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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
mircea_popescu: specifically. "precision that you can't act upon". could be the "web analytics" business
as well.
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: donations" factor by calling alumni and asking them to donate $5, and whoever doesn't donate label
as deceased."
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.
trinque:
as for investing in deedbot I don't see the angle
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."
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the story of england's country estates is so much lolz. so hitler won the war, and
as a result by 1955 they were destroying the "national heritage" at the rate of a site a week.
mircea_popescu: reality is x, people always, for some reason, represent it
as x+a. never
as x-a. why not ? should be evenly distributed around x, neh ?
mircea_popescu: but i got an idea of a graphic novel, suddeenly : in this crapsack world in which the implementation of the "jews eating babies"/"white slavers" moral panic / fetish is actual farms to literally produce baby viande
as per the modest proposal, it is discovered that ringworm infection of the abdomen in 2nd trimester females results in tastier, if very strangely diformed veal.
☟︎ phf: ben_vulpes: i don't think fmt is a horrible idea, but it (and similar packages like iterate) would've been great if they were part of the standard.
as it stands they get you some elegance at the expense of being an idiosyncratic external dependency. you still have to learn format and loop, but once you do, you start thinking twice about replacing them with something marginally better.
mircea_popescu: it earned it, on its own merits,
as part of the whole construction's history. it's there and you honor it.
mircea_popescu: the actual life of the mind
as a thing is of the mind, not of a butchered brain.
mircea_popescu: tel lyou what : the weird make it, the brave take it from them, and the smart take it from the brave. true in the "empire building" us west
as well
as in lublianka.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:43:36; mircea_popescu: but this counted
as valid science for decades in hundreds of convictions.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308922 << there's a problem here. of the original set of hoodlums, meyer lansky actually survived, to die in the 80s in florida like any serious jew from beyond the pale. most memorable about him is the anecdote that when about 9 was trying to run a numbers racket with some friends, and when the older boys tried to muscle in,
as older boys are supposed to, he demured. "yo
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:05:39; asciilifeform: i was sad,
as a boy, reading about how lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, met the guillotine
mats: I'm not sure you see how tiresome it is to rehash the discussion
as follows -- 'gtfo off leaky ship already', 'am in middle of atlantic', 'so swim to island (without provisions)', 'then get on a ship without holes', 'there are none on horizon', 'getting on that ship in the first place is a problem of a logical class', 'yes, but... am here'
mircea_popescu: but this counted
as valid science for decades in hundreds of convictions.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 15:31:19; asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-
as-a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 13:19:00; punkman: "I trained to become a wealth manager. That initial part of my study took two years, many thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of miles of travel. Although I never practiced
as a wealth manager"
punkman: "I trained to become a wealth manager. That initial part of my study took two years, many thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of miles of travel. Although I never practiced
as a wealth manager"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for the record, using the original latin phrases over their vernacular "just
as good" later "equivalents" is not merely and not just talking down to some (the "intellectual" equivalent is nonsense, but let's ignore it).
pete_dushenski: "I would not be surprised to find out that you work
as a plant security guard for just above minimum wage, on a night shift, where you use your time reading to try to be able to impress others with your intelligence, or that you live in a basement apartment, or drive a 2o year old junker."
ben_vulpes: "especially notable
as a joint production of ABC and Soviet Russia"
punkman: "In 2015, Angelababy sued a clinic for defamation after it alleged that her face had undergone plastic surgery.
As requested by the Beijing judge, Angelababy underwent examination to certify the authenticity of her face in a plastic surgery hospital in Beijing. The hospital chief pronounced that Angelababy's looks were genuine."
shinohai: Isn't astrology just
as smoke-and-mirrory
as religion?
mircea_popescu: "That's narcissism-- "writ large"
as they say in magazines that suck. Even if the drugs made him completely insane, the fact is that he regularly puts himself in situations that involve something getting punched, and the only explanation for that is that he doesn't see rules
as objectively applying to him, he only sees his behavior
as situational, in his context. In other words, there's always this: "well, hold on, t
mircea_popescu: to rethink the need for my existence. I'd also be scared that she'd call the cops and shamed
as a woman beater, ruining my life and/or career; and I'd be Ed Norton 25th Hour terrified of going to jail. Charlie Sheen apparently feels none of these fears, at all, ever. After he beat up the first bitch who deserved it he should have sworn of bitches just out of self-preservation, but no, back into the mix, and if the
mircea_popescu: anyopne have any inkling of an idea
as to why i might have registered f9beb4d9.org ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (google uses the gpl
as a urinal and has, for years. this is not, i think, a secret.) << "don't be evil"!11
kakobrekla: so mil chromebooks server
as disposable terminals? how could those nettops be used for anything anyway?
pete_dushenski: and then there's the plain bizarre comments such
as "Am the happiest woman on earth,, my husband just called me this mornings after divorcing for another woman going to 6Months with the help of this man i met on this site please help me to thank him and the author of this site his name is Dr Aida Wedo His phone number is +2348115436578 his email is africanvoodoorituals@gmail.com my name is William Sarah am from
mircea_popescu: i do however hold all these
as conversation openers, if anyone ever feels like delving into one of the articles etc i'll be happy to hear the conversations. truth is digesting tlp will take more than just this.
mircea_popescu: the tv personality went there
AS A TV PERSONALITY, to confront the other tv personalities. because that's what everyone in congress is : a b lister, of dubious talent, coming not from central casting but from ballot casting.
mircea_popescu: now they move on to pretending like the failure of the third attempt
as socialism was really called for no reason "capitalism" and lo and behold, socialism failing EVEN WHEN IT MASQUERADES
AS CAPITALISM proves ~capitalism~ doesn't work.
mod6: <+trinque>
As of now, she said she's sold "around 30" in total, including in-person sales. << Thanks, grandma! << haha
trinque:
As of now, she said she's sold "around 30" in total, including in-person sales. << Thanks, grandma!
mircea_popescu: or
as usgavin_fucktardessen would say, "i always advocated engagement".
mod6: Ruby or others can be used
as well...and I've only just started using Ruby
as well. (which makes me feel dirty lol)
mod6: i like it a lot. its sort of too bad that the step definitions behind the "gherkin" or cucumber scenarios are written in Perl, python may have been easier for people to digest. But I'm not
as up too par on that.
mircea_popescu: if homo redditicus would pay
as much
as five borrowed dollars for "a woman" the us would look like argentina.
mircea_popescu: "woman"
as in, overweight, with college debt, with bad habits, with the entire baggage of having watched
as much
as 5 mionutes of for-women tv is worth less than a pig.
mod6:
as discussed before
mircea_popescu: "There is a terrible, terrible, ugly truth underlying all of this, and that is that taxes don't matter to a government that can print money. The government collected $2.4T and spent $3.6T. They'll take what they get, of course, but if they had collected $2T or $3T you/they would not have noticed. The country isn't a household, it is a bank, and
as long
as the rest of the world believes "we're good for it," then we a
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:29:35; asciilifeform: who predicted that, if realistic sex robot is ever thought to be possible (and it is intrinsically a for-men item,
as there is not likely to appear a dominance-robot and certainly not a wealth-robot) , there will be mass upheaval.
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:14:41; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307597 << WITHOUT EXCEPTION this kind of thing is said by people who, if you were to wire them to the mains to get the truth, will admit that they see any disease that doesn't show up on a blood test or xray
as 'in your mind'
ben_vulpes: xmonad sucks
as much
as haskell sucks, for the simple reason that one must load haskell's horseshit into head to use it.
jurov: misread
as widget system, got excited for a moment
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:29:35; asciilifeform: who predicted that, if realistic sex robot is ever thought to be possible (and it is intrinsically a for-men item,
as there is not likely to appear a dominance-robot and certainly not a wealth-robot) , there will be mass upheaval.
mats: results speak for themselves, despite hand waving
as to 'pixie dust', which is outright misleading imo
assbot: Logged on 25-10-2015 16:04:16; asciilifeform: ;;later tell gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-10-2015#1307560 << i could tell much the same tale
as you. eventually i discovered that i have a 26-hour circadian cycle and no amount of punishments, risks, dope, lost money, etc. will do A FUCKING THING about it. the only cure is to break out of workschwitz so that to sleep ad libitum.
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2014 03:08:03; asciilifeform: busy
as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems