mircea_popescu: punkman there's gotta be soemthing the matter owht the bot

mircea_popescu: actually dali should probably get mention as the chief marketing whore rather than those two. makes little difference anyway.

mircea_popescu: specifically, picasso and the rest of the warhol ilk.

mircea_popescu: there can't be a professional painter anymore. the last professional was godward ( http://trilema.com/2010/lumea-nu-i-de-ajuns/ srsly). he killed himself, because the world was taken over by marketers

mircea_popescu: bounce your argument that "there's still deluded idiots pretending that "painter" is an adequate synonym for "bum" " fails to support your earlier assertion that "photography hasn't killed painting".

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes point remains, when you have a buy wall you increase the price, rather thna flatten yourself against it.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes depends, maybe the 240 a month goes into creating a relationship with the provider or w/e. at that level, the skill of the manager is much more important than technical considerations. think of it, most embasies cost more than they have to.

mircea_popescu: bounce state the point ?

mircea_popescu: "evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing." <<< there isn't going to be a professional photographer anymore than there's going to be a professional dresser.

mircea_popescu: 9k not the same, i don't care what the pretense at hand is.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:... $8500 << ... in excees of 300 dollars a month << you have to understand, 300 a month may well be the threshold of "minimum we'd pay for servers". because it's a tiny sum.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the downside to an unlimited buy wall as a consulting shop is the imperative to eat through as much of it as possible in the time allotted <<< ever seen http://trilema.com/2012/cum-iti-negociezi-salariul/ ?

mircea_popescu: mostly because that reanimated corpse of buscemi is a very great weird actor.

mircea_popescu: punkman: saint john of las vegas ? << think I've seen that, what's mp's take on it << i thought it was somewhat similar to dead man. just as totally fucking absurd and meaningless, but not unpleasant neveretheless.

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: either way, it does appear that every 5th mircea_popescu comment gets eaten by contravex's spam filter << just happened again lol

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is this a line end problem ?

mircea_popescu: pete is now so on top of things he quotes stuff i published minutes prior.

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: no more fucking with browser versions, just abstract over one version in particular and never again upgrade. <<< this sounds just like...

mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: heh <<< i like the guy's specifications skills tho. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: how the fuck can these people make anything they touch stolid.

mircea_popescu: http://www.misscruelty.com/galleries/em3/party/ << check out the sheer frozen boredom in there.

mircea_popescu: hey, maybe we name this lesson after you.

mircea_popescu: doesn't have to be YOURS

mircea_popescu: punkman this shiot's pretty cool!

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's getting published, what's the hgurry ?

mircea_popescu: duh i have an article for this nm. http://blog.spagni.net/

mircea_popescu: also, i thought mexicans were tejanos not latinos.

mircea_popescu: "elvis lives, feminism matters, we can save africa/the world/other entities that don't care to be saved nor do they care about us", stuff like that.

mircea_popescu: they believe things more akin to "the moon is made of cheeze" and "jews did nyc"

mircea_popescu: nah, that's easily disprovable by observation

mircea_popescu: whether someone thinks the sun comes out for their merits or for their sins is entirely their problem, as it were.

mircea_popescu: well, "follow". you know ? whether usians believe X topic they have no control or influence over to be a or b, and whether they believe they have a lot or a little control over x topic they have no control over are in the end irrelevant.

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller a) the notion that a reddit account = a person is rather bizarre. see http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ by now i'd guess less than 10% are actual people ; b) this is in no way remarkable, they understand nothing of absolutely any other topic they consider, be it politics, sexual relationships or raising snails. this seems to have relatively little impact or importance outside of the

mircea_popescu: maybe pankkake tried to generate a bitcoin address, itcame out as 1systemdsux and his head explody

mircea_popescu: I wonder how many people hit on incredibly improbable but bothersome stuff like 1smallC0K or 1yoMOMMAisHO or 1JeSuSgAy w/e and as a result think bitcoin is evil and gather around the hater sites.

mircea_popescu: how long was the list ?

mircea_popescu: you can even code it in : when the queue exceeds 24 hours with more than 3 bundles waiting, or 48 with more than 0, increase tx size by 50%

mircea_popescu: this sounds bad but it is acutally good, because it gives us a method to manage the problem. ie, to distinguish between accidental and "we really should increase tx size"

mircea_popescu: yeah it is. you'll have to queue but not broadcast the next tx until this one gets included.

mircea_popescu: well scams are mostly targetted to the scammed. it's how that game works.

mircea_popescu: is it evil in the eyes of the mining goblins ?