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mircea_popescu: "For example, when I first came
to Japan, I had no computer. I also had no money, because
the plane
ticket and setting up my household ate all of my savings. In America,
this isn’t a barrier
to getting a computer, because Dell will do a quick FICO score on you and
then happily extend you $2,000 of
trade credit."
mircea_popescu: from what i heard from all other shops,
they do. it's like asking why has superluminous
tachyon decided
to bless your apparatus.
mircea_popescu: needless
to say
this produced "correct" responses
through
the insufferable avenue of missing out on
the problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ah.
the inflexible 29 yo had
this very obnoxious penchant for
trying
to restate any problem in specific
terms as per his
textbook.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (i suspect we may be
talking at cross purposes)
mircea_popescu: well no, i've never had
the pleasure of hiring for
the army.
mircea_popescu: i actually
told a 29 yo "i know a guy who's 92 and a lot more flexible
than you".
mircea_popescu: old folks as in bio age i usually have an easy enough
time with ; young folks who aspire
to be employed however are aged beyond
their age, like
touched by
the fucking vorlons.
ben_vulpes: the lifetime of coddling doesn't make managing
them any easier either.
ben_vulpes: and
the old folks who bear
them, occasionally as well.
ben_vulpes: us degrees are worse
than worthless,
they're an actual burden. holders generally have such an inflated opinion of
themselves and blown up cashflow needs due
to student loans
they're nigh unemployable.
mircea_popescu: srsly now. can
they stock
their pantry,
these people ?
a111: Logged on 2016-11-18 16:58 asciilifeform: (at a recent hellhole where asciilifeform worked,
they marched in folx with perfect marks, many magister degrees in 'sciences', etc., who COULD NOT PROGRAM)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 01:55 pete_dushenski would very much one day like
to see what
these bdsm clubs are all about, preferably with mircea_popescu as guide, for he presently has nfi what he's missing out on.
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, "use separate variable,
test
the number
test variable if empty" can be written in fucking bash.
mircea_popescu: holy shit!
the page itself claims
there is a simple structure... BUt ONLY FOR LISP
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 01:47 phf: pete_dushenski: sure, but my comment stands. when you read
travel diaries in general
they all have
the same format, it's just
this particular one reads like "in my country of Kazakhstan we shoot dog, i couldn't find any places
to shoot dogs in so called civilized england"
mircea_popescu: but what i specifically
take issue with is
the claim
that "There is no clear way in any languages". what
the heck ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 02:30 mircea_popescu: i don't get
this fizzbuzz
thing. someone explain it
to me ? for i from 1
to 100 do if i is divisible by 3 j+="Fizz" ; if i is divisible by 5 j+="Buzz" if j is null j = i print j.
mircea_popescu: one of
these is going
to
turn out
to be whatever supersecret bullshit someone put online because idiots and everyone's going
to lose
their shit.
mircea_popescu: am i nuts or something ? wtf "I
think Fizz-Buzz is "hard" for some programmers because (#1) it doesn't fit into any of
the patterns
that were given
to
them in school assignments, and (#2) it isn't possible
to directly and simply represent
the necessary
tests, without duplication, in just about any commonly-used modern programming language." (as per
http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest )
mircea_popescu: i don't get
this fizzbuzz
thing. someone explain it
to me ? for i from 1
to 100 do if i is divisible by 3 j+="Fizz" ; if i is divisible by 5 j+="Buzz" if j is null j = i print j.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this
tiny may bug like creature is having
the
time of its life over on
the db in jp monitor. i've never seen one so happy.
mircea_popescu: course seems
the last for
the year was o wait, you have one on 14th.
pete_dushenski: this is where i sheepishly admit
that
there could be one across
the street but
that i've not yet encountered anyone who's admitted
to knowledge of its whereabouts.
though given
that 'edmonton ab' showed up on a few of
the fetlife meatlist, you sorta have
to figure
there must be ~something~ of
the sort in a
town >1mn pop.
mircea_popescu: i
thought you lived in something
that passes for urban center in
the frozen wastes ?
pete_dushenski would very much one day like
to see what
these bdsm clubs are all about, preferably with mircea_popescu as guide, for he presently has nfi what he's missing out on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: here,
too, on coupla of occasion
took girl over sunday noon
that i had met saturday night at bdsm club no less. resulting in some appropriately spooked parents.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: lol. good comeback. and yes, gotta meet parents, ideally even before formal courtship begins or else within first
two weeks of commencement.
pete_dushenski guesses
that quantity of honey depends on
the degree of f-i-l's personal means, how many girls he's burdened with, and how much of a stud
the s-i-l is.
mircea_popescu: one
time,
the dad of
this chick (/me is very old school, always insisted in meeting
the parents of all molls) asked me if i have serious intentions. so i asked him if she's a virgin.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
this hasn't changed in 100 years, but still depends ~where~ we're discussing.
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck
these "men" have managed
to
turn
that into
the above quote in one short century is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu notes for
the record
that in 1916, man considering
the mitzvah of accepting a cunt in his household was given money, and no insignificant portion
thereof, by
the ever-delighted parents.
phf: pete_dushenski: sure, but my comment stands. when you read
travel diaries in general
they all have
the same format, it's just
this particular one reads like "in my country of Kazakhstan we shoot dog, i couldn't find any places
to shoot dogs in so called civilized england"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: apparently
the 'big city' of
tokyo or wherever isn't part of
the jp where
triads ARE
the law, financiers, drug dealers, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: ~if i am~ a drug dealer and i burn down your house, you'll what ? file a police report ? go on
the local news network with a
teary eyed "no one could have predicted
that if i get pissy with people who break
the law for a living i might end up with a burned down house" ?
☟︎☟︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: ofc not, so 'drug dealer' is obv a snide remark, not actually positied
theory
☟︎ mircea_popescu: would you
think an elder who ineptly harasses a drug dealer is particularly respectable ?
pete_dushenski: phf:
the authors aren't highly cultured and esteemed envoys from foreign lands,
they're just... regular blokes.
mircea_popescu: now, it is
true
that you don't have
to deal drugs
to accumulate power ; nor because you accumulated it. but it is supremely unwise
to imagine one's not going
to crack a few skulls if it comes
to it.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski all
the warning signs are
there.
to wit : "(The hypothesis was advanced, more
than once,
that as a foreigner who routinely
travels abroad, speaks Spanish, and has money without any evidence of gainful employment, I was probably a drug dealer. I wish I were joking.)"
phf: that's what i'm saying
though,
these are like nifty anthropological studies by very inept anthropologists. you learn more about
the author,
than...
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: only for values of 'my way'
that resolve
to mircea_popescu and similar, which'd be rare enough
to mostly ignore in jp. or else, sure, in a world where ol' ladies be gettin'
torched leftrightandcentre, gramma opens
the door for you, not
the other way around.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski respect for
the elders is predicated upon
the stable basis of
them elders having earned enough life experience
to know better
than getting in my way.
mircea_popescu: mod6 and
these are
the dorks who go "oh, midwest, flyover zone". really ? flyover zone for what, your ballsac in a sling ?
mod6: yeah, srsly. "here's my
tax returns." wat?!
mircea_popescu: da fuck, empowering old women, wtf is
this. whatever happened
to bitch, if you
talk out of line i'll burn you alive.
mircea_popescu: how does
this dude expect
to be
taken seriously, by anyone, like ever ?
mircea_popescu: "When I met her mother for
the first
time, I brought my resume and
tax returns. Her mother was not 100% keen on
the match when we started dating, as a combination of “foreigner” and “not gainfully employed” suggested
that I was not exactly marriage material, but I eventually won her over."
mircea_popescu: except she is "intermediate" among
the people actually making money ; not among
the people aspiring
to be used, which is still not
the same as making money. you could just as well say
tom cook is an intermediate manager (in
the sense
that bezos is clearly better and whoever
they have at microsoft,
that indian fellow, clearly worse), so you figure
ten years after getting your degree from ohio state business school you'll be pu
mircea_popescu: this is like saying
that your "sense of
the market" indicates
that as an intermediate starlet in her 30s you'd probably command between 1 and 3 mn pa because hey,
that's what bravo/seveteen/cosmo/whatever said christina applegate was making at some point in 2006 when she was 32 and was doing
three different
things.
mircea_popescu: "One’s actual salary as a salaryman is generally rather low — about $100 per year of age per month, as an engineer in Nagoya (set by a particular monopsonistic engineering employer near Nagoya). In
Tokyo, my sense of
the market is
that, as an intermediate engineer in his early
thirties, I’d probably command somewhere between $30k and $60k. (In Silicon Valley,
the going rate would be somewhere between $120k and $160k and
mircea_popescu: " about:
THOMAS H. PTACEK hopes, by strict attention
to business, combined with moderate charges,
to merit a fair share of patronage and support."
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 00:55 mircea_popescu does exactly
this on occasion, feeds cats.
ben_vulpes: oh, it's mckenzie's
turn huh? how'd he escape
the eye of sauron for so long?
mircea_popescu: in other news, i'm enjoying reading
this kalzumeus piece on japanese culture. it's like japan consists of
the 1950s mob.