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mircea_popescu: boolrap depends. but in general, unless you're making something like strudel it doesn't
take
that long
to fix a meal.
boolrap: what do you mean no appliances, you have
to make a fire
to cook your meals?
boolrap: do
they all prepare meals
together?
boolrap: mircea_popescu: what % of your womens
time is spent for meals?
kakobrekla: there are also psychological effects - i wonder if we would see a diff if i added a fake 5 min
timer at
the last step of
the bet address request.
mircea_popescu: and as far as womenz are concerned,
they generally wish
they had no mom at all anyway.
mircea_popescu: either for not having one at all, or for having had one
that was
too close
to a mom
boolrap: i
think ur dad is more likely
to
take you out and get u killed.
boolrap: how if you have a gay uncle you are more likely
to do well and reproduce because its like having another mom around.
mircea_popescu: decimation looking forward
to
the special cosplay division of
the nypd
decimation: mircea_popescu:
there's a whole 'gentrification
theory' based on gays moving
to a neighborhood full of swarthy
thugs and making it 'safe' for women and children
mircea_popescu: "With
the rise of Google,
the gurus of Web 2.0, and
the call from business leaders (often seen in publications such as Business 2.0) for a more creative, as well as skilled, workforce, Florida asserts
that
the contemporary relevance of his research is easy
to see."
mircea_popescu: boolrap well, you could export all
the pronz
the chinese could ever want
mircea_popescu: it's not
that
the lesbians flock
to
the places where rich people live, because
they need
that
trickle down effect
to survive in
their incredibly inefficient lifestyle.
boolrap: so if
there are more gays and lesbians
the GDP will be huge?
mircea_popescu: "Florida's
theory asserts
that metropolitan regions with high concentrations of
technology workers, artists, musicians, lesbians and gay men, and a group he describes as "high bohemians", exhibit a higher level of economic development."
mircea_popescu: that spring water has complaints does not mean sprite doesn't have 500x
that many complaints.
kakobrekla: i hear from people who i sent
to use
the
thing
mircea_popescu: takes you 20 minutes, helps
the network, all further
thinking is not needed.
mircea_popescu: after your first payment fails for whatever reason, you get a full node client, pre 0.7 and run
that.
kakobrekla: you need
to select between 2 options. now you need
to understand both and on
top make a decision. if you opt for
the second one, you also need
to fetch
the return address, since you dont understand what originating fucking address is.
mircea_popescu: then you need
to write support in
the 50% of cases it did not go
throught
mircea_popescu: with cb/bp you need
the address,
then you need
to watch it make sure it went
through
mircea_popescu: with bb, you need
the address, send
the payment, are done.
kakobrekla: more brain is needed
to complete a bb payment
than
to bpay payment. im
to lazy
to list all
the details, but its
there.
boolrap: im at
the place with real internet
TheNewDeal: one of
the few industries where your pay is
truly related
to your success
kakobrekla: less brain is used,
therefore it does.
kakobrekla: good or bad it
takes
the pain away for
the _people_. and _people_ will always chose pleasure over pain.
decimation: interests is
to deliver value
to customers."
decimation: "Moreover in a recent report from
the Aspen Institute, which convened a cross-section of business
thought leaders, including both executives and academics,
the most important finding is
that a majority of
the
thought leaders who participated in
the study, particularly corporate executives, agreed
that “the primary purpose of
the corporation is
to serve customers’ interests.” In effect,
the best way
to serve shareholders’
assbot: Richard Florida - Authors -
The Atlantic
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla acting as if
this is a
thing makes it a
thing. not a good idea.
mircea_popescu: you've stumbled on
the very heart of
the somethingawful forums over
there.
kakobrekla: also imho over 50% of bitcoin users do not even have access
to
their own private keys.
mircea_popescu: wasn;t
that lead by
the very picturesque Richard Florida ?!
decimation: as if Harvard has anything
to say about how actual (non-bezzle) business is run
decimation: "These questions are being raised, not in some anti-capitalist rag from
the extreme Left, but in
the staid pro-business pages of
the Harvard Business Review, in a seminal article by Roger Martin,
the former dean of
the Rotman School of Business and
the academic director of
the Martin Prosperity Institute: “The Rise and (Likely) Fall of
the
Talent Economy.”"
mircea_popescu: i remember a
time when newspapers were worth reading,
they came in wet ink and you knew
the names of
the editors.
decimation: the forbes 'article' (forbes < daily mail) is an example of a blind man feeling
the bloated government elephant and declaring it
to be a large plum
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu>
the fuck do people know what
their needs are, you might as well be
the veterinarian
that offers pet-managed pet care. <<
Time
to go long on bacon as dogs move over
to a diet of pork and more pork
assbot: Roger Martin: How 'The
Talent'
Turned Into Vampires - Forbes
decimation: the
third estate was represented by
the bourgeois lawyers who were 'of
the people'
mircea_popescu: the fuck do people know what
their needs are, you might as well be
the veterinarian
that offers pet-managed pet care.
mircea_popescu: not just one man.
the man with something
to say.
there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs"
decimation: on
the other hand, what has happened
to apple is clearly
the result of one man passing
mircea_popescu: it narrowly maps
the makeover from "a good place
to invest"
to "a good
thing
to short"
mircea_popescu: decimation note
the change of apple, from
the ipad 1 "fuck you, it's not going
to come in white"
to
the ipad 6 "we're doing what
the customers
think
they want"
kakobrekla: yeah well
those cars werent much better
assbot: Quote by Henry Ford: If I had asked people what
they wanted,
they wo...
mircea_popescu: the bitpay/coinbase invoice model is basically doing everything from
the perspective of "what's
the most we could do so bitcoin never works"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yes. if one's goal is not
to shit where one eats,
then
there's no incentive
to cater
to idiocy. if on
the contrary,
then on
the contrary.
mircea_popescu: the only reason "people demand" pop music and buzzfeed derpage is because
that's what mtv and buzzfeed want
to sell.
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> nonsense.
there is absolutely no reason
to cater
to idiocy. < broad statement.
totally depends what ones goal is
mircea_popescu: there's no intrinsic reason
to buy soap, nor any good reason not
to eat
the soap you bought, on
the strength of
this approach.
mircea_popescu: people would still demand huts and saddles if anyone asked
them.
mircea_popescu: nonsense.
there is absolutely no reason
to cater
to idiocy.
kakobrekla: from a group
that is already small as it is.
mircea_popescu: look, your whole argument is based on
the entirely insane proposition
that "people could never know what an originating address is"
kakobrekla: bb is not a sheep company. bitpay is a sheep company.
there are more sheep around
than non sheep. by count, sheep company is hated less.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was using
the
term people in
the limited sense of "people in bitcoin", not in
the general sense of "mouthbreather kept on life support by usg"
decimation: it would be nice if each dollar 'committed' in
this spending were marked with
the number of hands
that held
the dollar since being printed by
the Fed
mircea_popescu: "we're a bitcoin company
that's
trying
to make bitcoin work as badly as possible, and fail
that as closely approximative of fiat as possible. because reasons. please invest."
mircea_popescu: but no, why not
try and microsoft all over bitcoin and
then wonder why people hate you.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah agreed. Although
to mojang's credit
they apparently make $240 mn per year. Yeah I forgot whatsapp
mircea_popescu: decimation
that's not even
the problem. all
those
together ? worth half a watsapp.
mircea_popescu: and
they won't be able
to get out of it by aggitating
the "us legislation" dog, nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: not really my problem,
they'll learn some lessons in fragility once anyone gives enough of a shit.
decimation: re: microsoft paying $2bn for mojang: I saw
the news
this morning and lol'ed. $3.2 bn for nest, $2bn for mojang; only $3 bn for high-power specialty manufacturer
that has $1bn in revenue per year