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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: "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:
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 ☝︎ assbot: Be Cool, or the multilayered cake of things I don'
t give a shit about. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1P8iBmv )
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.
punkman: in the interests of working with less wotless derps in 2016: You can rent punkman for $30/hr (can even get discounts if I like you), can operate git per your style guides, can'
t compile C with pen and paper.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get it, the chicks should bag groceries and make ~10.5 and the dudes should dfick around with javascript and make more than 9 ?!
trinque closes his laptop obediently, told planes can'
t land otherwise.
trinque: I don'
t use erc, but apparently there's erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds
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: someone figured out it can be a "softfork", just don'
t send witness part to old nodez!
punkman: can'
t make lightweight html pages, gotta do stupid shit instead
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: just like jim crow was in southern states ! "no one in this room doesn'
t agree!"
ascii_field: poor schmucks were on the fringes. it wasn'
t sweet, no. had all kinds of misadventures.
mircea_popescu: so the trashing pilsudski administered to the oh so clever & brave bolsheviks doesn'
t count for the ukrs ?
ascii_field: ( i can'
t go and buy a pv panel with obama paying so much as a cent )
BingoBoingo: If nubbins doesn'
t clean his kitchen it will rapidly fill with moose
BingoBoingo: “We’re not opposed to the solar farm itself, just that particular location,” Lane said. “We wanted to make sure they didn’
t overtake the town.” << Translation: 3 in our backyard already, stop forcing them down our throats if you won'
t even have one of your own
jurov: cuz slovenians don'
t know how to steal
mircea_popescu: "The Node/JS ecosystems are experiencing a Cambrian explosion in technology, with all that implies. If you don'
t like it, don'
t worry. It probably won'
t take 20 million years this time to settle in on the "best" ways of doing things."
nubbins`: i didn'
t think they used robusta
punkman: "I don'
t think most people run into this because most backend node programmers have moved to Go at this point" yeah because Go totally won'
t have dependency hell
ascii_field: doesn'
t seem to be connected with the 'home automation' derpery
ascii_field: wasn'
t mircea_popescu explaining that there is a horde of usians without even own car now ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of, it's a little declase to not have one's own valet, don'
t we find ?
mircea_popescu: i don'
t think you understand how retarded adolescence works.
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: anyway, in this particular case they didn'
t manage to close the sale in a minute or so, and so i walked out.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are you trying to cheat at life ? your two idiots aren'
t worth eating for fucks sake.
mircea_popescu: no you don'
t understand, they were going to sit themselves down in the middle of someone else's field and charge a toll!
mircea_popescu: i don'
t mean what they're currently wearing, i mean all the underwear they ever used.
mircea_popescu: these are the people that can'
t be bothered to notice posters that cost more than their underwear.
mircea_popescu: incredibly enough, it STILL didn'
t work! yet nobody can ever tell him why! because IT WAS WHITENED!!! ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem here being that if your "mathematical simulations inspired by words" actually produce stuff people want to wear, then you don'
t need it to be an app, just build a factory ; on the other hand, if people have to design themselves, then you have the same old problem of UGC : people suck.
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!"
assbot: Here's what they don'
t tell you when they bring you those papers to sign on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1O6aNyh )
pete_dushenski: "i don'
t want to succeed if it means i can'
t be ME ! what am i, some sort of sellout ?"
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:39:26; mircea_popescu: ascii_field by the time that's done, my dear alf, everyone who's still asleep ain'
t never waking up again.
jurov: putting outside of heap all permanent block-related data that won'
t ever get deallocated, looks like an improvement and do improve the baseline
punkman: (why didn'
t assbot add a bit.ly to the title?)
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:12:39; asciilifeform: somebody +v ascii_field por favor, he can'
t reach the button
BingoBoingo: <TheNewDeal> but I think they've tried to slip me drugs to admit to crimes that haven'
t occurred << This was a big motivator in my decision to sobriety. Harder to CIA drug if not already intoxicated.
nubbins`: suggest a movie that isn'
t a piece of shit
hanbot: TheNewDeal take a walk in a park/forest/beach/etc. don'
t take your cigarettes.
TheNewDeal: I'm locked down on state sponsored medications and they aren'
t doing a thing
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for TheNewDeal with note: Put a decent chunk of change into the Bitcoin Foundation back when it wasn'
t fashionable yet.
mircea_popescu: !rate TheNewDeal 2 Put a decent chunk of change into the Bitcoin Foundation back when it wasn'
t fashionable yet.
☟︎ TheNewDeal: I don'
t even know who I sent it to - that's basically unreportable
TheNewDeal: the US tax law can'
t handle these transactions
mircea_popescu: to slip people drugs to get them to admit to crimes that haven'
t occurred ?
TheNewDeal: but I think they've tried to slip me drugs to admit to crimes that haven'
t occurred
TheNewDeal: I've got to see if they allow a tax payment, I can'
t find that address from the foundation website
mircea_popescu: and since anyone could do, everyone should do, so why aren'
t you.
mircea_popescu: so they won'
t make an altcoin that makes YOU be able to do something, because "you" is undefined. instead... make an altcoin that "saves africa". that, ANYONE could do.
mircea_popescu: it can'
t be something pointful, meaningful, "i get to move satoshi's stash".
mircea_popescu: you don;
t properly grok how the ustardian mind works. you see, it's gotta be meta to be real.
nubbins`: i can'
t believe it's not bitcoin
mircea_popescu: i didn'
t care for proletcult either, and somehow i don'
t seem to be missing having missed out on that either.
mircea_popescu: can'
t california just fall into the ocean already and spare me the rest of the popcult story ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose every nigger gotta add his own hardfork out there now, it's the new hip thing. you ain'
t nobody if you ain'
t hardforkin'!
mircea_popescu: the irony being that bitcoin going to shit wouldn'
t resolve all the numerous problems all the shitcoins have
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: it's lead me to discover that i really don'
t give a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90% i'm like... whatever.
mircea_popescu: she's too classy, and besides : these men don'
t even watch cheers!
mircea_popescu: "I am a downer most of the time, I'm not outgoing, not funny, not talkative. The only thing I have is my average intelligence. Being depressed makes you not want to do anything. The medication I'm taking doesn'
t even make me feel better sometimes. I hate that when you're unattractive or below average you have to wield so many positive traits just to get someone to like you. Attractive people get to be mediocre."
nubbins`: well i don'
t print fake ones so yeah!
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:38:05; mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here : i'm the only entity that can'
t be held hostage. "oh, we won'
t do X until you Y" works when I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can'
t say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn'
t for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
BingoBoingo: Cambodia seems like interesting place to consider relocation. May be a stalinist hell hole, but doesn'
t seems like that bad of one.