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mircea_popescu: i didn't need a legion of anybody either. http://trilema.com/2014/how-to-deal-with-pseudoscience/
asciilifeform: i don't need a legion of anybody.
asciilifeform: i meant, easier in terms of resource.
mircea_popescu: a perfectly acceptable result of psychology, like of all scholarship, is "i have nfi"
mircea_popescu: and this reads lots like "if i had money and brains i'd try to be alf and fix computing"
asciilifeform: 'Should I ever strike it rich enough to endow a foundation, I would pay legions of trained statisticians to go through the literature and eviscerate the mountains of bad “research” and arrive at the truth. If Universities were interested in advancing human knowledge, rather than circle jerks with a football team, they’d fund entire departments of people who do nothing but this.'
asciilifeform: 'I have often heard learned psychology department dunderheads stating what the result of their paper will be, and instructing their underlings to mine the data for p-values. I suppose they may have thought themselves speaking over the heads of the rabble, since nobody else from their department was visible. Mind you, they did this in a public place, in a town which is filled to the nostrils with people with training in rigorou
trinque: I have bums on the porch here all the goddamn time
asciilifeform: trinque: ... been in the position of having my doors checked, and I waited it out << i've lived in a 'burglary' street since last may - good share of the houses featured in city hall's 'crime map.' but for some reason nobody ever 'checked' my door
mircea_popescu: but, that aside. the logical next step, after learning arithmetics, from a "i'd rather not be robbed blind by everyone i meet" is learning statistics.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned...
mircea_popescu: i guess.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi.
asciilifeform: i read scott's stuff for some years, back when he wrote under pseudonym
mircea_popescu: i guess this is to be dug up now.
mircea_popescu: actually iirc HE wrote to me, and i told him to get fucked.
asciilifeform: aha i recall. somebody ( mircea_popescu ? ) wrote to him re: bitcoin, and he answered 'fuck off, bitcoin's a pyramid' or something to that effect
mircea_popescu: i don't remember what exact "bitcoin jesus" nonsense he had in his schedule, but i do recall i made the judgement the person can not possibly be intellectually respectable.
trinque: sure, I've been in the position of having my doors checked, and I waited it out
mircea_popescu: trinque i dun think i'd shoot random derp walking in. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: incidentally, as i went to texas, they were just having a celebration in the little town, mayor was giving an old woman some award
mircea_popescu: trinque the notion of not shooting an armed person is still very foreign to me. if you got a gun and i got a gun i AM killing you and then we can figure it out.
mircea_popescu: romanian tradition of beating the shit of the burglar before calling police was still strong last i saw.
kakobrekla: this is not limited to slovenia as far as i know.
moonpunter: i signed a contract with the landlord, he violated it in several ways and attempted to violate it in more. he was disappointed when he figured out i didn't need his apartment, and most definitely stole some of my property left there before the move-out date, then lied to police about it. we don't need anymore laws protecting landlords where i live.
trinque: and um, nordic, something. I hear it's good.
trinque: yeah, I've heard of the squatting thing too
kakobrekla: nope and its a real pain. i know of a (a bit special) case where landlord can not get the lodger out. not legally. even if he doesnt pay.
moonpunter: thoreau wrote in depth about the value of the commons. i tend to defer to him. in mass. they say you have to call the cops before you can even think about defending yourself, even if the person is in your home.
mircea_popescu: i thought beating up burglar is traditional there too ?
kakobrekla: here i can not touch a burglar.
trinque: I certainly *personally* agree that there are frivolous reasons to judge a person.
trinque: I'm skeptical
moonpunter: "can i see some ID"
moonpunter: i think the law should be blind to all existential things and apply to human action. if you harm another person in someway, violate their inalienable rights, that should be criminal, no matter who you are.
moonpunter: i mean we're not broke
moonpunter: mostly i just stay home nowadays. graced with virtual office type work. now and then i think about getting one of these cheap office spaces in town, but i'm fine living in my slippers and gym shorts.
moonpunter: i've been through there dozens of times, right, on greyhound several, and everytime i've been to that greyhound station there's been an ambulance and a herd of cops. every time.
trinque: I know in certain places in Texas it's rather easy to get arrested for looking the wrong way, or being drunk in the wrong place.
moonpunter: i dunno. i've been a good boy since last year. got too many reasons now. new baby tomorrow morning. 8am delivery.
moonpunter: if you're drunk you're wrong. that's why i've all but quit drinking for the most part.
moonpunter: that's what i don't get
trinque: what part of the country, if I may ask?
moonpunter: the first time i pissed that cop off i was just telling off this lady that was rude to my wife. i live in a tourist town and we were downtown.
kakobrekla: oh, i was right then.
kakobrekla: perhaps arrested means something else that i think it means.
moonpunter: i actually have lost count, but three times last year by the same local dick.
moonpunter: i've been arrested more than 10 times since discharge
moonpunter: in fact on tuesday i had my final interview with the TDRL, they're moving me to permanent. oh well.
moonpunter: lower back and brain i guess
moonpunter: re-enlisted to go 25d but got a medical discharge before i ever went to school. they let me keep the bonus anyway.
moonpunter: i don't know about any artillery or most of the vehicles; i did maintain my humvee and i was the only truck in the platoon to never break down b/c i didn't mind annoying the mechanics
moonpunter: i trained on us weapons and when i got to the real army i was attached to a mortar platoon, but i only ever dropped one mortar myself, which was pretty awesome
moonpunter: dunno what to do with the output i guess
moonpunter: after i tell assbot to !up me i get a file to decrypt
mats: i vaguely remember reading a field manual (M2?) where it is possible to adjust which side spits out the rounds but don't recall details, if moonpunter figures out gpg maybe he can tell me
mats: deflectors are a thing, but i've never seen a joe carry one for his personal weapon
asciilifeform: i don't know of any modern rifle which has 2 ejector holes
mircea_popescu: i think it must have been in an old tv movie or something.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's going to be a Fatman superhero before the fall.
asciilifeform: at least when i was a schoolboy it was.
mircea_popescu: i know its true because i readit
mircea_popescu: williamdunne i dun think the dailymotion demo is expected to comfortably arithmetic in head.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l! somehow i thought half-arsed ddos was 'the new normal' over there
mircea_popescu: pretty sure i saw the thing attached to miner's helmet
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 22:58:18; mircea_popescu: <ag3nt_zer0> i said "no i'm not" << the one remarkable quality of six year olds is how quickly they can transform adults, even if specially trained, into other six year olds :D
ag3nt_zer0: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253717 << fair enough... though this reaction of mine is likely related to the fact that I was once fired from a school district while subbing because a student reported that I called her an "idiot" - wasn't true; I was speaking of the classroom behavior as a whole, but mattered not to the spineless principle nor to my "mentor" (I was sub for him) - this was with 10 days to ☝︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i tell you honestly, if i actually had to run a retarded linux thing for each of these i'd strongly consider just giving up.
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2015 21:16:31; mircea_popescu: tar was still used for insulation in 4.5V batteries when i was a kid. and the cells were paper wrapped.
BingoBoingo: <moonpunter> no someone !downed me earlier << Exactly why I did it
kakobrekla: oddly enough i got last 3 lines before 'worx' in the same half a second
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253471 << i know of a fella who was in gulf war I. his father looked down on him for not having suffered being taken prisoner in vietnam; his father's father looked down on the latter for not having been abused by north koreans in korean war captivity; and his uncle - for not having been in japanese prison camp in ww2. ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-08-2015#1253522 << must dig out this thread, because this is when i point out that the generalization of this principle - 'if it really has to happen all the time, it ought to have dedicated silicon' - is called 'dataflow computation' ☝︎
asciilifeform: 'Now I seriously think of moving to Argentina. This nation already survived the horrific default of 2001, military dictatorship, deindustrialization and various other calamities, and came through it all with its dignity intact. They know how to be poor but happy (unlike Russians) and without neuroses (unlike Americans)—I saw this with my own eyes.' (guest orlolz, http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/08/corn-madness-revisited.h
mircea_popescu recalls the lulzy instance when "big deal" silicon valley firm wanted to talk but a) principals "didn't have the time" to come visit and b) they really didn't see "why i'd need" three first class tickets + hotel of "pick from this list" + the rest of the rider.
kakobrekla: I have a friend that made like 120 BTC because he could buy really cheap Bitcoins during a past flashcrash. From those 120, he only got 20 out. Bitfinex told him: sorry there was a trading engine problem. You never really bought 120 Bitcoins.
gernika: mircea_popescu I suppose that's one thing you couldn't do in a private all boys boarding school as opposed to a public school.
mircea_popescu: <gernika> I wonder what is the sane mode of behavior for a child stuck in the public school system? << what the black kids do. fuck all the girls in class by the age they're 14, and whether they want to or not.
kakobrekla: i trade also there.
protn: i mean not here
mircea_popescu: <ag3nt_zer0> i said "no i'm not" << the one remarkable quality of six year olds is how quickly they can transform adults, even if specially trained, into other six year olds :D ☟︎
gernika: I think I asked the wrong question actually - but I'm not sure how to put it in terms of causes instead of purposes.
ag3nt_zer0: depnds on if the teacher has anything of value to pass on i suppose
gernika: I wonder what is the sane mode of behavior for a child stuck in the public school system? Perhaps to make it work it actually is necessary to hit them and yell at them, but should it be made to work?
ag3nt_zer0: and I think i mentioned it earlier about the "positive discipline" plan these pussies follow... no raising of voice, no calling out kids on the spot, in other words all things that pput them in their place and establish that heirarchy are now "abusive" and outmoded because tradition = dumb - or whatever
ag3nt_zer0: I hear in India that once a student is asked to leave a school... thats it, forever.
thestringpuller: i know plenty of parents who came from the "the hood" and spoil their children now that they are well off
ag3nt_zer0: I say "go sit down"
ag3nt_zer0: i said "no i'm not"
ag3nt_zer0: this fucking kid yesterday: I have him count sing this simple 4-beat card - he does a pretty good job which I greet, perhaps shameful in restrospect, with enthusiasm... and then i say, "the only thing I would suggest could be better is holding the beats all the way through"
ag3nt_zer0: you know, i am thankful to have the chance to whisper some renegade think-for-yourselfisms into the impressionable ears of kids, through music nonetheless, but dude it doesn't take long in these classrooms to realize how fucked this country is by virtue of how undisciplined/spoiled rotten these kids are - relative to the soberness of student bodies in say china or india...
moonpunter: followed Furthur for awhile a few years ago, before i got married
moonpunter: no, i was referring to ketamine
mircea_popescu: wow, i thought the k-hole was some sort of play on r/K selection
mircea_popescu: i guess that settles that.
moonpunter: i fall into k-holes
moonpunter: still saying not valid, but as you can see in that link, i've uploaded the key...
trinque: I am well aquainted with the fake CEOs of the fake software industry, haha
trinque: streams are crossed; I was talking about the hot lady on the film set.
BingoBoingo: <trinque> ah, then I don't follow << They "shell out" for macbooks the same way hamplanets do for "king ranch" credit