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mircea_popescu: consider home cooking. it is ABSOLUTELY the cheapest way to feed a fambly.
mircea_popescu: it's not that "no one is tooled for it". it's that theyre not TOOLABLE for it. and if they WERE, it'd be expensive.
mircea_popescu: but outside of your pinning it down, it does not exist.
mircea_popescu: "absolutely" is a meaningless term. yes, you think it exists. good for you.
mircea_popescu: pentium 3 is ACTUALLY cheaper to make than z80 ever was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your argument will reduce to something like "making 1950s bachelite and fuel oil is '''cheaper''' than making diesel and wd40". this is equivalent to saying "z80 is cheaper to make than pentium 3". both are incorrect.
mircea_popescu: psychiatry is being a slut while pretending she's having amorous complications.
mircea_popescu: in the very lowest sense of it all. cheaper in adp terms.
mircea_popescu: no. cheaper to make these than those. cheaper to prescribe them. cheaper to take them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but they only did that because it was accessible.
mircea_popescu: while petrochem pours out depakote, you're gonna fucking feed people depakote and stfu.
mircea_popescu: the "regulators" had 0 to do with it. while the refinery process poured out diesel fuel, you were gonna run diesels.
mircea_popescu: this discussion exactly mirrors yesterdauy's discussion about diesels.
mircea_popescu: and the entire "everything wrong is really wrong with the brain" ie "not criminality but imbalance" so on and so forth are only superficially an ideology matter, ie "humanism" run amok us style.
mircea_popescu: yes, obviously, "antiepileptics for everything" aka "everything to do with the brain will be fixed by fucking with these neurotransmitters" comes from exactly this fertile field.
mircea_popescu: wherever there's two ustards, there's ustardation, aka this sort of narcisiac neurosis.
mircea_popescu: has 0 to do with pharma. where usg goes, the usg.problems go.
mircea_popescu: That's how an entire nation of psychiatrists could have been deluded into prescribing Depakote for maintenance when the data itself says not to do it. It's belief, not money, "we believe bipolar is a kindled disorder..." Hell, if Harvard believes it, what chance do the rest of us have?"
mircea_popescu: He starts out as a young academic. He lands a spot in a research group that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself a niche. And he believes in that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can't convince him he's wrong because it isn't science and it isn't even a bias-- it's identity.
mircea_popescu: The money isn't corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
mircea_popescu: sults were coming no matter what, those publications were already going to be written.
mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover anything, those re
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it specifically says "you don't have mandate to start wars, unless you do."
mircea_popescu: and for that matter he had as much mandate to start a war as lincoln did.
mircea_popescu: reagan didn't have the mandate to send the airline union packing. it went packing. roosevelt had no mandate to confiscate people's currency, or to redefine currency, or to fuck up the justice system.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose they could bid for a eulora copper merchant position like anyone else.
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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can touch it just as soon as you get out of nazi state.
mircea_popescu: im still hopeful might manage to get a colo'd box there.
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking point nsa even sponsored his nonsense is that it might perhaps prevent this manner of looking on asym crypto.
mircea_popescu: shinohai A LOT of that is needed on teh eulora wiki, at that.
mircea_popescu: and i am pretty certain the specwork for it will involve fireworks.
mircea_popescu: phf notice that the gossipd thing was specced, the pgp one has not.
mircea_popescu: women, sane women in sane situations, don't generally want another orgasm.
mircea_popescu: call me crazy, but the most often heard HONEST response to "would you like to cum ?" is no.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think b-a is really the mental process of a nutty old guy
mircea_popescu: and the different apporoach is not on the part of the buggerers either, they still work nights and weekends with bare...
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don't get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
mircea_popescu: why do you want to rectally insert the creation, alf ?
mircea_popescu: fits in head, i suspect, is just your bait and switch to make the world "fits in ass".
mircea_popescu: which is why i dun wanna encourage your heretic renaissance-orchestra-man ways by attaching more talented young folk to your crazylab.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
mircea_popescu: but i am positive that either mod6 or alf could give you huge chunks to do, if you're mostly into that. prolly mod6 more swamped tghan alf atm, even.
mircea_popescu: not that the strategy per se is bad, following the log.