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mircea_popescu: basicallt they had a woman in tech. anonymous, as we don't know who came up with this "idea", but the cuntcheese stinks through.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's really no point left in pretending. gcc is dead.
mircea_popescu: what was written in english that'\s worth reading ? and who teaches them french [other than to read postmodern shit] ? who teaches american kids german ? who beats his 16yo every night between 11:30 and 12:00 until he's finished kritik ?
mircea_popescu: "college trains libertards" simmer down, there isn't anything for kids to read that'd yield any other result!
mircea_popescu: writing style?" He gets an A. The problem is that the first kid is strongly disincentivized from pursuing his idea, from becoming a better thinker, in very specific ways. "
mircea_popescu: Meanwhile, Balboa the el ed major searches carefully in his textbook and discovers the cause was... SLAVERY. He airlifts two sentences each out of five other books, asks for an extension because his grandmother died, adds nine hundred filler words including "for all intensive purposes" and "he could care less", and then waits in the parking lot to threaten you with "but this is a history class. Why are you grading my
mircea_popescu: "Here's an example. Say your essay question is, "describe the causes of the American Civil War." Ok, so far everything the kid knows he learned from Prentice Hall, but something inside him thinks the answer is: LABOR COSTS. Hmmm. Insightful and unexpected, let's see what he does with it. But there's not much he can do with it, there aren't many obvious resources to pursue this "feeling" he has. He does what he can.
mircea_popescu: they've been fighting with / running away from their reflection ever since then, because lo! idiot knows ONE coping strategy, which is, denial of reality.
mircea_popescu: i beheaded / humiliated some, which is THE BASIS upon which bitcoin took a further step and became bitcoin of 2012.
mircea_popescu: a sort of person of whom you personally remind me a lot, by the way.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at THAT time, a community of professional bullshitters, connecting to each other through playing chess and being passive-agressive, resistant and self protecting babies, held "communioty oppinions"
mircea_popescu: you have to realise that back in 2011, the number of people who were calling pirate a scam was equal to the ocunt of me and my agents.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> so when push comes to shove, meni's conviction is... idiocy? << people wanna be things. and they imagine the way to be things is like in the movies.
mircea_popescu: Loesser checked it. "Well, now, that's amazing. Multiplication didn't impress me too much because it involved integers after all, and I thought trick manipulation might do it. But decimals -"
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the problem of slavery, and how beatings get to be a part of it.
mircea_popescu: not because of anything, but because you know too much of the wrong sorts of things.
mircea_popescu: "Because-" Aub looked helplessly at his superior for support. "It's difficult to explain."
mircea_popescu: it is universally cheaper to make a new chip than to describe an extant one from scratch.
mircea_popescu: "an end to opression" aka "you're not even worth beating up"
mircea_popescu: blaming a college / all colleges / anyone for this is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: now there's plenty of mobility but no upwards, and plenty of inequality but no understanding thereof.
mircea_popescu: ie, no upwards mobility and a solid understanding of the value and importance of inequality.
mircea_popescu: yes at some point going to college was useful. this BECAUSE at that time people lived in a society that allowed for it
mircea_popescu: so... the expectation that there'd be understanding happening in school is not unlike the expectation that there'd be salvation happening at the brothel.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, stuff that isn't math, such as whatever, "ecology" don't even HAVE concepts, at all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, math is an AWFUL example for this matter. because, well, in honesty a "simple" notion such as the notion of a number is still patently ununderstood by the species altogether. and for that matter minimal effort to even comprehend it starts with what, frege ? a coupla centuries ago ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell schmidty please fix your connection so you don't do a lot of join/part
mircea_popescu: "I'm told that the system of the day is "Everyday Math." I have no idea what that is, but my worry is that every system of teaching is designed not to maximize learning, but to facilitate the teaching."
mircea_popescu: "and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too primitive to work. Now suddenly you have a 6th grader who appears to falling behind. But he was never really caught up. I suspect that this almost entirely explains Americans' universal hatred of word problems."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you took your wife out on the town dressed as a cow ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ie, he has to provide 3% of the wattage, "we'll match your output 30:1!"
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do what the usg does : differential leverage.
mircea_popescu: ironically, this would prolly be a killer business in portland.
mircea_popescu: a choice of either that or the same in hot pink, or rainbow.
mircea_popescu: only accept couples, make the dudes work butt off on stationary to power wifey hair dryer.
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital it'd be so great tho, Cuckolds' Gym and Hair Salon.
mircea_popescu: there is, in this town, a place where they sell food by the pound. and you can get a pound of cooked shrimp for ~2 dollars.