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decimation: as
the link I put up yesterday explained, most doctors did more
to hurt
than heal before 1900,
the 'talented amateur' was
the local nurse lady who would
try
to keep you comfortable
mircea_popescu: once
they started being paid by corporations /
the state, it all went
to shit.
bounce: plenty scientists have done so on sufferance of
the local lord, no reason why
they couldn't do it on sufferance of
the government
mircea_popescu: for just as long as
they depended for pay on
their own customers.
mircea_popescu: with
the independent professions it becomes more iffy. doctors and lawyers earned
their keep doing
the job for centuries without ill effect.
decimation: probably
the same
thing with medicine
too
mircea_popescu: yet somehow when it leaves
that realm everyone's suddenly confused.
decimation: mainly because
they have
the 'free
time'
that asciilifeform desires
mircea_popescu: this seems obvious enough with say, love. people who hope
to earn a living at it can't really make very good lovers.
mircea_popescu: people who hope
to make
their living at science can not be considered scientists.
that should be
the first crtierion on
the peer review process. "independently wealthy ?" if no, can not participate in science.
decimation: well,
there's certainly a conflict of interest between "researching physics" and "maintaining a career in physics"
Dimsler: actually i left law school
to program algorhythms for automated
trading systems
DanielKrawisz_: Yeah, academics is a leisure activity, and
there's kind of a conflict when it becomes professional.
Dimsler: nothing we were
talking about schooling
decimation: DanielKrawisz_:
the general feeling here is
that academia in
the us is a bureaucracy
that has little
to do with actually advancing human knowledge/technology
mircea_popescu: DanielKrawisz_ originally i was going
to be a physicist.
Dimsler: i gotta pack my shit down
there
DanielKrawisz_: Originally I was going
to be a physics professor but
there are a lot of
things about professional physics academics
that are a lot less fun
than
the physics, so I dropped out.
Dimsler: fuck
thats exactly where i belong
mircea_popescu: they can;'t afford fluoride so
they have
to rub wooden sticks
together
Dimsler: too much flouride in
the drinking water
DanielKrawisz_: I got logged off so now I have an underscore at
the end of my name.
mircea_popescu: DanielKrawisz_ in
the future you auth with gribble and pm assbot !up
mircea_popescu: ;;rate DanielKrawisz 1
The intersection of
the set of people who spent
their entire life in academia and
the set of people who've not said infuriatingly stupid
things about Bitcoin consists so far of one guy.
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mircea_popescu: ;;rate DanielKrawisz_ 1
The intersection of
the set of people who spent
their entire life in academia and
the set of people who've not said infuriatingly stupid
things about Bitcoin consists so far of one guy.
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to use
the rating system.
mircea_popescu: ;;rate DanielKrawisz_ 1
The intersection of
the set of people who spent
their entire life in academia and
the set of people who've not said infuriatingly stupid
things about Bitcoin consists so far of one guy.
decimation: she
thinks
that her job is
to help 'disadvantaged' people but her actual job is
to maintain
the "no enemies
to
the left" chumpatron
decimation: might as well label
themselves "I am a kulak, crush my shit"
decimation: 'nazi' crap is a particular chumpatron
that
the dumb stumble into
mircea_popescu: "He's a very bad person," said Heidi Beirich, director of
the intelligence project at
the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which
tracks hate groups. << actually, heidi is
the bad person here.
Dimsler: you guys see
the irony here right?
mircea_popescu: the most he could stand for would be perhaps a brand of goth from one particular hs.
they were doing hitler
that year.
decimation: he's a derp, no doubt, highlighted by
the local lefties
mircea_popescu: but seriously,
this derp can't stand for middle anything.
Duffer1: and by reasonable people
the world over
mircea_popescu: apparently it's being mocked by
the elites abroad,
too.
decimation: middle america is routinely mocked by
the elites on
the coasts
mircea_popescu: such smallness. i had no idea
there's so much
tiny at hand.
mircea_popescu: "I wanted
to reach out
to
the community," said Marx, who is Catholic. "We had an over-run of challah for
the New Year, and we gave
them away." << lmao.
assbot: Louisville News, Sports, Business |
The Courier-Journal
mircea_popescu: Robert Ransdell is running for U.S. Senate in Kentucky with
the campaign slogan 'With Jews We Lose.'
mircea_popescu: "If Kentuckians write-in Robert Ransdell as
their choice for Senator in
the 2014 election
they will support my plan
to fix America by pursuing
the ..." bla bla bla. write-in candidates for kentucky elections ?! holy shit, it's almost as if... i dunno, my similes fail me. i don't have something for
this nonsense.
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Dimsler: i'm not sure if some of
these articles contain
the eloquence of someone with a masters in physics
mircea_popescu: decimation unless he's married, he doesn't actually have
to ever work in
the us. you know
this, right ?
assbot: Down
to
the gwound - YouTube
mircea_popescu: meh,
that
thing's like humour. works a lot better if unexpected.
DanielKrawisz_: Are you just
trying
to get in an argument with me or something?
Dimsler: i
thirst for knowledge about how
to keep my monies healthy
Dimsler: I
teach bitcoiners about
the implications of Bitcoin so as
to alter
their behavior in a way
that improves
the overall health of
the Bitcoin network.
Dimsler: none of
these look like paid anything
Dimsler: he could have a router at home, and
talking on his ipad
mircea_popescu: Dimsler seen a lot of mobile devices on
times warner cable ?
mircea_popescu: when we're in prison, if we end up in
the same cell, gladly.
Dimsler: i heard 16hrs after
the heart stops beating
mircea_popescu: which i guess makes me something in
the vein of jesus ?
mircea_popescu: does not mean i had something in
the vein of
the complex set
theory
that eventualy did it.
Dimsler: i could probably argue
that humanity would be far better off if
they hadn't invented
the wheel
mircea_popescu: attempts are no qualification. i attempted
to prove fermat's
theorem,
too
mircea_popescu: well done. you know who else ? some guy at
the
time of
the invention of
the wheel
mircea_popescu: because in 1985 i had something "in
the vein" of
the ipad.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what huey long is supposed
to be other
than a sort of us peron.
Dimsler: i
thought chaplin was
the original hitler?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: surprised nobody's yet acting as if
they invented hitler << americans used
to. huey p. long was supposed
to be 'original hitler' << Long himself had a prototype in William Jennings Bryant