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decimation: I'd say most democratic systems have created this situation anyway. What kind of person wants to be
a bureaucrat who appears to be in charge yet can affect nothing?
mircea_popescu: i'd be kinda curious to see how
a country worked where the cure for insanity was 2 years in parliament.
mircea_popescu: just as long as you don't try curing things that don't have
a cure
mircea_popescu: but currently it's mostly regarded as "the health of the population" is
a thing.
decimation: why should someone in this age have
a different conceit?
mircea_popescu: has made no progress in almost 20 years, let alone ten,
a claim no other medical specialty can make, and the truth which cannot be spoken out loud. Hence an exam.
mircea_popescu: thing else?
A few new medicines have come out, though none of them appeared on the test either. There's money to be made on the west coast using giant magnets, (fortunately) also not on the test. So? Was the ABPN worried I'd forget how to use MAOIs? I'm never going to use them, I have enough problems monitoring Xanax. The astonishing truth is that despite millions of dollars and hundreds of academic careers psychiatry
mircea_popescu: The logic of
a 10 year MOC exam is to keep us up to date, so it's fair to ask: what in psychiatry has changed in ten years, what are the major advances? Depakote was discovered to be the default maintenance mood stabilizer despite no evidence supporting this, but that fell into disuse at
a time oddly coinciding with its patent expiration, which is suspicious but I'm no epidemiologist. Anyway, it wasn't on the test. Any
mircea_popescu: i really can't see myself getting
a license from anyone to anyting.
mircea_popescu: why are survivalist group womenz always so
a) rare and b) unattractive
mircea_popescu: * RUchamp_ (a2e354cb@gateway/web/freenode/ip.162.227.84.203) has joined #bitcoin-assets << dear chan, since i've made that 0.1 btc for titties post, mind voicing new names off webchat for
a while ?
decimation: there was another amusing example in the DC area
a few years ago, after the "derecho" thunderstorm. power was out everywher - why? because none of the treehuggers would let the power-line clearances be maintained
decimation: it's quite enlightening to study the ownership path of the right-of-way deeds. One realizes that us infrastructure is pretty much like openssl: everyone knows it's
a horrible pit, everyone uses it, no will to 'fix' it
assbot: WB&
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decimation: this is
a big problem in the maryland/dc area because it's
a swamp
decimation: your kid comes out
a 'tard - it's the doctor's faul
decimation: yeah ob/gyn is
a known target for legal scammers in the us
mircea_popescu: "Roughly half the counties in our nation lack
a single OB/GYN physician to care for women."
mircea_popescu: the guy does have one excellent point tho : if you're concerned about
a collapse, the marginal utility of putting 10% of your assets into
a hedge probably far exceeds the marginal utility of putting the other 90%
decimation: I'm surprised he hasn't got on the bitcoin bandwagon, he seems to be
a likely suspect
decimation: "In English law,
a fee simple (or fee simple absolute) is an estate in land,
a form of freehold ownership. It is the way that real estate is owned in common law countries, and is the highest ownership interest possible that can be had in real property. Allodial title is reserved to governments under
a civil law structure"
mircea_popescu: "But that’s not his style. He rolls up his sleeves. He puts his theories into action. He drives himself as hard as anyone I know." gates now
a "hard work" apologist ?
decimation: right but they can sit and chat amicably for
a few hours
mircea_popescu: yeah dude, some guy in
a five star hotel is so very likely to butcher some other guy in
a five star hotel.
mircea_popescu: So what went wrong? For one thing, the villages that Sachs picked experienced all kinds of problems – from drought to political unrest. For another, the MVP took an idealistic “Field of Dreams” approach. MVP leaders encouraged farmers to switch to
a series of new crops that were in demand in richer countries, and experts on the ground did
a good job of helping farmers to produce good crop yields by using fertilis
decimation: they can't have
a portable nuclear reactor because it would make the evrionmentalists batty
decimation: So the US Dod in the past had
a program to put
a 2.5 mw generator on
a truck and put it in
a combat zone
mircea_popescu: the one exception is uruguay, where they're not. so if you manage to knock up
a girl in buenos aires, you have to ship her across the river.
mircea_popescu: the practicalities of
a healthy sex life in argentina : as everywhere in south america, abortions are illegal here.
mircea_popescu: the us "market" is underserved for
a reason. you can't get good wine, either, nor good cheese
decimation: surely the bezzleers on wall street want
a place to play
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, do the math. if 100 mn us citizens spend 10 bux to buy from you over
a year, out of the 0.2% you charge them you've made... 2mn
decimation: well, there's the issue of the usg taking 96% of your assets at
a point of their choosing
decimation: mircea I'm just amazed that there is clearly an opportunity to make
a profitable exchange on US soil, yet it appears no one is trying
mircea_popescu: letters used to come with latin in
a package for this reason
mircea_popescu: doesn't really matter anyway,
a kid that's not bilingual is not literate anyway
decimation: are they planning on actually making
a real exchange on us soil?
decimation: so to be clear, you are pointing out that someone who actually has original thoughts has
a few bitcents, while sachs is raking in the speaking fees?
decimation: interestingly it pops up in
a link on the last pscyhiactrist's blog
decimation: true. getting tenure in the us university is
a nightmare, from what I've heard
mircea_popescu: in those same other states it's illegal to present yourself as
a "leading international adviser" while you're
a sort of rsm.
mircea_popescu: "Here's
a transcript of an illegal recording not done by the NSA that therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal to make an illegal recording as long as it is given to the media and they profit from it and we can use it to rationalize our lives. Got it." lulzy
decimation: I find the main human weakness w.r.t. generating randomness is
a great aversion to repeated outcomes
mircea_popescu: ok, quite splendid. the us is chock full of supposedly rich people who are about as powerless as
a random south american whore
mircea_popescu: Why would the The Economist's rich and powerful demo want to be ruled? Because they aren't powerful, only rich, all that time getting rich did not translate to any power, only the trappings of power. So they've postulated
a fantasy power structure/NBA owners that explains why they can't enjoy their lives as they think they should-- to absolve themselves of the guilt they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities an
moiety: brb, imma actually have to add
a pic on reddit to post.
mircea_popescu: "If I had to put my chips and my children against an 8 year rotation of civil service nincompoops vs. some nerd with an open marriage who spent $15M on
a "bachelor pad" so he could score chicks of questionable emotional stability, I'm going with the group my private sector lawyers have an outside chance of pwoning."
mircea_popescu: tlb brings
a good point. how come in the war between spooks and techs, it's the TECHS that get accused of being mysogynistic ?
Mats_cd03: greencabbige: because mining now is
a net loss. i hope you come back to this conversation when you have toasted your runway
greencabbige: ffs getting tired of this shit now. for
a start if we sell it on ebay then people can buy it with
a credit card to gety into
a bitcoin. one of the only the ways to get in to bicoin safely with
a credit card. Why all the attacks?
Mats_cd03: GL finding
a bagholder, that will surely be
a feat of strength if you can manage it again
Mats_cd03: if selling burned gear is how you anticipate roi, you're in for
a bad time
greencabbige: ok if you really wanna know with all our old gear we've sold it on ebay for more than we calcualted we'd
a flogged out of it in the endz
greencabbige: ffs matt do you think I can't use
a calcualtor or know anything about any of that sh~t I've been hear since 2011. So aint even gonna answer that.
mircea_popescu: also i am noticing in disbelief i missed out
a 0. it's not 0.015 to 0.006 but to 0.0006
benkay: <asciilifeform> 'the morel [sic] equivalent of opening other peoples physical wallets and taking the cash found within.' << more like digging out
a bag of gold some anonymous idiot buried under park bench // or...morels
Mats_cd03: whats your plan when hash goes to 1000ph and all your gear makes fractions of
a penny?
greencabbige: during
a bubble all the current in stock gear that won't roi will easily roi
greencabbige: no we can get 200BTC by next year and bitcoin could go to $5k. We have
a cool $1million to play with then.
Mats_cd03: if you want to be in the black
a year from now, sadly your best play is just to take off with the funds
greencabbige: I think our intial seed funding from the orgianlly IPO was about $2.5k we now about 480k in bitcoins alone,
a server, 5TH/s and
a 30% depsoit on 1(GH/s) of scrypt.
mircea_popescu: greencabbige so you started
a mining security in jan 2012 at 0.015, now trading at 0.006 and don't have any books.
greencabbige: if you divide the current RSM wallet by the amount of shares rsm doesn't own then that's
a value of over 0.0010btc alone. While current lowest offer is 0.0006btc. Once we get
a tracking code for 1(GH/s) of scrypt supposedly and hopefully within the next three to five weeks we're moving and buying all shares back below 0.0010. Where's the days of BTCT sepecualtion i share price went over 0.015 last summer our wallet w
greencabbige: RSM is www.796.com and I had
a bit of gossip for you's in that IBWT is potentially working on
a UK based securities exchange. he wants me to bring some shares over and manage it, but rsm board very worried of uk regulators.
RSM: currently building
a 05 fee LTC P2Pool node with
a dedicated server going in the DCtomorow gonna make it public based in Kansas City
RSM: one of them is an abosulte CLI genuis. he's
a slackware guru for the last four years
RSM: I'm starting
a motion to raise the salry fund as the two current Linux system admins are paid peanuts
kakobrekla: mthreat dunno if theres
a better solution, dont worry about it
mthreat: <kakobrekla> see, there is comma
a few times << I see what you mean. For the "to", I just extracted using regex: "^([
a-zA-Z0-9\-\_]+): "
mircea_popescu: and anyone that does
a lot of camsites or whatever - spread it wouldja.