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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not like i'm running, you know ? but if i were,
this'd be
the play. not arguing
the structure's not stupid.
mircea_popescu: the importance of electing presidents
that don't actually love
the country. not in a motherly way, at any rate.
ben_vulpes: the position strikes me as simply
trading government intervention in free markets in one form for another form.
mircea_popescu: it's a do or die sort of measure. either
the country picks up, a la china, or else it goes
to shit.
ben_vulpes: i suppose
that argetine protectionism isn't working because "argentines are a buncha retards".
mircea_popescu: that'd be my presidential platform. 1
thing : electronic products are a point of strategic interest, may not be imported. cya 8 years later.
decimation: and
the knowledge
that is/has been lost by engineers on how
to manufacture stuff would be recovered
mircea_popescu: 1trn of expenditure in one quarter, no need
to "stimulate" anythin
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the us suddenly has an economic basis. all
those fabs need
to be built right ?
mircea_popescu: the
turmoil
this will induce in china
takes it off
the map.
their military is very powerful in a defensive stance
today. it will be offense capable in 2-3 decades, but it's not
there yet.
mircea_popescu: all
this idiocy with "reindustrialize on shale oil" bs, when
the correct avenue is directly obvious. ban chinese made electronics. problem solved.
decimation: they are good at snatching defeat from
the jaws of victory
decimation: kinda like how
the arabs realized
they could ask for 50% of
the oil revenue instead of a few pennies
decimation: heh well,
they care if
they don't own
their own fab and depend on chinese/taiwan
to make
their chips
mircea_popescu: decimation mebbe so. why would a us company care about china "antitrust probe" ?
they can probe
themselves up
the ass.
decimation: meanwhile
they sat fat dumb and happy on
their pile of cash and
their wage-slaves
decimation: basically
their whole 'let's revolutionize
the market with a standard' kinda worked for a few years, but gave enough
time for everyone else
to figure how how
to kneecap qualcomm
decimation: probably not, but
the mechanism used was an obscure battle over 'standards'
mircea_popescu: and besides, admit
that europe invented
the most important
thing of
the 80s ?! NOWAI
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
the usians were going
to use
the same chips as europe no.matter.what.
decimation: apparently
the hustle isn't working very well
decimation: qualcomm is also fairly famous for hustling usg into favoring
their CDMA chips over
the european gsm alternative
decimation: I suspect
that
the managers are desperately
trying
to pretend
that
they know how
to run a business
decimation: my information about qualcomm is
that it is a pyramid:
the white managers are all family/friends of
the original founding class, and all
the actual engineering staff are indians and chinese on indentured servitude visas
mircea_popescu: but my point being : on
the basis of an order from someone whose yearly gross revenue is 40% of
the value of
the order
decimation: mircea_popescu: almost like
there's an unseen
third party operating in
the background...
mircea_popescu: here's something i don't understad. so, qualcomm side : in q4 2014 it announced a 2.4 bn deal with csr plc,
to deliver chips.
then in q1 2015 it announced massive share buyback. from apple side :
they moved
the modem chip order from qualcomm
to intel. from csr site : 50mn operating profit on 1bn gross revenue.
decimation: possibly, and it's also probably
the case
that intel gave
them a sweet deal
mircea_popescu: of course...
they sold ~3bn of chips last year. it may be
that on
the contrary,
they
told apple
to pack it.
decimation: right,
that's qualcomm's bread and butter
decimation: qualcomm is a chumpatron fueled fully by indian 'engineers' on h1b visas, who are
tricked into coming
to live in san deigo with
the hopes of being somebody
mircea_popescu: pretty much every single
thing
they say is wrong. how
the fuck did conde nast manage
to collect every idiot in america on
the same site ?!
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller dude going
through
that reddit
thing you posted.
mircea_popescu: i am absolutely convinced
that 99% of
the soi dissant software engineers are in fact "web experts" of
the "i dont no biari (i know a littel java.)" ilk
mircea_popescu: while i expect your 90% figure of ee's working for govt is only met if you actually count every us public company as an agency of
the usg (a position not exactly undefensible, people still do
the same
to stuff like gazprom etc, notwithstanding
the ru oligarchs actually have a lot more independence
than
the us "ceo"s of public corps),
mircea_popescu: or moreover : hardware has lengthy history, hard
to undo by a bunch of libertards.
the person doing hardware css is known as "the cleaning lady" and doesn't get much pay.
assbot: Logged on 15-03-2015 16:54:59; decimation: "
There were 1.235 million people working as software developers last year, and 271,000 electrical engineers, according
to unpublished U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. "
funkenstein_: actually 1:4 ratio is less
top heavy
than I would have
thought.
funkenstein_: paid
to do very, or very little of general use
decimation: but I was insinuating
that
these EE's work either has official usg employees or sell products or labor directly
to usg
decimation: funkenstein_: yeah
that's approximately
true
funkenstein_: well if you got some usd in your pocket... i guess you could say you work for
the usg
decimation: I would venture
to guess
that 90% of
those remaining 271,000 work directly or indirectly for usg
decimation: "
There were 1.235 million people working as software developers last year, and 271,000 electrical engineers, according
to unpublished U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. "
☟︎ decimation: it's highly amusing
that everyone wants
to write software, but nobody wants
to work on electronics
decimation: "
The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29,000 last year, continuing a long-standing
trend, according
to government data. "
assbot: Logged on 22-03-2014 18:01:39; decimation: Even in electrical and electronic engineering?an occupation
that is right at
the heart of high-tech innovation but
that also has been heavily outsourced abroad?U.S. employment in 2013 declined
to about 300,000, down 35,000 and over 10 percent, from 2012, and down from about 385,000 in 2002. Unemployment rates for electrical engineers rose
to a surprisingly high 4.8 percent in 2013.
BingoBoingo: "ndeed, not long after
the project started, complaints started rolling in about
Theo.
The final straw was
that he
told a developer (who was working on
the pmax port)
to stop "shoving [his;
the developer's] cock down [his;
theo's]
throat."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if all of
this will be as hysterically funny in
the sober light of day.
mircea_popescu: "if she weighs
the same as her
tits she's made of logs, and
therefore.... A WITCH!"
Adlai: a log server could
trade logs for logs
BingoBoingo: Propaganda fanfic finally ended hpmor.com/chapter/122 with a Sparkling Unicorn princess who never needs
to paint her nails
Adlai gets his greenpeace guy on
the line... save
the rainforest! arrest
the evil loggers!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla clearly
the value of
the logs can only go up up up.
Adlai: funkenstein_: if he'd asked you
to
transfer
them on his behalf, you would subsequently have
to comply with MSB regulations
mircea_popescu: a rabit hole
the likes of
this has not yet existed i dun
think.
cazalla: there's not enough people here
though, we need mass adoption!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know what just occured
to me ? it's damned incredible just how *captivating* b-a has become, coupla years later.
BingoBoingo: Best
to fix before you've signed
too many
things
BingoBoingo: funkenstein_: Edit your GPG conf file
to switch from SHA1
to a better message digest
cazalla: ah bitcoin pete edited
the
text
to fix spelling errors so nothing untoward afterall.. when you read
this, sorry pete_dushenski
☟︎ BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> it's so weird
that
the "halting condition" of
the "machine" so
to speak is found, not in
the data, not in
the code, but in
the... cell count. << Yeah. Only
time I've encountered
this in my limited forays outside english is in Mao's essays corraled under
the
Title "Guerilla Warfare"
cazalla: so bitcoin pete quotes rassah and i was going
to use it for an article, but
the quote is nowhere
to be found in
the logs
mircea_popescu: it's so weird
that
the "halting condition" of
the "machine" so
to speak is found, not in
the data, not in
the code, but in
the... cell count.
mircea_popescu: not mine.
theirs.
there's a
type of esl castrato
that exhibits
this strange insanity of behaviour,
that a problem is either solved within
the first
three passes or never.
mircea_popescu: anyway
this email pile is unreadable. passive-agressive
thirteen year olds captive in
the decaying bodies of
thirtysomethings going at it.