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mircea_popescu: allow me
to refer
to
the source material in my response.
pete_dushenski: if you can
take
these 3 points away from law school, and some connections, you'll be better for it.
pete_dushenski: imo
the mental framework
that a (canadian/uk) legal degree provides is
that i)
there are always loopholes
to exploit, ii) you can debate anything, iii) don't ask a question unless you know
the answer.
mircea_popescu: given
three kids ahead of you and
three kids behind you you could ALWAYS pick at least
two of each kind.
mircea_popescu: fucking hell. when i was
that age i knew exactly where i could go. EVERYWHERE. and so did
they.
mircea_popescu: et hired?"
They
think
to
themselves, "amn't I bright? Hard working? Fluent in legal
theory?" And
the employers respond, "how
the hell would we know
that?""
mircea_popescu: "And once
they're in law school,
there is more grade inflation and even retroactive adding of .333
to everybody's GPA. And now law school graduates are surprised
to find
they're unemployed. Law students had no real measure of
their status as an applicant; no reliable descriptor of what kind of a school
they went
to (short of branding); and no reliable measure of
their performance
there. "What do you mean I can't g
mircea_popescu: that hole. relationships, business arrangements, political arrangements, scientific models, all of it
the same exact hole left behind. "this is where nothing used
to be".
mircea_popescu: g. "I
think I belong in a
top
tier school..." How do you know?
The analogy is you have no idea what kind of a man you are and
thus what kind of a woman would be right for you, so you just harass
the girls
that other people
think are
the best.
Then if you don't get her you're angry at
the girl ("these bitches just want jocks and legacy applicants"); and if you get her you're surprised
to find
that
three years with
mircea_popescu: "See? Grade inflation. We already know about
the problem of grade inflation in colleges;
the LSAT was supposed
to help offset
this by offering a standardization. Now
the ABA wants
to do away with
the LSAT requirement. Fine. But
the result of all
this is you can't really be sure how you compare
to other applicants, so instead you demand objectivity in
the schools' rankings as a proxy
to guess where you might belon
pete_dushenski: the difference between web analytics and law degree is
that
the latter at leaves you with a useful mental framework once it's burned your bucks
mircea_popescu: specifically. "precision
that you can't act upon". could be
the "web analytics" business as well.
mircea_popescu: "A ranking, like
the "percent employed", is an example of information bias. You
think you know something, but you don't. If Fordham is #21, is
that different
than saying it is #29? Or saying it is in
the second decile? It's a deliberately obfuscated precision
that you can't act on.
That level of "certainty" does not inform your decisions."
trinque: pete_dushenski: as for
the dust it churns
through, I'm sure at some point I'll have it announce when
the
tank is low so
that
the gentlemen here can refill it
mircea_popescu: all of
this is ACTUALLY going on. and has been. for years, decades.
mircea_popescu: donations" factor by calling alumni and asking
them
to donate $5, and whoever doesn't donate label as deceased."
mircea_popescu: A quick word on
the US News rankings. 25% of
the ranking comes from a "peer quality assessment" in which schools rate each other. So, say you are Clemson Law School. What should you do? "Rate all other programs below average." And, of course, do what University of Wisconsin did: give
the highest score only
to itself and one other school
that you're not really competing against. You can also bring up
that "alumni
mircea_popescu: "They fake it because
that pointless data gets handed over
to
the illusionists at US News along with other pointless data (expenditure per student, library facilities, max bench press)
to generate a single overall ranking, which is just
the kind of simplistic, pseudoscience objectivity
that students, parents, and schools demand.
mircea_popescu: The schools do
this because
the schools are extremely profitable businesses: high cost, low margin.
pete_dushenski: trinque not
to mention
the gold-plated
tank
to pick up said groceries and drop
them off at your house
mircea_popescu: A law grad, for instance, counts as "employed after nine months" even if he or she has a job
that doesn't require a law degree. Waiting
tables at Applebee's? You're employed.
mircea_popescu: How do
they do
this? "Enron-type accounting standards..."says a law professor. "Every
time I look at
this data, I feel dirty."
mircea_popescu: Which brings us
to
the first point,
the main point: law schools are lying. Despite
the fact
that "JDs face
the grimmest job market in decades"
the schools are somehow reporting
to prosepctive applicants
that, e.g., "93% of grads are working" and "the median starting salary of graduates in
the private sector is $160,000."
trinque: as for investing in deedbot I don't see
the angle
thestringpuller: have no idea what
this provides other
than more visibility for auditing, but dunno...seems...moot...empty
trinque: fancy
that. how innovative
thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: from what
this article
tells me,
they basically built a
thing for docusign
to hash physical contracts
to
the blockchain
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller if you were in
their shoes, what would you do differently ?
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 18:23:13; mircea_popescu: "I know
they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but
that would be more convincing if
they weren't also selling weapons
to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of
the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off
the more
than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
pete_dushenski: right after ex-pm harper gutted all
those women's studies programs. sheesh. back and forth,
these guys.
pete_dushenski: 'Status of Women. Consolidated expense is budgeted at $1 .4 million in 2015-16 . A province-wide dialogue around
the formation of
this new ministry is underway .' << mkay
pete_dushenski: eh nothing exciting : $4 bn for 'human services' and $11 bn for 'other ministries' (agri, natives,
tourism, energy). also ~$1 bn for debt servicing and ~$1 bn for 'disasters'
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> 11% on university... because everyone deserves
to be reprimanded for microaggression because what
they need
to do is macro-aggression
pete_dushenski: 11% on university... because everyone deserves
to be reprimanded for microaggression
pete_dushenski: speaking of health and inconsistency, alberta's new ndp gov (hyper-unionistas) just released its 2015 budget
today : $19.7 billion for health care, $7.6 billion for k-12 education, and $5.7 billion for post-secondary out of a
total $50 billion budget
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mircea_popescu: anything up
to what it'd cost me
to butcher
them and drain
the blood and guts.
mircea_popescu: the rest - not only
they can keep, i'd even pay
them
to keep.
mircea_popescu: the stable solution here is
that
the socialists get
the crowd and wash
their head with it, all i want is
the well put
together
teenage sluts and
the fewq and far between whose heads work.
mircea_popescu: i am not intending
to "save"
the mass from it's "opressive" government/landlords/what have you anymore
than i intend
to run around farms in rural england "freeing"
the cows.
mircea_popescu: to quote myself, "Bitcoin suddenly opened
the gate. It is a poisonous offering. You are grossly unequipped
to interact straight with
the refuse of Western society. Accepting investors with fortunes under a million dollars or whatever
the limit was placed for US citizens may make sense. Accepting investors with fortunes under any arbitrary value and simultaneously wits under any arbitrary
threshold is not a sound busine
mircea_popescu: you're
turning into a modern version of
the immaculate conceiver over
there, you know ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
think you've well seen what
the results of public access
to phuctor were.
mircea_popescu: it both perpetuates
the jwz "i only want
to" class and it creates
the "i know nothing and have some oppinions" class of stolfi/swanson/etc.
mircea_popescu: apparently
teh dept of depting feels it needs more voices.
trinque: whether
that's good or bad is another question I
think
trinque: she wanted
to do
that in high school because
the world somebody set up had "doctor" in a cool place
trinque: actually I know
two such chicks
trinque: I know
this chick who ended up an IP lawyer because hell,
the money said go
there.
mircea_popescu: well wtf sense does
this make ? you don't have one so aim
to fix it by having 100 ?
mircea_popescu: you say :
thus
therefore,
the fact
that
there aren't 100 people
to follow, so each of
these 100 could follow one of
those 100 (ie,
the same one) is
then
the problem.
mircea_popescu: he says :
this hundred appears nutty, but
this seems more because
they have no one
to follow
than a flaw in
themselves.