mircea_popescu: if you ever read dune, there's a cube in there

mircea_popescu: but the perspective never hurt anyone.

mircea_popescu: artifexd you know, im not proposing every engineer out there should be made sausage by nubbins.

mircea_popescu: they were not fungible, they were fucktarded.

mircea_popescu: "The sound technology, the source says, doesn’t yet work. A noise as common as a blender in the background at a coffee shop might cause it to malfunction."

mircea_popescu: HOW do these people expect a fucking company to work already ?

mircea_popescu: For example, only engineers, some designers and product people were given stock. And some of the other departments, such as operations, were asked to do menial tasks for the engineers.

mircea_popescu: One described the way engineers were treated versus everyone else as a “caste system” within Clinkle. Another said there was “segregation in terms of how departments were treated by management.”

mircea_popescu: this sort of retarded shit's becoming something like the new normal.

mircea_popescu: , the group could win a $500 party, spa visit or stereo-system package. None of the pitches included a demo of the actual app."

mircea_popescu: otherwise, almost neobee to a fault. "The growth teams met ambitious goals by targeting the most influential students on campus, such as group presidents and fraternity and sorority leaders. The leaders were shown some images from the website, and the deal was sealed with a compelling prize: If the entire organization signed up for Clinkle’s waitlist, then all of them downloaded the app on the day it became available

mircea_popescu: "There were culture-building events like parties and baseball games. Employees would dress up for Wacky Wednesdays, sip mimosas on Fridays during lunch, and sunbathe on the office roof deck. Duplan was quickly becoming a star around Stanford’s campus — prompting both awe and jealousy — and not everyone was a fan."

mircea_popescu: to college and letting the boys consult me as an experienced man of affairs. And having finished this process of “thinking” I wired Carroll that I was ready to join him."

mircea_popescu: "I was flattered by his interest, so I thought it over. That is, I indulged in what young men frequently mistake for thought. In imagination, I saw my name over the door and myself in a fine glass office looking out and watching clerks taking in money. I had, in anticipation, the thrill of buying one store after another and going from town to town on tours of inspection. I tickled my fancy with the idea of coming back

mircea_popescu: http://www.businessinsider.com/inside-story-of-clinkle-2014-4 << this is pretty lulzy to read in para-lel with brilliant

mircea_popescu: the 2nd 2 should be a 3 too so i guess next week is mpoe contract update day o.o

mircea_popescu: it looks like a nutty copy/paste error that somehow nobody picked on in... years ?

mircea_popescu: mbas aren't that bad are they

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller that was earlier.

mircea_popescu: o hey, i grew up in a communist country too.

mircea_popescu: none of these apps ever will.

mircea_popescu: you know, universities force dorks to pay 10's of k's a year to be college students.

mircea_popescu: for that matter, when did coffee become comodized anyway. "a coffee" means nothing, unless it means sex.

mircea_popescu: who the fuck is so destitute they can't afford a coffee the moment they want one, and who the fuck would want such a person within a mile.

mircea_popescu: i hurt myself reading THAT

mircea_popescu: "Clinkle is also building out a robust rewards system with gamification elements. For example, if you use Clinkle to buy things, you might earn a free coffee. "

mircea_popescu: "this month i will pay dividends in deleted posts on a forum people who like to talk about bitcoin write for other people who like to talk about bitcoin"

mircea_popescu: i guess forum got upgraded, mods got hired, it's going to get like all cleared up nao.

mircea_popescu: the importance of the kitchen for tech start-ups : if you hold the meeting there, even the women can participate.

mircea_popescu: "The week after Thanksgiving, 40 Clinkle employees gathered in the kitchen of their San Francisco office. It was the second time in two days they’d been called together for an all-hands meeting."

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: lmao, i have been banned for months, and yet still << they purging old threads you mean ?!

mircea_popescu: jurov TestingUnoDosTres actually im fucking fascinated by the notion of... trading bitbet bets ?!

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that settles that eh.

mircea_popescu: "Of course we had our servicemen behind the self-defense units of Crimea," Putin said during an annual televised call-in with the nation on Thursday.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile i ignored him so the point is moot.

mircea_popescu: i was trying to evaluate whether the guy should be salvaged or i should just ignore him.

mircea_popescu: well, not to be a bore, but didja read the what wot is how to use it article ?

mircea_popescu: notrly how this works. so did you lend him fiddy bux ten times and he repaid every time or did you deliver him $5mn worth of widgets on net30 which he paid for as agreed.

mircea_popescu: so this makes your butcher an amazing person or you don't eat meat ?

mircea_popescu: this is telling me exactly nothing, but asyway.