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a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 18:31 asciilifeform: 'when choosing astrologer,
hire the
cheapest'
a111: Logged on 2017-01-03 23:16 asciilifeform: to go back to hashes, and if you for some reason eschew 'when hiring fortune-teller,
hire the
cheapest',
mircea_popescu: this is not so differeny from my "if you absolutely must
hire shaman,
hire mysql, it's
cheapest"
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2016 21:34:13; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436264 << really the problem is that it adds unwarranted complexity. so now we have more bits, yay. do they do anything ? notrly. well if you're going to
hire a fortune teller,
hire the
cheapest not the best. but this aside - the problem you raise is very much a problem, and altogether this thing will have to be worked on moar.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-03-2016#1436264 << really the problem is that it adds unwarranted complexity. so now we have more bits, yay. do they do anything ? notrly. well if you're going to
hire a fortune teller,
hire the
cheapest not the best. but this aside - the problem you raise is very much a problem, and altogether this thing will have to be worked on moar.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the following sense : printing money renders sense arbitrary, and if sense is arbitrary then specialists become just another kind of voodoo practitioners. nobody cancelled the "if you're gonmna
hire a voodoo priest,
hire the
cheapest" rule, and so here we are.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, this is a very vast thing, it unites the mentioned "when hiring fortune teller -
hire cheapest"
ascii_field: the ancient maxim, as retold by mircea_popescu, 'when hiring a psychic,
hire the
cheapest'. but the expensive psychic is liable to walk over to the
cheapest and shoot the poor fella
mircea_popescu: afaik the entire thing';s rubbishj, and if you're going to
hire fortune tellers, always
hire the
cheapest.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: military rations are good ?! << nope - very bad, but with minimal effort. like the 'hiring shaman -
hire cheapest' theorem.
mircea_popescu: as the expression goes, when hiring a shaman don't
hire the "best",
hire the
cheapest mircea_popescu: what happens when nominally different newspapers both
hire the same one
cheapest provider on freelance.com to make their covers