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mircea_popescu: seems
to me a 50% speed gain in high
thoroughput research would be worth money.
PeterL: mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is going
to reverse engineer an LC-MS? and what, we get better performance out of it or something?
mircea_popescu: PeterL get him in room
to pitch his
thing, make 15% or w/e ? asciilifeform you should prolly hire someone
to make
the pitch
tho.
PeterL: asciilifeform
this robot
thing looks much like what I saw at Dow, I never used it but I had coworkers who used
these
things for high-throughput research, I dunno what software
they used
mircea_popescu: (well really, it'd be more like "i'd like your x rebased for my
tree, here it is, you see problem ?", but w/e)
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:46:17; funkenstein_: so when
trinque asks me
to regrind, perhaps I should ask him for his
tree
mircea_popescu: my experience, on
the contrary - whenever mp as much as vaguely disliked a world,
that world caught on fire by itself and cut off its own head.
mircea_popescu: well guaranteedly you can't make any mircea_popescu 's
thus,
they'd simply burn down your world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it makes you feel better, i'd buy it for
the putative chemistry lab i don't run.
mircea_popescu: "be less poor" suddenly a lot bitter
than previously contemplated, huh ?
mircea_popescu: except by now
the shitworld is so
thick with shit, it "only works" for approved lottery winner.
mircea_popescu: i mean,
this would be
the exact
textbook example of "work really hard, do something useful, be rich"
mircea_popescu: because closed is always a competition of empires, and
the chinese got 10x more cash.
PeterL: asciilifeform has it,
there is no open lab equipment or software
mircea_popescu: ie,
the win98 item is 100k in cash + 4,5mn in fixing it
to spec ;
this is 340k in cash + 0 etc.
mircea_popescu: only buy open hardware. if hardware is considered for buying, add
the cost of reversing and opening it
to
the bill,
to make a proper comparison.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
the sad
truth of
the matter dept,
this is kinda why
the closed box crud even exists,
that's
the vp : "by
the
time someone undoes
the shit, it'll be
too late for
the world
to care"
PeterL: some equipment is non-widows, like
the NMR
mircea_popescu: this sort of
thing readily informs me as
to your views re, say, 0day mkt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how many of
those
things in production ? 100s ?
PeterL: well, sure, but newer winblowz
than 98
PeterL: ah, if we want
to run on win98 station we would have
to make driver ourself, but why would we want
that?
PeterL: we get
the equipment, we have
the manufacturers give us software
to run it,
then we get
to do whatever we want with it
mircea_popescu: which i suppose is as good an explanation as any as
to why i don't marry : i own my equipment.
mircea_popescu: a girl i own, i can order
to plug into whatever cock i choose. a girl you borrow from her parents - only with prior written permission from owner.
PeterL: Okay .... I don't know where you got
the idea any equipment borrowing is going on here?
mircea_popescu: just moreso, because machinery > real estate ever since
the industrial revolution.
mircea_popescu: by
the same measure, i'd prefer
the lab
that owns its machinery rather
than borrow it from unknown people in unspecifiable conditions.
PeterL: I guess I would say
the one
that owns a building
mircea_popescu: incidentally, maybe i have a better approach re
the other
thread. do you suppose PeterL
that if you had
to
take a job with one of
two labs, absolutely
the same offer in every respect, you'd
take
the job with
the lab
that rents space in random buildings or with
the lab
that owns its own building ?
mircea_popescu: "how
to fly!" "don't be poor" < works. "how
to cold fusion" "Don't be poor" < fails. what'd money do ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL yes, i'm aware
that if we felt like it, we could just buy visa hurr durr.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:29:36; funkenstein_:
they pick and choose what
TX
to include in a block
they mine as always
PeterL: other
than running your own mining pool
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:24:40; asciilifeform: i.e.
that
the collective of miners CAN exclude certain
tx.
PeterL: I'm just
trying
to figure out what you are
trying
to argue here?
mircea_popescu: (and yes
that means i can read my own fucking x rays, and say
to
the doctor what he says back
to me.)
mircea_popescu: and i have not
to date hired anyone
to do anything whatsoever i don't know how
to do myself. how would i pay
them ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL i only hire plumbers because i know how
to fix my pipes.
assbot: Give computers
the vote.
They're cheaper
than women, even! on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1pj8ALv )
mircea_popescu: a discussion of whether x is an abdication or not can not be decided on
the basis of "is it cheaper or faster". because of fucking course it would be,
that's what abdication means.
mircea_popescu: PeterL and it'd be cheaper/faster (== easier) for your dad
to pay.
PeterL: well,
the company can pay me
to figure out how
to program it or pay
the guy who built it
to program it, it is just cheaper/faster for
them
to do it
mircea_popescu: this doesn't abdicate your role, and she would be wise
to mary you in
this arrangement, yes ?
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> PeterL and if you
tell
the head manager
that
this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is
to assure you
the stuff will work no matter what, he says ? << If
the equipment does not work
the way it is supposed
to, we speak
to our contact and he fixes it, I don't see any abdication of job by manager here?