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mircea_popescu: 116th street wow. and yet it has buildings and everything ?!
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only way kids and senile old people have of causing serious trouble
mircea_popescu: well, natural gas is dangerous, in that it'll level a house.
mircea_popescu: decimation and if there's a gas explosion everyone gets unfriended ?
mircea_popescu: "send emails over your farts! it's great for the environment and ok for your wallpaper"
mircea_popescu: yet versace purse makers intimately understand why cheap chinese knockoffs are their problem
mircea_popescu: they are as much a part of life as hot water and kitchen appliances, and moreover prerequisite to both.
mircea_popescu: "underserved" and "unearned" income are exactly the cornerstone of productive economic activity.
mircea_popescu: benkay incidentally, this approach also illustrates what exactly the current "privilege" discussion spearheaded by the socialists is, and why exactly it is braindamaged.
mircea_popescu: analog dusted old binders are as of yet an unsolved problem
mircea_popescu: you can write a good secretary for bash or perl if your records are digital.
mircea_popescu: not she who can take out the pancreas, make a liver out of it and pluck it back in.
mircea_popescu: to this day the most respected woman on a hospital floor is she who knows where the binder goes.
mircea_popescu: the reason is that do you have any idea what a spider monkey capable of navigating those filing cabinets is worth ?
mircea_popescu: the one affront an old lion could never forget, let alone forgive, would be hiring his secretary away.
mircea_popescu: but provided you're any good the end result is so far out of proportion to the original that your net negative becomes a rounding error.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously, training a new girl or starting a new business will be a net negative
mircea_popescu: decimation but i suspect pg's point stands from a time before that.
mircea_popescu: i'd say my business tended to me worth 48 loaves and change.
mircea_popescu: and i spend an hour and make forty-nine and a half loaves
mircea_popescu: if you want bread, and i want bread, and you spend an hour and make a loaf
mircea_popescu: for instance by producing ready resources (cash flow, but not just) in disproportion to your actual effort
mircea_popescu: you'd have to be an idiot to structure your business (and especially mistress!) so that you tend to them.
mircea_popescu: ng committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?" The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster.
mircea_popescu: Part of the answer may be that young people fail to appreciate the risk that they will become more like old people when they are old. The young person sees the old tenured academic, ignored by his younger colleagues in a culture that values hot new ideas, sign up to be on committees. The youngster never asks "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable bori
mircea_popescu: not that they're hard to crush individually, but there's a fucking pipe of them.
mircea_popescu: i've had it up to here with in-their-mind slick fucks trying to turn bitcoin into some sort of corporate sales management device.
mircea_popescu: "This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs."
mircea_popescu: now you telling me there's no difference you see here ?
mircea_popescu: suppose there's a guy with no profession. he loiters a while in new york but eventually all the beat cops know him so he goes to oregon
mircea_popescu: here's the difference : suppose a guy is a carpenter, and he goes to new york. there's no jobs there, so he goes to oregon and makes himself a cabin.
mircea_popescu: but in the sense of accident "i'd have been to busy to hear of bitcoin" or in the sense of stupidity ?
mircea_popescu: what are we supposed to do, erect columbia's statue on riker's island over here ?!
mircea_popescu: why is it that bitcoin attracts all the weirdos and assorted cruft refused everywhere
mircea_popescu: Neuropathy is unpredictable. One minute I am doing fine, the next my face aches, tinnitus (motor in my ear), then suddenly my abdomen, then feet, then can't swallow and have a "fear of imminent suffocation" anxiety attack, feeling that my stomach wants to exit my body, etc.."
mircea_popescu: pheral neuropathy auto-immune condition caused by an incurable STD which is also morphing into neuropathy every where not just peripheral and causes me chronic fatigue syndrome which causes frequent deliriousness+pain which makes it easier for me to write in a forum than to do the more intellectually sharp+focused work of actual programming... I only get opportunities to program depending on my body maybe every few day
mircea_popescu: "Yeah I am just messing with your minds and have no actual technical ability. But maybe someone does who is reading my points and maybe they will do something. I am hoping. You see I don't really care how we get the solution, as long as we get one. I am not the young productive programmer that I once was with two good eyes (not very productive since losing one eye and acquiring an apparently progressive, incurable peri
mircea_popescu: (of course, the guy was ignored. by the sec and everyone else on the fiat-forums)
mircea_popescu: anyway, check out benkay ascetically depriving himself of internet lulz.
mircea_popescu: i wanted the obituary to read "at least he had his bodyguard with him" but people thought it's too soon.
mircea_popescu: eventually he died, in a car crash, rushing home tired etc.
mircea_popescu: he hated being driven around, so his car arrangement consisted of him driving two people about, who had nothing to do.
mircea_popescu: eventually he got an electyed position, which gave him a driver.
mircea_popescu: i had a friend. he was a touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in a controlled town
mircea_popescu: i hate greenspun for having deleted his original discussion of his adventures with "expert vcs"
mircea_popescu: basically the chinese ran all the middle ages on a sort of govt-sponsored us university program
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform vaugely reminiscent of all the chinese administrative reorganisations