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justusranvier: mircea_popescu: As you said,
the business model on it's face is retarded.
There's no way it could legitimately generate a profit.
punkman: I could indeed make money while I was sleeping
then
mircea_popescu: punkman right ? remember
the days back when 1% CTR was LOW ?
mircea_popescu: justusranvier but
that's your
theory. i am a businessman, i read what's written.
justusranvier: As long as he keeps getting more people
to voluntarily give him
their data, he keeps getting paid
punkman: it would be a perfectly fine business model if
they'd make some money from
their crappy ads
justusranvier: The spooks want
Total Information Awareness. Zuckerberg is paid
to get as many people as possible
to opt in
to surveillance.
mircea_popescu: so what,
the reason i don't; buy an android
tho i could afford
to buy
the engineer designing it is
that... wait for it... it never occured
to me
to get... internet weather ?
mircea_popescu: this has got
to be
the most fucktarded business model i ever read.
mircea_popescu: drug of sorts – users who may be able
to afford data services and phones
these days just don’t see
the point of why
they would pay for
those data services.
This would give
them some context for why
they are important, and
that will lead
them
to paying for more services like
this – or so
the hope goes."
mircea_popescu: According
to a
TechCrunch article, Zuckerberg's vision for Internet.org was as follows: "The idea, he said, is
to develop a group of basic internet services
that would be free of charge
to use – 'a 911 for
the internet.'
These could be a social networking service like Facebook, a messaging service, maybe search and other
things like weather. Providing a bundle of
these free of charge
to users will work like a gateway
mircea_popescu: yesterday i had a girl over, and
the local girl and
the new girl managed
the use of
the kitchen
together.
justusranvier: Before
the State
took over and made
things rediculous
justusranvier: If either side fails
to perform
the contract no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even going
there, we supplement "meaningful"
to serve his position.
mircea_popescu: so by
this measure marriage contracts are
the most complex contracts
that can exist.
justusranvier: If a contract is fully specified in some
tangible form,
then
the amount of entropy in
the explaination is inversely proportional
to
the simpleness.
justusranvier: mircea_popescu: I consider marriage contracts
to be relatively simple, especially
the verbal ones before
the state started getting involved.
mircea_popescu: in
the news : whatsapp revenue climbs
to record 3.8 bn for quarter 2 (about $8500 per user), making
the ~250mn profit
trickling down
to facebook slightly better
than what it'd have got if it simply bought gilts for 20bn.
mircea_popescu: one of
the best
things about a lot of floor space and stuff like parquet is
that you can go for long chair rides
mircea_popescu: justusranvier "We’ll see why nobody uses arbitrarily-complex verbal contracts in practise by looking at what happens when something goes wrong." <<
this is nonsense. marriage is always and in all places
the most complex contract, and almost always verbal.
bitstein: Not yet. I
think it opens on July 4th for
that party. I'll probably go.
mircea_popescu: time once and for all
to put la vie sexuelle de
tintin once and for all
to rest.
pankkake: I've read "La vie sexuelle de
Tintin",
that was quite a WTF
assbot: Pastiches ... consommer sans modration -
Temps
pankkake: I watched it because of
the music
pankkake: I was going
to say "this pic looks like gummo". but it's gummo :(
cazalla: does anyone know a Shane Stevenson, Matthew K (don't know last name) behind
the recent cointree.com.au exchange?
assbot: Anti-Amnesty Group Asks Americans
To Mail ‘Gently Used Underwear’
To Obama, Boehner « CBS DC
moiety: someone clever hid all his bath
towels, good work.
moiety: i didn't even notice
the floss... not gonna lie
hanbot: i'm having a hard
time getting past
the juxtaposition of butt and flossing o.O
moiety: he may well be! but mine don't look like
that
moiety: i could stick a red light in
the window see what happens i guess XD
moiety: yeah lol curtain poles...
there were just blinds up before when i moved in
benkay: there's a pun in
there
mircea_popescu: they're starting
to miss numbers in
the paint-by-the-numbers set.
hanbot: now
there's a catchy pasta name
hanbot: and no, it's not for "helping" with anything other
than ostrich impressionism
hanbot: was watching logs, wondering if
they eventually went out and asked
the homeless people what
they
thought of
that chart, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: well
this
time ain't
that
time. ain't even close. now you got bladder cancer."
mircea_popescu: "hey us economy, remember
that
time in 1929 when you had lupus ?
mircea_popescu: "Frankly, it’s
time
to put
the “scary parallels” between now and 1929
to rest.
This isn’t 1929. Not even close. Anyone who
tells you differently is
talking nonsense."
mircea_popescu: we were starting
to
think you got like a regular job orsomething
mircea_popescu: pankkake: author of
the article kills himself, 6 bullets in
the head << 6 mysterious bullets
to
the head
that'll make you believe
there's a god ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
that was
the one most lulzy piece of lulz i have seen in my entire life.
ty vm.
mircea_popescu: dude, exploitative greed.
teenager. videogames. it's got it all.
mircea_popescu: "It’s like putting a disturbed, isolated
teenager in front of violent first-person shooter video games all day. If we know
that most Americans are scared
to invest in
their own future, what’s
the reason
to fuel
that fear even further? Sadism? Or just plain exploitative greed?”"
mircea_popescu: clearly. i blame asciilifeform. he wrecked
the us economy.
mircea_popescu: “The reason why
this bothers me is
twofold – first, it frightens investors into making poor decisions – big decisions
that will have a major impact on
their mental health and financial condition well into
the future. Second,
the more we see
this kind of pornography,
the more likely it is
to have an impact on crowd psychology and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. "
mircea_popescu: " Daniel Wiener, chief executive at Adviser Investments in Newton, Mass., blamed
the Internet"
mircea_popescu: "Here’s a look at
the chart comparing point moves and percentage moves. On a percentage basis,
this spooky comparison doesn’t look quite so frightful."
mircea_popescu: yeah dude
totally, recall
the email slamming of 1959 ?
mircea_popescu: "“I have been in
this business for over 43 years, yet I do not ever recall getting as slammed with
the same email as many
times as I have about"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i like how
the original
title included "scary" but
then editors
took it out
kakobrekla: hey at least some words came out of
this one
ninjashogun: I just registered on WoT
today, because I've started discussing
trades elsewhere. I haven't
traded on anyone from here before,
though I've connected with real-world people (real identities).
ninjashogun: thanks kakobrekla. I don't remember exactly who I spoke
to in here before, if we've spoken and you
trust me enough for voice you can give me whatever WoT rating with assbot is necessary and justified based on our interaction for me
to
type Up.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nice lol. "it is
time, once and for all"
too.
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pankkake: author of
the article kills himself, 6 bullets in
the head
assbot: 6 Mysterious Deaths
That'll Make You Believe in Conspiracies | Cracked.com
nubbins`: you
thinking full-color prints?
nubbins`: tough
to ship, i always
thought
they got
those
things made locally