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Wed Dec 17 05:54:07 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> "nipping at your heels" was not the expression I wanted. something closer to "you can speak random alphanumeric strings at people and they'll nod and smile at you. speak in an angry tone and they'll frown and shake their heads, but this and 'liking' things is the extent of their expressive and intellectual capabilities"
Wed Dec 17 05:49:23 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> work hard for your wealth and you'll be rewarded with pointless labor and millions of idiots nipping at your heels.
Wed Dec 17 05:48:43 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> "You too may grow up to be Mark Zuckerberg!"
Wed Dec 17 05:48:15 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> lol
Wed Dec 17 05:47:43 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> I stand corrected.
Wed Dec 17 05:47:19 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: can't find the naggum article I referenced earlier, but anyways yes - the process of choosing a hero in the USSA isn't by any stretch of imagination random.
Wed Dec 17 05:42:38 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> !up gabriel_laddel
Wed Dec 17 05:38:51 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: yeah, difficult to get ahold of in bezzle land, which increasingly seems to prefer to "select a hero at random" (as per naggum).
Wed Dec 17 05:37:09 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: here's what i want out of life:
Wed Dec 17 05:33:58 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: iirc, that was mircea_popescu describing the virtues of working on inventions in a yurt in patagonia. but the thought experiment presumed infinite (or at least, adequate) funding.
Wed Dec 17 05:33:11 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: right, however I seem to recall some #b-a persons attempting to convince you to leave the us for an actual jungle.
Wed Dec 17 05:30:44 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: i'm of the opinion that i, in particular, will die here in usa (and not of old age, either)
Wed Dec 17 05:30:44 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: I'm not one of those attempting to get you to emigrate and make the cardano in a jungle or w/e.
Wed Dec 17 05:30:20 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: kk. I had somehow gotten the impression that you were of both opinions a & b, which I find odd.
Wed Dec 17 05:28:34 UTC 2014 <asciilifeform> gabriel_laddel: i can't possibly say what is - or is not - worth your time.
Wed Dec 17 05:28:01 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: so you're of the opinions that a) it isn't worth my time to network with people in other territories and b) usg is going to collapse?
Wed Dec 17 05:24:57 UTC 2014 <BingoBoingo> gabriel_laddel: For him the network to find them does atm
Wed Dec 17 05:24:34 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: and interesting problems only ever happen in the us of a?
Wed Dec 17 05:22:56 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> asciilifeform: well, yes. I simply do not program anything other than Common Lisp. but because I can do this at $mylocation doesn't mean that there doesn't exist a soul in e.g., Russia who would be willing to pay me to do it.
Wed Dec 17 05:20:18 UTC 2014 <gabriel_laddel> PeterL: missed this line. <kakobrekla> ascii so basically you dont want to get your hands dirty.