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assbot: $296M in Bitcoin spending on Black Friday and Cyber Monday made it
the 9th largest payment network in
the world!
http://t.co/jlTVDinyZf mircea_popescu: punkman basically it meshes half sentences from
the
two huh.
mircea_popescu: "oh, setting our house on fire doesn't work ? I KNOW! let's set
the house on fire WITH GASOLINE!"
mircea_popescu: adlai
the only somewhat amusing / incredible if you're new
thing about
that entire stellar debacle is
that... people still pretend like ripple's a
thing.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> now it's inanities like
the street
tax
to pave
the ghetto. << srsly, paving
the ghetto, for as long as it uses forced labour of
the inhabitants and very rudimentary
tools, and it's done in
the middle of
the summer, is a splendid idea.
mircea_popescu: the various defeated and meanwhile extinct
tribes from
the amazon valley
to
the pacific rim being
the exact proof of
this concept.
mircea_popescu: in
the sense
that humanity is either masculine or not worth
the mention
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes>
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE INTERPRETATION << actually,
the deeper reason is
that masculinity is inextricably linked
to
the species,
Namworld: My darn cat just opens cupboard and so on and claws bag open
to eat pastas and so on... I'll need big plastic container
to store pasta and so on in accessible locations, and keep
the rest in places he can't get in.
ben_vulpes: now it's inanities like
the street
tax
to pave
the ghetto.
ben_vulpes: once upon a
time it was
the schools, and
there were bonds, and
the people paid, and nothing changed.
ben_vulpes: undata: "street
tax" << my parents have called portland a "benevolent communist state" for as long as i've lived here. it's only recently started
to pass its inflection points letting
the impoverished demand more and more.
ben_vulpes: "To me,
that insistence can only come from one place:
that gender—specifically, masculinity—is inextricably linked
to software" << or perhaps
that
that pronouns are gendered in better languages
than engris but whatever
ben_vulpes: <mats_cd03> ben_vulpes: what do you need
that for? << 's a joke
assbot: Bitcoin in Argentina : exactly nothing
to do with
the derps pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1z8pRYk )
gernika: I was able
to collect email addresses via a signup page running an FB campaign at one
time. Don't recall
the conversion percentage at
the moment but at
that
time at least
there were real people clicking.
Namworld: I guess
there's already people
there.
mircea_popescu: Namworld can you be bothered
to run a similar
thing for me ? it's been half a year since i last
tried
them, moar lulz can't hurt.
Namworld: So unless
there's other Bitcoin advertisers running bots, unlikely
to
target bot accounts. But stats still points
to dodgy stuff. So I guess
the majority is still bots.
Namworld: No, just by adding
the
term Bitcoin
to
targeting. So basically people
that liked pages and so on or occasionally mention
the
term "Bitcoin", I believe.
Namworld: Just by selecting people
that have "Bitcoin" in
their interests.
punkman: asciilifeform: you could run your own private bitcoin, or private
Tor network, or whatever
punkman: I don't
think Stellar was ever decentralized.
They just had more
than one server.
mircea_popescu: neither of
these being either obvious or desirable, and
their conjunction being why
the coin in question - stellar or whatever - is dead.
mircea_popescu: but
the actual choice is between "destroying
the long
term viability of
the coin
through introducing precedent - certain
to be followed - of converting it overnight into a centrally owned resource" and "destroying
the long
term viability of
the coin
through introducing precedent of arbitrarily lost funds"
Namworld: It might be
that facebook ad bots don't
tend
to have Bitcoin in
their interest... at least yet. Hence why demographic looks accurate.
mircea_popescu: obviously if given
the incorrectly statement "choice is obvious". a whole new mode of rational failure
the us invented, "begging "the obvious" choice", similar
to "begging
the question"
mircea_popescu: of course,
they manage
to not even correctly state
the choice.
mircea_popescu: gernika lulzy. i wonder if we see
the same nonsense emerge in btc.
assbot: Joyce from Stellar here. Yes,
that is correct. When given
the choice between
tem... | Hacker News ... (
http://bit.ly/1G34g5Z )
gernika: mircea_popescu: "When given
the choice between
temporary centralization and guaranteeing
the security of
the protocol and
therefore user funds,
the choice is obvious. Once
the new consensus algorithm is complete, it will be safe
to run with more
than one node again."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709514 Namworld: Will have
to derp some more around and complain for free credits.
Namworld: Eh, $50 for
the heck of it and
there was actually sales, but I didn't put a
tracking link so hard
to say. I have
to change
that immediately.
mircea_popescu: notably, athletes at
the
turn of
the century (their dream briefly came
through in
the 60s, now it seems fucked again), and military men althrough
the 1800s.
mircea_popescu: <undata> several generations of Americans at least believe
that
this is precisely what success looks like: you buy and sell a few houses and your life is on autopilot from
then on << in
their defense, all generations since
the industrial revolution chiefly believed
that
this is what success looks like : you do a few
things and
that's
that.
Namworld: Funny enough, it's
targeted at both men and women
that
talk/liked pages related
to Bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: generally
the business experience on
the
topic being
that paying for someone
to do
the
tech part and for someone
to do
the business part comes
to 1-35% more
than
the value of
the refunded clicks.
punkman: Namworld: if enough volume, you gotta look at your logs and ask
them
to refund some of
the scamclicks
Namworld: Oh yeah,
that
thing. It's so funny
mircea_popescu: ;;google how i
trolled my imbecile roommate by custom
tailoring
the ads facebook showed him (nevermind what either having roommates or hanging out with imbeciles says about me).
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2014 20:43:36;
ThickAsThieves: facebook ads are
the worst performance of like all options, other
than for some very specific uses
mircea_popescu: Namworld: uh... Facebook ads system numbers are dodgy <<< welcome
to
the club ? fb is a scam.
this has been said here i dunno how many
times, but by pretty much everyone ever involved.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: back
to ddosing websites by
the looks of it << did it only last 5 minutes or do i liek magically not see it again
Namworld: uh... Facebook ads system numbers are dodgy... I got a 35% click
through rate. What kind of ads get a 35% click
through rate? 1 click for 3 impressions.
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cazalla: back
to ddosing websites by
the looks of it
gernika: The world doesn't work like
that here.
mircea_popescu: (in
the civilised sense of
that
term, not
the usian sense of it0
mircea_popescu: i
thought it's
the world's most popular fast food dish
gernika: I agree - a german burrito seemed unappealing just as a concept, let alone as something concrete made out of
that run down kitchen, but apparently at
the
time I
thought
that was my best option.
mircea_popescu: (speaking of which,
the doner in germany surpasses
the doner in
turkey i hear)
gernika: I had a burrito
there. It was not a great burrito.
The interior was quite drab.
gernika: mircea_popescu actually yes,
that looks familiar
mircea_popescu: undata sure, except for
the obnoxious "prevailin business practices" bit.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ilkka kokkarinen) <<
there is some merit
to
the ford story, but specifically,
that he majorily cut down on staff
turnover by "overpaying". except all
the other idiots were not accounting for
training costs (in
the form of, not building anything
too complex)
undata: you know where
they're at
mircea_popescu: just like if fat women were erased from
the world you'd notice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> reading for
the first
time about 'joyent', i couldn't help but wonder - what are
these 'technologies' actually for? if
they were erased from
the good earth overnight, would i notice ? <<< if node.js were erased you would notice.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> honouring
the 'lifetime warranty' for all
the chumps put
together - would
this even add up
to
the cost of one lawyer-week ? << it makes no sense
to me either.
gernika: mircea_popescu I have not heard of Room77 - google
tells me it's some sort of hotel site.
undata: several generations of Americans at least believe
that
this is precisely what success looks like: you buy and sell a few houses and your life is on autopilot from
then on
undata: decimation | really, it's all just an extension of
the lowly spammers desire
to make money while he sleeps << cheap credit spawned a generation of
these
gernika: Whatever scheme
they came up with inevitably ran out of steam after at most a few years.
gernika: And at
the same
time calling it passive income.
gernika: Exactly. I slept very little while I was
trying
to follow
their recipe.
gernika: Man. I used
to subscribe
to
this forum called
the Micropreneuer academy. I see now
that
this was exactly
their propsal: spam
to make money while you sleep.
decimation: really, it's all just an extension of
the lowly spammers desire
to make money while he sleeps