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mircea_popescu: "do you mean the window made the seat or it allowed the seat ? by
as in by picasso or
as in by god ?"
jurov:
as in, directly from udder?
assbot: KTVA reporter quits on-air, reveals herself
as owner of Alaska Cannabis Club - YouTube
kakobrekla: nubbins` imma have to open it
as my mom wants one
kakobrekla: actually i decided mid-unwrapping that im going to leave it packaged
as it came.
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp.
as if it's avoidable. in a totalitarian regime the state takes control, of everything. until it all goes to shit in a monolithic piece.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is like its sister, "how the hedge fund masquerading
as a 'research' university can take control of the professor/researcher"
BingoBoingo: "For example, make physicians increasingly dependent on complex systems outside their domain of expertise, such
as information technology and coding and billing software. Ensure that such systems are very costly, so that solo practitioners and small groups, who naturally cannot afford them, must turn to the hospital. And augment their sense of incompetence by making such systems user-unfriendly and unreliable. Where possible, chan
nubbins`: applied
as an onion skin over a convoluted permissions-based content management system
xmj: please accept that computer systems in this century have
as much legitimacy
as water systems in the last.
ben_vulpes: natural gas
as well, for the localized heating of crank-turners.
mircea_popescu:
as far
as that goss, they follow the nature channel and advertising for chrissakes.
bounce: (which is of course the embodiment of the white man's evil nature that needs urgent atonement, and nevermind that the scary brown people down in africa practiced it just
as much if not more... and to an extent still do)
mircea_popescu: they kept derping about this in the eu.
as i left romanian, proper lightbulbs were still on sale.
mats_cd03: reminds me of some charter schools i had interacted with
as a little one. no more grades, nobody can fail, everyone's a winner.
mircea_popescu: "here's a lithmus test on "good ideas": if it were applied to you, would you still think it's a good idea? in other words: if you can't imagine yourself
as the vendor, maybe it's time to drop the good idea stuff, too?"
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as you had someone to serve for you, all is well.
mircea_popescu: yeah, the us is a different system. it doesn't have mega natural wealth to prop itself, so it works
as a "buffettlying to prevent the children of the middleclass pushing him out" system
mircea_popescu: the cleanest way to represent the legal tradition,
as well
as the legal implementation of that tradition in any extant sovereign of the fiat, geographical, obsolete kind,
mircea_popescu: "You can’t simply ask someone if they have no intention of buying a Macintosh. Everybody lies, especially to salespeople." << the funny thing in there is, people generally despise SALESMEN for being lying scumbags. but, in fact, people lie to them
as an article of faith, and in sheer volume necessarily exceed anything the salesman could push out.
bounce: to the point that
as soon
as the mouse threatens to go out of copyright, copyright gets extended
bounce: (says me, having studiously avoided both for the last couple of years,
as much
as possible anyway)
decimation: it seems the hype for those things outstrips the actual usefulness - usefulness defined
as meeting actual people working on interesting ideas
decimation:
as I recall the fbi headquarters is a block away from the theater where lincoln was murdered
decimation: I wonder how those fbi employees feel about being seen
as meat for consumption by the local political elite
ben_vulpes: but i, spice racks, and with hand tools
as this hovel has no machine shop.
ben_vulpes: not really articulating clearly,
as i've been fabricating all day
as well.
assbot: "Dropshadows lift the type off the page
as if they are 3D. You probably don't even know how to do them."
mircea_popescu: i sometimes wonder how computing would work if linux weren't built on "packages"
as implemented, but on actual functions
mircea_popescu: proponents of such tailored "knowledge" will understandably fight tooth and nail with some classes of rational approach, such
as the people who use the counterexample effectually (aka, trolls)
mircea_popescu: decimation it's worse than that! consider : you could pick arbitrary assumptions and arbitrary data sets so
as to theoretically and practically justify a particular theory sufficiently so that it gives the desired results for a FINITE time interval, calculated to exceed the probable testing period.
mircea_popescu: important to remember that his declarative statements are powerless to influence reality, and
as much
as he'd like to live in a world where there's no incentive for me to stay honest,
mircea_popescu: and if you conform by doing the "since they call me a thief anyway might
as well", you are actually giving away that much power.
mircea_popescu: they're not redirects. in fact, linked traffic has always been 10% or less,
as far
as trilema is concerned.
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd see it
as search not
as direct. meanwhile search incoming is dominated by keywords like "true"
moriarty: mircea_popescu,
as russia is finding out
as a result of ukraine
moriarty: mircea_popescu, economic aggression can be just
as painful
moriarty: china has to deceive russia into thinking it is using some old aircraft carrier
as museum showpiece
moriarty: and
as of this moment, they are being led by a pussyfoot for a president
decimation: russia would love to shower scotland with bezzlars so he could use them
as a wedge to split the eu
mircea_popescu: but
as such he exists because new york, not because lincoln, nebraska.
mircea_popescu: decimation really it started during the renaissance,
as an attempt to bite the fruit of life fully.
xmj: with democracy you (
as temporary ruler) have no incentive to make your young boys/girls look good.
decimation: in the middle ages, the local barons would think of themselves
as personally responsible to nurture the talent of the local intelligent young boys
xmj:
as to the rest, no idea
xmj: moriarty: now comes your neoreactionary and inquires "if western europeans built such beautiful institutions such
as states that actually hold together over centuries, industries, absolute nuclear family that favors outbreeding, and an army that could literally dominate the entire world..."
mircea_popescu: moriarty it would work
as a wot system, and
as that only.
mircea_popescu: proceeds to act
as if the static image he perceived, more or less blurry, is made out of diamond.
moriarty: the very basics of comparative languages
as one of the electives or course modules in CS will inform anyone that the history of language development was in response to advances in hardware, but at the same time, paradigms from ages before still come into play today at various points in the hardware spectrum, if no longer on your desktop, then at least on your mobile devices which are
moriarty: you may act individually, but your response to feedback from the market constraints that individuality, and
as a whole, the market acts very mechanistically, well, if you can pin it down of course
moriarty: think crowd behaviour
as they exit a museum
moriarty: i've used Lisp and like it
as well
moriarty: asciilifeform, fair enough, still if you've formally undertaken AI
as a major, that's something
decimation: moriarty: didn't you perceive this
as a problem, given your previous point about mixing crap with the good?
moriarty: xmj, sure, but let's not discount formal education also
as the path to avoid mistakes made by saner individuals in the past
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2014 02:07:49; asciilifeform: (lw is another reddit clone that makes hn, etc. look sane. inhabited by folks terrified of robo-apocalypse. i was drummed out of lw
as a 'future genocidal criminal' for... considering resurrecting doug lenat's 'eurisko.')
moriarty: xmj, what i'm saying is, it's impossible to legislate every aspect of society to make it
as idiotproof
as possible
xmj: decimation: you know what you could do
as well?
moriarty: it's one of the pernicious problems of mob rule, it converges to a state that pleases the majority, even if the minority in this case happens to be the ones that make more than half of the GDP and contribute tax-wise
as well
mircea_popescu: no. what becomes plain
as day is how to interact with the few women nobody can be bothered with, and how to miss out on the value in the set.
moriarty: mircea_popescu, buying them items in hopes to get in their pants would not be very successful,
as xmj attested
moriarty: mircea_popescu, all i'm saying is, once you understand women to be a bag of emotions, rather than logical creatures, their motivations, what it takes to motivate them, becomes plain
as day
mircea_popescu: the whole theory is broken. there's no "other plane", and there's no "women"
as a one thing.
moriarty: decimation, well, unfortunately
as someone who is partial to the ancap way of looking at things, i don't identify with the reframing of couch-sitters
as slaves of the state, i see them
as enslaving the state though
mircea_popescu: it's not particularly hard, either, just
as long
as you comprehend that the "differnet plane" bs is bs, and that there's more variety between different women than between women and men.
moriarty: xmj, men are shallow by nature, our emotions do not run
as deeply
as women (unless we grew up on a heavy dose of sappy films)
danielpbarron: most of the ancaps I encounter seem to lean more towards the socialist side than they'd like to admit -- what with all their "fairness for all" mantra,
as if unrestrained capitalism won't deal a crushing blow to the dregs of society
moriarty: xmj, i agree, intelligence, beauty, the things that ultimately lead us to do what we want to do through meaningful employment, have lots of meaningless sex with
as many beautiful people
as possible
xmj: signal of intelligence,
as education is more costly for the less-intelligent
moriarty: not that i'm griping about connections and such :P the way i see it, we inherit genes
as we do connections
mircea_popescu: it's just that the parent may not whine
as audibly
as the child. but you can't rule by whining
moriarty: mircea_popescu, it does not affect the parent
as negatively
as the offspring, particularly if the parent is not emotionally vulnerable to its offspring :)
moriarty: mircea_popescu, i guess in a way you could say singapore is being "kinder" by telling you upfront that if you take that course, your employment chances will be fucked, so let's help make this idiot-proof
as possible by barring you from choosing that road