jurov: with their elaborate entropy management
jurov: and the contrived examples...to roll 2 fair dice: static std::discrete_distribution<> /* follows 12 rows with histogram ennumerated as floats*/
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The economic tyranny of the late Roman Empire had left a devastated polity, a culture in Western Europe that had lost its knowledge of civilized commercial practice and accustomed to seeing government not as a source of any productive assistance to commerce, but only a destroyer of commerce from which commerce must hide. "
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mod6: <+jurov> which version is the -TEST2? asciilifeform_add_verifyall_option? << yeah.
BingoBoingo: In other news disorderly conduct misdemeanor has been dismissed
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Well, dismissed with leave, but that part should hopefully be resolved on Friday at court date.
BingoBoingo: NExt conference is in 16 months? hopefully should have life put back together sufficiently by then.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Case ended with the compromise where I take a drug risk education course and they quit. Avoided the possibility of stupid/hostile judge at hearing/trial.
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BingoBoingo: Not an ideal or maximally lulzworthy resolution, but at $150 to retain lawyer, $200 for hearing prep, and $120 for class hosted by private party St Clair County recieved 0 dollars.
BingoBoingo: Because their default reflex is assume drugs/alcohol are involved in evil.
BingoBoingo: Rest of the class was all in there for DUI
BingoBoingo: Case only took 2.5 years of state's time though.
mircea_popescu: i suppose next time you send the clerk over to do derpclass.
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 23:23:34; jurov: asciilifeform: lxr fixed
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 23:44:24; mircea_popescu: gentoo's a fallen thing.
mircea_popescu: French housewives were using recipes to make, along with food, glue, ink, and so on, marble grains for an hour-glass:
mircea_popescu: "Take the grease which comes from the sawdust of marble when those great tombs of black marble be sawn, then boil it well in wine like a piece of meat and skim it, and then set it out to dry in the sun; and boil, skim and dry nine times; and thus it will be good."
mircea_popescu: Such a recipe presumably creates grains of a size in a precise ratio to a standard hour-glass neck size, thus producing an accurate time.”
mircea_popescu: "The origin of the sandglass is quite obscure, but its accuracy relies on a precise ratio between the neck width and the grain diameter."
mircea_popescu: first off! the construction of that last phrase is wrong.
mircea_popescu: second off : grain diameter ? what the holy shit ? he imagines they ground marble down to molecular size ?
BingoBoingo: It's good to see someone faund the timekeeping lulz
mircea_popescu: the russkis didn't have standard barrel size on theior fucking tanks by 1940
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 00:05:18; jurov: and the contrived examples...to roll 2 fair dice: static std::discrete_distribution<> /* follows 12 rows with histogram ennumerated as floats*/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is to me an almost guarantee by now that pedanticism in that context guarantees ineptitude of an epic scale
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would he think that the topic of origin and the topic of the origin of accuracy are related ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, if one uses a few casts and whatnot, the linker prolly has it.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 01:59:55; BingoBoingo: In other news disorderly conduct misdemeanor has been dismissed
BingoBoingo: Might take a while to get to docks, so not next boat. Some boat though.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:05:46; BingoBoingo: NExt conference is in 16 months? hopefully should have life put back together sufficiently by then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i got some flats in romania, too. not so strictly related
mircea_popescu: "To improve the productivity of the time rate contract required two breakthroughs: the first, creating the conditions under which sacrifice is a better estimate of value than piece rate or other measurement alternative"
mircea_popescu: this may be the most confused, anti-thought essay i've ever read.
mircea_popescu: "The undesirability of servitude, from the point of view of the laborer at least, is obvious. Serfs and slaves faced brutal work conditions, floggings, starvation, very short life spans, and the inability to escape no matter how bad conditions got. "
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking obvious. my slavegirls by a fat margin prefer slavery (which is not servitude just like whales are not fish), and work a lot better than any fucking employees anyone ever had.
mircea_popescu: there are two kinds of fools in this world, the sort that thinks women are equal to men ; and the sort that thinks women are unequal to men in all things.
mircea_popescu: Thus second main drawback to piece rates is that they motivate the worker to put out more quantity at the expense of quality. This can be devastating. The tendency of communist countries to pay piece rates, rather than hourly rates, is one reason that, while the Soviet bloc’s quantity (and thus the most straightforward measurements of economic growth) was able to keep up with the West, quality did not (thus the
mircea_popescu: contrast, for example, between the notoriously ugly and unreliable Trabant of East Germany and the BMWs, Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagens of West Germany).
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mircea_popescu: for that matter, a) the trabant was not notoriously ugly. in fact, beats the beetle.
mircea_popescu: b) does anyone have any fucking idea how cheap it was ?
mircea_popescu: had a god damned two-time engine worth what, 7 hp ? weed whacker level.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:45:53; mircea_popescu: i wish to see the car the us manufactures out of ~300 bucks.
mircea_popescu: "Time-rate employment provides a major productivity improvement over servitude or (usually) piece rates." << amusingly, according to the soviets themselves, and the "golden age" romanians too, the main driver of sovieteconomy fail was the timewage.
mircea_popescu: and the introduction of piece rate a magnificent americanism.
mircea_popescu: "Laborers were, even before the advent of the clock, commonly paid by the day. But how long is a “day”? It couldn’t be just daylight hours; this makes for a longer workday than employer and employer might otherwise agree to, and in northern latitudes it varies quite substantially within a year. With the rather heterogeneous measures of time, employer could cheat the employee out of hours, or vice versa, unl
mircea_popescu: ess they had a securely independent standard of time."
mircea_popescu: except not, especially if they work for a whole year, which everyone prefers to do anyway seeing how winter's not summer.
mircea_popescu: how is this possible! szabo was an intelligent, well read, erudite fellow!
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mircea_popescu: and vodka was ~50 cents the bottle, at black market rate.
nubbins`: thought the details seemed familiar, did some minor snooping
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell bingoboingo many congratulations
ben_vulpes: grand shame considering the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes would still attend, miserable multiday train rides notwithstanding
ben_vulpes has fond memories of los cubanos en la grande manzana
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ben_vulpes off to duct tape more open sores together
ben_vulpes: ;;8ball should i fry an egg for this hamncheese?
gribble: The answer is a resounding no.
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ben_vulpes: first rule of ddos is dont talk about its impact on trilemma
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assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:32:39; ben_vulpes: grand shame considering the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
trinque: asciilifeform │ lulzy climatocalypse here in mordor << I'm in the woods in PA visiting; it's t-shirt weather.
ben_vulpes: lemme put it this way: it's hard to run a global short on the shartupconomy without finding takers on the long side.
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assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 02:22:31; BingoBoingo: perhaps he went adlai, knows what color 42 is
adlai: some of the #bitcoin-cinephiles may enjoy Bridge of Spies (some may detest it as blatant promurican propaganda)
adlai: either way it's good if you like watching Tom Hanks cry
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nanasho: so, everything as usual today
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:30:37; ben_vulpes: whoa, no bingoboingo?!
assbot: Logged on 14-12-2015 22:36:39; jurov: don't know. electrum produces P2SH transactions, that's how i found out.
punkman: maybe trb doesn't like compressed pubkeys?
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adlai: deeding to uncompressed addresses has the featurbugresult of requiring more satoshibytes to spend, for the same notarization cost
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adlai: not tagged Altcoins? :P
BingoBoingo: Don't think changetip is even that anymore
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BingoBoingo: Holy shit. danielpbarron is now a gurl on twitter.
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danielpbarron: hah BingoBoingo, that's not my only account. You can share it with me if you want
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nubbins`: i forgot we were doing deeds here
nubbins` pushed a deed to the bc yesterday of his own accord
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assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 03:32:39; ben_vulpes: grand shame considering the wine and steak cost/quality curve in bsas
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 04:07:41; asciilifeform: another melted switch ?
mircea_popescu: anyone wants to read things, read them when they can. trilema's not a consumer good, the consumer's at trilema's convenience.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if the consumer doesn't like this situation, that's fine : buy a gun shoot your president.
mircea_popescu: was the #1 topic back in romanian-trilema days, due to the readership being primarily interested in it.
mircea_popescu: all these "successes" would make more money in plain prostitution in 1995 than they do with their "successful" internet bullshits today. but hey, people would much rather "disbelieve" and carry on with their idiocy than stop and reconsider whether "women's issues" and "pop culture" are a decent use of their productive time.
mircea_popescu: "Platforms like YouTube mirror the U.S. economy’s yawning wealth gap, and being a part of YouTube’s “middle class” often means grappling daily with the cognitive dissonance of a full comments section and an empty wallet. Journalists kvell over stars like Swedish gamer Pewdiepie, whose net worth is around $12 million, or comedian Jenna Marbles, who’s worth around $2.5 million. On the other extreme, fan-funding
mircea_popescu: sites like Patreon (a Kickstarter-type site that allows for ongoing funding) are at the center of a communal movement to fund “smaller YouTubers.” But that definition gets blurry. Is someone with 50,000 subscribers worth supporting financially? How about 200,000? What if people assume you’re too successful to need money, and you’re too proud to tell them otherwise?"
mircea_popescu: that's not the question. the question is why is mp worth a billion and kim kardashian worth 10 million. when did death threats > nice ass, by 3 degrees of magnitude ? is this allowed by Obama ?
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 02:12:06; assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:51:36; mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
mircea_popescu: and maybe a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are the cause of his poverty, through the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The high highs and low lows leave me reeling. One week, I was stopped for photos six times while perusing comic books in downtown L.A. The next week, I sat faceless in a room of 40 people vying for a menial courier job. I’ve walked a red carpet with $80 in my bank account. Popular YouTube musician Meghan Tonjes said she performed on Vidcon’s MainStage this year to screaming, crying fans without knowing whether she
mircea_popescu: "She likened trying to get famous through social media to shelling out money for college—in each case, one suffers through hard work and zero-to-negative income in the hopes of a later payout. The difference, Beggs said, is that YouTube is more accessible “because there’s no admissions committee.” The technical term for this is the Dunning Kruger effect, where unskilled individuals believe themselves to be more
mircea_popescu: heh. and alf blames colleges. looky here alfie : without the college scams, these schmucks would go to youtube to be fleeced.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because cow gotta be milked. otherwise, mastitis. it hurts.
mircea_popescu: |Online culture has often placed emphasis on both social justice and purity—or at the very least, humility.| >>> bwajhahjajaja
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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as a Schelling point mostly due to BitBet's i
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ated time and again that they don't really have the intellectual wherewithal to find their way out of the fiat paper bag.
mircea_popescu: Always remember, dear fiat craptrepreneurs : sucking republican cock is a good start, but always remember to make eye contact! That's where your submission really sinks in, to everyone (and especially to your) benefit." ?
thestringpuller: "If every single person withdrew all their coins they would make less than $3500. This isn't a viable business model."
nubbins`: if every single person did any given action, stupid shit would happen.
nubbins`: Life isn't a viable biznis model
nubbins`: "If the laws of probability completely broke down, this bad thing would happen to ur moniez"
nubbins`: yeah, that's great, but I'm more concerned with the fact that all of london is trying to visit the zoo at the same time
mircea_popescu: if every ustard < 40 did a honest day's work, china'd be so fucked.
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nubbins`: the new and "untouchable" death row records
nubbins`: i recall watching an interview with him once
nubbins`: talking about vanilla ice, the rapper
nubbins`: he legitimately said "vanilla ice didn't write his debut album. nigga named chocolate wrote that album."
nubbins`: for the lulz and the free beer, obvs
nubbins`: plus smacking drums is a great way to unwind
nubbins`: most heads are synthetic these days
nubbins`: stool is leather but if you sit on it too long your dick falls asleep
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thestringpuller: funny everytime i see these old derps names in -dev logs always has a negative L2 rating
shinohai: "whenever you interact with him god kills a kitten" <<< priceless
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jurov: ;;ticker --currency eur
gribble: Error: Failure to retrieve ticker. Try again later.
jurov: ;;ticker --currency eur --market bitcoincentral
gribble: Bitcoin-Central BTCEUR ticker | Best bid: 407.6, Best ask: 407.6, Bid-ask spread: 0.00000, Last trade: 407.6, 24 hour volume: 53.70502554, 24 hour low: 399.0, 24 hour high: 410.0, 24 hour vwap: 404.84722866
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davout: mircea_popescu: pl0x to x.eur
☟︎ davout: jurov: paymium was victim of its own success this afternoon
jurov: big delivery requested?
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pete_dushenski: "Multiculturalism leads to parallel societies and therefore remains a ‘life lie,’ ” or a sham, she said, before adding that Germany may be reaching its limits in terms of accepting more refugees. "The challenge is immense," she said. "We want and we will reduce the number of refugees noticeably."
nubbins`: some people have ham for dinner?
punkman: I'm guessing they are starting to build favelas in germany
nubbins`: "we want everyone to be homogenous, somehow, even though i'm fucking german and that didn't make sense even before this started happening"
pete_dushenski: heh. bringing in a whackload of non-yurapeans into your country without also forcing them to submit to the rules and regulations of the dominant resident culture is asking to be mowed down.
nubbins`: hey, in canada you still have to swear fealty to the queen.
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pete_dushenski: when's the last time you saw a new immigrant getting thumped on the head for not lifting his pinky while drinking tea ?
nubbins`: commisariat house afternoon tea, july 21 2015, st johns nl
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mircea_popescu: considering the sad state of ba night life, it'd be a wonder if i didn't.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:26:20; mircea_popescu: anyone wants to read things, read them when they can. trilema's not a consumer good, the consumer's at trilema's convenience.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:34:01; mircea_popescu: and maybe a whole raft of "choices" he "made" by "himself" are the cause of his poverty, through the proxy of his indescribable stupidity.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:40:13; mircea_popescu: heh. and alf blames colleges. looky here alfie : without the college scams, these schmucks would go to youtube to be fleeced.
ascii_field: whereas having them in morning traffic (ask a fella from india. 'brake inspector!1111') is not.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 14:50:52; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "|Today social media spamming service Changetip in a bid to generate revenue from users is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee." <<< you mean "In a bid to generate revenue the social media spamming service Changetip is set to begin charging a one percent withdrawal fee today. As people actually involved in Bitcoin might remember, the 1% fee exists as a Schelling point mostl
nubbins`: you mean "in a bid to generate revenue, the social..."
nubbins`: someone tried tipping me ten cents on reddit once for a comment they deemed insightful
nubbins`: imagine interacting with other human beings and one of them hands you a dime when you say something
nubbins`: now this social impossibility can be achieved electronically, through the wonders of the internet
nubbins`: ascii_field a hollow dime with a ?? inside
ascii_field: well... more like a dime with radio beacon glued on
nubbins`: incidentally a jan 3 2009 copy of the times sells for 10btc
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mircea_popescu: ascii_field they have a point. as far as the slave^H^H^H^H^H german is concerned, reminders of the cock up his ass are unwelcome and "toxic" to his emotional well being or w/e
mircea_popescu: iirc that ugly fat woman whatever her name is that rules his germans still hasn't obtained the slightest satisfaction for being gangraped by the ustards.
ascii_field: 'We give special attention to whether an AV should save lives by sacrificing its owner, and provide insights into (i) the perceived morality of this self-sacrifice, (ii)the willingness to see this self-sacrifice being legally enforced, (iii) the expectations that AVs will be programmed to self-sacrifice, and (iv) the willingness to buy self-sacrificing AVs.'
mircea_popescu: but hey, maybe one day germany improves enough to be russia.
ascii_field: it is no surprise of any kind that usg is obsessed with 'automatic car'.
nubbins`: just think of all the extra shit you could buy/eat while travelling
nubbins`: struck a ped? better blame the mfg/gov
ascii_field: (everybody gets to go through the mw radar arch. and if you're flagged, your car will go straight to the crematorium)
mircea_popescu: let's discuss things of import! to be prepared in case a windfaul reaches us, with a game-plan! to save africa!
ascii_field: not to mention the low-tech beauty of 'self-driving car accident' as a means of removing troublesome folk
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the problem with this is that nobody in the Housbroken universe actually owns a car.
mircea_popescu: seen that film btw ? pretty great indictment of ustardian/white youth
pete_dushenski: ascii_field: owns as in outright, no outstanding loan.
ascii_field: EVERYBODY in usaschwitz (with very few exceptions) spends a good chunk of the day in a car
nubbins`: "wild tales" seemed a great indictment of modern argentina, mp might like it
mircea_popescu: coupla 20something kids that anyone simply wants to see raped to death. they're the couch surfing, biking, "creative" minds of the tomorrow / "economies of scale of being youtube famous meaning not famous"
nubbins`: general idea is to "buy" new car before old car is actually owned by you
ascii_field: that marvel of precision engineering, the car that promptly falls apart after the last credit payment, is a fairly recent invention
ascii_field: but sop for something like a decade now, yes
nubbins`: mp you know the 20somethings are the antiheroes in that movie yes?
nubbins`: i.e. the target audience is rooting for them and against mean old dad?
nubbins`: because why we gotta get a job man this sux
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's exactly my point. none of those schmucks has a car.
nubbins`: well it's also a danny devito movie
mircea_popescu: more importantly, none of those schmucks is the intellectual equal of "car ownership"
nubbins`: which is literally the button right next to "big mac, upsize fries" on the big machine
mircea_popescu: actually playing out a penitentiary inmate irl is a bar they have to prepare for.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: most u.s. folks have (in some sense which involves driving it) a car. of some description.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: waitwut THAT'S the hierarchy ? easier to own woman than car ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you don't fuck teens alf. you have nfi what your country's like.
ascii_field: but where i live, i see even street beggars get into at least a toyota at the end of a long hard day shaking a cup of coins
mircea_popescu: the 22 yo beggars are "working hard" at "their social media presence" and don't have access to a car.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: aha. these tend to be old grizzled folk
ascii_field: the 'social media' maggots tend to gravitate to conurbations with good train service, etc
mircea_popescu: just about the magical car you discuss may be at the earlierst delivered
mircea_popescu: they simply tend to gravitate to places where their dismal means to life are sufficient to survive. "oh i couldn't live in kentucky"
ascii_field: kentucky is not a magical enclave of the economically +ev
nubbins`: in fairness, taping up a couple photocopies around the city isn't a great way to recruit specific talent
mircea_popescu: no, but it is a magical enclave where you gotta be able to find your way out of a paper bag
mircea_popescu: nubbins` a) couple HUNDRED ; b) if i taped up not a couple, a single "jeans and chewing gum" ad in soviet blok, i'd have needed the canadian mounties to keep order.
mircea_popescu: that this shithole doesn't admit it's one step away from poland 1985 doesn't mean it isn't actually one step away from poland 1985
ascii_field: but afaik it has an ordinary cross-section of ameri-bezzle. i.e. you can just as easily warm a chair at lockheed in kentucky as in dc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field none of these dudes get warm chairs of any kind.
mircea_popescu: they're the leah goodmans of this world. the people you think are what they wish they were, while meanwhile they starve while thinking somehow they're too good for my ten bitcents.
ascii_field doesn't spend much time around the certified economically-dead folk
mircea_popescu: yes, them. most everyone that's white and under 30. them.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: well specific modelling talent is hard to recruit since it's in high demand.
mircea_popescu: argentina is about as economically dead as you'd expect of a soy & other cash crops exporter.
nubbins`: wtf does argentina have to do with it?
nubbins`: you're on the internet, not on the argentina
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: might ar be a candidate to become 'an india' - in the sense of coolie labour on warm chairs with keyboard ..?
nubbins`: i know two argentinian artists. know where they live?
mircea_popescu: so wait, let me get this straight. when i want ascii to move here he can't because HE needs meatwot.
thestringpuller: But it's not really an economics problem. Game artists are borderline cultists...a game artist will work for free for say Nintendo just cause it's nintendo...
mircea_popescu: when i want to hire the useless shitsacks perambulating in buenos aires, they don't need me. becuase... internet.
mircea_popescu: let's play this game where I use the argument both ways and nobody uses the counter-argument both ways against me
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: laugh all you like, but i went & found a new gig the 'mainstream' way, sans meatwot
nubbins`: you want to hire useless shitsacks?
mircea_popescu: so ; ascii moves because internet ; argentine shitsacks are stuck because meatwot.
ascii_field: (but new gig is still a bezzlatronic thing that doesn't exist in ar)
nubbins`: not really, you taped a bunch of flyers to outdoor walls.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, then on what basis to you propose to put forth subtlety-based arguments such as that ?
mircea_popescu: for all you know the two are identical. in point of fact they are identical.
nubbins`: on the basis that nobody anywhere in the world advertises for a position more involved than daycare in this manner
ascii_field: also iirc mircea_popescu didn't hire people ?
nubbins`: and while i've not lived many places, i've visited plenty
nubbins`: talented people don't bother reading wheatpasted "help wanted" ads
thestringpuller: I think mircea_popescu underestimates the amount of effort that goes into tayloring game art skills.
nubbins`: that's how the penniless search for help
mircea_popescu: ascii_field thestringpuller allow me to drag in the stalin and other people's fat thing.
☟︎ nubbins`: the simple fact that you advertised in that manner means nobody qualified is gonna bother reading to the contact info
nubbins`: because i'm a self-aware adult who lives in the world?
mircea_popescu: don't tell me YOU're the one that's fucking argentine art school majors ?
nubbins`: but hey, it's not like you need my advice. you seem to have a good handle on advertising for all your ventures O.O
mircea_popescu: the bar for "self-aware adult who lives in the world" is so fuycking high i don't think i'm necessarily there.
nubbins`: MP punching a loaf of bread with a quarter ham: "these idiot ingredients don't make a good sandwich"
mircea_popescu: you're an above-average canadina living in canada. readily granted, but the world is not canada.
nubbins`: in fairness i've only been to maybe a dozen countries
nubbins`: but nowhere approaches talent recruitment with this level of retardation
nubbins`: but again, keep trying yr current approach
nubbins`: and if not, it's 100% because of everyone else
☟︎ nubbins`: not because taping a flyer to a wall is the shittest way of doing what you're trying to do
mircea_popescu: looky, you don't get to misrepresent what you hear on the basis of how stupid the parts of it that you understood seemed to you.
nubbins`: you know mp is running out of patience when he gets to "looky" and "you don't get"
ascii_field: can we do stalin and fat before mircea_popescu forgets why ?
nubbins`: you don't get to pretend taping shit to a wall makes sense.
nubbins`: "the people will notice it's not the turd it seems"
mircea_popescu: taping shit to a wall has a longer history than canada.
mircea_popescu: not that that particular stupidity is too well related to the other stupidities.
nubbins`: usa has a longer history than canada, see where that's got em
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is where you notice that you said something dumb and realise that maybe the other things you said come from the same place.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 18:50:16; mircea_popescu: ascii_field thestringpuller allow me to drag in the stalin and other people's fat thing.
nubbins`: hey, that's the next best thing to actually claiming that yr approach to recruitment makes sense
nubbins`: remember when leah goodman chose dorian nakamoto because he was the only satoshi within driving distance?
mircea_popescu: there exist people in this world who are economically worthless because they are argentines. giving them an opportunity to starve so as to work for me, a guy that isn't economically worthless for being argentine, is a -ev play for most and a +ev play for some.
ascii_field: nubbins`: where i live, posters on telephone poles are pretty much exclusively for classical scams (ponzi, 'sell house quick', 'work to save the earth!111', etc)
nubbins`: remember when you put up a bunch of flyers in b.a because it was the only city within driving distance?
nubbins`: ascii_field mp doesn't realize this
ascii_field: items which even the fishwrap would not print
mircea_popescu: nubbins` ba is a city with more population than the whole country you live in omfg.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field whart do you mean not true in ba! all places are the same places! all peopel are really the same as nubbins!
nubbins`: i lived in seoul, 21mn people in metro area. know who's advertising on the poles?
mircea_popescu: sure makes thinking one "self aware of the world" a shithell of a heck easier.
ascii_field: nubbins`: in ba, at least as far as my naked eye could see, it was mostly whores.
mircea_popescu: i don't think you actually understand how poor these people are.
nubbins`: i don't think you actually understand how many people in seoul make a living picking grubs out of trees, boiling them, and selling them in little paper cups w/ a toothpick
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does that make a difference ? "because all people are people" ?
nubbins`: it's a rich place like nyc is a rich place
nubbins`: you're struggling to string a point together here
mircea_popescu: the argument here isn't that some unrelated people are poor. the argument here is that the very fucking people in question don't have fifty pesos.
nubbins`: what are you saying, the talent exists in b.a?
ascii_field: 'The Bitcoin community had a huge opportunity to help shape ChangeTip into something beautiful to use to help bitcoin adoption forward, and largely has allowed negativity to consume this possibility.' << l0ltr0nic
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i am saying that if i rouded up all the 10k or so computer art majors in town and gave them the choice of paying me 100k in cash or dying in a fire
nubbins`: and i am saying that you've gone the polar opposite of "rounding up all the 10k".
nubbins`: i know this because nobody bothered reading your ads
thestringpuller: don't think poor people are best adapted for working in 3DS Max/Maya given the time investment, plus the cost of the software.
mircea_popescu: "no, i know this because i can fit explanations ex post facto as well as alf used to can"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i don't want to work with people who pay "for software" in this sense anyway.
ascii_field: thestringpuller: 'cost of the software' ?!!!! ya trying to make me die of laugh ?
nubbins`: dat invention of hypotheticals as a retort
nubbins`: posting flyers in b.a is about as sensible as posting a wanted at on derpstalk forum
nubbins`: for reasons which i cannot begin to fathom, you seem to not equate these two things
nubbins`: mp you know the opposite because, what? some random chick tells you "yeah this is how people find work here"
mircea_popescu: this is besides the point. i am not held to justify what i do to you.
mircea_popescu: you wish to judge what i do, you'd god damned better have some footing to stand on.
ascii_field digs in logz in mostly-futile search of what this whole thing was about
ascii_field: mircea_popescu was trying to hire a level designer ?
nubbins`: although since you've spent what, 20 minutes defending this foolishness
nubbins`: it seems you do feel some urge to justify what you've done
nubbins`: if for no other reason than to pull some strips of cloth over the naked lameness of it
mircea_popescu: mno. i just answer to random idiots derping on in here, because of a naive and perhaps misplaced notion that they'll learn something from the experience.
nubbins`: well, the saying goes: "naive in one area means naive in no others"
nubbins`: you're prob right about the flyers thing
mircea_popescu: but i appreciate the "well since mom and dad filled the fridge clearly they have a responsibility to explai nto me why i should get a job".
nubbins`: i think your analogy generator needs a tune-up
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Came from @changetip.com email addy
nubbins`: maybe when mp moves to ulaan baatar, he can write "eulorum.org help wanted" on the side of a camel and run it through town
jurov: hahaha i for one did the effort of pulling game dev/artist to #eulora. he was very weirded out of whole situation and bailed out of the job, i had to compile stuff myself. i can't at all imagine him reacting to some pole-stuck pulp
jurov: btw,he was indeed living in some hole near ukr border
mircea_popescu: he was very weirded out of whole situation and bailed out of the job << can we has detail ?
nubbins`: i've got a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie
jurov: i did not get any further explanation
ascii_field finally noticed that trilema is back and that subj is a recent post, l0l
nubbins`: offer comments on why flyers are retarded if you dare
jurov: anyway. since bsas is million metropol, there surely are some "coworking" places where exactly such art derps usually concetrate
ascii_field cannot answer this, but will say that he did not observe any 'help wanteds' for pr0gramm3rz in ba placards
ascii_field: perhaps they have a trade publication where work is offered
jurov: so i'd make a presentation at such place
ascii_field: but i'll be the first to say that i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-a!
jurov: meeting them in flesh should overcome their problems with unusuallness or whatevs
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adlai: the whole subreddit infighting is almost too bizarre
kakobrekla: lol 'this assrape is terrible!!' 'stfu you arent engaging positively!!'
ascii_field: adlai: next do we get to learn about the infighting of rats in the new york sewer ?
ascii_field: betcha there are first-class stories to be told.
adlai dashes off to register ratt.it
ascii_field: shinohai: afaik the old corpse is just that - mit is the new phoundation
thestringpuller: We all laugh at MIT until they create synths after the great war.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i've got a friend who did some 3d modelling & textures for the Ender's Game movie << and the eulora splashscreen was done by jason juta (ie, the guy that did half the wizards of the coast franchise). and yes, i could employ him (at his very reasonable rates) to do the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: i won't. because i'm not spending money that way, and i don't give a shit what the needs of whatever art derp are.
mircea_popescu: he can starve to serve me and then i might consider him. before that he can get fucked.
mircea_popescu: i need him like i need more hair. he needs me like he needs more food.
ascii_field sometimes wonders if mircea_popescu does the 'nail in a coffin and float'em down the river as test of faith' thing also
mircea_popescu: and none of this is going to be changed by discussing around the bush.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no, mircea_popescu simply does not give a shit.
ascii_field: well inspired by the 'starve to serve me' thing
ascii_field: but yeah, this whole thing is kinda replay of the old 'soviet vs roman army' thread, aha
jurov: actually now i remember he did not like any responsibility, like, gpg signing the releases
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> offer comments on why flyers are retarded if you dare << besides the fucking point, really. i don't think they're not retarded. nevertheless, to the people who fail to take advantage of this, that failure is just another added failure.
mircea_popescu: i understand "we"'d "all" love to be excused from the failures list, but that's not how it works.
ascii_field also recalls the rental agency with btc private keys on placards thread
mircea_popescu: jurov> anyway. since bsas is million metropol, there surely are some "coworking" places where exactly such art derps usually concetrate <<< yes but apparently they go in there thought the window not the door ; cant read in any case and anyway - too busy doing nothing to do soemthing useful
mircea_popescu: particularly because how dares this asshole to discern between useful and useless in the vast world full of possibilities which shouldn't be discriminated against or someshit.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> perhaps they have a trade publication where work is offered <<< you're thinking europe. think kirgizstan.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> but i'll be the first to say that i have certifiably nfi how programmerz find work in b-a! << you mean webwork. what else ?
ascii_field: and mircea_popescu still wonders how come i haven't moved ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> meeting them in flesh should overcome their problems with unusuallness or whatevs << not from experience. meeting idiots in the flesh doesn't make them less idiotic, just puts them in a better position to waste your time.
jurov: well. so you want artist that is both not an idiot and reads pole pulp
mircea_popescu: ascii_field again : i expect that all arguments work both sides for me and for me only. you, you don't need meatwot can go wherever. the argentine derp, can not use internet, may not leave country.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: possibly the hidden gotcha is that internet hasn't been invented yet on my planet. (i.e. folks offering the sort of work that i do, demand at least occasional physical chair parade)
ascii_field: i could speculate re: ~why~ (short version: it's what usa has instead of a berlin wall - otherwise mass exodus of programmers etc. to cheapo banana republics)
ascii_field: (another tricky bit is that one of the things employers pay folks for is ~not working for competitor~ and this is difficult to monitor without on-site chair)
ascii_field: but the most basic thing, afaik, is simple capital control
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> shinohai: afaik the old corpse is just that - mit is the new phoundation <<< seems that way.
ascii_field: (omfg they might take their bezzle dollars and bid up the cost of turkeys in shitholistan where we need'em cheap)
ascii_field: the cheapness of turkeys/whores/petro/etc in shitholistans is a ~natural resource~, like any other thermodynamic gradient. and you don't get to ride the gradient just by asking, just like a random schmuck doesn't get to ride soviet plutonium just for asking.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here : i'm the only entity that can't be held hostage. "oh, we won't do X until you Y" works when I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can't say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn't for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
☟︎ ascii_field: which is why i say 'mircea_popescu wake me up plz when you've transmuted the x to a y'
mircea_popescu: which is why you gotta move. always go against the gradients/.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field by the time that's done, my dear alf, everyone who's still asleep ain't never waking up again.
☟︎ ascii_field: well i'd happily move if i were 1337 enough to take the gradient, rather than BE the fuel
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between "not work for competition" and "capital control" is inexistent - the us is a centrally controlled economy just like the su. and so, the soviets couldn't leave because "the state invested in their education", right ?
ascii_field: 'yer meat and you stay in this here fence'
mircea_popescu: well, in order for the system to collapse it must be made to bleed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in order for it to bleed ions need to go against gradient.
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:43:10; mircea_popescu: well, in order for the system to collapse it must be made to bleed.
ascii_field: (or, in other words, what precisely is it that said system could not afford to lose ?)
mircea_popescu: every time i talk to one of my chinese bankers here, moving some dollar bits against peso bits, both the argentine government and the us government bleed a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you leave the us, and continue to extract dollars from the us which however the usg can't tax, and spend them in kirgiztan, but so the kirgiztan also cant' tax, both bleed a little.
mircea_popescu: every time you take a 19yo that'd have made someone a great wife and you make her a great whore, the system bleeds a little.
ascii_field: eh there remain many megatonnes of fat to be trimmed from plebes like asciilifeform , ben_vulpes , et al before the usg ruling caste bleeds
mircea_popescu: everytime some derp is "offended" at who knows what offensiveness yet his offense rings impotent, the system dies a little.
ascii_field: this looks quite like folks who explained their gold/watches/dollars bootleg ops in moscow as 'help sink the stinking su faster !111'
ascii_field not convinced that the gnats killed the elephant
mircea_popescu: every shot policeman, every dollar embezzled, witheld from the irs, every subpar item delivered to the usg, everything.
mircea_popescu: they all add together and then one day, suddenly, the "old way of life" is an impossibility.
mircea_popescu: and nobody knows which gnats killed the elephant. "it was just meant to be".
ascii_field cannot deny that sufficiently many straws will break camel's back. but this might take a while.
mircea_popescu: for as long as you're part of the solution, it taking a while is no detriment.
mircea_popescu: this is in fact how you know that you're part of the solution.
ascii_field: 'Which makes me suspicious, and I have no evidence, just an opinion that there seems to be a powerful force behind these guys like btcdrak, petertodd, etc., like perhaps that jdillon guy, who seems to be directing their actions. If you read some old leaks of jdillon chat with ptodd you can see that all/most of the stuff they are now publicly pushing were suggested by him, including the flexicap nonsense which gmax tried
ascii_field: to suggest in the 2nd [censored] conference.'
ascii_field: 'A C++ module that generates maps procedurally is required for Eulora. In this first iteration, the idea of a "map" reduces to "a folded corridor 3 x 3 units in square section". Folding means that the corridor may curve however you please (provided it's continuous, contains no volumes smaller than 3x3 units and no inclines over 10%) and run into itself (not necessarily at right angles).' << this is in SWAG !!!
BingoBoingo: Cambodia seems like interesting place to consider relocation. May be a stalinist hell hole, but doesn't seems like that bad of one.
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funkenstein_: i thought every time you did anything which valued a fiat token, no matter what, it benefitted the counterfeitters thereof
jurov: incl. wiping the ass?
nubbins`: that's a nice way of putting it
nubbins`: <+ascii_field> (another tricky bit is that one of the things employers pay folks for is ~not working for competitor~ and this is difficult to monitor without on-site chair) << not many other worker bees i came across in the trenches realized this, to their detriment
assbot: Logged on 15-12-2015 19:38:05; mircea_popescu: anyway, to the more general point here : i'm the only entity that can't be held hostage. "oh, we won't do X until you Y" works when I say it at others, not when others try it on me. you can't say "hey mp, you gotta do it like this", because the point isn't for me to get something done, the point is for me to change the way things are done in the first place.
nubbins`: when you put it like that, it makes more sense
mircea_popescu: nubbins` wouldja stop trying to salvage the "i'm derpy from derpland and i know of things i've never seen because totallies" ? it's dead.
nubbins`: be sure to tape all 4 sides so they're harder to rip down
mircea_popescu: some other interesting datapoints : back in the 90s, cluj, a 400k ish inhabitant city, had three dedicated ad papers, printed weekly. together ~200 pages, for a yearly thoroughput in the 1mn ads range. so like 2.5 per capita.
mircea_popescu: buenos aires, a thing worth 30x that many inhabitants, has no dedicated ad paper, and never detectably had. the thoroughput is negligible, as in not even 0.001 per capita.
mircea_popescu: and in general... the point here is that argentines are retarded, in a very palpable, amply demonstrable sense.
mircea_popescu: not that nubbins is in the poster printing business and in the self-loathing mental space, so he thinks posters are a bad idea.
nubbins`: posters are a great idea for me, not so much for others
mircea_popescu: dja know enough about psychology to see what this all is or notrly ?
nubbins`: well i don't print fake ones so yeah!
nubbins`: you'd have had better luck giving the eulora flyers to 20yearohio and the bitcoin posters pasted up in b.a
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mircea_popescu: "Later loss of virginity associated with significantly lower relationship dissatisfaction later on in life, higher educational attainment, and higher household income, but also lower likelihood of marriage and number of romantic relationships"
mircea_popescu: "Does anyone get positive feedback on their looks on the Internet but not irl?" heh.
mircea_popescu: "I am a downer most of the time, I'm not outgoing, not funny, not talkative. The only thing I have is my average intelligence. Being depressed makes you not want to do anything. The medication I'm taking doesn't even make me feel better sometimes. I hate that when you're unattractive or below average you have to wield so many positive traits just to get someone to like you. Attractive people get to be mediocre."
BingoBoingo: "Last time I went I saw a few beautiful girls (something I'd never see close to at home) and it made me so extremely depressed that it ruined the whole trip (I went with family). It legitimately makes me depressed when I see super pretty girls like that; I just feel like a completely inferior subhuman. I'm ok with regular hot girls for some reason. I even had some hot friends in school. It's different when the girl is ethereally b
BingoBoingo: eautiful. Some of them literally look photoshopped in person."
mircea_popescu: why does she think feeling like a completely inferior subhuman is bad ?
mircea_popescu: "I'm FA everywhere. When I lived in a big, glamorous city, I was too ugly and fat for anyone to even consider dating. Now that I'm in a smaller place, with lots of fat and/or unattractive people, I'm more highly educated than the vast majority of men, so I'm still FA."
mircea_popescu: she's too classy, and besides : these men don't even watch cheers!
BingoBoingo: sanity "I have a kind of morbid curiosity. I subscribe to rateme, amisexy, uglyduckling, MUA, prettygirls, and so many more just to see how attractive some girls are and how they're treated by men. Seeing their perfect faces weirdly makes me feel more at peace with the world- like I know my place."
mircea_popescu: wonder how many of the people there are kids having fun.
mircea_popescu: or is pan there from pan trogolodytes ? she fucks chimps ?
mircea_popescu: now i gotta make an okcupid acct, see what the fatties are like.
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BingoBoingo: ^ Courtesy adventures in Google autocomplete
mircea_popescu: so this okcupid thing has a thing where you answer premade questions (apparently there was a feature to add questions but they scuttled it silently, over time). leaving aside the questions are almost universally fucking dumb,
mircea_popescu: it's lead me to discover that i really don't give a shit. you gotta specify what "answers you'll accept" and 90% i'm like... whatever.
mircea_popescu: then the site bitches about how getting whatever as an answer doesn't help it select matches. what the fuck am i to do ?! care ?!
BingoBoingo: The site bitches about everything. It's an IAC property. It's what they do.
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BingoBoingo: "They also have the joint worst score, with young black Caribbean men, for a belief that they are prone to drug-taking."
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mircea_popescu: the irony being that bitcoin going to shit wouldn't resolve all the numerous problems all the shitcoins have
mircea_popescu: it WOULD however resolve the only problem the shitheads involved ~perceive~
BingoBoingo: Pissstream, nao rootstock, where do these fuckers end