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Namworld: You're
trapped overpaying for a big space.
That's
the real prison. Small space, you're basically free
to do whatever and have
the luxury of free
time with less stress.
mircea_popescu: lolz all you wish, but let me
tell you something :
to anyone i knew in
the 80s, "you will never own your own pair of jeans" would have been possibly
the worst conceivable curse.
Namworld: I feel much better having a small living space and more spare money
than I can use
than having a big place with only crap
to put in it and struggling
to afford anything but paying for a large living space.
Namworld: I wouldn't consider myself
to be merely existing. But it seems as such for you.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i
think i'm
too
terse.
then i look at
the logs and shudder. what's a gal
to do!
Namworld: Oh... but what's
the criterion
to be considered living vs existing?
Namworld: This document from 2012 seems
to say a carton of 200 smokes were ~$77
Namworld: mircea_popescu, not always. Even
then, I don't see many smokers smoking enough
to burn almost $1000 a month.
Namworld: You have
to enjoy headaches and/or brain aneurysm.
Namworld: No. Feels like I have everything I need. I'm just perplexed by people who don't have
the excuse of kids struggling on minimum salary.
mircea_popescu: Namworld so
then what's
the bitch ? you're not seriously contemplating cutting out of
that 500 are you ?
Namworld: I have rent, electricity bill, food (good food and delivered at door), cellphone and Internet all fitting within ~$500, depending on food selection
that month.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ya been watching
too much breaking bad
Namworld: Yeah, I wanted
to, but I didn't have
the hat.
cazalla: you'd be better off using
the spare rooms
to grow dope
than renting
them out Namworld
mircea_popescu: Namworld so send
the roommate out
to
turn
tricks ? should be 100 an hour at least.
Namworld: If only
that... $420 rent here, split in 2 for a 1 bedroom. I'm installed in
the living room/kitchen as if it was a studio. Roommate in room.
mircea_popescu: as hanbot sez, "the space
to draw one's conclusion is big and fulla dragons."
mircea_popescu: but it was fully unintentional,
they just kept running
themselves into
the wall
Namworld: 99c a kilo? Never seen anything
that cheap here.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i had an entire fucking lulz with
the elec corp in romania.
they wanted
to give me a deal if i prepaid, so i prepaid for like a year.
then
the eu elec price explosion happened, and so
they paid me
to get out of
the prepay deal.
then prices went back down.
cazalla: and if you're really game, load up on
top cuts from supermarkets but weigh
them in
the self-serve as carrots
cazalla: and as i've mentioned a few
times before..
take a roll of
toilet paper home from work each day
cazalla: mircea_popescu, lulz no but for anyone else, retention staff often have better deals
than pay on
time ask no questions customers, so you port your electricity/gas
to another provider, old provider comes back
to you during cool down period and offers something better
Namworld: I often hear living in
the city as someone poor (minimum salary) is harsh. It always seemed a bit absurd
to me. Minimum salary here is ~$1400 per month after
taxes. CAD$10.55 per hour.
cazalla: Namworld, know
the get a discount on your bills
trick?
Namworld: I don't see what you mean
then.
Namworld: Well considering I don't have a harem...
that's not really something I have on my mind.
mircea_popescu: the best advice i can give is, if you're having
the girls living separate, pair
them up. much happier girls, cheaper.
Namworld: I'm completely derailing
the current
topic, sorry
Namworld: What's
the opinion in
this room about living expenses? What's acceptable % of revenue wise, how much should it costs, what's important stuff and less important stuff.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY
the same. "oh, we have money, oh, we're in it
to get it right"
mircea_popescu: not because it wasn't done. but because
the idiots doing it (yes, minsky and all) were idiots about
the one
thing
that matters, which had little
to do with
their actual
target.
mircea_popescu: it is my considered belief
that it was SPECIFICALLY
the unwarranted delusion
that ai is special
that ruined it.
mircea_popescu: the relation between games as produced and games is about
the same as
the relation between intelligence as produced and intelligence
mircea_popescu: so, why ? why did
the geniuses of mit fare so very much worse
than
the rag
tag band of idiots and imbeciles coding for z80 in
their bedrooms ?
decimation: asciilifeform: before
that, astroid mining presumably
decimation: ^ note
that a similar incentive exists for alchemy
mircea_popescu: supposedly ai had much brighter minds at its disposal. what made
the difference ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a snippet
that will be perhaps insturctive.
the ai winter and
the vg winter happened almost in
tandem.
the latter resolved within a year.by
the end of
the decade vg was WAY ahead of
the beginning.
mircea_popescu: to wit,
the usians got beaten at it, so now it will have
to no longer exist
mircea_popescu: i don't see a future for
the stuff covered by moore's law, for
the very simple reason we could call "obama's arab league failure"
decimation: they sorta
turned into
that place where
that chick sews shit
mircea_popescu: where is
the mit ai lab ? it was SO respectable in
the 60s
mircea_popescu: what EXACTLY is
the progress, past 30 years ? ballas has
the story in detail
mircea_popescu: supposedly a major contributor
to gdp worldwide is, mental health medication.
mircea_popescu: doewsn't even have
to be collapse. consider : a hot area of research in
the 50s/60s even 70s was genetics of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: (for
they following at home : 4x as many bits does not mean 4x as large numbers. when computer registers went from 32
to 64 bits, maxint went from 2147483647
to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idea
that computing power is a monotone... heh. out of
the crooked
timber of humanity, no monotone was ever made.
decimation: fair enough. I would wager against it happening in
the next 20 years
decimation: it's a good point, but is strong enough
to close
the escape hatch?
mircea_popescu: besides, factoring 4096 keys is not quite
that much of a given. for one
thing, 1kb keys have not been factored yet. for
the other... moore law, again ?
decimation: right, so either
they pay you or
they lose
their btc
to some key guesser?
mircea_popescu: not sure what cuckoldry is, but,
they can just register another key and push
their stuff
to it ?
decimation: implicitly,
this means
that
the existing keyholders are sentenced
to cuckoldry?
decimation: well, I was
thinking about
the case where one couldn't 'upgrade' a key because of
threats
to existing key lengths
williamdunne: decimation: I
think
the current logic is slippage
assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 22:30:12; cazalla: much better
than
the grainy
tumblr shit someone else links :)
decimation: no one believes
that btc/usd is going
to stay where it is for
the long run