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00:29 BingoBoingo From the mines https://i.imgur.com/zRPrDaK.jpg Why even go on blast with a back that looks so "Do you even lift bro"
00:29 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1JdjGET )
00:32 BingoBoingo !up Cory
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01:17 punkman http://www.symbos.de/preview.htm spiffy OS for z80
01:17 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Iaw8ur )
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02:09 BingoBoingo In other news Qntra has now passed the 300 more comments than posts mark. Had been flirting with this line, but now its happened.
02:10 BingoBoingo http://qntra.net/2015/12/withdrawal-fees-for-changetip-starting/#comment-83586
02:10 assbot Withdrawal Fees For Changetip Starting | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/229kExL )
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03:03 BingoBoingo ;;tslb
03:03 gribble Time since last block: 48 minutes and 9 seconds
03:03 BingoBoingo Cool
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03:41 deedbot- [Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski] Legal pluralism as it relates to Bitcoin. - http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/17/legal-pluralism-as-it-relates-to-bitcoin/
03:54 deedbot- [Qntra] Police Department Thanks Pedophile Officer For Service - http://qntra.net/2015/12/police-department-thanks-pedophile-officer-for-service/
04:03 BingoBoingo !up rmoen
04:13 BingoBoingo Latest Qntra is recommended reading for #bitcoin-assets-parents
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04:36 BingoBoingo !up Edgan
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04:53 jurov http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345275 << i've seen -1st element used as length of the array. dunno if that's the "why" answer, prolly gotta waterboard k&r
04:53 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 02:47:47; asciilifeform: ( aaand if you know why, you're prolly as ready for the glue factory as i am... )
05:04 jurov ben_vulpes: i'm using konversation, it always asks politely when pasting long/multiline text
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07:38 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> starve.' << how does this differ from mircea_popescu's classical prescription 'go shoot a policeman' ? <<< this question is indistinguishable from where i sit from asking "how does saying 'you see a girl you like ? go fuck her.' differ from saying 'you see a girl you like ? go raise her children by another man!". while i grant that there could in point of fact truthfully exist nooks and crannies in the
07:38 mircea_popescu space of existence from whence this difference is genuinely not visible, nevertheless it must be pointed out that their inhabitants are definitionally called troglodytes.
07:38 mircea_popescu now... does all that pass your parser or does it need breaking down ?
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07:53 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345315 << two things about this. one is that well... "we" didn't get jack shit. "we" are just the front for other things. or conversely : "we got first page in google and apple store and bla bla and it did exactly nothing". whichever way.
07:53 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:16:55; BingoBoingo: impossible to get the president to actually write any code that year — the administration had just launched its Healthcare.gov website, and after the infamous technical failures, nobody wanted the visual of website failing while the President is learning to code.""
07:54 mircea_popescu but the other : why the fuck NOT ? what is the big fucking problem with the president learning to code as some $10 dollar website the gubinmint paid 10 bn for is misbehjaving ?
07:55 mircea_popescu this is an incredible depth of rot in these heads by now, i am persuaded that what they PERCEIVE as the problem is that it's... get a hold of youself... it's NOT META ENOUGH. that's the fucking thing, these dickless, otaku imbeciles feel deeply threatened by the fact that a guy learning to do what his country generally sucks at is TOO REAL.
07:56 mircea_popescu "nobody wanted the visual of website failing while the President is learning to code BECAUSE what it might conceivably be seen to mean [by racists and wreckers] is that perhaps random bureaucrat should drop his droning and help put out the fire ? INCONCEIVABLE. he'll document the fire! on paper!"
07:58 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345326 << ew.
07:58 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:37:01; nubbins`: good at removing food stains/odors from plastic
07:59 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345331 << is it ok if i have no more respect for the "sovereign nation" of some random, clueless bumbling imbecile than i have for the shit-and-vomit constructions of "respeto y derechos" ?
07:59 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:40:19; asciilifeform: anyway the nk to go to is prolly the pre-1980 one. which is approx. when the 'internashinal komyoooooniti' blockade started turning it into what it is now.
08:00 mircea_popescu i guess they're sovereign, in that lord-of-the-flies sense. whatevs.
08:02 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345340 << and i also don't buy into this narrative. soviet russia was also a middling successful economy up until... what, hruschev decided to bury you ? i guess. the fact of the matter is that there's a shelf life for all delusion, printed right on the box. seoul adapted, pyongyang did not adapt. yes, it's true that neither had the resoureces to force the adaptation of t
08:02 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:42:33; asciilifeform: nk was a successful exporter of heavy machinery prior to usg proclaiming it excommunicated and anyone trading with it likewise excommunicated from the mother church
08:02 mircea_popescu he environment instead. pro tip : nobody has to date.
08:03 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345345 << nothing to do with it, really. romania also ethnostate, didn't survive. checnya, not state at all (by your ukrainian standards, at any rate), survived just fine. so did isis, throughout, even before you called it that.
08:03 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:29; asciilifeform: because it's a motherfucking ETHNOSTATE
08:04 mircea_popescu nk "survived" because derps composing nk are cowardly. just like the us "survives".
08:05 mircea_popescu actually the differences between these two are dwarved by the similarities. for one thing, they BOTH live or die at the pleasure of "teh celestial empire".
08:05 mircea_popescu which is turning out to be pretty tolerant, incidentally. but then again it's historically famous for that.
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08:38 mircea_popescu in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano, soy argentina" mp on okcupid : "It's not your fault you're Argentine. It is however your fault you're a dumbass. That's what I wanted to see, if you're just Argentine because your parents were dumb, or whether you are actually dumb yourself. Having established that point, a bon entendeur, salut."
08:39 mircea_popescu curious how long they take to BAN ME!111 omaigawds
08:45 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345346 << eh this is nuts. who is the lizzard here, the anglos ? hitler ? both ?
08:45 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:40; asciilifeform: y'know, the kind of thing the lizards fought ww2 to exterminate
08:49 mircea_popescu "Han or Haan[1] is a concept in Korean culture attributed as a unique Korean cultural trait which has resulted from Korea's frequent exposure to invasions by overwhelming foreign powers. " <<< unique my foot. burebista & decebalus fought the fucking romans for three centuries, eventually ended up pacified by three legions. then the principalities fought the turks for five-ish centuries, including the lulzy defeat of on
08:49 mircea_popescu e of the largest armies ever to visit europe, led by sinan pasha, a guy who lost his last teeth in the encounter. then got liberated by the russians. if we're not counting the occasional german, austrian, hungarian or polish commonwealth / cussack invasion, that's only "all the empires outside of china".
08:54 adlai !s mpoe sleeps
08:54 assbot 2 results for 'mpoe sleeps' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=mpoe+sleeps
08:57 mircea_popescu adlai yeah, being worked on.
09:03 * adlai searched for 'fire burning, water flowing, people working', came up with https://archive.is/PBoSO instead
09:03 assbot Crypto Spy on Twitter: "Three things you can watch forever: fire, water and bitcoinwisdom." ... ( http://bit.ly/1k4zraH )
09:04 mircea_popescu im pretty sure "being able to watch fire forever" is indicative of mental issues.
09:05 mircea_popescu "A search warrant to have that child taken to the hospital for injection with an erection inducing drug followed by photography was approved by a judge in that case."
09:05 mircea_popescu ahahaha what!
09:07 mircea_popescu "It turns out we underestimated the complexity of the project, and overestimated our ability to complete it on a limited budget should, closer to launch, any complications arise. We thought we could wing it with our existing coding experience (2–3 non-formal years of Java, Objective-C, and XML between the two of us)."
09:07 mircea_popescu motherfucker...
09:07 mircea_popescu xml is coding ?!
09:08 mircea_popescu "We shirked on paying for programming because we thought ourselves experts enough, and what ended up happening was that we spent everything we could have spent on polishing the product itself on marketing instead, under the assumption that we could finish whatever tasks remained effectively ourselves."
09:08 mircea_popescu ^ this is also how they went throiugh college
09:08 mircea_popescu well... "college".
09:10 mircea_popescu "Instead of sucking it up, discounting our losses, and moving on, we did what every good economist should never, EVER do: we incorporated our sunk costs into our expected future outlays. We decided, on the basis of our spending, that what we should be doing is spending EVEN MORE on marketing."
09:10 mircea_popescu riiight ? lol.
09:11 mircea_popescu cue nubbins for a dose of "the reason advertising doesn't work is not that advertising doesn't work, is that you're not doing it right", because hey, everyone's gotta have a church and "always pay more for advertising" is as good as any other church.
09:23 mircea_popescu "Look, it wasn’t that women didn’t want custom clothing. Designer clothing by nature is custom, in a sense. The real problem was that while on average our users spent up to 7 minutes per session (insanely impressive I might add), they weren’t sure if they wanted to purchase the clothes that they spent all that time personalizing. We knew because we asked. We (creepily?) added almost all of our initial customers t
09:23 mircea_popescu o Facebook, and reached out to many more of our followers via Instagram.
09:23 mircea_popescu Perhaps if someone customized the clothing for them? Like a designer? But that’s actually what UDesign™ would have been all about. By employing a naturally occurring genetic algorithm, spurned by the social interactions of users actively generating the plethora of patterns (some bad, some good, and some ugly) available on the edge of our very own little creative “adjacent possible,” to borrow the term from Amer
09:23 mircea_popescu ican theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman, the community as a whole would actually converge upon a globally optimal mix of popular patterns, and hence, come full circle, the average user wouldn’t have to spend time wondering if their personal creation was something they’d actually wear. Based on the seemingly automatically generated feedback from their community, they’d just know."
09:23 mircea_popescu aaaahahahaha
09:23 mircea_popescu o may god.
09:23 mircea_popescu see, when i say white westerners aspire to be dead, this is very pointedly, very exactly what i mean.
09:25 mircea_popescu "Product: Patterbuzz
09:25 mircea_popescu Everything was going good. But we always had one issue. We never had enough money in our bank. and This became the cause of our death. We ran out of money."
09:25 mircea_popescu yeah, i see how everything was going good.
09:26 mircea_popescu "Brawker lets you order anything with #bitcoins and save up to 20% anywhere online."
09:26 mircea_popescu all this inept shit nobody heard of good god.
09:26 mircea_popescu "However, our growth rate did not meet our expectations, and the service does not scale as we would have expected to." aka "trying to leech of bitcoin while doing the usual fiat bullshit doesn't work."
09:27 mircea_popescu oh btw Naphex ? midmonth ?
09:30 mircea_popescu "We had never used the existing home automation products in our homes. We were not experts in the IoT sector. When you have new at something, you give yourself the famous Dunning Kruger Pass on your decisions."
09:30 mircea_popescu lol
09:32 mircea_popescu "Let me back-track a few months to give you some background. In July, we started building smart internet connected switches that learn from user behavior and automate all the electronic appliances in a home. We felt that it’s a pity that our search results and news feed are personalized to us but our homes, where we spend most of our time, are not."
09:32 mircea_popescu and i feel it's a peety you folks manage to find 2k calories' worth of roadkill each day.
09:35 mircea_popescu "We built like crazy. That’s the thing about us engineers; if you give us something interesting to build, we will forget everything else and just build. Our first prototype, which automated lights, was ready in 45 days. The second prototype, which could automate lights, fans, ACs and water heaters was out in another month. This is really fast according to hardware standards." << i wish i could disagree.
09:37 mircea_popescu "here are the top 5 mistakes we made in Lumos and what we learnt from them. Mistake 1: We were neither experts nor target users of the product that we were building." << sigh.
09:41 mircea_popescu "Today. Eventually, we ended up leaving hardware and IoT as a sector and decided to work in the content sector (which we understand better)."
09:41 mircea_popescu ahahaha
09:41 mircea_popescu oh this shit's so sweet.
09:44 mircea_popescu "As a consequence of #2, we didn’t have a CTO who dedicated enough time to our product. For some months, we got away with a slideware, then with mockups and paper prototypes. For a while it was even fun. It felt like we are doing the proper thing, follwing the Lean Startup way of quickly building something (that is crappy), learning from it (unfortunately, many times not the proper thing) and adjusting (after a while
09:44 mircea_popescu we just went in circles).
09:44 mircea_popescu But around July I just couldn’t take it anymore. I wanted a product. A real one. Not just a mockup. So what did I do? Instead of fully focusing on finding a CTO, or looking for other ways to get somebody creating the product, I decided to learn how to code and do it myself. Coding was on my bucket list anyhow, so I figured, this is the best opportunity to make it happen. So I took a 2 week crash course in Rails, and
09:44 mircea_popescu then spent 2 more weeks of creating the initial version of ratemyspeech.co."
09:44 mircea_popescu holy shit...
09:57 shinohai https://archive.is/s39lk <<< That didn't take long.
09:57 assbot I have removed btcdrak as mod. We owe you guys a huge apology. : btc ... ( http://bit.ly/1P92cOv )
09:59 mircea_popescu aww.
10:01 mircea_popescu in other news, asciilifeform : i comissioned a server with 128gb (ecc) ram, on the understanding that they'll upgrade it to 256gb just as soon as they can get the sticks in the dc. will be passing you the coords later today, so phuctor can live again.
10:01 mircea_popescu this will also add a 0.7-.8 expense on the s.nsa books, but hey, whatchagonnado.
10:03 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: this is mighty spiffy
10:03 asciilifeform i take it that s.bisp has returned ?
10:04 mircea_popescu sort-of.
10:06 mircea_popescu how are we on the "can take a reboot" front ?
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10:32 punkman http://qntra.net/2015/12/police-department-thanks-pedophile-officer-for-service/ << amazing, also to fix "Virgina police"
10:32 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
10:32 assbot Police Department Thanks Pedophile Officer For Service | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1lT9aht )
10:33 nubbins` <+mircea_popescu> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345326 << ew. <<< that's what you'd say after smelling the kimchi container
10:33 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 04:37:01; nubbins`: good at removing food stains/odors from plastic
10:37 nubbins` <+mircea_popescu> in other news, chick on okcupid : "porque no me escribis en castellano << they say castellano in peru too, but if i'm not mistaken this is not universal in south america?
10:47 punkman http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/ they should totally seize that wutang album now
10:47 assbot Martin Shkreli Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges ... ( http://bit.ly/1lTcU2g )
10:57 kakobrekla >By age 26, they said, he got nine investors to place $3 million with him, began losing their money and covering it up. Within a year, his fund's account was down to $331.
10:57 kakobrekla not bad
10:59 mircea_popescu nubbins` no, it's only common in the more stupid lands.
10:59 mircea_popescu it's not spanish you know, they're speshul like that.
10:59 mircea_popescu punkman the fraud consisting of you know, "being-not-usg".
11:00 mircea_popescu if ever so vaguely.
11:00 mircea_popescu that the schmuck was dumb enough to actually reside within reach...
11:01 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345458 << implemented a simple and brutal kludge described in earlier thread
11:01 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 15:06:52; mircea_popescu: how are we on the "can take a reboot" front ?
11:01 mircea_popescu "Greebel, who worked at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP and served as lead outside counsel to Retrophin from 2012 to 2014, helped Shkreli in several schemes, prosecutors said." <<< the principal utility of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP being to provide the US Dept of Inquisition with false witnesses for its numerous prosecutions.
11:01 mircea_popescu don't ever hire one of those schmucks, it's as good as signing a blank confession.
11:05 mircea_popescu asciilifeform http://dpaste.com/1JMRZYT
11:05 assbot dpaste: 1JMRZYT ... ( http://bit.ly/1lThFJc )
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12:00 punkman "If the government seizes the Wu-Tang album, does it run another auction, or just release it for free as part of our cultural patrimony?"
12:04 mircea_popescu "our cultural patrimony" ?
12:05 mircea_popescu it really galls these fucktards, the notion that there exists something that's not for them.
12:12 mircea_popescu "Product: Bitshuva What I didn’t understand was, you charge not for how much work it is for you. You charge how much the service is worth."
12:12 mircea_popescu o i c!
12:13 mircea_popescu "I realized that many of the true money-making businesses in healthcare really aren’t about optimizing delivery of primary care. This is a longer discussion but I realized, essentially, that we had no customers because no one was really interested in the model we were pitching. Doctors want more patients, not an efficient office."
12:13 mircea_popescu and more patients are obtained through what, the power of prayer ?
12:14 mircea_popescu "Unfortunately we do not have the resources to fend off a large company like Twitter to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours. Therefore, we have decided to shut down Twitpic."
12:14 mircea_popescu ahahaha oh they believe rightfully
12:16 mircea_popescu and still EVERYTHING is on medium. medium.com, home of the new retard. are you the sort of guy who learns that "you charge not for how much work it is for you, but for how much the service is worth" in your twenties ? are you ready to start your entrepreneurtardism with 2 week's ruby cramming ? are you a "content generator" with delusions of humanity ? MEDIUM IS WHERE ALL THE OTHER SIMILAR SCUM FOUND A HOME!
12:16 mircea_popescu "The Lead Up
12:16 mircea_popescu My sophomore year of college I was a neuroscience major and my plan was to unlock the secrets of the mind and universe. Then I realized that the path of grad school, professor, grants, and incremental research wouldn’t be a great way to pursue this goal. At the same time, I read Paul Graham’s essay on How to Start a Startup. I felt a strong sense of “I could do this!” and “making a lot of money from a startup
12:16 mircea_popescu and using it to do something good would be a better way of pursuing my goals of doing something important”.
12:16 mircea_popescu Throughout sophomore year I read all I could about startups, and about things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design, technology etc. The following summer I started learning some HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, but didn’t make much progress (I also started a very early version of the website that I’m writing this post about)."
12:17 mircea_popescu great, now you can be a neuroscience relationship expert!
12:18 mircea_popescu "things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design, technology etc.". ytou know, just like neuroscience is all about "things like neurons, axons, mielin etc", just so entrepreneurtardism is an unstructured soup of nothing in particular.
12:18 mircea_popescu god help us.
12:20 mircea_popescu "I spent 2 weeks cold calling college counselors saying, “Hey I’ve got free student reviews of Ivy League schools. Check it out, let me know what you think, and sign up here if you want to be notified when I get more schools.” Almost all of them ignored me."
12:27 mircea_popescu "I overestimated peoples’ desire to help someone starting a startup and trying to do something good. This will probably sound naive, but I don’t think it is. I thought that people would have some sort of respect for what I’m doing and want to help out. For example, the high school guidance counselors I tried to contact, maybe the default is for them to operate in a bureaucratic way, but I had thought there was a
12:27 mircea_popescu decent chance that they’d think, “Oh cool, look at this kid trying to start a startup, good for him! Hm, he’s actually trying to do something that would be pretty useful. Let me check it out.”
12:27 mircea_popescu And I when I asked people from my high school to answer questions and spread the word a bit, I thought that a bunch of them would have respect for what I’m doing and want to help out. Almost no one did, which I found to be quite selfish of them. I don’t think my initial expectations were too unreasonable given what I had known, but my beliefs have since been updated."
12:27 mircea_popescu he even has an explanatory link on "selfish"! how endearing.
12:28 mircea_popescu Feb 279 min read << ahahaha a 10 minute read on the fucking clock is 279 minutes according to what the fuck is this ? us college reading comprehension data ?
12:31 mircea_popescu https://archive.is/u5LjB << the butttears piece in question (obviously what he links is his own verbiage, because what, we can't all be mp ?! why the hell not!). his idea is that people are assholes because they don't front what [appears to him as] a small cost to them in order to get him [what appears to him as] a larger benefit.
12:31 assbot My thoughts on Altruism — Medium ... ( http://bit.ly/1NzN2za )
12:32 mircea_popescu something like "why wouldn't mom go turn tricks for an hour each weekend, it only costs her an hour's worth of tricks, like 50 bucks or so, and she could buy me WoW from the proceeds, at a value to me of OVER NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS!11". supposedly this is how it worked with that dumb whore of Adam Zerner's mother. shame on you mrs zerner, really. being ugly is no excuse to fuck drunks. behold the unfortunate results in
12:32 mircea_popescu adam!
12:33 mircea_popescu at any rate, the notion that people are actively interested in oppressing his dumb ass so that their world isn't littered with the byproducts of a trillion adam zerners running around does not even begin to occur.
12:36 mircea_popescu jesus that article. the amount of navelgrazing these nitwits will engage in baffles me.
12:36 punkman 80% of the people are gonna spend 20 minutes on my stupid questions!
12:37 mircea_popescu never has math been so cruelly raped as it has been since the web 2,0 made these shits fashionable (lesswrong, medium, tedtalks, the "webayesian" approach to pseudoscience and so forth).
12:38 mircea_popescu "what do you mean the great equations don't apply to me ?! what, i'm like, not good enough to matter in this sense ?!?!?!"
12:39 mircea_popescu Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need to cook that recipe at home, all the items pre-measured with printed instructions. All you need at home is oil, salt and pepper and a reasonably equipped kitchen.)
12:39 mircea_popescu why the fuck would you not include pepper. i mean, leave aside all the other idiocies involved, why the FUCK would you not include the very few items that are already prepackaged for this and have been for 50 years.
12:39 mircea_popescu 10k salt packs for a restaurant are like 60 bucks.
12:41 mircea_popescu "In those days, I spent 9 hours a day, 6 days a week, sitting in a cold warehouse in West Acton, hot air blowers creating 25 degree bubbles around parts of my body in an otherwise 14–15 degree room. The large industrial fridges were empty. Long gone were the days I pre-stocked ingredients for faster order fulfillment. Now, when an order would come through, I would jump on my bike and buy fresh ingredients at a nearby
12:41 mircea_popescu superstore. After 15 months of operations, we had approximately one order per day, generating on average £26 in revenue and supposedly 30% in gross margin, but given the low volumes, we were losing money on every order."
12:41 mircea_popescu "Now, with the distance of a few months, it sounds positively crazy to run a “business” like this. But of course, one sticks to the guns because one has set out to make things happen and one has an obligation to investors. And then there’s the adage of “a winner never quits”, tales of entrepreneur legends who lost all their money, got abandoned by family and friends, were so hungry that they ate cardboard, on
12:41 mircea_popescu ly to triumph in the end and build a global empire."
12:42 mircea_popescu uh this has never happened. who the fuck is he talking about ?
12:44 mircea_popescu This will be the number one lesson I will never forget and the absolute key to understanding Dinnr’s failure — we were not solving anyone’s problem. I should have found that out in my initial market research, especially in my 1–1 interviews.
12:44 mircea_popescu However, we committed the big mistake of presenting people with the idea and asking them if they liked it and would buy it. And when people said yes, WE thought they meant “launch it and I will buy”. In reality, they meant “I’m not entirely excluding the possibility that one day, when Ocado trucks run out of gas, supermarket doors get blocked by red-hot lava and restaurant waiters will, due to a mysterious leak
12:44 mircea_popescu of radioactive fumes emanating from commercial kitchen equipment, all be zombified and eat patrons’ brains, yes, in that case I might be tempted to purchase a trial product from you. Once. Then I’ll take a risk with the zombies.”
12:44 mircea_popescu kid's perhaps not so terrible as the usual medium fare, so https://archive.is/AfxqS
12:44 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1k50bbd )
12:45 punkman 15 months of one order per day?
12:45 mircea_popescu and at this juncture i'd like to inquire with the esteemed audience whether they'd allocate the "not as terrible as medium average" to the datapoint that he had 10's of k's of pounds to blow on this (ie, rich is not as stupid as poor, ceteris paribus) or to the fact that he's british (ie, pureblood is not as stupid as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
12:47 mircea_popescu There never was a need for a service like ours in the UK in the segment that we picked (urban professionals, couples without kids or with one baby max). << ironically, the need does exist. argentina does one thing right, and that is they are FANATIC with deliveries. you can have ANYTHING delivered. i don't mean, walk into supermarket, order two pellets of mineral water and have the supermarket deliver it - you can do t
12:47 mircea_popescu hat in romania too.
12:48 mircea_popescu i mean... you can order magazines delivered by the little magazine stand. or flowers. ANY store, you walk in, you want delivery, they'll fucking deliver.
12:48 mircea_popescu now, doing this efficiently, effectually and at scale is way beyond the intellectual wherewithal of argentines, but nevertheless, the need is there.
12:48 punkman where are flowers not delivered even
12:48 mircea_popescu but not by a service specialized in this, i mean.
12:48 mircea_popescu a random two immigrant illegal stand here, will take orders. and walk them over.
12:48 * mircea_popescu is discussing teh culture.
12:49 punkman I even like the idea, I'd probably want to buy ingredients by the week
12:50 mircea_popescu i don't like the idea because i send the girls. picking good stuff is complex. but yes, if they could be trusted to do something other than the usual anglosphere "this is how supermarket gets rid of all the imminetly-rotten junk", then yeah.
12:52 mircea_popescu "You must never, ever, pitch the product to the customer and ask for their feedback. Instead, the conversation serves the purpose of ascertaining whether the lack of recipe diversity and frustration with takeaway food or ready meals is a big enough problem for which I offer a solution that they would pay for. To reach this conclusion, don’t ask about their future intentions (“would you buy this?”), but do ask abo
12:52 mircea_popescu ut PAST behaviour: When was the last time they cooked something new? Do they dislike takeaway food? Do they feel bad about food wastage/spoilage? If so, what are they doing to minimize it? If nothing, it’s not a problem waiting for a solution."
12:53 mircea_popescu that much is good advice.
12:53 asciilifeform !up ascii_field
12:53 mircea_popescu never ask people as to their intentions. nobody cares, least of all themselves.
12:53 mircea_popescu "i intend to one day be a singer" is not how you get the fucking job. WHERE HAVE YOU SUNG BEFORE BITCH. that is it, that is all.
12:57 ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345526 << how does either of these work ?
12:57 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 17:45:38; mircea_popescu: and at this juncture i'd like to inquire with the esteemed audience whether they'd allocate the "not as terrible as medium average" to the datapoint that he had 10's of k's of pounds to blow on this (ie, rich is not as stupid as poor, ceteris paribus) or to the fact that he's british (ie, pureblood is not as stupid as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
12:57 ascii_field (idiot can get money, in 1,001 ways; and didn't we do 'inferior brit stock' untermenschen last night ?)
12:57 mircea_popescu you gotta pick a heuristic, alfie.
12:57 mircea_popescu otherwise your brain becomes a "phd castle to be manned by 9k phds"
12:58 mircea_popescu you get a grand total of at most one.
12:58 ascii_field i'm just not seeing the predicate here ('above median') as being true
12:58 mircea_popescu ah.
12:58 mircea_popescu fair enuf.
12:59 ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345529 << i can get same-day delivery of, e.g., a box of five m3 nuts with matching bolts. BUT it has to be 'amazon' or costs $100 (vs $0)
12:59 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 17:48:02; mircea_popescu: i mean... you can order magazines delivered by the little magazine stand. or flowers. ANY store, you walk in, you want delivery, they'll fucking deliver.
13:00 mircea_popescu ascii_field not quite the same thing.
13:00 ascii_field (why there exists an 'amazon' which does this for ~$0 is a mystery, but here it is)
13:00 ascii_field well yes, not quite the same thing!
13:01 ascii_field but it makes that other thing impossible
13:01 ascii_field (uncompetitive)
13:01 mircea_popescu aha.
13:01 mircea_popescu just another example of "revolutionized the world" being the worst outcome for the world.
13:02 ascii_field this is more like mircea_popescu's article with the giant arse sitting down in small chairs
13:03 ascii_field the interesting thing about 'amazon' is that no wallmartization is involved - it's the same items, delivered (typically) from 3rd parties, rather than specially-made egregious crud
13:03 ascii_field but somehow a. struck deals with all of the major shipping corps
13:04 ascii_field and blew up 'the curve'
13:04 mircea_popescu there isn't really that much difference. all this mentally deranged "we are changing the world" third reiteration of the quaker/puritan insanities tries hard and in selected idiots manages to cover up the simple fact that every situation where "our saviour the entrepreneur created value" can always be described in terms of "this leech is arbitraging the roof against the wall, either wayy we'll end up under rubble."
13:04 ascii_field to the point where i EXPECT a three dollar part to arrive sunday morning if ordered on friday night
13:04 ascii_field for ~$0
13:05 mircea_popescu ascii_field it just happens to be a very good loss leader. you know how casinos will give you free drinks for as long as you're playing ?
13:05 ascii_field the loss part is beyond dispute
13:05 ascii_field but what's it a leader ~for~ ?
13:05 mircea_popescu you can't run a bar by giving out free drinks. you CAN however, and if you have any sense you DO run a bar by giving away free tits.
13:05 mircea_popescu being the marketplace.
13:05 trinque bezos loves his razor-thin margins; there's a previous thread on this
13:05 ascii_field classically, 'dumping' is supposed to have a ??? and then a 'profit!111'
13:06 ascii_field i.e. the denoument
13:06 mircea_popescu this is not dumping.
13:06 mircea_popescu this is loss-leading.
13:06 mircea_popescu trinque he has a point, too.
13:07 trinque http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-03-2015#1057689
13:07 assbot Logged on 19-03-2015 06:38:14; mircea_popescu: they make corpses.
13:08 mircea_popescu oh look at that, from back in the days ben_vulpes wasn't too ashamed of random mishap to show up in b-a ? :D
13:08 mircea_popescu tell him it's ok trinque, we had our lulz.
13:09 ascii_field l0l perhaps he's looking for a new irctron
13:09 trinque heh, he's probably off cracking the whip
13:10 trinque anyhow, we'll find out what he's up to on the next paste :D
13:11 mircea_popescu lol
13:12 ascii_field mircea_popescu: didja catch the turd last night re: grub2 ?
13:12 ascii_field seems to explain a few things.
13:13 mircea_popescu i saw it but i'm not persuaded it explains anything. what, exactly, someone can't just walk into the dc copy the server ?
13:13 ascii_field this is simpler and automatable
13:13 ascii_field (via diddled kvm box)
13:13 ascii_field resets, tries grub diddle via simulated keyboard, then proceeds
13:14 ascii_field unlike burglary, it scales and is pencilneck-friendly
13:14 ascii_field ergo quintessentially usgistic.
13:14 mircea_popescu if it worked, they wouldn't be doing it 50 times.
13:14 ascii_field many sploits are probabilistic
13:14 mircea_popescu i mean don't get me wrong, it's a theory, but that's about it.
13:14 mircea_popescu ascii_field if that were it the 50 times would take 1 minute.
13:14 ascii_field i know of some which actually require 50+ shots
13:14 punkman misconfiguration is not uncommon either
13:14 ascii_field say a shot requires a reset.
13:14 punkman (of attack tools)
13:15 mircea_popescu punkman more common than the alternative, actually.
13:18 mircea_popescu let's have some reverse-fun
13:18 mircea_popescu "If success is defined by creating awesome products, we created apps that have been downloaded 15 million times across iOS, Android, and the Mac App Store. If success is defined by people using the product, we still have over a quarter of a million users actively using our apps around the world. If success is defined by making money for the business, we put in our bank account $1 million in total revenue. If success is
13:18 mircea_popescu defined by having investors believe in your team, your business, and your product, we successfully raised capital from the top super angel and angel investor in Silicon Valley. We are the first company from Vietnam that got accepted to the most prestigious accelerator program in the world. From 90 countries around the world, our Whiteboard app won No. 1 in the Dragon’s Den Pitching Competition by the World Bank’s
13:18 mircea_popescu infoDev. We could list countless press and media coverage from all around the world. But here is what we could not do: we simply failed in creating a scalable business!"
13:18 mircea_popescu anyone guess what these successes did ?
13:18 mircea_popescu no googling. ima have breakfast then reveal.
~ 21 minutes ~
13:39 trinque I'll wager it's a "take a picture of your whiteboard and d1g1t1z3 it" aka one bored afternoon's project.
13:41 trinque reframes it back to a rectangle, lets you Tag and Share (TM) etc.
13:45 mircea_popescu prety mu ch
13:45 mircea_popescu seems to be a "interface your messaging apps" app.
13:45 mircea_popescu the douche thinks this can be successful, in any sense. i rest.
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14:19 adlai in other 'news', http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/proof121.gif
14:19 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/22b4R1n )
14:23 adlai text at http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/#12 but it really shouldn't be necessary
14:23 assbot Pythagorean Theorem and its many proofs ... ( http://bit.ly/22b5sQz )
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14:58 BingoBoingo Look who went from blackmail to old fashioned scamming https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Rozal&sign=ANY&type=RECV
14:58 assbot Rating Details for User 'Rozal' ... ( http://bit.ly/1QvEAa5 )
14:59 BingoBoingo <mircea_popescu> curious how long they take to BAN ME!111 omaigawds << You aren't looking in Missouri or Ohio? I though you were doing Anthropology, or Whaleology.
15:03 BingoBoingo <punkman> http://qntra.net/2015/12/police-department-thanks-pedophile-officer-for-service/ << amazing, also to fix "Virgina police" << fxd
15:03 assbot AMAZING COMPANY!
15:03 assbot Police Department Thanks Pedophile Officer For Service | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1lT9aht )
15:06 asciilifeform !up ascii_field
15:06 ascii_field BingoBoingo et al: http://qntra.net/2015/12/police-department-thanks-pedophile-officer-for-service/#comment-83804
15:06 assbot Police Department Thanks Pedophile Officer For Service | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1QvFzaq )
15:07 ascii_field in other, glorious, lulz: https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/677550728529887232?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
~ 18 minutes ~
15:26 shinohai http://i.imgur.com/399G4lX.jpg
15:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1JeYTB3 )
15:28 punkman https://bitcoin-otc.com/viewratingdetail.php?nick=Rozal&sign=ANY&type=RECV << wasn't he the guy selling a lot of discounted starbacks cards?
15:28 assbot Rating Details for User 'Rozal' ... ( http://bit.ly/1QvEAa5 )
15:41 BingoBoingo punkman: Haven't paid that much attention, but he's the one who tried to extort cazalla
15:43 asciilifeform !up ascii_field
15:43 ascii_field BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2015/12/police-department-thanks-pedophile-officer-for-service/#comment-83806
15:43 assbot Police Department Thanks Pedophile Officer For Service | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1ObxqHH )
15:44 BingoBoingo lol
15:51 ascii_field http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345362 << mighty spiffy
15:51 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 06:17:18; punkman: http://www.symbos.de/preview.htm spiffy OS for z80
15:51 ascii_field e.g., http://www.symbos.de/gfx/trex/trex-ebdemo.jpg
15:51 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Jf25fQ )
15:52 ascii_field http://www.symbos.de/trex.htm << the rest of'em
15:52 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1Jf27Ey )
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16:24 punkman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWdPZZ6VEAA6yUL.jpg:large
16:24 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IX51mx )
16:31 BingoBoingo lol
16:41 pete_dushenski "Boeing Co. fell after Delta Air Lines Inc. revealed it is purchasing a used 777 jetliner for $7.7 million, reviving concerns that plunging values for some wide-body models signal that the market is glutted."
16:41 pete_dushenski "New 777-200ERs sold for $170 million 10 years ago. Factory-fresh versions list for $277.3 million before the discounts that are customary in the industry."
16:42 pete_dushenski and here i was thinking that new cars were a raw deal...
16:42 pete_dushenski ;;calc 7.7/277.3*100
16:42 gribble 2.77677605481
16:43 pete_dushenski you want to talk about razor-thin margins ? forget amazon, try air travel.
16:44 pete_dushenski i was just comparing flights from edmonton to two different destinations for this winter, seattle and cancun, and found that flights were $500 per person regardless !
16:45 pete_dushenski needless to say, it's an easy choice.
16:46 * pete_dushenski wonders if he'll run into mr. bitbetchamp aka thenewdeal down in mehico
16:47 pete_dushenski http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345628 << harvard campus gop response isn't quite as funny >> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWc4KF5U8AA-hwF.png:large
16:47 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 20:07:53; ascii_field: in other, glorious, lulz: https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/677550728529887232?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
16:47 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IX8tO7 )
16:47 pete_dushenski but seriously, all that '^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet' shit breaks the url.
16:56 trinque pete_dushenski: re: title being doubled, it's that way in the title tag of your feed.
16:57 trinque probably due to some setting inside your blogotron
17:03 BingoBoingo https://i.sli.mg/i1LvVj.png
17:03 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXaMk2 )
17:03 asciilifeform !up ascii_field
17:04 ascii_field BingoBoingo: wat
17:06 BingoBoingo ascii_field: Scammer got her actual "size" crowdsourced thanks to known size of laptop lid. That circus freak is basically the GAW miners of people incapable of reaching their genitals https://archive.is/BUeIH
17:06 assbot Tess Holliday Responds to Scamming Accusations : People.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXbg9U )
17:07 pete_dushenski trinque: pretty sure you were right. tweaks made. we'll see how the next one goes :)
17:09 BingoBoingo ascii_field: Of course that fraud doesn't rise to Qntra levels until it issues an Altcoin to buy a scooty puff, or it can get a nickname like COD (short for cock and dog) mongler.
17:10 BingoBoingo Or maybe CONDO for COck aNd DOg mongler. I dunno how the FBI names these people
17:10 ascii_field dafuq is a 'scooty puff'
17:10 ascii_field and do i want to know
17:11 BingoBoingo ascii_field: THose things circus freaks ride around Walmart
17:12 BingoBoingo Scooty, because it's a "mobility" scooter, puff because of the scents
17:12 ascii_field ah
17:13 pete_dushenski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6RLrJrjLQ << true american innovation at work. tv show pauses when you fall asleep via sock-embedded sensors.
17:13 assbot Netflix Socks - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1Oa7bLM )
17:15 trinque pete_dushenski: http://contravex.com/rss << the first <title> tag is the guy responsible.
17:15 assbot Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski » Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXcGBm )
17:16 pete_dushenski mhm. it's been summarily beleeted.
17:16 BingoBoingo In other news it looks like the "Core" Bitcoin repository lost the only committer who resisted the Phorks! https://archive.is/B9WPE
17:16 assbot gmaxwell (/u/nullc) no longer a bitcoin committer on github : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXcP7T )
17:16 pete_dushenski might take a while to show up, the intertubes are full of netflix
17:17 * trinque blows down his end of the tube, hears a nice tone
17:17 pete_dushenski http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/47755/dc-encyclopedia-of-2015-pandas-pot-pope/ << entemologist's guide to alf's neck of the woods
17:17 assbot The Encyclopedia of D.C. 2015: from pandas to pot to the pope, and everything in between - Washington City Paper ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXd0jq )
17:17 pete_dushenski trinque: you and your digiridoo
17:18 ascii_field 'Because we live in a landlocked territory, District residents’ interest is piqued by any mention of a beach...' << holy fuck, did someone pull up the drain cork on the potomac river or what
17:18 ascii_field landlocked ?!
17:21 pete_dushenski can the potomac fit cruise ship ? nimitz class ?
17:21 ascii_field mno
17:21 ascii_field only yachts
17:22 BingoBoingo Can on still swim potomac like early presidents, or do they absorb too many rads doing so
17:23 pete_dushenski i can see hong kong being 'landlocked' but unless dc is surrounded by mountain ranges that i don't know about, i'm not sure i see it either
17:24 * ascii_field doesn't spend much time in d.c. city limits proper
17:24 pete_dushenski http://andrewbatson.com/2015/12/17/tibets-potemkin-economy/ << tibetans are government leeches who are unable to produce anything of value, but that doesn't stop them from topping all the 'happiness' indeces time and time again.
17:24 assbot Tibet’s Potemkin economy | Andrew Batson's Blog ... ( http://bit.ly/1Oa8Bpi )
17:25 ascii_field tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
17:25 pete_dushenski "Government spending accounts for 40% of Tibet’s GDP, while 10-15% is the more usual level for other provinces. In a cyclical sense this is beneficial, as Tibet is hardly feeling the current slowdown at all: it reported 9.8% real GDP growth for the first three quarters of 2015. But the reason they’re not feeling the slowdown is that they didn’t have a real economy to begin with. It’s a bunch of civil servants
17:25 pete_dushenski asa, some investment projects done with central government money, and, sadly, not much else."
17:35 BingoBoingo https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWdDmNEWwAAbsiD.jpg
17:35 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXf62O )
17:35 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
17:43 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo: is that... real ?
17:44 BingoBoingo The ship shipping ship?
17:44 pete_dushenski ya
17:44 BingoBoingo Seems real.
17:44 pete_dushenski lol. then nuts !
17:45 adlai sup dawg, i herd u liek boats
17:46 BingoBoingo pete_dushenski: I mean how else does Samsung get container boats from 2nd Korea to Shenzen?
17:48 pete_dushenski a naive observer would think that container boats would, y'know, travel under their own power between the factory and its first loading dock
17:49 adlai it's all about fuel economies of scale, haven't you read your grukman?
17:49 pete_dushenski next you're going to show me 777s strapped to the back of the spruce goose as it's delivered from oregon to dubai.
17:50 adlai fwiw treaded vehicles (military or otherwise) routinely get trucked to the scene
17:50 BingoBoingo Well, if the container ships are empty why would you burn fuel in all those motors capable of carrying loads instead of slowly floating them down on a pallet with one motor burning fuel
17:52 BingoBoingo It's not like 2nd Korea makes anything the Chicoms need other than more samsung boats to deliver Huawei and plasicrap
17:52 pete_dushenski adlai: because treaded vehicles are slow and thirsty, which, i guess container ships probably are too, at least compared to floating pallet.
17:53 pete_dushenski BingoBoingo: skoreans do make a decent kimchi
17:53 pete_dushenski and maybe some tv's that can be reverse-engineered
17:54 pete_dushenski though neither is likely to fill every single samsung container ship, i grant.
17:54 BingoBoingo China can't afford to have vegetables floated in. They gotta have rice and clenbuterol pork
17:54 pete_dushenski http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34797017 << speaking of 2nd korea
17:54 assbot The employees shut inside coffins - BBC News ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXho1R )
17:55 pete_dushenski "South Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and workers often report feeling stressed. So in order to make people appreciate life, some companies are making employees take part in their own pretend funerals." << jenius !
18:07 BingoBoingo !up ascii_field
18:12 ascii_field http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/rjMmmf1jHzI0 (pdf)
18:13 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXj5MJ )
18:13 ascii_field https://i.imgur.com/0X5EBHb.jpg
18:13 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXj6QP )
18:13 ascii_field or nm, looks like this was in the logz!
18:18 pete_dushenski looks like shkreli's had his nose done at some point. and not particularly well either.
18:19 ascii_field 'done' with fist ?
18:19 ascii_field at police station ?
18:19 pete_dushenski 'done' usually means scalpel in usistan
18:24 pete_dushenski " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
18:25 ascii_field meanwhile, 'socket no message in first 60 seconds, 0 1' between two boxes which i control
18:25 ascii_field pretty fascinating.
~ 17 minutes ~
18:42 jurov https://theintercept.com/document/2015/12/17/government-cellphone-surveillance-catalogue/ to improve alf's sleep
18:43 assbot The Intercept ... ( http://bit.ly/1P9K5Iu )
18:45 pete_dushenski based on alf's repeated references to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don't think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
18:45 pete_dushenski and nor should anyone else who's done their 6 months
18:48 BingoBoingo Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma. This is not calculated as a percentage
18:48 BingoBoingo of income, but in raw dollars." http://www.jameslafond.com/article.php?id=3467
18:48 assbot JL: Of Kings and Queens ... ( http://bit.ly/1P9KDOp )
18:51 BingoBoingo "Not only does Big Mamma spend twice as much money as the next closest customer, but her dollar is an impulsive dollar, which nets the grocer four times the profit of—the Korean or Hebrew dollar, for instance, and twice the profit as the Anglo or Hispanic dollar."
18:51 BingoBoingo ^ From te department of cattle handling
18:54 punkman "I am currently retired, simply stocking perishable groceries overnight two or three nights per week to make writing possible." << is that how retired works?
18:54 adlai maybe it's the other kind, https://youtu.be/FLwD60hPK4I
18:55 assbot Borat: "He is retard?" - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1lUFW1E )
18:55 BingoBoingo punkman: Of course it is. USSA retired means You get 4 days a week off instead of just mebbe 2
~ 30 minutes ~
19:26 BingoBoingo https://hackaday.com/2015/12/17/a-scam-of-galactic-proportions/
19:26 assbot A Scam of Galactic Proportions | Hackaday
19:26 BingoBoingo "But the White House got its figures from this website which admits, after much public scrutiny that followed getting picked up by the White House, to have gotten the math wrong by a factor of one hundred! We’re looking at much more like $8.1 quadrillion."
19:28 BingoBoingo !up harrymoreno
19:31 pete_dushenski lol 'factor of one hundred' is OVERestimate
19:31 pete_dushenski which'd be the strict inverse of sop for mega-projects a la death star
19:32 pete_dushenski or, y'know, a la real mega-projects
19:32 BingoBoingo Mebbe USG priced it with plans to actually take delivery, hence bezzle markup?
19:32 pete_dushenski eg. three gorges
19:33 pete_dushenski politicians don't think in terms of delivery, they think in terms of re-election and passing-the-buck
19:33 pete_dushenski bureaucrats idem
19:35 pete_dushenski for usg to think that way for death star would be like han solo, in the middle of a fire fight, sitting down to pen a phd thesis on whether or not he should pull the laser trigger
19:36 * pete_dushenski to dinner. cheers !
19:41 * BingoBoingo thinks there is a difference between dam and "superweapon". Sure F-35 gets to be boondogle. Drones? Get delivered.
19:43 BingoBoingo https://i.imgur.com/hRMAQ0A.jpg?1
19:43 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1NABcVz )
19:44 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345740 << at this point even children in zimbabwe likely know that not only does usg record every phone call in nato reich, but has been doing so since hdd platter cost fell to where it was economically feasible. but the portable mitm gadgets are for something else
19:44 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 23:45:23; pete_dushenski: based on alf's repeated references to gsm as 'toy crypto', i don't think he maintains any delusions about cell phone security
19:45 asciilifeform they are partly so that local police precincts can join the party, partly to administer off-the-record rootkit installations, and partly for usg to circumvent own red tape ('parallel construct')
19:52 asciilifeform ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345478 << you forgot something quite important in there...
19:52 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 16:05:12; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://dpaste.com/1JMRZYT
19:52 gribble The operation succeeded.
19:54 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1345765 << defective pic. the chick is still shaped quite like a human woman
19:54 assbot Logged on 18-12-2015 00:43:28; BingoBoingo: https://i.imgur.com/hRMAQ0A.jpg?1
19:55 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Photopaint, same one from https://i.sli.mg/i1LvVj.png
19:55 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXaMk2 )
19:56 BingoBoingo There is a rabbit hole, or mebbe gravity well to fall into
19:56 asciilifeform as i understand there is an inflection point where they can no longer walk much
19:57 asciilifeform and after that, fatten to death
19:58 asciilifeform according to dan mocsny's articles, normally there would be a feedback effect long before death where the afflicted would no longer be able to get food and would begin to grow thin
19:58 asciilifeform but on the other hand, if an 'enabler' turns up
19:58 asciilifeform and feeds/wipes arse/supplies money/etc
19:58 asciilifeform then disease progresses.
19:59 asciilifeform partly the role of 'enabler' is played by the cheap personal auto in usa
20:00 BingoBoingo This one is crashing into inflection point.
20:03 asciilifeform ;;isup trilema.com
20:03 gribble trilema.com is down
20:07 shinohai http://www.kcci.com/news/sheriff-shoots-his-own-hand-rushed-to-er/37012186? ♭♪ "I shot the Sheriff ..." ♫ ♬
20:07 assbot Sheriff shoots his own hand, rushed to ER | Local News - KCCI Home ... ( http://bit.ly/1NACWhv )
20:08 mircea_popescu asciilifeform hey listen, is there a russian source for this http://poeziisiversuri.blogspot.com.ar/2012/06/poezia-ariciul-imparat-otilia-cazimir.html ?
20:08 assbot Poezii și versuri: Poezia Ariciul-împărat - Otilia Cazimir ... ( http://bit.ly/1NAD00V )
20:08 * asciilifeform digs
20:10 mircea_popescu also http://dpaste.com/2832R4R lol
20:10 assbot dpaste: 2832R4R ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXtF6q )
20:10 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: ty
20:10 asciilifeform and afaik there is no ru transl in public lit
20:11 asciilifeform or waitamin...
20:12 asciilifeform what's the vintage on that poem
20:12 mircea_popescu 50s
20:13 mircea_popescu was mostly curious if she translated on the sly some previous ru text
20:15 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: upon reading, seems almost certain. but i haven't the smoking gun in cache
20:15 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 152475 @ 0.00048446 = 73.868 BTC [-] {6}
20:16 mircea_popescu hm.
20:16 mircea_popescu well if it occurs lemme know.
20:16 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 935790 @ 0.00048945 = 458.0224 BTC [+] {26}
20:16 assbot [MPEX] [FT] [X.EUR] 1737 @ 0.00097238 = 1.689 BTC [-] {5}
20:17 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 239400 @ 0.00049243 = 117.8877 BTC [+] {8}
20:18 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 258401 @ 0.00048595 = 125.57 BTC [-] {5}
20:19 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 145841 @ 0.00049381 = 72.0177 BTC [+] {5}
20:20 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: http://pikabu.ru/story/iz_serii_quota_ktonibud_pomnitquot_och_mnogo_mata_598966 << closest thing i turned up
20:20 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXuZGC )
20:20 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 221750 @ 0.00048435 = 107.4046 BTC [-] {6}
20:20 asciilifeform (variations on a theme)
20:21 mircea_popescu pikabu.ru hahaha
20:21 asciilifeform some n-chan knockoff
20:21 asciilifeform the poems are recited from '80s childhoods
20:21 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 85700 @ 0.00048871 = 41.8824 BTC [+] {4}
20:22 mircea_popescu kogo kogo, kosaya blyad hjaha not bad.
20:22 mircea_popescu but notrly.
20:22 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 597830 @ 0.00048793 = 291.6992 BTC [-] {12}
20:23 deedbot- [Qntra] Fake Star Wars Torrents Already Popping Up On Trackers - http://qntra.net/2015/12/fake-star-wars-torrents-already-popping-up-on-trackers/
20:23 BingoBoingo Also Know as Qntra tries clickbait even though we stopped counting clicks
20:26 mircea_popescu we're no longer cunting clicks ?
20:26 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: btw it wurks, about to start the terraform
20:27 mircea_popescu enjoy.
20:27 asciilifeform ty mircea_popescu !
20:27 BingoBoingo mircea_popescu: Not since quantcast ate one too many leaded paint chips
20:27 mircea_popescu but that was counting! this is my lame cunting joke!
20:28 BingoBoingo Oh, yeah. We don't cunt clicks either. We click cunts.
20:29 mircea_popescu teh c-lick!
20:32 BingoBoingo ofc
20:32 mircea_popescu "implying mastery of people seems both inappropriate and ill-founded" ?!
20:33 mircea_popescu what the everloving fuck are they smoking over in the socialist republic of cambridge
20:35 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345648 << the real problem there is simple : what with all the tsa "ensuring everyone's safety", the cost of capital goods in the field fell to reflect the utility drop of the whole industry.
20:35 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 21:41:35; pete_dushenski: "New 777-200ERs sold for $170 million 10 years ago. Factory-fresh versions list for $277.3 million before the discounts that are customary in the industry."
20:36 mircea_popescu pre-tsa a dollar was worth a dollar, and an airship capable of taking a few hundred people across the atlantic was worth a coupla hundred million dollars.
20:36 asciilifeform boeings fly outside of usaschwitz though
20:36 mircea_popescu post-tsa, a dollar is worth ten cents, and same exact airship is worth... ten million.
20:36 asciilifeform ah well that yes
20:36 mircea_popescu that's a 99.5% drop of value in 20 years.
20:36 mircea_popescu just about par for the course for "government helped you"
20:37 asciilifeform i'd like to see what the floor is
20:37 PeterL so you can grab one to use as rocket?
20:37 mircea_popescu you have already seen the floor. a bunch of hungry people in ugly cheap suits moving flimsy paper around, with stamp ink shortages, as in moscow 1985
20:37 asciilifeform or as a house
20:37 asciilifeform (like one schmuck)
20:38 mircea_popescu or a bunch of hungry chinese "courtiers" doing exactly the same, pre-british invasion
20:38 BingoBoingo history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Mircea_Popescu
20:38 assbot Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mircea Popescu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXwN2n )
20:39 PeterL which book is it where Baba Yaga ends up living in an airplane? I think is was an Orson Scott Card thing?
20:39 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: ancient ?
20:39 mircea_popescu lol trivial. wut ?
20:39 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: yes, that one. Because nevar forget.
20:39 mircea_popescu i've been in "every mainstream media" like they say. whatever the fuck that's worth.
20:40 mircea_popescu (nothing, but people keep going on about the success it denotes or something)
20:40 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: 'never forget' has flipside - you're incrementing the buggers' refcounters
20:40 asciilifeform keeping odin's great garbagecollector from doing its wurk
20:40 mircea_popescu asciilifeform wikipedia's finally getting garbage collected ?
20:40 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: But don't we need to track how many pinecones to plant in order to grow stakes?
20:40 asciilifeform not at this rate !
20:41 mircea_popescu heh
20:43 mircea_popescu https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CWc4KF5U8AA-hwF.png:large << wait, this self-parodic "Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion" thing actually exists ?
20:43 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IX8tO7 )
20:43 mircea_popescu just how dumb are the sjws ?!
20:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: exists, see the graphic this one was parody of
20:44 mircea_popescu what does it do, weep whenever i say nigger ?
20:44 asciilifeform expels folks ?
20:44 mircea_popescu hahahaha what@!
20:44 asciilifeform well they do a 'here's a chance to recant' thing first iirc
20:44 punkman asciilifeform: i'd like to see what the floor is << http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iCqkkHL4zA6A/v2/-1x-1.jpg
20:44 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXxnwT )
20:45 punkman oh forgot 3 boeings in malaysia, fuck it I'll get new ones
20:45 asciilifeform punkman: that's not a floor. any more than the 7+ abandoned houses on my street are a housing price floor
20:46 asciilifeform (each and any one of them would still be 'worth' multiple 100K if anyone were to want to live there)
20:46 asciilifeform bezzlatron prevents price from falling past floor.
20:48 mircea_popescu so bizarre that "the people" would want to "occupy wall street" instead of citizen deed themselves into any vacant property.
20:49 mircea_popescu that would be revolutionary, and disrupting and whatnot : have a social media outlet where people can give themselves deeds for abandoned property, and everyone signs.
20:49 BingoBoingo Don't we have that already?
20:49 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no usg deed, no city hookups
20:49 asciilifeform dig latrine.
20:50 asciilifeform and wtf is a 'citizens deed'
20:50 asciilifeform no such animal in usa afaik
20:50 asciilifeform there are 'squatting laws' but they are written in such a way as to virtually NEVER apply
20:50 mircea_popescu what do you mean "no such animal" ?
20:50 mircea_popescu it just appeared.
20:50 asciilifeform aha then dig latrine
20:50 PeterL what are they gonna do, block your sewer?
20:51 mircea_popescu mno. because once an OVP movement shows up, the company either does the hookup or gets burned down.
20:51 asciilifeform also the local police appear rather quickly (city inspects specifically for signs of squat)
20:51 asciilifeform at least where i live.
20:51 mircea_popescu OVP!\
20:51 asciilifeform watched it happen, even
20:51 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52450 @ 0.00048334 = 25.3512 BTC [-]
20:51 mircea_popescu occupy vacant property.
20:51 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Maybe you just need a worse neighborhood?
20:51 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: ~i~ don't need this for anything.
20:51 PeterL my sister-in-law has squatters living across the street from her
20:52 punkman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Homes
20:52 assbot Occupy Homes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1k5IwA9 )
20:52 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: What about less drafty workshop? Or Farm?
20:52 asciilifeform punkman: looks more like a 'prevent foreclosure' thing
20:52 asciilifeform punkman: which is to say, defend the 'rights' of deadbeat 'buyers'
20:53 punkman tomato, tomato
20:53 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: and what would make the workshop mine vs belonging to the fella with one more rifle on his side ?
20:53 punkman plenty of these movements in europe
20:54 asciilifeform BingoBoingo: recall, i'm not mircea_popescu and do not have an army
20:54 asciilifeform i'm not even home much.
20:54 BingoBoingo asciilifeform: Well, time to start introducing larger stray cats.
20:54 mircea_popescu pete_dushenski http://dpaste.com/2GDF3YB
20:54 assbot dpaste: 2GDF3YB ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXyhts )
20:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform why is this discussion about you ?
20:55 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it isn't, was answering subthread http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1345900
20:55 assbot Logged on 18-12-2015 01:52:25; BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What about less drafty workshop? Or Farm?
20:55 mircea_popescu punkman note the "concept squatting". they're specifically NOT doing the right thing.
20:55 mircea_popescu alf would suspect this is deliberate. maybe it is. maybe they're just as dumb as a box of rocks.
20:55 asciilifeform it sure as fuck was deliberate
20:56 asciilifeform i went to one of the posh parties the 'ows' useful idiots had among their own number
20:56 asciilifeform in the $maxint district of dc
20:56 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52700 @ 0.00048332 = 25.471 BTC [-] {2}
20:56 asciilifeform whole thing stank in no subtle way.
20:56 mircea_popescu at any rate, the idea isn't to " attempts to prevent the foreclosure of people's homes". for one thing, you don't try, you do. for the other thing, you take every bit of real property the bank "owns" away from the bank.
20:56 mircea_popescu fuck wallstreet, it's just a street. nobody cares.
20:56 mircea_popescu take their houses.
20:56 punkman http://planet.squat.net/
20:56 assbot . .. … + * + ::: Okupa! ::: & ::: Squat! ::: – * – ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXyrkm )
20:56 mircea_popescu aha.
20:57 mircea_popescu asciilifeform he has a point when he says this is common in europe. it is.
20:58 asciilifeform aha recall kakobrekla's thread re: the burglar ?
20:58 asciilifeform the one with riiiighttzzzz!!111
20:58 mircea_popescu aha
20:59 punkman http://squatting-manual.squat.net/ and to go with that http://q13fox.com/2014/08/26/attorneys-squatters-in-vacant-homes-here-can-be-evicted/
20:59 assbot How to squat ! | Many manuals for smooth and silent squatting ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXyFYM )
21:00 assbot Squatters getting tips on occupying vacant homes right off the Internet | Q13 FOX News ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXyFZ0 )
21:00 punkman right off the internets!
21:00 mircea_popescu internet. not just for torrents.
21:00 mircea_popescu YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A HOUSE.
21:00 asciilifeform 'i would if i could motherfuckerz'
21:00 mircea_popescu well... they got a manual.
21:00 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345698 << is #b-a a theocratic hellhole by the same standard ?
21:00 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 22:25:37; ascii_field: tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
21:00 punkman sorted by country
21:01 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: i'm unaware of anybody stuck in a dungeon or starvation peonage in #ba
21:02 mircea_popescu that's funny.
21:02 asciilifeform '“It’s not surprising to me that people publish stuff on the Internet. It’s surprising to me that people are reading that and assuming it’s true. The notion that you can just break into a house and pay a cable bill or two and somehow establish a right of ownership — that is false,” said Loeffler.' << lulzy, reminiscent of mircea_popescu's 'sovereign citizen' article
21:02 mircea_popescu how can a convention be false ?
21:03 mircea_popescu it's a fucking convention. the notion that you walk in and it's yours is neither falser nor truerer than the notion you say hi to a girl and she takes you to her place.
21:03 asciilifeform in the same way the 'sovereign citizen' thing
21:03 asciilifeform i.e. the sheriff gets a call and the tanks come out.
21:03 mircea_popescu yaya
21:03 mircea_popescu until they don't.
21:03 asciilifeform until.
21:03 punkman or maybe you come out with the tank first
21:04 mircea_popescu tanks are only useful if not used. they're the police equivalent of nuclear weapons.
21:04 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aha, they make a point of trotting them out in parade even
21:04 mircea_popescu i dunno why everyone acts like this 300 old bit of wisdom (in french) is novel.
21:04 asciilifeform just like sov nukes
21:04 mircea_popescu !up renart
21:04 mircea_popescu asciilifeform obviously.
21:04 ben_vulpes !up renart
21:04 renart no need, mircea_popescu.
21:04 renart but thank you.
21:05 mircea_popescu what is this, socialism ? need ain't a consideration comrade.
21:05 renart ho ho ho
21:05 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes you saw punkman's application ?
21:06 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345714 << tracks are optimized for power. as opposed to speed.
21:06 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 22:50:33; adlai: fwiw treaded vehicles (military or otherwise) routinely get trucked to the scene
21:07 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345735 << i should probably comment a little on this, seeing how i very much doubt anyone outside of actually fxing banks knows what all this is.
21:07 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 23:24:37; pete_dushenski: " Argentina's peso plunged more than 26.5 percent on Thursday, after the country's new government floated the currency as part of a slew of free-market reforms aimed at revitalizing the stagnant economy."
21:08 mircea_popescu so : argentina has many problems, economically, all of which reduce to "it's a country of 40mn useless douches, of which ~10 mn pretend to live like they saw in various imported tv shows, while the country is unfit to even export raw meat, so it lost those contracts and is now exporting soy"
21:09 mircea_popescu the government has for many years run it very badly. specifically, instead of borrowing in europe and then pumping those resources into development in the huge provinces (argentina is much larger than europe), it borrowed in europe, squandered most of it for supporting the pretense of dumbass, worthless middleaged women, and a tiny sliver on buying cheap food for poor people to turn out the vote.
21:10 mircea_popescu part and parcel of all this, a LOT of empty peso printing, creating immense piles of worthless pesos sloshing around.
21:10 mircea_popescu because the stupidity of a typical argentine is only matched by his pretentiousness, this worthless paper issue did not result in much devaluation of the currency
21:11 mircea_popescu instead, it mostly went into a game of real estate musical chairs. everyone in buenos aires is a lawyer though nobody practices , and everyone owns property, which they keep trading to each other at ridiculous valuations.
21:12 mircea_popescu meanwhile, the contact points with the outside economy are controlled as well as they can be (they can't be - most of the local trade is in the hands of the chinese, who own the proud but stupid argentine. whenever i want to move dollars, or to dispose of any other actyual economic or poltiical matters, i talk to an asian person. no exceptions. i wouldn't break a date with han because macri called, sort of thing)
21:12 mircea_popescu now, the scam they had going was that they were paying the farmers 9 pesos to the dollar they got for the soy. because farmers are hostage, what are they gonna do, buy their own tanks ?
21:12 mircea_popescu meanwhile, the free rate in the black market was ~16.
21:13 mircea_popescu this means the farmers were paying 50% tax on top of all the other taxes.
21:13 mircea_popescu new government decided this nonsense can't caqrry on, and wants to liberalize the dollar. this, logically, would make the price drop.
21:14 mircea_popescu specifically : if say peasants sell 1bn dollars worth of soy, and get 9bn pesos for it ; whereas dumbass middle aged women spend 100mn dollars on shoes and perfumes because they don't wish to admit to me they're subhuman, for which they pay 1.5bn pesos,
21:15 mircea_popescu should the damned thing liberalize the new price would be 1.1 bn dollars matching 10.5bn pesos, or roughly speaking... 10. a 40% drop from it's black market rate of 16.
21:15 mircea_popescu this is why it's always a good idea to liberalize : the price on the black market ALWAYS drops as a result.
21:16 mircea_popescu (this was counterintuitive to the grunts doing money changing in the street, we had a good laugh over steaks about it, when discussing venezuela's plans to the same thing. after it played out they decided i was a god. because hey, why admit you were wrong when you could think the guy who's right is simply supernatural)
21:16 mircea_popescu NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
21:17 mircea_popescu i would estimate liberalization takes the peso to 25ish. that's 30% up not 40% down.
21:17 mircea_popescu taking questions.
21:20 asciilifeform !up gabriel_laddel
21:21 asciilifeform http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1345983 << whatever happened to sov ruble-style devaluations ?
21:21 assbot Logged on 18-12-2015 02:16:41; mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS : in argentina, because of the immense real estate bezzle, and a 50 to 150 bn worth of inexistent real estate value that is looking to evaporate,
21:21 mircea_popescu the russkis are dumb, but not proud.
21:21 asciilifeform seems like just what the doctor ordered tho
21:21 asciilifeform snip a zero or two.
21:22 mircea_popescu it wouldn't do anything. the glut that has to unwind is rela estate, not cash.
21:22 mircea_popescu and it will unwind. it must, currently everyone here thinks themselves MUCHricher than they are.
21:22 mircea_popescu as a result they misperceive their incentives and lose out.
21:22 mircea_popescu see poster discussion yest.
21:22 * asciilifeform begins to grasp
21:22 asciilifeform they gotta starve
21:22 asciilifeform and sell the flats for a week's meal
21:22 asciilifeform a la 1992
21:22 mircea_popescu pretty much.
21:23 mircea_popescu except they won't starve. nor would it do anything, it doesn't help the proud
21:23 asciilifeform didn't help? rinse, repeat
21:23 mircea_popescu but when they discover they can't afford both underwear AND stockings, THAT is wqhen the stupid women running the show start getting open plam slapped across the diner table.
21:23 asciilifeform though didn't they have an episode in 2001
21:23 mircea_popescu which IS exactly what argentina needs.
21:24 * renart looks forward to buying flats in args for a weeks worth of local wages
21:24 mircea_popescu asciilifeform hafta understand, it's not russia. it has no industry. AT ALL. it's one large farm.
21:24 mircea_popescu what hruschev wanted to make of ukraina IS actually what the brits made of argentina.
21:24 mircea_popescu where you from renart ?
21:25 renart run a whois on this nick yet?
21:25 mircea_popescu mnope
21:25 renart ah jesus i thought freenode's nick grouping actually worked
21:26 ben_vulpes c'est moi
21:26 mircea_popescu aok
21:26 asciilifeform renart: unlikely that anybody who uses word 'wage' to describe his money will afford so much as half a flat in ar
21:26 asciilifeform ever
21:26 mircea_popescu it's renard you know
21:26 asciilifeform american speculators will snap it up.
21:26 asciilifeform (folks with serious dough)
21:26 mircea_popescu asciilifeform nah, you're behing the curve. the chinese will.
21:26 renart mircea_popescu: http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXC8dfkgaY40MW7HKL88rY8OZFkAj5S8ieEYNBR92OPANlaNB8
21:26 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1T4YIO8 )
21:26 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 61000 @ 0.00048672 = 29.6899 BTC [+]
21:27 mircea_popescu american speculators will get fucked in the ass, publicly, and write their senator to complain
21:27 mircea_popescu via change.org
21:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: aha likely
21:27 asciilifeform but at any rate it won't be me or renart or any other wage worker
21:27 mircea_popescu it could be, if you lived here.
21:27 renart wage worker, huh?
21:27 mircea_popescu but otherwise... no. you ain't got an angle.
21:27 asciilifeform how does living there change the game ?
21:28 asciilifeform price tag is price tag
21:28 mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345742 << quite.
21:28 assbot Logged on 17-12-2015 23:48:37; BingoBoingo: Murican Poverty: "Big Mamma is your ideal customer. Yes, she might eat an entire rotisserie chicken while her children devour a box of snacks. But not only will I look the other way, I’m willing to pay some retarded white guy $10 an hour to clean up her mess. She is the cash bomb. No customer, not Bill Gates or the Dyke Queen of West Germany spends as much money on retail food as Big Mamma. This is not
21:28 mircea_popescu asciilifeform there is no such thing as "a price tag". this is an ex-post-facto calculation.
21:28 mircea_popescu similarly, there is not such a thing as "what it takes TO bed beautiful women".
21:29 asciilifeform but i don't get how living there gives you an edge
21:29 asciilifeform when bidding
21:29 asciilifeform and in an anarchodegringolade, squatters would just take whatever
21:29 BingoBoingo Have to be there to be first with rifle on scene
21:29 asciilifeform platoon
21:30 mircea_popescu <asciilifeform> but i don't get how living there gives you an edge << obviously you never lived in new york. ask mike_c
21:30 mircea_popescu living there gives you an edge.
21:31 asciilifeform but an edge that is bigger than the financial edge chinese gov has over a usaschwitz peon ?
21:31 mircea_popescu of a different kind.
21:32 mircea_popescu "is a jagers unit more valuable than a cavalry unit ?"
21:32 mircea_popescu depends, yo. got anything to charge ?
21:32 asciilifeform the thing about living there is http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=15-12-2015#1343796 . it'd be spiffy except that i'm an instant candidate to ~join~ the folks selling their flats to buy food
21:32 assbot Logged on 15-12-2015 19:39:41; ascii_field: well i'd happily move if i were 1337 enough to take the gradient, rather than BE the fuel
21:33 mircea_popescu gotta build yerself a castle, mr wannabe margrave lord.
21:33 asciilifeform trying to inhabit a mircea_popescu gedankenexperiment is rather like trying to fly a martian ship with cockpit built for a man with seven arms
21:33 mircea_popescu ahbahaha
21:34 mircea_popescu no more shiva ?
21:34 asciilifeform shiva has many arms but they're only good at lifting massless things
21:37 mircea_popescu "Supermarkets cannot stay open in extensive urban ghettos for multiple reasons. It might also surprise you to know that supermarkets that do not embrace a catering/restaurant program [which is expensive] do not thrive in upscale locales. You might be able to keep the doors open—but forget a profit. People with money make their food purchases at restaurants. You didn't buy that stunning piece of plastic surgery to hav
21:37 mircea_popescu e her tits melt in the kitchen, did you?" <<< aaactually... yes, i did.
21:38 mircea_popescu but yeah, the supermarket model is on its way out - and thanks fucking god. it was stupid.
21:38 mircea_popescu "Basically, supermarkets just provide local jobs. The CEOs of grocery chains are among the lowest paid of their kind." << exactly. government clerks.
21:39 asciilifeform sov institutions are not any different by virtue of being lifted up and dropped on other side of atlantic
21:41 mircea_popescu "There is no requirement to buy ten, but raising retails from 89-cents to 10 for $10 increases sales from a case to a pallet on most items, when you have the right customer base..." << which reminds me of a point i wanted to make. yo ben_vulpes it's pretty dumb to offer grunt 30. offer 28.75. for one thing, it makes it look like real thought went into all that precision, and the sort of dickless imbecile he is will spe
21:41 mircea_popescu nd more time trying to figure out why than argue with you about it.
21:41 mircea_popescu the more important thing is the issue of [stupid] brains and thresholds. 30 is just above one, makes him feel like he's worth more.
21:42 mircea_popescu 28.75 is just below one, makes him feel like he's fucking lucky to get there.
21:42 mircea_popescu moreover, if you raise 30 to 32 in negotiation, he'll deduce h's worth 100.
21:43 mircea_popescu meanwhile, if you go 28.75 to 29.45 he'll deduce he's lucky to get 15.
21:43 mircea_popescu and yes asciilifeform, part of why mp is not hiring is that mp despises how stupid people actually are, and can't seriously work with the sort of idiots.
21:43 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: hourly wage with >1 significant figure is declasse in usa
21:44 mircea_popescu pff.
21:44 asciilifeform just a piece of koooltooral trivia.
21:44 mircea_popescu unless classee IS PAYING YOU, like the fucking tsarist nobility was being paid by the fucking tsar to participate,
21:44 mircea_popescu nobody ain't got any time for it.,
21:45 asciilifeform also if i had to guess, mr. 30 did not negotiate.
21:45 asciilifeform that class of folks typically doesn't dare.
21:45 asciilifeform just happy to eat.
21:46 asciilifeform and mircea_popescu aint' gotta hire anybody if he doesn't want to. but it ~is~ possible to hire nonstupid people
21:46 mircea_popescu no. it is not possible to hire nonstupid people. the very definition of hiring includes "i am too dumb to live"
21:46 asciilifeform ah i almost forgot that i were too dumb to live, eh
21:46 asciilifeform carry on
21:46 mircea_popescu all you can do with nonstupid people is partner, which is why this entire all-consuming "start-up culture"
21:47 mircea_popescu under all the dumbass kid crud, there's a good reason.
21:47 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i'm certainly not hiring you wtf. that'd be sad.
21:47 asciilifeform ah no not mircea_popescu
21:47 ben_vulpes lol asciilifeform as pet
21:48 ben_vulpes what a sight
21:48 mircea_popescu fancy that.
21:48 mircea_popescu he'd have to wear the fancy hat, too.
21:48 asciilifeform just in abstract, i do wurk as a hired man
21:48 asciilifeform was hired quite recently by new $firm, start in ~week
21:48 mircea_popescu well hopefully you grow out of it.
21:48 asciilifeform aha.
21:49 mircea_popescu What is more, this lady has poor impulse control, exasperated by her once a month windfall, << exacerbated, exasperated, what the hells the difference!
21:49 ben_vulpes !up renart
21:50 renart mircea_popescu: i don't think http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/17/9750890/rdio-shutdown-pandora made it to your shartup postmortem list
21:50 assbot Why Rdio died | The Verge ... ( http://bit.ly/1T50DlZ )
21:50 * asciilifeform will be doing some pretty odd work, involving maths
21:50 mircea_popescu possibly not, i only skimmed.
21:51 asciilifeform exasperbated >> masturabated from exasperation ?
21:51 renart frusturbation
21:51 asciilifeform ...exasperated from masturbating?
21:52 renart exhausturbation <<using CO
21:53 asciilifeform BingoBoingo had a photo
21:53 BingoBoingo Which one?
21:53 asciilifeform the truck-fucker
21:53 BingoBoingo I had lots of photos
21:53 BingoBoingo Aha
21:53 mircea_popescu " Its secret: free on-demand streaming, supported by advertising. By contrast, Rdio required a paid subscription."
21:53 mircea_popescu why the fuck do they stick the "marketing" in there ?
21:54 mircea_popescu no marketing was involved. lizard king of ustardia threw the dart, picked one that gets the free shit for free
21:54 mircea_popescu everyone else gotta pay retail, and who;'s gonna pay retail ?
21:54 asciilifeform related, 'grooveshark' (similar) was in the corpse list
21:54 punkman http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/copyright-tribunal-slaps-pandora-with-20-percent-rate-increase/
21:54 assbot Copyright tribunal slaps Pandora with 20 percent rate increase [Updated] | Ars Technica ... ( http://bit.ly/1T511Re )
21:54 asciilifeform and iirc the owner offed himself
21:55 asciilifeform (or nailgunned, take yer pick)
21:55 asciilifeform !s grooveshark
21:55 assbot 6 results for 'grooveshark' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=grooveshark
21:55 mircea_popescu da fuck is a "copyright tribunal"
21:55 asciilifeform http://qntra.net/2015/07/grooveshark-cofounder-dead-at-28/
21:55 assbot Grooveshark Cofounder Dead at 28 | Qntra ... ( http://bit.ly/1T5167r )
21:55 mircea_popescu asciilifeform this is particularly a difficult industry for me because i never listen to the radio ; i never commute ; if i do i use a towncar and have live people to talk to ; etc.
21:56 asciilifeform (resembled 'pandora', but was ~searchable~ - just type in the name of whatever, song, band, etc. and it plays. no ads. no business model...)
21:56 mircea_popescu so ?
21:56 mircea_popescu why the fuck would i care.
21:56 asciilifeform no reason other than previous link being a similar thing
21:56 mircea_popescu yeah i know, i'm just deploring my own sad situation here.
21:57 * mircea_popescu perceives absolutely no value in any of these. last i had any interest, it was a winamp install. 20 years ago or so ?
21:57 * asciilifeform 's commute for past ~year consists 100% of http://www.radiozvezda.ru by weight
21:57 assbot ... ( http://bit.ly/1T51d39 )
21:58 asciilifeform ^ mostly literature, history, militaria
21:58 asciilifeform ~ru national~ station incidentally
21:58 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30677 @ 0.00048332 = 14.8268 BTC [-]
21:58 asciilifeform imagine such a thing in anglo world
21:58 asciilifeform last was what, bbc circa 1950s ?
21:58 mircea_popescu even 1980s
21:58 asciilifeform possib
21:58 asciilifeform bbc foreign service.
21:59 asciilifeform for ru listeners.
21:59 asciilifeform and probably not that either.
22:00 mircea_popescu "White female managers usually end up with nervous breakdowns and are not as effective as men, but are 100% loyal and never steal, ever. This is the backbone of any retail food staff, white chicks. Work her until she breaks and get another."
22:00 mircea_popescu this is a PARTICULARLY insightful piece from lafond guy huh.
22:00 mircea_popescu might be the most competent thing i read all week on the open wwwbs.
22:02 mircea_popescu "Black female managers are rarely effective and steal at 50%—fully half of the ones I have worked with being confirmed thieves." << lioness hunting for the clan as opposed to the ball busting harpy gioving herself and everyone else aneurisms. makes sense, huh.
22:04 mircea_popescu "Women, white and black, who do not qualify for management, are usually not worth anything on the staff, and generally steal at about 20%, with lower paid working black girls less than half as likely to steal as their management counterparts, and white girls on staff infinitely more larcenous than the white girls in management. I won’t even try and explain this, as it boggles my mind." it doesn't boggle my mind any.
22:05 mircea_popescu seems pretty obvious.
22:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 81450 @ 0.00048332 = 39.3664 BTC [-]
22:06 mircea_popescu i guess it boggles his mind because it makes a point he doesn't wish to hear. anyway, race has exactrly nothing to do with it : woman can either be my slave, out to carve your empire into the dust, or one of the empire's own aspirationally-vacuous wastes of flesh, brigading social media so that maybe it has some effect on reality.
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22:30 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 52650 @ 0.00048332 = 25.4468 BTC [-]
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22:51 mircea_popescu "We’ve spent last few years building Wishberg as a default destination for users to share their wishes & discover more interesting wishes from people around the world - things to do, things to buy, travel, adventure, experiences and so much more. The journey has been beautiful, exhilarating, exciting with lots of learning for all of us."
22:51 mircea_popescu dude... get the fuck out already.
22:51 mircea_popescu you hung around shitty office space and derped on the internet. learned ~nothing.
22:57 mircea_popescu so intel reports that medium.com is headquartered at 760 market st, sf. just like "dropbox" and pretty much every other ycombinator scam / "entreprenize" to date. so therefore "why are all these derps with failed 'business ideas', 0 experience, 0 awareness, 0 clue on medium.com ?" "oh, because ycombinator told them to".
22:57 mircea_popescu #totallynotacult.
22:59 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 21880 @ 0.00048324 = 10.5733 BTC [-] {2}
23:00 BingoBoingo lol
23:05 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 66300 @ 0.00048496 = 32.1528 BTC [+] {2}
23:13 assbot [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30545 @ 0.00049129 = 15.0065 BTC [+]
23:27 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: yc is (or was until quite recently) an 'inpatient' cult
23:27 asciilifeform as in, not only did folks get $15k or whatever creditcard-level investment for, what, 20% cut, but had to ~live~ in the compound
23:31 asciilifeform attn kakobrekla et al: zoolag going down for maintenance, next ~8hr or so
23:31 asciilifeform starting now.
23:33 mod6 thx for the heads up
23:36 asciilifeform also it had about 5GB free
23:36 asciilifeform and will need new ssd soon-ish.
23:37 mod6 ah. cool.
23:37 asciilifeform currently functioning node is bucephalus, and also mircea_popescu's
23:38 mod6 IPs on wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/the_real_bitcoin/nodes are up-to-date right?
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23:59 ben_vulpes !up renart
23:59 renart ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/humans-are-slamming-into-driverless-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw
23:59 assbot Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1JfL05y )
23:59 gribble The operation succeeded.
23:59 renart 2x the human accident rate
23:59 renart it'll never come down, i tell you
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