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pete_dushenski: "a country with a per capita income
that is 100% higher
than another receives 130% more business
travelers and sends 170% more people abroad.
This means
that business
travel
tends
to grow more
than proportionally with
the level of development." << or maybe it just means
that your 'per capita' bullshit is literally a mean metric of no practical value, just like
the "people" it purports
to measure.
pete_dushenski: heh. no one noticed a recent footnote in a recent contravex
that mentioned
tom cruise in "the day after
tomorrow" instead of "the edge of
tomorrow". clearly, i need
to become more popular with
the action movie kidz
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: LOL
Trace Mayer is critiquing your accounting. "MPEx needs a balance sheet cause I don't understand zero-asset corporations"
mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said
the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition." << well, more like a qe age.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Who ever wants
to qntra if since alf passed on it can submit. phf?
mircea_popescu: that
this would be quite apt is not
terribly material
to 'em.
mircea_popescu: none of
the "industrial blue chips" do anythning anymore, so you'd be left with a stock market
the size of bulgaria's.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no QE, facebook deflates back
to it's ~20mn actual value.
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 13:38:36; assbot: Politicians are so predictable, a robot can literally write
their speeches -
The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1OMuCy6 )
mircea_popescu: "we da people who are poor fundamentally misunderstand what money is and wish
to fix it". mkay.
BingoBoingo: Ah, It's getting late. Second bolus of coffee is
taking its
time
to work.
mircea_popescu: and yes we're nowhere near ready
to be happy with
the results of unseating
the ONLY english contribution
to
the western civilisation.
mircea_popescu: managing
time in
this sense is only a consideration for assembly line workers.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: Mobile Device Management. (A dying field
that boomed like social networks!!!!11). I just want
to work for a useful uranium mine.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the "every"
thing is not part of
the argument as presented
tho. how about "give it
to just McCue". "i want it
too" "get in
the wot"
BingoBoingo: There's people who have lots of
time
they can spend nothing, and other people for whom managing
time is as critical an optimization problem as
their budget/hodl
mircea_popescu: "i give myself until 7 pm
to fall in love
then i'm just getting drunk" or what ?
mircea_popescu: "nobody in
this lab has discovered anything
the past decade so now we're putting everyone on arbitrary counters!"
BingoBoingo: Indeed, but fuck Canada. It's
time for
their universities
to make all bums peers
to
the faculty.
mircea_popescu: but
the notion of
time in
this particular manner IS oppressive. just ask alf.
mircea_popescu: see,
their driver is, "i don't have
time
to watch
this dumb indian's videos". which is legit,
they don't have
time.
mircea_popescu: that separation discussion with asciilifeform is going
to haunt us forever, for it's fucking fundamental.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Could publish peer reviewed
tapes << except peers won't review
tapes. because it's inept. oral
tradition is unlike
the written
tradition in a fundamental way : it rejects
the ~separation~ of knowledge and power.
that sound familiar ?
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yea I work for VMWare under
the "AirWatch" brand.
The leadership is so confused. It's like kindergarteners being in charge of billions of dollars.
BingoBoingo: Well, still hard
to do
that on publish nothing
thestringpuller: yea many whales are pulling out of vmware like a slut, killing
the stock. So Dell just wants
to acquire it for cheap. pump
then dump
the
thing.
mircea_popescu: one gram of flesh per FB account,
this is almost farmable.
mircea_popescu: actually, we can do
this math. EMC employs 50k mostly indians, and is valued at 25bn.
mircea_popescu: no idea how
they figure
that one, you can't get a fb account
to show up
to your office irl./
mircea_popescu: apparently 1bn active fb users are worth more
than 10k active office workers.
punkman: wasn't EMC looking
to sell itself?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller myeah.
they don't
think properly, ie "hey, mp isn't paying for nascar car, clearly stupid idea" but instead "oh, let's do random $idiocy, we'll be so much better
than mp". makes sense, if you're retarded.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: Same ineptitude
that has cause
the parent company of my uranium mine (VMWware)
to instantiate 900 layoffs
to maintain "normal growth". (Althogh EMC is a
terrible
terrible company overall).
mircea_popescu: nobody can
take
this from you, you know ? "i got
to fine dine while watching idiots burn.
TWICE."
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
this is same phenomenon
that has rested on Bitpay, guess goes back
to notion of "problem of
too much money". When
talking with Pierre, he
told me "they could probably run
the company with
two people and have
the same amount of business." But
the leadership has ADHD.
mircea_popescu: dude, i
tell you
truly - i fucking hate argentina,
these people are as dumb as
the delicious cows
they raise. nevertheless, sitting here atop a grassy knoll, chowing exceptional beef and homemade apple pies and watching rome burn is a delight for which i am ever
thankful.
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 10:54:57; assbot: Law professor argues in UBC human rights complaint
that Indigenous scholars shouldn’t have
to publish peer-reviewed research ... (
http://bit.ly/1PhDGN0 )
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
The
truly lulzy part is
the blame is going
to Windows antiviruses for deleting arbitrary files from PRB bitcoin databases.
thestringpuller: or rather it's not worth 150bn dollars, (unless 150bn is worth a lot less
than
teh so-called fed
tells us)
mircea_popescu: "we're narrowly intelligent but broadly speaking stupid, we were raped for our ineptitude by some nobody
that mp
trampled underfoot without even particularly noticing. really - go use
TRB, we'll just follow along quietly
to
try and learn something"
thestringpuller: Well digital marketing is a dying field, Facebook
tried
to pull
the "Google route" which helped boost
their shareholder confidence but as a long
term monetization policy it will fail.
assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 07:07:34; BingoBoingo: From
the mines: "There are some issues being filed concerning database corruptions in bitcoin core. Although
the problem hasn't been pinpointed
to LevelDB,
the long-term plan is still
to switch
to a new, well maintained database." << A Hearnia continues
mircea_popescu: meanwhile... everyone's "pensions" bwahahaha are invested in facebook(s). your daddy had not only a better house, not only better shoes, but also a retirement full of alcoa and shell. what a sucker,
that dood.
mircea_popescu: leaving behind a ~150 bn crater in imaginary "wealth"
that "could have bought russia"
to be accounted for, somehow.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
the lifetime economic value per active fb user is MAYBE a cent. doubtfully so.
mircea_popescu: o wait... usg's own ws didn't exist
then yet either huh. a well.
mircea_popescu: if only
they were doing
this back in
the day when usg's own corp didn't exist, america'd have looked a lot different.
mircea_popescu: so it's somehow managed
to get wallstreet ot pay ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per active user.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller
the corp is allegedly worth 150bn while allegedly 1bn users log in daily.
mircea_popescu: and similarly you gotta do
the phd'ing for facebook, so
they figure out whether it's more productive for
their goals
to include or
to exclude strings matching $pattern.
mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant
to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if
THEY had
to come
to you with a "here's how much we
think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do
the math again" ? who's
the sovereign here ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and finally c)
that facebook, just like every other usg corporation,
tends
to outsource all its workload
TO UNPAID
THIRD PARTIES.
mircea_popescu: apparently
those actually eventually paid off, who knew a whole generation of idle retards was going
to be educated by
them. hollywood raped moscow just as mosfilm raped san mateo.
mircea_popescu: b)
the derps in question
thesmelves however are VERY careful as
to how
they state
the nonsense. it's important
that even
through
the usual muck of pravda it comes
through ~how much
they worked~ and how ~they vanquished an uncaring, cruel, cold world~,
the
two pillars of... well basically of socialist realist movies of
the 60s.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 19:05:15; mircea_popescu: BUT if
the symbol "activist" ran into any
trouble...
there's a newly minted "educator" symbol
to
the rescue.
mircea_popescu: g
that "while it may be vulgar and offensive, distasteful content on its own does not violate our policies".[84] It decided
to
take action on May 29, 2013, after it "become clear
that our systems
to identify and remove hate speech have failed
to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate."[85]
mircea_popescu: Following a campaign by 100 advocacy groups, Facebook agreed
to update its policy on hate speech.
The campaign highlighted content promoting domestic and sexual violence against women, and used over 57,000
tweets and more
than 4,900 emails
that caused withdrawal of advertising from
the site by 15 companies, including Nissan UK, House of Burlesque and Nationwide UK.
The social media website initially responded by statin
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 26-01-2016 04:08:33; AdrianG: and now we have
thousands of psychology PhDs/psychiatrists working untold hours
to make facebook feel more like crack.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs
to me
that
the actually correct way
to indent your inline else is \tif\t\n\t\telse
BingoBoingo: So, Federal reserve open market committee meets
today. QE4? QE 4ever?
jurov: Fluid. *pounds on
the pulpit* Retention.
jurov: "For example, I mean probably all of us have had a mom or a grandmom or an uncle
to whom we say, hey, I noticed your legs are swelling again. Fluid retention. Fluid retention."
BingoBoingo: If you've got
time
to write it up, I'd have
time
to publish it.
BingoBoingo: I was actually awake for one of
these for a change
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell adlai Sorry,
too late for
this diff period.
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punkman: why do all professors need
to publish anyway, can't one just
teach?
punkman: "Lorna June McCue was denied
tenure and ultimately dismissed after 11 years at
the university in part because of her failure
to submit a single piece of peer-reviewed research during
that
time. "