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mircea_popescu: the difference is minute. amiga, just as bad assholes.
mircea_popescu: <waylow> I do - but it's been a while since I've run linux. no windows for me
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> oh macs. yeah that's been a pain. a binary for it is still being worked on, but it's slow going. if you have an ubuntu anywhere, from what i hear it's pretty smooth. also windows binaries work.
mircea_popescu: <waylow> I'm on mac so I couldn't figure out how to install the game
mircea_popescu: i dunno that primary sources escape the suetonius objhection.
mircea_popescu: so we're switching "fiction as written by a respected source" to "fiction as alf feels like recounting it for the purpose of current convo" ?
mircea_popescu: pick one, they all have it, as part of being credible.
mircea_popescu: do i need to quote verse and chapter to you ? because if i do you're eating crow.
mircea_popescu: this is strictly different from "jewish princesses imagining themselves special in own mind"
mircea_popescu: people naming their own terms were in there - provided, of course, they got to magic away problems.
mircea_popescu: Because people normally plea evidence was never collected or lost according to intel << lmao.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it's a choice even if you didn't get to make it.
mircea_popescu: nobody said you get to make all the choices you might wish to.
mircea_popescu: turning back on one';s choices later is not another's problem. i am not held to explain why the guy that changed his mind failed both ways.
mircea_popescu: anyway. see the married men article. they who wish to be exonrated left,long ago. those who stay ALREADY MADE the choice to max damage.
mircea_popescu: but broadly, "if the rule of law didn't suck, or if it did and nobody'd bother showing it - what then ?"
mircea_popescu: oleander blosom sees to it that's the last time YOU're running anywhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: oleander blosom doesn't run outof your mouth, plant itself back on tree.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform me too. the problem is - this was one of the more successful ones.
mircea_popescu: "what's the point of donating - prolly go straight to a lawyer snake anyway"
mircea_popescu: but THEY know what they're doing. they are doing exactly tyhis : make the chumps helpless.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Pure chumpatron to drain actual Ulbricht supporters of resources << and the fact that kid would sign off on this - pretty disgraceful.
mircea_popescu: "this program does nothing" "yes, but it takes some time - like any other program!"
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps not painfully obvious to you on account of some version of the memory hole effect, but it can not be readily put into code, the degree of braindamage. perhaps a field full of gotos with no other instructions
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the dratel example is particularly on point. what that man did was the equivalent of a bitdaytrade "platform".
mircea_popescu: anyway. people who actually magic away problems, in any field, name their own terms.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and i wouldn't give 50k to random unknown schmuck without a wot for the obvious reasons, regardless what they can or could do.
mircea_popescu: apparently they'd have to bake a whole new silicone process.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i'll listen sympathetically to any programmer that can't feed himself ; and i'll be amused at any programmer that "but oprah!". the field's over there, and it takes all comers. don't mind the manure.
mircea_popescu: just as long as it's a meaningless act, carefully sterilized, pointless and ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: because their 2bn is conditionally theirs on the understanding not that it won't get used "for terrorism",
mircea_popescu: not like they can spend two billion to buy a hundred thousand aks and ammo for them and shoot the whole charade into the ground
mircea_popescu: and yes the trillion spent also means five people got two billion a pop give or take to be paraded across the country with a large jam tomorrow sign affixed.
mircea_popescu: and yes, the trillion spent means the govt got to offset 990 billion off another whatever indescript entry in its ledger,
mircea_popescu: and with math, too : if social expenditure for field is one trillion, and the headcount employed is one million, that means one million get to divy up a hundred million, thus making a whooping 100 a head. that's not even the fabled dollar a day.
mircea_popescu: then coders (unlike doctors! or lawyers! and the lawyers would JUMP at the chance, if it were somehow feasible - but so far it's only feasible in banking and finance, mostly) get the option to work for equity, but
mircea_popescu: and so here is the (designed, by the way! deliberately, by the way!) impasse before the free world : one percent of the money spent on $profession actually goes to ~the individual members of $profession~, and then of that, 99% goes to the display monkeys, who are five people, and the remainder however many split the remainder 1%, which generally means they pay to participate.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: might as well say "you programmers don't need any money anyway, look at what google revenue is!"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, THE DOCTOR isn't seeing jack of all that.
mircea_popescu: the same would have been true if they were fighting cancer as is true when they are fighting the usg.
mircea_popescu: the other one is that, the government. yes, fucktards like shrem end up selling the house to pay "the lawyer".
mircea_popescu: there are two overlapping misguiding things here. one is, the tournament market. you wouldn't imagine singer/songwriters are better off than you because britney spears, would you ? nor would you imagine "pundits are rich" because oprah, or limbaugh or whatever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "my grandfather was a senator, and my father made a billion, and i'd better do another line of cock^H^Hke before i think about this too muc"
mircea_popescu: as far as they are concerned, getting an even bummer deal than code monkeys. plus they have the family dynasties stuff to make it more painful.
mircea_popescu: there's no lawyer that walks away with a bn from a successful buyout.
mircea_popescu: generally, the prospect of being a lawyer is strictly speaking dimmer than the prospect of being a programmer.
mircea_popescu: and that's not even counting for the currently alive set.
mircea_popescu: anyway. lawyering is only "different" because of your perception. most lawyers die in debt, still not having paid their college costs
☟︎ mircea_popescu: arguably intellectual problems, such as software, are easier to clean for being virtual rather than physically embodied
mircea_popescu: if your house is fulla shit, the realisation that an idiot shat your floor does not clean it any.
mircea_popescu: this while true, makes the problems not an iota smaller.
mircea_popescu: you're cutting off T on one side with dT on the other side.
mircea_popescu: i am not sure this simplification works as you intend it to.
mircea_popescu: there's no option here, however. no way will be devised where the systematically wrong model can be employed. it's, essentially, what a scam is : the proposition that we've temporarily turned thermodynamics off.
mircea_popescu: generally when people compare the present with the option they imagine, they take selected bits of each.
mircea_popescu: in theory it works out to better pay and better working coinditions than the alternative, but
mircea_popescu: and yes this means people working can end up not making anything. it does. necessarily.
mircea_popescu: this scenario only plays out in your own mind (admittedly poisoned by a lot of interaction with idiots). in reality it's like this : there are more jobs than people. the system where you pay people a salary only works when there are more people than jobs. when there are more jobs than people you essentially create a large excavator of sense on a large mountain of problems, and divy up the results somehow. such as they
mircea_popescu: this is the first seriouys problem we ran into, ever since this globalization paradigm.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem exists because it's global. not because "in this tiny island of rust beltlandia so and so rats".