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asciilifeform: 0l holy shit i just read a trilema where mircea_popescu agreed with me?!
mircea_popescu: but anyway, let us elaborate, not like anything better to do on rainy day.
asciilifeform: possibly i do not have sufficient lsd to properly do this thread..
mircea_popescu: wtf is this
mircea_popescu: you keep making these whole insane jumps. first you went from "cunt works or doesn't work" to "cunt has or hasn't previous experience with black cock". now you went from "you want to not be poor, gotta act like it" to "why is mp not storing cheese in bottles and shoes on hooks".
asciilifeform: i am left to wonder, clearly mircea_popescu has a very high opinion of orc scum, why doesn't he recruit ~them~ to write his softs, run his companies, etc. ?
asciilifeform: this is why the jail is full of the idiots aha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you fight the war with the army you get.
mircea_popescu: rather remarkable Caucasian ass. She is spreading her legs to get lower for him. When I pass again coming back from the cooler he has had the decency to push her up against the wall so that she is not exposed to passersby. After their ten minute tryst they shop for another 20 minutes and then leave hand-in-hand."
mircea_popescu: ff of her as she staggers and drools in the aisle. He has a powder blue hat. She carries a finely stitched black leather purse about the size of one of her shoes. They cannot decide who should be pushing the cart. They head back to the women’s room and have sex standing up, between the stall doors and the sink, with the door wide open. She is bent over the sink and he is having a hard time getting his pelvis level with her
mircea_popescu: "A very attractive couple enters and begins shopping with a basket. She is tall, elegant, and white, not busty enough to pose in playboy, and not thin enough to model clothes. She is beautiful in the very high heels she can barely stand on, doing the dopefiend lean as she is. Her date is a short muscular black man with his pants actually buckled around his waist. They are in their late twenties and he can’t keep his hands o
mircea_popescu: review henry teh fifth.
mircea_popescu: sorry folks, there never was nor ever will be another way.
mircea_popescu: go to baltimore, start gang, keep it cheap, effective and lean. under the pressure of all the other idiots nobody can afford to engage you, too painful bite for the calories contained, in twenty years trade the president his life in exchange for his daughter.
phf: buy dirty potato, clean it, sell it, buy two dirty potatoes, clean them, sell them, then your father dies and leaves you the estate
asciilifeform: but 'how to get rich' ??
asciilifeform: the 'make a budget' and 'don't drink through your whole wage' thing is REASONABLE as 'how to not GO IDIOT BROKE' advice
mircea_popescu: i guess we collectivelly just lost the past 5 minutes huh.
asciilifeform: well as i gather mircea_popescu's answer was 'you could start doing 17 yo work for shit wage' and i answer 'why the fuck should i a single day earlier than forced to.'
mircea_popescu: which is why no sterility clinic makes woman fill out formulary, "have you done guy like your present so, in your teens ?"
mircea_popescu: so as to maintain it's capacity to work with them in the future.
mircea_popescu: cunt works. you don't have to keep priming it with all sorts of cocks it could work with
mircea_popescu: me either. because there isn't one.
asciilifeform: count me as thick, i dun see the connection.
mircea_popescu: how would this circumstance influence their capacity to in the future conceive a baby with their putative black lover ?
mircea_popescu: do you know any women who've never fucked a black guy in their life ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'
mircea_popescu: you think ?!
asciilifeform: at least here it's only 2 blokes to a 8x8 cell
phf: asciilifeform: there are also much much better conditions
asciilifeform: phf: there are much worse conditions!
phf: and the shop itself was how i imagine alf shop is, a small group of math/compsci grads doing peanut work under inhumane conditions
mircea_popescu: and given that, it's incredible the females aren't actively pursuing prostitution.
mircea_popescu: it's incredible what the grads will take,
mircea_popescu: clearly the downdraft of "phd work"
phf: the offer was so ridiculous, i couldn't even consider it. the woman in charge thought she was being generous!
phf: i once interviewed for an interesting problem shop, that was a upenn spinoff of some ph.d. thesis work, results could be immediately applied in oil refinery optimizations
asciilifeform: and there was also to be reversing, of juicy things, but turned out that (apparently) i could only be used for it if i agreed to usgrasty
phf: academic offshoots treat their engineers the way they do grad students, because the two are usually the same and equally replaceable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually bignum is a nightmare because of algo transitions
phf: oh, i grok the "go pound pavement" reason now
mircea_popescu: i'd imagine it's the control structures / branching that's problematic
mircea_popescu: actually thast should ber the easy part neh ?
phf: ah, the second kind
asciilifeform: gnarly in the sense where the working set is a meg of cpp code.
phf: or gnarly as in "we wrote this over past 5 years, need to have upper bounds noa!!1"
phf: how gnarly? 3sat, tsp heuristic solutions?
phf: is that pen and paper by hand?
asciilifeform: (why anyone would pay for this is a very long story)
asciilifeform: phf: i was hired originally to (yes) calculate runtimes of gnarly algos
asciilifeform: turns out, there were worse things.
asciilifeform: my last move was even a switch of profession, i'm no longer a reverser. turned out not to be a smart idea.
mircea_popescu: "ha! joke's on him, i took them off first."
mircea_popescu: "didn't i tell you..."
mircea_popescu: "old guy came by told me he'd give me five if i climb up that tree"
mircea_popescu: "mommy, mommy, i made twenny dollars!"
mircea_popescu: "you slut, you. he only wanted to see your panties."
mircea_popescu: "this old guy said he'd give me five dollars if i climb up in that tree!"
mircea_popescu: "how did you do that ?"
mircea_popescu: you remind me of that joke of the young slut.
asciilifeform: 'we must all grunt on the stake!111 for victory111'
asciilifeform: but was summoned back in as the shop was in dire straits
asciilifeform: i started out largely tele
mircea_popescu: should have made demands before the thing went south.
mircea_popescu: a sole attempt in a drowning boat does not constitute a valid basis for the response you presented.
mircea_popescu: was this a concern ongoing or winding down at the time ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did precisely once, with my last employer. there was much gnashing of teeth, and ill feeling from the other slaves (there were only a handful of us, and no one was actually replaceable)
asciilifeform is on the spin cycle of the day's stake, when the barbs come out
mircea_popescu: "i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'"
asciilifeform: i lost track
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for my own peace of mind : have you actually said this ? or just fantasized about saying it ?
mircea_popescu: next thing he's gonna want to telecomute instead of showing up in irc.
trinque: imma publish all the source for the new one
trinque: "I made this fucking mess, and fuck you I'm not helping you replace me, so let me telecommute"
asciilifeform: then i've never seen 'non-shit' job and don't expect ever to.
mircea_popescu: usually reserved to barristas etc.
mircea_popescu: (lemma : the definition of shit job is one where employer says "go, quit.")
mircea_popescu: what is the moral you derive from this experience alf ?
asciilifeform: trinque: i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'
trinque: it's afaik a common thing in software
trinque: asciilifeform: when I moved to portland I told my employer I would either telecommute or quit.
mircea_popescu: which yes, from 600 to 635
mircea_popescu: but it is pretty cool living with the natives you know ? girl can pillowtalk tell you about her bf, and how hard he's working for his promotion.
mircea_popescu: other than that, two-girl furnished apt in town ran 3-400 monthly.
mircea_popescu: but as he says ... no reason to prefer...
mircea_popescu: PeterL one place in ro, suburb of supposedly nice town, ran me $2200 per quarter, house on two levels (bout 4k sqft total iirc) + a spot of land, fully furnished. and i mean, natural leather couches and walnut furniture and whatnot.
asciilifeform: trinque: in fact, it costs 2x moar to live there LIKE A HUMAN (e.g., MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE WITH OWN 4 WALLS) than here and they only offered 1.5x moar.
trinque: aw, beating on the left coast folk is a great passtime
asciilifeform: but i don't have any reason to prefer them to this africa.
PeterL: in the middle of nice town
PeterL: <asciilifeform> 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft. << my new house is ~1k for 2k sq ft (plus 1k basement, could be used as workshop)
mircea_popescu: leverage ? you got more leverage in baltimore than you do here.
mircea_popescu: you can read. and you can read in such a way as to GUARANTEEDLY never end up in "i dunno man"
asciilifeform: i have nfi what they do with useless people in american prison
mircea_popescu: helps the bulked up dudes with their appeals. <
mircea_popescu: helps the bulked up dudes with their appeals.
asciilifeform: buggered to death ?
mircea_popescu: what do you think whiteboy with compuyter habit ends up doing in prison ?
mircea_popescu: you have immense leverage - you're the only one that can make sense of the entire sea of symbols they don't grok.
mircea_popescu: how exactly is this "no leverage" computed ?