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BingoBoingo: "They also have the joint worst score, with young black Caribbean men, for
a belief that they are prone to drug-taking."
mircea_popescu: it's lead me to discover that i really don't give
a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90% i'm like... whatever.
mircea_popescu: so this okcupid thing has
a thing where you answer premade questions (apparently there was
a feature to add questions but they scuttled it silently, over time). leaving aside the questions are almost universally fucking dumb,
BingoBoingo: sanity "I have
a kind of morbid curiosity. I subscribe to rateme, amisexy, uglyduckling, MUA, prettygirls, and so many more just to see how attractive some girls are and how they're treated by men. Seeing their perfect faces weirdly makes me feel more at peace with the world- like I know my place."
mircea_popescu: "I'm FA everywhere. When I lived in
a big, glamorous city, I was too ugly and fat for anyone to even consider dating. Now that I'm in
a smaller place, with lots of fat and/or unattractive people, I'm more highly educated than the vast majority of men, so I'm still FA."
mircea_popescu: why does she think feeling like
a completely inferior subhuman is bad ?
BingoBoingo: "Last time I went I saw
a few beautiful girls (something I'd never see close to at home) and it made me so extremely depressed that it ruined the whole trip (I went with family). It legitimately makes me depressed when I see super pretty girls like that; I just feel like
a completely inferior subhuman. I'm ok with regular hot girls for some reason. I even had some hot friends in school. It's different when the girl is ethereally b
mircea_popescu: "I am
a downer most of the time, I'm not outgoing, not funny, not talkative. The only thing I have is my average intelligence. Being depressed makes you not want to do anything. The medication I'm taking doesn't even make me feel better sometimes. I hate that when you're unattractive or below average you have to wield so many positive traits just to get someone to like you. Attractive people get to be mediocre."
nubbins`: you'd have had better luck giving the eulora flyers to 20yearohio and the bitcoin posters pasted up in b.
a nubbins`: posters are
a great idea for me, not so much for others
mircea_popescu: not that nubbins is in the poster printing business and in the self-loathing mental space, so he thinks posters are
a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: and in general... the point here is that argentines are retarded, in
a very palpable, amply demonstrable sense.
mircea_popescu: buenos aires,
a thing worth 30x that many inhabitants, has no dedicated ad paper, and never detectably had. the thoroughput is negligible, as in not even 0.001 per capita.
mircea_popescu: some other interesting datapoints : back in the 90s, cluj,
a 400k ish inhabitant city, had three dedicated ad papers, printed weekly. together ~200 pages, for
a yearly thoroughput in the 1mn ads range. so like 2.5 per capita.
nubbins`: that's
a nice way of putting it
funkenstein_: i thought every time you did anything which valued
a fiat token, no matter what, it benefitted the counterfeitters thereof
BingoBoingo: Cambodia seems like interesting place to consider relocation. May be
a stalinist hell hole, but doesn't seems like that bad of one.
ascii_field: '
A C++ module that generates maps procedurally is required for Eulora. In this first iteration, the idea of
a "map" reduces to "
a folded corridor 3 x 3 units in square section". Folding means that the corridor may curve however you please (provided it's continuous, contains no volumes smaller than 3x3 units and no inclines over 10%) and run into itself (not necessarily at right angles).' << this is in SWAG !!!
ascii_field: 'Which makes me suspicious, and I have no evidence, just an opinion that there seems to be
a powerful force behind these guys like btcdrak, petertodd, etc., like perhaps that jdillon guy, who seems to be directing their actions. If you read some old leaks of jdillon chat with ptodd you can see that all/most of the stuff they are now publicly pushing were suggested by him, including the flexicap nonsense which gmax tried
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're part of the solution, it taking
a while is no detriment.
ascii_field cannot deny that sufficiently many straws will break camel's back. but this might take
a while.
mircea_popescu: everytime some derp is "offended" at who knows what offensiveness yet his offense rings impotent, the system dies
a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you take
a 19yo that'd have made someone
a great wife and you make her
a great whore, the system bleeds
a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you leave the us, and continue to extract dollars from the us which however the usg can't tax, and spend them in kirgiztan, but so the kirgiztan also cant' tax, both bleed
a little.
mircea_popescu: every time i talk to one of my chinese bankers here, moving some dollar bits against peso bits, both the argentine government and the us government bleed
a little.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between "not work for competition" and "capital control" is inexistent - the us is
a centrally controlled economy just like the su. and so, the soviets couldn't leave because "the state invested in their education", right ?
ascii_field: which is why i say 'mircea_popescu wake me up plz when you've transmuted the x to
a y'
ascii_field: the cheapness of turkeys/whores/petro/etc in shitholistans is
a ~natural resource~, like any other thermodynamic gradient. and you don't get to ride the gradient just by asking, just like
a random schmuck doesn't get to ride soviet plutonium just for asking.
ascii_field: i could speculate re: ~why~ (short version: it's what usa has instead of
a berlin wall - otherwise mass exodus of programmers etc. to cheapo banana republics)
mircea_popescu: <jurov> meeting them in flesh should overcome their problems with unusuallness or whatevs << not from experience. meeting idiots in the flesh doesn't make them less idiotic, just puts them in
a better position to waste your time.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but i'll be the first to say that i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-
a! << you mean webwork. what else ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> perhaps they have
a trade publication where work is offered <<< you're thinking europe. think kirgizstan.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no, mircea_popescu simply does not give
a shit.
ascii_field sometimes wonders if mircea_popescu does the 'nail in
a coffin and float'em down the river as test of faith' thing also
mircea_popescu: i won't. because i'm not spending money that way, and i don't give
a shit what the needs of whatever art derp are.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i've got
a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie << and the eulora splashscreen was done by jason juta (ie, the guy that did half the wizards of the coast franchise). and yes, i could employ him (at his very reasonable rates) to do the whole thing.
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ascii_field: but i'll be the first to say that i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-
a!
jurov: so i'd make
a presentation at such place
ascii_field: perhaps they have
a trade publication where work is offered
ascii_field finally noticed that trilema is back and that subj is
a recent post, l0l
nubbins`: i've got
a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie
nubbins`: maybe when mp moves to ulaan baatar, he can write "eulorum.org help wanted" on the side of
a camel and run it through town
nubbins`: i think your analogy generator needs
a tune-up
mircea_popescu: but i appreciate the "well since mom and dad filled the fridge clearly they have
a responsibility to explai nto me why i should get
a job".
mircea_popescu: mno. i just answer to random idiots derping on in here, because of
a naive and perhaps misplaced notion that they'll learn something from the experience.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu was trying to hire
a level designer ?
nubbins`: posting flyers in b.
a is about as sensible as posting
a wanted at on derpstalk forum
nubbins`: dat invention of hypotheticals as
a retort
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i am saying that if i rouded up all the 10k or so computer art majors in town and gave them the choice of paying me 100k in cash or dying in
a fire
ascii_field: 'The Bitcoin community had
a huge opportunity to help shape ChangeTip into something beautiful to use to help bitcoin adoption forward, and largely has allowed negativity to consume this possibility.' << l0ltr0nic
nubbins`: what are you saying, the talent exists in b.
a?
nubbins`: you're struggling to string
a point together here
nubbins`: it's
a rich place like nyc is
a rich place
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does that make
a difference ? "because all people are people" ?
nubbins`: i don't think you actually understand how many people in seoul make
a living picking grubs out of trees, boiling them, and selling them in little paper cups w/
a toothpick
mircea_popescu: sure makes thinking one "self aware of the world"
a shithell of
a heck easier.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ba is
a city with more population than the whole country you live in omfg.
nubbins`: remember when you put up
a bunch of flyers in b.
a because it was the only city within driving distance?
mircea_popescu: there exist people in this world who are economically worthless because they are argentines. giving them an opportunity to starve so as to work for me,
a guy that isn't economically worthless for being argentine, is
a -ev play for most and
a +ev play for some.
nubbins`: usa has
a longer history than canada, see where that's got em
mircea_popescu: taping shit to
a wall has
a longer history than canada.
nubbins`: you don't get to pretend taping shit to
a wall makes sense.
nubbins`: not because taping
a flyer to
a wall is the shittest way of doing what you're trying to do
nubbins`: in fairness i've only been to maybe
a dozen countries
nubbins`: MP punching
a loaf of bread with
a quarter ham: "these idiot ingredients don't make
a good sandwich"
nubbins`: but hey, it's not like you need my advice. you seem to have
a good handle on advertising for all your ventures O.O
nubbins`: because i'm
a self-aware adult who lives in the world?
nubbins`: on the basis that nobody anywhere in the world advertises for
a position more involved than daycare in this manner
nubbins`: not really, you taped
a bunch of flyers to outdoor walls.
ascii_field: (but new gig is still
a bezzlatronic thing that doesn't exist in ar)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: laugh all you like, but i went & found
a new gig the 'mainstream' way, sans meatwot
thestringpuller: But it's not really an economics problem. Game artists are borderline cultists...
a game artist will work for free for say Nintendo just cause it's nintendo...
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: might ar be
a candidate to become 'an india' - in the sense of coolie labour on warm chairs with keyboard ..?
mircea_popescu: argentina is about as economically dead as you'd expect of
a soy & other cash crops exporter.
ascii_field: but afaik it has an ordinary cross-section of ameri-bezzle. i.e. you can just as easily warm
a chair at lockheed in kentucky as in dc.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`
a) couple HUNDRED ; b) if i taped up not
a couple,
a single "jeans and chewing gum" ad in soviet blok, i'd have needed the canadian mounties to keep order.
mircea_popescu: no, but it is
a magical enclave where you gotta be able to find your way out of
a paper bag
nubbins`: in fairness, taping up
a couple photocopies around the city isn't
a great way to recruit specific talent
ascii_field: kentucky is not
a magical enclave of the economically +ev
mircea_popescu: the 22 yo beggars are "working hard" at "their social media presence" and don't have access to
a car.
ascii_field: but where i live, i see even street beggars get into at least
a toyota at the end of
a long hard day shaking
a cup of coins
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: most u.s. folks have (in some sense which involves driving it)
a car. of some description.
mircea_popescu: actually playing out
a penitentiary inmate irl is
a bar they have to prepare for.
nubbins`: well it's also
a danny devito movie