194100+ entries in 0.041s
mircea_popescu: now europe gotta pay for 1-2mn refugees that came out of all that.
mircea_popescu: re the "refugee problem" : so the us has been derping about "being a regional power" and sheriffing things and places for reasons.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, do you know what other field pretends like "career" exists while people mostly hiring teenagers ?
mircea_popescu: mats for the same money, there's still a sense of "t bills are worth something" still in place for a lot of americans.
mircea_popescu: about how somewhere there are real programmers for real
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, THIS blows a heck of a hole in asciilifeform's fairy tale hopes and dreams
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.kdomanski.1:54667e89207aaf19e414f5a288e53d6e45deca72b848de2d9c1989f508df90cb
mircea_popescu: which is why everyone's idea of "career in software" are ridoinculous derps like ers, who do have a career alright
mircea_popescu: when that happens in a field, a career's in principle impossible.
mircea_popescu: but nobody goes "hey, let's hire this guy, he's in 3rd year medical school"
mircea_popescu: it takes 30 years' worth of looking at fucking probes to spot the cells.
mircea_popescu: there are fields where careers exist. you can have a career as a surgeon. oncologist diagnosticians in particular are the fathers of all careerdom,
mircea_popescu has had his fill of retarded teenagers sitting around crediting each other's socioeconomicosexual-and-otherwise wholly imagined accomplishments sometime around the age of 15.
mircea_popescu: i mean time warner paid a billion for myspace which was worth ~0, sure, turner's old and stupid.
mircea_popescu: iirc ballas said if you were ever employed, you're fucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no middle ground. either be them or don't need to bitch about it!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the last us citizen that actually took out less than what he put in died sometime in the 80s.
mircea_popescu: better to explain what's to be done, let people work their own script
mircea_popescu: that they try to pretend like "thgey did it", sure, the scum that they are would.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that happens because THEY HAVE NO CHOICE
mircea_popescu: trinque that part's not going away. but a faq page explaining how to construct the payout address would be helpful.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but they have no contribution in that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all reichs always collapse because of the reich, and the outside enemies. never was it the case "the people" did anything relevant.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic a valid point, i don't think the whole thing's properly packaged for public consumption.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you think the reich collapses "because the people"...
mircea_popescu: not that rms doesn't display plenty of it. myst be something in unix that makes people go "hey, i can just ignore the classes i don't want to use right now" or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: there's this borderline autistic hypocrisy behaviour that somehow's really represented in my head by the oss folks.
mircea_popescu: "i was an integral part of the gnu sellout, and i feel kinda bad about it so i'll just pretend i didn't do anything and hey, the communitards are too dumb to know shit from their face."
mircea_popescu: bitcoin does. usd does not. kinda why we don't like it./
mircea_popescu: still, it's not their god damned car. and so no, not rich. merely posing with opr.
mircea_popescu: teenaged kids with whoremongering fathers often borrow the cars those drive in an attempt to cargo-cult the whores they bang into existence. perhaps they could be embodied out of their classmates or something.
mircea_popescu: the other important point is, "whether you get to actually hold it". riches subject to riders like "you may only use this to inflate real estate bubble" aren't much yours anyway.
mircea_popescu: but i'm not getting too far with alf on this line either, so.
mircea_popescu: proving once more that the fetish of wealth is a very poor compass for one's life.
mircea_popescu: yeah. the subset in discussion : that follows twitter, shoiws up for conferences and derps at yshittynator events.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: who the fuck even came up with the idea the concept of "career" is meaningful in a space which mostly aims to hire 20yos.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the lolcows. gavin and co, and it's a shitty career in unintentional comedy at that.
mircea_popescu: seinfeld ~had~ a career. it lasted a decade, and he quit while ahead. who the fuck in software has a career ?
mircea_popescu: kdomanski the deep reason is that you folk can't eat on your own. obviously there's going to be a code of conduct : he who lives in his parents house observes the fucking rules neh .
mircea_popescu: then bubble's back on and they hire any shaved monkey with a pulse.
mircea_popescu: bubble's going out and everyone's out on their ass, career or no career. this isn't showbiz, it's computer slavery.
mircea_popescu: and ftrr, what is a "career" ? who do you know that has "a career" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's the land of freakarama over there, what do you think an example's gonna do ?
mircea_popescu: remember the guy who got shot by a cop on a bike, because the cop had inferiority complex for not having a car so he stuck his head and torso through the ghuy's window ?
mircea_popescu: so be good if you don't wantthe bugaboo to get you too! like it got those other kids.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im sure sometimes the bugaboo got some kids. not in this case, nor in this neighbourhood, nor you know.
mircea_popescu: (that said, i very much doubt any fallout whatsoever can ever occur. so he lost a job ? gets another one. or gets welfare. big whoop.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he's approximately the male equivalent of thew usian stripper with an attitude.
mircea_popescu: the mighty may be right, or then again may well be wrong. but the weak are always and unexcusably in the wrong.
mircea_popescu: but you're right, a lot of perfectly avoidable, self constructed problems are patently traceable to that misimpression being perhaps deliberately induced in children.
mircea_popescu: science isn't a present day version of "my older brother's in the navy seals" / "we are god's chosen people" where somehow it gives you a magic golen ticket to things.
mircea_popescu: you'll end up with "actors aren'ty human" and other avatars of medieval thoughtmire.
mircea_popescu: some people progress from there, some don't, and that's it.
mircea_popescu: people aren't born with the right to like and dislike and opine and so forth. people are born "women and children", which is to say with the obligation to adapt to others likes and dislikes. we call these others "their betters".
mircea_popescu: but it's deeper, really. "your impression you may have oppinions MUST be predicated on your certainty you can in fact back them up."
mircea_popescu: if the people you talk about may have opinions, then this doesn't affect them. if it does, then they should have gotten their head out of their ass, understood their situation as slaves and put more effort into massaging the cock of their owners more betterer.
mircea_popescu: which is kinda my point here. some shit's being conflated. like that ancient ditty, "si quis, inquis, dives est, tum cenare potest cum cupit. si pauper, tum cenare debet cum potest."
mircea_popescu: moreover, software "employees" should be fired. if they're any good that's the best thing that could ever happen to them, and if they suck why would anyone keep em.
mircea_popescu: people who depend on welfare should learn to suck the cock of their patrons better.
☟︎