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mircea_popescu: so we are small and
they are
tinier still and
the world's immense.
mircea_popescu: nor are
the billions being spent his own personal pocket money he could buy icecream with otherwise.
mircea_popescu: the us congress does not particularly
think loyd austin of
the army is very smart,
mircea_popescu: but you don't need
that. you merely need
to be deemed by a major capital allocator worthy of
the allocation.
mircea_popescu: it's not a simple matter of money, as money's not invariant over
the cases we discuss.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like
the stair of no return, once you left you can't walk back
mircea_popescu: no, i know.
the problem with gedanken experiments is
that
they necessarily won't fit
the reality
mircea_popescu: if you're in
the 1%
that did
then as it does now,
the fact
that
there's a further aspirational 19% added
to
the pot does not help you
mircea_popescu: "it
takes us a second
to do
things
that
took a lifetime before - and
they come with
the guarantee of being something else entirely!"
mircea_popescu: as
the work works now, software makes everything much easier and faster. errors especially.
mircea_popescu: if
the world was working as it did before computers, ascii would have been one of
the few people with pen and paper, and wrote a description
to one of
the few people who made what he needed, and by virtue of
that fewness
they'd have actually been friends.
the letter
took a week
to get
there,
the work
took a week
to be done, and so a month later alf has his peas or w/e he's needing for alchemy.
BingoBoingo: So, once you finalize a
thing in
their webapp you gotta sit on
the page for a couple hours just
to make sure
the cache is sync'd or...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is
this factually
true,
that you had
the wrong part in
there for a while,
then switched it out
to
the right part and ordered immediately ?
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most public-facing diff futures seems
to happen on bitbet.
vorandrew: Does anybody know who is
trading BTC difficulty CFD/Futures?
mircea_popescu: they have
that massive an infrastructure
that
they cache
the application !?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! i wonder what
the bug would have been
mike_c: it's nice
that
they figured it out.
mike_c: so normal fuckup
then, not even massively incompetent.
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chetty: <coinking> Social media management//omg has it really come
to
that?
coinking: cool, should be
there. It's
trickier
to chat about it
through IRC so you will see from my email my personal details.
kakobrekla: if you are going
to write
to @bitbet.us , i will be reading it
coinking: I'm not sure who is directly involved in
this project so I'll just me sending an email
coinking: Social media management,
that's what I was inquiring about
mircea_popescu: that's
the
traditional socioeconomic use for fillies in human societies.
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2015 17:06:07; nubbins`: log would make a worthy
tome, if one were able
to sieve it first
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because
the morons
think
they can magic
their own spew away when it
turns embarrassing. << b-a logs will become
the most interesting resource in not many years.
mats: additionally, MS has indicated several
times
that 'UAC' is not actually a security boundary
mats: fun fact:
the UIPI clipboard format whitelist is permissive enough
to allow for exploitation of particular programs on 7 and 8.
mats: fun fact: zeroing a file in windows may actually leave
the contents on
the disk intact.
coinking: I have a lot of good contact within crypto and have current and past clients as references. It's about perspective,
the leads I bring as crypto enthusiasts yet building your social pages is never a bad move. It just depends on how much you
think it's worth. It
think long
term it is something important in a business and has a direct impact on
the bu
kakobrekla: well here is
the
thing, i am not paying a flat fee
to someone
to derp around on btc-poor social sites
to gather 'likes', 'digs', 'twits' and 'impressions' which do not bring in bettors. but if you actually can bring in people with btc, use affiliate program
to collect your reward.
mike_c: coinking:
they have an affiliate program if you want
to do promotion.
danielpbarron: there are
two; one
tweets new bets and
the other
tweets individual bids on
them
coinking: I found one
that was pretty inactive
coinking: yeah, looking
to offer my services
to
the
twitter page
coinking: ok cool, sure. I wanted
to inquire about Content Management for BitBet - and if
there was a want for Social Media Marketing & Management
mike_c: coinking: better
to just ask your question.
mircea_popescu: because
they can't be wrong, or stupid, because
they're smart and special.
mircea_popescu: without anyone ever saying
they were wrong, or stupid.
mircea_popescu: it is incidentally
the model upon which i see
the most serene republic coming
to an agreement with
the obsolete "states" : bitcoiners are outside of lay jurisdiction, and
to be judged by bitcoin court.
mircea_popescu: it was quickly limited
to a "first offense only"
thing