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mircea_popescu: you're not getting a pass. which is you know... wtf, this guy PASSED ?!
mircea_popescu: so are drugs. now, would you take a 20 dollar hit the day of a 20k exam ?
mircea_popescu: enough so that most people rely on their comp to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's like the SAT, except to even show on the scale in s7 you need about 98% on the sat.
mircea_popescu: what good are 3Gh/W chips at 3 dollars each in that context ?
mircea_popescu: the notion that the imperial household is in any way limited wasn't doing too well over there anyway.
mircea_popescu: the part dealing with why technology can't help the police)
mircea_popescu: i strictly mean, average quality went down, in the sense the understanding displayed dwindled. not in the sense better predictions were done
mircea_popescu: tho it's a huge task, you can't even read all the deluge of today
mircea_popescu: this is BECAUSE a democratic view to specialist fields is harmful for everyone involved :
mircea_popescu: you will find a marked decline in the average quality.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids if you take the whole predictive discourse of economy in 1913 and compare to 2013
mircea_popescu: and a few old people left over. once they die that's it.
mircea_popescu: in the wake of wikipedia you have strictly ignoramuses with delusions of education
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids there's a subtle point involved here : back when information cost money you had a bunch of ignoramuses clearly labeled as such and lots of educated people.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you should have paid her to dump her bf.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you should have hired the whole stable.
mircea_popescu: if you don't have the greenest grass wtf are you doing
mircea_popescu: then they still hate you but a) you're having fun and b) they also love you.
mircea_popescu: this is why you make your designers work nude and spank them occasionally.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so make them simple rather than open.
mircea_popescu: why would you want more democracy at all, or any democracy whatsoever in anything you care about at all ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids what rattles me is this : how can you sit there and propose democracy as anything but a horror, with this experience ?
mircea_popescu: this is starting to sound a little too much like popular bitcoin finance.
mircea_popescu: for some odd reason in romania "brand" denotes the thick of one's arm
mircea_popescu: everyone copes in his own way. apparently there's a huge premium the internet puts on coping by insulting and publicly humiliating the stupid
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it gets way better. "They're not hidden, they're on a shelf. Obviously you're going to say my design isn't very good so you can justify charging to redesign it. Everyone who has seen the current brochure has said it is amazing. Ive got a degree in fine arts and I've done an advanced course in Adobe. I probably know more indesign than you do. Art is subjective. I branded it to appeal to our customers, the
mircea_popescu: they did that so in case i go this it may one day not show zeroes
mircea_popescu: the best thing about postmodernism is just how nicely varied people are these days.
mircea_popescu: if you can't wait a week or w/e it takes pay someone who already did it, if you don't like paying wait, whatevs.
mircea_popescu: but srsly, the data is free, query mpex, get the jsons, store them, in a week or w/e you have your sample.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i think we long forgot about that lol
mircea_popescu: no, i mostly use you as a cockpuppet to illustrate the concepts involved for the general readership.
mircea_popescu: as presented your statement readily reduces to "that which people do which isn't reducible to our own idiocy and our own idiocy don't mix", which further reduces to nonA is disjunct from A. which it is. whoop.
mircea_popescu: "greed" is a meaningless symbol only defined in your own system. it's about as important as flogiston, generally.