asciilifeform: these folks could just drive fifteen minutes with a wagen and a 'troika', half hour for tribunal and bullet. but no, they gotta fuck with people instead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 5 == initial quote. traditionally, gov. payola contracts have overrun, renewal, etc. provisions. add a zero.
asciilifeform: this is more or less an open secret here.
asciilifeform: the 2nd generation lumpenizes, and can't be used.
asciilifeform: incidentally, this is why 'they import fresh mexicans,' etc.
asciilifeform: and so, the 'masters' demand radical geographic separation.
asciilifeform: in usa, they broke the mechanism that separates the usefully servile class from 'lumpens.' sort of like growing edible mushrooms in a bathroom infested by mold, because, hey, you can.
asciilifeform: erests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.'
asciilifeform: 'labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of -- because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) int
asciilifeform: there is really no reason to still be using CPU archs without bounds checking, hardware-enforced types, mechanical garbage collection, etc.
asciilifeform: also funny how the two 'philosophies' can co-exist in one school. we had an 'operating systems' class. C, naturally. about six people remained to take final exam.
asciilifeform: they give plastic scissors to grade school students, too. - but not shoemakers. not yet.
asciilifeform: 'we refuse to produce any more C programmers who are a danger to themselves and others.' -- my old dean☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'The Google Bus protesters have said that the company should build housing on its campus, but the Mountain View city council has explicitly forbidden Google from doing just that. They’ve argued that it’s to protect the city’s burrowing owl population.' << real estate parasites want to live too
asciilifeform: 'occupy lolstreet' is analogous to zhirinovsky's political party in the late ussr
asciilifeform: 'NFC technology, you can be certain that the chip inside is exactly your chip- it has a unique authenticity signature, non-clonable, and most usefully, an access counter.' << someone needs 'protocol vs. promise' lesson?
asciilifeform: 'Spondoolies' ?! - actual name of something ?
asciilifeform: '...If the number of cement chunks falling out of your bridge keeps doubling, you can compute the moment when every last piece of the bridge will be in the river, and that is your upper bound.'
asciilifeform: an answer, you might hear something like this: If it doesn’t collapse within a year, then it might stay up for another two. And if it stays up that long, then it might stay up for another decade. But if it stays up for an entire decade, then it will probably collapse within a year or two of that, because, given its rate of deterioration, at that point it will be entirely unclear what is holding it up.'
asciilifeform: 'predicting that something is going to happen is a lot easier than predicting when something will happen. Suppose you have an old bridge: the concrete is cracked, chunks of it are missing with rusty rebar showing through. An inspector declares it “structurally deficient.” This bridge is definitely going to collapse at some point, but on what date? That is something that nobody can tell you. If you push for
asciilifeform: a (very theoretical) pill against 'black helicopter' etc.
