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thestringpuller: if I was plaiyng the "take
a shot when buzzword is used" drinking game
pete_dushenski: dilbert's been on
a roll with this pointy-haired investment advice series
mike_c: "you should buy
a stock whenver the chart looks like
a squirrel sitting on
a clown's shoulder"
trinque: +mircea_popescu | <trinque>
http://deedbot.org/ << there be deeds << cool. why are some repeated ? << test values; I published bundles with the same messages
a few times while working
danielpbarron: what kind? you mean diagrams? or just
a fancy header?
lobbes: re: meetings << Even when they are on-topic, they are rarely organized. I've actually overheard someone in
a phone meeting: "we're having
a lack of communication about x, I think we should have
a meeting on it"
nubbins`: incidentally, you could go on
a meaty tangent about public employees right about here
mircea_popescu: you can also expect to find the last time someone made fart jokes publicly @ the expense of people present buried under at least
a decade of history.
nubbins`: when
a large, once-profitable company suddenly goes belly-up or massively scales back, you can expect to find
a high percentage of alexes on the payroll
mircea_popescu: the problem essentially is that specialist groups do need
a variety talk, however "politeness" combined with that results into
a lot of nooks and crannies where alex can hide.
nubbins`: which, if it didn't accompany
a pay raise, would engender the same line of questioning as
a dismissal
nubbins`: they just give 'em
a different job in another department
nubbins`: so rather than facing "yep, we've let this dead weight collect
a cheque for 15 years"
nubbins`: once an incompetent worker reaches
a certain longevity, their dismissal is tacit admittance that they've been fooling everyone all along
pete_dushenski: "The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) today announced that Pay.gov, the government’s secure web based collection portal for payments to federal agencies, now offers both PayPal and Dwolla as payment options." << from
a few days ago.
nubbins`: it was at this job that i realized just because you work as
a computer programmer, doesn't mean you know even the basics of what computers are and how they work
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: what else to do ? << learn to concentrate better instead of being
a fucking child?
nubbins`: doing his due diligence on
a go-forward basis
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: people just hang around << i find this is because people lack focus during the meeting. You stay on topic until someone mentions something off topic. "Blah blah blha pink floyd" "Oh you like pink floyd?" 30 minutes later you realize you're still talking about
a 70's rock band and not about that thing you're supposed to be meeting about.
mircea_popescu: so why wouldn't you answer the phone. it's more like
a boring highschool class than
a meeting.
nubbins`: guy stole 120 hours on the company.
a month's work. when an email woulda done
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i recall at one office job, my boss' boss' boss was getting
a promotion, and so called all 120 programmers into
a boardroom, 30 at
a time, to explain about his new responsibilities but nothing will change for the rest of us
mircea_popescu: This expectation is so ingrained that people in meetings routinely answer their mobile phones to say << maybe what has really changed is the expectation re meetings. just
a decade or two ago, people would have expected meetings to serve
a rational purpose and end with
a result.
chetty: nubbins`, yeah got to admit I was
a little annoyed with myself, no landline here either so no phone charged was kinda dumb
nubbins`: we have no landline, so i try not to leave mine dead for more than
a few hours at
a time
thestringpuller: nubbins`: one symptom of information addiction is "forgets to callback". People who check their phone compulsively will see
a text or missed call and make note in working memory to get back with the person.
nubbins`: but after
a few "yeah, i leave it on silent"s
pete_dushenski: you can't see your brain turning into
a fat, slothful mess
thestringpuller: nubbins`: i do this with texts. No vibration no sound. Have to put it on ring profile for them to make
a noise. But usually you start to check messages when you feel like it rather than compulsively.
PeterL: but scoopbot was not looking at the titles, so I am kinda at
a loss as to why it doesn't like contravex
pete_dushenski: nubbins` lol i thought you were talking about the tracking device part for
a sec
nubbins`: there's
a really, really easy solution to this
pete_dushenski: if only this were still 2013, y'know we might have
a shot at fleecing some kids with that
fluffypony: "
a poor person who stays poor is poor at money." - fluffy pony, equine
lobbes: ave let
a landline on their desk go unanswered during
a meeting, so different were the expectations for reachability." << Heh, I've seen people do this.. still strikes me as rude
lobbes: "Now more people have mobile phones than have toilets. This has created an implicit expectation that you should be able to reach someone when it is convenient for you, regardless of whether it is convenient for them. This expectation is so ingrained that people in meetings routinely answer their mobile phones to say, “I’m sorry, I can’t talk now, I’m in
a meeting.” Just
a decade or two ago, those same people would h
nubbins`: hp may make
a good printer, but epson makes
a better one
trinque: though if the goal is
a perfect client, I think
a real database offers helpful tools
trinque: BingoBoingo: it's worth thinking about for
a long time, for sure
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know there's
a word for this, among people who shovel this particular sort of elephant shit for
a living (mostly, clinical psychiatrist)
trinque: crack may have played
a factor
trinque: I went outside and watched
a bit, but it was pitiful
trinque: not
a good fight either; I think the one winning is crying
punkman: BingoBoingo: There were mazes, girls, low speed chases, shootouts, and orgies of celebration... Basically I dream in action movies << why is maze/chase/shootout such
a common theme? always comes up when discussing dreams
cazalla: ah, the life of
a qntra writer/bachelor!
gribble: Bitstamp | This order would exceed the size of the order book. You would buy 12464.151 bitcoins, for
a total of 5694585.6424 USD and take the price to 99999.0000. | Data vintage: 0.0216 seconds
thestringpuller: "
A converted 24-seat bus, the execution van keeps the appearance of
a normal police van on the outside with no markings indicating its purpose. The rear of the vehicle houses
a windowless chamber where the execution takes place. Several cameras are present and feed closed-circuit televisions in the front of the van;
a recording can be made if desired. The bed itself slides out of the wall under its own power, on which the convi
thestringpuller: The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in
a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
thestringpuller: The gas van was invented in the Soviet Union in 1936, by Isay Berg, the head of the administrative and economic department of the NKVD of Moscow Oblast which suffocated batches of prisoners with engine fumes in
a camouflaged bread van while on the drive out to the mass graves at Butovo, where the prisoners were subsequently buried.
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2014 04:49:54; asciilifeform: all you have to do, then, is to pile on the meat puppets, until suddenly there is
a 'controversy', and there are 'points of view', and eventually -
a 'consensus.'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:19; asciilifeform: because suddenly, there is (or you think there is)
a debate. with 'sides.'
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2014 16:47:05; asciilifeform: once you've been 'taught the controversy' - that is, convincing that there -even is- reasonable debate among informed people, on
a particular subject - the lie becomes
a kind of half-truth, automagically
mats: asciilifeform: iirc that was not
a stable release
decimation: that's
a good point, usg cannot simultaneously recognize another sovereign country and also say 'give legit rulers all ur bits'
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: how does one procure
a non-spookware router tho?
decimation: MR: I’ve got
a lot of world-class cryptographers at the National Security Agency." < MR is 'mike rogers', new director of nsa
decimation: "AS: No, I think Bruce Schneier and Ed Felton and all of the best public cryptographers in the world would agree that you can’t really build backdoors in crypto. That it’s like drilling
a hole in the windshield.
mike_c: asciilifeform: problem is, that's not
a growth story.
mircea_popescu: "Chief casualty is U.S. network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc, which in 2012 counted 60 products on the Central Government Procurement Center's (CGPC) list, but by late 2014 had none,
a Reuters analysis of official data shows."
thestringpuller: well given trilema is well monetized I wouldn't worry too much about qntra implementing
a revenue stream in the future
mike_c: i thought that
a couple times, but then the bids kept going up.
assbot: Logged on 19-07-2014 01:48:06; decimation: "Buffeting its load of tightly packed bodies, the gaily painted orange and blue truck drove on through the streets, passed
a railway station and stopped at
a crossroads. There, halted by
a traffic-light, stood the dark-red car belonging to the Moscow correspondent of the Paris newspaper LIBERATION, on his way to
a hockey match at the Dynamo Stadium. On the side of the van the correspondent read the words
decimation: <nubbins`> probably unrelated but there's been
a comms van w/ gov plates parked down the road from me for like
a week
mircea_popescu: well i lost
a main router somehow too. supposedly was
a power outage downtown
trinque: hacking my emacs and stumpwm configs have helped
a great deal
thestringpuller: trinque: lets have
a LISP tutorial when I'm tripping instead of drunk ;)
thestringpuller: i also don't use emacs but when trying to learn, it really really really made me want toss my computer out
a window
thestringpuller: thestringpuller: like what OS, browser, text editor do you use on your local that you don't have to use
a mouse to navigate?