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mircea_popescu: " But sitting in the parking lot it gave us the appearance of extravagance while inside the building we were living the frugal life--in a world starved for software development talent, it would have been hard to lose money paying MIT-educated programmers $50-85,000 base salaries plus an end-of-year bonus based on accomplishment and the firm's performance."
mircea_popescu: whosoever proposes they are actually valuable. by the flow of that conversation it seemed that includes you.
mircea_popescu: if vc comes to me with 20mn on the premise i get to keep 1mn if i spend 10mn hiring these idiots
mircea_popescu: which is how the largest dispute to date we had has been over... fucking compatibility.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not even my angle. my angle is this : "yes it makes sense for the company YOU PAID MONEY BEFORE to protect your investment IN THEIR SHIT. but you didn't pay me jack, did you ? I WILL BURN IT ON GENERAL PRINCIPLE AND FUCK YOU FOR HAVING PAID THE ENEMY."
mircea_popescu: this incidentally also goes for socialism, which yes, inasmuch as it's "the political ideology of the stupid" is indistinguishable from applied dadaism.
mircea_popescu: ergo d. the only way for it to pay bills is through cannibalizing its own membership for the onlyt thing they're good for : butt tears.
mircea_popescu: b. the only people who give a shit about dadaist stuff are involved in it ; c. it's not fucking funny.
mircea_popescu: which is why the stupid never fail and the smart never succeed.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i suspect a lot of the mommentum for the entire "oh broken factors" comes from historical accident. it was in point of fact research into elliptic curves that yielded the fermat proof,
mircea_popescu: btw wiles looks a lot like brin the elder wouldn't you think ?
mircea_popescu: so it'll prolly be resolved, if ever, by a totally unexpected and half nutty formalism
mircea_popescu: i didn't mean "i should like for someone to show me how math works". i just meant i dunno that there's even a promising direction of research into the matter.
mircea_popescu: after all, feathers, right ? from like, animals, right ?
mircea_popescu: i expect if ever resolved it'll be like the fermat thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that one is not the same as other is what happens to be true.
mircea_popescu: but it's what i had formed in my head in that week or however long the interest lasted.
mircea_popescu: so, no. it does not. it has some shit, and it's so confused it doesn't even realise it.
mircea_popescu: these are the sort of schmucks that can't even afford pants to keep their money in.
mircea_popescu: and all the fuckwards derping about bitcoin and africa are more than welcome to explain who in this world exactly needs 2 dollar-fortified transactions to pay for his fucking plastic pocket protector or whatever the shit reddit buys from that one fat chick at the talent fair.
mircea_popescu: so their math is correct, it does cost MULTIPLE DOLLARS to properly settle a transaction, via the TRUSTLESS blockchain mechanism.
mircea_popescu: also, it's not exactly clear what the bitcoin per-transaction COSTS are, but it is quite obvious that a) mining is designed to be a ~0% margin activity and has been exactly that without exception through the history and b) the PRICE paid for a block which is usually 1-2k transactions is usually 25ish BTC, which is for simplicity 5k dollars.
mircea_popescu: rly, "blockchain networks", go paint your asshole with lipstick, it's about as obvious.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, i appreciate that they're SO FUCKING PETRIFIED of bitcoin can't even talk of it other than under the SA guise.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is what they mean when they discuss self-love as a sin. this is it. the delusional notion that you're good and valuable as you are will fuck you up every time you run into something that puts your worthless shitpersona in perspective. because you won't be able to go on knees properly for lack of practice.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: between stolfi and lew rockwell, a whole fucking massed galaxy of these imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: what "go suck the cock of the people who made the thing that surprised you for a while, because obviously they know and obviously you don't". nonono, HE IS GOING TO HAVE IDEAS.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: becauyse yeah, totally, no "smart in his own mind" schmuck to date has managed to avoid this trap.
mircea_popescu: and da's are not really selected for manhood, not in the us, not these days.
mircea_popescu: some are here to lead and some others are here to follow, it is a given like e is a given.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no schooling, no government job, no friends and no other arrangements can ever change this.
mircea_popescu: because he might just as well run the jail like his own personal whorehouse.
mircea_popescu: once one gets out of the paper bag of "hiring counsel", one discovers all sorts of little knobs on the papers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you said these people took math. at some point.
mircea_popescu: you want laws enforced, put some work into making them make sense.
mircea_popescu: any matter with strict liability straight to jury nullification.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of "Strict liability" even being allowed is lulzy.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I see that point; in this case I think it reflects the actual twisted beliefs of the population << in all cases. that's how witchhunts work, and why they exist.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> maybe the cops just enjoy their fap material young. << everybody does. prime fuckmeat = nude teen chained to the wall.
mircea_popescu: that it happens to work well doesn't change what it is.
mircea_popescu: "the kid has the M disease, what do we do ? " "i dunnoi, cast him in the M pit, let them tell him how to live with it. they obviously know by now"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> but in the willingness to pluck out the exceptional and hand'em over to apprentice under masters. << kinda like outcast behaviour.
mircea_popescu: trinque heh, i imagine there's some pretty decent policeman teen porn stashes.
mircea_popescu: all education is an exercise in rape. that it's done by the state just improves the odds of it being unpleasant,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the su had the exact same, exactly equally conscious goal.