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mircea_popescu also likes BingoBoingo tax piece. he's shaped himself into quite the gazette's editor, hasn't he!
mircea_popescu: the world of the future is, girl hopes to be taken in by someone 3 links removed from a lord, and the boy is euthanised at birth.
mircea_popescu: well ideally we won't need so much jungle profiling with properly written code.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fancy this wonder, avg chicago schoolteacher makes more than jack warner averaged over his career.
mircea_popescu: trinque better than beautician, neh. + she loves children.
mircea_popescu: mod6 this isn't your way of telling us you got six dead hookers in your shed is it ?
mircea_popescu: ahaha holy shit look at that, avg illinois suburban teacher made 80k
mircea_popescu: teacher makes like a million (27k in cash or w/e it was)
mircea_popescu: average "social worker" makes 500k a year, of which 35k paid in cash and 465k worth of ass blowing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it is, the problem with it is that 10% or less of the payola is paid out as bezzle usd ; the remaineder 90% or more is paid out as pats on the back, empty and baseless congratulatory verbiage and generally speaking psychotronic noise.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's basically this large-is (~14%) subset of population with no certain skillset and vastly inflated impression of self-importance.
mircea_popescu: mod6 no, i think they're on top of that. pretty sure i saw pet hospice advertised.
mircea_popescu: kinda the problem with all the makework positions, "teachers", "daycare specialists" and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: "nursing profession" much like the various other "social science" experts, social workers etc are about as qualified as their weight in earthworms.
mircea_popescu: i will note that chicago is terrible market, badly developed. las vegas is hugely oversupplied, you can get terrifying deals (if they know you)
mircea_popescu: 500sqft being larger than about half of the "apartments" "engineers" dwell in, at that.
mircea_popescu: i just got a bunch, so you happen to have hit hot cache.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the peninsula is ready to give you teh grand deluxe room at 500/night. half price for a whole month. call them.
mircea_popescu: and they wanna tell me one sixth of a fat woman and some moldy upholstery is "market competitive" ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 20k a week gets you the penthouse at the taj mahal + your personal dozen hookers.
mircea_popescu: from what i hear it's actuallyh on the mend, was significantly worse cca 2000s, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, it's an iffy thing all around. most hospices are a) insanely expensive considering what that same dollar'd get you in say vegas and b) really worse conditions than ~anything seen in civilian housing.
mircea_popescu: kinda says it's own sad story about the state of postindustrial world, this.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever seen a jurisdiction where oncology beds weren't short. ever.
mircea_popescu: im not even sure it's the profit, prolly shortage of specialist beds.
mircea_popescu: mod6 the idea being that they're in the business of treating, gotta be treatin' or not there.
mircea_popescu: do hookers pay their own way ? subquestion : i know this woman who pays a dude to rent from her, and also has to suck him off. is she paying her way ?
mircea_popescu: trinque and the king belongs to the kingdom and what else ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 afaik the white man custom is, doctor prescribes whole month of sedatives, she accidentally takes them.
mircea_popescu: white man used to have a literate culture built atop a capitalist society etcetera etcetera. the fucking africans have won, it's all gone by now.
mircea_popescu: "these here bears have the fighting spirit, i want to be great warrior, i worship bear totem"
mircea_popescu: his project was a loose talk on the topic of "entrepreneurialness as a sport", and it was through and through pre-literare juju worship.
mircea_popescu: he had a succession of slides (uncredited) depicting mostly obscure sportsmen and singers. he wanted to know what the audience thought they had in common.
mircea_popescu went to business school here today, spent five minutes listening in on what evidently was the graduation project of some 4th year kid. do you know what he had ?
mircea_popescu: basically the talktards have managed to give away EVERY.SINGLE.GAIN of three centuries of industrialization.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's just... outside of extremely exceptional cases, the bar for trust needed to hire someone far exceeds the bar of trust needed to have them live with your other girls. it's just nonsense like that.
mircea_popescu: he's pessimistic about big red warnings, i'm pessimistic about the ~possiblity~ of an english-language culture.
mircea_popescu: ks to be a warning. People also don't expect things to be complicated enough to warrant a tutorial, so they won't allocate time specifically to read one, on any topic, for any reason. They're wrong, of course, but they won't ever find that out, to the best extent of their abilities."
mircea_popescu: "My own experience here is depressing – nobody, not even the smartest folks, is willing to read anything unless they came specifically to read. If they came for any other purpose, forget it. When you're a tutorial, you can tell things to people and they listen. When you're an error message, people read you to the extent necessary to make you go away but no further. And when you're a warning, people simply ignore you. It suc
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now imagine instead of "false" it actually wanted the time signed.
mircea_popescu: it's not so hard to fucking notice your box is dialing out.
mircea_popescu: phf functions with any runtime that average about the interval PER CALL show up all over the place.
mircea_popescu: "valgrind [when used for this purpose through this module] simulates" etc.
mircea_popescu: and gprof is just not useful, with the sampling and etc.
mircea_popescu: if you're interested in either gprof or valgrind's callgrind, or both or whatever, his thing is useful. but i'm not. specifically because bitcoin is too large and slow to be run on valgrind-simulated cpu, and moreover if we could do that we wouldn't have any of the problems we currently approach anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not saying there is ; i am saying i don't care for either method of profiling he discusses for this usecase.
mircea_popescu: no i was quoting this as a right and proper observation.
mircea_popescu: in other DOH, "people who write bad code will misuse profilers also" ~yosefk.