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mircea_popescu: looky here : copybook headings aren't gonna change through human effort. be it positive "har har, we're so good" or negative "har har, i'm a cynicist so this works now".
mircea_popescu: it's unsanitary - to make money you gotta do something useful.
mircea_popescu: ther problem with this is that the actual work keeps being pushed on things that can't actually do it.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of principle - modern finance is mostly a bunch of entitled imbeciles trying for the lowest-effort approach. ideally, if they could just open a sack and money fell in kthx.
mircea_popescu: they'll acknowledge it just as soon as they don't have an option.
mircea_popescu: it IS the exchange's job to punish the incompetent wannabes.
mircea_popescu: it is not the exchange's job to manage people's capital allocation.
mircea_popescu: if you get liquidated, you get liquidated for everything you own
mircea_popescu: ascii_field kinda old & stale by now, but hey, if it's all they got... it's all they got.
mircea_popescu: punkman the entire "online ad" industry is fundamentally predicated on "we can sell bot traffic to idiots"
mircea_popescu: if you find it doesn't match you got a good story for a blogpost.
mircea_popescu: phf alternatively you can just download a possibly dirty key, use it, then once you get to know the person ask them to verify it
mircea_popescu: but the general plan is sound. make the place into public urinal.
mircea_popescu is half tempted to buy github, turn it off and just display that page everywhere.
mircea_popescu: whenever you run across one of these "software projects" in bootstrap/qt/whatever the fuck tell them "This is not programming, this is hogramming. Be a pro, don't be a ho."
mircea_popescu: which btw, reminds me i came up with an excellent slogan to inhibit the cancer.
mircea_popescu: fucking computation has to be special because all the fucktards wanna be important in their own heads and power range around
mircea_popescu: by the time electricity was a central commodity, idem.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field get out. by the time oil was a central commodity to civilisation for fifty years, it was trivial to get an engine deployed to spec. TO SPEC!!!11
mircea_popescu wonders how many people implemented a "textual replacement lisp interpreter" in bash/perl/php just to bother their sicp prof.
mircea_popescu: someone could also shoot a bunch of people by the time they're 29.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "all kinds of stuff over all kinds of platforms" is in any sense locked down's amiss.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.dbit.1:f9c0e65452e21e9f222864a8a209c03aa4eb166fdcc2e374893948aae2f71014
mircea_popescu: ima meet you in game in a bit give you some starter stuff.
mircea_popescu: lol did you manage talking lobbes into letting you do these by hand ?
mircea_popescu: you manage factories (also ill tuned pianos) not individual women on their period.
mircea_popescu: i guess this resolves our standing dispute re whores/programmers. turns out it was a misunderstanding.
mircea_popescu: there is definitely a lot of management involved in being a competent computer handler, by the nature of the thing
mircea_popescu: programming skill is necessarily "having preloaded in your head which words make bash not do this particular stupid thing"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect you misnomer management as "programming skill"
mircea_popescu: dbit oh if you already have a key just need it passed to assbot
mircea_popescu: the derps may call it "A time management device", but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but i mean... you wouldn't propose the alarm clock is a manager would you.
mircea_popescu: management can also be understood as creation of proper schelling points
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform management as generally understood say by dilbert's strip is a sort of dour nagging.
mircea_popescu: kinda why it's very bad "fiction" : it presents us the nonsensical construct of a lone man that's part of the british empire.
mircea_popescu: well, he follows a script he carried over (in his memory), which was given him by people, rather than discovered by him on his own time.
mircea_popescu: management is a complicated thing. like persay robinson crusoe (as depicted by defoe) was certainly managed.
mircea_popescu: the proof of the fact that people with dayjobs can't manage are the dayjobs in question.
mircea_popescu: everything does benefit from being written by folks with day jobs.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck lmao. "filesharing" ? it's not even a thing.
mircea_popescu: "2. Box: The online filing sharing company is poised to go public on Friday after a number of false starts. But Box recently revealed it suffered a $170 million loss in its latest year of results."
mircea_popescu: but the "here is" part somehow never occured. there's a 5-15 year overlap where the will and had overlap.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a good idea incidewntally. if i ran the school, it'd be "this class fails 90% - if the teacher doesn't flunk that many we'll draw lots, but student body DOES get decimated one way or another"
mircea_popescu: i thot the vulgate is that lawyers aren't allowed on campus.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't get this lawyers thing tbh. nothing left of the 60s parisian uprising in the us ?