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mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: how does it get executed << euro future, settles 15th of each month, can be delivered as euros on bitcoin central.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: mpex drop? << yeah it like, plunged a few days ago. it actually does this, probably to mess with mike trying to understand the news impact.
mircea_popescu: course, it used to be made by the girl in question, but hey. "if the cake is tasty, maybe we should come to this place more often"
mircea_popescu: "if the cake is tasty we should be together", prolly older than the wheel.
mircea_popescu: by the way, that's actually quite ancient chinese stuff.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there ever existed or could ever exist a functioning society in which nursing jobs are to be discounted because too little demand and too many people wanting to do it.
mircea_popescu: now granted, if the thing they want to do is i dunno, watch tv, then one could say "how about you do this instead".
mircea_popescu: and you know, soime people want to do a certain thing.
mircea_popescu: well yes she speaks english, she was born in texas or something, i forget.
mircea_popescu: the curse of being born in the best country in the world, a few decades before it became the best country in the world.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "Adding a picture" ? that article is kinda silly.
mircea_popescu: this is probably also the fault of the rentiers and savers.
mircea_popescu: couldn't pay for my fucking coffee. not all the coffee i drink in a week, either, just, one time.
mircea_popescu: the best she could find was this deal where she took ~12 hours' worth of examinations, and they got her a thing for 3 hours / week.
mircea_popescu: because "the recession is over", yet people with valuable experience and qualifications are looking for work. this somehow makes sense.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, listen to this sad story : the mother of a friend, who has been a nurse all her life, 20+ years, and who is actually a very good nurse, and who's got a back injury from lifting people in wheelchair up to busses and so on, has been trying for the past 6 months to get a job.
mircea_popescu: amusingly enough, venezuela is also a federal republic. only... 30ish years more advanced than the us
mircea_popescu: in spite of the government having clearly made a rule that there should be toilet paper!
mircea_popescu: the burgeoisie, god damned them, keep making it impossible for the working man to find toilet paper in the store.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the socialist state in its final decomposition stages has identified the enemies of the people : savers and owners.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is all for me. see you ~guys~ in the morning.
mircea_popescu: Drew alright. see, now you're sounding a lot less like dank.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this actually looks like a sane budget. who made it ?
mircea_popescu: can you believe, dear assets, that the ticket mafia gypped him for almost 40% of the rent of the venue ?
mircea_popescu: already working on it in the us to a distasteful degree.
mircea_popescu: maybe with too many incentives stacked up, they'll figure out a way to do it, and that'll be a horror worse than any other.
mircea_popescu: "Let the trolls try to collect danegeld from a hundred million consumers!" << this may be dangerous, in that putting too much weight on something "that will hold anything" never works. like you know, 19th century poliution and the ideas of "send fumes in the air, it can take anything" or "water will wash anyhing away"
mircea_popescu: benkay i dunno, that's why the producers hire research depts yo uknow ? not my jobsworth :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform now as far as programmable gpus go, o boy would computer games love thids
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal no im just saying switching nicks is a very expensive operation for everyone else
mircea_popescu: "I really would like you to contrast that with what you have to do with HTML on the Internet. " asciilifeform re your article, god help us if we end up executing code off the data
mircea_popescu wonders wtf TheNewDeal is. then has dejavu moment. then remembers it's testing123.
mircea_popescu: punkman favela if memory serves is the precarious squatting living arrangements most south america enjoys
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well that's my pov. i mostly care about, interact with and experience the world through womenz.
mircea_popescu: 'm like pavlov's dog over here punkman, i see your name i expect great links.
mircea_popescu: Drew that was the shittiest summary in recorded history. try again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically it boils down to, your sorting algorithm of evil not matching theirs.
mircea_popescu: if you have 20 bux spare you'll get a manicure, maybe you find some guy that's not an asshoel.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now tell me about getting spare drives. when ? with what ?
mircea_popescu: and if you get fired you'll lose the apt and thus the deposit and thus homeless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform frame the question better : you've not had any decent sleep in a week, you gotta make it in time to work cause else it's your ass.
mircea_popescu: this is like having a 40 yo chick come to you for dancing lessons and you telling her "missing ingredient is you being 20". why tyvm, mr expert guy!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, seriously, it is so very difficult to understand. couldn't have even predicted it, either. o.O
mircea_popescu: "It is likely that the success of LZW and its thousands of implementations, especially among small developers, caught Unisys unprepared. Otherwise, it would be difficult to understand how Unisys could first allow a very large number of small and big developers to use LZW for years, and then, after the establishment of various standards based on LZW, change its attitude."
mircea_popescu: no, just, innocent of the resources to get a spare disk.
mircea_popescu: or else they put up with whatever nonsensical demands expectations and assorted nonsense someone with a chicken coop available may wish to put forward.
mircea_popescu: so they either do it in the bushes, with the constant risk of a stray dog taking a piss on the couple during,
mircea_popescu: think of it this way : most women alive today can not afford to enforce the privacy of a room to fuck in.
mircea_popescu: people are poor, and while the little they own is still all they own, the security they can feasibly deploy is nil
mircea_popescu: people keep "everything they have" in reach of the government, and i nreach of a woman they met two weeks ago while drunk, and so on.
mircea_popescu: coupla years ago ukash was just taking over from... i forgot who
mircea_popescu: currently paysafecard is going up and ukash is going out
mircea_popescu: they change about every 2 years, which consequently is the experimental period of law enforcing
mircea_popescu: but sometiems one wonders how much of this malware serves a useful government function.
mircea_popescu: so you know, gotta have some mechanism to force people to not be retarded
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you seen the earlier bit about the php/objective-c key mismatch issue ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah. a good reason for bitcoin to start ignoring patents too.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the guy explained romanian ethnogenesis in those terms. he meant dacians and thracians, not that that version'd have been any more sensible.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dangit it's gone. somehow that clip got edited a little.