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Fri Mar 11 00:06:02 UTC 2016 <assbot> Logged on 10-03-2016 23:09:57; mircea_popescu: so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
Thu Mar 10 23:13:38 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> damn.
Thu Mar 10 23:13:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> http://logs.minigame.bz/2016-03-10.log.html#t19:57:29 << "true quality ~as seen before~". ie, let's just call it that for the sake of calling it something.
Thu Mar 10 23:10:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yeah, it metastasized into idiocy, but originally it's the very logical observation that the draw needed to make sales in b2b is much larger than consumer.
Thu Mar 10 23:10:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> incidentally, this trap is what informs the vc circus' derpage about "big" bla bla.
Thu Mar 10 23:10:07 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but otherwise, it's not workable, and it wouldn't be workable for trump.
Thu Mar 10 23:09:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> so importantly - understand that it's in no sense a matter of 'stop being you, be somebody else'. anyone else would confront the same exact problem,, which is to say that this is not able to stand on its own. would work superbly as an add-on product of a company offering this kinbd of thing that can x-sell it.
Thu Mar 10 23:05:41 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> ima finish eating and come back to this.
Thu Mar 10 23:05:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not exactly.
Thu Mar 10 23:04:54 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i wouldn't take this failure to be more informative than it is. the technology never entered into discussion, it failed on economic grounds.
Thu Mar 10 23:04:24 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> experience carries a long way.
Thu Mar 10 23:04:16 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu is SMARRT and GETS IT!
Thu Mar 10 23:04:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> just the fact that i have toi make an entry in my phonebook is $$$.
Thu Mar 10 23:03:57 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> just so the cost of dealing with some dude is not 0 in any sense.
Thu Mar 10 23:03:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> much like the cost to send bitcoin txn, that random derps imagine to be "=fee" is in fact something like 0.5 to 5 btc PER TX, if you include EVERYTHING ytou need to run bitcoin payments,
Thu Mar 10 23:03:22 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is a large part of the problem. there's a hidden barrier to entry here, that is the "cost to enter wot". ie, as a manager of x item, i MAY consider dealing wioth nobody. but not over anything.
Thu Mar 10 23:02:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> not to say it is your fault, tho. but i can see why it didn't sell, needn't any conspiracy to explain it.
Thu Mar 10 23:01:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i can see why it didn't sell.
Thu Mar 10 23:01:28 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mega lowball ie, re cost ?
Thu Mar 10 23:01:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform you forget that in a previous lifetime i made a lot of money out of insepcting and changing production workflow.