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mircea_popescu: "let's redo the videogame winter because we're unique special snowflakes and who needs management"
mircea_popescu: on the other hand yesterday i bought ~10mn worth of thorns.
mircea_popescu: what doesn't work is the 'i made a level in five minutes so i'll make 500 levels in 20 hours' linear thing from grinder mmorpgs.
mircea_popescu: the challenge in eulora, much like in business, is to scale up while maintaining profitability.
mircea_popescu: and you can always mine, and low q mined stuff fetches a high % premium relative to their net value
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're needed to overcraft high level items for high level crafters to get them bps
mircea_popescu: it is much easier to get +ev if you play casually than if you play intensively.
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, am i ever gonna see you in game ? ?!?! ?!? ?!? !???
mircea_popescu: and the recent adition, those which have some untinking people in the userbase and don't carew.
mircea_popescu: there's basically three types of things in this world : those who have nobody thinking in the userbase and don't care ; those who have some thinking people in the userbase and don't care
mircea_popescu: or in any case, has some people whoi can actually think in the userbase.
mircea_popescu: you will perhaps notice wireshark is taking a saner view of btc protocol than the power rangers
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't exactly know how they'd do a better job
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do not be surprised that cli tools do not put out stuff in a format you don't know
☟︎ mircea_popescu: “Why should I only get this handout only the months that I attend school?” Explaining that he needs money for going out with his friends and buying clothes all year round, the young author concluded: “I don’t have anything against working. But if the government doesn’t make sure that I have a job, it is their responsibility to pay me the handouts all year around”.
mircea_popescu: "Sweden has traditionally relied heavily on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens. A cornerstone of the country's welfare system has been a population which has been reluctant to misuse the system. Although taxes have been high and government benefits generous, the strong work ethic has stopped people from taking advantage of the welfare state. Alas, this attitude has been largely abandoned. As time has pass
mircea_popescu directs questions as to alf's interpretation of phenomena to alf directly.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it's obviously self-healing. mention -> hearing.
mircea_popescu: yet this same consideration (few foplks heard of) does not prevent you from linking say hasnasj
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know which of these a group noun falls into chiefly depends on how you examine.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's no story. i dun trust him, an' now you know i don't.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if he respects the scholar and despises the whore^H^H^H^H i mean programmer
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it deeply fascinates me how alf does feel the need to maintain a -publicly stated!!!- corpus of humanities cannon, yet nevertheless does not feel this need about a corpus of software cannon.
mircea_popescu: "and here's me in front of the sphinx. notice this other guy is speaking to me about the sphinx"
mircea_popescu: it's this entire "try to find a trend to stand in front of"
mircea_popescu: and it kept going to shit. once english bowmen owned french cataphracts
mircea_popescu: in this sense it went to shit once legion surpassed phalanx.
mircea_popescu: it's "to shit" every time the contest moves from "who can hold his position in front of enemy with nary a care" to "who can hide best".
mircea_popescu: notrly. recall the unfortunate adventure of one mr orsini ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes software is nevertheless eating law. except it happens somewhere other than there.
mircea_popescu: as orwell well observed, the airplane and the radio turned the war into a game of rats.
mircea_popescu: and the only thing "being a veteran" means is, "having loaded an endless list of don'ts"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the vet knew enough from experience to know the war is now a defensive affair, and the only thing that matters is not being killed.
mircea_popescu: why ? why should he wish for this ? after all, goebbels well observed "their determination" will make up for the lack of weaponry.
mircea_popescu: i guess this is to some degree true. war changes to favour offensive or defensive in a cycle. there's an excelent scene in der untergang, where a veteran field officer surveying the killing zone through stereoscopic periscope sees a bunch of green vulksstrums and yells for them to get the very fuck out of there already!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's five lines up from where you say "yes massa"
mircea_popescu: admire the irony of having been defeated by a quote from a videogame, in your quest to defend the videogame war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform originally tried by michail paleologos as "heavenly host"
mircea_popescu: i always wondered if any star trek fans ever wondered what happens to the spaceship once saying "shields up!!" "shoot lasers!!" etc stops returning "enemy destroyed"
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.decimation.-1:e02efb9e5119b44094f8e4c6c945e9317990425cc57168b24cb7ab8c0db78d5b
mircea_popescu: !rate decimation -1 Guy's been soft working teh #b-a for about a year and a half. Needless to say, it didn't work out.
mircea_popescu: and, i might add, symptomatically, for the perspectives of being a libertard, the newly branded ustardian puritan.
mircea_popescu: (masturbation, spending time alone, and generally not being a jock also parts of disease of gayness)
mircea_popescu: worked about as well as you'd expect, on the basis of the record of ustardian puritans.
mircea_popescu: and if ytou cut it off the boys will be protected by Utilihova from becoming filthy fags.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla ironically, because puritans of the 50s thought that the foreskin is a major factor in the disease of gayness
mircea_popescu: and i am still reeling over how imbecillic philg got over the years srsly.