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mod6: took a chance on that bare metal img. nb!
mod6: asciilifeform: are you lookin for a wfh job then or what's the deal there?
☟︎ adlai: shinohai: the lolz are that people generate keys using computers out of their physical control... or even, using computers at all
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a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 02:27 mod6: asciilifeform: are you lookin for a wfh job then or what's the deal there?
phf: asciilifeform: it was funny in my head. something about who needs reversing skills, when you can do brute force fuzzing by indian and become a millionaire (in rupis)
adlai is listening to: Metallica - The Memory Remains (4:43)
adlai: (highly relevant lyrics)
gribble: Current Blocks: 406726 | Current Difficulty: 1.668515132827772E11 | Next Difficulty At Block: 407231 | Next Difficulty In: 505 blocks | Next Difficulty In About: 3 days, 1 hour, and 43 seconds | Next Difficulty Estimate: None | Estimated Percent Change: None
adlai: at least satoshi is keeping the price appropriate
BingoBoingo: phf: I'm pretty sure if someone attempts that an avatar of physics becomes incarnate, personally finds the person doing that and delivers a swift kick in the crotch.
adlai: BingoBoingo: how about that btc diff adjustment beat, is it still open?
phf: BingoBoingo: there's a su science finction novel, "a billion years before the end of the world", where an astrophysicist on a verge of discovery is plagued with random events that disrupt his work. so after some trials and tribulations he and his friends realize that universe exists in a sort of entropic equilibrium that creates an active counter balance to rational intervention
adlai queues that for the qntra sparknotes column
mod6: asciilifeform: ya, cool. i need one too - I miss wfh everyday. hard commuting every damn day.
adlai: mod6: protip: next time you're interviewing, mention that commutes are a dealbreaker.
☟︎ mod6: i've got it figured out dude.
mod6: in oct the place i was at which was wfh pretty much 90% of the time went under. found a life-raft at the current place.
mod6: but, only 5% wfh basically.
mod6: anyway, yeah, need to find new wfh gig
a111: Logged on 2016-04-09 16:14 asciilifeform ON A MOTHERFUKING SATURDAY yet ANOTHER phone interview with folks who ~lied~ in advertisement re telecommute
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 03:41 adlai: mod6: protip: next time you're interviewing, mention that commutes are a dealbreaker.
punkman: a lot of it is from the fucking recruiters spamming everywhere with imagined job descriptions
☟︎ punkman: /me looks for telecommuting jobs once in a while
punkman: dunno, lower bills definitely make it easier
BingoBoingo: <adlai> BingoBoingo: how about that btc diff adjustment beat, is it still open? << yes, if you can submit them in a timely manner
gernika: asciilifeform: I have telecommuted since 2013 - mostly for friends doing work that tends to trigger teeth kicking behavior, however.
gernika: that said, I no longer have to put up with the absurdity of doing that same work in an open office.
gernika: or commuting to do it in such a hellspace
punkman: my longest 9-5 was 2 months. and it was actually 9-3. :P
gernika: no cubes even - just tables in medium sized rooms, sometimes staring cooworkers in the face the entire day.
gernika: this is to work in san francisco
gernika: I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
phf: what? san francisco is awesome, it's just it was ruined by the tech scene
gernika: aha phf I meant I wouldn't recommend working in san francisco
gernika: I regularly meet people who *just* moved here and are working on a kickstarter.
☟︎ adlai: asciilifeform: as i just said (to my dad!), "every time i open my mouth, i add-a-lie to the world"
adlai is a two-syllable name, and caused himself great suffering to utter that joke out loud
adlai: gernika: that's just how autodesk was, but it was a pretty cool office. i'd probably kill a family member (no-nuke-o) to work there again.
adlai: too bad i'm such a liar!
adlai: fiiiinally damn robot does something right.
ben_vulpes: but hey, enough like home that the memory should fade one day
adlai tries calculating how much tighter to wind the five remaining strings to compensate for the snapped e
adlai: or am i doing it rong
phf: there's nothing that makes an open office like that an inherently bad idea. i'm sure before it turned into a nasty cost saving fad, a group of people could assemble for a period of time and in such a space so as to successfully deliver. it just that the model now stands for shit jobs, because that's the only jobs easily accessible in failing economies. a shit job is not going to be made better by a wfh
☟︎ ben_vulpes: at the risk of giving too much of the secret sauce away, first floor of the office surface-level looks like one of those "open plan" offices. except that desks are arranged around the perimeter, with monitors pointed out
☟︎☟︎ adlai: sounds like a microchip,of the square millipede persuasion
ben_vulpes: benefits: a) privacy. only the desk next to a given desk can really see what's on the screen. b) gotta be intentional about conversations, look around the monitors at each other.
ben_vulpes: can't afford individual cubes for everyone, 'tis the best design we came up with.
phf: there's a difference between "when we rich we get individual offices" and "we all scream together in a giant room, because we're happening right now"
adlai suddenly satoris republican humor as well! thx phf
ben_vulpes: no screaming in the office, generally save that for the hill
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: will no doubt show up later and "young fool that sounds like the most miserable thing", and yes. we are young fools.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:00 punkman: a lot of it is from the fucking recruiters spamming everywhere with imagined job descriptions
mircea_popescu: very typical of the ambitious twerp to imagine moontrip by own breech pulling is JUST THIS ONE TWEAK AWAY
mircea_popescu: if only you pulled on your foreskin LIKE THIS particular way, the peach pit girlfriend would TOTALLY materialize.
mircea_popescu: it's the other schmucks not pulling on their own foreskin in the exactly right way that barred them from peach pit lovin', you see. nothing wrong with the principle of things.
mircea_popescu: nothing can ever be wrong with the principle of things. just... gotta do it the RIGHT WAY.
mircea_popescu: that right there is cargo cultism at its peach pit core.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:18 asciilifeform: sounds like 19th c. sweatshop
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:26 gernika: I regularly meet people who *just* moved here and are working on a kickstarter.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449999 << there's something that does : the people involved aren't sexually intimate. yes, slavegirls enjoy working in "open kitchen", often hands in same pot. nevertheless, if you had tried to mix them with their mothers / insufferable siblings etc, watch the fireworks.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:47 phf: there's nothing that makes an open office like that an inherently bad idea. i'm sure before it turned into a nasty cost saving fad, a group of people could assemble for a period of time and in such a space so as to successfully deliver. it just that the model now stands for shit jobs, because that's the only jobs easily accessible in failing economies. a shit job is not going to be made better by a wfh
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes, the shittier the job is, the more people want to "work from home". it never occurs to them that the problem isn't going to be solved by "finding the right tweak of the right knob", so they do what they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:48 ben_vulpes: at the risk of giving too much of the secret sauce away, first floor of the office surface-level looks like one of those "open plan" offices. except that desks are arranged around the perimeter, with monitors pointed out
mircea_popescu: this is totally how i'd run a softwareho sweatshop if i were running one.
mircea_popescu: that may be the worst stripper act i ever saw and wtf is with the lesbo hair.
phf: i mean they just discovered bowie
phf: that's a cool people hair, eastern europe, new york, batcave even
phf: i think soccer moms (and not too young strippers apparently) were going for that annie lennox look
mircea_popescu: not too young, not too tall, not too in shape, not too tits, not too experienced, wtf fucking strippers are these already. being old should at least mean you no longer behave like the coy imbecile.
mircea_popescu: o wow, woulda look at that. science utterly prevailed then, has it.
phf: it's hard for me to defend that picture, sort of like watching your parent's debauchery pictures, except hypothetical "parents" because my parents were actually cool. perhaps parent's friend's cousin from small town.
phf: but on the bright side, the man would've been fired were it a circa 2016 picture
phf: podolsk? yaroslavl? just generally outside of MKAD
mircea_popescu: bakersfield is this specific thing, satellite city of the great city where the zombies live.
phf: yeah, i'm wondering if there even exists a ru equivalent concept
mircea_popescu: see, romania has caracal, "the town where the cart of idiots toppled over".
mircea_popescu: (also locally famous for the locally-celebrated "7 wonders of Caracal", to wit : that it has a prison, on Freedom street ; one bread factory, on Famine street ; the only school is called "School #2" ; the fire department burned down ; the door of police preceinct was stolen ; they built around a high crane in such a way the crane couldn't be extracted anymore so was left on the grounds, a sort of monument to caracalean engine
mircea_popescu: ering ; the train station had a monstrous clock whose face had the time in both roman numerals (I to XII, except for IV which is for some reason marked as IIII) as well as arabic (13 to 24). etc.
phf: yeah, in moscow we call it rest of country
phf: although there are two particular towns that are considered something of that, Uryupinsk and Muhosransk. first one is a real town, but second one translates as "town of fly-shit"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: sounds like the great name of a russian bakersfield. could even be a character, Jim from Jimki
mircea_popescu: where they invented the super-duper tough HOMO police force.
phf: yeah that's a good choice. that one is particularly painful one, because it has no qualities beyond "people sleep there and then commute for 4 hours everyday to work in moscow"
phf: yeah, uryupinsk made me all nostalgic, "mother russia" and all that. химки just looks depressing.
davout: BingoBoingo: I is indeed.
mircea_popescu: o there he is. they take weekends off where you're from ?!
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:04 mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes, the shittier the job is, the more people want to "work from home". it never occurs to them that the problem isn't going to be solved by "finding the right tweak of the right knob", so they do what they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
jurov: pray tell, what alternative you're thinking of here?
jurov: btw, what about hiring some schmuck to drive you around for bitcoins?
jurov: you can pay for train directly with coinz?
jurov: so you don;t want to get rid of them anymore?
jurov: or i misunderstood?
jurov: seems you have hoard/spend bit, too
gernika: the telecommute *can* give one more time, as asciilifeform says - 60 hours a month. Health too - commutes are not good for you.
jurov: but then, why even have a job at all and not freelance?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:04 mircea_popescu: generally speaking, alienation makes untenable socialisation more bearable, which is why alienation is a DEFENSE MECHANISM! so yes, the shittier the job is, the more people want to "work from home". it never occurs to them that the problem isn't going to be solved by "finding the right tweak of the right knob", so they do what they do. as per above discussion of foreskin pullers.
gernika: jurov - absolutely. employment is a scam.
jurov: asciilifeform: i was some time on freelancer.com picking nuggets that indians won't do (like adding mysql plugin in C, or fixing old perl ERP) and I wasn't earning much for few months, and then one of the people approached me with much bigger and $better$ project.
jurov: you aren't atm earning anything anyway, are you?
jurov: you are unemployed?
jurov: i see, you're employed *and* searching
gernika: Step 1: start as 1000 low paid jurovs.
jurov: looks like my reading comprehension went to shit :(
mircea_popescu: in other news, the article i'm writing now is titled "the fagspital"
a111: Logged on 2014-09-07 17:32 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sex anal cu tractoare, motocositoare si combine agricole >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVOd8zY3D8 << 'in Flyshitte, in the Red Corpse Kolhoz... there lived Tractoresse!'
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:50 phf: although there are two particular towns that are considered something of that, Uryupinsk and Muhosransk. first one is a real town, but second one translates as "town of fly-shit"
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 05:47 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449953 << word. nfi when bois figured "the way to carrie" is to "be a recruiter" instead of w/e the fuck those schmucks in friends/cheers/whatevers are. "designers" or "writers" or whatnot.
mircea_popescu: you know the story of the beanstalk that decided it will not interact with any evolutionary inferior aggregations of matter, but only the superior ?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 04:48 ben_vulpes: at the risk of giving too much of the secret sauce away, first floor of the office surface-level looks like one of those "open plan" offices. except that desks are arranged around the perimeter, with monitors pointed out
a111: Logged on 2016-04-11 06:03 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-11#1449999 << there's something that does : the people involved aren't sexually intimate. yes, slavegirls enjoy working in "open kitchen", often hands in same pot. nevertheless, if you had tried to mix them with their mothers / insufferable siblings etc, watch the fireworks.
mircea_popescu: the fact of the matter is that irrespective of how foreign, the gyneceum is in point of fact the matrix of a whole lotta things.
mircea_popescu: most disputes as to physical reality resolve through some form of argumentum ad acceleratorum ; it stands then to reason most disputes as to social interaction will resolve through some form of argumentum ad slut hotel.
mircea_popescu: he did not. i asked him if he'd take you, as a personal favour. because you were going all nutso.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the concept that the more intelligent the subject, the larger share of his problems are of his own creation ?
deedbot: rithm voiced for 30 minutes.
rithm: 30 minutes of voice, so little time so much to say and do
mircea_popescu: gravity works the way it works ; entropy idem. it doesn't say you can't put things in orbit. it just says it won't be worth it.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, "the herd" is apparently a trope in the genre of "post-apocalypse/zombie invasion" copywriting.
rithm: ethereum is still a thing?
mircea_popescu: ie, all the "infected" humans get together into this huge swarwming mass to be avoided.
mircea_popescu: makes no sense, of course, but then again genre fiction is genre fiction.
phf: seductivejewess3.com << gold
phf: "I note from the IPS address template that certain parties – quite possibly of the Jewish persuasion – attempt from time to time to break into the site and destroy it."
jurov: does the fagspital exist anywhere? here they want only blood, drawn hastily on some unholy morning hour
phf: the story immediately goes into idiot mode, where they say GCHQ called up publisher over leaks, but "nobody knows what they would've done if that was a real leak". triangulated the internet of course
phf: every other uber driver tries to pitch me on "uber for X" when they learn im in it.
phf: why look for hidden messages, when there are open messages available
phf: i don't know ~who~ you're explaining this to, but you're missing my point. nsa/gchq ideology is out in the open, so there's no need to read it into any random event. if a policeman beats up a nigger one day and saves a kitten from a tree another, there's really no reason to read "reinforcement of hegemony" into the second action, since there's the first one
phf: it was always out in the open, they just gain new powers. each cycle brings a new pretense with a new set of powers
phf: well, in that article their pretense is defense against the hackers, a "recognized international cyberthreat"
phf: i'm just failing to grok how that article warrants an "A-ha!" moment, when there's basically an endless stream of ineffectual aha-s for 90 some years (as far back as i read about this stuff)
phf: latest boind explained it for the rest of us, mi5 with their license to kill is out, gchq with their license to survey is in :p
phf: for the good of the country and our fellow law abiding countrymen
phf: "We are looking for a ~generalist~ developer with a ~front-end focus~ and strong ~interest~ in working with the Clojure ecosystem who can lead or contribute to all aspects of a modern technology stack."
phf: this job posting is ridiculously bad, and i wouldn't know about it if these "vital labs" people didn't have such poor taste to post it to lispjobs
phf: but then someone approved it, which kind of makes me recognize the point you make about maggots
phf: a111 is just sitting there
phf: gpgme in homebrew goes out of its way to build with gpg2 with that same mantra that tech wreckers use everywhere, it's deprecated. don't question it, morty, it's deprecated. the community deprecated it. yep.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a balabusta is a "proper jewish housewife" ; but in romanian just means old fat gypsy woman.
mircea_popescu: #trilema, buncha guys named benjamin and some dude from odessa wink wink nudge nudge
mircea_popescu: jurov> does the fagspital exist anywhere? <<< on buyan!
phf: there's 3 stores that sell sprats, beluga caviar, kefir, etc. within max 20 minutes of walking from where i am
mircea_popescu: openly brag about their actual ('societal control') work <<< that nsa and all are desperate for funds because the toilets are overflowing and the cheap wallpaint flaking in their shitty "coffee" is neither surprising nor actually too convincing towards the proposed theory.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> and, in particular, the prevention of mircea_popescus << heh. don't flatter self, mps aren't prevented by some sort of captain planet "by our powers combined".
mircea_popescu: yeah, and then you go into a tizzy when i consider how fat women on etsy "see themselves".
mircea_popescu: you know this is vaguely homo! wtf do you care what some fat derps see themselves as.
mircea_popescu: phf> for the good of the country and our fellow law abiding countrymen << and unrelatedly and no doubt very insignificantly, ALSO for lack of any dudes that can be arsed to kill.
mircea_popescu: "in the us the nsa has powers and bla bla bla. why are you crying, little boy" "I WANT TO GO TO THE USA!!11"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "where i live we have no moneys no gear and do nothing all day long and my apt has cockroaches"
mircea_popescu: in other fucking lulz : pms on literotica, for ~day and a half. 5 clicks on bitly link, of which two mine checking it works. ARTICLE on trilema discussing the matter and in very passing offering the [unlinked] url for the bitly link. 12 clicks after half a day.
mircea_popescu: then people wonder wtf i say trilema readership ~= 2x all of conde nast
mircea_popescu: o hey look at that, season two. I R ARLY EADOPTOR for once! ty #trilema!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nope. it's public anyway, i wouldn't really do anything but point to the thread in private.