mircea_popescu: take their houses.
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.
asciilifeform: in the $maxint district of dc
mircea_popescu: alf would suspect this is deliberate. maybe it is. maybe they're just as dumb as a box of rocks.
mircea_popescu: punkman note the "concept squatting". they're specifically NOT doing the right thing.
punkman: plenty of these movements in europe
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and what would make the workshop mine vs belonging to the fella with one more rifle on his side ?
asciilifeform: punkman: which is to say, defend the 'rights' of deadbeat 'buyers'
PeterL: my sister-in-law has squatters living across the street from her
asciilifeform: also the local police appear rather quickly (city inspects specifically for signs of squat)
mircea_popescu: mno. because once an OVP movement shows up, the company either does the hookup or gets burned down.
PeterL: what are they gonna do, block your sewer?
asciilifeform: aha then dig latrine
asciilifeform: there are 'squatting laws' but they are written in such a way as to virtually NEVER apply
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.
mircea_popescu: so bizarre that "the people" would want to "occupy wall street" instead of citizen deed themselves into any vacant property.
asciilifeform: (each and any one of them would still be 'worth' multiple 100K if anyone were to want to live there)
asciilifeform: punkman: that's not a floor. any more than the 7+ abandoned houses on my street are a housing price floor
punkman: asciilifeform: i'd like to see what the floor is << http://assets.bwbx.io/images/iCqkkHL4zA6A/v2/-1x-1.jpg
asciilifeform: well they do a 'here's a chance to recant' thing first iirc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: exists, see the graphic this one was parody of
mircea_popescu: just how dumb are the sjws ?!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'never forget' has flipside - you're incrementing the buggers' refcounters
mircea_popescu: (nothing, but people keep going on about the success it denotes or something)
mircea_popescu: i've been in "every mainstream media" like they say. whatever the fuck that's worth.
assbot: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mircea Popescu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... ( http://bit.ly/1IXwN2n )
mircea_popescu: or a bunch of hungry chinese "courtiers" doing exactly the same, pre-british invasion
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
asciilifeform: i'd like to see what the floor is
mircea_popescu: just about par for the course for "government helped you"
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.
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."
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.
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck are they smoking over in the socialist republic of cambridge
BingoBoingo: Oh, yeah. We don't cunt clicks either. We click cunts.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: btw it wurks, about to start the terraform
asciilifeform: the poems are recited from '80s childhoods
asciilifeform: (variations on a theme)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upon reading, seems almost certain. but i haven't the smoking gun in cache
mircea_popescu: was mostly curious if she translated on the sly some previous ru text
asciilifeform: what's the vintage on that poem
asciilifeform: and afaik there is no ru transl in public lit
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 ?
shinohai: http://www.kcci.com/news/sheriff-shoots-his-own-hand-rushed-to-er/37012186? ♭♪ "I shot the Sheriff ..." ♫ ♬
asciilifeform: then disease progresses.
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
BingoBoingo: There is a rabbit hole, or mebbe gravity well to fall into
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-12-2015#1345765 << defective pic. the chick is still shaped quite like a human woman
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345478 << you forgot something quite important in there...
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')
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
BingoBoingo thinks there is a difference between dam and "superweapon". Sure F-35 gets to be boondogle. Drones? Get delivered.
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
pete_dushenski: politicians don't think in terms of delivery, they think in terms of re-election and passing-the-buck
pete_dushenski: which'd be the strict inverse of sop for mega-projects a la death star
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! Were looking at much more like $8.1 quadrillion."
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 ofthe Korean or Hebrew dollar, for instance, and twice the profit as the Anglo or Hispanic dollar."
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, Im 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
pete_dushenski: and nor should anyone else who's done their 6 months
jurov: https://theintercept.com/document/2015/12/17/government-cellphone-surveillance-catalogue/ to improve alf's sleep
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."
pete_dushenski: looks like shkreli's had his nose done at some point. and not particularly well either.
ascii_field: or nm, looks like this was in the logz!
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 !
BingoBoingo: China can't afford to have vegetables floated in. They gotta have rice and clenbuterol pork
pete_dushenski: though neither is likely to fill every single samsung container ship, i grant.
BingoBoingo: It's not like 2nd Korea makes anything the Chicoms need other than more samsung boats to deliver Huawei and plasicrap
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
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.
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
pete_dushenski: lol. then nuts !
BingoBoingo: The ship shipping ship?
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
ascii_field: tibet - originally a theocratic hellhole that makes medival catholicism look tolerant and economically +ev - is today a usg-maintained 'antichina'
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.
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
BingoBoingo: Can on still swim potomac like early presidents, or do they absorb too many rads doing so
pete_dushenski: can the potomac fit cruise ship ? nimitz class ?
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
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 )
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
trinque blows down his end of the tube, hears a nice tone
pete_dushenski: might take a while to show up, the intertubes are full of netflix
BingoBoingo: In other news it looks like the "Core" Bitcoin repository lost the only committer who resisted the Phorks! https://archive.is/B9WPE
BingoBoingo: Scooty, because it's a "mobility" scooter, puff because of the scents
pete_dushenski: trinque: pretty sure you were right. tweaks made. we'll see how the next one goes :)
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
trinque: pete_dushenski: re: title being doubled, it's that way in the title tag of your feed.
pete_dushenski: but seriously, all that '^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet' shit breaks the url.
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
pete_dushenski wonders if he'll run into mr. bitbetchamp aka thenewdeal down in mehico
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."
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."
BingoBoingo: punkman: Haven't paid that much attention, but he's the one who tried to extort cazalla
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?
ascii_field: in other, glorious, lulz: https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/677550728529887232?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
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.
adlai: text at http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/#12 but it really shouldn't be necessary
mircea_popescu: the douche thinks this can be successful, in any sense. i rest.
mircea_popescu: no googling. ima have breakfast then reveal.
mircea_popescu: anyone guess what these successes did ?
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!"
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 Dragons Den Pitching Competition by the World Banks
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
mircea_popescu: punkman more common than the alternative, actually.
punkman: misconfiguration is not uncommon either
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if that were it the 50 times would take 1 minute.
mircea_popescu: i mean don't get me wrong, it's a theory, but that's about it.
mircea_popescu: if it worked, they wouldn't be doing it 50 times.
ascii_field: resets, tries grub diddle via simulated keyboard, then proceeds
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 ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: didja catch the turd last night re: grub2 ?
trinque: anyhow, we'll find out what he's up to on the next paste :D
trinque: heh, he's probably off cracking the whip
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
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 06:38:14; mircea_popescu: they make corpses.
ascii_field: i.e. the denoument
ascii_field: classically, 'dumping' is supposed to have a ??? and then a 'profit!111'
trinque: bezos loves his razor-thin margins; there's a previous thread on this
mircea_popescu: being the marketplace.
ascii_field: the loss part is beyond dispute
ascii_field: to the point where i EXPECT a three dollar part to arrive sunday morning if ordered on friday night
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."
ascii_field: and blew up 'the curve'
ascii_field: but somehow a. struck deals with all of the major shipping corps
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
ascii_field: this is more like mircea_popescu's article with the giant arse sitting down in small chairs
mircea_popescu: just another example of "revolutionized the world" being the worst outcome for the world.
ascii_field: but it makes that other thing impossible
ascii_field: well yes, not quite the same thing!
ascii_field: (why there exists an 'amazon' which does this for ~$0 is a mystery, but here it is)
mircea_popescu: ascii_field not quite the same thing.
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.
ascii_field: i'm just not seeing the predicate here ('above median') as being true
mircea_popescu: otherwise your brain becomes a "phd castle to be manned by 9k phds"
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).
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-12-2015#1345526 << how does either of these work ?
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.
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, its not a problem waiting for a solution."
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, dont ask about their future intentions (would you buy this?), but do ask abo
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.
mircea_popescu: a random two immigrant illegal stand here, will take orders. and walk them over.
mircea_popescu: now, doing this efficiently, effectually and at scale is way beyond the intellectual wherewithal of argentines, but nevertheless, the need is there.
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.
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
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).
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 Ill take a risk with the zombies.
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 Im 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
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.
mircea_popescu: uh this has never happened. who the fuck is he talking about ?
mircea_popescu: ly to triumph in the end and build a global empire."
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 theres 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
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."
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 1415 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
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.
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.)
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 ?!?!?!"
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).
punkman: 80% of the people are gonna spend 20 minutes on my stupid questions!
mircea_popescu: jesus that article. the amount of navelgrazing these nitwits will engage in baffles me.
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.
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
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.
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 ?
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 Im doing and want to help out. Almost no one did, which I found to be quite selfish of them. I dont think my initial expectations were too unreasonable given what I had known, but my beliefs have since been updated."
mircea_popescu: decent chance that theyd think, Oh cool, look at this kid trying to start a startup, good for him! Hm, hes actually trying to do something that would be pretty useful. Let me check it out.
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 dont think it is. I thought that people would have some sort of respect for what Im 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
mircea_popescu: "I spent 2 weeks cold calling college counselors saying, Hey Ive 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."
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 didnt make much progress (I also started a very early version of the website that Im writing this post about)."
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 wouldnt be a great way to pursue this goal. At the same time, I read Paul Grahams 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
mircea_popescu: "The Lead Up
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!
mircea_popescu: ahahaha oh they believe rightfully
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."
mircea_popescu: and more patients are obtained through what, the power of prayer ?
mircea_popescu: "I realized that many of the true money-making businesses in healthcare really arent 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."
mircea_popescu: "Product: Bitshuva What I didnt understand was, you charge not for how much work it is for you. You charge how much the service is worth."
mircea_popescu: it really galls these fucktards, the notion that there exists something that's not for them.
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?"
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.
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 15:06:52; mircea_popescu: how are we on the "can take a reboot" front ?
mircea_popescu: that the schmuck was dumb enough to actually reside within reach...
mircea_popescu: punkman the fraud consisting of you know, "being-not-usg".
mircea_popescu: it's not spanish you know, they're speshul like that.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` no, it's only common in the more stupid lands.
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.
punkman: http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-martin-shkreli-securities-fraud/ they should totally seize that wutang album now
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?
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
mircea_popescu: how are we on the "can take a reboot" front ?
mircea_popescu: this will also add a 0.7-.8 expense on the s.nsa books, but hey, whatchagonnado.
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.
mircea_popescu: But around July I just couldnt 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
mircea_popescu: "As a consequence of #2, we didnt 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
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)."
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.
mircea_popescu: "We built like crazy. Thats 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.
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 its 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."
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."
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."
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."
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 wouldnt have to spend time wondering if their personal creation was something theyd actually wear. Based on the seemingly automatically generated feedback from their community, theyd just know."
mircea_popescu: Perhaps if someone customized the clothing for them? Like a designer? But thats 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
mircea_popescu: "Look, it wasnt that women didnt 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 werent 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
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.
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."
mircea_popescu: ^ this is also how they went throiugh college
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."
mircea_popescu: motherfucker...
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 (23 non-formal years of Java, Objective-C, and XML between the two of us)."
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."
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".
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
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:40; asciilifeform: y'know, the kind of thing the lizards fought ww2 to exterminate
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 ?
mircea_popescu: curious how long they take to BAN ME!111 omaigawds
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."
mircea_popescu: which is turning out to be pretty tolerant, incidentally. but then again it's historically famous for that.
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".
mircea_popescu: nk "survived" because derps composing nk are cowardly. just like the us "survives".
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 04:45:29; asciilifeform: because it's a motherfucking ETHNOSTATE
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
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
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.
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" ?
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!"
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.
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 ?
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.""
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.