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ThickAsThieves: i started
this writing
thinking i wouldnt be a hipster and use footnotes
mircea_popescu: (of course,
the guy was ignored. by
the sec and everyone else on
the fiat-forums)
ozbot: Markopolos Letter
to
the SEC about Madoff | Doug Cornelius - JDSupra
ThickAsThieves: <mircea_popescu>
ThickAsThieves is
that dope ? /// is what what now?
the20year1: without him we wouldn't have
the last starfighter
bounce: I say. In
the spirit of expensive lulz, wish I had
the spare change
to buy up cray and move
their headquarters
to 4 2nd inf loop
benkay: pantagruel and gargantua is more entertaining
than btctalk.org
benkay: and
those aren't even
terribly lulzy!
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Always interesting
to see your stats
decimation: yeah perhaps it is still
too early for my dark Seymour Cray joke. He was a giant amoung elves
mircea_popescu: i wanted
the obituary
to read "at least he had his bodyguard with him" but people
thought it's
too soon.
mircea_popescu: eventually he died, in a car crash, rushing home
tired etc.
mircea_popescu: he hated being driven around, so his car arrangement consisted of him driving
two people about, who had nothing
to do.
mircea_popescu: i had a friend. he was a
touch paranoid, so he ended up carrying a bodyguard with him everywhere, in spite of living in a controlled
town
decimation: at least Mr. Cray had
the good sense
to die in a car accident
benkay: mircea_popescu: you're not paying me
to spend any
time at
that domain i don't
think
benkay: "great!" i said
to
the desk operator responsible for scheduling
things while I seethed internally.
benkay: in other news, my user group got kicked from our corporate sponsor's shop next month for a "women in
tech event"
benkay: bounce:
that's what i'm working on. -assets has been an intellectual godsend.
decimation: from
the article: Surprisingly, some of
the largest and most heavily financed scientific fields, such as biomedical research, are among
those with
the least attractive career prospects, as a recent blue-ribbon advisory committee reported
to
the Director of
the National Institutes of Health. "
mircea_popescu: basically
the chinese ran all
the middle ages on a sort of govt-sponsored us university program
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform vaugely reminiscent of all
the chinese administrative reorganisations
benkay: i wish i'd had an education in
the classic sense.
mircea_popescu: "we are adding
the
TRUE value
to everything
through
teh social media"
decimation: at some point
the bills will come due. It's hard
to see how
the US is going
to add much value
to anything with only 300k EEs
mircea_popescu: decimation indefinitely extensible. "be able
to also design
the battery"
decimation: to be an American
today is
to put your head deep in
the lion's mouth, on
the understanding
that he won't bite
decimation: well, as long as
the asians keep shipping
those parts
mircea_popescu: see, if
the context is, "be able
to power bulb with battery on request or spend
the next month poledancing in mumbai"
benkay: all americans are lacking supervision,
though.
decimation: wrt embedded stuff "lifting off
the net" never works well
mircea_popescu: "we are
the premier engineer and science institution in
teh werld"
mircea_popescu: he couldn'rt force
them
to work webcams naked for a month is
the worst part.
mircea_popescu: afaik actualy us-citizen ee's vs
total ee's have a worse salary problem
than women/men in non-government, actually productive jobs do.
decimation: asian countries will subsidize
them
to
the hilt
mircea_popescu: but it can't
turn 100mn ghetto kids into more
than 300k passible ee's
decimation: what do you say about a "superpower"
that can barely employ 300,000 EE's
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.
☟︎ bounce: loved $article about shenzen
though. made me wish for actual EE skill.
ozbot: The Myth of
the Science and Engineering Shortage - Michael S.
Teitelbaum -
The Atlantic
mircea_popescu: and
talk among each other about how "putin is living in a different world"