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mircea_popescu: relevant
as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn't care about intelligence, at all, it doesn't care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer ............
mircea_popescu: "When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just
as superfluous
as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just
as ir
mircea_popescu: "Lesson one at the academia should be the importance of separating vocation from avocation,
as character actor Fred Thompson and electrical contractor Benjamin Franklin both understood."
mircea_popescu: lol, tlp trying to be feminist by making men
as dumb
as women.
BingoBoingo: Around here similar hand fishing arts exist, but usually they focus on the catfish Basically get it to swallow your hand and try to grab the gill plates
as you pull your hand up
mod6: when I was younger I used to be a lot more idealistic about my job... now, couldn't care less
as long
as the money is wired on a regular basis. haha.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch
as he doesn't get to put his name on the thing.
mircea_popescu: that in the same go,
as you understand one, you understand the other. they being the exact same thing.
mircea_popescu: and it continues to appear to work for
as long
as it fails to appear interesting.
ascii_field: they won't package or test or guarantee so much
as 1 working unit.
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
BingoBoingo: Foodstamp culture: "I saw an episode of Bridezillas that she wanted to use EBT for her wedding cake. Except it was her friends card and it was not a store she was getting it from it was a lady baking out of her house and the baker lady was going to buy the stuff for the cake and like $700 in groceries
as her 'payment'. They all got fines, the baker got shut down and the friend lost her ability to receive stamps and I think lost cu
mircea_popescu: Thing 4. We're trying to create a proper (=crypto) communication system ;
as part of this gpg was cut up and we're still barfing at the results. this is a huge task and if thee end product is reasonably well understood, the design's still widely open.
ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically
as described in mircea_popescu's article re: same.
mircea_popescu: and
as always is the case in life, if one doesn't manage to make one thing work, one'll sooner or later meet the same thing later on, with worse downside and less upside.
mircea_popescu: if i cared what kenyans value anything i might ask them.
as it is, they don't even get a voice in blockchain size.
phf: nobody's going to pay for v, but i thought that v is a dna level building block in a construction process of something that's beyond "money-cool", or bezzle cool
as that's really what you're talking about ("rent is due")
ascii_field: phf: but,
as i think has been well established, not money-cool.
ben_vulpes: doesn't necessarily mean it's -ev to advertise, just that someone else is deriving value from your media buys
as well.
ascii_field: which the other implementations are using
as a crib sheet
ben_vulpes: "ah fuckit, get out of my way, i'll do it in a tenth the time and it'll be twice
as good."
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: I don't follow. again,
as though I were five?
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 15:31:19; asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-
as-a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates.
ascii_field: (the odds are very good that your southbridge is running just one such
as we speak.)
PeterL: wouldn't that make strings take up twice
as much memory?
ascii_field: but what if - per last night's thread - you decided that you DON'T WANT TO REPRESENT STRINGS
AS CONTIGUOUS BYTES ?
phf: of magnitude improvements and that the whole thing is not even funny. he suggested that i do an implementation
as an indepedent study for another semester and that's what i did
phf: thestringpuller: it wasn't actually forced. started
as a final project in william arbaugh's (the guy who did the smooth handover wireless implementation at umd) class, where we were writing a malloc for the teaching os
as a final project, only three mallocs came anywhere near the spec, since mine was one of them i had the opportunity to say that the whole thing was a sham "shit code written by retards", etc. and that you can have orders
ascii_field: if you want to use it
as a graphical terminal
mircea_popescu: currently this CAN work
as an extraction engine - it costs me more to make the payouts than i take in.
mircea_popescu: no. speaking of catalythic chemistry.
as a thing. which it is.
ascii_field: startling to the point that nato lands shelved it
as sov disinfo for decades
ascii_field: poor old j.c.maxwell gets no rest when this comes up, but i'ma have to use him
as example again. he didn't even bother ~trying~ to build a radio...
ascii_field:
as in, you can build ~new~ structure on it
ascii_field: PeterL: there is such a thing
as invention.
ascii_field: PeterL: in so far
as i can see from my perch, nothing fundamental has happened in at least a generation.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:01:40; asciilifeform: which more or less died out
as a scientific field in the 'civilized' world.
adlai is surprised nobody has yet accused the marshals of building the recent eiffel tower,
as auction optimization
shinohai: ;;later tell SuchWow Your quit message is atrocious. "This too is temporary,
as most things are" reduces your comma usage and makes you not sound like a hippy.
ben_vulpes: if you want intros to indenturitude, i can provide this
as well.
ben_vulpes: operating
as a corporation rather than an individual has benefits like that.
ben_vulpes:
as it stands, he hates the kind of work my shop does, and i have a list of people who also hate the kind of work that we do but also find the company company so beguiling that they're willing and sometimes even eager to do it anyways.
mircea_popescu: these aren't abstractions
as much
as they are infections.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:50:13; *: asciilifeform would like input from his WoT re: what is the correct thing to do with obvious usg honeytrapping
as described earlier.
mircea_popescu: trinque the eventual end goal is to have bitcoinix.
as alf says, no userland at all. nor really a kernel in the common sense.
mircea_popescu: and for this same exact reason,
as alf would say, "cement".
trinque: init on the same device is taking about 300kb more than runit,
as on this thing I have the former starting the latter
trinque: if it were the ADA version or even one written with
as few deps
as possible, I'd grant you're right
mod6: i guess i could hash the epoch time and append it to the dir name, store it
as a global for "session" key.
mircea_popescu: which is what i/bezos would have done
as #1 thing to do.
mircea_popescu: same thing
as with steam : i would not even accept money from them.
mircea_popescu: do you not count it
as an example of developer eschewing the monopoly ? and to apple's detriment ?
mircea_popescu: "How long would it take for Toyota to start living up to these accusations in earnest? And why should it not do so? What is to be gained from corporate sainthood?" << "De ce te uiti de parca ti-am furat ceva. Daca tot te uiti asa, mai bine ti-
as fura."
mircea_popescu: yet it's not my fault the models you all learned
as children are constructed to serve your society, not your own needs and interests.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 20:13:17; trinque: two things there: one I think I will begin looking into the connect vs addnode tangle this weekend,
as it's affecting the proper functioning of the deedbot-
mircea_popescu: shrem registered
as a money transmitter, and named himself
as the agent in charge of making sure ustardation is implemented.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:54:25; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: usg algo is,
as i understand: 1) pick a fella who needs to have problems 2) steer known scum to his $thing 3) have it be established that he knows of (2) 4) pick him up
as a thieves' fence
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the general, this is the closed form life equation of people doing something worthwhile : they have a terrible time
as kids because their parents are idiots ; they get fucking stampeded
as adults, because people are lazy ; they get all the accolades, moneys and bitches when they're old, because it doesn't do anything for them anymore (thus it's finally safe) ; once they're dead they get to be the face sellin
mircea_popescu:
as v.i.lenin said, people who get involved in revolutions best learn to like prison food.
assbot: Logged on 04-11-2015 18:50:13; *: asciilifeform would like input from his WoT re: what is the correct thing to do with obvious usg honeytrapping
as described earlier.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i fail to see it
as anything other than john smithing.
BingoBoingo: It seems this current volatility is a delayed response to drama season. I predict moar wild swings
as all this pent up drama acts on Bitcoin price after having been suppressed so long
trinque: two things there: one I think I will begin looking into the connect vs addnode tangle this weekend,
as it's affecting the proper functioning of the deedbot-
☟︎ Namworld: I just wanted to let it known
as I don't think that other guy advertised it around much.
ben_vulpes: Namworld: I'm sure you see the problem with statements-in-the-log-
as-operating-agreement