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assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:32:27; asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers
tell you gcc is right.
THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE
TO GET HACKED.' <<
this is not hundred percent idiotic.
the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines,
that it is ~physically impossible~
to program in it as-specified
punkman: mircea_popescu: or maybe
that's how he chose
the quote
mircea_popescu: (ftr, grounded windows are cheap and easy
to make, just put mesh in between
the
two layers of plastic)
assbot: Logged on 12-12-2014 00:01:28; asciilifeform: emp arms powered by chemical explosives are 'sexy', suck in grant money like nothing else, even deployed (!) by usa in gulf war 1 -
taking a
tv broadcast antenna out of action for a few hours (they had
to change an amp)
mircea_popescu: No one in
the behavioral sciences discovers something, and
then constructs policy recommendations. "We learned
that people are like
this, so..." It's
the other way around.
The policies come first;
the money is spent on
the research
that supports
them. In questions about evolutionary psychology and behavior,
the question
they want
to answer is always of
the form, "how is it not
the individual's fault, but we can medd
mircea_popescu: say
that behavior is "innate" and out of our control, while still leaving us
the door
to intervene in people's lives for
their benefit."
mircea_popescu: "The question
that
they are answering isn't "does environment matter more
than genetics?" It's a more subtle, sneaky, social-policy questionr: "since we now know
that genetics isn't as deterministic as we hoped, is
there something else
that we can focus on which is equally out of our control? What about
the goings-on in utero? So
that
the environment factors matter only at
that
time, not later?
Then we can safely
mircea_popescu: sort of like once shit dries enough, you can just pick it out of
the hair of
the African in question, leaving behind "clean" hair.
mircea_popescu: by now
the stupid "reporting"
thing is so much a kabuki of its own you can often separate it from
the actual event it parasitizes
mircea_popescu: punkman i always wondered if he actually deliberately chose his nick
that way
mircea_popescu: so does any half-ass decent
teacher. give a kid a pile of unplugged computers, pick
the best one.
mircea_popescu: Aristotle was smart, but
there is nothing he could ever learn about computers from his investigations. His science is all wrong for what he was doing. But Aristotle would
think he knew a
terrible amount about computers from his studies. In fact, he'd probably be considered an expert. "To fix
this computer, we need
to make it more rectangular. Get chopping, malaka."
mircea_popescu: If you gave Aristotle
ten
thousand unplugged computers of different makes and models, no matter how systematically he analyzed
them he'd not only be wrong, he'd be misleadingly wrong. He would find
that
they were related by shape-- rectangles/squares; by color-- black, white, or
tan. Size/weight; material.
mircea_popescu: in
the nazi us, all kids have
to have
the same result : spend 50 minutes fucking with x.
mircea_popescu: in my world, all kids are equal : gotta do
this much work.
mircea_popescu: not "oh, you finished
the work, now do
this stgupid shit" like us
mircea_popescu: "you have
to come
to school every day!" but but mircea hasn't showed up
this month!" "i am affraid of him."
mircea_popescu: i come from a land where intelligence is luxury, and i gaze upon
this land where intelligence is merely alternative boring in amazement.
mircea_popescu: Born in
Tehran, Iran, he immigrated
to
the US at
the age of 5 with his family and was raised in McLean, Virginia by his father Kamal Ghaemi MD, a neurosurgeon and neurologist, and his mother Guity Kamali Ghaemi, an art historian. A graduate of McLean High School (1984), he received a BA in history from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, 1986).
mircea_popescu: interestingly,
the focus of hate for ballas seems
to be
this Nassir Ghaemi douche. i put him on
the list, expecting who knows what wizened old ass.
mircea_popescu: So yes, I would have liked
to have posted day one; but I would have liked it better if someone else on
the inside said, "umm, wait a minute? Really? We're going
to CNN with
this?"
mircea_popescu: Please don't misunderstand me, I am not blogging for money. I'm showing you
that so much of what you
think you know, what you
think is fact, is established not by
the force of evidence but by
the absence of resources for
the opposition.
The ones with
the money are all unanimously in agreement.
mircea_popescu: The people who get paid
to look at ADHD are all unanimously on
the same side,
that's what conveys
the illusion of objectivity. Pretending
to be divided pro- or anti-Pharma, or "dopamine hypothesis" vs. "noradrenergic hypothesis" makes it look like
there's a lot of vigorous debate, but debating what color is a ki-ran just means ki-rans are real.
mircea_popescu: What do you
think would happen if
the NIMH paid astrophysicists
to look into psychiatry? Ain't never gonna find out,
they have
their own problems. Specialization doesn't mean I'm
the best, it means stay off my lawn. Since I/us/astrophysicists don't have
the resources
to publish at all/as fast as Pediatrics or CNN,
they get
to decide what's
true.
mircea_popescu: t it; I'm saying
that
those who
thought it, or could have
thought it, are busy with other
things, and
the people who should have
thought of it physically can't.
mircea_popescu: Had it not been for
the little money I do get from
this blog, maybe I would not have written
this post at all, because... why bother? And so all you are left with is
their dogma. Search
the internet,
the Letters
To
The Editor. Anyone else saying what I just said in
this post? You may not agree with my post, but you are nevertheless better for having read and considered it. I'm not saying I'm
the only one who
though
mircea_popescu: If you don't like something going on in politics,
there are ways
to voice
that. But looking deep into a "scientific" concept requires a level of sophistication which, if you possess it, means you're probably busy with a day job. So you have neither
the
time nor energy
to dissect articles in Pediatrics-- and, anyway, no forum. I, at least have a semi-popular blog; but even so I'm subject
to
the same
time and monetar
mircea_popescu: You mean because
the further away we get from
the hot news cycle,
the less you're interested in
the
truth? And so apathy allows it
to stand as
true, because it all seems plausible (face validity, bitches.)
That's social science for you. But
the answer
to your question is simple: I don't get paid
to criticize studies. I have a job and a life and an alcohol problem
that doesn't leave much room for blog posts.
mircea_popescu: "Why didn't you publish
this post earlier, when
the story first came out????"
PeterL: The last position I
took was a "temp-to-hire", I
thought
the hire part would come with a significant pay increase, it didn't so I walked away
PeterL: On a possibly unrelated note, I am back
to being unemployed again
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 23:08:58; BingoBoingo: ^Does
this mean actually having submission guidelines now is increasing submitter confidence?
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 23:08:32; BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell Peter_L
ty for
that submission.
mircea_popescu: in 2009,
the 300mn strong us spent 300 bn on PSYCH MEDS.
mircea_popescu: "total drug sales climbed
to $300B (more spending on drugs)."
mircea_popescu: "stereotypes are wrong mkay, unless
the government's doing it."
mircea_popescu: h people as individuals, so it deals with
them as groups,
types, diagnoses and organ banks."
mircea_popescu: "Just a piece of advice. If you are ever arrested, make sure
to ask for a jury. As for
two juries. If your lawyer says
the words "bench" and "trial" at any point in
the same paragraph, flee
to Argentina.
Those 12 idiots, imperfect as
they are, are one of
the only
things protecting you from a
top down, hierarchical, classist, flow chart wielding government clusterfuck
that has no
time, interest, or money
to deal wit
BingoBoingo: ^Does
this mean actually having submission guidelines now is increasing submitter confidence?
☟︎ pete_dushenski wonders how
the 'percent change' function died so horrible a death
BingoBoingo: But yes, at
the moment Qntra's goal is better writing from more people
BingoBoingo has no idea how qntra would
try
to incentivise comics.
BingoBoingo: " Historically arbitrary code execution has been a
TLS feature." << lol ben_vulpes
BingoBoingo: Learning so much about Qntra from
the sleep logs
BingoBoingo: Learning so much about Qntra from
the sleeping logs.
BingoBoingo: Just like
that bored on day, and
tired of people bitching about stuff
they did other
than web advertising, so
that is now Google and Alphabet is google,
their med shit, and
their killer robot dreams
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 19:26:43; mircea_popescu: why
the fuck does google even have an "alphabet" parent, since we're discussing
these
things ? doth qntra know?
mircea_popescu: also,
they shed what, 5% ? sport is going
to shit everywhere,
the world is sick of it.
pete_dushenski: bitpay, being
the naive upstart,
thought
to itself 'hey if it works for espn it'll work for us'
mircea_popescu: nevertheless... a pile of rifles doth not give you even
the beginning of force. it's just scrap metal.
mircea_popescu: what
the derps are doing, roughly speaking, is "Becoming powerful" out of robbing monkeys of
their rifles.
mircea_popescu: than
there is in a satchel of a hundred gold pieces collected from
the necks of a hundred dizzy cows in
the field.
mircea_popescu: yes
there is some value in money, for sure. but
there is A LOT MORE value in a hundred gold pieces resting in a hundred pockets of men
that made
those pieces
mircea_popescu: now, what
the scammer wants is
to collect
the sort of people who are dumber
than him, and separate
them from
their money.
mircea_popescu: compare b-a and random scammer circle, "dollar vigilante"
thing or
the keiser radio show (hey, check it out, "Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency launched in February 2014 as an Icelandic alternative
to bitcoin and
the Icelandic króna. Its unknown creator or creators" < hard at work deleting
the internet history of previous scams, as if
THAT is how it works now)
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:11:38; ascii_field: whereas ~thinking~ btc folks are not easily separable from
their btc.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:03:33;
thestringpuller: jurov:
this is good point. XKCD is profitable because of it's merch store
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 18:03:04; ascii_field: because a
thing like qntra works at least partly by being linkable