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ninjashogun: by deep check I mean you can get to know them deeply, even run medical tests, as well as trust their behavior on
a deep level, as you do with your brothers and sisters for example.
ninjashogun: (I mean, for example, in theory you can do
a deep check on all of your partners and KNOW they have no STD's and also don't sleep with anyone else othre than you. Condom use lets you have some protection in cases where this isn't done.)
ninjashogun: I thought about some of the architectural things you point out re cardano. As
a practical question, how do we determine the limits of risk compensation arguments?
mircea_popescu: they are as much
a part of life as hot water and kitchen appliances, and moreover prerequisite to both.
ninjashogun: the main reason is that when it takes
a minute or to do something, you take more time with it. Same if thre's
a physical good. It's why moleskine notebooks contain better diagrams and sketches than legal pads do.
mircea_popescu: you can write
a good secretary for bash or perl if your records are digital.
decimation: yeah it's obvious to me that
a good secretary is extremely valuable
mircea_popescu: not she who can take out the pancreas, make
a liver out of it and pluck it back in.
mircea_popescu: to this day the most respected woman on
a hospital floor is she who knows where the binder goes.
mircea_popescu: the reason is that do you have any idea what
a spider monkey capable of navigating those filing cabinets is worth ?
benkay: strikes me that at
a certain point you come out ahead, dishes getting cleaned/loaves getting tendered.
mircea_popescu: but provided you're any good the end result is so far out of proportion to the original that your net negative becomes
a rounding error.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously, training
a new girl or starting
a new business will be
a net negative
decimation: certainly those who desire attention would be willing to pay to work as
a teacher, actor, etc
mircea_popescu: decimation but i suspect pg's point stands from
a time before that.
mircea_popescu: and i spend an hour and make forty-nine and
a half loaves
mircea_popescu: if you want bread, and i want bread, and you spend an hour and make
a loaf
decimation: what's the difference between the gentleman sitting on
a porch waiting for
a welfare check and
a professor sitting in
a committee waiting for
a tenure check?
mircea_popescu: ng committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding
a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?" The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have
a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster.
mircea_popescu: Part of the answer may be that young people fail to appreciate the risk that they will become more like old people when they are old. The young person sees the old tenured academic, ignored by his younger colleagues in
a culture that values hot new ideas, sign up to be on committees. The youngster never asks "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable bori
mircea_popescu: not that they're hard to crush individually, but there's
a fucking pipe of them.
mircea_popescu: suppose there's
a guy with no profession. he loiters
a while in new york but eventually all the beat cops know him so he goes to oregon
mircea_popescu: here's the difference : suppose
a guy is
a carpenter, and he goes to new york. there's no jobs there, so he goes to oregon and makes himself
a cabin.
mircea_popescu: Neuropathy is unpredictable. One minute I am doing fine, the next my face aches, tinnitus (motor in my ear), then suddenly my abdomen, then feet, then can't swallow and have
a "fear of imminent suffocation" anxiety attack, feeling that my stomach wants to exit my body, etc.."
mircea_popescu: pheral neuropathy auto-immune condition caused by an incurable STD which is also morphing into neuropathy every where not just peripheral and causes me chronic fatigue syndrome which causes frequent deliriousness+pain which makes it easier for me to write in
a forum than to do the more intellectually sharp+focused work of actual programming... I only get opportunities to program depending on my body maybe every few day
ThickAsThieves: i started this writing thinking i wouldnt be
a hipster and use footnotes
decimation: yeah perhaps it is still too early for my dark Seymour Cray joke. He was
a giant amoung elves
mircea_popescu: eventually he died, in
a car crash, rushing home tired etc.
mircea_popescu: eventually he got an electyed position, which gave him
a driver.
mircea_popescu: i had
a friend. he was
a touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying
a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in
a controlled town
decimation: at least Mr. Cray had the good sense to die in
a car accident
benkay: in other news, my user group got kicked from our corporate sponsor's shop next month for
a "women in tech event"
decimation: from the article: Surprisingly, some of the largest and most heavily financed scientific fields, such as biomedical research, are among those with the least attractive career prospects, as
a recent blue-ribbon advisory committee reported to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. "
mircea_popescu: basically the chinese ran all the middle ages on
a sort of govt-sponsored us university program
ozbot: MIT graduates cannot power
a light bulb with
a battery. - YouTube
mircea_popescu: he couldn'rt force them to work webcams naked for
a month is the worst part.
mircea_popescu: afaik actualy us-citizen ee's vs total ee's have
a worse salary problem than women/men in non-government, actually productive jobs do.
decimation: what do you say about
a "superpower" that can barely employ 300,000 EE's
decimation: Even in electrical and electronic engineering?an occupation that is right at the heart of high-tech innovation but that also has been heavily outsourced abroad?U.S. employment in 2013 declined to about 300,000, down 35,000 and over 10 percent, from 2012, and down from about 385,000 in 2002. Unemployment rates for electrical engineers rose to
a surprisingly high 4.8 percent in 2013.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and talk among each other about how "putin is living in
a different world"
mircea_popescu: but there's going to be
a corner somehwere the retarded kids gather
decimation: It's always going to be more expensive to pay lawyers than to develop
a patent-evading version of
a device
decimation: well, in this specific case, I think it will be impossible to create
a ring of patents that will stop the mongol hordes
decimation: yeah I have noticed
a trend here with
a variety of electronic products
decimation: so, in the land of the free, the USG has granted
a monopoly on yellow DMM's and then began enforcing the monopoly using taxpayer funds.
decimation: or, to be more precise, hiring and paying competent inspectors is
a bridge too far for USG
decimation: " According to
a press release from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), until 2008, the CBP would snap pictures of the trademarks and other info on suspected counterfeit chips and send the images to semiconductor firms for verification. That stopped with when the Department of Homeland Security implemented
a new security policy."
mircea_popescu: decimation asciilifeform also point out that even
a broom shoots once.
decimation: Or get weeks of battery life out of
a lithium cell
decimation: I was speaking to
a greybeard EE last night. He lamented that most compE kids coming out of school want to put
a high-end media CPU on embedded projects so they can run java or something stupid
decimation: bunnie has
a whole post on hacking SD cards
decimation: but now that you mention it, they would be
a good place to find cheap flash chips