, is a blockchain subject matter expert having been involved
as a core member of the bitcoin/blockchain community since 2012
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then the site bitches about how getting whatever
as an answer doesn't help it select matches. what the fuck am i to do ?! care ?!
mircea_popescu: buenos aires, a thing worth 30x that many inhabitants, has no dedicated ad paper, and never detectably had. the thoroughput is negligible,
as in not even 0.001 per capita.
mircea_popescu: for
as long
as you're part of the solution, it taking a while is no detriment.
ascii_field: this looks quite like folks who explained their gold/watches/dollars bootleg ops in moscow
as 'help sink the stinking su faster !111'
ascii_field sometimes wonders if mircea_popescu does the 'nail in a coffin and float'em down the river
as test of faith' thing also
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nubbins`: posting flyers in b.a is about
as sensible
as posting a wanted at on derpstalk forum
nubbins`: dat invention of hypotheticals
as a retort
mircea_popescu: "no, i know this because i can fit explanations ex post facto
as well
as alf used to can"
ascii_field: nubbins`: in ba, at least
as far
as my naked eye could see, it was mostly whores.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whart do you mean not true in ba! all places are the same places! all peopel are really the same
as nubbins!