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mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel we were going to put it on the cardano originally, but guy stopped answering emails.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field who in his right fucking mind would participoate in this ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller guy's just trying to matter, i wouldn't read too much into it.
mircea_popescu: tbh, there's absolutely no reason college time costs more than 10-15k in the us, either.
mircea_popescu: punkman romanians just make them pay, it's beautiful. "got a 9.9x on natl exams ? ok, free. got 9.85 ? 3k a year. fu."
mircea_popescu: pity this got so fucking popularised. it's a great march.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's a great system, but a) most kids have to pay and b) i forget.
mircea_popescu: punkman thats exactl;y how it works everywhere, romania, france. "bacalaureat" is the proper term, tho prolly greeks don't use it ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no, it's 1 per 10k normally, and notice the age specification. you'd get about 1 to 300k 18yo suicides normally.
mircea_popescu: and who the fuck "surrounds themselves" with mentors. is this jay's movie ?
mircea_popescu: imo this is the mark of a good exam. if you don't get 1 female suicide out of 1k, you'e not really doing an exam.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, about one 18 yo girl per 1000 killed herself (chiefly by hanging) for having done a poor job on the exames.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field obviously not. i was asking him about his country today.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you readily can. it's like trying to keep a 16yo girlfriend today. think of that, you have the model.
mircea_popescu: it's always sad when a great mind dies. it's worse when it just goes dark and keeps on living.
mircea_popescu: anyway, thank god dijkstra died and i don't have to read 2014 abominations from him like i have to read 2014 "manifest destiny" abominations from buffett.
mircea_popescu: " (If you even wondered why I did not join Disneyland or IBM, you now know why. )" << gabriel_laddel see ? right there.
mircea_popescu: an interesting point, tho im not entirely sure what value it carries. warp and weft, as he says.
mircea_popescu: The final reason for my refusal is that the habit appeals to the quantitative mind and I come from a culture in which the primarily quantitative mind does not evoke admiration. [A major reason that we considered Roman Catholics to belong to a lower class was precisely their quantitative bent: they always counted, number of faithful, number of days in purgatory, you name it.....]
mircea_popescu: "so they why aren't you ? why is it still the same three kiddie pools you're threading all over ? they're muddy and green ffs!" "sshh!"
mircea_popescu: "we could be creative, there's certainly nothing keeping us from it" sorta thing
mircea_popescu: whereas the hoodies of 2010 are a testament of anomie.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. tho the "ibm look" of the 1980s was more of a testament of obedience, much in the manner an [insecure] master may mandate slavegirls wear collars.
mircea_popescu: today the issue is more "who is going to deliver the 500`000`000 beatings needed by these idiot kids"
mircea_popescu: a lot has changed actually. in 1980s the battle was on to get ibm to stop fixating on "ibm men wear suits" to the detriment of all else.
mircea_popescu: well, in THAT context his quote means substantially something else than what i took it to mean, made 30 years later.
mircea_popescu: no doubt in my mind they'll actually do it. nothing else they could do.
mircea_popescu: yes, silicon valley is going to fail. this is BECAUSE OF US. nothing else.
mircea_popescu: wait wait, the industry is to be trained to be worthy of all the outpouring social studies experts ?
mircea_popescu: as long as no children actually read the abominations.
mircea_popescu: part of the problem is that they have plenty of time to daydream.
mircea_popescu: just like pansy ass middle class priss imagines if she were a street hooker she'd dazzle everyone with her charms.
mircea_popescu: they imagine that if they were in the private sector, they'd be contenders for vp of jpm
mircea_popescu: where the fuck do these idiots go to school ? clearly it must be a special venue.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-02-2015#1031922 << this is fucking insane. "federal employees are not overpaid because federal govt is a business except it's not a business, and other businesses that are businesses skew the business average data!!!! federal employees are not overpaid by comparison to federal employees, in fact thjere's a perfect 1:1 correspondence"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "In any business, including the Federal Government" << check it out ?! it's a business now ?
mircea_popescu: honestly, it looked more like a private concern of the guy's.
mircea_popescu: i guess this qualifies in the same line. but at least it was fucking customs, not the airline.
mircea_popescu: a decade or w/e ago i last visited the us, they wanted to know if i have any real clothes.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski "it wasn't a diary kibbutz, it was a bombs and explosives kibbutz. DIE GREAT SATAN!!!"
mircea_popescu: such nuts. "wtf dude it's not your business how much money i got"
mircea_popescu: or else you have partially unmonetized cool, and then there's different cools vying. like, las vegas is the cool for people like liz blakely. however, san diego is the cool for people like leah mcfuckface, what's her name
mircea_popescu: problem is, it's like money : either you have fully monetized cool, and then it's cool and that's that, suck it.
mircea_popescu: because hey, why should you get blamed for doing something stupid ? force others to do it for you!
mircea_popescu: not really, not anymore. not since hughes bought the cool people out.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it ever reached the level. i mean it's been trying, ever since the 80s winter games etc. but...
mircea_popescu: how awful it is has no bearing on how cool it is. new york sucked at all points.
mircea_popescu: somehow "cuntslime on every rock" makes a place want you to stay. which is exactly why las vegas exists.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski incredibly enough, it's not how that works.
mircea_popescu: you just opened yourself for a pile of rocks thrown eh.
mircea_popescu: generally, it's the "bare cunts dancing" district that makes or breaks a city's cool.
mircea_popescu: back when new york was cool, it was principally broadstreet.
mircea_popescu: uni being cool don't enter into it. florida and arizona party schools are very cool, i would visit, i would not ever stay lmao
mircea_popescu: nubbins` how did you get the idea twodogs is cool as in, someone'd want to move there as a thing to do, rather than "whatever, they are giving out money here"
mircea_popescu: im curious too, vicariously. if you figure it out say.
mircea_popescu: have "toss the feminist" festivals, people (that aren't retards) may wanna come.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the only thing that can work is making the place be cool. merely "not suck" is not good enough.