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mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes if you put a high powered flashlight against your palm you'll see some light go through a mm or two
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes she was the fucking stereotipical dumb hottie.
Adlai: at least i had the good sense not to throw water on the burning oil O
_o
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> well there's always a cab in ny...
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: waitwaitwait women aren't full of shit and don't want to be in control all the time?
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: what were your categories again? "learning by watching" "learning by reading" ...
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: kids can't parent. it takes adults. « tell that to eleven-child families in the west bank where the oldest daughters are effectively mothers to the others
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> i think a vanishingly small minority of parents actually adds value through parenting. << the "how to parent well" resources are well drowned in noise
decimation: mircea
_popescu: that's obviously the right answer, but note how absolutely no one with anywhere near actual power has even floated that idea
mircea_popescu: mats
_cd03 you probably realise the only correct solution there was to make iraq 51st state
mircea_popescu: yeah mats
_cd03 has it, look how nicely the russians did everywhere since the 90s.
decimation: yeah I agree with mircea
_popescu, it's a 'big picture' problem
mircea_popescu: gabriel
_laddel in short, im not denying a lot of work has been done. i'm just saying, i'm skeptical.
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: the paper isn't arguring "better" simply that iq holds for races across environments.
mircea_popescu: gabriel
_laddel there are many countless objections to bring. for instance, the country with a guy at 300 and three guys at 50 is better than the country with three guys at 150 ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: from linked paper "National IQs have been reported for 192 countries around the world. The results show that the average IQ for East Asians centers around 106; for Whites, about 100; for US Blacks about 85, and for sub-Saharan African Blacks about 70. The same rank-order of race differences is found for ‘‘culture-fair’’ tests and reaction-time measures. Reaction-time tasks are so easy that al
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: "the genetics underpinnign cognitive function is debatable and poorly understood." really now? I looked into this, there is no debate on the matter of race / iq / genetics (there is however, lots of screaming). What genes specifically determine iq is definitely up for debate.
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: IQ isn't all physiology, ie, genetics. Your iq is in part dependent on your epileptics. So, yes, "there’s a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic" but that "black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same IQ measurements as white kids" does not follow. Blacks have smaller brains and lower iq because of their genetics - placing them in a
gabriel_laddel: mircea
_popescu: (no, it’s not all physiology, there’s a lot to the functioning of the brain that’s purely cultural, and thus ethnic, and thus sure black kids immersed into white culture could in principle get the same IQ measurements as white kids while black kids from Africa or the ghetto never will) << lolno.
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2014 20:16:36; mircea
_popescu: any state purporting to enforce strict liability is pure stalinism and nothing but.
decimation: mircea
_popescu: yes, except they arbitrarily add on various 'strip' features, like your shoes, bags, etc
Adlai: mircea
_popescu: isn't much of what you say about anglophonia relevant for many other places too?
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea
_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were << actually, if the periodic apprentice riots are anything to go by, they probably resented their masters to their grave.
decimation: I suspect that few of the young apprentices that mircea
_popescu mentioned ended up dispising the masters who showed them how dumb they were
decimation: mircea
_popescu: not to mention they sent their criminals and 'surplus young men' into slavery in the colonies
mircea_popescu: i suppose the user-friendliest solution would be to get a cheapo cert and then redirect it via mod
_rewrite
mircea_popescu: also pete
_dushenski, mike
_c, RagnarDanneskjol, other interested parties ^
assbot: Logged on 31-03-2014 20:40:50; mircea
_popescu: artifexd i dunno, it's been illo tempore policy that people accidentally spamming or otherwise unintentionally misbehave contribute to the port fund
bounce: <mircea
_popescu> i have no idea what their codes look like, i go by "is there anything past the address". in this case www.amazon.in/God-Gamer-Ravi-Subramanian-ebook/dp/B00MY74DJG << makes me think that's an affiliate code. << the only thing that actually matters is the item code; what looks like the title is replacable fluff.
mats_cd03: mircea
_popescu: i haven't been using the west key system to search. instead, i've been filtering for proceedings involving USG and then pruning for terms like wiretap, warrant, email, hard drive, paperwork, and suppression of evidence.
cazalla: mircea
_popescu: i'd rather see aff links put deliberately than allowing random derps to send their "press releases". it'll turn it into a trade mag, which is bad. <<< it might result in good stories, failing that, scammers out themselves, win win
cazalla: mircea
_popescu: cazalla "wherein transactions may may be credited for amounts far greater than the actual amount" BingoBoingo posts his own articles and it's difficult to play editor while zzz
xanthyos: 133817 <+mircea
_popescu> so eat some letters then!
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i'd rather see aff links put deliberately than allowing random derps to send their "press releases". it'll turn it into a trade mag, which is bad. << I'm thinking more a known slush pile, but I guess the contact page already offers that function
mircea_popescu: gabriel
_laddel theyre all like that, finance's been taken over by aluminum siding salesmen in the us.
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2014 03:53:20; mircea
_popescu: the reveal, late oct/early november
mircea_popescu: mats
_cd03: my understanding of the digest system is shallow, and i've been hesitant to do any serious filtering in the event i miss something <<< in computers generally, understood as the php-machine (ie, text processing, the actual porn that drove early computing), this approach has proven flawed. it is more effectual and more efficient to make a set of filters that delivers *something* and then make more passes with
mircea_popescu: mats
_cd03 how are you proceeding anyway ? which keys are you reading ?
BingoBoingo: mats
_cd03: If you have access to a law library the law librarians usually have JD's and may have some tricks from school. Otherwise it is a grind.
decimation:
http://youtu.be/u88vMSbX_xA << lois lerner (the usg bureaucrat who targeted mostly conservative groups for 'preferential' tax auditing - now retired and making $100k per year from usg pension) was 'targeted' while walking her dogs in Bethesda. She tries to run into a neighbor's house to 'call the police' and 'hide' - the old man of the house shows up and instructs her to leave immediately
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu are you paying the lovely folks over at qntra ?
mthreat: mats
_cd03: ok.. I asked because I did legal research and wrote briefs for 4 years.. maybe I can give some advice on legal research methods. Like using the West Key system,e tc
mthreat: mats
_cd03: what kind of legal research are you doing?
gabriel_laddel: mats
_cd03: I'm curious do you think a NN would help in your search? What are you searching for?
gribble: Nick 'gabriel
_laddel', with hostmask 'gabriel
_laddel!~user@c-67-161-28-199.hsd1.ca.comcast.net', is identified as user 'gabriel
_laddel', with GPG key id 83019A4725E865C7, key fingerprint 91BA788BA26389161595550A83019A4725E865C7, and bitcoin address None
ben_vulpes: thickasthieves: remember mircea
_popescu's 'unique url' theories?
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 20:43:07; hanbot: mircea
_popescu, i guess the trick you're not sharing here is that you'll be adding mining to this later on, huh?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2014 19:39:26; mircea
_popescu: omfg kakobrekla you are banned from jokes.