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cazalla: asciilifeform, seems
to reduce motion blur, less flicking,
tearing when gaming
cazalla: as a kid, no-one picked up
that i had a lazy eye, so for many years i didn't even understand why i couldn't see what all
these other kids could see with
those stereogram books
cazalla: <asciilifeform> i can see
the 7-8th 'virtual' bits of colour DAC resolution flicker. <<< see, i don't even know what
this really is, so not a concern for such a person :)
cazalla: if viewing angle is a concern, i can see how
they are utter shit but if not, suitable for gaming/desktop use, i like my 120hz led
cazalla: where am i gonna get a widescreen crt
though, one suitable for gaming
cazalla: well, at least for gaming but even for desktop use i get a headache from anything less
than 120hz
cazalla: huge factor, it's easy
to
tell diff between 60hz-80hz and 120-144hz
cazalla: zomg, anyone heard of a mobility golf cart? gawminers community raised funds
to some random.. "Within one month,
they had raised over $3000, enabling Doc
to purchase a golf cart urgently needed for mobility, enabling him
to live alone but independently in Crystal River, FL. He also received enough mining equipment and hashing power
to keep a steady stream of income flowing for
the rest of his life."
ben_vulpes: i believe
that you have a
term for
this degradation of
the industrial
toolchain, asciilifeform, but it escapes me at
the moment.
ben_vulpes: these days: auto-refractor - you betcha. lead
times - in stock. odd prescription in
the
tail of
things? get fucked.
ben_vulpes: lead
time was nearly a month back
then.
ben_vulpes: it was a glorious
time at
the intersection of
the autorefractor and
the custom plastics.
ben_vulpes: once upon a
time my contacts were made
to order.
ben_vulpes: (particularly important when
the astigmatism severely degrades views
through anywhere but
the lens center)
ben_vulpes: so - i use
the 1920x1200's in horizontal orientation, slapping 3 buffers sideways.
ben_vulpes: i can't use contacts while programming as my prescription is way out in
the
tail of
the distribution, where
the spacing between contact fabrication points squarely frames my actual needs.
ben_vulpes: i can't use very
tall monitors, as i bought
these glasses in high school and
they have an extremely narrow field of vision.
ben_vulpes: a hilarious
thing about my monitor selections
ben_vulpes: cazalla: i'm casually observing lady v browse etsy et al for moar home furnishings (just set her up with
the budget for a kilim rug), saw rabbit fur flash across
the screen,
thought of your habits.
ben_vulpes: moreover is
tanning even
the
thing
to do with hairy hides?
ben_vulpes: cazalla: do you
tan your rabbit hides?
ben_vulpes: well yeah
that's why it's part of
the offer on
the space
cazalla: <ben_vulpes> we are planning
to buy
the year's rent in a lump sum <<< i
tried
this once before but got knocked back, i figured because i paid on
time every
time
the owner figure what was
the point
ben_vulpes: book it as an expense in 2014 for
taxes.
ben_vulpes: it's a more expensive space, but nobody's
teeth will be chattering in
the new space.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i pay quarterly anyway, but as long as its set in
the contract whatr diff does it make ?
mircea_popescu: i was
the passive element really,
they just were really intent on selfrape somehow
ben_vulpes: we are planning
to buy
the year's rent in a lump sum
mircea_popescu: then prices went
the fuck up and
threatened
to go further up, so
they actually paid me
to settle it.
mircea_popescu: anecdotally, i
totally raped
the power company in romania. one year
they were desperate for cash, so you could make a deal where you prepaid consumption at fixed rate. so i did, i prepaid for like a year.
mircea_popescu: the more
tangible
the better.
tuna is stuff. stocks... hardly.
ben_vulpes: monitors and desks are certainly on
the list.
mircea_popescu: as a general principle :
the only use of money in an inflationary spiral is
to buy stuff.
mircea_popescu: the 8% is illusory. having
the stuff on hand for when
the price hikes is not.
mircea_popescu: so stock up on stuff
then. look at your grocery list, see everything on
there you actually like and keeps well, buy a year's supply
ben_vulpes: as i said
this afternoon "too much money
to put
to use in our own business, not enough
to get into any others".
ben_vulpes: can't quite swing apartments
this year.
mircea_popescu: buy an apartment in every city you ever heard of and rent it out. worst comes
to worst you have where
to live. stuff like
that.
mircea_popescu: you're not making enough
to actually have
the problem of not being able
to buy stuff.
xanthyos: i prefer
the william shatner cover
ben_vulpes: i struggle with
the flipside of
the debt
thing - what
to do with
the retained earnings? go long
the stock market? really? i'm bullish on btc on like a 30 year
timeframe so
that has
to have next
to no bearing on
the 1-2 year
timeframe for handling retained earnings right now. give up
the 8% or w/e
the market's doing under QE or hold it all in cash because "it can't go on like
this forever!11!"
mircea_popescu: ie, 3x what a house apparently costs in ohio (and
that 1% was off ~14% a year, mind)
mircea_popescu: they
took out credits in swiss francs because
they were 1% cheaper before
the swiss franc doubled in value over a summer, so
they could pay 80k for a shitty prefab apartment in a shitty bucharest neighbourhood,
mircea_popescu: yeah well... it gets better.
they mostly owe
to banks, have wives and children
ben_vulpes: but
they never got paid
to begin with. pay cuts
tho?
mircea_popescu: and "entrepreneurs" aren't in
that much better a shape, since we're on it.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm familiar with
the females of my age group couch surfing, living on gov't grants, waitressing, staying up late chain smoking over
the odd "piece".
xanthyos: like
the molding of a real doll
xanthyos: i
took
the gauze off yesterday, it's circumstitched
mircea_popescu: in
the immortal words of maggie
the cat, "you can be young and without money, you just can't be old and without it"
mircea_popescu: couch surfing is a
thing. bumming food and shelter off people you met at a party last week idem.
mircea_popescu: how do whores generally eat ? around
the cock in
their mouth.
mircea_popescu: and before you're shocked : at least half gawker employees are in exactly
the same situation . if
the
thing didn't happen
to be an organ of
the socialist press,
they'd be in prison like
that indian diplomat for "slave labour"
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "25% salary cuts every 2-3 months" <<
this is a
thing?
mircea_popescu: "La ultimul
termen din 1 aprilie, Mazăre s-a prezentat la procesul de la Cureta de Apel Bucureşti" <<
they were
trying for
the "court of appeals". itcame out, "the appalling curette".
ben_vulpes: at
this rate i'm going
to have
to learn romanian
ben_vulpes: although
the acronym puns are probably going
to be hard
assbot: Cererea de suspendare a președintelui
Traian Băsescu, sau cu Caragiale
tot inainte! pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1C3dpwQ )
mats_cd03: they can't afford
to offend women,
they're
the demographic with most disposable income no?
mircea_popescu: they could be
Time Africa / Soviet Union / Best Korea just as well.
mircea_popescu: "we want
to have a democratic process for as long as
the results come out
the way we like. we also want science
that confirms our preconceived notions".
mircea_popescu: how very feminist, progressive and pseudo-justice anti-social of
them
mircea_popescu: and
they have a poll about "what" pre-decided words
to ban ?
mats_cd03: don't play
the game if you can't
take
the heat, playa
mircea_popescu: wait. so
they banned words from
the poll
to ban words ?
mats_cd03: "TIME apologizes for
the execution of
this poll;
the word ‘feminist’ should not have been included in a list of words
to ban. While we meant
to invite debate about some ways
the word was used
this year,
that nuance was lost, and we regret
that its inclusion has become a distraction from
the important debate over equality and justice."