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mircea_popescu: "oh, you mean you want me to work for
$institution for free ?" "yes, it's prestige!!! you realising any portion of the value you add would make the value you add worth less--for us!"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 21:30 mircea_popescu: want a good
$item find an old
$item final age of glorious socialism is upon us huh.
mircea_popescu: want a good
$item find an old
$item final age of glorious socialism is upon us huh.
☟︎ phf: in fact!!!
$(which foo) works
ben_vulpes: "i'll take the vault for
$pittance, but only if you discount
$butthole by
$similar_pittance"
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: remains of previousl
$bezzlecorp assetes
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up a few
$mil and megawatt of iron)
Framedragger: i just mean that a box behind NAT won't show up in that !
$ssh query
mircea_popescu: but anyway, a fine summary of modernity is "the time when middle class status went from owning
$x in property to owning
$x in property AND generating
$y in income".
mircea_popescu: would be interesting to see what happens if
$noob starts feeding old lines from someone in wot.
mircea_popescu: and from this it follows asciilifeform will go and donate
$1k to "real estate quantizer" ?
mircea_popescu: (amusingly -- flaubert allegedly spent
$longinterval trying to decide which temperature reading is the correct number, between 19 and 17 or somesuch. or maybe it was proust. anyway.)
pete_dushenski: this has also been my issue in current
$porsche market. brainbrakes are stronger than heartthrottle.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not saying you should depart with btc for
$car, but i've yet to meet the seller who turned down, as you say, incadollars.
mircea_popescu: i totally would. the name of the game is disproportionate retribution. let your
$100 seat savings cost you
$10 mn in financing, why the hell not.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: even artist can grow up as poor canadian, never exposed to culture, and continue 'successful career' equally sheltered, shuttling from airport to hotel and hotel to arena, forever contained in
$bubble.
mircea_popescu: "Somewhat fortunately Balsamiq was too successful for that, and Giacomo was forced to hire more and more people. Balsamiq is now being built by 25 members, who service around 0.5M customers and manage 10,000 new transactions a month. All of it generating about
$7M a year." << this is actually a model-run business. had nfi mp-style even exists in fiat world, but lo and behold. took 10 years to get to 7mn a year, sustainably.
☟︎ Framedragger: maybe if we all bid in
$1 increments they will see real value
$$$ Framedragger: filled out a form. my proposed mega charitable
$25 bid will probably go unnoticed, tho :(
mircea_popescu: "Tinton Falls, NJ April 21, 2017 — AASKI Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are one of three Defense companies to win a prime contractor position on a potential five-year,
$900 million contract for field support and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Project Management Office, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM UAS)." etc.
BingoBoingo: In the "Sad That Not Scammed Files": You need to stop giving a fuck about how your car looks. I was cross shopping clean RSX-Ss against my CRZ, and I got a bargain basement CRZ at
$7500. You paid
$2300, maybe a third of what a nice one costs. The only amazing thing here is that you are stunned that your car that cost a third of "what it should" has tons of problems.
Framedragger: one
$sadthing re aristotle is that he did all his logic in verbal syllogisms. which is ~fine, but omg did predicate symbol notation help... and it took a long while. same with middle age logic (buridan et al, not an expert tho). guess knowing lating well helps a lot, tho :/
mircea_popescu: random
$50 an hour ro tv starlet. google images shows you the... well, you know, normal face, they all look the same.
mircea_popescu: hoarding it like ~ is borne of a very flattering view of humanity, supposing somehow that the worms could also not be worms, if
$magic, such as you know, reading a book.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-11 21:15 Framedragger: @all thanks to this chat i'll now make some urgent recommendations to startup i'm involved with. maybe it's not even gonna be fucked in the ass if moves decisively away. a bit ashamed i had
$opinion on
$thing-not-researched in the first place.
ben_vulpes: lol i just told
$girl that she was lazy, she retorted that she "is efficient, and it's a feature"
mircea_popescu: yes, but why is the happenstance that some dood with the right robes made
$mistake relevant ?
gabriel_laddel_p: I just turned up an extra
$100 and will happily venmo it to you today if you JUST DO IT.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-09#1653759 << no, no. the sad fact of the matter is that what people want is without exception stupid and harmful. not even one, both. a functional civilisation provides people with a good story as to why they're getting something other than what they want. whether what they actually get happens to also be a) what they actually need, as opposed to
$random ; b) actually competitive with the vario
☝︎ mircea_popescu: he could style it ca
$ew, his byline could be "i'm nuts for money", goof studd.
gizmolearner: After many years of slow growth, AI is currently looking to be on an unstoppable path. If a machine that costs
$.25 an hour to run can out think a person who costs
$50 an hour. What should the people do? Capatilism says the machines should win the jobs. So no you have factories and things that require almost no people, but still produce as much as ever. And a lot of unemployable people.
BingoBoingo: fromloper: You'd be surprised. Many people want out of John Deere's rootkit so that they can fix their tractor cost less than
$newtractor
fromloper: System Debugger supports the
$3000 XDP-ITP, the
$390 SVT CCA adapter, and the
$15 USB debug cable.
fromloper: If I liked spending money I wouldn't be worrying about getting the
$15 debug cable to work or an abandoned
$200 probe.
fromloper: Their private debugger is
$5k a year though.
fromloper: Ahh. Well no choice if I want to use intel's VMX instrutions but to use intel. Just trying to avoid having to spend
$3000 for the standard ITP-XDP device and needing special expensive boards with an XDP port.
BingoBoingo: <lobbes>
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-04#1651737 << probably follows standard path of percocet abuse (around
$30 per pill on black market iirc) to eventual (much cheaper) heroin << You mean under
$1 a pop at Walgreens to street price sticker shock to "One trick the drug companies don't want you to know"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and then "The busses couldn't cope". motherfucking mental defective! the busses COME WITH NUMBERS.
$capacity.
$speed. you can CALCULATE
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at some point someone gave
$chinese ruler half dozen fruit. he didn't want them, donated them to local chapter of party.
phf: i saw a cool edition of blake's works in powell's in portland. it was a folio reproduction of his designs, with complete Marriage, etc. unfortunately it was something like
$400, and i just couldn't justify buying it then
Framedragger: a friend needed bank account for a french job. got assigned "personal assistant" at bank. now assistant asks to meet every
$x weeks, they go for coffee or something. which is maybe great in HNWI world, but she's not "HNW" and just has a normal not-high-paying job. ahh the french
Framedragger: same. (it's not like i'd quit
$job if this is done anyway, so even by trinque's line of reasoning, won't go homeless in 6 months!1)
ben_vulpes: had one of those and one even larger at
$summercamp
Framedragger: because it may be more than
$32 if it's somewhere else but i MYSELF DEFEAT THIS POINT sorry damnit.
mircea_popescu: could I do something like !
$mirror <url> 5 so as to get it to spin up 5 separate instances, load url, unpack it and serve ?
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: could you take a picture of said
$28k pickup ?
mircea_popescu: also a row boat where you live goes for
$200 to
$800 depending on model.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-01 19:37 mircea_popescu: the lulz of all fucking time, a grand bought his father a new life 25 years ago ; i just did the household accounting, my petty cash line is a shade over
$8`000. that excludes rents like it excludes isp bills or agents on a mission or anything else worth the fucking mention. a grand would buy me half a week's worth of groceries, taking a girl out or buying her some random dress we saw in the window so she comes out of the sho
Framedragger: re 'years from now', guess so, can't see why not. fun exploit times! (but seriously, opened ticket at
$provider to query about a xeon cpu)
mircea_popescu: the lulz of all fucking time, a grand bought his father a new life 25 years ago ; i just did the household accounting, my petty cash line is a shade over
$8`000. that excludes rents like it excludes isp bills or agents on a mission or anything else worth the fucking mention. a grand would buy me half a week's worth of groceries, taking a girl out or buying her some random dress we saw in the window so she comes out of the sho
☟︎ Framedragger: i use wikipedia for quick lookup of
$topic sometimes; i also use it as "collection of references to other places" thing. is this fundamentally toxic? maybe.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: right, insane inflation. counterpoint "it's all about timing and location" anecdote (purely for entertainment): dad worked in chocolate factory in u.s. back in ~1991, for 2-3mo.; went home with ~
$1k, bought car and flat. ppp!
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i'll mention one thing tho: you cited "
$10k+ / year" figures and all that, but just ftr i don't believe the actual *profit margin* (vs. revenue) would be decent. that said, this should of course be researched.
mircea_popescu: see, bukharin who idiotically will not go to china to hang out with a 30yo deng xiaoping also pays
$9 a month "for his team" to github.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, github has a "pricing" tab i never noticed before.
$9 per user per month ? really ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-28#1649528 << it is avoidable as a matter of fact. i have by now built an item that is too complex to fit in my head. i call it
$harem for convenience, but it's a set of girls who do things on the basis of rules which they were at some point in their girly youth illo tempore been beaten / screamed at for.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 17:31 asciilifeform: the #1 entry is gut-bustingly lulzy to asciilifeform , because i spend ~half year auditing a multilinear-map thing for
$rupturefarm, and even was sent to a 'conference' where 'serious cryptographers' did not even blink when someone walked in with a proof that whole thing was crock of shit