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Apocalyptic: mircea_popescu would retort with "who
the fuck wants
to fuck stupid people"
☟︎ MisterE: I irc a lot and hang out at
the foreign corespondent's club and stay sane
that way
mircea_popescu: MisterE actually i
think i get whart you mean re vacations. costa rica is a pleasure, but yeah
the locals are really slow.
cazalla: i
thought people go
to
thailand for sex
tourism?
MisterE: I
tell you it really wears on me at
times
MisterE: though as is
typical in Asia lots of new paintjobs :)
MisterE: old money here has been around for generations and nothing much has changed under
the hood
MisterE: mircea_popescu:
that's pretty good analysis
MisterE: they really are dumb I mean I dont want
to be racist but
Thailand is run and full of dumb people
mircea_popescu: so basically,
thailand is a set of old landed gentry
trying
their best
to stick
to relevancy ? sorta like argentina ?
MisterE: they constantly institute capitol controls
that shoot
themselves in
the foot
MisterE: well
thailand is responsible for 19997
MisterE: and all
the boat people coming back
to Vietnam with Western education
things are booming
there
mircea_popescu: theoretically speaking at least
they should have been massacred in
teh marketplace.
MisterE: Thailand is where I
taught
fluffypony: MisterE: I
think
that's sometimes/often a product of "I inherited money so making money was a matter of only making a few major mistakes"
MisterE: they buy
their degrees from schools who dont make
them work and are guaranteed work from family
MisterE: actually it's not a meritocracy, rich here often are
the most stupid
MisterE: that and
the no fail policy are why I left as fast as I did
MisterE: well it could be if used right but, since only wealthy kids here can afford Western
teachers it's lazy dumb rich kids who cry
to daddy when you
try
to get
them
to do anything productive
then daddy calls school and
teacher has a problem
MisterE: thats a
terrible
thing about
the education system here
teachers don't judge students because of
the cultural / social hierarchy
teachers are rated by students with rich parents
MisterE: school gave a colleague a hard
time for not
teaching Office iirc. He was only
talking about cross platform compatibility but got called in for a discussion because students had complained
mircea_popescu: people usually harp about it, but
this is why
they do it.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony you've4 just explained
the market incentive for ms windows
to stay obscure and broken.
fluffypony: and
then everyone goes back
to MS Office
mircea_popescu: and you're doing more for a better world
than any vegetarian/ecologist/occupywallstreet/other idjit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, your solution re
the file problem : get
them
to migrate
to open office, have
their shit exported as whatever mark-up, it can be uploaded and validated on webserver.
fluffypony: but what I've seen happen is
that some IT guy gets
the bright idea
to cut down on licensing costs by going OO/LO
MisterE: I dunno why
they, Asians at least, simply can't get it in
their head
that
there are other options.
fluffypony: well I'm
talking more from a business stand point
than an education one
fluffypony: cazalla:
they have an education edition of office, can't remember what it's called, but it's cheaper - not free
mircea_popescu: cazalla not really anymore
than pharma gives meds away
MisterE: I loved
teaching
the young kids but
the uni level I just hated
cazalla: MS give it away for free
to keep
the foothold, don't
they?
MisterE: yea it's
terrible I got out of
teaching ASAP but good way
to land in a country and get
the lay of
the land and make a few connections
fluffypony: MisterE: yeah I never understood
that, I always figured educators would want
to use whatever was cheap and accessible, but MS has a foothold
that isn't going away
mircea_popescu: i never would, personally, which is why i don't
teach
there.
mircea_popescu: ok. i now appreciate
the shit you folks have
to deal it.
fluffypony: or
try
teaching
them
to use sql as an alternative
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: yeah, but
try
teaching matlab
to someone
MisterE: with multiple vags
they probably won't have
to worry about
typing
to make money heh
fluffypony: well
the reason Excel is so pervasive is because it allows for simple (and sometimes invalid/incorrect) data analysis for even
the most non-technical
MisterE: the education system in many countries
turns out
the most low quality product I could ever imagine
mircea_popescu: just
think about it ... chicks
that could be walking around with synthetic vaginas in
their
tits
mircea_popescu: this is how kids grow up
to be 37 yo "senior counsel"
that can't express itself in writing needs
to
talk on
the phone.
MisterE: many of my Asian students would have needed detailed instructions
to make .txt
fluffypony: I
tried
teaching someone markdown
the other day
mircea_popescu: i guess
that's where we differ. i'd have forced all kids write .txt
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: no normally Excel/Word documents, not plain
text
MisterE: editingmovies on
the fly heh
pankkake: dropbox provides easy file versionning and synchronisation. personally, I use git, but it's not
the same crowd
mircea_popescu: so if
these are
text files just dump a blog software or something on a webserver
fluffypony: I
tried doing
the FTP
thing ages ago with someone
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: it's not
that way, it's
the other way around as well
pankkake: not
that you should ever have liked it - any honest competitor should have a fully open source CLIENT and CLIENT-SIDE encryption
mircea_popescu: MisterE so what's
the problem
to i dunno, dumpingthem on a server with apache ?
MisterE: pankkake: well for one
they just put
that
torture, WMD, lying bitch Codaleeza Rice on
their board.
ozbot: Twitter / Mircea_Popescu: @pdacosta Ahaha
this is
the ...
MisterE: mircea_popescu just doesn't deal with any non-technical people I don;t
think :)
fluffypony: if it's with
technical people I'd rather use git for versioning/sharing
MisterE: few other use cases but I agree and hardly use it at all
these days
MisterE: sometimes when I was
teaching I had
to have my students download files
mircea_popescu: all
this
twitter chatter about omg dropbox. i never used it, because i didn't fucking like
the idea a decade ago. now everyone stops liking
the idea. i guess we all end up in
the same spot eventually.
Duffer1: he's been
trolling
the chan all day
Namworld: You seem
to be in
the wrong channel.
Namworld: [04:07] <minersdidit> lmao @ mpex shares still
trading
minersdidit: M ats_cd03:
the nigger jew you were asking about is drake
Mats_cd03: takes experience
to know how
to react
to openings quickly
moiety: except castling...
that shit is never going in, i fear
moiety: things are better retained
through action
moiety: she seems
to be
the only one i can do any damage with
moiety: aaaaaaand
this is why you don't play me at chess
moiety: just
the people not
the board
too