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Tue Mar 18 00:05:28 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, I'm sorry you are factually mistaken.
Tue Mar 18 00:05:09 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, could you be more specific please!
Tue Mar 18 00:04:54 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ninjashogun none of the examples you cut out of the real world and pasted onto your model as "eventual upper bound results" have anything to do with the model itself.
Tue Mar 18 00:04:25 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, sorry what are you talking about not working?
Tue Mar 18 00:04:03 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> The image of a startup is like a duck -calm above the water but paddling like hell underneath.
Tue Mar 18 00:03:58 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ninjashogun no , it does not. it has nothing to do with anything other than the particular way the usg implements welfare for a certain subset of the youth population.
Tue Mar 18 00:03:39 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> There are a TON of errors that are always hidden and swept under the rug.
Tue Mar 18 00:03:30 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, my 'half-lie' model applies to everything that is new and being built.
Tue Mar 18 00:03:09 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, and more importantly those words allow the problem to be fixed.
Tue Mar 18 00:02:28 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> mircea_popescu, well the main problem is that you need to reserve your hardest edge for when you need it the most. I've spend very long hours discussing very deep technical points without calling something "idiotic". It can be broken, wrong, unexpected, totally incompatible, etc. Those words are more specific.
Tue Mar 18 00:01:05 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> ninjashogun what's the problem with being called an idiot iyo ?
Mon Mar 17 23:59:58 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> because they believe in the vision.
Mon Mar 17 23:59:47 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> + of the investers, and in some cases the customers who are early adopters and willing to put up with buggy-ass #$#@$
Mon Mar 17 23:59:26 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> I agree. The job of a founder is to create a half-lie, and the job of the cofounders and early employees is to add the other half.
Mon Mar 17 23:59:04 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Many early employees report that founders are full of "half-lies".
Mon Mar 17 23:58:54 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Likewise, I've talked with MANY people associated with YCombinator-backed startups (the most famous incubator) and worked for one.
Mon Mar 17 23:58:39 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> but it helped the startup hone in on what the market wanted.
Mon Mar 17 23:58:26 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> that's a "scam" because it exposed functionality that was a lie.
Mon Mar 17 23:58:21 UTC 2014 <ughlol> bye ninjashogun, mircea_popescu, Dimsler <3, only!! :)
Mon Mar 17 23:58:18 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> There was a story about an MVP with fake buttons that didn't do anything - they just said "Download as Excel File" for example and see who clikced on it to guage interest.