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mircea_popescu: this is why you can't have nice
things. i end up with
them and i don't even like
them.
ascii_field: funnily,
thing still has a - nominally - functioning uboot. but mysteriously fails
to load anything from any media whatsoever.
jurov: actually, you're supposed
to pack everything you will need into initrd and use
that
ascii_field: weird chip (similar
to pogo) for which
the only available os was a systemdized linuxlike
ascii_field: (if
there were a recovery prompt, as in normal sys5-style init, it would be fixable. as it is, whole
thing - os lives on nand flash for which i haven't
the emergency reflash clips - is a writeoff)
ascii_field: the lulzy part is
that i lost (for all intents & purposes) a whole physical box
to
this
mircea_popescu: hey, it will drive linux adoption [to all
the schmucks who will not run linux unless it's really windows]
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
this behaviour is an improvement over windows' reboot cycle.
ascii_field: phun phakt: systemd HARD FREEZES a box with no chance of recovery if it runs into just about ANY issue at boot
time.
mircea_popescu: (which is almost always
the case, which is why SV loves
to "pay" in equity)
mircea_popescu: you're only a bagholder inasmuch as
the shit you made wasn't worth anything anyway.
mircea_popescu: well properly speaking, most of
these companies are not companies with employees,
they're more like work clubs or some sort of co-op.
thestringpuller: yea,
the employee stock plan, (giving us bonuses in stock, and offering pre-tax paycheck stock purchases), is essentially a stock warrant. i'm not invested in it, cause most of
these companies
tend
to use employees as bagholders.
mircea_popescu: that's
the problem with finance, and stock warrants and such.
they gotta make up
their own minds. which means
think.
thestringpuller: "hey guise don't sell your stock" -
to
the employees, while all big investors sell out
ascii_field: that long-awaited dream of hyoomankind,
the arse-mouth-system, is not far.
ascii_field: (in usa, one can buy, e.g., potato chips,
that emerge straight from your arse chemically unchanged)
mircea_popescu: which is stupid in
the first place. it's like dispensing with
the part of your food
that you don't like - where it nourishes you.
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:22:03; mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don't
thionk about
that!"
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:13:14; ben_vulpes:
tis one of
the jobs alf would kill for
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it is a collosal waste of
time.
the problem with
time however is
that it can be but wasted - whatever you do with it can not be
traded for
the
time it
took. not at a profit, not at all. so... waste, all of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: "wait, for
them and
their grandkids ? my family was foreclosed on five
times in
three generations! " "don't you have it so much better ? FORTY ACRES AND A MULE!!1"
mircea_popescu: "oh, slavery meant immunity from foreclosure ?" "be a good non-slave jobsman and don't
thionk about
that!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and getting back
to slavery (as a historical consturct
this
time) and
the subtle perversion of culture : in
the
ten billion discussions of how badly antebellum slaves had it
that point out
that
they were being educated (misrepresented as "beatings" and horror, of course), how many stop
to point out
that a)
they didn't starve periodically like
their northern counterparts and b) if
they behaved had lifetime, even GENERAT
ben_vulpes: my domain is small and
the fields need working if we are
to eat
through
the winter.
ben_vulpes: strikes me as a colossal waste of
time, but
then again i'm not a fantastically wealthy financier.
mircea_popescu: (more precisely : not giving enough of a shit
to cave - mowing down
the dumb people doesn't count.)
mircea_popescu: yeah. not giving a shit about having
the same conversation with different dumb people every day.
mircea_popescu: i have
the blessed chomsky advantage. apparently
this is rare, but, i don't mind bothering people.
mircea_popescu: "son, your mother has cancer. here's a line-up of applicants for
the job."
ben_vulpes: yeah but i also don't care
to have
that conversation every single day
mircea_popescu: "oh but being a slave is bad!11". sure. except if you believe
this someone will extract value out of you by calling it something else. "but i already do
that, you
think
this brand name medicine is worth
the difference from generics ?" right-o.
ben_vulpes: he's a russian,
they're genetically already ensured
to be unhappy
mircea_popescu: he can't see all
this because reasons, of
the
TYPE of
the reason
that's "raceysm" even if not exactly identical.
mircea_popescu: see how
the culture subtly ensures people are unhappy ?
ben_vulpes: "i don't care how long you sleep or how long it
takes you but
this place better be clean and my underwear rolled in
that drawer"
mircea_popescu: o wait no,
that's bad also. gotta call it what, motherjob now ?
mircea_popescu: what's wrong with just introducing yourself as "domestic slave" ? oh, i saw
that in a film once. better call it "housewife"
mircea_popescu: because "raceysm" is
the shorthand for a social convention,
that's on one hand nonsensical, and on
the other precludes people who are slaves from addressing
their slavery as such. it must be called something else. because lo and behold, a person who does work for no pay at
the behest of her masters is now "in a job" hurr durr.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how does 'raceysm' figure into
this
shinohai: Fulfilling because her fat American ass wasn't going
to do any of
that.
ben_vulpes: perhaps (iiuyc) it's
the american
tic of 'job'.
mircea_popescu: "caring for her family was
the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had" aka "my domestic slavery is a much more fulfilling, pleasant and empowering personal situation
than your job will ever hope
to get".
that's what it is.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would
the woman have
to apologize for not being retarded by calling what she does ia job is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: among other many
things.
they're really orthogonal
things.
mircea_popescu: but
the POINT of jobs is for
the employees
to be fungible.
the point of house slaves is for
the slaves
to be
the opposite of fungible.
ben_vulpes: i value
the place's cleanliness,
tidiness and general quality of
things and food around
mircea_popescu: if you
think it is,
train a slave
to do it at home,
try
to hire a brutha
to do it at your diner.
ben_vulpes: what
the work of cooking and cleaning and
throwing dinner parties isn't work somehow?
mircea_popescu: who a) should not be driving ; b) want
to be driving ; c) can't find a sane way out of
this.
mircea_popescu: the only people who go "sitting quietly in
the car is
the best car driving
they ever did" are mentally ill 15 yos.
mircea_popescu: does it move ? yes -> should it ? yes no problem / no -> duct
tape | no -> should it ? yes wd40 no - >no p[roblem
ben_vulpes: shinohai: a woman recently
told me
that "caring for her family was
the most rewarding job [she'd] ever had"
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BingoBoingo: This season as a whole I
think so far matches
their best single episodes in
the bast
punkman: BingoBoingo: what was last season's
theme?
BingoBoingo: punkman: I
think
they got
the season long storyline
thing down now after
trying it last year.
BingoBoingo: "In order for it
to be successfully rebranded, everyone who learned it
the other way has
to die."
BingoBoingo: "Pierre Eymard and friends were studying novel antieplieptics, and used dipropylacetic acid (a solvent) as both an intravenous vehicle for
the drug, and as placebo.
They observed
that
the placebo worked,
too, preventing seizures at
the higher concentrations. If
this had been a phenotype without visible effects, it would have been a perfectly ordinary conclusion
that drug was not better
than dipropylacetic acid-- aka Depakote"
mircea_popescu: much like
the
teenager is only "unruly" if dumbass anette bening of a mother keeps getting in
the way,
mircea_popescu: from what i gather
the latter behaviour is mostly human-reactive.
BingoBoingo: Then again in parts of south Asia Elephants are friendly
tractors until
they need
to get
their nut off and
turn into murder machines
BingoBoingo: But still here all cats of a certain size are still on
the walk away and buy a big dog list.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
there's a huge gap between
the split and agriculture. you're missing
the voice, pastoral life, a lot. << A lot, but fuckers didn't write shit down
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's
the way of over
there. ro notion of bear is mostly "this cute
thing".