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mircea_popescu: they change about every 2 years, which consequently is
the experimental period of law enforcing
mircea_popescu: but sometiems one wonders how much of
this malware serves a useful government function.
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mircea_popescu: so you know, gotta have some mechanism
to force people
to not be retarded
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you seen
the earlier bit about
the php/objective-c key mismatch issue ?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I suppose
that's what I'll have
to do.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah. a good reason for bitcoin
to start ignoring patents
too.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the guy explained romanian ethnogenesis in
those
terms. he meant dacians and
thracians, not
that
that version'd have been any more sensible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dangit it's gone. somehow
that clip got edited a little.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
the words of romania's first 3rd republic president, "we come from
the ducks
that come from
the
trucks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not quite
to
the degree, but god help you if you seem
to
think
there's no such
thing as "thracians", as distinct from whatever sarmatian cloud
Drew: why do i
think
that it would be more effective?
Drew: i understand if you dont, but it would be much more effective
than me
trying
to explain it all
Drew: mircea honestly if you are willing i would love
to shoot you over
the complete financials
to check out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know romanian citizenship requires you
to know... official romanian history ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, so run me
through your expense structure. you need 1.25mn (exactly), which is
to cover what ?
Duffer1: you found your way here,
that's no small
thing
Drew: well i'm glad
there is hope for me yet
mircea_popescu: casual examination would indicate otherwise, but hey. you're a millenial aren't you ? got plenty of
time.
Drew: do you not
think so/
Drew: i would like
to
think
that i ended up with a structured
thinking process
mircea_popescu: of course,
the us college hasn't been giving people
thinking
tools in 50 years, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: Drew
the problem of not having completed formal education is
that you don't end up with a structured
thinking process.
this is not so bad for people like engineers, who don't really need it quite
to
the degree, but you're
trying
to go into business.
Drew: decided
to open my own business
Drew: decided rapidly
that a field with a glass ceiling of earnings proportional
to achievement was not for me
mircea_popescu: airbnb
to
this day doesn't realise
that it's much more successful in canada
than in
the us, or why.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: So I've heard. I'm just
thinking of a local venture
that has run into
the localization issue hard as it expanded
Drew: i went
to a few years of aerospace engineering at Auburn University
mircea_popescu: perhaps excusable on
the grounds
that few higher level
thinkers end up in busienss school
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo about half
the case studies in us business school are actually
this or applications of it, if memory serves.
BingoBoingo: Panera might be a good case in localization issues
to read up on
Drew: mircea i really do appreciate you
taking your
time
to speak with me about
this
Drew: you forgot
to add 'one' after
the 1
there :)
Drew: but sometimes
there is no good reason why no one has figured out how
to use a stove yet, if we go back in
time
to
that point
mircea_popescu: but your answers
to
this problem will have
to be much much better
than merely not appearing like you ever heard of it.
mircea_popescu: sometimes
there are reasons nobody else is cooking by holding
the stove on
their head.
mircea_popescu: you see, "We will do
this by having a different approach
than any currently existing brand." is no guarantee of success.
Drew: but while buying an idaho bun may
taste different
than a florida bun, a meyer subwoofer rented from idaho would be
the same as one rented in florida
mircea_popescu: you're setting yourself for
this
task of herding 100 cats, and
THIS is why nobody else is doing it.
mircea_popescu: neither insulting
the locals, nor allowing
them
to dilute you into nothing
mircea_popescu: to have a brand, you have
to manage localisation issues.
mircea_popescu: similarly with coca cola, and all large consumer product brands
that use local anything
mircea_popescu: see, a good chunk of mcdonald's corporate expenditure goes
to making sure
that mcdonalds hamburgers are
the same in atlanta and lincoln
Drew: if
the brand identity was rooted in quality live music of a few main genres, and
the acts were
tailored by city for maximum effect, what brand identity problems would you be mainly speaking of/
mircea_popescu: do you comprehend
the problems of creating brand identity over 100 geographicallyh disparate items ?
mircea_popescu: "we have 90-100 events associated with
the brand across
the country
throughout
the entire year
to build promotion around, using each event as a social media hub and continuing
to expand our presence.
This will create
the most unified EMC related brand
that has existed so far, making it
the literal perfect company"
mircea_popescu: yes, i get
the general idea
that
the us contains a number of cities.
mircea_popescu: these aren't
the result of
throwing darts at a highschool map
Drew: to moreso basically describe
the general idea
mircea_popescu: but you're supposed
to do
the research. do
the demographic work. KNOW why X and not Y.
Drew: i listed
those cities primarily
to illustrate a
the way
the shows would be spread out
mircea_popescu: (Atlanta, Dallas, LA, NYC, Portland, Denver, Chicago, Miami, etc) <
the count is 8, and
this stinks of poorly researcher. why denver and not seattle, for instance ?
Drew: our
team has 6-8 core members and 5-10 more
that are involved
to a lesser degree
mircea_popescu: then how is
this supposed
to work ? is your
team made out of 10 people ?
Drew: his first acquisition was disco donnie presents....a brand known for
throwing
terrible quality events
mircea_popescu: 8-10 medium/large scale events <<
this is where you show
the demographics of
the area.
Drew: based on a pattern of purchases and what
those companies mean
to him
through
those purchases
Drew: not anywhere close
to
that
Drew: and i do appreciate yalls patience and interest in
this
mircea_popescu: "4. Our strategy is designed
to create a brand which will cater
to what
this man and his company are
trying
to accomplish, which will value our brand at easily a quarter of a billion dollars."
mircea_popescu: also generally speaking,
this sort of
thing we're doing here is paid on retainer, and by
the hour.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking
the prospective investor will run into one of
these, and just drop
the
thing silently.
Drew: i did my homework mircea, sorry i missed one of
the problems
Drew: the rest of
those acquisitions were by SFX entertainment
Drew: insomniac still owns
the festival EDC, but live nation actually owns 50% of insomniac now
Drew: whups my apologies
that acquisition was by live nation rather
than sfx
Drew: one moment ill grab
the link
mircea_popescu: Drew
the edc i knew was like
the world's largest electronic stuff, but i had no idea some sfx
thing had bought it
Drew: -ID&T (Tomorrowland /
Tomorrowworld) - $100,000,000 - 75% ownership
RyanKinder: fluffypony: Just read your post on
the vertcoin subreddit. Interesting stuff.
mircea_popescu: this is quite important btw. never forget
that
the internet exists more as a mpex contract
than anything else.
mircea_popescu: "Much has been made of peering agreements. Many peering agreements were made between engineers in
the early days of
the Internet and consisted of not much more
than a single page of
text – if
there was anything written down at all.
They weren’t really contracts in
the way you might consider a formal legal agreement."
Drew: SFX entertainment (the company whose
tastes we are building our brand
to cater
to) has made
the following acquisitions in
the last few years
mircea_popescu: "and develop it into
the ideal acquisition
target for
the below company for
the further below reasons" > can you name such a brand
that was acquired ? when, by whom, how much ?
mircea_popescu: "in
the most optimum direction" unless you're mel, optimum is a superlative for you. it
takes no comparative.
mircea_popescu: Our plan is
to continue
the brand > you mean "lunar massive" ?
mircea_popescu: which brings us
to
the next step, which is
the wot, whose purpose is exactly
that.
Drew: i see what you mean
though
Drew: for a random guy who bought a
ticket, i sure have some ambitious plans for
this project ;)
mircea_popescu: this is something you may wish
to consider for
the next
thing you organise.