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mircea_popescu: work into those, but they were never publicized or advertised."
mircea_popescu: "We had great success amongst primary customers. I think we could have found a lot more of them if our marketing had been better. For example, did you know that Symbolics had a world-class software development environment for Fortran, C, Ada, and other popular languages, with amazing semantics-understanding in the editor, a powerful debugger, the ability for the languages to call each other, and so on? We put a lot of
mircea_popescu: "At the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, fifteen researchers shared a computer with a .001 GHz CPU and .002 GB of main memory."
mircea_popescu: we're perhaps approaching a strange "collapse of the roman empire" situation from an entirely different angle
mircea_popescu: nor do they have any sort of a clue as to how and why and what and so on
mircea_popescu: i mean even the notion of a blog is maybe 20 years old tops. that's within reasonable lifespan.
mircea_popescu: right. the time's advanced enough for this problem to start showing at the edges
mircea_popescu: this isn't something we're really too apt to handle, the material published on their own blogs by meanwhile long dead people
mircea_popescu: have gone through a long list of conservatorships and whatnot
mircea_popescu: willy-nilly the various blogs left by various people important in 2015, if still extant,
mircea_popescu: weinreb's passing actually makes me think about the following
mircea_popescu: i suspect the problem had a lot more to do with them being plagued by bob becks than anything intentional.
mircea_popescu: "well, by midnight we should have about twelve ticks or so"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, decay experiments, i dunno if you know, are - or were ? - this particular brand of evil.
mircea_popescu: they had this huge round air vent thing, kinda comfortable to sit in
mircea_popescu: eventually it just became a toy for students to play with
mircea_popescu: this was actually homebrew, originally made by the atomic physics folks at magurele
mircea_popescu: apparently it doesn't even exist on the internet it was so sikrit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no lol, this closet sized pdp-clone wannabe
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno what your noise issue is man, i used to live with the large ventilated felix
mircea_popescu: and other than that, have an open and relaxed negotiation strategy. tell the acquirer's expert that you aren't interested in anything but a position with the authonomy you enjoyed previously, and they can let you know.
mircea_popescu: you'll discover, even if you overpay today, you'll discover in time you wouldn't have undone it.
mircea_popescu: blow a few grand on hiring someone, it';s the right time to do it.
mircea_popescu: there's no way you can get pertinent advice without the details.
mircea_popescu: artifexd listen, you need to hire a tax attorney at this point.
mircea_popescu: sleeping with the acquirer's wife ? keeping your red stapler ? how to cook a veggie burger with a steak bun ?
mircea_popescu: artifexd you could help a lot by explaining what exactly are you trying to get advice for
mircea_popescu: off twitter : Her: “Will you try a veggie burger for lunch?” Me: “Sure, if the bun's made out of steak.”
mircea_popescu: it's a field in which a lot of experimental work still has to be poured before we really know
mircea_popescu: In the first two weeks, I was served legal papers a total of seven times and was in contact with the FBI every other day. (This was the period a prosecutor would later characterize as my "period of silence".)
mircea_popescu: seems exactly what you'd expect, it's long lost control.
mircea_popescu: "Glenn Greenwald: the state targets dissenters not 'bad guys'"
mircea_popescu: mjr_ if you don't actually load an article you just get the main page which loads a random articler
mircea_popescu: then a scuffle breaks out, it's like something out of bunuel
mircea_popescu: the whole thing's surreal, romanian local network station does in the street interview, old clearly local guy randomly starts speaking in bad french at them
mircea_popescu: you'll have to come up with a new name and get rated by ppls.
mircea_popescu: if the "nothing else can" part isn't in there, fetish dun enter into it.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you know, something isn't a fetish just because you like it. the definition of a fetish is something that can arouse a man when nothing else can.