asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: how many of these do you have now ?

asciilifeform: go, get.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: whatchawaitinfor ?

asciilifeform: he gnashed his teeth at length about this, recall.

asciilifeform: *claptrap

asciilifeform: interesting in that it refuted orwell's argument in re how folks renouncing their 'i'm a precious snowzflake!111 individual!' thing and dying with hounour have to buy into supernatural claptral

asciilifeform: in terms of most recent success of 'seppuku honour'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i understand why you pick example of feudal battlefield, rather than red army, but the latter was actually the state of the art afaik.

asciilifeform: (and yes, eventually it leads to the pork shop)

asciilifeform: this is basic animal wisdom.

asciilifeform: because the ONLY THING no one can ever take from you is the icecream you ATE YESTERDAY

asciilifeform: this is why i always had sympathy with the folks who pete_dushenski enjoys feeling superior to.

asciilifeform: at least in the mythical sense of 'i put value in and arbitrarily later i get at least this much out NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS'

asciilifeform: i suspect that 'sound money' is a fantasy

asciilifeform: PeterL: ask this after you buy a bunch today, and mircea_popescu drops the nuke in the great phorkwarz of july

asciilifeform: (because sound - relatively - money)

asciilifeform: i admit that i wonder if pete_dushenski's misconceptions came to him from his ancestors, for whom saving sorta worked.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's advice, 'become a pirate!1111' is ~practical and mega-useful~ by comparison !

asciilifeform: (mortification of the flesh, saving pennies, etc.)

asciilifeform: my original point is that it is also not related to pete_dushenski's peculiar cargo cultisms

asciilifeform: well no shit, i will have no say in who eats the pork.

asciilifeform: not grade-a tho.

asciilifeform: i have capacity ! worth about 80 kg of pork.

asciilifeform: i think i'ma get on my pig and fly around a bit ?

asciilifeform: 0l holy shit i just read a trilema where mircea_popescu agreed with me?!

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: possibly i do not have sufficient lsd to properly do this thread..

asciilifeform: i don't even recall mentioning cunt.

asciilifeform: this in re 'bmore gang' recipe

asciilifeform: i am left to wonder, clearly mircea_popescu has a very high opinion of orc scum, why doesn't he recruit ~them~ to write his softs, run his companies, etc. ?

asciilifeform: 'big zone', 'little zone'

asciilifeform: this is why the jail is full of the idiots aha

asciilifeform: incidentally where in bmore do you get folks for your gang with >bathwater iq ?

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: but 'how to get rich' ??

asciilifeform: the 'make a budget' and 'don't drink through your whole wage' thing is REASONABLE as 'how to not GO IDIOT BROKE' advice

asciilifeform: http://www.contravex.com/2016/03/31/cheep-petes-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#comment-42690 << pete_dushenski

asciilifeform: well as i gather mircea_popescu's answer was 'you could start doing 17 yo work for shit wage' and i answer 'why the fuck should i a single day earlier than forced to.'

asciilifeform: and perhaps a reasonable set of lampshades.

asciilifeform: and ok soap.

asciilifeform: obviously i will make passable pork when finally processed.

asciilifeform: count me as thick, i dun see the connection.

asciilifeform: 100%

asciilifeform: how so ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'

asciilifeform: i've never done 'honest work' in my whole life, phf .

asciilifeform: anyway better conditions exist. for better peoplez.

asciilifeform: on dirigible.

asciilifeform: phf: aha, in mircea_popescu's harem

asciilifeform: at least here it's only 2 blokes to a 8x8 cell

asciilifeform: phf: there are much worse conditions!

asciilifeform: and there was also to be reversing, of juicy things, but turned out that (apparently) i could only be used for it if i agreed to usgrasty

asciilifeform: (e.g., gmp uses 4+ different mult algos)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually bignum is a nightmare because of algo transitions

asciilifeform: and bignum

asciilifeform: doing megatonnes of linear algebra.

asciilifeform: written by academics.

asciilifeform: gnarly in the sense where the working set is a meg of cpp code.

asciilifeform: mostly.

asciilifeform: (why anyone would pay for this is a very long story)

asciilifeform: phf: i was hired originally to (yes) calculate runtimes of gnarly algos

asciilifeform: turns out, there were worse things.

asciilifeform: my last move was even a switch of profession, i'm no longer a reverser. turned out not to be a smart idea.

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: which?

asciilifeform: 'we must all grunt on the stake!111 for victory111'

asciilifeform: but was summoned back in as the shop was in dire straits

asciilifeform: i started out largely tele

asciilifeform: the latter.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did precisely once, with my last employer. there was much gnashing of teeth, and ill feeling from the other slaves (there were only a handful of us, and no one was actually replaceable)

asciilifeform is on the spin cycle of the day's stake, when the barbs come out

asciilifeform: i lost track

asciilifeform: which

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: then i've never seen 'non-shit' job and don't expect ever to.

asciilifeform: i dunno, what else.

asciilifeform: that i'm not 133337 enough ?

asciilifeform: trinque: i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'

asciilifeform: well, on ~their~ salary

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun need living LIKE A NATIVE in ro for anything.

asciilifeform: trinque: in fact, it costs 2x moar to live there LIKE A HUMAN (e.g., MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE WITH OWN 4 WALLS) than here and they only offered 1.5x moar.

asciilifeform: but i don't have any reason to prefer them to this africa.

asciilifeform: trinque: i was offered work in other africas (e.g., san francisco)

asciilifeform: PeterL: and in zimbabwe, can get even cheaper !

asciilifeform: i have nfi what they do with useless people in american prison

asciilifeform: then perhaps eaten as long pig ?

asciilifeform: buggered to death ?

asciilifeform: why does mircea_popescu think i could be an ~average~ dope man, much less a heroic one.

asciilifeform: anyway i don't touch things where i have no leverage.

asciilifeform: pashtun.

asciilifeform: no but the correct brand of anticiv.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is a lulzy fella

asciilifeform: l0l 'hi i'm totally not a usg stooge though i have no street experience'

asciilifeform: and $the_other_firm_that_sells_0days

asciilifeform: $firm_that_sells_0days

asciilifeform: to date.

asciilifeform: i tried to get work there, and failed.

asciilifeform: anyway in alls srsness bmore is a glorious place to live imho.

asciilifeform: i will start black gang after mircea_popescu does and i study his.

asciilifeform: if you have to ask...