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mircea_popescu: my experience, on the contrary - whenever mp as much as vaguely disliked a world, that world caught on fire by itself and cut off its own head.
mircea_popescu: well guaranteedly you can't make any mircea_popescu 's thus, they'd simply burn down your world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it makes you feel better, i'd buy it for the putative chemistry lab i don't run.
mircea_popescu: "be less poor" suddenly a lot bitter than previously contemplated, huh ?
mircea_popescu: except by now the shitworld is so thick with shit, it "only works" for approved lottery winner.
mircea_popescu: i mean, this would be the exact textbook example of "work really hard, do something useful, be rich"
mircea_popescu: "this decentralized paradigm is great, now can we make it centralized again plox"
mircea_popescu: because closed is always a competition of empires, and the chinese got 10x more cash.
mircea_popescu: ie, the win98 item is 100k in cash + 4,5mn in fixing it to spec ; this is 340k in cash + 0 etc.
mircea_popescu: only buy open hardware. if hardware is considered for buying, add the cost of reversing and opening it to the bill, to make a proper comparison.
mircea_popescu: PeterL it's just miserable management, whether you see it or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe it. "advertising" works as well as make-up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the sad truth of the matter dept, this is kinda why the closed box crud even exists, that's the vp : "by the time someone undoes the shit, it'll be too late for the world to care"
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing readily informs me as to your views re, say, 0day mkt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how many of those things in production ? 100s ?
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is as good an explanation as any as to why i don't marry : i own my equipment.
mircea_popescu: a girl i own, i can order to plug into whatever cock i choose. a girl you borrow from her parents - only with prior written permission from owner.
mircea_popescu: just moreso, because machinery > real estate ever since the industrial revolution.
mircea_popescu: by the same measure, i'd prefer the lab that owns its machinery rather than borrow it from unknown people in unspecifiable conditions.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, maybe i have a better approach re the other thread. do you suppose PeterL that if you had to take a job with one of two labs, absolutely the same offer in every respect, you'd take the job with the lab that rents space in random buildings or with the lab that owns its own building ?
mircea_popescu: "how to fly!" "don't be poor" < works. "how to cold fusion" "Don't be poor" < fails. what'd money do ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL yes, i'm aware that if we felt like it, we could just buy visa hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: well, i dun know how it'd be otherwise said, so i guess we let it lay ?
mircea_popescu: (and yes that means i can read my own fucking x rays, and say to the doctor what he says back to me.)
mircea_popescu: and i have not to date hired anyone to do anything whatsoever i don't know how to do myself. how would i pay them ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL i only hire plumbers because i know how to fix my pipes.
mircea_popescu: a discussion of whether x is an abdication or not can not be decided on the basis of "is it cheaper or faster". because of fucking course it would be, that's what abdication means.
mircea_popescu: PeterL and it'd be cheaper/faster (== easier) for your dad to pay.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't abdicate your role, and she would be wise to mary you in this arrangement, yes ?
mircea_popescu: suppose you get married, and if you or wife need anty money, you go ask your dad.
mircea_popescu: being an us style "independent" has about as much to do with independence as being a us style "liberal" has to do with liberalism ; or as much as the 6th grader's idea of "a lothario" has to do with fucking, partying and generally the dyonyssian world.
mircea_popescu: 10% failure rate is based on the concept that a)most will be artisans, ie, gardeners and b) periodic war and disease anyway.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i tohuhgt you were scientists ? "this experiment came out right - what more ?"
mircea_popescu: let me guess, "nobody could have foreseen - no one got fired for following the herd".
mircea_popescu: PeterL and if you tell the head manager that this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is to assure you the stuff will work no matter what, he says ?
mircea_popescu: and of course i'd prolly have a wailing chorus of stakeholder idiots, whom i'd tell the usual get fucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> because how do you budget for that. << i have no idea wqhat the because would be, other than idiots. if i ran the lab i would, simply on grounds of independence.
mircea_popescu: they were trying to emulate the previous functioning of actual science, which was very much b-a.
mircea_popescu: PeterL "peer reviewed journals" became a thing in 1950s, together with state-funded science.
mircea_popescu: oh, perelman takes money now ? darn, i should headhunt the original
mircea_popescu: well if he wqants to go perelman all over eulora... something could perhaps be arranged.
mircea_popescu: usually makes a 3rd to 5th in singles tourneys or else somewhere 4-10th in teams. because her quarter tricks on minor points still buy a lot.
mircea_popescu: the same thing exists in bridge, the stickler old lady.