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mircea_popescu: i doubt anyone could have imagined in the xixth century that anythign less intelligent than us neoprotestantism could be borne by the world. and yet... they've done it again.
mircea_popescu: if you must participate in the empty calorie fest of religion, at least pick something respectable rather than the neo-neo-protestant bullshit made by people that are not even less intelligent than that smith fellow with the "ancient egyptian" tablets at the bottom of his hat
mircea_popescu: that article is the exact equivalent of masturbation, intellectually : it contains nothing that can even remotely be considered a thought, while keeping the mind spinning.
mircea_popescu: adlai: this article is more thought-provoking than most drugs out there << no, it's not thought provoking.
mircea_popescu: "Assume you can only pass two things through the window — francs and sacks of grain. Knowing that the Congo is one of the poorest countries on the planet, what strategy will you pursue in order to do the most good for their society?"
mircea_popescu: need to keep importing new turnips because the citizen turnips are too likely to understand harlan ellison ranting in his native tongue.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, we have "inventors" defined, if anyone's still curious.
mircea_popescu: Somers' anguish is palpable, and his catalogue of self-effacing remarks reads like an apology. He heaps criticism on himself, his job, and his entire profession. "Web start-up companies are like play-companies," he laments. Their products are "cheap, fun, and about as worldchanging as creating a new variation on beer pong."
mircea_popescu: Most of what we’re doing, in fact, is putting boxes on a page.... We fill our days with the humdrum upkeep of these boxes: we change the colours; we add a link to let you edit some text; we track how far you scroll down the page.... Web development is more like plumbing than any of us, perched in front of two slick monitors, would care to admit.
mircea_popescu: The piece is a thinking man's struggle to understand the value of his profession. By Somers' own reckoning, his accounts are out of balance. He's paid handsomely, but the work is trivial. As he says:
mircea_popescu: "assbot: Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct | Melting Asphalt " << bwahaha ok.
mircea_popescu: in all respects the exact opposite (no intelligence, all rulebook)
mircea_popescu: well... the sort he claims he wants to hire, but then ends up with perople like altman
mircea_popescu: www.sonicfitness.com/cache/uggs.php?uggs=ugg-bottes-pas-cher-france.php << caches.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it'd have been a point in a world pre qe. by now it's like discussing the sow's pubic hairdo.
mircea_popescu: because it wasn't technically possible to create oscillators good enough.
mircea_popescu: and it's not clear (but altogether probable that no) whether the concept of exchange works without volume.
mircea_popescu: in the exact same manner, if you allow them to oscillate narrowly enough, you break the concept of volume
mircea_popescu: the point being that the chair you stand on is only solid in the sense that the wavelength is so tiny you don't have the time to fall through, because your time's quantisized.
mircea_popescu: they actually have a point, albeit a finnicky one and meanwhile the world fell from under the sort of place where such;d be entertained.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the notion that an order once placed must live on until filled is pretty lulzy <<< that's not what's going on there.
mircea_popescu: what common people have historically called a psychopath.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, do you define inventor as someone who has invented something before ? << i define inventor as someone who is a) intelligent and b) completely contemptuous of rules.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone wanting to hire 30 inventors needs his head checked <<< and what could you do for them ?
mircea_popescu: but people in the 120 and over range tend to wish to followalong at home
mircea_popescu: i mean yeah that's how it works for the retarded, 75 to 90 iq
mircea_popescu: bear in mind that i have the advantage of very deep intimacy with people that age
mircea_popescu: what fucking sense does this even begin to make! who's graham loyal to, where's his flag flying ?
mircea_popescu: does this guy have not the slightest moral compunction about that one kid ? because why, because 5 million mouthbreathers that wouldn't read him anyway wouldn't see it in a million years ?
mircea_popescu: which you know they were recently convicted for criminally colluding not to do.
mircea_popescu: but wait! if they didn't pay "the same price" for an immigrant, they'd have to pay a higher price for a local
mircea_popescu: how about that one kid who worships him for whatever dumb kid reason, who suddenly looks up from that page and thinks...
mircea_popescu: yet they do understand enough of you know, basic arithmetic and thermodynamics to see that a "same price" argument is pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: but there are these people in the middle, who either because they're young, or because they're marginally educated, or marginally intelligent, don't really find themselves in a position of serene immunity.
mircea_popescu: i mean, the written output of the bezzle world is not about convincing, or for that matter even fooling mp.
mircea_popescu: i find it fascinating just how willing to insult their audience these people are.
mircea_popescu: either this guy is dumb or the most bald faced scammer ever. seriously, that's how prices work ?
mircea_popescu: "So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries. But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American. Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? "
mircea_popescu: and i have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort libtards have put into trying to break down functional society ?
mircea_popescu: "The anti-immigration people have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort technology companies have expended trying to make immigration easier. "
mircea_popescu: such an improbable feat, that, if you think of it. most of the bad languages i met in my adolescence are dead and im not even old yet!
mircea_popescu: *: decimation thinks that time horizon has already been reached <<< pretty much. i dun know any great programmers that want to go to the us. i know some great progreammers stuck i nthere that haven't yet figured that yes, they can leave
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem much like pestilence is a hygiene problem. sure, it is. doesn't hurt having smooth surfaces tho.
mircea_popescu: im fucking excited to see these guy's monthly report for dec or jan or whenever's next
mircea_popescu: cazalla: well, that didn't take long.. bitcoinfoundation.org has redesigned their website yet again <<< gotta do something...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's "whatsoever" sucks, not least of all because it creates hole for various gnomes to shoehorn their stuff in
mircea_popescu: download and verify blocks, create and broadcast txn which are included in blocks.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: what does it mean to bitcoinate? << download and verify blocks, create and broadcast blocks which are in turn verified.
mircea_popescu: "You need to learn an important lesson and it will not be complete until you are completely humiliated -- or you figure out that what you have done is so bad and stupid that you simply leave us alone until the shame wears off." << surprising naggum never made the next logical step into bdsm.
mircea_popescu: "Why do you need to have this pointed out in public after you demonstrate again and again that you do not understand what you are saying, cannot do what you say "is not option", and continue to blame others for your behavior?" could have been removed without loss, for instance. parsimony is a great approach, especially when dealing with idiots.
mircea_popescu: re the "turned their nose, mainly on account of these pieces", there is something in there i can see as well. it could be reduced to mere bad writing, but otherwise there's this recursive insistence on boring, banal shit that gives the impression the guy's not quite... you know, queenheaded.
mircea_popescu: hm, from asciilifeform's naggum link. "The moralist would not _be_ a moralist if he were willing to abide by and obey the rules he thinks that other people should follow."
mircea_popescu: how about we do something useful. it's been... about a year or so i've been trying to set yu people up with servers.
mircea_popescu: t anyway, since you seem to be pretty much the balance of still active freenode staff : rather than wasting time on this nonsense of some kid that thinks banal netbios ddos makes him a wizard (which i think has outlived its charm anyway)
mircea_popescu: i was waiting for that absolute becoming comparable at the hands of the internet busineseers.
mircea_popescu: davout: who decided, and why, that the contents should be gpg signed ? << oh for cryssakes it was in the log like 20 times.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation kinda what leads to my "no men" statements. brutality only works on certain types.
mircea_popescu: is this the guy that got beaten to death by teh frenchies ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this discussion readily reduces to stuff typified by like... tom sawyer
mircea_popescu: decimation seems a distinction without a difference in the context.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem i've not seen many exterminators scurrying to scuttle their embassy or anything like that.
mircea_popescu: the us is not the us of vietnam era, when what you say was probably true.
mircea_popescu: by the way : i've been reading chinese magazines, in the sense of looking at the pictures.