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phf: i think, and it's been
a while now, clang and gcc use different versions of libstdc++, even if you can coerce the two to see each others symbols (something i had mixed success with originally) you're than potentially touching in memory objects with methods that have incompatible expectations about what the memory layout of the object actually is
phf: jurov: making llvm eat the whole is
a better way to preserve sanity, because then you're dealing with fixing source, rather then hunting down opaque binary issues.
jurov: mats: you say "there is
a curve"... is there any serious reason or data supporting the notion it has maximum where you think it is?
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 19:03:59; mircea_popescu: but i got an idea of
a graphic novel, suddeenly : in this crapsack world in which the implementation of the "jews eating babies"/"white slavers" moral panic / fetish is actual farms to literally produce baby viande as per the modest proposal, it is discovered that ringworm infection of the abdomen in 2nd trimester females results in tastier, if very strangely diformed veal.
pete_dushenski: man, b-
a time infused with parenting time is straight trippy
assbot: The goldfish telling the great white shark what life’s like in the ocean, and other logical fallacies. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1N6pIga )
mircea_popescu: "Let's take all this at face value. Is he entitled? Delusional? I don't doubt for
a moment he sincerely believes he is
a lawyer, because lawyer for him isn't
a profession or even
a job, it's
a label,
a code word for
a kind of intellectualism he wants for himself. As long as "all of my friends see me as..." it was well worth the cost. He didn't study to become an attorney, he bought
a back-up identity." << exactly
pete_dushenski: except arg doesn't have huge inflows of productive immigrants that usistan does. so ima bet on
a different fate, similarity in lawyer pestilence aside.
mircea_popescu: He gives
a slight shrug and
a smile as he heads back to work. "It could be worse," he says. "It's not like they can put me jail."
mircea_popescu: "Bank bailouts, company bailouts -- I don't know, we're the generation of bailouts," he says in
a hallway during
a break from his Peak Discovery job. "And like, this debt of mine is just sort of, it's
a little illusory. I feel like at some point, I'll negotiate it away, or they won't collect it."
mircea_popescu: Unless, somehow, the debt just goes away. Another of Mr. Wallerstein's techniques for remaining cool in
a serious financial pickle: believe that the pickle might somehow disappear.
mircea_popescu: everyone in argentina is
a lawyer btw. im telling you, this country is the logical conclusion of that country.
mircea_popescu: "They understand I'm in
a lot of debt, but I've done something they feel they could never do and the respect and admiration is important." [my edit: he isn't actually practicing law.]"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this is where i go "had he spent the 350k on bitcoin in 2011, he'd have
a little over 500k-1.5mn
a year now"
pete_dushenski: because corporate lawyers work 80 hours
a week and sop up their tears with $500k - $1.5 mn
a year.
mircea_popescu: "It's
a prestige thing," he says. "I'm an attorney. All of my friends see me as
a person they look up to."
mircea_popescu: MR. WALLERSTEIN, for his part, is not complaining. Once you throw in the intangibles of having
a J.D., he says, he is one of law schools' satisfied customers.
mircea_popescu: sure, my hos regularly get two bedroom, two bathroom apts, provided
a) they're good at what they do and b) live in pairs or triples.
mircea_popescu: He lives with his fiancee who is "unperturbed by his dizzying collection of i.o.u.'s." She doesn't want him to get
a corporate law job because (take
a sip first): "we like hanging out together." Carly, another unemployed law graduate explains, "I guess I kind of assumed that someone would hook me up with something." I'm sure she felt she deserved it."
mircea_popescu: all on borrowed money. There were cost-of-living loans, and tuition of about $33,000
a year. Later came
a $15,000 loan to cover months of studying for the bar.
mircea_popescu: "WHEN Mr. Wallerstein started at Thomas Jefferson, he was in no mood for austerity. He borrowed so much that before the start of his first semester he nearly put
a down payment on
a $350,000 two-bedroom, two-bath condo, figuring that the investment would earn
a profit by the time he graduated. ...Mr. Wallerstein rented
a spacious apartment. He also spent
a month studying in the South of France and
a month in Prague --
pete_dushenski: imo the mental framework that
a (canadian/uk) legal degree provides is that i) there are always loopholes to exploit, ii) you can debate anything, iii) don't ask
a question unless you know the answer.
mircea_popescu: "And once they're in law school, there is more grade inflation and even retroactive adding of .333 to everybody's GPA. And now law school graduates are surprised to find they're unemployed. Law students had no real measure of their status as an applicant; no reliable descriptor of what kind of
a school they went to (short of branding); and no reliable measure of their performance there. "What do you mean I can't g
mircea_popescu: g. "I think I belong in
a top tier school..." How do you know? The analogy is you have no idea what kind of
a man you are and thus what kind of
a woman would be right for you, so you just harass the girls that other people think are the best. Then if you don't get her you're angry at the girl ("these bitches just want jocks and legacy applicants"); and if you get her you're surprised to find that three years with
mircea_popescu: "See? Grade inflation. We already know about the problem of grade inflation in colleges; the LSAT was supposed to help offset this by offering
a standardization. Now the ABA wants to do away with the LSAT requirement. Fine. But the result of all this is you can't really be sure how you compare to other applicants, so instead you demand objectivity in the schools' rankings as
a proxy to guess where you might belon
pete_dushenski: the difference between web analytics and law degree is that the latter at leaves you with
a useful mental framework once it's burned your bucks
mircea_popescu: "
A ranking, like the "percent employed", is an example of information bias. You think you know something, but you don't. If Fordham is #21, is that different than saying it is #29? Or saying it is in the second decile? It's
a deliberately obfuscated precision that you can't act on. That level of "certainty" does not inform your decisions."
mircea_popescu:
A quick word on the US News rankings. 25% of the ranking comes from
a "peer quality assessment" in which schools rate each other. So, say you are Clemson Law School. What should you do? "Rate all other programs below average." And, of course, do what University of Wisconsin did: give the highest score only to itself and one other school that you're not really competing against. You can also bring up that "alumni
mircea_popescu: "They fake it because that pointless data gets handed over to the illusionists at US News along with other pointless data (expenditure per student, library facilities, max bench press) to generate
a single overall ranking, which is just the kind of simplistic, pseudoscience objectivity that students, parents, and schools demand.
trinque: pete_dushenski: consider it
a small investment of my own
mircea_popescu:
A law grad, for instance, counts as "employed after nine months" even if he or she has
a job that doesn't require
a law degree. Waiting tables at Applebee's? You're employed.
mircea_popescu: How do they do this? "Enron-type accounting standards..."says
a law professor. "Every time I look at this data, I feel dirty."
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: from what this article tells me, they basically built
a thing for docusign to hash physical contracts to the blockchain
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 18:23:13; mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as
a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
pete_dushenski: 'Status of Women. Consolidated expense is budgeted at $1 .4 million in 2015-16 .
A province-wide dialogue around the formation of this new ministry is underway .' << mkay
pete_dushenski: speaking of health and inconsistency, alberta's new ndp gov (hyper-unionistas) just released its 2015 budget today : $19.7 billion for health care, $7.6 billion for k-12 education, and $5.7 billion for post-secondary out of
a total $50 billion budget
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 21:46:36; mircea_popescu: providing public services is not merely
a waste
mircea_popescu: to quote myself, "Bitcoin suddenly opened the gate. It is
a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped to interact straight with the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under
a million dollars or whatever the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary threshold is not
a sound busine
mircea_popescu: you're turning into
a modern version of the immaculate conceiver over there, you know ?
trinque: she wanted to do that in high school because the world somebody set up had "doctor" in
a cool place
mircea_popescu:
a compass is
a compass. if you shove it up your ass it will be "internal"
mircea_popescu: he says : this hundred appears nutty, but this seems more because they have no one to follow than
a flaw in themselves.
trinque: "she is really raising them to be what the WSJ considers China to be:
a pool of highly skilled labor that someone else will profit from."
trinque: "the powers that be are out to make you
a cog for their machine, maaaan"
trinque: having reached the end of the latest ballas dissection, the thing has
a familiar format I was
a little surprised to see given the others from him I've read.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the story of england's country estates is so much lolz. so hitler won the war, and as
a result by 1955 they were destroying the "national heritage" at the rate of
a site
a week.
mircea_popescu: not even
a month. heh. at least the actual scammers have the decency to go away for 9ish months at
a time. seems even 9 weeks is too much for the comparatively shittier decency of the university scammer set.
mircea_popescu: nobody gave
a shit about stolfi at any point, his "omaigerd threatened on the internets" attention whoring moment y compris, therefore mp is bad!
jurov mostly killed
a day trying to run eulora in cling c++ interpreter...
mircea_popescu: i've been aware of this for
a while, actually, slowly digesting it.
mircea_popescu: here's
a thought : "Quarterly, first and fourth grandquarters counterquartered, first and fourth gules, three cinquefoils ermine ; second and third argent,
a lymphad with sails furled proper, flagged gules ; second and third grandquarters argent,
a heart gules imperially crowned proper, on
a chief azure three stars of the field."
mircea_popescu: the culture powering romania. i would bet this played
a part in half or more lost virginities during decades.
mircea_popescu: reality is x, people always, for some reason, represent it as x+
a. never as x-
a. why not ? should be evenly distributed around x, neh ?
mircea_popescu: and the debate could specifically be, that the damned bitches keep trying to claw the worm out of their bellies, thus giving themselves infections. so the upgraded farfms have to include limb restraints on top of the noirmally used neckchain to
a pole thing. which costs moneys!
mircea_popescu: but i got an idea of
a graphic novel, suddeenly : in this crapsack world in which the implementation of the "jews eating babies"/"white slavers" moral panic / fetish is actual farms to literally produce baby viande as per the modest proposal, it is discovered that ringworm infection of the abdomen in 2nd trimester females results in tastier, if very strangely diformed veal.
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