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mircea_popescu: decimation the thing is they work on
a per dollar basis. if there's nothing to steal they can't afford to prosecute you.
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decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah if you have
a semi-competent tax lawyer you can probably avoid jail, just pay the fine
decimation: heh the next post: "Huh? You had
a choice to go to uni and further your education. Be
a man and stand by your decisions. "
mircea_popescu: "Fuck yes we can. I have student loan debt. Am I going to pay it ? Nope. Not ever. Over my dead fucking body will they get
a penny from me.
ben_vulpes: i know
a few tricks, that's about all.
decimation: I've settled
a few 'ebay' transactions where the tax was 'forgiven' if paid in cash
decimation: go to local store, run
a tab, owner knows where you live..
ben_vulpes: decimation: more likely to run
a tab with your local providers, as I do.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think he may have
a point with the cop robbery
mircea_popescu: man must always carry enough cash to bribe
a first instance judge
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you know what ? i have never used
a cc at
a pos. ever.
ben_vulpes: i have
a healthy relationship with my cab co's and they don't lock the door on me
ben_vulpes: and we have
a functioning economy, so cabbies don't lock the door
mircea_popescu: whole thing took ten minutes, that guy probably did more for me than half the gradschool educated people i ever employed, on
a percentile basis
Adlai: mircea_popescu: you should see the touchscreen computers they have now to keep passengers from yakking at the cabbies, complete with
a GPS map of your path through the city... almost feels like an airplane
mircea_popescu: he takes me to
a hotel like ten blocks away, costs me 100
a night. nice room and everything.
mircea_popescu: i take
a cab out of grand central, tell the kid i want
a hotel, kinda close and not too expensive
ben_vulpes: i mean you pay them, they go places, it's
a simple exchange
decimation: why do you need
a 'tour' to pub crawl?
decimation: "As
a result, the drug trade needed to find another way to obtain borosilicate glass. The unintended consequence of World Kitchen’s switch? An uptick in theft from an unlikely place. As PopSci so eloquently notes, “[the crack-making] industry was forced to switch from measuring cups purchased at Walmart to test tubes and beakers stolen from labs.”"
ben_vulpes: sounds like fun, at
a distance, and on someone else's bill.
ben_vulpes: known for the "not
a bad premise" book
ben_vulpes: this leads to
a breeding of the populace for luck
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you put
a high powered flashlight against your palm you'll see some light go through
a mm or two
Adlai: how do you even find all the shards in
a case like that
mircea_popescu: she spent the honeymoon in the hospital because she rendered some fat, and then poured in
a large, thick glass container
Adlai:
a better safety rule would only require them during the actually dangerous operations
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> well there's always
a cab in ny...
Adlai: you pull it out, wipe it clean, put it back in, pull it out again, find
a light source, see that the oil smeared all over while you were carrying it, wipe it off, etc
Adlai: i've never seen anybody do that level of work on
a hot engine, usually it's just things like oil checking
Adlai: the hilarious thing is how enforcement of
a safety regulation is inversely proportional to how likely it is to be necessary for the current situation
mircea_popescu: most english as
a single language kids i meet aren't adults at 30.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> i think
a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting. << the "how to parent well" resources are well drowned in noise
mircea_popescu: the japanese had
a bunch of orgasms and were in that female wax phase.
Adlai: well and also some wars aren't meant to be over in
a week, that doesn't pull
a heavy budget
mats_cd03: counterinsurgency has been
a staple of various militaries for decades.
decimation: yeah I agree with mircea_popescu, it's
a 'big picture' problem
Adlai:
a large problem for militaries in generalized anglophonia is keeping the military career attractive to local talent
Adlai: do intelligent russians have attractive prospects outside of
a military career?
Adlai: there's
a separate metric for
a soldier's applicability to being an officer
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel in short, im not denying
a lot of work has been done. i'm just saying, i'm skeptical.
decimation: " Current assessments measuring muscular endurance (push-ups and sit-ups), although providing some relationship to firefighting tasks,22–24 do not measure
a soldier's ability to lift and carry equipment with the ecological validity of
a task-specific assessment. An appropriate assessment would involve lifting and carrying an item in each hand (replicating the hose carry upstairs)."
BingoBoingo: <Adlai> that only tests "intelligence" as it relates to the types of "math" in your test << Well in the later rounds it test how well
a brain functions when dampened
mircea_popescu: averaging nonlinear measurements is
a fine example of having passed through college unattained.
Adlai: "intelligence" is
a very nebulous concept. you can get precise measures for precise definitions of it, but i'm not too interested in who can do long division faster in their head
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel there are many countless objections to bring. for instance, the country with
a guy at 300 and three guys at 50 is better than the country with three guys at 150 ?
BingoBoingo: Adlai: Get someone to hit
a controlled amount on
a breathalyzer and have them do math
BingoBoingo: <Adlai> what is
a "known simple test" for "intelligence", though? << Measured intoxication
assbot: PLOS ONE: Strong Genetic Influence on
a UK Nationwide Test of Educational Achievement at the End of Compulsory Education at Age 16
Adlai:
a lot less nerve length, and less variance between individuals
Adlai: what is
a "known simple test" for "intelligence", though?
mircea_popescu: decimation diametric would one of you consider perhaps changing nick ? you're hitting
a total blind spot with me, you're like figs and dates, i keep confusing you!
decimation: diametric:
a nontrival portion of the us population probably believes this
mircea_popescu: anyway, the brain size is not necessarily
a predictor of anything. my amd quad is smaller than an old pentium
decimation: seems like
a 'force majeure' clause to me
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: IQ isn't all physiology, ie, genetics. Your iq is in part dependent on your epileptics. So, yes, "there’s
a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic" but that "black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same IQ measurements as white kids" does not follow. Blacks have smaller brains and lower iq because of their genetics - placing them in
a BingoBoingo: <dub> you forget this is libertard holy grail, fully half of all bitcoiners are sitting in the bunker cleaning ar15 right now << AR-15 is rather heavy for
a walk to the exit
diametric: its not black friday until
a walmart patron is trampled to death.
diametric: unless you're at
a great white concert.
mircea_popescu: for instance, if
a fire breaks out in
a crowded place, being trampled is more dangerous than being burned
diametric: asciilifeform: well
a lot more than 2 right now.
Adlai: i'm more scared of
a friend overestimating his own drunk/high driving abilities and killing me before widespread deployment of self-driving cars, than i am of dying of any pandemic, ever
diametric: asciilifeform: i'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion based on
a single nurse that didn't follow the rules getting ebola to the usg has let it walk at leisure.
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that 'anti-vaxxers' are
a bigger threat than ebola
Adlai: growing up against
a backdrop of sars and assorted flu mutations has vaccinated me against pandemophobia
diametric: asciilifeform: it kind of surprises me. if anything, i feel as though the media, and in part the usg, is making ebola sound way more serious in order to keep people in
a state of panic. and you're falling right for it.
mircea_popescu: like saying "this hooker's like 50 lbs, she's
a lot less dangerous than mike in accounting"
mircea_popescu: <diametric> honestly, though, ebola has an R0 of 2, its less serious than measles << this is relying on
a whole string of assumptions.
decimation: diametric: I agree with you that ebola in the us likely has r << 1.0, and will not be
a pandemic
diametric: asciilifeform: we know how transmissible, even in
a country like africa where large families share rooms, the average person only infects 1.5 other people.
diametric: we know the fatality rate for ebola if you're
a poor african man is double digits.
The20YearIRCloud:
A girl in my town came very, very close to death from swine flu, but normal flu kills quite
a few each year