asciilifeform: i know of nothing which was ever run in any other way.
asciilifeform: or why the food-lever-operator chimp gets a slightly weaker beating as his 'salary'
asciilifeform: or perhaps is simply fired slightly later
asciilifeform: and 'his own team has to be fought for 10k' is for the same fundamental reason that a programmer who saves a $maxint reactor gets a $smallint bonus for his trouble
asciilifeform: usg 'drop ten million rocket to nail a camel' is generous !
asciilifeform: or possibly a few folks actually knew 'just enough to be dangerous'
asciilifeform: because we haven't a chronoscope? possibly.
asciilifeform: ain't talking of xerxes's reputation for subduing the ocean with whip
asciilifeform: gernika, mircea_popescu: actually this is still sop. i am the odd man out among my circle for ~never~ having done a lick of honest work
asciilifeform: ow live frogs whole, fresh out of the swamp, for her own perverse enjoyment of seeing the young sluts suffer. Hey, it cured Sue's pregnancy, it did! What spontaneous abortion, what coincidence, are you from like the future ?' << this is, as often is, not the complete story. there ~were~ folks who made a reputation for actually curing something
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Meanwhile everyone else continues to practice medicine as best the means available allow also, but according to what the knowledge of the time allows. And everyone else is going to be the professionals in the field of medicine in Sicily cca 1200, whereas our teleported professional is just going to be a quaint curio, undistinguishable and undistinguished from the weird old lady making pretty young things swall
asciilifeform: 'All this was in part spawned by a long going if little voiced thread in #b-a on the topic of "how can PGP folk be this fucking retarded. Sort-of like the colonial European's expectation that someone firing a weapon necessarily speaks French, or Spanish, or English, or some sort of civilised language also. Because otherwise... where did they get the human weapon! Goblins don't craft weapons.' << YES!
asciilifeform: (not that he needs'em for anything, but might not resist urge to discover if it was a true microscope in the sense of cracking a skull well)
asciilifeform: all i can say to this is - don't lend mircea_popescu yer microscopez
asciilifeform: yes, mircea_popescu will probably say that a microscope that is not also a hammer is a worthless thing and ought never to have been considered a microscope
asciilifeform: just as it was not the worst, by any reasonable measure, soviet physicists, who ended up driving cabs or drinking to death
asciilifeform: but the problem is not limited to plankton
asciilifeform: it is very easy to dismiss mr.unemployable as 'plankton' without knowing anything about him
asciilifeform: craftsmen (programmer) for whom there is no economy to work in
asciilifeform: but the article linked earlier was about something else
asciilifeform: this is probably why mircea_popescu suggested that they ought to compete for who can most creatively mutilate his cock on camera, rather than apply to 'walmart'
asciilifeform: no expectation of paid time off, or health insurances
