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thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: we should all be able to live like kings!
bitcoinbust: is jcpham the fag who thought he could make a bitcoin exchange in central park?
mircea_popescu: if average joe is lucky enoufgh tyo retain the job of a butler good for him
mircea_popescu: well society is restructuring itself back to the norm
mircea_popescu: "Low-wage, temporary jobs have become so widespread that they threaten to become the norm. But for some reason this isn’t causing a scandal."
deadweasel: the trucks were alright.
B0g4r7: In Dubai ppl were offended that they hauled the labor around in open trucks. Now they use box trucks which are 20 degrees hotter.
mircea_popescu: <deadweasel> it can be useful. just drop a link here you don't want to read, then come back in 45 minutes. <<< poor man's slavegirls, as provided by the chan.
deadweasel: they seem to like it.
deadweasel: big deal in Texas. we ship these guys around like fucking sardines
ozbot: The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy - NYTimes.com
deadweasel: it can be useful. just drop a link here you don't want to read, then come back in 45 minutes.
jcpham: there were a few articles recently on the rise of temporary workers
jcpham: tbh I skimmed that one
jborkl: jcpham , and internet from the homeless shelter
peterl: jcpham I am reading through the article you linked, they talk alot about Kelly (my current employer)
B0g4r7: A few on the forums I guess.
jcpham: across the street
jcpham: i steal power from the orphanage
deadweasel: B0g4r7: on the forums?
deadweasel: yeah, they will be negative return in a few weeks for me at 6 cents kw/h
jcpham: i'm a whiz at the gpu mining
B0g4r7: Yea, well they need some hardware work first.
B0g4r7: Then I'll have some time to work on the miners and such.
mircea_popescu: inductive capacitor i think is what they are.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing, and it's never ok
B0g4r7: If I can find the missing piece.
deadweasel: if it's just ceramic use thermal glue on it.
deadweasel: so I'll stop and use those cards for ltc or some wackadoo spam coin
B0g4r7: It looks like a ceramic inductor (is there such a thing?) on the board has a corner broken off too. I'm hoping it's OK.
deadweasel: yeah I can't do that, I fought for 2 days to get my gpus up, then 2 weeks to get them stable. the job after the job. in another few weeks, I'll be paying to mine.
B0g4r7: Sad but true.
deadweasel: B0g4r7: I hope you get it to work.
mircea_popescu: seems about even to me.
B0g4r7: For now I just mine more profitable alts and trade for BTC.
gribble: MtGox BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 82.50000, Best ask: 82.99789, Bid-ask spread: 0.49789, Last trade: 82.99900, 24 hour volume: 47264.08256921, 24 hour low: 81.86753, 24 hour high: 91.20000, 24 hour vwap: 85.79193
Namworld: All that is dying is the awful wild speculation.
Namworld: The 2+ billion market cap was the crazy thing.
B0g4r7: Once I remount the SMT thingie that got knocked off and put it all back together I'll be trying it out.
Namworld: Well for that I don't disagree.
B0g4r7: It did not survive the journey too well. Half of the heatsinks had been knocked off and were looks.
deadweasel: B0g4r7: how did it turn out?
deadweasel: then you still have to buy the whores after...
Namworld: Well so am I then.
deadweasel: fucking 30BTC just to join the whoreclub!
Namworld: The reknown Montreal (Canada) or one of the small Montreals around the US?
bitcoinbust: mircea_popescu: how long did it take for the guy to cum?
bitcoinbust: namworld until the end of the year
B0g4r7: Wat, live within our means? That's crazy talk.
peterl: Like I was saying, we need to embrace the Gorilla lifestyle and live within our means instead of thinking we are poor and wishing for the huge house
bitcoinbust: local talent from montreal
mircea_popescu: so when's the last time you got laid bitcoinbust ?
peterl: wow, this channel is active today, that spammer assbot can barely get more than two lines in in a row ;)
mircea_popescu: 100k a year. gezuz the inflartion hit bad.
bitcoinbust: its a couple of enclaves scattered around the country
bitcoinbust: anyone thats been in the US knows that most american wealth is grossly overstated.
deadweasel: i'm just saying these areas on the map have a hundred reasons for their status, and a hundred more we don't know.
bitcoinbust: i think thats the most recent
mircea_popescu: i wonder if it's really the black women!
deadweasel: heavy slavery for the south still correlates to poorer areas.
mircea_popescu: clearly it's the black people.
jborkl: <mircea_popescu> not really. women have nothing to do with it.
deadweasel: on the east side
mircea_popescu: better than california anyway
deadweasel: stupid map, large red areas are virtually empty, or the appalachias.
bitcoinbust: mircea_popescu: florida collapsed under the housing bubble
mircea_popescu: seems central florida was doing fine then
jborkl: your argument was that Detroit was poor because women voted
deadweasel: what's the point again?
Namworld: If you're single on minimum salary, managing ain't hard. If you got a family tho...
deadweasel: there are lots of those everywhere. more in heavily populated areas. more to come.
Namworld: I think he means the kind of homes barely making it from paycheck to paycheck.
peterl: And in any states there will be regional variations: Midland (MI) is a wonderful town, Saginaw is a shithole
bitcoinbust: texas has some of the poorest districts in the united states
jborkl: that is a worldwide problem with people being not worth as much as they think they are
bitcoinbust: jbrokl you are talking out of your ass.
bitcoinbust: like barely able to buy groceries?
bitcoinbust: texas has a high concentration of tech firms
deadweasel: West texas is desert
Namworld: The average people all the over the place in all countries are poor, barring some rare exceptions.
jborkl: Well South Texas is a desert, but you can pick and choose any part of a state and say it is shitty
bitcoinbust: its a fucking dump anywhere except the coasts which are barricaded enclaves
mircea_popescu: peterl im not sure how practicable that is.
deadweasel: peterl, I think bonobo is a better fit for me.
peterl: mircea-popescu where I was going is we should all live the gorialla lifestyle of an old man who lives with several ladies who take care of his needs and he beats people up if they disagree with him
deadweasel: first smart thing you said yet.
bitcoinbust: jborkl the only "southern" state that does anything decent is some parts of texas
jcpham: i have a electrical contractor client that has union and non-union counterpart
bitcoinbust: the south is the poorest region in america.
jborkl: why do you think the South is more productive
peterl: Detroit Suburbs are still a nice place. The city is messed up.
mircea_popescu: im with jborkl here. it was the us style unions, ie, the mob.
bitcoinbust: labor unions were around beore the 50s jborkl.
bitcoinbust: the government killed US manufacturing in the 70's with excessive taxation and regulation
bitcoinbust: no they didnt they had large manufacturing of all sorts of products.
Namworld: Then women didn't expand the federal government, the youth did, according to you.
bitcoinbust: it was the wealthiest city in the world in the 50's
jborkl: yes they did dumbass
mircea_popescu: peterl i don't think that matters. the rule of cool.
jborkl: That is because of labor unions being too expensive, not women - dumbass