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ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: <decimation> 'owning' your home is partially renting from the government, partially speculation on mortgage bonds, and partially a 'ticket' to future 'wealth' << fucking bril
ben_vulpes: asheele
ben_vulpes: see now i'm in this horrible place where i *think* i know when you've made a mispelling, but then i double guess, then...
ben_vulpes: allele
ben_vulpes: apropos of naught
ben_vulpes: ;;ud alele
ben_vulpes: ownership is the hallmark of the elite?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: some guys can
ben_vulpes: and even that...
ben_vulpes: decimation: i'm not convinced that i can own anything but btc any more.
ben_vulpes: to me at least.
ben_vulpes: sure, but if the point is to eventually own it free and clear and not pay rent, property taxes still count as rent.
ben_vulpes: then there's the need to continue paying rent forever.
ben_vulpes: but a hit and run! what assholes.
ben_vulpes: nobodycares.com
ben_vulpes: breaking news: my little brother just got knocked off his bike
ben_vulpes: i just let the girl paint the walls whatever and book the deposit as a cost of renting.
ben_vulpes: tell me - how do you book those expenses, and how do you tally the ROI?
ben_vulpes: keeping the yard looking adequately neat to keep the homeowners association gruntled?
ben_vulpes: and when you sell your house, do you account for all of the property taxes you've paid over its lifetime? the repairs made? the endless time spent fixing it?
ben_vulpes: "well of course you want to build equity!"
ben_vulpes: the house discussion with these people is a great example.
ben_vulpes: ah yeah
ben_vulpes: wouldn't believe what?
ben_vulpes: s/./?
ben_vulpes: in which scenarios is this not true.
ben_vulpes: one must extract it oneself, but...
ben_vulpes: gernika decimation: there's some value in witnessing the chumpatron from the inside.
ben_vulpes: so hard
ben_vulpes: startups
ben_vulpes: lol wd kakobrekla
ben_vulpes: which, i guess, is why they come to me. "please write some not shitty software. i'll pay you 1.25x market just so i can keep the paper and the software and not have to manage the zeks."
ben_vulpes: i don't really buy that part decimation. the people who do rounds easily understand the problems of shitty software, and are loath to hire zeks at sub market wages.
ben_vulpes: "i'll take the cash, you can keep the paper."
ben_vulpes: yeah, precisely.
ben_vulpes: is running a consulting shop and sucking dollars out of shartups a short on the bezzle market?
ben_vulpes: anyways.
ben_vulpes: just plotting points.
ben_vulpes: apologies for spam.
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell --market btce --currency USD 500
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell --market btce --currency USD 100
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell --market btce --currency USD 1000
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell --market bitstamp --currency USD 1000
ben_vulpes: can one model the effect cross-exchange?
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell 10000
ben_vulpes: ;;market sell 2000
ben_vulpes: thanks, TheNewDeal
ben_vulpes: ;;sell 10
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: what, you don't even get in airplanes?
ben_vulpes: xmj: yessss?
ben_vulpes: gotta release the press eventually.
ben_vulpes: now i've given up on jobs being enjoyable.
ben_vulpes: probably the only enjoyable part of that job.
ben_vulpes: i always enjoyed imagining the creative ways people might try to circumvent my anti-idiot devices.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: line operators must be protected from themselves, too, lest the company be held liable for their idiocy. "actuation button A 2.5 ft to the right of press, B 2.5 to the left, press does not fire unless both actuation buttons are pressed together"
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: ty asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> i'm like, you now i'll have to pay taxes on those too right? << dude stop letting the wimmins make important decisions like dietary and financial structuring
ben_vulpes: * xmj would love to work for Bitcoin, btw << wtf last time i offered to cut you checks in btc you were all "nah lets fuck around with retarded int'l payment processors"
ben_vulpes: geny?
ben_vulpes: nubbins`: you're not charging enough to make yourself happy to do it?
ben_vulpes: i love how the the yellow is totally gratuitous
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: co-tenants in this space gave me this shirt today http://i.imgur.com/gcI32D9.jpg
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: it's the pesky client documents
ben_vulpes: of COURSE i keep all of my company's documents in source control
ben_vulpes: there isn't enough time in the world to teach the lawyers scm
ben_vulpes: xmj: have you ever actually hammered out contracts with client legal teams?
ben_vulpes: dafuq are you getting paid for?
ben_vulpes: missing highlighting of like 4 other changed areas
ben_vulpes: diff comes back with one section highlit
ben_vulpes: "please send me a diff of this amended SOW against the previous one"
ben_vulpes: damn lawyers
ben_vulpes: i want a portable compute object that plugs into the work station, home station, robot-grocery-carrying-thing
ben_vulpes: tamagotchi?
ben_vulpes: barely
ben_vulpes remembers when macos skinning was a thing
ben_vulpes: bah nm
ben_vulpes: just look at how dissimilar those under measure are from me
ben_vulpes: when's this ether dump?
ben_vulpes: ;;ticker
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: "go to san jose" << har dee har har
ben_vulpes: grains?
ben_vulpes: they know we're saying the same thing.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: that's the point of using "poorly engineered"
ben_vulpes: yeah but only when the contractors arent around
ben_vulpes: to pique irk and troll
ben_vulpes: frequently with a...pregnant pause.
ben_vulpes: so to pique them we now say "poorly engineered"
ben_vulpes: assert*
ben_vulpes: the office brides have asserted that "retarded" is not okay
ben_vulpes: subject of women
ben_vulpes: what is this reference mircea_popescu ?
ben_vulpes: <ThickAsThieves> we're waiting to take off and they are milking me? << lol you should hear lady v on the topic
ben_vulpes: BSDank
ben_vulpes: "shit he's in" << what shit is this? bed with the USG?
ben_vulpes: and a worse programmer than i
ben_vulpes: no he's a moronic kid
ben_vulpes: three hundred dollar coins by the end of summer?
ben_vulpes: ah that's awesome
ben_vulpes: *months* of uptime and then what is this?
ben_vulpes: fuck. you. freenode.
ben_vulpes: alive and kicking
ben_vulpes: to the matlab, engineers!
ben_vulpes: lolya where's my motoman plc badge!?
ben_vulpes: that's pretty funny.
ben_vulpes: docker: css 4.4%
ben_vulpes: no, no.
ben_vulpes: shorthand for "lots of things happening into which i have no insight"
ben_vulpes: dat black magic
ben_vulpes: now show me the one that builds 0.6 :D
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: using EBS for multi-host blockchain is pretty neat
ben_vulpes: kdomanski: come again? i'm not familiar with this notion of "almost shipping"
ben_vulpes: ya i saw that and was all "goddamnit why didn't i"
ben_vulpes: dorp.
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 2*256
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 780/5
ben_vulpes: why not just 99.99/hr, kid?
ben_vulpes: ;;calc 780/8
ben_vulpes: i miss you, princessnell
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller i did a pile of bare metal automation for them once upon a time
ben_vulpes: what the fuck is with outlook users and blue email text?
ben_vulpes: hunyadi?
ben_vulpes: im mostly interested in the shell + external coating integrity
ben_vulpes: "hey guys i turned this software on, can one of you test it for me"
ben_vulpes: lol @ real-time p2pool testing
ben_vulpes: jdanks: do you wash your eggs?
ben_vulpes: dafuq's up with freenode
ben_vulpes: finishing school but same diff
ben_vulpes: i'm going to do all sorts of stupid shit when i have a labor surplus.
ben_vulpes: typical labor surplus behavior
ben_vulpes: food processor's retarded, but do you use a mandolin, chetty?
ben_vulpes: irc tho...
ben_vulpes: out on the line i heard the same routine: "i can muscle these castings onto the fixture faster than any robot!""
ben_vulpes: both in the kitchen and on the line.
ben_vulpes: i'm no expert, i just know what i've seen.
ben_vulpes: a meal certainly
ben_vulpes: sheesh chetty this is frosh grade "lean" engineering :P
ben_vulpes: amortize setup across multiple runs
ben_vulpes: garlic and the onions and the carrots and...
ben_vulpes: engineer automates a thing, does not get those hours back but instead firm can now build things faster and charge less than the competition for better quality work.
ben_vulpes: <chetty> hmm humans live longer, we have all these modern things to reduce work and yet we dont have time. I admit that one confounds me. << girl gets a food processor, but prep time saved in mincing garlic does not make meals faster, but grander meals.
ben_vulpes: i have better things to do
ben_vulpes: buenos dias cryptoleros
ben_vulpes: not really
ben_vulpes: which, as others have said, "i don't care about how many characters per minute my programmers can type, but whether they type the *right* characters"
ben_vulpes: i think ithat i broke 140
ben_vulpes: when i was 14 i talked my cs teacher into letting me use the first chapter of text from cryptonomicon as my wpm benchmark
ben_vulpes: and builds are shipped around as tarballs
ben_vulpes: i heard a rumor that nginx has 0% test coverage
ben_vulpes: those russians
ben_vulpes: ragel is bees knees
ben_vulpes: first, you must state machine.
ben_vulpes: ("which")
ben_vulpes: not "which" python
ben_vulpes: static types, adequately lispy
ben_vulpes: apache or nginx?
ben_vulpes: the go situation doesn't even have a production ready wallet
ben_vulpes: you want complicated stupid broken and fucked up beyond all reason? come hang with the asseteers
ben_vulpes: http ain't so hard
ben_vulpes: "THIS IS NOT A WEB SERVER PLEAZE FOAR TO HIDE BEHIND APACHE OAR NGINX PROXY PASS"
ben_vulpes: what else is one to do when the application layer server authors say retarded shit like
ben_vulpes: ape cheese
ben_vulpes: uh apche's fine
ben_vulpes: and production with nginx/apache | gunicorn/uwsgi | piecrap
ben_vulpes: i want to close the gap between traditional django dev with the mangy pie runderper
ben_vulpes: <xmj> ...and django, and uwsgi, and $crap << hey have you ever done anything with uwsgi or gunicorn as a dev server?
ben_vulpes: now i reek of latex
ben_vulpes: condoms
ben_vulpes: clever boy u
ben_vulpes: ho ho ho
ben_vulpes: restorative
ben_vulpes: awwww missed le popescu@
ben_vulpes: just woke up from the post bang nap
ben_vulpes: evening gang
ben_vulpes: ;;gettrust Azelphur
ben_vulpes: cept bitcoin
ben_vulpes: teh jooz run everything
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> What, like JewGolf? << dear sir please assplain yourself
ben_vulpes: ;;ud jewgolf
ben_vulpes: although i never had the oportunity to discover what a "true" or "honest" cycle might look like, i just beat it until it submitted to what i wanted from my life
ben_vulpes: hey i'm shoehorning my own cycle into the american business routine too asciilifeform
ben_vulpes: noctunrnes exluded
ben_vulpes: sun goes down, mammals nap
ben_vulpes: sun comes up, mammals wake
ben_vulpes: this natural schedule bs is bs
ben_vulpes: i had misunderstood
ben_vulpes: contract negotiation is where everything starts.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> bell is used by other people to ruin your sleep. in exchange for food & housing. << f/h can be had without signing that contract. contract that includes "bells" should carry a markup adequate to compensate for the interruption of critical bio processes
ben_vulpes: scusi?
ben_vulpes: "can" is not "does"
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: "isn't it great?"
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo, asciilifeform: walking does not take one to the edge of the performance envelope.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: exercise and regularity of schedule << exercise, easy; regularity of schedule is a dream to me, on account of my profession.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: "easy", but do you?
ben_vulpes: ah, i was only privy to the botnet inspector gig and NSA.
ben_vulpes: <BingoBoingo> ben_vulpes: The video wiggles only because the world does << yeah, but have you seen the de-wiggler in action?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re schedule: what aspect of your professional work demands irregular hours?
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: that video needs to be run through the google dewigglifier
ben_vulpes: weird.
ben_vulpes: 403 forbidden?
ben_vulpes: strip the text out, hard wrap it at 80 chars, gpg sign it
ben_vulpes: HeySteve: i mean i bought mine, and gpg sign it.
ben_vulpes: twould be grand if life could go on without condoms
ben_vulpes: i too support more sex disease research
ben_vulpes: fascinating!
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: it's been years and i was never any good :P
ben_vulpes: bingoboingo's had much success running games over irc and webgames...
ben_vulpes: ;;seen truffles
ben_vulpes: ho shit
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re 9000%: factors for me are exercise and regularity of schedule
ben_vulpes: call me a poorfag, but i don't get the risk.
ben_vulpes: betting with btc
ben_vulpes: ye boyeee
ben_vulpes: betting against diff
ben_vulpes: moar features.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: needs more time than i can give it.
ben_vulpes: ios watch: bubble season conspicuous consumption play?
ben_vulpes: and yourself xmj?
ben_vulpes: so busy i couldn't put enough time into van to make it work
ben_vulpes: too busy for my own good
ben_vulpes: yessss?
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