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mircea_popescu: see, and this is a FINE example of what i mean by "leak like a sieve". your observation was in fact accounted for in my model. because i hadn't leaked it. because it doesn't leak there.
ascii_field: and to this well-known maxim i will add mine, 'giving a fuck about the problem is worth 100 iq points'
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wouldn't want to go back to being 20 anymore than i'd want to re-take kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: but im not going to because i see wtf that is freom a mile away, including the gender of the author and her parenting errors in her own kids.
mircea_popescu: and yes, probably the 22 me would have gotten through the fucking with phase in seven weeks and it'd take me 9 now if i tried it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes much deeper than that. like "i readily see THE REAL REASON this is so, so i can skip eighteen paragraphs worth of confused "explicatory" nonsense
mircea_popescu: of course this could be backed in my case by a solid wall of "i don't have to do anything i don' want to do"
ben_vulpes: "this notion is strongly similar to these other notions i'm already familiar with, so i'll integrate it more quickly"?
ascii_field: i - age two weeks every time my alarm clock rings. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i was fucking dumb at 22, and less dumb but still fucking dumb at 25.
mircea_popescu: im i the only guy too absorbed in self-love to notice this phenomenon ?
mircea_popescu: or doing too many. i forget which.
ascii_field: i spent ~3 yrs, fresh from school, actually honest-programming-for-money
mike_c: i think you are unqualified in that field. the wrong job is pretty mind numbing, especially if you don't see the path away from it.
mircea_popescu: i haven't found any.
mircea_popescu: tbh i suspect he uses this as a motivator,
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: why do you suppose i'm not there
ascii_field: i think
ascii_field: mike_c: what i did before, was entirely else - high-performance computing for chemical modelling
mike_c: idk.. you are looking for a very specialized type of job. I don't think you'll get far complaining there aren't a lot of them.
mike_c: see, i told you it was a money pit.
ascii_field: i'm afraid that i cannot say more without breaking oath to the personal friends for whom i carry out this work.
ascii_field: the fact that most of what i do is not brute labour
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it will make more sense if i reveal that
mircea_popescu: and i understand WHY they hire the way they do, with contests etc.
ascii_field: i can say quite securely that no one at 'google' is employed in this capacity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's very dissonant for me because he seems to come from this place where exactly the opposite of what i see is true. backwards world of alf.
ascii_field: mike_c: entirely not the profession i was speaking of.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i thought so too.
mike_c: i don't understand. maybe you are saying there is no demand for exactly what you want to do? there is plenty of demand for smart programmers.
ascii_field: let's narrow down -which- particular thing mircea_popescu is unconvinced by, before i answer
mircea_popescu: i must say im still broadly unconvinced by the entire thing.
mircea_popescu: if women have it, and "do what i mean" and "i should be safe whether im naked drunk or not", then yes, semiskilled shanonizers in microsoft garb everywhere.
mircea_popescu: if this is true, which i still doubt but perhaps just as an artefact of my limied circle, then the pill is simply destruction of the legal protections.
mircea_popescu: i suppose to the degree this phenomenon exists, it is driven by the feminization of the internet (the sort of retarded behaviour illustrated by that comment i quoted earlier).
mircea_popescu: i am unconvinced. there must be more to it.
ascii_field: for the reason which i tried to explain last night
ascii_field: i cited that thing merely because it is a compact statement of essentials of naggumism.
mircea_popescu: is this true btw ? i am sensing this trendwhere people go "real professionals are not in demand"
mircea_popescu: what am i, a sf writer ?
mircea_popescu: "here's some shit i stole off a guy i know".
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: don't get me wrong, i shall write again. and yes - for the archaeologists, as before. but presently cut among 1) dayjob 2) s.nsa 3) sleep,eat,...,write
mircea_popescu: dude, let's burn the library of alexandria because nobody ever read it. i bet that's how it actually went down.
ascii_field: and i blogged about more or less same thing for 7+ yrs, to no effect
mircea_popescu: then it lost gender. it's teetering, and i don't think it's any longer sustainable at all.
mircea_popescu: i know what you mean .do you know what i mean ?
Chillum: What I mean is that just as the religion of two people is irrelevant for marriage in the eyes of the law, so should be gender
mircea_popescu: yes, it shouldn't inconveniently oppress. but that does NOT mean it should not oppress at all. tho i see how that mistake is easy to make.
mircea_popescu: i mean your proposal sounds sensible, but only if one (mistakenly) imagines law can exist sorta out of itself. it can't.
Chillum: I think that law should not consider "gender" at all, leave it as a social construct
mircea_popescu: i guess hating on hos kinda comes with russian culture huh.
mircea_popescu: moreover, i hold actual whores in higher regard than most other professions. certainly i give social precedence to a whore over a us college professor.
mircea_popescu: ah no. i don't despise prostitutes.
mircea_popescu: heh it couldn't be written by mp. i never signed anon in my lyf.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can't get that site.
ben_vulpes: *mise-en-scéne, i mean to say
mircea_popescu: i thought the dickspear idea is pretty pervasive.
mircea_popescu: that's "what do i get for". why is something entirely the fuck else, mentally stunted bunch of business school rejects.
mircea_popescu: <h2 data-translate="why_captcha_headline">Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?</h2>
ben_vulpes: every photo in b-a is like this. "here's this sort of illustrative image relevant to our conversation." "what lead to that photo being taken?" "like i could fucking know..."
ascii_field: like i knew.
ascii_field: i mean, wtf. i actually tried to put some chumpatronium in the hopper and all i got was 'eggog'
mircea_popescu: a) it's not really as much money as you imagine and b) i forget.
mircea_popescu: i thought reid hoffman is the original model for that forever alone figurine no ?
mircea_popescu: depends, really. i readily compete with 16yo boys over 16yo girls.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: that it is not unreasonable to say 'i will not compete with 16 y.o. if i have any choice in the matter'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups". << hence, >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-04-2015#1094083 ☝︎
mike_c: oh, me too. I retract my retort.
mircea_popescu: i guess re-reading this is ambiguous. did you mean "do to trezor" as in, fixing ? or as in, exploiting ?
mike_c: (as i patiently wait for cardano)
ascii_field: now who wants to tell me why it took so long to do to 'trezor' what i suggested doing to it immediately upon learning of the circuit ?
mircea_popescu: "Upon leaving government service, Pope joined Sunrise Senior Living as Director of Special Needs Assisted Living " << i wonder if they make her change adult diapers for the rest of her life now because of that incident.
mircea_popescu: i actually knew a 15yo set that did.
mircea_popescu: had you said yes i'd have said "put it in your cv"
PeterL: ummm, no, I guess not
PeterL: so I started this week at Perrigo, the company stock jumped up 25%, therefore investors must like me, right?
mircea_popescu: ok, nm, it doesn't seem like what i had in mind after all.
PeterL: I just started a new job this week, I am not sure how much time I will be able to spend here
mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups".
PeterL: I just restarted it, should show up any second now...
mats: ill give it a go. a couple family members have schizophrenia... no idea if its heritable but i should definitely be more careful
mircea_popescu: heh watching that s.mpoe is like daytime drama i swear.
mike_c: I hate this: "I don't know that my pull request is the best way to handle it, but I thought it might poke the bear enough to move the conversation along" translation - my code is shit, but maybe it will annoy someone else enough that they will do it correctly.
wyrdmantis: mmm, i've made a mess with nicknames
pete_dushenski: though i think it was kako who bought a couple of them ? mebbe some others too.
pete_dushenski: heh. i dun think anyone here really trusted trezors to begin with
pete_dushenski: cazalla: tis all good, i see what you mean and i don't disagree
pete_dushenski: had mp not written that little article today, i might've posted these on imgur lol
pete_dushenski: i saw it at a motormuseum in berlin 2-3 years ago, just trying to dig up the picture now
pete_dushenski: i honestly don't give a shit about any of them
cazalla: no i mean pc is the master race with quake, n64 fps is the nigger with goldeneye
pete_dushenski: 007 was the only fps i ever even tried to learn
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, some buddies and i are convening next weekend to play goldeneye for n64
pete_dushenski: i have no objection to that improvement
mircea_popescu: http://rs1img.memecdn.com/i-hate-it-when-i-sit-down-and-i-suddenly-turn-in-to-a-dog_o_703132.jpg
pete_dushenski: i was pleasantly surprised at how inexpensive memory is for these older machine.
pete_dushenski: which is easily the most i've ever had in a desktop, so i'm quite looking forward to seeing how it performs
pete_dushenski: i feel a seinfeld joke coming on
Chillum: I walk, but only ironically
Chillum: smartwatches are nice but I prefer my mechanical Omega