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Aetius | 15 years ago | on: The Montessori Mafia

Extrapolating this out ... Lakeside School, Philips Exeter or perhaps Collegiate ;)

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Every Day, I Try To Get Rejected

People really need to learn the concept of "Expected Outcome" before they go headlong into "rejection therapy". For instance, what was his expected outcome if Steve Jobs had replied back? I'm willing to bet it was 0. He just did it because he could. This is like me tracking down insert female celeb fantasy here's phone number and asking to talk to her. Pointless.

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: How to damage your brand in one smooth shot - Way to GoDaddy

Let's count the ways in which the media, twitter, and even HN can be hypocritical:

Driving cars that pollute the environment and force the US to wage continous war to secure oil. Supporting a food industry that is killing us. Support raising my taxes so you can live a better life. Use an inordinate amount of energy, water which is scarce. Live wonderful lives with nice furniture, clothes, etc that are made by really poor people the world over. Take trips all over the place, using more oil. Sit at home watching TV and being entertained instead of being productive and fixing problems (yes, this too is a sin). Have bad children that will grow up to be murderers, theives, leaches, and knownothings because you're too busy whining about some guy hunting an elephant. Have supported tons of politicians that serve to further their own interests and that of their corporate sponsors.

I could go on and on and on before I finally get to:

Legally shot and killed an elephant which was destroying crops in an African country.

If I switched my domains from GoDaddy for this, I'd pretty much have to withdraw from American society for good, in order to be on decent moral ground.

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy

Hey man, I'm doing it right now ... got a startup i've spent 10 months on that I'm still hoping I can make successful. Even though I could probably quit and pickup one of these 150k jobs everyone seems to be getting ;)

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy

Casinos won't go bankrupt because they are a monopoly protected by the state ( although the state(s) does not have allegiance any one them and is increasingly in the process of granting many more licenses to shore up deficits, Casinos still have a very, very high barrier to entry ). See my comment downthread. And yes, they are equally predatory. And lotteries, well, yeah ... owned by the state, not going anywhere because there is zero competition.

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy

Yeah let me rephrase that:

  When the business is scamming customers, 
  competition in a free market is not a pretty sight.
And no, I'm not aloof enough to believe we have a truly free market. But it's free enough to let thousands of Swoopo clones race bid prices to the bottom. Now it seems customers may even be winning more from the auction sites than the auction sites are taking in.

But fear not for Swoopo! They'll undoubtedly sell their soon-to-be patented "technology" to the likes of Intellectual Ventures, who'll use it to extort other would be scammers, completing the circle of evil!

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Swoopo Quietly Files for Bankruptcy

Competition in a free market is not a pretty sight. That's why gaming commissions never stepped in -- they knew what Casinos have long known; without state protection of gambling, the number of venues would quickly proliferate into the thousands and push profits to zero.

I'm also pretty sure that there is still a lot of legal liability in the air. August Capital will most certainly face some exposure; on my female facebook test account I've seen advertisements of Swoopo class action.

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Friends don't let friends get into finance

Ok, then, how does stealing sound? You can't really win this argument, man. No matter how you dice it, the FED is stealing from the American public to hand it over to financial institutions who then sell us back our stolen goods.

Aetius | 15 years ago

Motherfucker, you haven't heard of <DIV ALIGN="CENTER">? THAT IS PROGRAMMING, MOTHERFUCKER!

Aetius | 15 years ago | on: Parallelism is not concurrency

In other words, more confusion. Don't read if you don't understand words like "asymptotic efficiency" and "nondeterministic composition". Ugh.

Can someone put this in lay terms?

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