mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/07/why_a_story_about_russian_spie_1.html << i lollered.

mircea_popescu: correlates with a high probability of being a dangerous pedophile.

mircea_popescu: what's a qt ?

mircea_popescu: "so toxoplasmosis is basically a conspiracy against rat's best interests ?" "no. it's basically a selected accident. all the other accidents that didn't close the cycle didn't live to get a name."?

mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/06/another_diagnosis_of_schizophr.html >> quite worth a read. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: ya that too. "oh you could put the laptop on a table" well fuck you then, i could jkuist use a kbd ?

mircea_popescu: i dun think i ever wrote a trilema article on it.

mircea_popescu: after a general-gendered wife.

mircea_popescu: yes it does. a general purpose box is the next best thing

mircea_popescu: it's not a secure machine or anything, watch movies in bed off its 10gb hdd

mircea_popescu: takes a day.

mircea_popescu: and throw them in the regular garbage, too. teach the plebs a lesson.

mircea_popescu: ie, do the idiots use it themselves or is it just a fuck me

mircea_popescu: apparently "biotruther" is a word, now. what libertards call people who know biology that's not been approved by the global warming committee

mircea_popescu: i don't even see much of a problem with tha.t

mircea_popescu: anyway, if you ever saw hot shots, the base commander there is also a sort of mccain/mcduck

mircea_popescu: the fact that republicans have a knack for this is kinda strange. recall the bush record ? BOTH of them ?

mircea_popescu: so apparently there's a hurricane headed for mexico that's well twice the size of katrina

mircea_popescu: that said, grounded wallpaper would go a long way.

mircea_popescu: "The question that they are answering isn't "does environment matter more than genetics?" It's a more subtle, sneaky, social-policy questionr: "since we now know that genetics isn't as deterministic as we hoped, is there something else that we can focus on which is equally out of our control? What about the goings-on in utero? So that the environment factors matter only at that time, not later? Then we can safely

mircea_popescu: by now the stupid "reporting" thing is so much a kabuki of its own you can often separate it from the actual event it parasitizes

mircea_popescu: then beat them for picking a fucking pentium.

mircea_popescu: so does any half-ass decent teacher. give a kid a pile of unplugged computers, pick the best one.

mircea_popescu: Aristotle was smart, but there is nothing he could ever learn about computers from his investigations. His science is all wrong for what he was doing. But Aristotle would think he knew a terrible amount about computers from his studies. In fact, he'd probably be considered an expert. "To fix this computer, we need to make it more rectangular. Get chopping, malaka."

mircea_popescu: i come from a land where intelligence is luxury, and i gaze upon this land where intelligence is merely alternative boring in amazement.

mircea_popescu: it is , to me, a very curious thing, this.

mircea_popescu: Born in Tehran, Iran, he immigrated to the US at the age of 5 with his family and was raised in McLean, Virginia by his father Kamal Ghaemi MD, a neurosurgeon and neurologist, and his mother Guity Kamali Ghaemi, an art historian. A graduate of McLean High School (1984), he received a BA in history from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, 1986).

mircea_popescu: So yes, I would have liked to have posted day one; but I would have liked it better if someone else on the inside said, "umm, wait a minute? Really? We're going to CNN with this?"

mircea_popescu: The people who get paid to look at ADHD are all unanimously on the same side, that's what conveys the illusion of objectivity. Pretending to be divided pro- or anti-Pharma, or "dopamine hypothesis" vs. "noradrenergic hypothesis" makes it look like there's a lot of vigorous debate, but debating what color is a ki-ran just means ki-rans are real.

mircea_popescu: y constraints. If I need money for rum, do I spend an extra hour at work, or write a post?

mircea_popescu: If you don't like something going on in politics, there are ways to voice that. But looking deep into a "scientific" concept requires a level of sophistication which, if you possess it, means you're probably busy with a day job. So you have neither the time nor energy to dissect articles in Pediatrics-- and, anyway, no forum. I, at least have a semi-popular blog; but even so I'm subject to the same time and monetar

mircea_popescu: You mean because the further away we get from the hot news cycle, the less you're interested in the truth? And so apathy allows it to stand as true, because it all seems plausible (face validity, bitches.) That's social science for you. But the answer to your question is simple: I don't get paid to criticize studies. I have a job and a life and an alcohol problem that doesn't leave much room for blog posts.

mircea_popescu: "Just a piece of advice. If you are ever arrested, make sure to ask for a jury. As for two juries. If your lawyer says the words "bench" and "trial" at any point in the same paragraph, flee to Argentina. Those 12 idiots, imperfect as they are, are one of the only things protecting you from a top down, hierarchical, classist, flow chart wielding government clusterfuck that has no time, interest, or money to deal wit

mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski espn was never a start-up. it was rassmunsen backed by getty.

mircea_popescu: nevertheless... a pile of rifles doth not give you even the beginning of force. it's just scrap metal.

mircea_popescu: yes, i agree, monkey has no business with a rifle.

mircea_popescu: than there is in a satchel of a hundred gold pieces collected from the necks of a hundred dizzy cows in the field.

mircea_popescu: yes there is some value in money, for sure. but there is A LOT MORE value in a hundred gold pieces resting in a hundred pockets of men that made those pieces

mircea_popescu: compare b-a and random scammer circle, "dollar vigilante" thing or the keiser radio show (hey, check it out, "Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency launched in February 2014 as an Icelandic alternative to bitcoin and the Icelandic króna. Its unknown creator or creators" < hard at work deleting the internet history of previous scams, as if THAT is how it works now)

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306358 << a desire to separate man from his money is not separable from a nude statement that the man in question is an imbecile. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2015#1306346 << the only reason it is "profitable", i suspect, is because a shy socially inept guy like the author couldn't pay enough in okcupid fees to ever get laid, otherwise. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: usg can not afford a hundred btc loss

mircea_popescu: it went to all shit (15 iirc last, 50% over the cutoff of the bitbet), only to get a dead cat's jump yest.

mircea_popescu: i'm not a bit player.

mircea_popescu: but yes : do you think sumner rothstein gives a flying fuck that his car producing subsidiary paid his tv producing subsidiary a billion in advertising with no roi, when the result of this expense is that china now THINKS the truth about china is on viacom released movies and argentines think citibank is a thing that may exist in buenos aires ?