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mircea_popescu: kinda why i never got into that, either : he always succeeds
mircea_popescu: wouldn't make anyone too interested in programming would it
mircea_popescu: suppose no matter what you did, the computer just blinked the screen once. that's it.
mircea_popescu: kinda what got me, you know ? it never fucking won. gets boring to watch it if you know the result aforehand
mircea_popescu: irl the coyote eventually fucks up the roadrunner. badly.
mircea_popescu: i get it, the socialist mind wants this to be the case. yet... shiut doesn't work that way.
mircea_popescu: but why ? the coyote tries shit, the roadrunner does not. yet it always comes ahead.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves tho this may be more a function of photographic technology. sometime around my puberty they figured out how to take your picture without blinding you with twelve billion watts.
mircea_popescu: i hated that hanna barbera shit. scooby doo, the jetsons, roadrunner, the works.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me you're a fan of the cartoon dorkage of the 80s
mircea_popescu: b0n1 fwiw, it's more likely doge than whatever botnet.
mircea_popescu: rather than try to finagle a fundamentally unpaying model into paying you
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well that's kinda it, as a general principle. if you want to get paid do something that pays
mircea_popescu: forums are god awful for this purpose. do something that pays.
mircea_popescu: but listen, if what you want is to get paid, you should do something else than a forum
mircea_popescu: well then if you ban everyone what do i care ? i'll never know.
mircea_popescu: The “True Love Tester” bra can’t be masterfully unhooked by some skeevy player who hit on the wearer at a club. No, this bra only comes undone when sensors embedded inside it that are connected wirelessly to a smartphone app detect a particular heart rate
mircea_popescu: the "half a house" comment probably references older discussions re the housing market in central ohio
mircea_popescu: point remains, there is a LOT of variance in both housing prices and salaries in the us.
mircea_popescu: ro gdp/capita is like 8k. average salary is like 500, minimum wage is a whopping 150 dollars.
mircea_popescu: you're not getting a pass. which is you know... wtf, this guy PASSED ?!
mircea_popescu: so are drugs. now, would you take a 20 dollar hit the day of a 20k exam ?
mircea_popescu: enough so that most people rely on their comp to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's like the SAT, except to even show on the scale in s7 you need about 98% on the sat.
mircea_popescu: what good are 3Gh/W chips at 3 dollars each in that context ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that the imperial household is in any way limited wasn't doing too well over there anyway.
mircea_popescu: the part dealing with why technology can't help the police)
mircea_popescu: i strictly mean, average quality went down, in the sense the understanding displayed dwindled. not in the sense better predictions were done
mircea_popescu: tho it's a huge task, you can't even read all the deluge of today
mircea_popescu: this is BECAUSE a democratic view to specialist fields is harmful for everyone involved :
mircea_popescu: you will find a marked decline in the average quality.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids if you take the whole predictive discourse of economy in 1913 and compare to 2013
mircea_popescu: and a few old people left over. once they die that's it.
mircea_popescu: in the wake of wikipedia you have strictly ignoramuses with delusions of education