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mircea_popescu: it's what i mostly use to score individuals in proxmity, too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as far as i recall the better studies were done by the russians, measuring eye movements
mircea_popescu: decimation diametric would one of you consider perhaps changing nick ? you're hitting a total blind spot with me, you're like figs and dates, i keep confusing you!
mircea_popescu: it doesn't mean much more than, this empty bottle of soda could in principle be gasoline.
mircea_popescu: the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the brain size is not necessarily a predictor of anything. my amd quad is smaller than an old pentium
mircea_popescu: <dub> where are teh bitbets? 50K US deaths by chrimbus << make it.
mircea_popescu: for instance, if a fire breaks out in a crowded place, being trampled is more dangerous than being burned
mircea_popescu: Adlai sure, but again, the mass effects are of concern.
mircea_popescu: in short, you have nfi what happens once it reaches the magical 2% i think it was ?
mircea_popescu: this may be true on an individual level. but large scale biologic phenomena have their own emergent properties.
mircea_popescu: like saying "this hooker's like 50 lbs, she's a lot less dangerous than mike in accounting"
mircea_popescu: <diametric> honestly, though, ebola has an R0 of 2, its less serious than measles << this is relying on a whole string of assumptions.
mircea_popescu: so i go buy chocolate dipped figs. only to discover, the motherfucking figs
mircea_popescu: so these people here are fucking obsessed with dolce de leche
mircea_popescu: if you do actuarial averages, about the best construction you can come up with
mircea_popescu: tbh, if i were sitting on the iron throne in question, i'd have the agents naked
mircea_popescu: decimation do they refund it if you blow up a plane after all ?
mircea_popescu: but you had to be careful or else the adults might catch on.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> and by 'invade your person' I mean 'subject to arbitrary measures of physical control << they still doing the "freeze" kindergarten game in airports ?
mircea_popescu: <devthedev> What do you think would be the best way to handle MPEx shares for Qntra? << whatr do you ean handle ?
mircea_popescu: so what of it, kids loving their father is the seal of fathering failure.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were << actually, if the periodic apprentice riots are anything to go by, they probably resented their masters to their grave.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i think english speakers mistreat their children horribly.
mircea_popescu: the only disgusting thing is that a minority of kids today are mistreated by not being so treated.
mircea_popescu: Adlai in england you mean ? usually when he's old enough and skilled enough to practice a trade
mircea_popescu: the process built like 99% of any english speaker worth a name in all history.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every snotty brat got shipped off to slave labour at the age of about 7.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, this isn't some sort of crazy altenrate world. one of the chief pillars of english prosperity, not just financial but espexcially intellectual, was the flourishing free market in children they had.
mircea_popescu: much like the vast majority of people writing should be charged
mircea_popescu: i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting.
mircea_popescu: any helicopter mom can run the mouth for longer than anyone can maintain an erection.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to put up with parenting level bullshit you might as well answer one of those "will rent for cocksucking" craigslist ads.
mircea_popescu: this is plainly untrue. if teenager rent is null then pretty much any woman's rent is also null.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've yet to meet adults that made less than teenager allowance.
mircea_popescu: * Adlai is a bit puzzled by the incentives arising from s.qntr's share model... authors are incentivized to write the longest possible article which will pass review, while the editor is incentivized to pick the shortest available article on a specific subject << works i guess.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> larval cycle where you are supported by external wires (parents, student debt, etc.) << clearly spending your own money as you see fit should be a better position than begging mom/govt. so if that's what it is then... yeah, waste it. it sucks.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or is there a set of staff authors ... ? << set as in brothel. anyone can submit for an audition
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> so regards to finding additional author, on the about page i added must be in wot + 6 months #b-a logs, i'm happy to loosen requirements if article quality is up to par, what do people think? << yah if they're in the wot at all and they submit something that's decent should be ok
mircea_popescu: still, you gotta gimme something. don't use standard stuff, don't homebrew, what then ? wait for god ?
mircea_popescu: provided he's given peashooters as a kid and encouraged to shoot himself till he gets tired of it.
mircea_popescu: ideally, by the time he's old enough to have a gun he has enough experience with peashooters to know better.
mircea_popescu: who/what had that tagline ? "you won't believe what happens next"
mircea_popescu: i suppose the user-friendliest solution would be to get a cheapo cert and then redirect it via mod_rewrite