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mircea_popescu: bwahahaha, ok : ""But that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey, things were
a lot different then."
ascii_field: this typically takes the form of
a paper form with 'boxes' to 'tick'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in usa, it is traditional for folks showing up for
a job opening to be asked whether they have been tried/convicted
mircea_popescu: the catch being of course that the options are now "pay ~1k or ~100 pesos for
a pot".
mircea_popescu: re the recent alcoa/aluminum discussion, but also
a broader industry and futurology discussion : aluminum is now so cheap (ie, china has got SUCH
a solid handle on it forever) that home furnishing shops here have started to offer, alongside pots in silverstone and teflon, pure, plain aluminum. marketed as such, too, "puro alumino".
mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use
a deedbot-based system. and i don't think something like that is usable.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth is that the requirements of safety and concurrency run into problems of time. there's
a reason bitcoin blocks are 10 minutes long, and i fear i'm going to end up having to fundamentally redo the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: i get that this is unhelpful at best, but
a) making specific error messages is not trivial, and b) the alternative denomination would be something like "generic error message" which whatever.
mircea_popescu: jurov : i know. working on it, but it's not
a trivial problem sadly.
mircea_popescu: "how about as
a precondition to anything they abandon their self ?" "OMG WHAT ARE YOU
A PSYCHOPATH THIS IS DOMESTIC ABUSE BLABLABLA".
mircea_popescu: "you now have
a responsibility ot the people who trust you : to this and that they want you to do".
mircea_popescu: - not the patients, it-- an easy mark for con men with their own agenda: SSI, the justice system, gun control, schools, whatever. "It's called
a confidence game. Why, because you give me your confidence? No: because I give you mine." Take
a minute, think it through."
mircea_popescu: "The ad's association to therapy here was probably not planned but it was inevitable, just as Mantegna selecting
a psychiatrist and not an engineer or
a cook or
a stripper as the mark in House Of Games was inevitable. It is the only system of rules based on self-deception, it encourages the illusion of "self" separate from behavior. And as long as psychiatry uncritically elevates identity over behavior, it makes it-
mircea_popescu: do you know which is the most advanced one ? ask
a 50something stupid woman from the midwest. "oh, it's all energy and people are different". that's the best there is.
mircea_popescu: this goes right into the other discussion : by and large, the role of management is to lie to engineering, because if confronted nakedly, the TRUTH of reality is this head-explody vacuousness. so survivable representations have to be created, and they are better if created professionally - because in their absence the brain will create them anyway, and they'll have all the value and efficiency of something
a 2 yo repti
mircea_popescu: yeah alfie, the risk is that you lose pace. as in, guy who's been sitting in
a fox hole for all summer, when
a scout regiment finally shows up on the hillside goes all rambo on the opposition.
mircea_popescu: * kakobrekla suspekts there will be more Things before there are less Things <<< i am of the hope that we're done with things and will be
a proliferation of subthings. because fuck me if i'm going all the way into microbiology to fix computing.
mircea_popescu: at least we ended up with
a proper definition of scope, truthful if scary.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha the idiocy of these people. seriously, the excuse for selling weapons to terrorists is that "
a) they're not the terrorists but the terrorist's Italian cousin ; b) we disabled the checkbox anyway" ?
mircea_popescu: "an exception being the UK, which has
a minimum legal age of five for supervised consumption in private places"
mircea_popescu: then came part 2, when the kids i was staying with were "omfg you went into
a pub ordered
a drink ?!?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: in romania opf the 90s,
a drink = 100cc. you could get
a half if you were sick or something, but you'd have to specify like you specify nonhot at mexican restaurant. five times.
mircea_popescu: i was like.... what the shit, is this like with wine, you brought me
a little to sniff it ?!
mircea_popescu: culture shock, largest i ever encountered : 17 yo me in london, goes into pub orders
a drink. they bring him... im not even sure what it was,
a thimbleful.
shinohai: I need
a crypto FA I guess, like that dish I pay to manage my bills for me.
punkman: jurov: in regards to brokerage, I got no idea, but otherwise "denoting or relating to
a business characterized by
a very close relationship with its customers or clients."
jurov: ANNOUNCE to CoinBr users: MPEx started rejecting new orders without clear reason, if you get an error, wait
a minute and retry.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 22:00:59; mircea_popescu: Thing 1. We're trying to reduce bitcoind to
a form where it's actually worth cutting trees to print it ;
punkman: "In order to make sure no one ends up blowing
a 747 out of the sky, Washington will “retrofit” the weapons with “special” software that makes sure they can only be used in certain areas. "
mircea_popescu: lol my butt. "usg got
a run for its money the likes of which it had hoped to never see. it will not survive another one in all likelyhood, which is just as well, because november promises at least
a couple."
assbot: Fraternal Order of Police to Quentin Tarantino: We've Got
a Surprise Coming For You - Hollywood Reporter ... (
http://bit.ly/1PrjmrP )
mircea_popescu: totally. as in, get type
A (wanna do things to environment) people mixed with type B (wanna have things done to themselves) people and performance will improve. just as long as you agree to drop the male-centric definition of performance (the ration of damage done to the quake map by bullets expanded) for
a more... you know. jackoffian definition of performance.
punkman: "She was so committed to the piece that she would not have resisted rape or murder. Faced with her abdication of will, with its implied collapse of human psychology,
a protective group began to define itself in the audience. When
a loaded gun was thrust to Marina's head and her own finger was being worked around the trigger,
a fight broke out between the audience factions"
mircea_popescu: "If your reaction is “Marina who?” then here’s
a brief introduction." << how ab out "then this article has no fucking point, nobody cares about obscure if colorful manhattan garbage girls"
punkman: anyone with
a GBP account that would like to make
a payment for me?
mircea_popescu: also just
a sad repackaging of extant sad masturbation fodder (that gor bs etc).
mircea_popescu: this could perhaps be
a pretty uncanny book : the future of europe, with the white harlots living naked in the street and the proper arab girls living burka'd in the house.
mircea_popescu: i honestly liked this stuff better
a decade-two ago back when donna was doing it in between being hassled by police
mircea_popescu: "i saw
a naked lady in the street - i have nothing to say to her but i'd like to talk to my friends ABOUT her"
mircea_popescu: ng." How can you work in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn't exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's
a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of
a "welfare class" is logi
mircea_popescu: in unrelated not-news, ""For the past two weeks Sandberg was anywhere nothing useful is happening, and I'm going to include Facebook in that. Some cry-baby over at Jezebel was thrilled that Sandberg was featured all week on Access Hollywood, holy Christ, she thought this was
a good thing. "Feminism is back in the mainstream in
a big way," she wrote, I assume in between quaaludes, "the women's movement is actually movi
mircea_popescu: "Well, feminism has emasculated men." Really?
A girl did that to you?
mircea_popescu: anyway, cockring and flag in asshole guy will make
a great daddy i'm sure.
mircea_popescu: "See also Princeton, where you will pay them more to get the degree that they will then pay you less to use for them, in no other profession is learning how to do something more valuable than actually doing it. Is that ironic? " << it's not
a profession, it's
a fandom. and in all fandoms, you pay them more than they pay you, that's the definition.
mircea_popescu: "why is all us epidemiological data null and void ?" "because us doctors
a) have to write down
a diagnosis and b) are paid the same no matter what is is".
mircea_popescu: aaannd... "if we had
a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn't that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it."
mircea_popescu: d in college. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at
a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX
a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even
mircea_popescu: Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was
a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happene
mircea_popescu: ...................................... and spouse of
a capitalist.
mircea_popescu: "When we see
a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see
a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as ir
mircea_popescu: How do you make
a child know himself? You surround him with mirrors. "This is what everyone else sees when you do what you do. This is who everyone thinks you are." <<< mno, that's how you make
a child become
a girl.
mircea_popescu: ecause there is nothing else of value inside me except X? But he was never taught to ask questions like this. In fact, he was taught never to ask questions like that. What kind of
a man attracts
a woman who can only echo him? There must be
a name for that kind of person, and he already had it."
mircea_popescu: "But if Echo was no longer
a projection, she was still
a reflection. Echo, like all women, offered her man
a peek inside his soul, all he had to do look: What kind of
a man am I, that attracts this kind of woman? What kind of
a man am I that attracts the kind of woman who only likes me for how I look? Despite how I treat her? What kind of
a man am I that only attracts the kind of women who like me for X? Is it b
mircea_popescu: you really shouldn't stack the same play. if the wife's
a lascivious blonde don't get ANOTHER one for
a mistress. get
a spirtous brunette sarah silverman sorta chick.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:32:40; mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find
a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
mod6: yeah. steven tyler did not age well. i saw
a picture of him and he looks like
a chinese woman
mod6: yah, usually it's
a big early career, and then
a slow decline. he just kept making great, if not even better, music.
mircea_popescu: sure, say aerosmith has the same longevity. but gimme
a break with the bubblepop crap they been doing for mtv this side of the mllenium.
mod6: yeah! never had to ask my folks for
a nickle after I was 10.
mod6: always was
a way to make money.
mod6: When I wasn't cutting down trees, I would blow up an air matress and float down this creek that ran through
a private golf course. Where I would fish the golf balls out of the creek, shine 'em up and sell 'em back to the guys who just hit 'em in there for like $0.25 per ball.
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: 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: 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: no, this role I'm workin on
a data access layer.
mod6: got more vacation days and
a raise.
mod6: certainly was
a good thing to get back to work so quick.
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, they annouced the news of the acquisition on the 2nd of october, had
a new deal closed by the 17th. was glad to find something new anyway, was really tired of working at the old place.
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BingoBoingo: "If the idea of entering
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mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find
a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
☟︎ mod6: and rome wasn't built in
a day. or 5 years or whatever. takes time.
mod6: that's not true. you've been doing some awesome testing for me at the drop of
a hat.
a lot of this stuff just takes time to dig into it, etc.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> iirc he also judges new stripper in
a six county area. << my speciality
mod6: first day was last friday. so been
a bit swamped since then.
mod6: had to find
a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:59:46; trinque: could very well be that the mechanism by which
a central govt steals from
a large population via fiat monetary systems got us the CPUs we use today far earlier than they'd have been had without the theft
ascii_field: but wanted to take
a proper shit into the record
mircea_popescu: most people live with
a mix of the two, which is fine, pick
a mix you like and stick to it.
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 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,
mircea_popescu: this is entirely besides the point. how you organise your own affairs is your own call. b-
a is an equity play : you do things ; when and if they bring money in, you can have money ; when and if they bring chicks in, you can have chicks. that's how equity plays work : you get
a claim to whatever future brings.