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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he could have been lord curzon II, or else he could have been the Russian Lafayette.
mircea_popescu: is well... laughable. good luck wioth that, you only have one life and when that's finished there you go.
mircea_popescu: charlie going "i am willing to work with planes as long as either the light stays on or x or y"
mircea_popescu: and to "fuck you charlie, read or don't read but the light stays out"
mircea_popescu: it came about to "fuck you louise, go in the air shelter and sit there"
mircea_popescu: the plane CHANGED their life. it didn't come about to make 1900 a more-1800-than-1800.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, by 1950 the vast majority of the utility of planes was dropping bombs on people's heads.
mircea_popescu: the generalexpectation being, that it will meld into people's lives as they are, making them more so.
mircea_popescu: when the airplane came about, everyone hailed it as a "great civilizing factor"
mircea_popescu: well, let me change this from something we don't know to something we do know.
mircea_popescu: italians, as their states were disintegrating, called this spezzatura
mircea_popescu: ANYONE Could be an actual star/paratrooper/president if they actually tried.
mircea_popescu: no, you imagine specifically that you aren't, and that this is specifically why it matters.
mircea_popescu: game much more serious, because not being the work self, it actually therefore must be... THE REAL ME
mircea_popescu: by any one of the 0.05 people present on the same square mile
mircea_popescu: a slightly pudgy 37 yo woman in iowa is not slinking towards her car in a parking lot among crickets because she is going to get raped
mircea_popescu: your average soviet bureaucrat would avoid committing to paper as much as 1+1=2 , if he could get away with it. and sensibly so, because... you never know.
mircea_popescu: they know enough to steer away from those places where they can most easily be caught being stupid.
mircea_popescu: programmers are, by and large, social sciences rejects.
mircea_popescu: it's not "a technology", specifically in that it's not made to serve man.
mircea_popescu: adlai i think pretty much the entirety of the problem stems from your outright bizarre expectation that bitcoin will somehow suit you. the correct approach is exactly the opposite : change yourself to suit exactly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, this is all positive testing. what you want is negative testing. entirely different beasts.
mircea_popescu: a) it's not "spit in cup" and b) it still doesn't really work.
mircea_popescu: and mucosal transudate, which possess increased levels of IgG relative to saliva"
mircea_popescu: the choice of screening assays employed. For this reason, investigators have developed specialized collection devices that enhance the level of antibodies, particularly IgG, in oral specimens, ensure sufficient specimen volume, and include reagents to prevent microbial growth and proteolytic breakdown of antibodies. In general, this has been accomplished by collecting oral fluids enriched in gingival crevicular fluid
mircea_popescu: "This is due, in part, to variations in the type and volume of oral sample collected, how the sample is handled prior to testing, the concentration of immunoglobulin (Ig) G present, and if testing methods have been modified to accommodate the use of oral fluids. In early studies that reported poor sensitivity, whole saliva was used and there was little consideration for the volume and condition of the sample needed and
mircea_popescu: logically, the antibodies are not often found where the virus is not often found. the human machine is still a machine, trying to be economical if possible.
mircea_popescu: they are still large, and not particularly saliva bound.
mircea_popescu: your test will probably be in the double digit failure rate, which is laughable. i suspect it is impossible for chemodynamic reasons to make it single digit, which makes it impractical
mircea_popescu: at the size of the proteins involved, there's not really THAT many billion units in a saliva sample.
mircea_popescu: is it possible through pure chance to miss an infection because it just didn't happen to go to saliva ?
mircea_popescu: might as well insist you find burglars by inspecting livestock exclusively.
mircea_popescu: but anyway hiv is not ever going to be diagnosable in saliva.
mircea_popescu: not likely this'd have happened and no mention in spanish/portuguese press.
mircea_popescu: all hits on Bruno Amorim that are relevant to this story come from telegraph.co.uk
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski to quote adlai above, as far as the young actors are concerned, "it'd take half the theatre to make it worth their while" :D
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski part of your disbelief also comes from you thinking in plain terms of d/s whereas the show seems to be thought more in terms of "a coupla switches get together".
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine how people think actresses are to be taken seriously if it's plain obvious that should a drill sargeant manifest and yell "STRIP!" she'd start trembling like an eight year old.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> it was so strange to see an apparently confident woman be so physically inept <<< this is quite a problem, yes.
mircea_popescu: but, apart from that, your life, live it as you think fit.
mircea_popescu: yes, and the oppoortunity to have the same problem in 2016.
mircea_popescu: nah, first timers get a few % of the profit, and at the end of a whole year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aww, global warming -> climate change is not a trope creator ?! WHO KNEW!!!
mircea_popescu: rday's proved-to-the-hilt atrocity story can become a ridiculous lie, merely because the political landscape has changed."
mircea_popescu: f his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence. Recently I drew up a table of atrocities during the period between 1918 and the present; there was never a year when atrocities were not occurring somewhere or other, and there was hardly a single case when the Left and the Right believed in the same stories simultaneously. And stranger yet, at any moment the situation can suddenly reverse itself and yeste
mircea_popescu: "I have little direct evidence about the atrocities in the Spanish civil war. I know that some were committed by the Republicans, and far more (they are still continuing) by the Fascists. But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those o
mircea_popescu: sad because you thought "one day i too will be stupid and senile like graham" ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin - error only counts if generated by the right software on the right hardware on the right data spot.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - i'm perhaps the worst market for any language. sort-of like a grasshopper is no market for leather goods.
mircea_popescu: lol. i think we did something with it in school. dun recall so well.
mircea_popescu: i don't write any c, either, or c++. i've never written either java or javascript. i sometimes to a little bash, and always to dig up natural language strings in natural language dialects. or otherwise mess the mup.
mircea_popescu: imagine me like a guy that has no poem to write. k ? so i don't write in italian. splendid language for the best of poems, and even for talking melodicly about the tv shows.