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mircea_popescu: "Specializing in the sort of ultimate tough-guy/manly man roles that hearken back to a different era in film, Sizemore continues to be a favourite of Hollywood's greatest directors."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i figured you would, but i didn't wanna fuck with it.
mircea_popescu: this is the result of this ill conceived "you can do anything" trend applied to business.
mircea_popescu: srsly. this is the tech company. gurlz are all "oh poor them" and shit. it's like beating up the mentally retarded.
mircea_popescu: (hint : previous time it stopped working, they rejected based on agent string)
mircea_popescu: soooo... since i was looking at the fetlife stuff, i discovered the scrapper had stopped working
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the torturous logic involved... srsly, 15k paid accounts ?
mircea_popescu: "a total of 15,495 accounts were identified as having premium FetLife memberships” and that “Male doms make up far and away the largest proportion of FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28%) of the total customer accounts identified."
mircea_popescu: one needs a particular sort of ingrained uselessness outlook to come to that sort of worldview.
mircea_popescu: similarly the entertainment racket creates the superficial chumpatronic appearance that some chicks "have it easy"
mircea_popescu: go do something useful, so your thoughts may be worth thinking in the first place.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i do not personally believe this "pay me to think" thing has any merit whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: it seems she literally intends to remembrance her youth ?
mircea_popescu: An area of research in which I could be making progress if I had funding providing an income of at least £100,000 a year (progress would no doubt be faster with more income).
mircea_popescu: Oxford Forum's aim is to expand into an independent college cum university which would generate and publish research in several areas including philosophy, economics, the psychology and physiology of perception, and theoretical physics.
mircea_popescu: of knowledge if she was not hampered by her exiled position and lack of funding.
mircea_popescu: The reason Dr Green is not a salaried academic is partly because her ideas are out of sympathy with the prevailing intellectual climate, but also because her education was ruined. A child prodigy, she was the victim of a hostile state education system, and an unsympathetic college when she was an undergraduate at Oxford. She is uniquely suited to doing research, and could be making significant progress in several areas
mircea_popescu: "Dr Green currently holds no salaried academic position, a situation her associates regard as profoundly anomalous and unjust. One of the purposes of Oxford Forum is to reinstate her in the academic world."
mircea_popescu: "why ellipses ? because circles in 4 dimensions project to 3 dimensional ellipses, that's why!"
mircea_popescu owned a half lb flashlight in TM. yet it had no processor.
mircea_popescu: it kicked ass, an dprobably set my expectations of machines in fields like responsivity for instance. or stress tolerance
mircea_popescu: 10 more if it's built from the ground up with anything in mind.
mircea_popescu: 10 points for beginning the description of your theory by saying how long you have been working on it. (10 more for emphasizing that you worked on your own.)
mircea_popescu: shakespeare was also not the first to derp about derpy themes
mircea_popescu: pretty much all of the us consists of john smiths, rewriting the bible in their own name.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ^ cheap n-th generation plagiarism of weizenbaum (of eliza) 'computer power and human reason' << this diagnosis is exactly correct, i am persuaded.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know, not even linus "decides what is written"
mircea_popescu: yeah. the powerful software elite is out there crushing its cessna in irs tax offices.
mircea_popescu: hasn't even been investigated at any point, it's just revelation or something.
mircea_popescu: somehow this idea that "privilege = bad" is getting passed around a certain group of idiots as given gospel.
mircea_popescu: decimation i've noticed that a good heuristic is, if (grep -c "privilege" > 1) break;
mircea_popescu: decimation someone here had written the algorithm for that.
mircea_popescu: girls have private collections of "like mp but with stupid"
mircea_popescu: that everything can be put into a tree is a trivial bit of graph theory.
mircea_popescu: all it takes practically is to break it once, then it's broken.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes also "myriad scripts and patches to said are written" is not useful.
mircea_popescu: the idea here is that payments clear across a continent as if they would in the home market.