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jurov: pray
tell, what alternative you're
thinking of here?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:04 mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes,
the shittier
the job is,
the more people want
to "work from home". it never occurs
to
them
that
the problem isn't going
to be solved by "finding
the right
tweak of
the right knob", so
they do what
they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
mircea_popescu: o
there he is.
they
take weekends off where you're from ?!
phf: yeah, uryupinsk made me all nostalgic, "mother russia" and all
that. химки just looks depressing.
phf: yeah
that's a good choice.
that one is particularly painful one, because it has no qualities beyond "people sleep
there and
then commute for 4 hours everyday
to work in moscow"
mircea_popescu: where
they invented
the super-duper
tough HOMO police force.
mircea_popescu: sounds like
the great name of a russian bakersfield. could even be a character, Jim from Jimki
phf: although
there are
two particular
towns
that are considered something of
that, Uryupinsk and Muhosransk. first one is a real
town, but second one
translates as "town of fly-shit"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ering ;
the
train station had a monstrous clock whose face had
the
time in both roman numerals (I
to XII, except for IV which is for some reason marked as IIII) as well as arabic (13
to 24). etc.
mircea_popescu: (also locally famous for
the locally-celebrated "7 wonders of Caracal",
to wit :
that it has a prison, on Freedom street ; one bread factory, on Famine street ;
the only school is called "School #2" ;
the fire department burned down ;
the door of police preceinct was stolen ;
they built around a high crane in such a way
the crane couldn't be extracted anymore so was left on
the grounds, a sort of monument
to caracalean engine
mircea_popescu: see, romania has caracal, "the
town where
the cart of idiots
toppled over".
phf: yeah, i'm wondering if
there even exists a ru equivalent concept
mircea_popescu: bakersfield is
this specific
thing, satellite city of
the great city where
the zombies live.
phf: but on
the bright side,
the man would've been fired were it a circa 2016 picture
phf: it's hard for me
to defend
that picture, sort of like watching your parent's debauchery pictures, except hypothetical "parents" because my parents were actually cool. perhaps parent's friend's cousin from small
town.
mircea_popescu: o wow, woulda look at
that. science utterly prevailed
then, has it.
mircea_popescu: not
too young, not
too
tall, not
too in shape, not
too
tits, not
too experienced, wtf fucking strippers are
these already. being old should at least mean you no longer behave like
the coy imbecile.
phf: i
think soccer moms (and not
too young strippers apparently) were going for
that annie lennox look
phf: i mean
they just discovered bowie
mircea_popescu: that may be
the worst stripper act i ever saw and wtf is with
the lesbo hair.
mircea_popescu: this is
totally how i'd run a softwareho sweatshop if i were running one.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:48 ben_vulpes: at
the risk of giving
too much of
the secret sauce away, first floor of
the office surface-level looks like one of
those "open plan" offices. except
that desks are arranged around
the perimeter, with monitors pointed out
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes,
the shittier
the job is,
the more people want
to "work from home". it never occurs
to
them
that
the problem isn't going
to be solved by "finding
the right
tweak of
the right knob", so
they do what
they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:47 phf:
there's nothing
that makes an open office like
that an inherently bad idea. i'm sure before it
turned into a nasty cost saving fad, a group of people could assemble for a period of
time and in such a space so as
to successfully deliver. it just
that
the model now stands for shit jobs, because
that's
the only jobs easily accessible in failing economies. a shit job is not going
to be made better by a wfh
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449999 <<
there's something
that does :
the people involved aren't sexually intimate. yes, slavegirls enjoy working in "open kitchen", often hands in same pot. nevertheless, if you had
tried
to mix
them with
their mothers / insufferable siblings etc, watch
the fireworks.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: that right
there is cargo cultism at its peach pit core.
mircea_popescu: nothing can ever be wrong with
the principle of
things. just... gotta do it
the RIGHT WAY.
mircea_popescu: it's
the other schmucks not pulling on
their own foreskin in
the exactly right way
that barred
them from peach pit lovin', you see. nothing wrong with
the principle of
things.
mircea_popescu: if only you pulled on your foreskin LIKE
THIS particular way,
the peach pit girlfriend would
TOTALLY materialize.
mircea_popescu: very
typical of
the ambitious
twerp
to imagine moontrip by own breech pulling is JUST
THIS ONE
TWEAK AWAY
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:00 punkman: a lot of it is from
the fucking recruiters spamming everywhere with imagined job descriptions
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: will no doubt show up later and "young fool
that sounds like
the most miserable
thing", and yes. we are young fools.
ben_vulpes: no screaming in
the office, generally save
that for
the hill
adlai suddenly satoris republican humor as well!
thx phf
phf: there's a difference between "when we rich we get individual offices" and "we all scream
together in a giant room, because we're happening right now"
ben_vulpes: can't afford individual cubes for everyone, 'tis
the best design we came up with.
ben_vulpes: benefits: a) privacy. only
the desk next
to a given desk can really see what's on
the screen. b) gotta be intentional about conversations, look around
the monitors at each other.
adlai: sounds like a microchip,of
the square millipede persuasion
ben_vulpes: at
the risk of giving
too much of
the secret sauce away, first floor of
the office surface-level looks like one of
those "open plan" offices. except
that desks are arranged around
the perimeter, with monitors pointed out
☟︎☟︎ phf: there's nothing
that makes an open office like
that an inherently bad idea. i'm sure before it
turned into a nasty cost saving fad, a group of people could assemble for a period of
time and in such a space so as
to successfully deliver. it just
that
the model now stands for shit jobs, because
that's
the only jobs easily accessible in failing economies. a shit job is not going
to be made better by a wfh
☟︎ adlai tries calculating how much
tighter
to wind
the five remaining strings
to compensate for
the snapped e
ben_vulpes: but hey, enough like home
that
the memory should fade one day
adlai: gernika:
that's just how autodesk was, but it was a pretty cool office. i'd probably kill a family member (no-nuke-o)
to work
there again.
adlai is a
two-syllable name, and caused himself great suffering
to utter
that joke out loud
adlai: asciilifeform: as i just said (to my dad!), "every
time i open my mouth, i add-a-lie
to
the world"
phf: what? san francisco is awesome, it's just it was ruined by
the
tech scene
gernika: I wouldn't recommend it
to anyone.
gernika: this is
to work in san francisco
gernika: no cubes even - just
tables in medium sized rooms, sometimes staring cooworkers in
the face
the entire day.
gernika: or commuting
to do it in such a hellspace
gernika: that said, I no longer have
to put up with
the absurdity of doing
that same work in an open office.
gernika: asciilifeform: I have
telecommuted since 2013 - mostly for friends doing work
that
tends
to
trigger
teeth kicking behavior, however.
BingoBoingo: <adlai> BingoBoingo: how about
that btc diff adjustment beat, is it still open? << yes, if you can submit
them in a
timely manner
punkman: /me looks for
telecommuting jobs once in a while
punkman: a lot of it is from
the fucking recruiters spamming everywhere with imagined job descriptions
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 03:41 adlai: mod6: protip: next
time you're interviewing, mention
that commutes are a dealbreaker.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-09 16:14 asciilifeform ON A MOTHERFUKING SATURDAY yet ANOTHER phone interview with folks who ~lied~ in advertisement re
telecommute
mod6: anyway, yeah, need
to find new wfh gig
mod6: in oct
the place i was at which was wfh pretty much 90% of
the
time went under. found a life-raft at
the current place.
adlai: mod6: protip: next
time you're interviewing, mention
that commutes are a dealbreaker.
☟︎ mod6: asciilifeform: ya, cool. i need one
too - I miss wfh everyday. hard commuting every damn day.
adlai queues
that for
the qntra sparknotes column
phf: BingoBoingo:
there's a su science finction novel, "a billion years before
the end of
the world", where an astrophysicist on a verge of discovery is plagued with random events
that disrupt his work. so after some
trials and
tribulations he and his friends realize
that universe exists in a sort of entropic equilibrium
that creates an active counter balance
to rational intervention
adlai: BingoBoingo: how about
that btc diff adjustment beat, is it still open?
BingoBoingo: phf: I'm pretty sure if someone attempts
that an avatar of physics becomes incarnate, personally finds
the person doing
that and delivers a swift kick in
the crotch.
adlai: at least satoshi is keeping
the price appropriate
adlai is listening
to: Metallica -
The Memory Remains (4:43)
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 02:27 mod6: asciilifeform: are you lookin for a wfh job
then or what's
the deal
there?
adlai: shinohai:
the lolz are
that people generate keys using computers out of
their physical control... or even, using computers at all
mod6: asciilifeform: are you lookin for a wfh job
then or what's
the deal
there?
☟︎ mod6: took a chance on
that bare metal img. nb!