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mircea_popescu: but hey, we're also the only ones to want to have the P, because everyone else just needs summaries and narratives.
mircea_popescu suspects that we're actually the only ones to have the P
mircea_popescu: yes, they matter for the bureaucrats who'd like to pass for mds, and which are presented as such by the state much like the guy in a white coat is presented as "a scientist" by advertising execs
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, as the MD i'm not actually, the bizarro notions re "add" and whatnot inthe dsm make exactly 0 difference.
mircea_popescu: but this "coexistence" is a purely anthropological consideration.
mircea_popescu: so in this perspective chemistry is only clean of alchemists because time offed them ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform should i also impale the ugly/stupid women ? on my own dime ? what else ?
mircea_popescu: a perfectly acceptable result of psychology, like of all scholarship, is "i have nfi"
mircea_popescu: and this reads lots like "if i had money and brains i'd try to be alf and fix computing"
mircea_popescu: this psa brought to you by the pussycat association of cattycorner, wiltshire.
mircea_popescu: how to annoy large dogs : while dog is in front and you're sitting in back seat, wait for it to stick its muzzle through the headrest, at which point put a strip of bacon flush on it. hide it once he withdraws. repeat.
mircea_popescu: and this very specifically means learning to avoid the numerous "learn statistics nao!" scamtraps, from bayesian bullshit to what have you.
mircea_popescu: but, that aside. the logical next step, after learning arithmetics, from a "i'd rather not be robbed blind by everyone i meet" is learning statistics.
mircea_popescu: or what, you meant "they go away into a merry-merrry land where they lhea" ?
mircea_popescu: you'd think this sort of thing would be obvious to adult males.
mircea_popescu: "This is much too far from an apology for your previous episode to count. Try again."
mircea_popescu: actually iirc HE wrote to me, and i told him to get fucked.
mircea_popescu: i don't remember what exact "bitcoin jesus" nonsense he had in his schedule, but i do recall i made the judgement the person can not possibly be intellectually respectable.
mircea_popescu agrees with idea asciilifeform's linked article, still thinks very little of scott locklin.
mircea_popescu: for she was in a diner and a guy tried to rob it, so the old woman got out a colt and blew the would-be robber's brain all over the wall
mircea_popescu: incidentally, as i went to texas, they were just having a celebration in the little town, mayor was giving an old woman some award
mircea_popescu: trinque the notion of not shooting an armed person is still very foreign to me. if you got a gun and i got a gun i AM killing you and then we can figure it out.
mircea_popescu: historically, if you're too lousy to do it yourself the police hold him down and then check if you want to prosecute.
mircea_popescu: romanian tradition of beating the shit of the burglar before calling police was still strong last i saw.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sounds like slovenia would do a lot better with more beatings.
mircea_popescu: how exactly they figure this washes is anyone's guess by this point. what growth ? the us has been contracting since 1995
mircea_popescu: and btw, the us gdp went up to 3 something while we were talking.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that the eu is any better than the us is lulzy.
mircea_popescu: i thought beating up burglar is traditional there too ?
mircea_popescu: simple enough to enforce. was the victim on the shooter's property ? fuck the victim, should buy more property next time.
mircea_popescu: more like "you're allowed to defend yourself on your own property and that's it".
mircea_popescu: there are known and amply documented cases of mechanical sight misalignment that can't be detected with one eye
mircea_popescu: human visual depth perception is so fucking terrible, if you're going to fire cable guided missiles you're better off placing two teams a mile apart and having team A guide missiles fired from B and vice-versa
mircea_popescu: i think it must have been in an old tv movie or something.
mircea_popescu: both objectionswithdrawn in a major explosion of lols.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, the notion that pools "represent" hashrate is rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "currently compromise a bit more than 50%" << comprise ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder if there's going to be a Fatman superhero before the fall.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne i dun think the dailymotion demo is expected to comfortably arithmetic in head.
mircea_popescu: (bamboo is evil as is. but with added weighht... gfl!)
mircea_popescu: could certainly run an electrically detonated detonator.
mircea_popescu had girl make herself shocking device out of mono copper cable, duct tape and a dozen 1.5 volters. FOR PUNISHMENT
mircea_popescu: then it moved to mean enema bag / pee implement under bed for sick people.
mircea_popescu: word (in romanian) used to mean "drinking vessel carried on the person', in 1800.
mircea_popescu: (and we called them "baterii patrate" = square batteries)