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mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups".
mircea_popescu: and even skipping a day or two. but when it becomes week-chronic...
mircea_popescu: up to about 30something, a job no matter how stressful is no big deal as long as you actually sleep and eat.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im not terribru persuaded myself. but srsly, "get some sleep" is probably the best medical advice ever invented.
mircea_popescu: mike_c no see, it's not a sign of that, it's an effect of that. but yes :p
mircea_popescu: just a theory. nobody knows shit about their own head, let alone other peoples' anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo.
mircea_popescu: you know it's a major sign of early onset schizophrenia among other unsavory things ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heh watching that s.mpoe is like daytime drama i swear.
mircea_popescu: The_Shrander no, but it is kinda lulzy. in any case trezor had mixed reviews at best here.
mircea_popescu: largo'al factotum de la citta de la citta deeee laaaa ciiiiiittaa!
mircea_popescu: anyway, bitbet sports are iffy - the one time i put money on an obscure event i recall it being covered reasonably, like 9 to 1 or somesuch
mircea_popescu: no wonder the ancients didn't have "intellectual property". too cultivated to imagine it's workable.
mircea_popescu: mike_c ben_vulpes i seriously thought i had come up with it, then searched for it, found vulpes
mircea_popescu: to derps making "submarines" because hey, can't just admit bitcoin has it and humbly join.
mircea_popescu: from the idiots trying to get "real estate developments" on arid hills in south america
mircea_popescu: apparently everyone who's not proud to work for corporate america a la buffett is busy trying to carve a small kingdom of flies type of arrangement
mircea_popescu: ascii_field hey, we discussed last year this guy that was really butthurt about some professor stealing his invention ? up in canada ? something to do with mathematica maybe ?
mircea_popescu: kinda how it only takes a moment;s survey to reealise a field/group/whatever will never amount to anything worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: anyway : the people who never burn anyone elementarily fail at this.
mircea_popescu: it may be good taste, but it more likely is a firm decision to burn anything and everything until it either behaves or goes away.
mircea_popescu: people, if left to do what threy will, will just make piles of shit. it's what people do.
mircea_popescu: for that matter - electricity had a bad king, and it still sucks to this day, as discussed yest
mircea_popescu: (and before anyone wants to argue re ford : the man pissed on a field of patents, ignored the law and basically ordered anyone messing with his stuff murdered.)
mircea_popescu: there's always going to be fields with and fields without the luck.
mircea_popescu: rocketry exists because of that nazi us citizen, not because of any government, or other group of people. and on and on.
mircea_popescu: ic had no such luck. you could say shockley made a bad king.
mircea_popescu: the car is functional today to the degree that it is functional for this reason.
mircea_popescu: looky here : nothing works unless individuals sovereign over them.
mircea_popescu: next you're going to tell me growing autism is the intentional effect of tradecraft.
mircea_popescu: "we can't afford to train and then to lose the agents what with these new techniques"
mircea_popescu: speaking of spies, i was kinda surpriosed to see news item linked yesterday casually point out the deep reason for why exactly us gaver up on actual humint to focus on mostl pointless sigint
mircea_popescu: and if i couldn't that failure'd score pretty high up on the priority board.
mircea_popescu: "no need to pay creators for creating - it's what they do"