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mircea_popescu: yes. the method is : people are idiots and if you're going to parent them, you gotta parent them.
mircea_popescu: it's very subtle, the quality, but for this reason valuable. not aggresing sanity and common sense is worth a heck of a lot more than "making it work"
mircea_popescu: people who have no idea how to code go by the "well it works". this guy actually codes by "well this is how it should go"
mircea_popescu: no but seroiusly, lemme tell you - he wrote that phuctor thing, it's like 500 lines, and so sanely laid out i could go in there and understand what it does and how to modify it within ~5 minutes.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> seems when the US disintegrates it'll be chinese totalitarianism the world has to endure next << the price for vanity is rape. that's what the derps in the sec thinking they;re above doing what i tell you to do are doing toi themselves ; that's what the derps thinking theyre "vcs" and not humbling coming in here are doing for themselves.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> anyway i fixed the twitter parser - its not working now. all back to normal. << win
mircea_popescu: jurov you know, i don't read the current propaganda either.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> anyway, i don't think they will be able to make lying about your age a violation. << should be funny if they do... fill the jail up with 29 yo women.
mircea_popescu: how about she is affixed to a whipping post in front of the town church for two weeks, for being a disgusting nag and a total stereotypist ?
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, nothing in that piece makes me think this is anything but a very sad drama, of an old man who is being rejected merely for being old, and is forced to live in a society where random woman (who is no spring chicken either, "une trentaine my foot") can send him to prison arbitrarily.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really about as nonsensical as "carbon causes global warming". men and apes have a common ancestor is all.
mircea_popescu: "Il a été mis en examen pour «viol par surprise» en mars dernier."
mircea_popescu: hopefully i get to drink champagne off a chick's tits at the ceremony where an 80yo gets a major prize for this advance.
mircea_popescu: certainly your model is a lot better than anything keynes spit out, or hence.
mircea_popescu: but the idea that any fiat-oriented economics is essentially studying fart flow is sound, and yes it's all a matter of diffusion.
mircea_popescu: well if you intend to it can go into the list. but do you ?
mircea_popescu: "Bob: Don't worry, we factored that into our budget after they upped Avagadro's number in China last year."
mircea_popescu: they couldn't really tell, between bubonic plague and malaria and everything else the "better" social arrangements blessed them with.
mircea_popescu: but this aside, yes scurvy - and to a much larger degree pellagra - were endemic and major qol reducers up until very recently. one of the many "blessings" of agrarian settlement.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it - they could have used say dried figs, if it was ~fruitness~ specifically.
mircea_popescu: the problem with sailing was that they had no fresh stuff
mircea_popescu: no, because you can get vitamin c out of all sorts of other sources.
mircea_popescu: just like maize was not part of the diet until the aztecs invented it.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ for the record, no fruit was part of the human diet for the longest time (until the persians actually invented fruit - which is exactly what they did)
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ that's kind-oif the point here. all sorts of fraud available to people trying to push pseudo-anthropology agendas. like for instance people don't readily understand just how huge the genetic and paleohistoric gap between us and chimps is.
mircea_popescu: same is true of humans, and like in the case of those rats (and most other mammals), the alternatives are extinct
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the 10mn years thing : the oldest split that created the rat (murines) as different from other rodents is about 13mn years ago.
mircea_popescu: it's unclear we're "frugivores". humans altogether seem carnivores.
mircea_popescu: monkeys are our (rather distant) cousins, not our uncles or something.
mircea_popescu: you will have to bear in mind that all hominid species other than us are extinct. this isn't some sort of direct lineage, as the layman often imagines.
mircea_popescu: "It is still unhealthy to breathe in – and smells very bad!" dude srsly, sweden is on euro 4. you can't even tell it exhausts something.
mircea_popescu: not like it's free at home. a liter of gasoline = a dollar = 3kWatt-hours = a dollar or w/e
mircea_popescu: " How much does it cost to fill up at home," << are these people fucking retarded ?
mircea_popescu: "We asked if the constant sound of the engine -that frankly disturbed us from being able to listen to the radio- could be turned off. But it couldn’t. Very distracting."
mircea_popescu: (you hafta add c after the number if you mean bytes. because that's logically neither the default nor is anything wrong with ignoring b silently)
mircea_popescu: because not only is 1258 not equal to 1258, it is also smaller than 64.
mircea_popescu: in "the glory of linux", chapter eleventy billion : find . -size 1258 finds nothing. find . -size 1267 finds nothing. find . -size -64 finds all the 1258 and 1267 byte files the previous two didn't find.
mircea_popescu: that she's even got the nerve to set foot outof the house is very reminiscent of that horvath character.
mircea_popescu: nah, not at all. she got hired as a great brilliant mind, came up with her brilliant great plan, some men grumbled but w/e, woman haters. it got implemented, it was a disaster, she was canned.
mircea_popescu: iirc the pr bit specifically disclaimed any gs investment in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: i know when russel told me that fairness was invented during the crusades, i fucking quoted him by the name on my blog.
mircea_popescu: then you can talk to it about "anthropologists" and not name any.
mircea_popescu: and that reason being that when you're stupid, you really need an audience that doesn't know better.
mircea_popescu: maybe you know, random idiots who failed in academia and took to the internet with their dog and pony "scientific" show did this FOR A REASON,
mircea_popescu: and the monkey is going "fuck you bitch" quite literally at the experimenter, whom it (wrongly) perceives as a monkey of the same age and sex.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: maybe eating the lesser food is how they enact group hierarchy
mircea_popescu: how do you know god didn't mean for you to be a woman ?
mircea_popescu: for all you know snakes are wise and the world rests on turtles.
mircea_popescu: the animal doesn't go "you know bob, this is un-sjw!!1". it goes "fuck you bitch!"
mircea_popescu: for that matter, envy is what's at work there, not "fairness".
mircea_popescu: yeah. we also thought the color red was unique to staplers, perhaps.
mircea_popescu: if it is, it's his job to explain it. not unnamed "philosophers'"
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch as a "animal fairness" is not in common use, calling that fairness is really not unlike calling the guy cunthead.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, regexp is not the basis for research, or knowledge.
mircea_popescu: yes, i understand that cunts run perl and people on the internet posing as scientists with their "experiment" consisting of a two monkey show use cunts for brains
mircea_popescu: no matter what happens, it's still not going to be relevant to the human behaviour.
mircea_popescu: animals fuck, that doesn't mean animals display "the human notion of love". they display the animal notion of love.
mircea_popescu: before shitheadism/peronism/populism, argentina was a major world power.
mircea_popescu: when's the last time the bulk of the news about a major find consists of various scams ?
mircea_popescu: for the record the british vulcan is one of the shittiest bombers in history.