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mircea_popescu: it would seem
to me you are managing like an illusionist not like a manager, which is
to say, comparing with some sort of null hypothesis / god's footsteps / whatever.
mircea_popescu: the proper form is, "here's
the problem, here are 3 solutions, which do we pick", and he should fucking know
this by now.
mircea_popescu: if an underlying comes
to me with "here's
the problem, what should we do", i fire him.
mircea_popescu: at my day job, i am a manager. it's what i do. or used
to, b. b., but w/e.
mircea_popescu: the burning question, however, is why do you
think your seeing is
the pivot of
this matter.
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck should i know, and what difference does it make you don't.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least formally
this irritates me, because it's
the ancient "la ce-mi serveste mie radicalurile" sophomore complaint.
assbot: Logged on 28-01-2015 00:52:58; asciilifeform: and am i
the only one who actually checks sigs
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i am not in a position
to make
this call. for which i am
thankful.
mircea_popescu: so,
this given : i dun care who dun like it, i'd rather have silence
than
the motherfucking deluge of shit
mircea_popescu: if you persecute gays, you fuck up
turing. if you don't, you end up with
that
transhumanist singer-songwriter with
the
turkey hairdo schmuck.
mircea_popescu: i am not going
to be swayed by examples, for
the following reason : of course you're going
to lose something.
danielpbarron: felipelalli, you're signing with a different key
than
the one you registered with
mircea_popescu: but people who can not support self are not fit
to
think,
mircea_popescu: before you get
to
think you get
to have "ideas" you must do sufficient useful work
to support yourself with. whether you do it in a year or a decade or over rest of your life, your choice.
mircea_popescu: "i live in a shit country, borrowing directly from bezzle is way better
than going
through local banks"
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 01:06:05; felipelalli: Itaú normal interest rate: 7% PER MONTH. My interest rate in Itaú (because I am an old client): 4.8%. BTCJam: 2.8%. It makes a huge difference when you calculate
the compound interest per year.
decimation: the nazi gov. was
too dumb
to fund it
though, or apply it
to obvious uses
decimation: the germans had
the first programmable electromechanical computer by
the way
mircea_popescu: this, mind, isn't jus comptuer. computer is
the adjunct.
mircea_popescu: and yes experiment is entirely unworkable without it.
there's no nazi genome sequence variant. know why ?
mircea_popescu: you don't need rocks for anything either, can just
throw your own shit
mircea_popescu: recall
that article about
the new antibiotic found in soil sample ?
mircea_popescu: shit, state of
the art 1930 plastics was linoleum and ebonite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has moved way far, you kidding ?! organic is more advanced as
to what it was in 1930
than computing.
assbot: How
to make money on
the Internet while pretending you know what you're
talking about and accumulating a legion of mindless followers - for fun and profit! pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1HhALwS )
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2015 00:14:17; felipelalli:
thestringpuller: but "the repayment rate" does not depends (also) on
the investor? He can choose
the investments he wants
to make. I was being lucky, or I made good choices.
decimation: asciilifeform: no, it was more
the fact
that
turing et.al. had
the pole's cryptanalysis
to crib off of
mircea_popescu: your statement was, and i quote, ' we're still cribbing off
their
tech notebook and can never hope
to match'
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:41:48; pete_dushenski: i really don't know any other german speakers with whom
to converse
mircea_popescu: look at
the stupid rocket-planor
thing. etc. derpy as it gets.
mircea_popescu: just look at enigma machine
to get out of
that infatuation.
mircea_popescu: sure it works, if you want
the suckiest
thing
that'll still do
the job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, "works" in
this context is you saying "so
there we go, c works"
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:31:32; pete_dushenski: i'm generally curious about
the merits of
their decade and change of research
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only
the unsuccessful ones
that yet survive.
felipelalli: now I'll
try
to publish a signed document.
mircea_popescu: the notion
that one shouldn't chat up
the passing
twelve year old, destroys.
mircea_popescu: no,
that's not it.
theknowledge
that
there's going
to be food at
the supermarket destroys.
mircea_popescu: the delusion of "stability' and cultural insularity destroy
the mind.
mircea_popescu: archimedes was well over 40 when he proofed
that crown/
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 23:28:44; asciilifeform:
the folks not dead of drink have been driving cabs in nyc for so long as
to have put
their generative years firmly behind.
ben_vulpes: no, i'm
talking
that which your lord and sovereign demands of you.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
taxation /i/ speak of is deedbot, nsa, phundation