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mircea_popescu: which is pretty much
the only way one can ever be prevailed upon
to
trade seasons in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i like seasons ok, but
the
thing with
this particular spot is
that it's ~perpetual spring.
mircea_popescu: but
this doesn't make beatings
tenderness nor
the howling winds of
the frozen praries mildness.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't dispute
that part. sure, necessity is
the mother of invention, a proper beating whenever needed
the cornerstone of domestic bliss, and so following.
BingoBoingo: Sure some acute stresses like hurricaines and volcanos, but nothing like
the certainty of winter coming and you get ready or starve
BingoBoingo: Ah,
the new normal. I move
to South America and suddenly neither
the current USD price not its all
time low vs Bitcoin are certain
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> well
tell you what, ukraine does 40 degrees. << Perils of being far from an ocean
mircea_popescu: well, cars have
them,. but
then again cars go
to
teh beach.
mircea_popescu: the fucking definition of mild is "interval of five degrees centered on human ideal". as opposed
to "SIXTY degrees intervals centered on fuck your mother, we hate you."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> meanwhile
there's a reason
the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude. << Lack of healthful medicinal sweat. Essentially homosapiens are a sort of cabbage, need a bit of frost but also
time not froze.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> !~google 20.5 celsius
to farenheit. << ~68-69
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
there's a reason
the population of eskimo lands was a) never large and b) always selected for suckitude.
mircea_popescu: that you prefer x or y has no bearing on how human femur has been
the same length since before
the notion of preference was invented.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought you meant "at standard pressure" ie as opposed
to who knows what arcana you had in mind.
BingoBoingo working on adjusting
to
temperatures in human units
mircea_popescu: and so following. human life is not
this novel and fascinating item. war planners have been circumscribing it for a century+.
mircea_popescu: just like
the
technological standard for "water spout in human habitat" is > 1galon/day
mircea_popescu: no.
the
technological standard for "temperature in a human habitat" is 20.5
mircea_popescu: so you don't consider
the standard human
temperature mild
thereby ?
mircea_popescu: apparently
there was a glaciation in europe while i was not paying attention.
mircea_popescu: in other shit you'll never believe, ukr chickie dun wanna costa rica because "prefers milder climates". "20 is
too hot for her"!
☟︎ mircea_popescu still lulz at how
these "certificates" srtill include md5.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the verification fails "for unknown reasons"
tho, and it's at least nominally a comodo issued item
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : archive.is uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is not
trusted because
the issuer certificate is not
trusted.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Aha, back home near airforce base
the sort was met all
the
time. USG.mil desk veteran hired and rented
to usg.
BingoBoingo: AHA, but yeah. Historically google had done
this quietly.
Then sometime earlier
this year a pansuit rag did "expose" on practice which simply removed google's shame about
the whole
thing.
mircea_popescu: i expect
they want
to
turn as many of
their cogs as possible with it. so yes, hired
through manpower, mandatory-complimentary "id protection" from equifucks and so on.
BingoBoingo: effectively due
to shittiness of moderation system).
That is unless
the news is Google is
taking
the contractors on as direct hires
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as
the usg is concerned :
trades in a worthless dead elephant for
the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided
to put on
the rolls. << From what I understand when Google hires
the 10's of
thousands in batches
they do so
through "Manpower" and other contract work agencies for nominally 12-15 usd/hr (usually less
than $fedminwage
mircea_popescu: watching
the conclave of imbeciles "resolve"
their "problems" as
they understand and formulate
them is
the highest form of entertainment available under
the sun.
mircea_popescu: "a maximum of impact with a minimum of effort" as far as
the usg is concerned :
trades in a worthless dead elephant for
the continued attention of 10k useless schmucks it for some reason decided
to put on
the rolls.
mircea_popescu: so now
they DO work for google, in
the only sense
that matters
to
the ustard : "being able
to say so".
mircea_popescu: there's a large contingent of useless neets who can be "hired" (job creation! yay!) and who for
the past decade had it hammered into
them at
the
thanksgiving
table
that "why don't you work for google!
that's where
the smart kids and all
the money is! check out
their playroom!!!1"
mircea_popescu: ie,
the fundamental problem of
the worthlessness of ugc is being plumbed by usg at
the wrong end : by abusing
the power of
the state
to create imaginary value (a "creator" on etsy/patreon/etc might just be ye olde myspace band worth 0.00 ; but a "moderator" on reddit/youtube/etc is DOING GODS WORK and
therefore how do you dare say priest
time is worth 0
terrorist!!!)
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 01:15 asciilifeform: in other great-agains ,
https://archive.is/wbVbJ >> 'Google plans
to increase
to 10,000
the number of its staffers
tasked with
tracking down extremist content on YouTube. "We will continue
the growth of our
teams, with
the goal of bringing
the
total number of people across Google working
to address content
that might violate our policies
to over 10,000 in 2018," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki
told Britain's Daily
Telegraph in an intervie
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo pretty big push in
the usg."tech" community
to not support bitcoin. fiver dropped it, of all people. and in general, i dun imagine you'll see usgtron support it nativel.
BingoBoingo: In other withdrawls, valve/steam are quitting Bitcoin over
their inability
to bring value: "“At
this point, it has become untenable
to support Bitcoin as a payment option,” Valve concluded. “We may re-evaluate whether Bitcoin makes sense for us and for
the Steam community at a later date.”"
BingoBoingo: Well,
they are meeting
the openings where
they are
mircea_popescu: aand in other lulz :
the median age of kiev city is 35 yo for males and 40yo for females.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed
ticker. Default market is Bitfinex. If one of
the result options is given, returns only
that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns
ticker for
that
three-letter currency code. It is up
to you
to make sure
the code is a valid (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> anyway, before
the kids go for
the power point and phone again.. i'm off.. nice pics BingoBoingo << Glad
to see you return
BingoBoingo: mod6:
tyvm, so far
things are well. Still screening companions for
trip
to
the abogado and collecting potential abogado contacts
ben_vulpes: when run without
the bootstrap use flag, gnat-gpl still unpacks a few gcc-6 gzips and bz2s
ben_vulpes: also
the gcc on
the box *is* running a 4.7, gcc-config -l does not list
the mentioned six
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dumb femspeak (nowadays aka "google employee") for "making it not look like what we want it
to"
a111: Logged on 2017-12-08 04:34 mircea_popescu shan't be mentioning maddox again, wtf is
this misery.