ben_vulpes: "when the employees can leave and set up shop across the street with almost no need for equity capital" << this is absolutely true, except for the part where they have to close deals. make friends with checkbooks, convince checkbooks of non-retardation, etc.
ben_vulpes: mk let's try again
ben_vulpes: halp
ben_vulpes: so basically i can't really figure anything out.
ben_vulpes: but at the same time, because i'm not a nightmare to work with, i have a near-infinite sell wall of talent.
ben_vulpes: perhaps i'm insane or a particularly good scammer, but i can close deals that none of the programmers on staff could ever dream of. hilariously, because they're on staff.
ben_vulpes: just rings too true for comfort though.
ben_vulpes: the equity will continue to bear the majority of the variability in profits. This view, while not the standard economic view, has the advantage of being supported by reality. (It also accounts for why non-partner-owned professional services firms tend to conglomerate, but that’s another post.)”
ben_vulpes: increases in revenue. On the other hand,
ben_vulpes: I don’t believe payments to owners in professional services firms are the residual profits. And why should they be, when the employees can leave and set up shop across the street with almost no need for equity capital? In the implicit negotiation over distribution of revenue, the employees have all the bargaining power. The equity will be paid a fair return, but will not receive any structural
ben_vulpes: shit like...
ben_vulpes: and on the other hand, well, nominal equity in a thing?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: dude on one hand i constantly bemoan this: 'oh if only i were just freelancing i'd be rolling in the dough'
ben_vulpes: anyways as a point of data, it's year 1.5ish of this insane enterprise, and i'm just now beginning to approach the salary of a "programmer" in my geographic region.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski the man is complaining about tin women ffs
ben_vulpes: replaced it with dicks in blondes mouth
ben_vulpes has purged the scambuffer
ben_vulpes: !up Vexual
ben_vulpes: it's more about returns to "talent" vs return to equity.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: bankers being bad guys or not is really not part of the linked piece.
ben_vulpes: i've read them, found them interesting and full of insight, but submit them for the forum for my own education.
ben_vulpes: two links for your review:
ben_vulpes: pretty bad dancing in that video tho
ben_vulpes: babe's got great tits
ben_vulpes: i can't even be fucking arsed.
ben_vulpes: thermorectal
ben_vulpes: so they baked "free usg thermorecal exams" into the protocol
ben_vulpes: ah cool
ben_vulpes: i see this sign every morning, yet this morning it brought to mind your...reprinting of the adams short.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: http://imgur.com/CWCOGkO
ben_vulpes: cazalla: come now, nobody knows who you are or the girls are
ben_vulpes: i'm not
ben_vulpes: wait hang on there was context for this conversation
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: and if she hadn't it'd have been educational regardless
ben_vulpes: cazalla: yeah, just crack open the girl's facebook
ben_vulpes: i read it to lady v on our morning stroll for great lulz.
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: thanks for that adams short.
ben_vulpes: A PETE
ben_vulpes: Vexual: you're a...nuke canoe! nuke canoe!
ben_vulpes: yes, yes.
ben_vulpes: but you'll have to tell me how effective they are, asciilifeform.
ben_vulpes: i think augur designs exist approximating this.
ben_vulpes: traveling wave dildo?
ben_vulpes: a million times no.
ben_vulpes: no.d
ben_vulpes: turbo?!
ben_vulpes: ?
ben_vulpes: peristaltic!
ben_vulpes: "don't put yr pennies down, kid. you'll just lose 'em".
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: well that doesn't sound like any fun now
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: now for to find some time to 'play' 'games'
ben_vulpes: decimation: next time i'm in london i expect to see all sorts of historical engineering bits
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: 'eulora accounts' << "isambard vulpes" sil vous plait
ben_vulpes: mod6: deed it up?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "millers crossing" << ugh man that movie is badddd in places
ben_vulpes: now that person's oddsmaking choices are totally obvious
ben_vulpes: why do people do that?
ben_vulpes: I need a primer on that period.
ben_vulpes: this conversation is about airspace control.
ben_vulpes: implying, gabriel_laddel?
ben_vulpes: i don't buy this 'controlled chaos'. isis is a mortal threat to the us (and all client states) and they desire desperately to wipe it out.
ben_vulpes: 'gulf war' perhaps aside.
ben_vulpes: i've yet to see them achieve one thing they set out to, in my entire life of watching them ferry soldiers across the sea.
ben_vulpes: give me a break.
ben_vulpes: didn't they just retain some 20k unseasoned mercs to go after a mob of kalash-equipped pashtuns?
ben_vulpes: you vastly overestimate their abilities.
ben_vulpes: and why (why why why?!) must everything be about enraging the insane bear in the room?
ben_vulpes: the rest of the world doth not operate so insanely.
ben_vulpes: this is a strictly us problem, though.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'd rather leverage my wot for landing sites and refuelers.
ben_vulpes: i probably didn't know enough to make it work when i attempted it.
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that prototype never worked and has long since been consigned to my parents dustbin.
ben_vulpes: the power to weight ratio just *always* turns me off.
ben_vulpes: maybe the trick is to leverage existing industrial commodity electrical motors and do something clever with the batteries.
ben_vulpes: or maybe not! maybe i'm crazy.
ben_vulpes: batteries are still bogus.
ben_vulpes: remember when all the children went out after...yes.
ben_vulpes: the chinese!
ben_vulpes: i still do not see a need for this wacky battery of yours.
ben_vulpes: construction fundamentals are well understood, automatics well understood (granted by fewer people)...
ben_vulpes: yes well do away with the $maxint vehicle cert process, $maxint operator training...
ben_vulpes: flying below ceiling at which all objects are 'trivially' observable.
ben_vulpes: correct.
ben_vulpes: cessnas*
ben_vulpes: you're familiar i'm sure with the near-disposable cessna's thrown over america's southern border, stuffed to the gills with $substance?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'well patrolled' << i'm pretty sure that 50+ sneak through for every single one busted.
ben_vulpes: lol nowhere near as expensive as their payloads are valuable.
ben_vulpes: there are the S.A. submersibles.
ben_vulpes: but do share your design envelope, i'm very curious what sorts of requirements you're considering that require some crazy one-shot battery.
ben_vulpes: if it needs to go that far, put an ice on it.
ben_vulpes: missing variable: delivery distance.
ben_vulpes: that's a pessimistic cone.
ben_vulpes: tough cookies.
ben_vulpes: $thing
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: if the thing's reasonably robust, a parabolic delivery trajectory should suffice.
ben_vulpes: ;;google bull run reservoir
ben_vulpes: ;;google Bull Run
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: nope.
ben_vulpes giving the whole armsmithing game away for some reason
ben_vulpes: i'm more interested in single-shot and extremely cheap.
ben_vulpes: what of it.
ben_vulpes: eh, it's just some guys having fun.
ben_vulpes: submarine was more useful.
ben_vulpes: motor aside.
ben_vulpes: moreover, a largely useless project.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: orthogonal.
ben_vulpes: not unindustrial, though.
ben_vulpes: monofilament's pretty low cost.
ben_vulpes: the *real* value though, is in the strategist given free reign to be creative.
ben_vulpes: these designs have value.
ben_vulpes: nah.
ben_vulpes: dream.
ben_vulpes: those who do in these parts - aren't interested in novel strategies or applications of commodity technology
ben_vulpes: anyways, armsmithing for the next engagements is terribly interesting and entirely impossible to do from where i am.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: well yes, improvements in performance and reductions in cost exercises for not even terribly alert reader.
ben_vulpes: "one year, no distractions."
ben_vulpes: but...
ben_vulpes: i could make these things.
ben_vulpes: there is a reason i call this kind of document torture.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> very basic maths << so much so that even i did them in 'uni'
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: gorgeous diagrams. thank you.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: IFF mechanism << another application for asymmetric crypto.
ben_vulpes: ugh your paradigms are infectious.
ben_vulpes: there's no reason why these things should cost $MAXINT, aside from the prohibition on owning the constituent materials for any not favorite son.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "igla" << why must you torture me
ben_vulpes: i must learn more incantations, apparently.
ben_vulpes: not...readily.
ben_vulpes: at least that bends somewhat to grep.
ben_vulpes: i would rather be working on satoshi c++.
ben_vulpes: and yes - drinking. albeit lightly.
ben_vulpes: loading the "rails" stack into my head.
ben_vulpes: do you know what i'm doing right now?
ben_vulpes: morose*
ben_vulpes: ugh this conversation makes me downright mournful
ben_vulpes: this brings back my hankering for real time optimization problems.
ben_vulpes: aside from the sims.
ben_vulpes: right, there's a recursive aspect to the problem.
ben_vulpes: what's to work out?
ben_vulpes: superimposed waves traveling through wire applying force at arbitrary points?
ben_vulpes: we don't even have computers that cooperate.
ben_vulpes: grey goo pipe dreams.
ben_vulpes: several joints, some tension mechanisms and some springs.
ben_vulpes: purpose built mechanisms.
ben_vulpes: as a guy who's cobbled together the odd machine or two, the notion that you can have a million little bits cooperating to give you the power of a purpose-designed driveshaft one moment and slither through a keyhole the next strikes me as wankery of the first degree.
ben_vulpes: especially and in particular the underwater stuff.
ben_vulpes: you still have to program the meta layer.
ben_vulpes: map servers and massively parallel SLAM
ben_vulpes: i'm more interested in underactuated systems.
ben_vulpes: cursory inspection reveals nothing interesting.
ben_vulpes: i'll *keep* looking
ben_vulpes: a) it's all usg "tin woman" crap
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'm actually pretty disgusted with "modern" "robotics"
ben_vulpes: so you claim.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: this is not the war you grew up idolizing. it's war, which means it's going to be horrible and unpleasant for all involved.
ben_vulpes: <decimation> what's wrong with enslaving yourself to someone better?, <asciilifeform> decimation: nothing - it's called army << do reconsider la serenissima in this light
ben_vulpes: !s 40k
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: is that *your* harem's burn rate?
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> if someone sent me 100k (magically, tax-free) i'd do... what? take 3 mo. off, spend the next 9 looking for next gig ? << good grief your burn rate, man.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: sets the tone, you know?
ben_vulpes: portland's a moderately kinky town.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: everyone.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> and blondy in black dress over there's almost hawt. << reminds me of the intro line newcomers to pdx-burningman were subjected to without fail for years, presumably if the political correctness mob hasn't gotten to them yet still are: "are you hot?"
ben_vulpes: skinned counterstrike or some such?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perianne.
ben_vulpes: oh and dealing with the output of people who "like it".
ben_vulpes: programming requires obscene mental contortions.
ben_vulpes: work requires only energy.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i appreciated your point about hating programming recently
ben_vulpes goes to buy a bottle of wine to fuel the ruby rage
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> i'd guess that many folks can't even think about this subject without their brain melting from rage << a good eighth of my time is spent talking smart young guys down out of a shartup-inspired rage attack
ben_vulpes checks to see if a > 1mb block is floating around
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: walk where? wants grant money for himself as a result of the discovery?
ben_vulpes: (people can't do "crosseye"?)
ben_vulpes: "failed to live...and impose their existence upon those children" << i'm a bit confused about the "give up, make way for the next generation" attitude when put next to the "parents should impose their existence upon their children".
ben_vulpes: ?
ben_vulpes: see also kibbutz
ben_vulpes: yeah.
ben_vulpes: 'komunalki' < hm
ben_vulpes: aha.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure there's some fatalistic reasoning against buying property and renting it out in this scenario
ben_vulpes: 'chocolate'?
ben_vulpes: does the political power du jour really go so far as to entirely alienate the rentiers?
ben_vulpes: how do rentals fare in this model?
ben_vulpes: i shall
ben_vulpes: i'm interested in the survivor's tale. taking notes on how to get the least fucked.
ben_vulpes: 'reinventing collapse'?
ben_vulpes: is orlov's account of the soviet collapse halfway accurate?
ben_vulpes: tax credits for sales to favorite sons.
ben_vulpes: 'opportunity grants'
ben_vulpes: why go through the trouble of confiscating, when again, funds for disbursement to the 'blessed poor' can be routed to the homebuilders?
ben_vulpes: even then, there's miles of pressed shitboard that can yet be erected.
ben_vulpes: sure.
ben_vulpes: there are no ethnic minorities around here, and won't be for another decade easily.
ben_vulpes: what, then?
ben_vulpes: payroll*.
ben_vulpes: confiscation isn't likely to compare with taxes pulled in from payrol..
ben_vulpes: politically useful. see the routine audits of whoever's not in power.
ben_vulpes: why bother? just print more.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'porsche' << civil forfeiture, not terrism.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: harumph
ben_vulpes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/nyregion/3-men-in-brooklyn-charged-supporting-isis.html?_r=0
ben_vulpes: it's an abysmal cycle.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [04:32] what does ben_vulpes do with his apple boxen? just throws them out when disk fills ? << generally, backup disk, format, give to pets and or repurpose as misc. computing devices around the house/office.
ben_vulpes: how was vaycay?
ben_vulpes: wine and sutff calls.
ben_vulpes: anyways, it's fri.
ben_vulpes: my point is that large fractions of a planet's worth of btc are already bet on btc.
ben_vulpes: perhaps talk to others who are risking 'a planet' worth of btc already on...extant btc.
ben_vulpes: the life insurance policies are dwarfed by the operational costs and value of the machine in question.
ben_vulpes: well bitcoin ain't an airplane.
ben_vulpes: i've not the planet.
ben_vulpes: thing works, what.
ben_vulpes: cannot be avoided?
ben_vulpes: paha.
ben_vulpes: excruciating subset doesn't hurt?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: when did you become a fan of provably anything software?
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: i really don't see what mpex has to do with freenode's swiss cheese.
ben_vulpes: anyways for the record, feel free to query me at any time for a signature.
ben_vulpes: http://lightning.network/lightning-network.pdf << scaling, sidechains, derpage.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: divorcing my bouncer.
ben_vulpes: whaddaya take me for, some kind of poofy oz?
ben_vulpes: oi mate i don't dick around with bounders
ben_vulpes read, noticed.
ben_vulpes: you're running some interesting experiments, asciilifeform.
ben_vulpes: "FDIC Insurance"
ben_vulpes: "who am i with my white cis-gendered privilege to pass judgement on such a masterpiece?"
ben_vulpes: dang.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: 'clojure' << lol how'd you get that level of hatred up?
ben_vulpes: i started with vim - i know somewhat whereof i speak.
ben_vulpes: granted, nothing that vim doesn't do (poorly)
ben_vulpes: tags browser...
ben_vulpes: text editor, debugger, grep wrapper, vcs wrapper, irc client...
ben_vulpes: that is the point of using emacs.
ben_vulpes: emacs in x11
ben_vulpes: os x
ben_vulpes: and progressively less as i sharpen my sword/till my garden.
ben_vulpes: fine, you got me. not "never", but only under duress.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: stack?
ben_vulpes: do you take me for a menu-traverser?
ben_vulpes: i never take my hands off the keyboard.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: who said anything about mice?
ben_vulpes: cutting and pasting etc must fit within emacs text manipulation paradigms.
ben_vulpes: for instance, i hate weechat and irssi.
ben_vulpes: emacs - not.
ben_vulpes: htop - good
ben_vulpes: but for other things, it is not.
ben_vulpes: it's good for the things for which it is good