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asciilifeform: just not pitched to 'adults' quite yet.
asciilifeform: how they will be designed - is no mystery, there were already built here where i live
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps the dorms can be designed like a soviet apartment block
decimation: " families that need them."
asciilifeform: '... In that light, building smaller units for cash-strapped millennials who need to live in a tight housing market sounds like a sensible solution—helping young people find more affordable housing and preserving larger units for the families that need them. Still, as the single-family starter home becomes less viable, do initiatives like this doom millennials to spending their twenties living in dorms?'
asciilifeform: usic practice, or launching a technology startup. For young tenants really interested in cutting costs, some could be built with shared kitchens.'
asciilifeform: 'The authors of a new report from the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds local nonprofits, prefer the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas. Specifically, the report suggests building 10,000 units that make up for cramped living quarters by including shared lounges, health clubs, and shared areas for study, m
assbot: Boston Nonprofit Wants to Put Grown-Ups in Dorms - Bloomberg Business ... ( http://bit.ly/1DBKuQJ )
asciilifeform: '"chumpatron X debt continues to drag on the young generation, limiting their ability to be milked in chumpatron Y," the analysts said.' ☟︎
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah note that 8% annual rate is more than any reasonable fixed income investment
asciilifeform: and where do these cheap clowns get off calling debt peonage 'ownership' ?
asciilifeform: the hidden text in this crap is 'let's print more hoap'
decimation: asciilifeform: the $maxint bubble is growing even larger > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-18/young-adults-are-losing-all-hope-of-buying-a-starter-home > "The student loan debt burden rose 8 percent, to $1.16 trillion, last year. Most of that debt—65 percent—was owed by borrowers under 40 years old. "
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the textbook racket is in some ways inevitable - the kids with access to $maxint in loans are walking bags of delicious meat from the standpoint of ten thousand kinds of flea << Not to mention many professors will accomodate students without $maxint doing otherwise.
asciilifeform: what's a $300 book compared to the $100k tuition.
asciilifeform: and given as they are virtually never spending money which is -their own- in any palpable sense - they don't resist nearly as much as might be expected
asciilifeform: the textbook racket is in some ways inevitable - the kids with access to $maxint in loans are walking bags of delicious meat from the standpoint of ten thousand kinds of flea
decimation: I can't believe any moral person would sign up for this kind of thing ☟︎
asciilifeform: hence incentive for the profs
asciilifeform: chumper has to register with publisher to do the exercises, yes
decimation: or do they use robo-grading?
decimation: are the homeworks online?
asciilifeform: the parasite scum went, 'fine, we don't care if you want the dead tree to carry around or not, but you'll pay.'
asciilifeform: this was, as i understand, a reaction to folks scanning bookz
asciilifeform: where a used copy of the book literally doesn't let you pass the class because its homework account code (yes) is already spent.
asciilifeform: decimation: the latest scam i personally know of is the 'www homework membership'
asciilifeform: decimation: in one form or another, this has been going on for at least two decades.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I've heard the latest scam for undergrads is to 'custom publish' a book for each class, which consists of portions of older texts with all of the sections and excercises renumbered
asciilifeform: the basic 'zoological' observation here is that there is no such thing as a chumpatron of this size which stays 'single-layered' indefinitely. at a certain point, smaller fleas show up to go on the backs of the fleas, and so ad infinitum
BingoBoingo: <decimation> BingoBoingo: yeah that makes sense, I always wonder why the administration seems 'friendly' to spending large piles of money on the publishing scamzors << As a class nearly all librarians dislike this because even when they publish anything is too niche to win. Spending on this stuff is also an extraordinary part of their budget.
asciilifeform: the textbook divisions of the same houses rape the undergrads, also to the enthusiastic applause of the faculty (who get kickbacks)
decimation: BingoBoingo: yeah that makes sense, I always wonder why the administration seems 'friendly' to spending large piles of money on the publishing scamzors
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2014 01:51:50; asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors. Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward,"
asciilifeform: !s tournament market
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the term of art, iirc, is 'tournament market'
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah, for instance the IEEE demands you assign them copyright
asciilifeform: quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain that the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even typeset the submissions; and that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs
BingoBoingo: decimation: It is more the University admins who budget for this hoping they might have someone on the faculty to wins their lottery ticket for them. It is essentially exactly a lottery mentality.
decimation: BingoBoingo: the libraries are in on it insofar as they are a funnel of cash to the journal houses
BingoBoingo: This combination acedamiwank/chumpatron occupied too much of my time in Library school
decimation: the other thing that annoys me is djb's complaint: http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html < IEEE is more than happy to charge you for copyright-free papers
decimation: well, they have good group insurance rates
decimation: I'm a member of the communications society - you have to pay more to get access to their journal
decimation: I'm personally pissed that the IEEE (I pay for membership) only gives me a tiny, tiny slice of their papers
asciilifeform: and to the extent it isn't a problem, it is solely because academia is mostly dead as a going concern
asciilifeform: the same folks who were paying the parasites (i will not call them publishers, they withhold only - performing not a single one of the traditional functions of a publishing house save the physical printing) - will continue to pay.
decimation: certainly a problem if one wishes to 'compete' for bezzlars
asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo.
decimation: yeah, and even then I expect all of those words don't mean what you think they mean
asciilifeform: but even the linked item contains 'Be available for download, reading and analysis free of charge no later than 12 months after initial publication'
asciilifeform: decimation: it's threatened to happen for more than a decade, yes
decimation: I'm sure that some kind of loophole will protect the existing publishing empires
assbot: US NSF - News - Special Reports - Public Access to Results of NSF-funded Research ... ( http://bit.ly/1MLXN2s )
decimation: asciilifeform: http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/public_access/ < apparently usg will require some level of public access to usg-funded research papers
mod6: have a good night ben_vulpes, thanks again. :]
ben_vulpes: i think it comes of me supplying application/gpg manually for attachment content type
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: out of curiosity, what's the elisp doing in http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000070.html ?
asciilifeform: (they're in the tarball still...)
ben_vulpes: okay qntrites, your turn.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure mircea_popescu will take me to task for that but w/e
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: mod6 lives too far away from civilization to make keeping a harem practical :P
ben_vulpes: this is a pretty good set to get started with - mostly snips.
ben_vulpes: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/patches.html << please take a look at this list, and the patches we've rolled out with the 0.5.3.1 RI build. if you've time, inclination, and capability - review the patches and submit your sigs.
mod6: I think so too.
ben_vulpes: btw, we think this is the first publically-released static bitcoin build.
mod6: And anyone who I'm leaving out... thanks again.
mod6: Thanks to TomServo && Punkman && danielpbarron && trinque && thestringpuller && BingoBoingo
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: per "asciilifeform: all kudos to mod6, all critiques to me" mod6 get the girls plural, you get singular girl. In the tradition of mp/kako BitBet tradition.
ben_vulpes: it's culty circle-jerk time, y'all!
ben_vulpes: yeah asciilifeform thanks for holding our toes to the fire
mod6: you guys made this happen. you're the real bitcoin heros.
mod6: thanks to everyone who helped out.
BingoBoingo: Congrats to yall
ben_vulpes: i've a whole lifetime to decruft my emacs mail situation.
ben_vulpes: ah well, onwards and upwards, as they say.
ben_vulpes: oh man emacs mangled that email.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: all kudos to mod6, all critiques to me
asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-March/000068.html << congrats to ben_vulpes and mod6
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform waits for the inevitable 'that's not shiva' nitpick << lol dong-nose
asciilifeform waits for the inevitable 'that's not shiva' nitpick
ben_vulpes: i'll take a few
decimation: well, now is the time to buy
decimation: I wonder how much manipulation is going on before some of those ETFs hit the pink sheets
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TheNewDeal: Bitcoin market to reach parity of nyse on mar 1 2020.
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ben_vulpes: bitcoin parity with various things is now a sexy bet.
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mircea_popescu: for the other, most of the usual clowns hate it.
mircea_popescu: actually clown car is probably the worst description. for one thing, b-a's not funny.
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ben_vulpes: how is this thread still alive...
assbot: Logged on 13-03-2015 17:02:57; nubbins`: gabriel_laddel:Does anyone take issue with me describing the lordship as "the peerage" and #-assets as "earth's premiere commercial forum"? <<< ...