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mod6: Only thing I really regret about it is not wearing ear protection back then.
mircea_popescu: "i cut down trees, i wear high heels" now resounding in mp residence
mod6: Yep. My good buddy's dad has a tree care company. My old man set me up with a job working with them when I was like 10, big enough to haul sticks and roll logs.
mod6: And sure, I liked cutting down trees, good exercise, decent guys to work with, but fuck, that shit wears on you.
mod6: So, I'd hate to do webdevelopment or whatever, but it sure beats humping logs all day.
mod6: I guess, another factor for me is doing manual labor. I used to cut down trees from when I was about 10 to 18. And very quickly in a job like that you learn the value of the earned dollar.
mod6: I'm just sayin, some guys are cool with being fucking scammers. Not me.
trinque: mod6: I mean fretting about doing java, webdev, or pole dancing
mod6: well, to some extent for me I have to be able to be honest and have integrity in my job or I wouldn't respect myself in the morning.
trinque: I'm not much concerned with dignity at the end of the world.
mod6: i put up with all that bullshit all day every day so I can keep the lights on and do my real job: the foundation :]
mod6: bitcoin is the thing i care about.
mod6: when I was younger I used to be a lot more idealistic about my job... now, couldn't care less as long as the money is wired on a regular basis. haha.
mod6: I pretty much keep my head down, work hard. I don't get emotionally invested in the mines.
mod6: but I don't work in these mines for the thrill of victory, i do it for the cash.
mod6: no, this role I'm workin on a data access layer.
mircea_popescu: i must confess buffett sold me on his "hay mas futuro por norteamerica" or whatever it was.
hanbot: ascii_field should you ever actually find yourself on the brink of starvation put whoever is doing your cooking in touch with me. i am well acquainted with forced frugality. it happens, and while your merits might not prevent it from grabbing at your feet, they can keep you from succumbing. ☟︎
mod6: but believe me, there's nothing more than I want to do than work on this stuff all day. just not quite there yet.
shinohai: I got plenty of time but I'm not good at anything.
mod6: i would like to help out with s.nsa. but yeah, right now foundation stuff is about all i can handle outside of mines. once I don't need the mines any longer, then I'll have some extra time perhaps.
mircea_popescu: i was like... wtf it moved 10% within two queries ?
shinohai: The things I go through ...
ascii_field: mainly i gotta live out the oath that i swore.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu is, i think, accustomed to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don't expect things.
ascii_field: what am i missing here
mircea_popescu: nor do i hire plumbers to do the code nor do i hire usian kids to do my plumbing.
mircea_popescu: but i'm not fucking insane.
mircea_popescu: which is why if he came to have a chat with me i'd have the girls send him off.
mircea_popescu: i don;t.
ascii_field: but i thought mircea_popescu didn't care for those
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 21:01:03; mircea_popescu: ok this is the most insane thing i ever saw. so plumber, looks like he escaped comicon or something, dorkiest dude ever. but THEN he proceeds to CUT THROUGH METAL PLATE FREEHAND
mircea_popescu: oh, i don't recall, 200 pesos for the labour or something it was
mircea_popescu: i understand that salaried work is both more common and more convenient, but i have personally no patience for salary types, and more importantly, there's no room in b-a for such, because it's not a fucking ewmpire, it's a republic,
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't think it is 'emo' to question my priorities when, after giving away my work to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
mircea_popescu: same thing happens to me, i get various bits i end up keeping for a long time.
ascii_field: i don't see the connection
ascii_field: what i meant was, what does it mean, 'with one go'
mircea_popescu: i don't even like science fiction.
mircea_popescu: i keep getting sucked into discussing science fiction movie scripts with this guy.
ascii_field: but i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: i pointedly couldn't care less.
mircea_popescu: i'm fucking "the enemy" ie some conclave of old fart's both daughters and occaisonally wife. always have.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't, personally, give a rats ass either way. if yes, sure. if not, whatever, i have no problems riding a horse.
mircea_popescu: so i guess this can wait a few years then.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing things with this inept nonsense. for the same reason i shouldn't have queried ben_vulpes yest.
ascii_field: i tried.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in all srsnes i'd like to know how.
mircea_popescu: well i can't find it. anyway, fucktarded outdoor thing in ba, "siempre se vuelve al primer amor" trying to sell italian classes. depicts an ugly chick in flats holding a huge red heart.
ascii_field: still is, until mircea_popescu or i figure out how to make 100 cpus.
ascii_field: don't have the thread handy, but at one point i explained how computing is tricky because its very existence as its current thing - that is, vlsi - is predicated on mass uptake
mircea_popescu: lemme find this ad, maybe i manage.
mircea_popescu: i blame the parents.
mircea_popescu: i do.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
BingoBoingo: Foodstamp culture: "I saw an episode of Bridezillas that she wanted to use EBT for her wedding cake. Except it was her friends card and it was not a store she was getting it from it was a lady baking out of her house and the baker lady was going to buy the stuff for the cake and like $700 in groceries as her 'payment'. They all got fines, the baker got shut down and the friend lost her ability to receive stamps and I think lost cu
mircea_popescu: maybe phf, but the dude's not even bothered to collect the pile of mushrooms he earned doing i don't recall what for eulora
ascii_field: aha this i recall
ascii_field: (7 is black magic and i won't even come near it)
ascii_field: so far, other than pieces of #3, and the whole of #7, it's all things that sit still except when i push'em.
mircea_popescu: adn who, i dunno.
ascii_field: http://heninen.net/njet/index.html << ru ver. and link to (i think) original audio.
mircea_popescu: anjyway. while this... project is epicly delayed and way the fuck over budget, i am not particularly worried .
mircea_popescu: basically far from ascii_field getting paid, i think the thing here is, s.nsa should be hiring.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 28 weeks, 0 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes, and 45 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: other than that there's other things (ie, a bitcoin game etc etc) but i got those.
mircea_popescu: Thing 5. We're trying to create a sane os. This led to gentoo being cut open, libc being cut open, gcc being cut open, and we're still barfing at the results. I don't even want to think about it.
phf: mircea_popescu: i was referring to those instances where it's ascii fielding objections from assorted people, not necessarily debates between you two
ascii_field: i'm seein' five or six thises
mircea_popescu: actually, this is probably long overdue and a major public service. so i ordered teh gals bring cognac and i shall proceed ☟︎
ascii_field: ^ i think he was referring in general to judgements on ~the possible~ based on ~the extant~
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317323 << i think this is a drastic reduction that entirely misses the point. i'm generally careful not to discuss things i don't understand. ☝︎
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ascii_field: because i'm not (imho) retarded.
ascii_field: and no, i don't expect any takers. and don't intend to 'emo' the non-takers
ascii_field: but to state 'various xxxxx is now available for a fee, unless at some point i get rich enough to afford the armour without having to pull own plow.'
ascii_field: anyway my objective wasn't to 'emo' people - recall, i have two bits of emotion register.
ascii_field: pretty sure i got maybe a year or two
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the sentiment, i really do, it's pure love "oh im sorry i couldn't do more". fine, but don't let it consume you.
ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically as described in mircea_popescu's article re: same.
mircea_popescu: i dun think anyone was really going "hey, alf is not doing enough works!" or anything ?
ascii_field: 'cause if i starve, this cheats the shareholders.
ascii_field: again, not trying to troll people, but fact of the matter is that i only got so much 'voluntary'. and gotta prioritize.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i posted all of this to add another 'can' to the list: services for pay. if anyone is interested in such.
BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=05-11-2015#1317424 << Like bitcoin I am going to have to value it as an Aleph, just dunno which one ☝︎
ascii_field: from this point on i will have to ignore everything else, until rollout. ☟︎
ascii_field: my main project is cardano. which i would like to roll out before i get 'accidented', starve (which may happen quite soon), or exhaust the patience of my co-author or of the shareholders. and thus,
ascii_field: i suppose i ought to cut to the chase:
ascii_field: anyway i know very well that mircea_popescu runs a roman army, where you gotta bringe the horse, and the armour, and not a soviet army.
mircea_popescu: if i cared what kenyans value anything i might ask them. as it is, they don't even get a voice in blockchain size.
mircea_popescu: sorta canine, i always thought.
ascii_field: e.g., do i contribute something in particular, or is it fungible like the 'good looks of a 20yo cunt'
ascii_field: i know full well that it is worth nothing.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu seems to think that i was looking for an answer other than the one i already derived.
mircea_popescu: your notion that "oh, what is my participation in B's cool worth" is akin to the dumb polack chick in A going "what are my good looks worth, i can't make hollywood rent control"
ascii_field: anyway i'm safely not these, already.
phf: nobody's going to pay for v, but i thought that v is a dna level building block in a construction process of something that's beyond "money-cool", or bezzle cool as that's really what you're talking about ("rent is due")
phf: i don't know what that means, money's not cool, it's barelly adequate at purchasing cool (a highly debatable point)
ascii_field: phf: but, as i think has been well established, not money-cool.
phf: i think v is pretty cool