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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ilkka kokkarinen) << there is some merit to the ford story, but specifically, that he majorily cut down on staff turnover by "overpaying". except all the other idiots were not accounting for training costs (in the form of, not building anything too complex)
mircea_popescu: just like if fat women were erased from the world you'd notice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> reading for the first time about 'joyent', i couldn't help but wonder - what are these 'technologies' actually for? if they were erased from the good earth overnight, would i notice ? <<< if node.js were erased you would notice.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> honouring the 'lifetime warranty' for all the chumps put together - would this even add up to the cost of one lawyer-week ? << it makes no sense to me either.
mircea_popescu: what sort of bond interest rate would cover my meaning inflation over here ? 25% ? 45% ?
mircea_popescu: there's no point in holding on to plain dollars if on top of inflation of fact you'll also get inflaiton of meaning.
mircea_popescu: i want to trade this millionaire benjies for busker benjies please.
mircea_popescu: by now money is compared in the meta-terms of its "meaning" ?
mircea_popescu: "In a text message, Novick continued that he believes $200 a month means less to people earning $500,000 a year than $12 per month for $50,000 earners."
mircea_popescu: decimation but it's the same thing to a dot. "fuck the law, we do what we please". well...
mircea_popescu: how can you NOT like the real isis ? the fake isis (usus ?) is just as stupid, only much derpier.
mircea_popescu: it is a matter of doing the right thing. it's about people, not code.
mircea_popescu: "@KristianOellegaard this isn't an issue of breaking or following the rules, it's an issue of doing the right thing and common sense. This situation is about people, not code."
mircea_popescu: dude empathy is exactly anti-engineering. it is emphatically NOT an engineering value
mircea_popescu: (more likely, so when they get hanged by their own guts, the remainder, ever less numerous crowd of them can falsely claim that we're attaching "science"
mircea_popescu: which is a major problem, because the us nomenklatura is fighting real hard to get "scientific" credetnials.
mircea_popescu: so the guy prevented a politruk from getting his "contributions" count up.
mircea_popescu: guys like hearn, gmaxwell etc , as well as guys like poettering etc, as well as guys like that derpy chick whatever her name is
mircea_popescu: decimation you understand what's at stake there right ?
mircea_popescu: kinda typical derpage. but anyway, fake foundation gotta work itself aground somehow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a no, this was re your "going to bed" line
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, there's also 30something kinda fat prostitutes.
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> i can hear them from here and they're at least a mile away << so they're demonstrating good lungs eh.
mircea_popescu: Delta Kappa Epsilon’s Yale chapter is in its fourth year of a five-year suspension that followed an episode in which pledges paraded through a residential quad chanting, “No means yes; yes means anal.”
mircea_popescu: how's that flaming idiocy in slate under "jurisprudence" ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 of course, seeing how the prize is ~10x a fiverr, that article is highly arbitrageable i guess.
mircea_popescu: is there a word for the activity of "going through your private stash of girlfriend pr0n" ?
mircea_popescu: (and of course my way to distinguiosh the shards - "who's in charge ?" - is exactly acid to the eyes of the spuriomancers)
mircea_popescu: sort-of like how the same problems that sink centrally planned economies make market economies thrive
mircea_popescu: my theory here being that substantial projects benefit from spurious forking, because it soaks up the idiots and sends them away. whereas spurious projects suffer from forking, because well, there's no way to distinguish the shards.
mircea_popescu: no dude totally, it's gonna be forked like 6 more times over 2015 and by 2016 it'll be like css.
mircea_popescu: (if you don't recall her, the girl with the wooden block up her cunt from just-dice)
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> <mircea_popescu> "retail" integrations aside, i found the actual buy/sell market totally functional. << cristina's been cracking down.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes thestringpuller you know that qntrra piece came out really good.