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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but even if it were true - still a joke. picture, full year's embargo. << i actually don't see much of a problem with this. most "science" is worthless anyway, i currently don't read it if it's less than a coupla decades old on general principle. a year's embargo wouldn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: actually clown car is probably the worst description. for one thing, b-a's not funny.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, they know it's nothing short of abuse, hence the "educational training" gauche
mircea_popescu: decimation the "at their request ... educaitonal training" is more concerning.
mircea_popescu: poor old guy. basically... you're stuck with your own history. once you're old enough, all that's left is explaining it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wasn't aware anyone thinks ww2 was avoidable ?
mircea_popescu: btw re the entire satoshi thing : anyone ever considered it's maybe a homage to Satoshi Kanazawa ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well i certainly didn't go in as far as that
mircea_popescu: myeah, about as credible as her pretense to fame, talent et all.
mircea_popescu: lol o wait, singer-songwriter/actress/newswoman/political activist. i see.
mircea_popescu: “It’s not to say that we didn’t have the right information but the problem was being able to produce it quickly and produce it” in the format that the department wanted, Walker said.
mircea_popescu: "Mid-Continent, which first opened in 1949 but received federal student aid only for the past decade or so, caught the attention of regulators at the Education Department in 2011, according to documents obtained by Inside Higher Ed."
mircea_popescu: what's next, someone brings you half a hambuger and you pay half the price forone ?
mircea_popescu: wait, someone actually pays a college that doesn't complete the program ?
mircea_popescu: "The closure of a college often leaves students in limbo. Without being able to finish a degree, students must scramble to transfer and to figure out how to deal with the debt they have racked up."
mircea_popescu: speech can not be morally reprehensible for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: 'To mock or joke about the tragic events of that morning is morally reprehensible and Thew has rightly been convicted and sentenced for his actions.
mircea_popescu: "hurting people's feelings", a "section 4a public order offence"
mircea_popescu: "Thew, of Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, admitted a Section 4A Public Order Offence (displaying writing or other visible representation with intention of causing harassment, alarm or distress) and was sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court today."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes saying they're behaving like a forumite scammer is being generous.
mircea_popescu: and don't wait for the boards to show up to put the 2nd job order in, either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so tell them that you want them to rush the 2nd joib as much as humanly possible and fly it over.
mircea_popescu: so we are small and they are tinier still and the world's immense.
mircea_popescu: nor are the billions being spent his own personal pocket money he could buy icecream with otherwise.
mircea_popescu: the us congress does not particularly think loyd austin of the army is very smart,
mircea_popescu: but you don't need that. you merely need to be deemed by a major capital allocator worthy of the allocation.
mircea_popescu: it's not a simple matter of money, as money's not invariant over the cases we discuss.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the stair of no return, once you left you can't walk back
mircea_popescu: no, i know. the problem with gedanken experiments is that they necessarily won't fit the reality
mircea_popescu: if you're in the 1% that did then as it does now, the fact that there's a further aspirational 19% added to the pot does not help you
mircea_popescu: "it takes us a second to do things that took a lifetime before - and they come with the guarantee of being something else entirely!"
mircea_popescu: as a result... a month later alf does not have his peas.
mircea_popescu: as the work works now, software makes everything much easier and faster. errors especially.
mircea_popescu: if the world was working as it did before computers, ascii would have been one of the few people with pen and paper, and wrote a description to one of the few people who made what he needed, and by virtue of that fewness they'd have actually been friends. the letter took a week to get there, the work took a week to be done, and so a month later alf has his peas or w/e he's needing for alchemy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is this factually true, that you had the wrong part in there for a while, then switched it out to the right part and ordered immediately ?
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, most public-facing diff futures seems to happen on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: they have that massive an infrastructure that they cache the application !?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha! i wonder what the bug would have been
mircea_popescu: that's the traditional socioeconomic use for fillies in human societies.