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mircea_popescu: fnance is what it is, its own kind of thermodynamics, off of which it is actually derived.
mircea_popescu: yes, you gotta distribute resources back out somehow, but it can only be via equity.
mircea_popescu: it's simple, really : when jobs < people, you can pay. when jobs > people, you gotta let em volunteer. no other way.
mircea_popescu: you're the one forcing me to use nonsensical terms to humor you
mircea_popescu: yes, i would trade 10 btc for 100bn "worth" of engineering work.
mircea_popescu: forget your own opinion, the thing trades on exchanges, worth what, 100bn ?
mircea_popescu is too old to fall for "progress" and "future" tricks. i'm not paying for that.
mircea_popescu: tyvm. but... what fixed percent of all the money that's ever going to exist is microsoft worth ?
mircea_popescu: o, wait, "actual money" = "fixed percent of all the money that'sd ever going to exist" ?
mircea_popescu: for pay to work as you expect there's a strict requirement that jobs < people.
mircea_popescu: that's the ACTUAL bargaining chip of the sv firms : if you ACTUALLY want us to pay market rate, market rate's infinity and we're paying it. get printing.
mircea_popescu: there's more pixels needing laying down than there are people who can do it. period.
mircea_popescu: and yet <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: as far as these folks are concerned, gentoo may as well be a particle accelerator at dubna, ru
mircea_popescu: really very low bar, in any other time than the present
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no dude. it's "go do something useful". after interval, person has done something useful.
mircea_popescu: doesn't look like him to me, but hey. danielpbarron is it or ain't it ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne folk with beards all look the same to you don't they
mircea_popescu: there's an endless mountaineous heap of work, and the last time i talked to someone even halfway competent was last week.
mircea_popescu: your ideas of competition come from this world with scarce work and plenty of high skilled folk to do it. this is not the case.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyone can get the mafia to embed an engineer if they have money.
mircea_popescu: why would someone use something other than the car to go shop ? "oh, this is for work!!1"
mircea_popescu: "Pixar does NOT use Apple computers to make 3D for their movies (modeling, animation, render, shaders, etc.). They use Linux, just like everyone else in the industry. Now they might use a Mac to paint a background or texture something but all feature animation is done in Linux (Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Animation, Blue Sky, etc. etc.). That's also true for SFX shops like ILM, Weta, Sony Imageworks, DD, etc. etc. All Lin
mircea_popescu: "The crappy 3D support on Mac OS is in direct conflict with that goal. Furthermore, as a non-Mac OS user, I would kindly request that no disproportionate developer effort be spent on such an inadequate and developer-hostile platform.
mircea_popescu: "And that article Richard posted just seems to exist to stroke Apple's ego. I don't think I know a single artist who would choose to buy one of the new Mac Pros for their work, especially considering the premium you pay and their reliance on AMD hardware in a field dominated by nV and CUDA."
mircea_popescu: heck, yahoo briefcase apparently had users, when it closed.
mircea_popescu: what idiots do isn't really in the scope of this discussion.
mircea_popescu: anyway. jobs could have pulled something like this off, maybe, as an outlier result. mostly, he'd have failed miserably while denying it all along.
mircea_popescu: they'll just pretend like the poroblem doesn't exist and will go away, like any mcdonalds.
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't believe cook has the guts to even try.
mircea_popescu: looks more like, "neither nvidia nor amd were willing to go into a intel-ms deal with fucking apple, because who the fuck do those assholes think they are and it's about time they figured out a) jobs is deads and b) if he weren't he'd be in jail ; meanwhile apple won't talk to intel or asus etc because they think they're too good to deal with lesser babka, and so they're saying fuck you to the entire modern computing g
mircea_popescu: as the costs to prop it up just keep on growing and eventually tyhe whole "ecosystem" collapses
mircea_popescu: if they don't have decent driver suport they COULD make some in house abomiation circumvent it all, and so on
mircea_popescu: apparently it's not going to. i dunno whence this idea comes that something can run magically-like.
mircea_popescu: those folks, whatever they may think, or wish the worlkd to be, still have to eat.
mircea_popescu: if you want to process say a shader and it takes you half hour on mac and five minutes on gentoo then by this standard one would i guess say it doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: but runs as in what ? "can't access the driver, here's a nice welcome box" ?
mircea_popescu: oris it just the thing chicklets derping on facebook and calling themselves designers favour ?
mircea_popescu: apple wants to be a "mobile platform". because it worked so well for nokia, and for samsung, and for fucking blackberry.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes nah, apparently the problem is that whatever actual driver support they had, marginal as it was, they're chucking in the new osx
mircea_popescu: the things one finds on the internet. i thought mac survived principally because graphics shitheads.
mircea_popescu: "Mac has never been a viable platform for professional production 3d work"
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.phf.1:a15501b9b874c832d39da21bd66e77d5c726136d1695025a7edffba5998423ff
mircea_popescu: phf do you intend to publish results of your run anywhere ?
mircea_popescu: phf am i reading what you're saying correctly , "thermonuked more efficient network utilization" ?
mircea_popescu spent his decade or so of acquaintance with indian cuisine eating pretty much nothing but lamb.
mircea_popescu: but so far most of the productions on the topic are "smoking is bad and vaccines good mkay"