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BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> the locals are haetful. because he outworks them.
<< Generally the way this work in US is eventually Indian family produces doctor in US, they use their surplus to bringing in hardworking family members willing to put all effort into running fuelstation/convenience stores, shopkeep cousins succeed, finance next generation of doctors, pale natives bitch that people were willing to work at shopkeeping
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> the numbers I have seen are that ~%80 of the 'skilled workers' brought in on h1b visas have completely phony credentials
<< Difference is Usians with phony credentials tend to get along better at work parties
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: bounties
<< my unwedging
<< first i'd have to invent the universe
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform speaks as a formerly very regular 'in anger' user of ipa
<< IPA is the java of the linguistics world.
decimation: wrt english pidgin
< This already happens, ever been to hawaii?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: a foundational question: do bounties work?
<< they work best when large audience, small rewards.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so they don't have to learn the target language
<< Actually this is indeed a thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Old uranium mines filled with radon would be great, except for the radiation flipping bits
<<< if you're going to fill with gas, fill with technological gas.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it then ?
<< If by like perl you mean the runtime doesn't suck, then maybe?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wonders why the setup wasn't under permanent inert gas to begin with
<< margins.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform also remembers that he forgot to eat.
<< And you're the one worried about everyone else's starvation!
mircea_popescu: And the kids are supposed to be able to make sense of this? At what point are children allowed to learn a set of symbols that unambiguously represent the speech sounds of English?
<< <this idea that if kids had it easier the world would be better is not unlike the idea that if the government spent more money the economy would work well.
mircea_popescu: The “g” in “beige” is the same consonant sound as the “s” in “Asia” and “z” in “azure.”
<< god help us.
mircea_popescu: Take the word that sounds like “tu.” It is spelled in three different ways: “to,” “too,” and “two.”
<< if only these actually sounded even vaguely alike.
mircea_popescu: Most people stumble through life afraid to speak any of the words that they only know from their reading, fearful that they will make fools of themselves by mispronouncing them in public.
<<< this was a fact in jerome k jerome's england, back when people knew your class based on your rp.
mircea_popescu: "Which town did you grow up in? What's been the best commercial you've seen? What’s the best gift you have ever given someone, in your opinion? What position do you sleep in? Are you a very ambitious person? What is the worst gift you have ever received?"
<< of all the inept shit...
BingoBoingo:
<satdav> mircea_popescu: is their windows setup for this
<< If you must use GPG on windows at least compile it yourself. The extant gpg4win binaries have a dubious reputation
BingoBoingo:
<PeterL> was there a consensus as to if I should add prestonbryne.com to scoopbot's list?
<< Prolly not, he stops by here very rarely.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: what would be truly astonishing would be - municipal gsm. but pig's chance of flight
<< Aha!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: u.s. towns in this case are either prey or small change. tertium non datur.
<< Small, affluent compared to the surrounding error.
BingoBoingo:
<bounce> the US does have a habit of starting some community initiative only to see it lobbied into the ground because it would be "unfair" to overpriced unwilling monopolistic large corporations
<< No, it happens. You just need a town that can get away with it. Muni internet exists here and had no serious opposition.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and zapping the idiotic db corruption
<<< there is more to this story, i doubt it's just "corruption". sadly i dun have the smoking gun.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: chetty: n-dimensional sphere, as n increases
<< this is actually interesting to work out.
mircea_popescu: bounce: wonder if you could get away with telling the SEC, "we're being regulated by the bitcoin regulatory foundation so talk to them, not us."
<< depends on what you mean by get away.
kakobrekla: toilet and kitchen sink hybrid - no thanks.
< toilet and bidet hybrids do well in china
mircea_popescu: bounce: there, science tells you what language to use, the size of team to pick, and the size of commits to commit. get to it, slackers! thank science!
<<< this science allowed me to win the lottery for fifty eight times in a row by always wearing the same shirt i wore when i won the first time.
mircea_popescu: punkman: more of a heartbeat, should I remove?
<<< yeah.
kakobrekla:
<jurov> and qntra is the sink
< bidet you mean prolly
gribble: cazalla was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 hours, 8 minutes, and 13 seconds ago:
<cazalla> zzz night
mircea_popescu: punkman: have these people been outside the lab?
<< no dude, "corrupted bit" count totally is the correct proxy for insurance claims.
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin isn't a security, if they say it's a security, they would be the first government in the world to give Bitcoin that sort of value or endorsement."
<< reading between the lines, "leadership coach" that doesn't understand either bitcoin or his jurisdiction is shitting his pants.
kakobrekla: property owner , no matter what the cost to the owner! Enough is enough!
< ask for pgp signed statement, email isnt safe.
mircea_popescu: "the XXXXX Street area is a shitty, needle-littered dump"
<< srsly ?
mircea_popescu:
<bounce> how to make a plastic gun that shoots: use casing for substitute barrel
<<< pressed shit works just fine, when smeared on actually functioning machines!
mircea_popescu: " Early adopters were given high, magic, above market payouts to lure suckers like me in, and it worked."
<< duh.
punkman: "Stop holding my coins hostage, pay out my divs so I may reinvest them. I am loosing potential profit because of your practice. "
<< lol
punkman: punkman: have these people been outside the lab?
< they use nlocktime, so no
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> holy shit... aluminum brass knuckles ?!
<< WHere???
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> incidentally, i've always wanted a pack of slow-burning steel-tipped 'matches' you could solder with in the field.
<< SO story with those.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: didja keep the ignition coil in the output?
<< Shhhh....
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> surely, just once, as a boy?
<< I did the disposable camera to taser conversion wrapping to get taser voltages.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> later that year the TRS-80 was a massive sales leader for tandy
<< If you can point me to someone selling 90+ working samples... may be interested
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> in .net vb
<< In library school I was forced into this bullshit for a semester, final project I couldn't take it. Went FU here's a mono runtime in a jail and Visual C++ 6.0 that compiles to it because fuku
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms.
<< What, some people actually operate this way...
mircea_popescu: "and the loss to the software company that has to give up two months of sales is even worse."
<< dat logic. so if i have sex for the first time today, rather than next week, i gain a full week of first time sexings.
BingoBoingo:
<decimation> yeah I would be pretty scared to operate on someone with a glass blade
<< In an MRI tube what else can you use? Interventional radiology is lucrative
mircea_popescu: "Recently, I devoted several sleepless nights to this problem. Why is it that our computers are getting faster and faster yet we are using them more and more to render things generated on some distant server? And it’s still slow!"
<<< average bovine is comforted by the second delay.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> more or less no one uses pure Al for anything today.
<< /me may use for heat...
BingoBoingo: decimation> re: obsidian knives
<< if you want to go this route, just find some local flint and start chipping
<< Flint =/= obsidian
decimation: re: obsidian knives
<< if you want to go this route, just find some local flint and start chipping
mircea_popescu: "it is not rare to see a palpable (and all the more so for its unpredictability) delay between pressing a key and the drawing of a symbol on the screen."
<< i have never seen this.