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mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's exactly my point. none of those schmucks has
a car.
nubbins`: because why we gotta get
a job man this sux
ascii_field: but sop for something like
a decade now, yes
ascii_field: that marvel of precision engineering, the car that promptly falls apart after the last credit payment, is
a fairly recent invention
nubbins`: "wild tales" seemed
a great indictment of modern argentina, mp might like it
ascii_field: EVERYBODY in usaschwitz (with very few exceptions) spends
a good chunk of the day in
a car
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem with this is that nobody in the Housbroken universe actually owns
a car.
ascii_field: not to mention the low-tech beauty of 'self-driving car accident' as
a means of removing troublesome folk
mircea_popescu: let's discuss things of import! to be prepared in case
a windfaul reaches us, with
a game-plan! to save africa!
nubbins`: struck
a ped? better blame the mfg/gov
mircea_popescu: ascii_field they have
a point. as far as the slave^H^H^H^H^H german is concerned, reminders of the cock up his ass are unwelcome and "toxic" to his emotional well being or w/e
nubbins`: incidentally
a jan 3 2009 copy of the times sells for 10btc
ascii_field: well... more like
a dime with radio beacon glued on
nubbins`: ascii_field
a hollow dime with
a ?? inside
nubbins`: imagine interacting with other human beings and one of them hands you
a dime when you say something
nubbins`: someone tried tipping me ten cents on reddit once for
a comment they deemed insightful
nubbins`: you mean "in
a bid to generate revenue, the social..."
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:50:52; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in
a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging
a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In
a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging
a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as
a Schelling point mostl
ascii_field: whereas having them in morning traffic (ask
a fella from india. 'brake inspector!1111') is not.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:34:01; mircea_popescu: and maybe
a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are the cause of his poverty, through the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:26:20; mircea_popescu: anyone wants to read things, read them when they can. trilema's not
a consumer good, the consumer's at trilema's convenience.
mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be
a wonder if i didn't.
pete_dushenski: when's the last time you saw
a new immigrant getting thumped on the head for not lifting his pinky while drinking tea ?
pete_dushenski: heh. bringing in
a whackload of non-yurapeans into your country without also forcing them to submit to the rules and regulations of the dominant resident culture is asking to be mowed down.
pete_dushenski: "Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains
a ‘life lie,’ ” or
a sham, she said, before adding that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she said. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."
shinohai: "whenever you interact with him god kills
a kitten" <<< priceless
thestringpuller: funny everytime i see these old derps names in -dev logs always has
a negative L2 rating
nubbins`: plus smacking drums is
a great way to unwind
mircea_popescu: if every ustard < 40 did
a honest day's work, china'd be so fucked.
nubbins`: Life isn't
a viable biznis model
thestringpuller: "If every single person withdrew all their coins they would make less than $3500. This isn't
a viable business model."
mircea_popescu: Always remember, dear fiat craptrepreneurs : sucking republican cock is
a good start, but always remember to make eye contact! That's where your submission really sinks in, to everyone (and especially to your) benefit." ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in
a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging
a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In
a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging
a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as
a Schelling point mostly due to BitBet's i
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "She likened trying to get famous through social media to shelling out money for college—in each case, one suffers through hard work and zero-to-negative income in the hopes of
a later payout. The difference, Beggs said, is that YouTube is more accessible “because there’s no admissions committee.” The technical term for this is the Dunning Kruger effect, where unskilled individuals believe themselves to be more
mircea_popescu: "The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week, I was stopped for photos six times while perusing comic books in downtown L.
A. The next week, I sat faceless in
a room of 40 people vying for
a menial courier job. I’ve walked
a red carpet with $80 in my bank account. Popular YouTube musician Meghan Tonjes said she performed on Vidcon’s MainStage this year to screaming, crying fans without knowing whether she
mircea_popescu: and maybe
a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are the cause of his poverty, through the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's not the question. the question is why is mp worth
a billion and kim kardashian worth 10 million. when did death threats > nice ass, by 3 degrees of magnitude ? is this allowed by Obama ?
mircea_popescu: sites like Patreon (
a Kickstarter-type site that allows for ongoing funding) are at the center of
a communal movement to fund “smaller YouTubers.” But that definition gets blurry. Is someone with 50,000 subscribers worth supporting financially? How about 200,000? What if people assume you’re too successful to need money, and you’re too proud to tell them otherwise?"
mircea_popescu: "Platforms like YouTube mirror the U.S. economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being
a part of YouTube’s “middle class” often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of
a full comments section and an empty wallet. Journalists kvell over stars like Swedish gamer Pewdiepie, whose net worth is around $12 million, or comedian Jenna Marbles, who’s worth around $2.5 million. On the other extreme, fan-funding
mircea_popescu: all these "successes" would make more money in plain prostitution in 1995 than they do with their "successful" internet bullshits today. but hey, people would much rather "disbelieve" and carry on with their idiocy than stop and reconsider whether "women's issues" and "pop culture" are
a decent use of their productive time.
mircea_popescu: and if the consumer doesn't like this situation, that's fine : buy
a gun shoot your president.
mircea_popescu: anyone wants to read things, read them when they can. trilema's not
a consumer good, the consumer's at trilema's convenience.
☟︎ nubbins` pushed
a deed to the bc yesterday of his own accord
BingoBoingo: Holy shit. danielpbarron is now
a gurl on twitter.
ben_vulpes: lemme put it this way: it's hard to run
a global short on the shartupconomy without finding takers on the long side.
gribble: The answer is
a resounding no.
mircea_popescu: except not, especially if they work for
a whole year, which everyone prefers to do anyway seeing how winter's not summer.
mircea_popescu: ess they had
a securely independent standard of time."
mircea_popescu: "Laborers were, even before the advent of the clock, commonly paid by the day. But how long is
a “day”? It couldn’t be just daylight hours; this makes for
a longer workday than employer and employer might otherwise agree to, and in northern latitudes it varies quite substantially within
a year. With the rather heterogeneous measures of time, employer could cheat the employee out of hours, or vice versa, unl
mircea_popescu: and the introduction of piece rate
a magnificent americanism.
mircea_popescu: "Time-rate employment provides
a major productivity improvement over servitude or (usually) piece rates." << amusingly, according to the soviets themselves, and the "golden age" romanians too, the main driver of sovieteconomy fail was the timewage.
mircea_popescu: had
a god damned two-time engine worth what, 7 hp ? weed whacker level.
mircea_popescu: for that matter,
a) the trabant was not notoriously ugly. in fact, beats the beetle.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking obvious. my slavegirls by
a fat margin prefer slavery (which is not servitude just like whales are not fish), and work
a lot better than any fucking employees anyone ever had.
mircea_popescu: "To improve the productivity of the time rate contract required two breakthroughs: the first, creating the conditions under which sacrifice is
a better estimate of value than piece rate or other measurement alternative"
BingoBoingo: Might take
a while to get to docks, so not next boat. Some boat though.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, if one uses
a few casts and whatnot, the linker prolly has it.
mircea_popescu: "The origin of the sandglass is quite obscure, but its accuracy relies on
a precise ratio between the neck width and the grain diameter."
mircea_popescu: Such
a recipe presumably creates grains of
a size in
a precise ratio to
a standard hour-glass neck size, thus producing an accurate time.”
mircea_popescu: "Take the grease which comes from the sawdust of marble when those great tombs of black marble be sawn, then boil it well in wine like
a piece of meat and skim it, and then set it out to dry in the sun; and boil, skim and dry nine times; and thus it will be good."
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 23:44:24; mircea_popescu: gentoo's
a fallen thing.
BingoBoingo: Case ended with the compromise where I take
a drug risk education course and they quit. Avoided the possibility of stupid/hostile judge at hearing/trial.
mircea_popescu: "The economic tyranny of the late Roman Empire had left
a devastated polity,
a culture in Western Europe that had lost its knowledge of civilized commercial practice and accustomed to seeing government not as
a source of any productive assistance to commerce, but only
a destroyer of commerce from which commerce must hide. "
mircea_popescu: trings"), and I have
a std::vector<char*> object ("
a mutable vector of mutable built-in strings"), then I can't pass it to your function because the types aren't convertible. You have to admit that it doesn't make any sense, because your function guarantees that it won't change anything, and I guarantee that I don't even mind having anything changed, and still the C++ type system gets in the way and the only sane worka
mircea_popescu: But wait, there's more! C++ supports
a wide variety of explicit and implicit type conversions, so now we have
a nice set of rules describing the cartesian product of all those types, specifically, how conversion should be handled for each pair of types. For example, if your function accepts const std::vector<const char*>& (which is supposed to mean "
a reference to an immutable vector of pointers to immutable built-in s
mircea_popescu: "This is C++ FQA Lite. C++ is
a general-purpose programming language, not necessarily suitable for your special purpose."
mircea_popescu: i'd link to trilema but apparently it's
a lean monday or something.
mircea_popescu: assbot:BUS1:
A New Linux Kernel IPC Bus Being Made By Systemd Developers - Phoronix <<< ahahaha mkay.
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 19:04:45; trinque: looks like the existing node scoring mechanism is
a turd
ascii_field: the separation is
a mighty gnarly job, aha