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assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 17:58:38; ascii_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306139 << advertising has no future in a sane world. but has anyone invented even a hypothetical profit model for qntra that doesn't in some way involve it? i've been wondering this since the day q opened
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306325 << trilema is for instance making decent money on subscription model. this is not to be discounted. also, no press IN THE HISTORY of press has EVER made money. not ever. it didn't happen (yes there are exceptions, in particular, temporary, self limited nooks). this never stopped the press from being WORTH money, which it always was.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: "After laying off more than 300 workers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to lift the spirits of the remaining employees by giving them 6.8 million shares of the stock he owns in the online messaging service."
<< so noble of jack to take a tax write-off on these shares before their value plummets to zero.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 16:53:18; pete_dushenski: "Our 36 years of continuous growth and success has been driven by our consistent willingness to reimagine our future"
<< heh
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:53:41; mircea_popescu: jurov no one is even buying the bitbet spot.. says something about bitcoin economy
<< or about advertising.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:44:20; mircea_popescu:
<funkenstein_> re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don't open until after that - for lunch
<< there isn't a bunchy of these things to pick one from. this was THE ONLY THING HAPPENING THAT DAY IN THE WHOLE 12 MILLION STRONG "CITY"
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 06:33:53; mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land"
<< and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
pete_dushenski: "Alphabet beat earnings estimates by 14 cents with Q3 profit of $7.20 a share. Advertising revenue on its Google sites pushed sales to rise 13% to $18.68 billion."
<< stock +9% today
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 15:30:24; mircea_popescu:
<danielpbarron> and I don't get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation
<< the wut ?!
pete_dushenski: "Our 36 years of continuous growth and success has been driven by our consistent willingness to reimagine our future"
<< heh
☟︎ mircea_popescu: jurov no one is even buying the bitbet spot.. says something about bitcoin economy
<< or about advertising.
☟︎ shinohai: "purveyor of surveillance appliances for the multitudes"
<<< great Microsoft descriptor pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu:
<funkenstein_> re: xxxotica, the name sound like made for derps, and advertised to start at 8pm. iirc restaurants down there don't open until after that - for lunch
<< there isn't a bunchy of these things to pick one from. this was THE ONLY THING HAPPENING THAT DAY IN THE WHOLE 12 MILLION STRONG "CITY"
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
<shinohai> "If this is a scam, I want to be scammed more."
<<< careful what you wish!
<< no, it's exact. and he'll get it too.
mircea_popescu:
<HeySteve> as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5 as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
<< but note that none of that is in any sense what i said.
mircea_popescu:
<PeterL> Now that QNTRA is a year old, is there any plan to explore revenue generation?
<< notrly. the plan is to explore a way to get more people to write better.
mircea_popescu:
<danielpbarron> and I don't get the space between the last word of a sentence and the punctuation
<< the wut ?!
☟︎ shinohai: "If this is a scam, I want to be scammed more."
<<< careful what you wish!
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 22:01:20; mircea_popescu: "BANX represents a thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital,"
<< dividends out of what ?
PeterL: I guess you want to use
<marquee> too?
jurov: and
<script>, of course
PeterL: what more would you need than
<p>?
jurov: and on more serious note, I miss anything about paragraph formatting, guess
<p> should be allowed or even endorsed, too.
☟︎ PeterL: same paragraph "... sources will be replaced
<by> a published ..."
gribble: jurov was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 8 hours, 3 minutes, and 46 seconds ago:
<jurov> haha qntra got censored?
mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described as the richest of his generation. By the end of the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty thousand acres of land"
<< and there lies the debunk. it's true that george washington was well off. it's true he controlled some tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE that made him "richest in his generation".
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Who said smartphones weren't useful ?" v. "(Run moar winbloze!™)"
<< though i seem to only use a question/exclamation mark once every 4-5 articles, so maybe not a big deal.
punkman: I'm also gonna hate you if your
<img> is a
<div> with a background
punkman: trinque: the whole semantic thing in html is horse-shit
<< well I can't say I prefer
<div> and
<table> to
<article> and
<nav>, but maybe that's because I write crawlers often
pete_dushenski: No footnotes in the first (or only) paragraph of a submission.
<< good idea. i've been guilty of this and it does look sloppy
BingoBoingo: Now
<center> and other alignment tags, depreciated still
pete_dushenski: "and every third past contravex post article keeping up with the news ones is a good starting point."
<< kinda broken, BingoBoingo. no comprendo
pete_dushenski: "Unsigned material will not be publicly acknolwedged in any manner for any reason, ever."
<< hear hear
pete_dushenski:
<b>
</b> for bold and
<i>
</i> for italic
<< my dumdum wp install does
<strong>
</strong> for bold and
<em>
</em> for italic. don't ask why but it seems unnecessary to specify which precise tags to use if strong/em seem to work just as well as b/i, which they do.
pete_dushenski: " Links to sources out of Level 1 of assbots Web or Trust and links to dynamic pages that change content as a function of their nature should be followed with a link to an archive.is snapshot of the page in the form"
<< specified here, mind you.
pete_dushenski: "Links to sources out of WoT and links to dynamic pages should be followed with a link to an archive.is snapshot of the page in the form (archived)"
<< the thing about this is that assbot's wot =! BingoBoingo's wot =! author's wot. so whose wot is the correct wot ?
pete_dushenski: (Right : He said "this sucks". Wrong : He said "this sucks.")
<< not a fan of this 'right'
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo well to discourage derps from plundering google images.
<< ic
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> wow they made 6 saws ?!
<< 7, Maybe an 8th in a year or two. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are watchable.
mircea_popescu: Send code snippets and GPG signed material in separate GPG encrypted blocks. This protects them from painful mutilation.
< ? !
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "without further modifiers such as where the link ought to open."
<< what's this mean ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1305692 <<< meanwhile i xreferenced, he's the guy that wanted to do some hairbrained rent deposit insurance thing. i don't see anything actually negratable in there, so he's young and doesn't know all sorts of things. big whoop. everyone's born young. i don't see he did anything offensive past that.
☝︎ BingoBoingo:
<adlai> specifically "Adding a new indictment to news 200-700 words"
<< BRB getting carbs
adlai: BingoBoingo: "Level 1 of assbot's Web of Trust", "replaced in a published piece". not sure why preformatted snippets need special treatment, what's wrong with
<pre>?
mircea_popescu: "BANX represents a thus far dividend-paying investment in BanxCapital,"
<< dividends out of what ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> arabs winning the only engagement on us soil since the brits left
<< There was that other one the Japs won.
thestringpuller: "It's not material self-interest, it's that we're so sensitive. We experience ourselves through each other's eyes--and that's the reason for the labels and the clothes and the cars"
<< not sure how I feel about that reference quote