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asciilifeform: afaik yer either in 'it's astrology, so hire cheapest' mode or yer not - tertium non datur
asciilifeform: if hiring fortune teller - hire cheapest. but ftr i dun get how this beats not having crypto.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 18:31 asciilifeform: 'when choosing astrologer, hire the cheapest'
a111: 17 results for "hire cheapest", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=hire%20cheapest
trinque: !#s hire 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',
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"
mircea_popescu: when hiring astrologer, hire cheapest.
asciilifeform: 'when choosing astrologer, hire the cheapest' ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'hiring soothsayer, hire 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: when hiring a psychic, always hire the cheapest.
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
asciilifeform: the cheapest way to convert fiat to btc probably remains: hire a buterin, orchestrate media mouthpieces, watch the coin roll in.
mircea_popescu: what happens when nominally different newspapers both hire the same one cheapest provider on freelance.com to make their covers