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mircea_popescu:
to date of
that ancient boyish dream of you know, "trading
toothpicks for car parts and
those for plastic bags and so on until
trillionaire!"
mircea_popescu: moreover, consider
the case of mr hruschev of
the soviets vs mr lee of
the singaporeans. it is a factual matter
that no one
to date had control, properly called financial in
this context, of more resources
than hruschev. nor probably ever will. what good did it do him ? and lee started with
two old boats and some captured rats. he grilled
the rats, sold
them and went from
there, completing one of
the very few cases documented
elaineo: @mircea_popescu having never worked in finance, i suppose i'll
take your word for it, for now
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <elaineo> "because you're capable of making silence, annulling
the noise such
that
they can focus on
the
things
that actually matter,
to
them." <<
This makes
those iDiot slabs anti-Master!
mircea_popescu: trying
to "understand
thermodynamics" without any shits given for
the atomic
theory will result in
tears.
mircea_popescu: no, i did not. but
the reason is unrelated : engineering deals with discrete, concrete items, before your eyes. finance deals with complex systems of such items.
elaineo: oh come on. why would fixing your head so you don't suck at engineering be a prerequisite? Did you learn
to be a good slavegirl before you could be a master?
elaineo: who is "you" in
this piece? yourself, mircea_popescu? or self-perceived masters in general?
mircea_popescu: r human completeness. fixing your head so you don't suck at engineering is earlier stop on
the same road. first, you learn
to walk,
THEN you learn
to fuck. "the most important skill" is a discussion of age and station appropriateness, naught else.
mircea_popescu: "The most important
tech skill,
then, isn’t computers or engineering — It’s
the art of getting paid
to control vast amounts of money." <<
this
then is rank nonsense on
the level of "the best car is one with a really powerful engine". really, no steering needed ? brakes optional ? some people are good at finance, some people are horrible at it. yes, fixing your head so you don't suck at finance is absolute requirement fo
elaineo: "because you're capable of making silence, annulling
the noise such
that
they can focus on
the
things
that actually matter,
to
them."
mircea_popescu: one could indeed readily so imagine ; doesn't
take much.
elaineo: why do your slavegirls submit
to you? one can easily imagine an alternate universe where your slavegirls mistakenly chose a master
that whips em in another direction
mircea_popescu: lligned with
the above -- woman, you have
to be able
to
think clearly, and correctly, and when i say "take no crap from anyone, be it wikipedia or your mom", i actually mean ~something~. it's not a ra ra ra, it's an actually specified artefact, it belongs in engineering, with process assurance and quality control and all
that jazz, not as part of a pep rally.
mircea_popescu: "If you’re a Venture Capitalist,
the last
thing you want is for your child
to go into wage slavery." << more in
the same vein. i do
take
the
tack you recommend ("you have no choice in
the matter ;
the bullwhip is right over
there if
this doesn't
translate otherwise") with my own slavegirls, in a limited sense,
thereby forcing
them
to proficiency in ~certain aspects~ of software engineering.
those aspects are exactly
those a
elaineo: why did you feel compelled
to write "In re Bitcoin Devs are idiots" ? did code stop sucking after
that post?
mircea_popescu: i dunno how common
this case is in general ; but i guarantee it is
the only case where it actually matters, which is
to say at
the
top.
that's why
torvalds got off ass,
that's why rich got off ass, pick any one of
the actually competent.
elaineo: that's probably a better way of saying what i meant
to say,
then
elaineo: is your intention
to show others how
to build
things properly, or
to solve your own problems because no one is doing it for you?
mircea_popescu: i came out of retirement for like
the
third fucking
time
to design non-crap items ; asciilifeform narrowly avoided
the bottle because apparently
there were some people somewhere actually engineering, as opposed
to
tubgirling all over
themnselves. and so following.
mircea_popescu: "Nobody becomes a software engineer because
they love writing code;
they become a software engineer because it allows
them
to build out ideas." <<
this is not so in my experience. from what i've seen in others, and certainyl in my own case, we become engineers because everythinf everyone else does is shit.
mircea_popescu: yes, but it has joined
the chorus invisible for
the
time being.
elaineo: forgot
the 'v', my mistake
mircea_popescu: trinque is deedbot sick ? i notice he kinda quit doing
the rss also
mircea_popescu: as far as remington isconcerned however, a proposal
to replace ~8mn
triggers is not a recall!
mircea_popescu: (remington 700 fires without
trigger interaction ; longstanding problem, hundreds of deaths/injuries, multiple lawsuits. cca 1995-2005 remington kept pushing out "point by point responses" and other nonsense, which
they've meanwhile beleeted
throughout, including spam domains a la remington700.tv and such "deniable" efforts "by consultants". in 2017, half
the DAs oppose a settlement on
the grounds
that insufficient.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 20:04 mircea_popescu: is
that
the remington 700 re-sold for 5x
the list price ?
mircea_popescu: if
the rule is "to fly with apparatus heavier
than air must generate lift in excess of weight",
there's no rider going "but
tell us where
to find such lift".
mircea_popescu: in other words,
the mp strong argument for anarchism :
the only regime
that may be
temporary is anarchism.
mircea_popescu: if
this form of organziation, govt, what you call it, society, ANYTHING does not come with promise of permanence, why am i even considering it ?
mircea_popescu: i
thought
the whole fucking point of politics was
to discover
the
thing
that needn't die.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform arguably it was so democratized anyway. bombs didn't do jack did
they.
mircea_popescu: obviously
the fucking explanation is
that
the sort of bioscum
that get cancer from smoking will still get
the cancer from other
things ifthey can't get it from smoking
mircea_popescu: on
the strict, first layer implications, soviets eating
the bomb bait produced some rich us contractors and a bankrupt su economy.
mircea_popescu: if
this were
to happen it still wouldn't be an argument for
the military value of shooting pea.
mircea_popescu: maybe
through fielding 3mm bullets and peashooters for
them
they discover a new way
to please
the females, insert into urethra and empty magazine.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 16:12 mircea_popescu:
there can be no further accomplishment
than
this, in
the sense of fundamental research.
mircea_popescu: srsly now. youi
think anyone cared ?
then or now ? london, really ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway :
the "wounded man
ties up 3 soldiers", other
than
the baked in presumptions
that
these are
the caring kind of soldiers and
the inept kind of wounded, also neglects
to mention
that ricochet has killed more peopl;e
than direct fire since
the invention of gunpowder. and by a factor of 10
to 100, not piddly.
mircea_popescu: also
the notion
that wounded men stop firing, and limp around like little bitches is borne of little familiarity with any actual war.
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu irrespective,
the point remains
that in most actual engagements,
there's a minimum projectile size worth firing.
mircea_popescu: what, you
think
the op survived
to carry
the source away ?
mircea_popescu: the only extra hole in my hide i acquired
through ricochet under car, nearly lost a knee.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the
theory of
this sounds a lot different from
the practice of
this.
mircea_popescu: neh. because if you're behind a concrete wall and i'm behind a concrete wall, i'd rather unzip and piss on you
than
try and fire a shitass 5mm gun
mircea_popescu: just about
the
time
the new generation of orwell bedwetters started whining about how
they're affraid of
the enemy.
mircea_popescu: that's my understanding of it, "we'll delegate small arms supression fire
to
the a-10 airborne platform, and
then discontinue it. soldiers can carry icecream cones."
mircea_popescu: mats "ar-15 entirely exists because weak-ass usian soldier ersatzes can't carry a proper gun.
true or false ?"
mircea_popescu: ic auction of furniture". and
then cleared
the hall of pressjews with
the mounted police, breaking as many heads as at all possible.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 19:26 asciilifeform: modern historians paint
the
textbook edits, 'gentle suggestions', etc. as an evil, but as i see it
the man went and 'tried soft power' first
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-30#1718796 << re
this,
the ~whole objection re
trump is
that he didn't go into
the first press conference with "1. nobody who worked for us govt in
the past five years can continue
to do so ; 2. i will propose at most one name
to congress.
they have 48 hour
to approve. if i don't propose, or
they don't approve, or
they approve in 48h01m,
the whole dept in question gets unwound, including by publ
☝︎ mats: in my experience not every unit had a weapon system suited
to
the designated marksman role, which can often just be
the guy with
the most accuracy and an acog scope, or a saw gunner, or a 240b
mircea_popescu: for
that money reich also had cancer of
the phnatom udder.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-14 20:19 phf: apparently
the complete form is "davai zdreanta, desdemona! -- kakoy zdreanta, otela, blya??"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 19:08 mircea_popescu:
this is done universally and
to everything, german, russian,
turkish. zdreantsa!
mircea_popescu: do you recall
the now-famous davai zdreantsa incident ?
a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 15:49 asciilifeform: let's briefly visit another
time, place :
the showdown between lysenko and vavilov.
mircea_popescu: do you know of any other possible candidate
to fill
the sound /slavskʲ/ ?