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trinque: v_diddy: wait
this wasn't a place I worked with
the lotto
tickets was it?
v_diddy: and also reversion
to
the mean
v_diddy: really? scratch-offs are provably
trustable now?
v_diddy: lotto
ticket has unknowable, but predictably bad odds.
v_diddy: asciilifeform: perhaps remembers
the lotto
tickets at con3?
v_diddy: the man would also rather chew
tacks
than
talk
to humans, so we are at an impasse.
v_diddy: asciilifeform doubts my ability
to milk humans of v!
phf: regressing
to mean?
that's a paddling
trinque chuckles as
the +ev scheme is laid bare!
v_diddy: he won't be able
to resist!
v_diddy: worst case scenario i sell off a daughter or
two
to mircea_popescu
v_diddy: does schmuck attempting
to hedge against
total collapse of local civilization calculate ROI of expanding meatwot?
v_diddy: farmer who has 10 children 6 of which survive, 3 of which are useful on
the farm doesn't calculate either.
v_diddy: but perhaps with judicious selection and market knowledge one can over
time make some money.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck is /mode #bitcoin-assets +b *!*@c-50-140-140-37.hsd1.il.comcast.net do nothing ?
v_diddy: value is apparent
to some people.
v_diddy: what, you calculate
the worth of a
twenty lying on
the street?
trinque: at any rate it'll be fun
to see what comes of your direction v_diddy :)
trinque: but I'd be fine
to consider my kid an art project
trinque: you'd have
to come at
the
thing by determining
the value of your
time,
then
the amount of
time and resources devoted
to
the kid, what
the kid ends up producing of value, does
this offset
the development period...
v_diddy: how do you draw
the line between pets and livestock, asciilifeform?
v_diddy: failure of imagination, i
tell yas.
v_diddy: tending
the aquaponics, banging
together a new dome, romping unattended in
the neighbors fields not incurring costs...
mircea_popescu: "You will observe
the Keisha does not even have
the enthusiasm
to know what is written on
the most important economic documents of her life. "I don't know, bipolar, panic attacks, whatever
they put on
there." She can't be bothered
to handle
those papers, someone else is in charge of
that. How attentive will she be
to
the frier? McDonalds doesn't want
to find out."
v_diddy: has yet
to happen with /anyone/ i've
taught
to use power
tools.
mircea_popescu: either
that or
they waste
the consumables, break
the
tools and injure
themselves.
v_diddy: make
them shred papers.
they learn something, biz gets shit done.
v_diddy: no, don't send kids
to school. make
them put up molding in
the remodel.
they learn something,
the
thing increases in value.
mircea_popescu: v_diddy how do you plan
to extract value from
the offspring ?
v_diddy: "must be rich
to not send kids
to school"
assbot: Logged on 18-10-2015 16:46:39; asciilifeform: 'this problem will not be solved for you personally, pray
that your grandchildren get
to live like people' <--> 'but i don't want
to have children, i want
to live like people ~myself~'
mircea_popescu: that's
the measure of skilled in a life run as a business
mircea_popescu: then stop bitching and make
those warrants / shares worth something.
mircea_popescu: which is fine, but it also means
they gotta run
their life as a business.
mircea_popescu: there's a huge market for all sorts of skilled and a large pile of people who want skilled
to mean what
they want it
to mean.
v_diddy: asciilifeform: doesn't
this
thread devolve into "there's precious little market for anything not supported by usg"?
mircea_popescu: naphex's been
trying
to hire skilled cocksuckers ; i've been
trying
to hire skilled pr ; bitbet still needs skilled bookies
mircea_popescu: Ferrari and now it's only a Honda, but either way, not much
time for absences and no
time at all for Keisha's learning curve. Keisha isn't just unemployed, she is completely unemployable. We can argue whether auto plants should pay $20/hr or $50/hr, but for certain
there is no market for unskilled labor at all."
mircea_popescu: "That specific issue reveals an important bias and misunderstanding America has when it
talks about employment. Yes,
there is an issue about people wanting
to work but
the other issue is
that
the global economy is
too quick and efficient
to
tolerate your idiotic car
troubles or your imbecilic grandmother's death or your moronic lack of child care (cue Scandinavia) or, and mostly, your stupid health.
The economy was a
BingoBoingo: One of
the other jacket people may also be drawing a second salary now
too.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One of
those fellows on
the linked page actually
to my knowledge draws not one, but
TWO professorial salaries from
the same university.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> kim could have been done in 36 minutes. << Not anymore. Not with
the new FUPA since she let herself go.
BingoBoingo: Dayum v_diddy so how many babbies were
there?
mircea_popescu: also
this is what you get for not favouring birthing hips!
v_diddy is
taking some fucking paternity leave
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
These creatures exist even at regional colleges, check "humanities department." Seems
they adopted
the uniform from Hollywood.
mircea_popescu: also
these guys don't
teach anything whatsoever.
they mostly
try
to be carrie from sex and
the city, except without
the sex.
v_diddy: ;;later
tell pete_dushenski ^^
v_diddy: much less doing it
to pound sense into his own spawn. could be wrong
though.
mircea_popescu: we're not discussing here random derp making 63k a year from community college, we're discussing here krugman or w/e his name is,
the nyt resident finance derp
v_diddy: i don't
think pete's actually interested in /building/
the skoolarium
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a
thing,
thick jacket with applied elbow patches, certain haircut, certain glasses, laptop-like case on shoulder, open collar shirt...
BingoBoingo: v_diddy: Mr. Combs is not a candidate really
to lecture at Ben & Pete's Skoolarium
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (typical u.s. state uni employs largely 'lecturers', who occupy approx. same place in
the org chart as an air conditioner mechanic) << air conditioner mechanic comparatively makes bank compared
to uni lecturer, and often professor
v_diddy: BingoBoingo: funny, hadn't heard
that one.
v_diddy: except
that if
they sleep with
their students
they still get canned.
shinohai: "They are in fact,
the last bastions of mediaevalism left in modern society outside, perhaps,
the church." <<< I like it already, because
though I do not believe in God, I am somehow drawn
to
the church for just
that reason.
shinohai: Possibly
they stopped learning.
BingoBoingo: P. Diddy also did: "On June 22, 2015, Combs was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon by
the University of California, Los Angeles Police Department. He was accused of assaulting one of his son's football coaches after witnessing
the coach yell at his son. His son, Justin Combs, plays football for
the UCLA Bruins." << Because not even entertainment stars can spare
their children
the gladitorial arena
BingoBoingo: Puff Daddy,
then P. Diddy,
then Diddy,
then Sean's Combs inc.
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 02:43:51; asciilifeform: mr mold had a hilarious piece on
the subject, involving a game of chess played by vote