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thestringpuller: asciilifeform: the same rationale behind why there is no "sane computer" thread. i.e. dumbness is institutionalized. so wouldn't useless students be merely
a symptom of this?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: so the fate full nodes are facing, is
a similar fate good teachers face?
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: illicit experiments in your cellar. << What about
a good teacher? Is the teacher extinct from
a scholarly perspective.
mircea_popescu: alf has it. you can not, for any sum of money, acquire
a classics education in the english language today.
thestringpuller: the actual education even if considered "top class" results in MIT graduates unable to light
a bulb with battery + wire
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu:
a classics education always beats
a stem << this doesn't get undergrad children jobs in the US. interesting though, that having gotten
a stem education, i feel extremely deprived of not having studied as many classics
mircea_popescu: but whatever, i have no expectation to explain to ustards that
a classics education always beats
a stem education. not in this life. the contrary nonsense's been derped too much, and they've never seen anyone with
a classical education anyway.
mircea_popescu: it's like infants were locked in
a tower somewhere and asked to imagine how the world could be.
mircea_popescu: think about it alfie, if i want to buy
a thousand votes i'm going to say so and pay
a million, rather than talk to
a thousand derps and pay them
a cent each.
mircea_popescu: Quadratic voting is
a procedure that
a group of people can use to jointly choose
a collective good for themselves. Each person can buy votes for or against
a proposal by paying into
a fund the square of the number of votes that he or she buys. The money is then returned to voters on
a per capita basis. Weyl and Lalley prove that the collective decision rapidly approximates efficiency as the number of voters increases. By cont
mircea_popescu: and speaking of purely academitarded wankatrons, "Glen Weyl has uploaded
a new version of his paper, Quadratic Voting (written with Steven Lalley), to SSRN, which now includes the completed proofs. Quadratic voting is the most important idea for law and public policy that has emerged from economics in (at least) the last ten years.
mircea_popescu: "This is why I love Ethereum. The main net is live for less than
a year, yet tthis is the third big convention. " to quote the locals.
mircea_popescu: i don';t recall when that was, they had like
a week maybe ?
mircea_popescu: but hey, "the eu is not so much
a conglomerate with
a very small penis as an agglomeration with
a particularly large clit"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eu has
a small penis. greeks are 10mn, turks 80. not to go into details of how lazy pretentious people fit much better, or into how they're also not much of
a threat.
mircea_popescu: country's basically the equivalent of shannen doherty. was hot briefly in its youth, by now it's
a great way to pour money down the drain.
mircea_popescu: certainly not
a sort of meal ticket for the accursed lot.
mircea_popescu: hardly interesting. there's what, 10mn of them ? on
a peninsula ?
mircea_popescu: and in ww1, there was proper ro army alright. there wasn't proper ru army, though, lenin's idea was to
a) abandon the allies front and b) go "wee wee please don't beat us up mr european powers sir"
shinohai: i was thinking of writing
a piece on welfarecoin, but it is in recycle bin atm
BingoBoingo: venmo is basically
a tool that puts
a 1 cent price tag on spamming the shit out of anyone with
a venmo coin client
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 06:09 mircea_popescu: also re tiny : ro is 15% of ru or somesuch ; ru is 35% or so of eu or somesuch. tiny country is monaco, diff story. otherwise, germany's
a third of brazil and saudi arabia
a 15% of pakistan naimean ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i dun get it, doesn't paypal charge like
a buck or so fixed fee ?
mircea_popescu: should be
a misdemeanor, "you puke in public you spend that night in jail. no judge, no exceptions."
thestringpuller: Another good one is as
a freshman, one of my friends lived in
a dorm with
a lot of sorority pledges. So when she was getting up for her 8am class, she'd see girls stumble in go to the toilets. Puke. Put on makeup, and go to class...
thestringpuller: Funny story. My last semester in school, I was walking to my goto pub. These chicks are crossing the street right? One of them pukes on the light post. Her friends help her stand
a little. Then after the light changes she continues walking as if nothing ever happened.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to put
a 50 ft tall poster of
a nude woman kissing
a campari olive on
a drab gray wall across from the campus enclosure.
mircea_popescu: that gives you
a steady stream of those in the 100s, and then all the aspie schmucks pay to get in and rub... elbows.
mircea_popescu: nah. the way this works is you open
a 10k seater club, have 50-100 girls to go to all the CEO types in that city, tell them "if you agree to come to X club this weekend i'll take all my clothes off and you can fingerfuck me right here on yoru desk"
thestringpuller: Aha. I was talking more about the pub-esque "regulars". You know the drunk who spends 2k
a month on booze.
mircea_popescu: clubs DO work like this, in the larger towns. but the lists are maintained by
a loose network of associated strippers/whores/pr girls, who do the promotion footwork.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there
a) is no such thing as loyal customers and b) no conceivable reason restaurant would care. which is why they don't even bother to keep lists.
mircea_popescu: you can ask the ethereum huffers to be fucking sane already until you fall over. but #etherape and
a few short weeks later they've all woken up.
thestringpuller: the lets poke wordpress sites until one of them gives and then post
a bunch of spam backlinks
mircea_popescu: kinda in line with the diy ethos of the rest of computing. you want to be secure ? you're better off taking out the holes than "hiring
a team of experts". whatever you want - take it, don't ask.
BingoBoingo: If I'm not mistaken qntra has
a small if not entirely different kind of conversion rate
thestringpuller: How do you turn an advertising business into
a ponzi scheme?
Joshua-I: Well I'd say it touches on
a few more things than merely being some political indirection
mircea_popescu: also re tiny : ro is 15% of ru or somesuch ; ru is 35% or so of eu or somesuch. tiny country is monaco, diff story. otherwise, germany's
a third of brazil and saudi arabia
a 15% of pakistan naimean ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: eedom to give us all their shit for free, and romania really didn't need
a nuclear activities agency",
mircea_popescu: anyway, i gotta admit the "democracy" drivel is nothing if not incredibly flexible. can be spread on bread as "science not cults!!11", can be spread on bread as "say no to silly (orly?) power games and ~~~sycophancy~~~" because if you call male independence the bad word it'll totally stick, men are really just
a bunch of women that deeply care about labels like that. can obviously be spread as "the people of libya want the fr
mircea_popescu: apparently one of the direct, entrenched results of no woman being pimpslapped for talking out of order in anyone's personal memory is
a whole lot of those "that's nice dear, now come to bed" sorta vomits.
mircea_popescu: seems more like fella wants
a "nice fort you boys built, time now for us all to agree house is better" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: "Because I mean WOT is not too revolutionary when it is just another name for
a bunch of peoples' non-interoperable personal black books between which information can be exchanged only by explicitly manual means." << da fuck, "your working thing's no good!"
mircea_popescu: "Y'all keep mentioning WOT, but do you actually run
a keyserver with
a published trust graph accessible via any sort of standardized protocol?" << sick burn trinque
trinque: hey, maybe they're gonna have
a revival of allah snackbar, #blacklivesmatter edition
mats: i just dun find myself capable of looking at most pieces for more than
a dozen seconds or so
mircea_popescu: that this rank nonsense of obvious source still survives is nothing if not
a testament to the ignorant, parochial ustardian society.
mircea_popescu: the expectation art would "move you" is
a late revival of idiotic victorian-romantic notions whereby women, mentally stunted by their gender and therefore incapable of comprehending art, nevertheless "felt it" somehow, ovary-magically.
mats: no endorphins moving around, no sense of the thing inspires
a sense of awe or beauty in me, i literally don't feel anything
mircea_popescu: mats not sure how familiar with art history & theory you are, but anyway, the point is let's call it "essentialisation", ie,
a very deep stylisation of form.
mod6: umm guess it wasn't
a year or two, more like 5. lol. 2011.
mod6: <+mats> and apparently mike judge plans to bring it back << there was
a new season that he created
a year or two ago
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 01:20 phf: there used to be
a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did things with their hands, they would teach all these interesting retro technology classes. they are mostly gone now, i've managed to catch their last wave and got
a distinct feel from them "kids these days fucking suck"
mircea_popescu: i dun think it's the age. might well be
a cultural thing. they're pretty white.
gribble: Error: "age" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: comes just
a shade under 1mn / capita / year, which is to say 2.8k calories.
mircea_popescu: check it out, there's
a worldofcorn.com website for BingoBoingo 's pleasure. 2015 us avg yield was 168.4 bushels / acre for
a total 13.6 bn bushels. corn is about 400 calories / lb, there's 56 lb per bushel of shelled corn, thus therefore
Joshua-I: So I think it might be
a kind of obtuse joke
Joshua-I: If you go with
a browser like lynx the redirect never happens
ben_vulpes: or is that
a thing that consumers have cum to buttsecks
mod6: one per movie. what
a gal.
phf:
a lifetime of very specialized knowledge to share with
a bunch of no child left behind cases
phf: hanbot: guy really knew his shelters tho, but from
a certain kind perspective. spent some time building geodesic domes with lloyd kahn, traveled places to ethnograph or try and join builds, including mongolia for yurts
hanbot: shelters of the world! i'd take
a yurt class fo' sho'
hanbot: BingoBoingo not
a bad idea. how 'bout i keep it and its wretched brothers aside as i go and write
a roundup thingie when done? to go with the "peace studies" one and whatever other horrors await.
phf: there was
a guy at local community college who taught "shelters of the world" class, which started with "build
a log cabin for
a grade" some time in the 80s and ended with "design shelter on paper, bring me something, i will make curve"
phf: there used to be
a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did things with their hands, they would teach all these interesting retro technology classes. they are mostly gone now, i've managed to catch their last wave and got
a distinct feel from them "kids these days fucking suck"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf meanwhile dead cluj ethnologist had
a superb "wood technology" class.