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mircea_popescu: donations" factor by calling alumni and asking them to donate $5, and whoever doesn't donate label as deceased."
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.
mircea_popescu: The schools do this because the schools are extremely profitable businesses: high cost, low margin.
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."
mircea_popescu: Which brings us to the first point, the main point: law schools are lying. Despite the fact that "JDs face the grimmest job market in decades" the schools are somehow reporting to prosepctive applicants that, e.g., "93% of grads are working" and "the median starting salary of graduates in the private sector is $160,000."
mircea_popescu: anything up to what it'd cost me to butcher them and drain the blood and guts.
mircea_popescu: the rest - not only they can keep, i'd even pay them to keep.
mircea_popescu: the stable solution here is that the socialists get the crowd and wash their head with it, all i want is the well put together teenage sluts and the fewq and far between whose heads work.
mircea_popescu: i am not intending to "save" the mass from it's "opressive" government/landlords/what have you anymore than i intend to run around farms in rural england "freeing" the cows.
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 ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you've well seen what the results of public access to phuctor were.
mircea_popescu: it both perpetuates the jwz "i only want to" class and it creates the "i know nothing and have some oppinions" class of stolfi/swanson/etc.
mircea_popescu: apparently teh dept of depting feels it needs more voices.
mircea_popescu: a compass is a compass. if you shove it up your ass it will be "internal"
mircea_popescu: well wtf sense does this make ? you don't have one so aim to fix it by having 100 ?
mircea_popescu: you say : thus therefore, the fact that there aren't 100 people to follow, so each of these 100 could follow one of those 100 (ie, the same one) is then the problem.
mircea_popescu: he says : this hundred appears nutty, but this seems more because they have no one to follow than a flaw in themselves.
mircea_popescu: if you can't make even one person worth following, how the hell would you make this entire aspirational 14% be each and every one worthy of following (for themselves) ?
mircea_popescu: and i gotta say i love the leverage, i take an hour to write one of these 5k word atrocities, it ruins the day/week of numerous people.
mircea_popescu: i dun believe this is what they wanted musl to be for.
mircea_popescu: pray tell what'd the gestapo have done ? better ? doubtful.
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: they have that much in common with down syndrome sufferers, it is true.
mircea_popescu: im sure in their own heads they're still actually even like, involved in things and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: to quote professor costanza, "in my mind, the war is still going".
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!
mircea_popescu: "oh, they sit on grenades because of windy, not because of cold". fuck them all the same!
mircea_popescu: lord knows it went to soup (true, different flavour) once they started wit hthe "understanding"s.
mircea_popescu: the reason for the succes is specifically the hindbrain. and the uninvolvement of "the life of the mind".
mircea_popescu: they drew thje banner, said fuckit, it devolved into soup and we never heard of those.
mircea_popescu: what does it mean ? it is fucking obvious to you what it means, on the basis of the text itself!
mircea_popescu: i've been aware of this for a while, actually, slowly digesting it.
mircea_popescu: it is right all through in the speciffically correct way.