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Diablo-D3: they're turned down for insane reasons
blackwhite: not enough and not for what they will be paid
asciilifeform: we have tighter 'caste stratification' here than in victorian england. an engineer, programmer, even lowly clerk, might live a whole life without speaking to these folks.
Diablo-D3: there are people who have applied to 1000 different jobs and were turned down
Diablo-D3: blackwhite: there are people in america that will take any job
blackwhite: immigrants take the shitty jobs
blackwhite: You won't find a listing for that because no one want to take it unless they are mexicans. It's more or less the same problem around the world
Diablo-D3: asciilifeform: all the big agriculture farms go out and find mexicans to work there and illegally bring them into the country
ThickAsThieves: asciilifeform, then you must have never been to a border state
Diablo-D3: asciilifeform: because you'll never find a job listing for that.
Diablo-D3: they get to get out of that shithole homeland of theirs and get paid a shitload of money by their standards
asciilifeform: Diablo-D3: i have yet to run into an american who lamented 'i'd like to find work picking tomatoes, but couldn't on account of mexicans'
benkay: Americans are turned down from jobs because the communist government imposes artificial wage constraints.
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: Im not blaming the mexcians
ThickAsThieves: i'd rather commiserate with Mexicans than the people that complain about them
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: I consider it a problem. Americans are turned down for jobs because of companies acting illegally.
asciilifeform: most of the people i know with actual degrees - yours truly included - (sci/eng.) had, at the time of signing up, delusions of employment in academia
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benkay: ;;google trilema colored coins
ThickAsThieves: <Diablo-D3> ThickAsThieves: plus we have the problem of companies illegally hiring mexicans that work at a fraction of minimum wage/// i dont consider this a problem
Diablo-D3: it was 4 years of attempted brainwashing that I successfully resisted
Diablo-D3: benkay: I didnt even take high school seriously.
Diablo-D3: benkay: rejected the whole thing from the get go.
benkay: or straight up reject the whole prop. right out of HS?
blackwhite: So I have a question for all you experts. Imagine a bitcoin like protocol that allow you to embed digital assets or watermark certain digital assets. You could in theory imagine everything from digital pokemon cards to creative commons licenses as unique "scarce" resources.
Diablo-D3: benkay: degrees are a downright scam for the industry Im in
benkay: did you ever attend one of the 'colleges'?
Diablo-D3: benkay: I refuse to hold one.
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: plus we have the problem of companies illegally hiring mexicans that work at a fraction of minimum wage
Diablo-D3: protip: it doesnt, and you will not get a job because you went there
asciilifeform: benkay: probably not the cattle. but the folks who actually know some useful trade.
dub: give them vidya games
Diablo-D3: like, they think going to college means something
dub: just distraction for the cattle class
Diablo-D3: its just that americans have been brainwashed by the government to have a skewed view of what work is
benkay: are there other socialist regimes with the printing presses to employ such volumes of cattle, asciilifeform?
dub: its not like we're talking about actual work
Diablo-D3: ThickAsThieves: its not that americans dont want to work
asciilifeform: maybe poor choice of words. 'employment' rather than 'work'
ThickAsThieves: immigrants do all the work
benkay: i don't think there's enough 'work' to absorb all the meat that would need to emigrate to empty out the usa.
ThickAsThieves: one she's wanted for a long time
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: leo szilard supposedly said 'wisdom consist in getting on the train a day before everybody else.'
dub: is she permanently affixed to .us?
ThickAsThieves: i'd have to leave my wife to do so
benkay: or just bail on the US.
benkay: pray they're not due before we emerge from the Trough.
benkay: take out all the fiat loans you can
ThickAsThieves: feels much more like a promotion that will get me more spam for years to come
ThickAsThieves: but the whole thing feels like a scam itself
ThickAsThieves: i considered taking advantage of this Target Credit Monitoring thing
dub: just a supermarket and the biggest company in th eworld by a couple of metrics
mircea_popescu: lol my beard is much thicker than that shit
KRS1: kakobrekla: i agree, late/odd hours are the only time I'll go, if I ever do go. The daytime is just so crazy.
kakobrekla: i actually like the 24 hourness in general
KRS1: When you go to leave, the checkouts make a beeping sound. When multiplied by 20+ checkout lanes the sound is deafening. The people are low class and aren't afraid to show it.
KRS1: its...an experience. Its so big its ridiculous and you can't find help. The one where I live sells everything from sardines to tires.
kakobrekla: good, cause for a second there i thought i was psychotic or something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform english is a slut like that.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nope, not the only one.
kakobrekla: its closer to turd master, by the cover and by the content
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dub: no worse than cockburn
kakobrekla: am i the only one that thinks 'turd master' ?
kakobrekla: re previous twitter link, i thought he was trolling with his name, but then i checked www.tuurdemeester.com/subscribe/ and i see its fuckin real. fuckin unreal.
asciilifeform: 'buzzfeed' - the bus bars which supply current to an electric chair?
mircea_popescu: inconvenient as it may be, girls aged 16 to 19ish are the country.
asciilifeform: someone must tell Tuurdemeester about Expertsexchange.
joecool: "top 15 things most americans don't know about the tea party"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps i should also ask them, next, the best way to avoid write-hazards on MIPS4.
joecool: asciilifeform: are you a contributor to buzzfeed?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ask teenaged girls sometime.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite a few u.s. folks know 'the dirt' re: 'the boston tea party.' it isn't exactly a national secret.
benkay: the point of bitcointalk.org being the information asymmetry, though.
mircea_popescu: imagine that :D
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves they paid for a wsj piece to explain how bitcoin isn't as good as gold.
asciilifeform: tuurdemeester - is that something like a burgomeister, but...? ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: i guess there's a GS report on BTC?
ThickAsThieves: not really sure what that is
ozbot: Twitter / tuurdemeester: Goldman Sachs drops the bomb: ...
gribble: Next difficulty estimate | 4224066657.81 based on data since last change | 4501944129.48 based on data for last three days
asciilifeform: ignores master touches like conniving with intel to stab os/2 in the back, etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yeah, for a good two decades that pillar held. technical excellence in directx + marketing excellence in ms hq ensured market domination for windows
mike_c: haha " After this version, DirectShow was moved to the Windows SDK". the windows devs didn't mind having it in their pile of crap
mike_c: "Previous versions of the DirectShow SDK were included in the DirectX SDK. ", yeah, they took it out in 2005
mircea_popescu: so they moved it
mircea_popescu: basically, the dev in charge of directx didn't want the shit in there anymore
mike_c: directshow is part of DirectX, their opengl thingie.
mircea_popescu: basically this was activex v2
mircea_popescu: "DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology."
ThickAsThieves: where most people view them
ThickAsThieves: i dont think viewing JPG in web browser is susceptible
C01DA51CE: dont know who which apps use this
C01DA51CE: i think its only through DirectShow
ThickAsThieves: it was on theverge or something popular
mircea_popescu: did anyone put this on reddit or we've not told them yet
ThickAsThieves: got me there!
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if a man can shoot himself in the back of the head three times by mistake, then why not this.
ThickAsThieves: i find it hard to believe that a JPG exploit can exist by mistake...
mircea_popescu: people seem to have this strange aesthetic amnesia when discussing faux 1960s "famous" tarts.