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mircea_popescu: How do you make a child know himself? You surround him with mirrors. "This is what everyone else sees when you do what you do. This is who everyone thinks you are." <<< mno, that's how you make a child become a girl.
mircea_popescu: orly, neurosis is the answer ? i had no idea anyone even asked the question!
mircea_popescu: lol, tlp trying to be feminist by making men as dumb as women.
mircea_popescu: ecause there is nothing else of value inside me except X? But he was never taught to ask questions like this. In fact, he was taught never to ask questions like that. What kind of a man attracts a woman who can only echo him? There must be a name for that kind of person, and he already had it."
mircea_popescu: "But if Echo was no longer a projection, she was still a reflection. Echo, like all women, offered her man a peek inside his soul, all he had to do look: What kind of a man am I, that attracts this kind of woman? What kind of a man am I that attracts the kind of woman who only likes me for how I look? Despite how I treat her? What kind of a man am I that only attracts the kind of women who like me for X? Is it b
mircea_popescu: you really shouldn't stack the same play. if the wife's a lascivious blonde don't get ANOTHER one for a mistress. get a spirtous brunette sarah silverman sorta chick.
mircea_popescu: sure, say aerosmith has the same longevity. but gimme a break with the bubblepop crap they been doing for mtv this side of the mllenium.
mircea_popescu: aged splendidly too. im not even sure if his best work isn't his last album
mircea_popescu: always suspected the trout doesn't actually mind being caught.
mircea_popescu: at some point at that age i used to go trouting in this stream. the trout likes to sit under the rock sort-of mid evening, you can catch it with your hands just loop either end in.
mircea_popescu: "i cut down trees, i wear high heels" now resounding in mp residence
mircea_popescu: i must confess buffett sold me on his "hay mas futuro por norteamerica" or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah. baltimore'd have never had such good crime without govt.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't terribly controversial shinohai. howdja meet her anyway.
mircea_popescu: the russians got steel plants faster with stalin then they'd have without.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: most people live with a mix of the two, which is fine, pick a mix you like and stick to it.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to be in start-ups, don't. do not expect you get to open your mouth.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to do webwork, don't. do not expect any sort of actual pay.
mircea_popescu: it's either or, pick one or the other and enough with it already.
mircea_popescu: you are stubbornly missing here that what you'd like the world to be does not matter one whit, and whatever way you dress that masturbation up doesn't change its masturbatory content.
mircea_popescu: nor do i hire plumbers to do the code nor do i hire usian kids to do my plumbing.
mircea_popescu: which is why if he came to have a chat with me i'd have the girls send him off.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as he doesn't get to put his name on the thing.
mircea_popescu: oh, i don't recall, 200 pesos for the labour or something it was
mircea_popescu: im either doing too many things at once or whatever. who ? link ? what ?
mircea_popescu: i understand that salaried work is both more common and more convenient, but i have personally no patience for salary types, and more importantly, there's no room in b-a for such, because it's not a fucking ewmpire, it's a republic,
mircea_popescu: this is entirely besides the point. how you organise your own affairs is your own call. b-a is an equity play : you do things ; when and if they bring money in, you can have money ; when and if they bring chicks in, you can have chicks. that's how equity plays work : you get a claim to whatever future brings.
mircea_popescu: same thing happens to me, i get various bits i end up keeping for a long time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whty is the painter with ebola chick wearing high heeled platforms ?
mircea_popescu: that in the same go, as you understand one, you understand the other. they being the exact same thing.
mircea_popescu: so now you know why you must go stand on own, with one go.
mircea_popescu: because it has no mechanisms of institutionalized opression of the median.
mircea_popescu: and it continues to appear to work for as long as it fails to appear interesting.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is keeping the herd out of computing, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: and once they become popular, they will BE the sea of lisp shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i keep getting sucked into discussing science fiction movie scripts with this guy.
mircea_popescu: i'm fucking "the enemy" ie some conclave of old fart's both daughters and occaisonally wife. always have.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't, personally, give a rats ass either way. if yes, sure. if not, whatever, i have no problems riding a horse.
mircea_popescu: looky, if we miss the window to civilisation we'll have missed the window to civilisation, that's all.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact, incontrovertible and above your ability to contest, that you can do 100 cpus, and it doesn'rt even cost that much.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing things with this inept nonsense. for the same reason i shouldn't have queried ben_vulpes yest.
mircea_popescu: umd will let you tack on 100 cpus to some prototype run they got, won't it ?
mircea_popescu: so no, the problem is not an absent "mass market". the problem is that there's work to be done for future uncertain benefit.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field we can make 100 cpus TODAY, and on tech that didn't even exist in 1960.
mircea_popescu: that's the martians that put the chlorotic non-elites on earth.