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mike_c: ok, so
there needs
to be a hook. mp's was gribble. what would hook szabo?
pankkake: is
this
the "i'm a famous romanian blogger, sell me bitcoins?"
pankkake: I had
the same experience, I
thought bitcoin was only acnee-ridden basement-living 13 year old gamers
mircea_popescu: the idea immediately popped
that people who are doing
this as a matter of course can't be as stupid as i had
thought.
mike_c: well
then why does orlov end up in
that corner?
mircea_popescu: mike_c i went
there because commenters on my blog kept pestering me.
mike_c: but why were you
there
mircea_popescu: the way i became part of bitcoin in
the first place was an hour or so on
the ba of
the
time
mike_c: so
the message should be "this is
the smart bitcoin place"
mircea_popescu: but whore-out-of-the-blue seems reasonable as an approach, at least because people who manage
to react well
to women generally react well
to new
things.
mike_c: if
they are not interested in bitcoin it is a non-starter (orlov).
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Okay, so what are
these
terms exactly?
mircea_popescu: problem here is
this : i don't want
these people on any random
terms.
they have
to come on our
terms
to be useful.
that's a big part of it, smart people are great, educable smart people are actually useful.
gabriel_laddel: imo, if you really want
them here, you may have
to personalize
the invitations.
mircea_popescu: but honestly, it lacks a hook. so
there's a group somewhere interested in
things. why do i gas ?
gabriel_laddel: The girl in question should start unbottoning her shirt at
the second incidence of "bitcoin"
taking it off ~2 sec after finished speaking. She should
then proceed
to give her show. Presumably she has some skill at
this, and requires no futher direction.
The video itself should be free of advertising, logos, watermarks etc. and be shot with a high quality camera.
gabriel_laddel: You are hereby invited
to join #bitcoin-assets.
The interests of current members include: bitcoin, auditable cryptographic equipment, increasing economic inequality worldwide, non-Von Neumann architectures, etcetera. In short, we're repurposing Earth's resources for
the pursuit of our collective aesthetic and would appreciate your input.
mike_c: buffett is
the king of omaha, he can't be lost.
danielpbarron: apparently yoko ono has more
twitter followers
than mccartney
bitcoinpete: "Elliptic offers a secure, insured bitcoin service called Elliptic Vault for retailers, hedge funds, bitcoin exchanges and other companies
that are
trying
to dabble in
this new world of so-called cryptocurrencies."
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: lol you're going
to end up with more listings
than
the nasdaq ;)
bitcoinpete: "The firm, which did not disclose its valuation, is something like a Bloomberg for bitcoin, aggregating data and selling products for analyzing pricing
trends and other research
tools
to its institutional client base. Some market data is free on
TradeBlock’s website."
assbot: Elliptic
takes $2M investment
to help firms store and handle bitcoin —
Tech News and Analysis
mircea_popescu: this because
the market (well,
the overcapitalised clueless section of it, anyway) erroneously identifies "professional" with "successful" and ultimately "good".
mircea_popescu: after
the failure,
the actual ceo disappeared, but antonopoulos reinvented himself as... more "professional".
mircea_popescu: of course
their idea of fun was more like mba
than like engineer's, but
that's squarely besides
the point.
mircea_popescu: i mean, all
the noobs a la neobee's "ceo", alongside andreas antonopoulos were doing exactly
this : implement
their idea of fun at
the expense of investors.
mircea_popescu: this is going
to be a major bitcoin problem, going forward.
mircea_popescu: pt perhaps by mistake. He wants
to do interesting engineering and produce new, cool products at
the expense of his investors.
mircea_popescu: "In fact, I know of at least one company just like
that. It was run by an engineer who had produced a huge success for his investors, only
to see
the company fall into
the hands of Company B
type management. So he created a new company. For years now he has sucked in more and more capital from investors who imagine he might reproduce his initial success. But it's clear (to me)
that he has no intention of doing so, exce
mircea_popescu: "Company C is not really a company but a consortium organized by a group of activists who correctly perceive
the great need for
this widget and decide
to
tackle
the issue head-on
through
tireless community organizing. A group of retired community college professors..."
mircea_popescu: that's fair, in
the sense it's fair
to represent "engineer" on
the basis of kids found loitering around
the campus.
mircea_popescu: the solution is
to get a better wife, not
to make womanhood die in a fire.
mircea_popescu: plenty of similarly socially awkward men believe women
to be gold digging sluts etc etc.
assbot: Orlov is wrong, and other stories. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: or else
that b)
they're going
to be
their own management, which... myeah.
mircea_popescu: the idea forms
that either a)
they don't need management at all, which yields all
the bizarre "decentralise"
things
trend, among others
mircea_popescu: somehow as people start
to smarten up and realise how shitty us management is failing
them,
the idea doesn't form
that
they need better management,
mircea_popescu: lew rockwell similarly,
too big for his breeches, by degrees of magnitude.
mircea_popescu: orlov specifically isn't here because when i pointed out
to him he fucked up, his reaction wasn't
the sane and natural "ow fuck me, i fucked up", but
the much more common, and much more human "oh it's not really and i didn't really" and so on.
mircea_popescu: because
the fate of
the free world pretty much rests on it.
mircea_popescu: all we need is a few ideologically aware writers, and let's hope
that
they have
the sense
to give in
to
the groan-y siren song of a few cam whores
mircea_popescu: pretty much
the bitcoin-bitcoin-assets-wot
trifecta is
the way, i would wager.
mircea_popescu: 'What d'you mean - scheduled? What d'you
think science is - a magic wand
that you just have
to wave
to get what you want? Supposing
the problem's been put in
the wrong
terms or new factors crop up? You and your schedule!
mircea_popescu: 'But
that means
that
the project will have
taken
two and a half
to
three years,' said
the Minister indignantly. 'And it was scheduled
to
take a YEAR!'
mircea_popescu: the rest of
that article hereby incorporated, it should be a matter of record
this
thing.
mircea_popescu: engineer is shorter
than
the
time it
takes
to learn
the product.
mircea_popescu: t
to pass
these higher costs on
to
the consumers. Concerted efforts at cost containment, championed by senior management, burn up more money
than
they find in savings. Second,
turnover among
the engineering staff starts
to creep up, and after a while employee retention becomes a major problem. An effort is made
to boost recruitment, but paradoxically
this only increases
the
turnover rate, until
the average
tenure of an
mircea_popescu: But
then
the
troubles begin. First, given
the short replacement cycle of its widget, it becomes harder and harder for Company B
to contain costs while continuing
to increase production. Costs of key inputs, such as certain metals, plastics, energy
to run
the plants, and shipping and distribution costs, all start going up, making
their widgets more expensive
to produce. At
the same
time, it becomes increasingly difficul
mircea_popescu: necessary by annoyances or missing functions within
the base product).
They also build a profit center out of selling spare parts.
They see
to it
that
their product does not contain any commodity parts, and
that no parts are interchangeable between model years, so
that every replacement part has
to be purchased
through a dealer. Company B does quite well, becoming profitable, doubling in size several
times, and gains
mircea_popescu: They work
to boost revenue by offering an extended warranty or a service plan (made necessary by frequent breakdowns), charging for premium customer service (made necessary by
their normal customer service, which consists of a robotic phone maze backed by a few
trainees in India who just read aloud from Company B's public web site in a listless, stuttering monotone) and offering numerous enhancements and upgrades (made
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Suppose you have a company
that sets out
to make a widget. Let's call it Company A. Its founders are all engineers, of an uncompromising sort, and
the widget
they design and manufacture is of
tremendous longevity, durability and overall quality." << hey check out orlov.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: because what i had in mind was
that
two diff metals make a circuit element.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you said cycle i
thought you meant, electrically. as in, hifreq.
mircea_popescu: (hello people reading
the logs, and welcome
to mp's personal engineer
training hour, where he bothers people who should be doing usefulk
things with
the
task of educating him for free. and now a massage from our sposor.)
mircea_popescu: but my uneducated guess looking at
the arrangement is
that it would ?
mircea_popescu: of much less interest
to someone gilding a pcb
than
to someone
trying
to make a parallel connection.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are
those paralel ports gold or gilded ?
mircea_popescu: "a flashlight concerning itself with implementation details, as opposed
to broad
theoretical considerations"
mircea_popescu: tactical and strategic are properties of abstracts for crying out loud. you can't have a plapable
tactical anything anymore
than you can have a concrete idea.
mircea_popescu: so i guess my
tit
tickling cock shall henceforth be
tactical
too