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mircea_popescu: seeing how
the only graduation paper i reviewed was "entrepreneurship as a succession of pictures of faces" as opposed
to "entrepreneurship modeled as a banach algebra"...
mircea_popescu: the distinction can readily be made on whether it is acceptable or not acceptable
to "not be good with numbers", for which
the "responsibility" courses are a great proxy.
mircea_popescu: their relative interplay describes exceedingly well
the degree of rot in
the society
the business school represents : if
the girls are submissive and very warmly and wetly
thankful for being allowed
to go
there it's
type A, if
they figure
they run
the place it's
type B.
mircea_popescu: in my experience
there's
two major demographics interested in
the business school, one being kids who could master physics but do not wish
to because
they'd much rather live with a half dozen whores
than with a labful of mice ;
the other being girlies who could not actually master poledance who figure
they should not have
to
try anwyay and live out
their whole lives as mediocre strippers because reasons ("i'm smart! everyone
mircea_popescu: i expect
the cr business ~students~ insist, because by
the looks of
them
they REALLY need
the easy credits.
lobbes: I wonder if CR businezz schools also force
their students
to
take 'environmental responsibility' courses like in usia
lobbes is looking forward
to
this latest
trilema
scriba: Logged on 2017-04-27: [02:14:22] * mircea_popescu went
to business school here
today, spent five minutes listening in on what evidently was
the graduation project of some 4th year kid. do you know what he had ?
mircea_popescu: Framedragger so how do i get
the interval set up in your logotron ? i clicked on a date and got
the #34 added. but
the dot is not clickable so i can't close
the interval. wut do ?
mod6: It's one of
those
things, kinda neat/pretty, but a huge PITA for driving and other activities.
mod6: ah good, slept well for
the first
time in what seems like weeks.
mircea_popescu: "modern mind does not wish
to
take action until something hurts and does not agree anything is allowed
to hurt it"
a111: Logged on 2017-04-26 23:44 mircea_popescu: "My own experience here is depressing – nobody, not even
the smartest folks, is willing
to read anything unless
they came specifically
to read. If
they came for any other purpose, forget it. When you're a
tutorial, you can
tell
things
to people and
they listen. When you're an error message, people read you
to
the extent necessary
to make you go away but no further. And when you're a warning, people simply ignore you. It suc
mircea_popescu also likes BingoBoingo
tax piece. he's shaped himself into quite
the gazette's editor, hasn't he!
mircea_popescu: the world of
the future is, girl hopes
to be
taken in by someone 3 links removed from a lord, and
the boy is euthanised at birth.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 13:45 asciilifeform: in not-quite-noose,
https://archive.is/6deIg >> 'When I
take a good hard look at what
the world will be like in 10 years, I
think most
things are going
to be on lease'
a111: Logged on 2017-04-27 03:50
trinque: far cry from
that guy's "the left is willing
to crack heads, unlike
the right"
trinque: the narcissism prevents
them or anyone else on
teh continent from organized behavior
trinque: far cry from
that guy's "the left is willing
to crack heads, unlike
the right"
☟︎ trinque: this fits my pet caricature of
the antifa folks just fine.
mod6: yeah.
this is pretty landmark stuff here alf.
mod6: "We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of
the
time: premature optimization is
the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in
that critical 3%"
mod6: i
think
there's a knuth quote somewhere about know where
the 3% of
the code is
that is performance-significant 'optimize
that, not everything'.
mod6: that's super exciting.
trying
to do pre-optimizations of code rarely works out well. just keep it simple, and if any optimizations are required, made later.
mod6: incomplete/buggy app isn't even worth performance
testing anyway.
mod6: will cross
that bridge when we get
to it. many other bridges ahead of it anyway.
mod6: was considering something of
the same. but maybe it's not nearly as hard
to get
trbi or whatever we have under load; just hook it up, see what happens.
mod6: me and
this lady wrote
this performance framework
to put
this app under load and do simulations etc.
mod6: was wondering what we might do about such
things with Ada or
trbi
mod6: Wasn't a
total loss
this month being able
to do some FG
testing and eatblock
testing.
mod6: I appreciate
TMSR's patience while I dealt with
these other irl
things.
mod6: I've been meaning all month
to get
to do some
ticket reorg for
trb. I'm still going
to
try
to it
this week here.
mod6: So, anyway, back
to business here..
mod6: today i bought lunch for me & perf lady
today. $22.50.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fancy
this wonder, avg chicago schoolteacher makes more
than jack warner averaged over his career.
mod6: Anyway,
thanks for being an ear.
mod6: doctors are
there, but nurses run
the show.
mod6: trinque: werd. and from what I can
tell, because of
the nursing unions etc,
they basically run
the place now.
BingoBoingo: $400/mo apartment is possible in City of Chicago,
then not really again until you go
to
the south pole of Illinois
mod6: strangely, it was effective.
typically, you start barking shit at someone and you dig your own grave.
mod6: that was
the only
time
that I needed
to give someone a piece of my mind.
mod6: i stayed pretty pro
throughout
the entire affair, actually.
BingoBoingo: 80k is mostly inflated by Chicago where
the cost of living is in line with
the rest of
the state but for some reason state employees generally get 10-20k a year more for "cost of living"
mod6: mircea_popescu: lol, no. i did't have
to hurt anybody or anything. i just lost my cool.
mircea_popescu: trinque better
than beautician, neh. + she loves children.
mircea_popescu: mod6
this isn't your way of
telling us you got six dead hookers in your shed is it ?
mod6: a nurse was browbeating me about a bunch of shit... and
then I just went off
the deep end.
mircea_popescu: ahaha holy shit look at
that, avg illinois suburban
teacher made 80k
mod6: but not until i basically lost my marbles about
the whole
thing.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: When
the
teachers stopped retiring because muh pension and
the union "length of service" raises kept happening
mod6: actually, so 7 were horrible. one helped me get my mom into
the charity hospice.
mod6: ugh,
the social worker cretins.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it is,
the problem with it is
that 10% or less of
the payola is paid out as bezzle usd ;
the remaineder 90% or more is paid out as pats on
the back, empty and baseless congratulatory verbiage and generally speaking psychotronic noise.
☟︎ mod6: mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as dog, 100 years ago; your dog got cancer? you
take it out and shoot
the poor
thing.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kinda
the problem with all
the makework positions, "teachers", "daycare specialists" and on it goes. << If
the "makework" doesn't include lift and move materials as needed for paying customers it's more welfare
mircea_popescu: there's basically
this large-is (~14%) subset of population with no certain skillset and vastly inflated impression of self-importance.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> "nursing profession" much like
the various other "social science" experts, social workers etc are about as qualified as
their weight in earthworms. << it was
the social workers
that were
the ones who raised questions on us, after countless conversations about post-hospital care.
mircea_popescu: mod6 no, i
think
they're on
top of
that. pretty sure i saw pet hospice advertised.
mircea_popescu: kinda
the problem with all
the makework positions, "teachers", "daycare specialists" and on it goes.
mod6: you know
the damnable misery of
the whole
thing? i woudln't have let my dog go
through
the same suffering.
mircea_popescu: "nursing profession" much like
the various other "social science" experts, social workers etc are about as qualified as
their weight in earthworms.
mod6: BingoBoingo: sorry. yeah,
that sounds awful.
mod6: asciilifeform: oh, it's certainly an unspoken
truth
BingoBoingo: Anyways
the nursing profession's ineptitude was enabled by
the unhealthy relationship my mom's sister has with human mortality
BingoBoingo: Also hospital had morning and evening visits with physical and occupational
therapists. Patriarch managed
to get back
to walking ~100 ish feet. First day at nursing facility somehow collarbone was broken and no narcotics were administered for days because "bad for recovery". Yes narcotics are bad for recovery generally, but also 91 years old is 91 years old and entire right side brain ischemia is entire right side brain ischemia.
mircea_popescu: i will note
that chicago is
terrible market, badly developed. las vegas is hugely oversupplied, you can get
terrifying deals (if
they know you)
mod6: Ladies and Gentlemen, I just don't know. Mr. Popescu has it, we were lucky. And it feels like such a shitty, actually, horrible way
to have
to feel about such a damn
tragedy.
mod6: BingoBoingo: see, now
that makes some sense.
BingoBoingo: mod6:
The hospital did have
the alarms, but
they were SILENT in
the patient room for sanity promotion reasons.