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mircea_popescu: ie, given 0-60 in 1 second, that would be about 2.77 g
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform presuming for unknown reasons acceleration constant, there's a strict relation between it and 0-60 timings.
mircea_popescu: but it's good g's. they're bad when rotating occipitally.
mircea_popescu: 500 hp prima facie sounds like it could in principle give you a 4-5.
mircea_popescu: most people who eat well ate shit growing up, also. what can you do. mobile world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform talk to mthreat, he did the "driving for fun" thjing for a while. eventually moved on to buying jets and shit. addictions are addcitive!!!
mircea_popescu: yeah. i think birds deeply care about your head plumage, which you might not even known you had.
mircea_popescu: (for some reason this bothers birds. turkeys are very reactive. then again all sorts of things bother birds -- when we checked out the parrots had to have girls take hats off. bothers them sometrhing fierce.)
mircea_popescu: as opposed to turkey, then pinky and thumb touch, other thumb touches nose.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thumbs connected to tempe on either side, rest of fingers apart moving
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner yes. you can maintain coversation continuity even if your connection fails. so no need to apologize.
mircea_popescu: next stop, girl mooses him. but like, in all seriousness, turns around, does it. she's in a cocktail dress, i'm in a suit, they're NOT LOOKING
mircea_popescu: both dude and his girl pretend to not notice. they peel off again
mircea_popescu: round and turkey the driver. total idiot look, you know the "drab tshirt, close shaved for beard and hair, stupid glasses" i-m-a-java-engineer look ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn a
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : i was walking with a girl, she groks maths and things, we were lulzing at the socioeconomic/politicoscamful aspect of qc. ended up discussing its future, i said it's on the outs, no gimmick long outlives its failure to produce anything, and the qc has been promising stuff for long enough now. i said, "i just dunno what they're moving to next, but they'll move".
mircea_popescu: not like we can do math or know enough physics to know what to do math upon or anything.
mircea_popescu: god knows they were right about the flying cars / submerged cities, so why not this also.
mircea_popescu: well... maybe the tremendously ever-improving ai opens up a whole bunch of galaxies' worth of new leaves, like sf promised.
mircea_popescu: srsly, this is also how silkworms clean up their lab. better make sure you got a new layer of mulberry leaves atop for them to move to OR ELSE THEY DIE!!
mircea_popescu: well, then again alf might be the exception. hey, do you enjoy cleaning the lab ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, a lab that nobody spends time cleaning shows it.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner honestly i don't think anyone is. politics is like cleanning, nobody builds himself a lab for the joy of having to clean it up periodically.
mircea_popescu: to make it a wot contest rather than a popularity contest, ie, to remove the franchise from the britney spears demo.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner well, that's what the republic is for. literally, tmsr = the republic of the leftover.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't even going to go into how i spot a lot more tiny geckos, lost earrings, etc than my glass-blessed friends.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah, yeah, popular with welders, that thing, and cnc mill people.
mircea_popescu: planet is about 99% pork bellies belabouring under the delusion of humanity. this fat will be trimmed, but the process or the delusion speak not to actual people.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner no. just because most women are unfuckable doesn't mean all are. or ever will be.
mircea_popescu: hard to draw this "ouitside of uni" line, but first approx.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get good ones. but anyway, i do, in the grand total i dunno, 100 hours i spent in a chem lab over three decades.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner i actually believe that point was cca 2005.
mircea_popescu: same in chem lab. you are of course wearing airtight goggles, yes ? then ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes or rather, wear the plastic thing over them, like everyone in machine shop does anyway.
mircea_popescu: until then, will happily boil like frogs, these "people".
mircea_popescu: people do not revolt. "people", like submissive wives, will only move out when they identify some other thing to move into.
mircea_popescu: even if you had a large supply of quarters for this new laundromat.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you either know or could meet if you dedicated a year to it someone possessed of an ai capable of identifying who the fuck to shoot.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: neither is producing any value, the whole thing is "this is cheaper than shooting you, so far."
mircea_popescu: mind that people making 50 an hour "to think" are simply enjoying the upper tier of welfare. just like the idiot blue collar is paid 12 an hour to get out of the way, so is the idiot white collar paid 50 an hour.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner you need to be thinking on a machine costing a quarter an hour to arrive at the conclusion a machine could outthink some guy making money.
mircea_popescu: the us is turning socialist because average us produced cuntlet can't bridge the gap between what she thinks her priceless snowflake of a snatch is worth and what i might consider paying.
mircea_popescu: but in any case -- socialism is always "tried" when the curve of worker consumption exceeds the industrial output, ie when there's a lot of idle, unmonetizable pretense going around. in other words, socialism is the scar tissue, papering over absent production, not ever the result of abundance.
mircea_popescu: they'll just get cooked as per swift's cookbook and that's the last anyone'll ever hear of them.
mircea_popescu: how is capitalism out just because most people are obsolete ? capitalism is here to stay, not people, and ESPECIALLY not the obsolete ones.
mircea_popescu: the soviet hotties who willingly traded their charms for a cake of soap and two rolls of proper toilet paper whenever they could get the attentions of a not-born-among-retards visitor for long enough were nominally employed, in a nominally functioning empire, nominally making a great salary.
mircea_popescu: no, that's what i meant, more nominally, worth ~nothing.
mircea_popescu: but you can make some great vhs tapes on this flimsy premise. who'll ever know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "you will always make more money tomorrow than yesterday, no matter what you do". sounds like a dream until you find out how the ustards implemented it in practice.
mircea_popescu: oh, i'm worth like a billion give or take a few start-ups.
mircea_popescu: oh, for my own curiosity, as an anon data point : would you say spending a few years mid career working for failed start-ups makes one more money than working for corp ? less ? ~same ?
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner "used to do security software" as in, anonymously ?
mircea_popescu: seems rather like the whole nic-dma combo is being fortified as a wolf's last stand. i guess they expect ot lose cpus (to the chinese).
mircea_popescu: lol if that pops, the unhappening should be lulzy to watch. from space preferably.
mircea_popescu: tsk tsk. but why, it's so insecure and ec is so much better and there's even this stuff on mediumgithub ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for my curiosity, does imperial drm tech look for a 2048 rsa or ec sig ?
mircea_popescu: in the sense that rather make that, best make new comp. trb-i all over again.