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mircea_popescu: i'll readily grant
that it didn't operate in any kind of free market in
the 90s. but your statement was as of product
mircea_popescu: so now,
the "competition on
technical merit" leg of your statement, i see
mike_c: ^ i
think you are underestimating what it
took
to build
the monolopy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do. what part of
that is not free market ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c but how dares microsoft
tell x y z ppl what
to do!
mike_c: nobody does have
the power
to
tell
the powerful what
to do. mp has stated
that some 5 million
times.
BingoBoingo: Does S.NSA have a LISP fighter jet in its long
term plans?
mike_c: he justifiably instilled more fear
than steve jobs ever did.
mircea_popescu: i
think it'll be hard for anyone born after 1990 or so
to even understand fear.
mircea_popescu: "It's hard for anyone much younger
than me
to understand
the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995."
ozbot: Maja L. (lampelina) on
Twitter
mike_c: lampelina: no rush, just
teasing. good luck running it.
mircea_popescu: soo... inb4 500 bitcointalk
threads where all sorts of experts explain how mp was indeed right and
they were indeed clueless ?
lampelina: mike_c, will do my best for site
to be up asap
mike_c: it's good
to be lockheed.. best lobbyists in
the industry.
ozbot: $397 billion fighter jet deployment may be delayed by software glitches | Ars
Technica
ozbot: IRS: Bitcoin is property, like a stock or bond, and not a currency | Ars
Technica
bounce: TestingUnoDosTre: I didn't say
that
jurov: no
they guessed right
that advertising is important. search is "only"
the precursor for
the addiction
mike_c: lampelina runs b-a.com now. hopefully she will remove
the password requirement soon ;)
mircea_popescu: "If circumstances had been different,
the people running Yahoo might have realized sooner how important search was. But
they had
the most opaque obstacle in
the world between
them and
the
truth: money."
B007: so if google in
the next yahoo, who is
the next google?
mircea_popescu: should have a bet as
to wehen
the first bitcoin corp makes
the
top
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: quite enjoyed your fun article.
the sizes of
the gaps between
those layers is nothing
to sneeze at :)
mircea_popescu: tbh procter and gamble may be
the first item on
that list able
to duke it on its own
B007: why would
the govt sponser google?
mircea_popescu: that's why start-ups can be easily destroyed by getting
the wrong money sources early.
ozbot: List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
jurov: wherever
the money comes from,
their mindset will be utterly useless in collapse
jurov: yeah, google
tends
to support common good such as... public
transport ? :DDD
B007: all
the private companies, landlords
mircea_popescu: in other news, some guy sold 3500 records debuted in
the billboard
bounce: greece is a shambles, but so far hasn't been
too good for
the eu economy as a whole. how would
turkey have been different?
mike_c: hey, i was nominated for
two webbys just 3 years ago :)
B007: it's hard
to image some of
those
things happening in
the us when it collapses because of its private sector
though
bounce: anyway, apropos churchill re americans,
the eurocrats have a good
track record of starting
the same but finishing in
the same way hasn't been in strong evidence
jurov: so mircea
think "cohesion"
transfers
to
turkey would not caouse even bigger crisis?
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long
till #bitcoin-assets gets
the webby awards for
the coolest place on
the web
B007: asciilifeform:
thanks for
that link
mircea_popescu: and omfg
those iraquis don't even get pottery barn catalogs daily ?!
jurov: how would it avoid
the crisis?
ThickAsThieves: makes sense
to me, you go into a country and have your military running
the place for a decade, why not just stake claim?
mircea_popescu: the only way
to use money in 2006 would have been
to lift up
turkey.
bounce: with erdogan in office? bit against what
the eu purports
to stand for.
mircea_popescu: same
thing had
the us
the ballsack
to make iraq
the 51st state
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually it was sensible.
turkey should have been
taken into
the eu in 2006
bounce: how long did
the ottoman empire
take
to collapse?
bounce: the US found new enemies
to fight, as it is wont
to do
ozbot: Closing
the 'Collapse Gap':
the USSR was better prepared for collapse
than
the US
bounce: or
ten minutes a day, every day. just need staying power.
bounce: can just declare
the 10 day reich at home
then.
take
two weeks off, nobody notices. success.
mircea_popescu: who
thinks
the crap is "sustainable" and what's sustainable even mean in
that context
jurov: and
they really
thought such foreign policy is sustainable?
ozbot: Vina batranilor pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.