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mircea_popescu: the russians got steel plants faster with stalin
then
they'd have without.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:59:46;
trinque: could very well be
that
the mechanism by which a central govt steals from a large population via fiat monetary systems got us
the CPUs we use
today far earlier
than
they'd have been had without
the
theft
ascii_field: mainly i gotta live out
the oath
that i swore.
ascii_field: but wanted
to
take a proper shit into
the record
mircea_popescu: most people live with a mix of
the
two, which is fine, pick a mix you like and stick
to it.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu is, i
think, accustomed
to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for
the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don't expect
things.
mircea_popescu: you don't want
to be in start-ups, don't. do not expect you get
to open your mouth.
ascii_field: this might be asking
the mega-s33krit, but what kind of people ~does~ mircea_popescu use
to, e.g., maintain mircea_popescucoin ?
mircea_popescu: you don't want
to do webwork, don't. do not expect any sort of actual pay.
mircea_popescu: it's either or, pick one or
the other and enough with it already.
mircea_popescu: you are stubbornly missing here
that what you'd like
the world
to be does not matter one whit, and whatever way you dress
that masturbation up doesn't change its masturbatory content.
mircea_popescu: nor do i hire plumbers
to do
the code nor do i hire usian kids
to do my plumbing.
mircea_popescu: which is why if he came
to have a chat with me i'd have
the girls send him off.
ascii_field: but i
thought mircea_popescu didn't care for
those
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as he doesn't get
to put his name on
the
thing.
ascii_field: aha. fella did something
that needed doing
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 21:01:03; mircea_popescu: ok
this is
the most insane
thing i ever saw. so plumber, looks like he escaped comicon or something, dorkiest dude ever. but
THEN he proceeds
to CUT
THROUGH METAL PLATE FREEHAND
mircea_popescu: oh, i don't recall, 200 pesos for
the labour or something it was
mircea_popescu: im either doing
too many
things at once or whatever. who ? link ? what ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: wasn't speaking of 'salary
types'
mircea_popescu: i understand
that salaried work is both more common and more convenient, but i have personally no patience for salary
types, and more importantly,
there's no room in b-a for such, because it's not a fucking ewmpire, it's a republic,
mircea_popescu: this is entirely besides
the point. how you organise your own affairs is your own call. b-a is an equity play : you do
things ; when and if
they bring money in, you can have money ; when and if
they bring chicks in, you can have chicks.
that's how equity plays work : you get a claim
to whatever future brings.
ascii_field: to me 'web dev' means 'work 17y.o. does' and is exactly equivalent
to 'you are worth your weight in pork'
☟︎ ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don't
think it is 'emo'
to question my priorities when, after giving away my work
to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
ascii_field: see also my observation about being dumber
than a chicken.
mircea_popescu: same
thing happens
to me, i get various bits i end up keeping for a long
time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whty is
the painter with ebola chick wearing high heeled platforms ?
mircea_popescu: that in
the same go, as you understand one, you understand
the other.
they being
the exact same
thing.
ascii_field: but yes,
the machines were expensive and
the room
temp iq folks were kept out.
mircea_popescu: because it has no mechanisms of institutionalized opression of
the median.
mircea_popescu: and it continues
to appear
to work for as long as it fails
to appear interesting.
ascii_field: it was actually an answer
to
the
tower of babel which prevailed
then.
mircea_popescu: the problem here is keeping
the herd out of computing, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: and once
they become popular,
they will BE
the sea of lisp shit.
☟︎ ascii_field: the ones
that don't reference items in
the sea of c shit - work.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:20:06; *: ben_vulpes fails
to find
the logline wherein asciilifeform claims
that common lisp packages "tend
to work unlike in other languages"
mircea_popescu: i keep getting sucked into discussing science fiction movie scripts with
this guy.
ascii_field: you might be fucking
the wives of his dead skin cells
ascii_field: ftr it is my considered belief
that if
tmsr is sunk, it will be because it was unable
to fab si.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:35; ascii_field: microshit's very existence has deformed
thought processes of a great many people.
mircea_popescu: looky, if we miss
the window
to civilisation we'll have missed
the window
to civilisation,
that's all.
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26; mircea_popescu: if you need anything
that has
to be made on something in
the middle, make it now.
ascii_field: (show me where we can do a 486 or a dram of
the
time, for something like what
the shared die folks charge.)
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact, incontrovertible and above your ability
to contest,
that you can do 100 cpus, and it doesn'rt even cost
that much.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother
the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing
things with
this inept nonsense. for
the same reason i shouldn't have queried ben_vulpes yest.
ascii_field: they won't package or
test or guarantee so much as 1 working unit.
mircea_popescu: umd will let you
tack on 100 cpus
to some prototype run
they got, won't it ?
mircea_popescu: so no,
the problem is not an absent "mass market".
the problem is
that
there's work
to be done for future uncertain benefit.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: in all srsnes i'd like
to know how.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field we can make 100 cpus
TODAY, and on
tech
that didn't even exist in 1960.
ascii_field: (how else do you resolve
the problem of
there being 1000
takers
to each)
mircea_popescu: that's
the martians
that put
the chlorotic non-elites on earth.
mircea_popescu: a matter
that
the
top male of 1015 (ie, STRONG) fucked hotties and had good children. whereas
the
top male of 2015 (ie, SMART) fucks horsefaces and is happy for it.
mircea_popescu: stop fucking all
the ugly inept women.
that's how you get stunted kids.
mircea_popescu: well i can't find it. anyway, fucktarded outdoor
thing in ba, "siempre se vuelve al primer amor"
trying
to sell italian classes. depicts an ugly chick in flats holding a huge red heart.
ascii_field: still is, until mircea_popescu or i figure out how
to make 100 cpus.
ascii_field: don't have
the
thread handy, but at one point i explained how computing is
tricky because its very existence as its current
thing -
that is, vlsi - is predicated on mass uptake
mircea_popescu: (not for maleducation. for poor sexual hygiene. fucking all
the roadkill and such.)
mircea_popescu: until and unless you come
to
terms with
the simple fact
that you're special, you'll be stuck
trying
to explain friends
to me.
ascii_field: sure.
then where did we get
the retarded elite?
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "abundance makes lazy apes want
to watch
tv". guess what ? it doesn't have
to! nobody forces you
to misuse your freedom!
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 20:08:16; ascii_field: 'when mass markets develop, pluralism suffers
the most --
there is no longer a concept of healthy participants: people become concerned with
the individual "winner", and instead of people being good at whatever
they are doing and proud of
that,
they will want
to flock around
the winner
to share some of
the glory.'
ascii_field: linked site claims
that
the last known cray2 was not
thrown out until '99.