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mircea_popescu: and since we're doing this : there's also FOR THE CLANS!!! from "disciples", an ancient but really great game ; and WANT SOME, GET SOME! from a very popular set of browser tower defenses.
mircea_popescu: you might be right, my memory's fuzzing out at the edges.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, you might be thinking of yet another one ?
mircea_popescu: lol you hear that danielpbarron ? randos coming in to eat your luncvh, better hurry up.
mircea_popescu: you know, he attempted to run a little business, i'm attempting to help him make sense of it.
mircea_popescu: ckang, well, i kinda like to leverage spot experience into more general theory. let's say it's a weakness of mine.
mircea_popescu: you understand that the difference between the ill-pay-for-your-tits value-evaluation-function over this field of items and the anything-else value-evaluation-function over the same field isn't 10x or 100x, either. people routinely have trouble extracting as much as a cent per thousand ; that'd be 10e6x
mircea_popescu: yes. but this source you have found is not simply one or two or three sigmas away from average. it is an uncountable, perhaps a literal infinity of sigmas away from average.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how usg history repeats itself : the elite uses the mass to rape the middle class. guy with a little dough and a little brain gets eaten into this "pay the brahmin to use the cattle herd" scheme again and again and again.
mircea_popescu: the right end of that business is to be SELLING the servers to people like you.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, you're not proposing anyone else anywhere else can extract anything like that sort of utility out of the shitpile are you ?
mircea_popescu: now we understand why the discord meme. i imagine it's pretty good money selling "5k imaginary users" to you ppl.
mircea_popescu: becauuse totally, "bitcoin price in fiat". that's a thing.
mircea_popescu recalls the lulzy days of "market price" back when i was buying them at 2.20 - 2.50 dollars a pop
mircea_popescu: well, $1200 worth of 2013 btc would sure be a retirement todaty
mircea_popescu: douchebag, im lazy, there's a whole chunk here that i've not yet ul'd
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, i thought it was "ready to go" and everything days ago ?
mircea_popescu: tell the story to your daughters and granddaughters, so they may know that playing-it-safe and waiting-to-see is not the way to live in this world.
mircea_popescu: and with this, ladies and gents, the FOUR YEAR tits for bits hole closes.
mircea_popescu: haleyyyyy, 0f9a63b5 ; but mind that you only get it once.
mircea_popescu: Starrrcx, yeah, i think you're the years young-est person in there.
mircea_popescu: think about it -- the sort of people who'd publish idiotic crap a la tor docker etc LIKE the meat injection. and the sort of people who'd protest don't get involved with that.
mircea_popescu: contrary to what you might think, it's 9x% the function of nsa, trolling on github all day.
mircea_popescu: now, of course they've been pretending like "it never happened" for five years now ; but then again they're also pretending to be solvent, and militarily relevant, and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: usg trying to leverage the fact that idiots stick together whereas intelligent people jwz, into this situation where they keep shitting turds larger than what you can fit in head and so "one man's guess is as good as any other's" and "we don't actually know it's a scam" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: y're reasonablyt safe, as far as we know" ; and as we learn better... they just come up with a new piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: understand how the empire of idiots' euphemism threadmill works : they noticed that you go by the heuristic of "published holes", and they've adapted to that (because that's what the idiots are all about, "Exam taking", ie optimizing for the measurement not for the variable measured). so, they keep publishing strainers and calanders, except the sort where YOU don't know the holes. it gives you the warm fuzzy feeling that "The
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