mircea_popescu: course last year, that's btc of what, 10 bux ?

mircea_popescu: until then, upside is still likely

mircea_popescu: it would stand to reason that this navel grazing is in fact indicative of bitcoin's nicheness. as bitcoin diff bets start getting less interest than sport bets we will know that bitcoin is pretty much reached its secular price.

mircea_popescu: o wow, and the 2bn diff bet levelled out too

mircea_popescu: sonal experience to weigh one view against another in any serious way."

mircea_popescu: "By encouraging, or even requiring, students to take stands where they have neither the knowledge nor the intellectual training to seriously examine complex issues, teachers promote the expression of unsubstantiated opinions, the venting of uninformed emotions, and the habit of acting on those opinions and emotions, while ignoring or dismissing opposing views, without having either the intellectual equipment or the per

mircea_popescu: but as worthy as that idea is, calling carbon dioxide "carbon" as if that's how chemistry works makes me cringe.

mircea_popescu: well that may be.

mircea_popescu: even if the guy standing right here before me definitely and in fact killed the alleged victim, unless you can actually prove this... he's walking.

mircea_popescu: if that is all you've got on the prosecution side, i'm dismissing each one in turn.

mircea_popescu: it's like this : the fact that i believe some deaths each year are caused by murderers

mircea_popescu: but this is more of a "derivative work" so to speak.

mircea_popescu: this sadly resulted in the worst ecologic disaster in modern history, with tons of very toxic chemicals distributed all over people's living space and so on.

mircea_popescu: you could throw in there the fourth case, of replacing incandescent lighting with mercury-based lights just in time to catch the narrow window where the superior led technology wasn't mature yet, so phillips can do two full upgrades for its customers and get paid twice within two decades, rather than just the once.

mircea_popescu: which just so happened to be politically directed rather than scientifically based.

mircea_popescu: the third is the taking of a very dubious set of data covering about seventy years and containing no quality controls whatsoever, extrapolating it to create an imaginary history, and then extrapolating that imaginary history to create a "very clear" path for the future (the golf club bs)

mircea_popescu: arguably the replacement of cfc with more advanced heat exchange fluids is a net gain, certainly it padded the bottom lines of the manufacturers. nevertheless, the entire thing was fantasy rather than science.

mircea_popescu: the second is the misrepresentation of high atmosphere chemistry processes, to have the so called "greenhouse gases" cause imaginary problems to imaginary essential things (the ozone layer).

mircea_popescu: this did result in better emission controls for power plants, and did fully resolve the problem, but that doesn't make acid rain any less bullshit.

mircea_popescu: the first, historically, is the misrepresentation of the very real, and also very local problem of so2 emissions into an imaginary global phenomenon called "Acid rain"

mircea_popescu: i mean principally three things.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 that has a glorious 20 year history, ye.

mircea_popescu: soon enough you won't be able to find out your own height.

mircea_popescu: pretty much lalaland over there.

mircea_popescu: bad inflation numbers. bad employment numbers. pseudoclimatology. bad forensic tests (yeah, right, this only happened on drugs, not rape, yeah right, this only happened in ma, not wy)

mircea_popescu: see dub it's not just that they're fudging climate science generally.

mircea_popescu: and that was the last time you ever heard of that place.

mircea_popescu: they had everything. then they went and told their kids "we have everything"

mircea_popescu: i thought the guy quit

mircea_popescu: i have no idea who the guy is, nor do i really care. california's problems are not fixable anyway.

mircea_popescu: well the argument seems to be he claims to be fiscally conservative but votes for tax&spend.

mircea_popescu: one gets more money, the other gets more bruises, but still, what they do is what they do.

mircea_popescu: moreover, is there a difference between the girl turning tricks during the recession from the girl turning tricks during the boom ?

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves is that a weak argument ?

mircea_popescu: and truth is a powerful thing.

mircea_popescu: the reason this particular bit works however has nothing to do with the form, and everything to do with the facvt it's true

mircea_popescu: ha. this thing cost five grand to make

mircea_popescu: this'd be the first one.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i'll go read some sleep nao. take it ezzy

mircea_popescu: i've not been reading because i'm too busy writing ;/

mircea_popescu: this was a very happy ending to a "find me a bitcoin dork that's not in bitcoin" side project

mircea_popescu: if anyone's still keeping track of all the factual proof media is perfectly irrelevant to contemporary society : the nyt story about the group of dorks that went to inspect how antarctica is melted away by global warming and subsequently got iced in 4 lyef actually discusses "scientists". magically they forgot what those so-called scientists were doing with their "science".