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mircea_popescu: ‘It’s so dark’ a still ignorant third friend completed. Couldn’t see her complexion, probably because it was in fact so dark. She wasn’t black, but that’d be something, right?
mircea_popescu: i never met an intelligent young man that couldn't read it
mircea_popescu: otherwise tgere;'s little value to just you know, making a web url alias
mircea_popescu: well if you run your own node(s) with good peerage it'd come from there
mircea_popescu: having a few dedicated trusted watchers certainly cheaper than "everyone" doing their own watching, and certainly better than current situation (where most everyone doesn't do any)
mircea_popescu: kinda larger sort of investment to make it go, i guess.
mircea_popescu: well it may be useful if you're into the nitty gritty of it, merchants could always query your service if in doubt
mircea_popescu: i think it only appears demographic because there's allignment between the actual causes and demographics.
mircea_popescu: it's like asking me if the median fridge user knows about the carnot cycle
mircea_popescu: lol the only reason they get re-elected is the seniority system
mircea_popescu: maybe by racist xenophobe male chauvinist reactionaries
mircea_popescu: ask anyone, would they rather fuck a bunch of women, or would they rather not fuck at all but be regarded by their peers as a modern casanova ?
mircea_popescu: and they put in padded cells the sorts of idiots that wish to spend their time running for an office instead.
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: by the latter criterion i'd guess medicine is mostly successful
mircea_popescu: but currently it's mostly regarded as "the health of the population" is a thing.
mircea_popescu: do you suppose medicine is responsible for all health ? or just for those cases it picks up ?
mircea_popescu: most of the comments are derping about the guy's identity
mircea_popescu: maybe i should spend my money printing fliers of this guy's blog instead.
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: I can get 1 CME every 25-50 seconds, depending on my ability to click "b".
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 ?
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%
mircea_popescu: maybe he doesn't want to advertise it, or maybe he ran off with who knows what braindamage on the topic
mircea_popescu: anyway, fee tail used to exist, as the practical consequence of alodial title
mircea_popescu: "dude failed but that's ok, he worked hard". wtf just how rotten is that mental space.
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 ?
mircea_popescu: the benefit of diversity is quite plainly that anytihng that can be butchered should be butchered.
mircea_popescu: they have all these points of conflict all over the environment, such as who fucked the blonde escort last
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: and nobody could have predicted that nobody wants crap in the middle of nowhere.
mircea_popescu: All of the interventions involved – health, agriculture, infrastructure, education, and business seed money – make sense if carried out carefully, over time. But I am surprised by how little Sachs dug into country budgets, and that he didn’t work to convince governments to commit to additional taxation
mircea_popescu: Warren Buffett likes to say, “The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” Through that rearview mirror, we can see that the project never had an economic model that could sustain successes once the MVP dollars ran out.
mircea_popescu: Of course, Sachs knows that it’s critical to understand market dynamics; he’s one of the world’s smartest economists. But in the villages Munk profiled, Sachs seems to be wearing blinders.
mircea_popescu: all this disavowing pretense of "helping them" and "world better place" bs.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long until these schmucks can earnestly admit "we like going to poor villages in africa because it is enjoyable to peruse in detail the troglodytism of lesser people"
mircea_popescu: But the MVP didn’t simultaneously invest in developing markets for these crops. According to Munk, “Pineapple couldn’t be exported after all, because the cost of transport was far too high. There was no market for ginger, apparently. And, despite some early interest from buyers in Japan, no one wanted banana flour.” The farmers grew the crops, but the buyers didn’t come.
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
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: nor good bread nor actual linen shirts nor steel engine blocks.
mircea_popescu: the us "market" is underserved for a reason. you can't get good wine, either, nor good cheese
mircea_popescu: but it won't be free, because there's better way to extract value from the us consumer than taking 2 cents out of his 10 bux
mircea_popescu: well done, almost paid with your legalese bill. let's hope all advertising was free
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
mircea_popescu: you're grossly overestimating what it'd cost, it's maybe over 1mn but pretty sure under 10.