asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: software people writing 'spell checker' mostly understand this to mean just the websterian reform, where they snipped the 'u' from 'colour', etc.
asciilifeform: somehow this is all very reminiscent of folks disenchanted with the american medical establishment switching to snake oils, faith healing
asciilifeform: reference client perhaps shouldn't be filled with interfaces that don't work << not everything in the kitchen is food. rat poison is not a condiment
asciilifeform: bounce: not because the thing isn't a turd - it is - but it is then necessary to explain why other people's coins have stayed put.
asciilifeform: bounce: 'reference client hacked' is 'extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it would need to set up a reliable one. by shipping clients to both 'sides'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if this business actually existed, it couldn't rely on 'naturally-occurring' wars.
asciilifeform: if he were to demand his pay in something like money (even banked, electronic money, with all applicable tax paid) he might 'begin to have problems.'
asciilifeform: actually i can readily believe that exactly this would happen to, say, an executive salaried $1M
asciilifeform: once again, i can't say that this scenario is impossible. just that it includes an extraordinary level of 'personal attention' from bureaucrats who would normally rather play tetris
asciilifeform: so the fellow who is to fire you may not even know if you use 401k
asciilifeform: not that this situation is impossible - but most large co.s have a third party run their chumpatronics
asciilifeform: if it's a corp that 'matches' 401k, and avaricious boss, he ought to fire the more expensive fellow (the one who opts in) ?
asciilifeform: since when? every bank i ever used let you take it out. granted, if you take more than $xxxx in one day, the anti-terrorism folks get a phone call.
asciilifeform: in u.s. you can usually become 'contractor' and get your pay in whole, then you are required to pay the tax collectors manually
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 401k-dollar and the cocaine-stained-dollar << nobody forces people to jump in chumpatron
asciilifeform: people have serious problems hiring any
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if you're hard up for work, become a reverse engineer
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: i've laid cable, for instance, to eat.
asciilifeform: a little hard to buy a reel of 0805 resistors with paper hundies
asciilifeform: how does using paper benjamins release you from bezzle?
asciilifeform: the way it was explained to me, by one wretch, is that many folks who refuse to use ordinary banks do so because they were hounded by creditors (ordinary ones, and government alimony collectors)
asciilifeform: somebody explain the mindfuck from earlier. the 'check cashing shop' thing isn't a straight scam?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ended up misreading as 'Depresaurii'
asciilifeform: whereas 'herp' inescapably conjures up herpetaria. or perhaps herpes.
asciilifeform: i can't help but think of the 'derp' from that tale, when i see the word, because - believe it or not - i heard it there before elsewhere.
asciilifeform: (can you imagine the word 'batman' being remembered as something else?)
asciilifeform: nitpick with pediwikia - the 'batman' in the epic is not wearing a 'batman' costume. he's a bloke who smashes heads with a baseball bat.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: t vanish - but it was reduced to choosing from that which had already been created. Figuratively speaking, we no longer grow grapes. We send for a bottle from the cellar. People who carry out this task, we call "sommeliers."
asciilifeform: - People had already devised all necessary things. Once, long ago, mankind developed in leaps and bounds - not only did the objects around us change constantly, but so did the words we used. In those days there were a great many names for a creative person - engineer, poet, scholar. And all of them constantly invented new things. But that was mankind's childhood. And then it reached maturity. Creativity did no
asciilifeform: - That's what they used to call servants who fetched wine. They had big lists of wines, from which gentlemen could choose. And later, this is what they started to call people who dealt in what was once considered creativity.
asciilifeform: - How come they use the word "sommelier"? - he asked yet another stupid question, - So many different professions, but only one word...
asciilifeform: re: commoditized 'innovation' - here's a snipped from me turdbox. translation of a page in pelevin's epic 'snuff' (the one with s/ukraine/orkaine, 'orcs', etc)☟︎
