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nubbins`: but y'know what? i don't have to lie in bed every morning wondering whether i'll call in sick
nubbins`: i used to make that in 13 minutes at my old job
nubbins`: my wife and i collectively have to scrounge together about $400 per month to keep this house going
asciilifeform: nubbins`: i pay ~700 usd/mo just for some distant approximation of that
nubbins`: anyway, i fill two empty bedrooms with like-minded individuals with schedules that suit me
nubbins`: yeah, the socialist paradise. i get hit by a car, they fix me for free
nubbins`: net 6k, i said 8)
nubbins`: but what i'm saying is that while cutting one's income from a gross of ~$60k to a net of ~$6k necessarily involves severe lifestyle changes
nubbins`: how do you suppose i can manage this?
nubbins`: and someone with a link to the stats can take a stab at how much time i spend dicking around on irc
nubbins`: just so it's not glossed over, i said earlier that i took a 90% pay cut in 2013
nubbins`: i ^
asciilifeform: nubbins`: elementary fact is that i can only keep my wot obligations (s.nsa) if i have present level of equipment and time
nubbins`: you know i took a ninety per cent pay cut two years ago?
ben_vulpes: the only thing i can think to do is accumulate capital.
nubbins`: i don't /really/ think i need to tell you guys that tears are a necessary ingredient to un-fucking your situations
ben_vulpes: i now have obligations
ben_vulpes: i started a company
ben_vulpes: yes i'm an idiot
nubbins`: "i really wanna lose weight, but big macs are just so good and i gotta have 10 a day"
nubbins`: why do i get the impression that nobody wants to exit the hamster cage because the wheel and watering tube are really nice and convenient?
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build.
asciilifeform: cazalla: no, but the cost of electricity, gas and others under the idea of global warming and taxes [and rest of that thread] << if it makes ya feel better - far worse in usa. i, for instance, know for a fact that i will never own any lands here.
thestringpuller: i realize paying taxes is so futile with our insatiable defecit
mircea_popescu: but i still dun think it's a fair eval.
mircea_popescu: well nao, i'll have to think about that.
mircea_popescu: obviously, i'm a great student of the mouse school of jar handling.
asciilifeform: see, linux is free if you had the upbringing, but 100k might as well be 100kg of plutonium as far as i'm concerned
mircea_popescu: other person presents with complaint "i can not correctly use bitcoin because i'm on bezzle". you average +8, i average the same -1.
mircea_popescu: person presents with complaint "i can not correctly use bitcoin because im on windows". on a scale of -10 to +10, where -10 is "that's ok, you shoulsd use windows" and 10 is "fuck you get off windows anywhay right now no mattert the cost" you average about a -8, i about a -1
asciilifeform: so far i don't disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd
mircea_popescu: this alone should be prima facie evidence i'm actually right.
mircea_popescu: it is in fact a rehash of the "i can't run bitcoin on linux because i have windows"
asciilifeform: for instance, i pay ~1.5x - 2x per sq. metre of housing than my colleagues
punkman: I've never paid rent not in cash :P
mircea_popescu: but the notion that you can't make payments... i mean ? just too weird.
asciilifeform: it works if we were both, say, italians, where 'it isn't done', or if i were part of an ethonmafia that will cause him problems in the event of raw deal
ben_vulpes: sure. i'll read more thoroughly next time i'm a thousand lines behind.
asciilifeform: that is, say i had landlord who is paid in cash, and he decides that months's bag of money 'never happend'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: goes deeper than my superficial explanation suggests. i was really on about the difficulty of 'bitcoinizing' fundamentally fiat-wot-based business arrangements
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm not saying you won't *be* right, but in your quest to get out in front of how the world will be you're not looking at how the world is.
mircea_popescu: i had no idea.
mircea_popescu: overnight, i get an email invoice 20 times. clearly, progress.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: sometimes i wish i never found this place, i wouldn;t know any fucking better, could've kept towing the line that this is how it's to be << famous words.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i take it back, they prolly know the material, let 'em manage it. i can't be arsed to follow amir. whoever does, can call the shots.
BingoBoingo: I remember earlier this week some radio host talking about how Obama is only giving the Peshmerga 20 so Armoured personel carriers instead of the 120 som the Pershmerga needs
mats: help help i'm being oppressed
mircea_popescu: oh gods i am so thankful to have been born in the first ever Age of Comedy
mircea_popescu: sadly i don't see too well inside teh golden crescent. no real interest for me there.
mats: as i understand it, they don't want to wade into shia sunni violence and catch some political fallout in the process
mircea_popescu: what i'd like to see is what the fuck "humint" provided the 1-2k figure is all.
mats: BingoBoingo: i believe the kurds will be on the outskirts of mosul, pulling security
BingoBoingo: <mats> i don't believe the kurds will actually fight inside mosul << There's a time and place the Kurds will fight, but first the need to go through the motions of leveraging all of the phree stuff they can from Obola
mircea_popescu: i don't see it either.
mats: i don't believe the kurds will actually fight inside mosul
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would say that's a gross misrepresentation.
asciilifeform: unless i grossly misunderstand, it's not a 'us vs arabs' match, but a 'small faction of uppity orcs vs whole bunch of other folks incl. most of the neighbouring orcs' match.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno how infinite that is. but "infinite" didn't help vietnam
mircea_popescu: i've never seen nuttery on this level before. seriously, "soft politics" is one thing, "oh we're so good we control teh ppl with the media".
mircea_popescu: and winning a war with mercenaries against those nuts is above what i could accomplish.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: http://xkcd.com/1489/ <<< that's pretty much EXACTLY it. and then various noobs imagine physics is a serious science, while in fact it barely hangs out at the outskirts of credibility, and same noobs imagine stuff like i dunno, psychiatry or "earth sciences" are not kinda as srs as physics "but nevertheless".
cazalla: of course, no-one commented, but if i noticed the timing..
cazalla: i like mp's touch.. 5 year anniversary
cazalla: chetty, i'm being generous
chetty: <cazalla> what took a joe stack to realise in 50 years takes someone like me to realise in 25 years which takes someone to come after 10-15 years// I dont think it has another 10-15 years left in it
punkman: also, I'm not gonna care about Zimbabwe bezzle, as long as I'm not there
cazalla: and if you think i'm fucking kidding, just try me
cazalla: hey, the day a certain someone orders them all lined up and machine gunned, i'll fkn be there
cazalla: i'd be disappointed if he tells the uni recruiter anything less than fuck you
cazalla: you think i'm gonna raise my own to go out into the world, accue large amounts of bezzle debt for a uni degree to work at mcdonalds?
punkman: I got some land that needs a farmer, might have to wait for the btc slaves though
cazalla: jurov, what i have doesn't even keep pace with the bezzle
cazalla: i hope you neck every single one of them
cazalla: i am not intelligent, never really had the opportunity or desire to reach out for knowledge, nothing more than a class of person who, if dedicated, could become a master wine/cheese/anyfood maker
cazalla: anything i learned was from fidonet which these fucks fought and fought to keep me off the computer
cazalla: i learned nothing
punkman: I learned good things in school, but higher ed was a complete disappointment
cazalla: and i'd win, because fighting my own father who would not hesitant to flog me with a jug cord or punch and wind me.. nothin any other kid could muster
cazalla: i use to have fights with 2-3 kids
cazalla: only fights i lost were against the kids who's own father beat the shit out of them.. and at that point it was not many
cazalla: fail P.E, yet i could beat the shit, or at least put up a fight againt the stronger kids who beat me anyway
cazalla: fwiw, i didn't even finish school, plenty of C's D's E's and F's because what they taught was utter shit.. oobedience to the bezzle, obedience to who paid them and kept a roof over their head
cazalla: prob serve him better if i drop dead earlier in his life than later
cazalla: i can;t think of anything worse than my son taking what i own just as he hits his late teens, early 20s
cazalla: maybe i do my own son an injustice.. say i wind up dead in 15-20 years time and he inherits the lot..
cazalla: and my old man copped it much worse from his father than i did mine
cazalla: i don't know if i could hit him in the fashion my own father hit me
cazalla: i value a meal, a roof over my head, a warm bed
cazalla: which makes me contemplate.. mp and physical discipline.. i couldn't imagine hitting my kid.. yet, if my own father didnt flog me with jugcord and leave countless bruises.. i don't think i'd be here today
cazalla: nad yet if bitcoin fulfils its destiny, i'll prob eat a bowl of shit from the kid
chetty: but I for one would not trade it. And ya twice as bad when other depend on you
cazalla: i could survive on noodles myself.. but the kid... i won't have that
cazalla: times like this i regret having a missus and kid
cazalla: sometimes i wish i never found this place, i wouldn;t know any fucking better, could've kept towing the line that this is how it's to be
cazalla: ya fucking hung as in necked or i go and prostitute myself on a part time basis to keep lights on
cazalla: yet i can think of nothing worse
cazalla: the fucking noose grows tighter, i tell you that now
cazalla: i been looking for work myself atm
cazalla: i was still living at home on and off during late teens, early 20s despite all the bullshit
cazalla: with the weight of others clingingin to it unware i'm trying to carry them so that they don't fucking starve