mircea_popescu: "total drug sales climbed to $300B (more spending on drugs)."
mircea_popescu: in 2009, the 300mn strong us spent 300 bn on PSYCH MEDS.
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assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 23:08:32; BingoBoingo: ;;later tell Peter_L ty for that submission.
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 23:08:58; BingoBoingo: ^Does this mean actually having submission guidelines now is increasing submitter confidence?
PeterL: On a possibly unrelated note, I am back to being unemployed again
PeterL: The last position I took was a "temp-to-hire", I thought the hire part would come with a significant pay increase, it didn't so I walked away
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mircea_popescu: "Why didn't you publish this post earlier, when the story first came out????"
mircea_popescu: You mean because the further away we get from the hot news cycle, the less you're interested in the truth? And so apathy allows it to stand as true, because it all seems plausible (face validity, bitches.) That's social science for you. But the answer to your question is simple: I don't get paid to criticize studies. I have a job and a life and an alcohol problem that doesn't leave much room for blog posts.
mircea_popescu: If you don't like something going on in politics, there are ways to voice that. But looking deep into a "scientific" concept requires a level of sophistication which, if you possess it, means you're probably busy with a day job. So you have neither the time nor energy to dissect articles in Pediatrics-- and, anyway, no forum. I, at least have a semi-popular blog; but even so I'm subject to the same time and monetar
mircea_popescu: y constraints. If I need money for rum, do I spend an extra hour at work, or write a post?
mircea_popescu: Had it not been for the little money I do get from this blog, maybe I would not have written this post at all, because... why bother? And so all you are left with is their dogma. Search the internet, the Letters To The Editor. Anyone else saying what I just said in this post? You may not agree with my post, but you are nevertheless better for having read and considered it. I'm not saying I'm the only one who though
mircea_popescu: t it; I'm saying that those who thought it, or could have thought it, are busy with other things, and the people who should have thought of it physically can't.
mircea_popescu: What do you think would happen if the NIMH paid astrophysicists to look into psychiatry? Ain't never gonna find out, they have their own problems. Specialization doesn't mean I'm the best, it means stay off my lawn. Since I/us/astrophysicists don't have the resources to publish at all/as fast as Pediatrics or CNN, they get to decide what's true.
mircea_popescu: The people who get paid to look at ADHD are all unanimously on the same side, that's what conveys the illusion of objectivity. Pretending to be divided pro- or anti-Pharma, or "dopamine hypothesis" vs. "noradrenergic hypothesis" makes it look like there's a lot of vigorous debate, but debating what color is a ki-ran just means ki-rans are real.
mircea_popescu: Please don't misunderstand me, I am not blogging for money. I'm showing you that so much of what you think you know, what you think is fact, is established not by the force of evidence but by the absence of resources for the opposition. The ones with the money are all unanimously in agreement.
mircea_popescu: So yes, I would have liked to have posted day one; but I would have liked it better if someone else on the inside said, "umm, wait a minute? Really? We're going to CNN with this?"
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mircea_popescu: interestingly, the focus of hate for ballas seems to be this Nassir Ghaemi douche. i put him on the list, expecting who knows what wizened old ass.
mircea_popescu: Born in Tehran, Iran, he immigrated to the US at the age of 5 with his family and was raised in McLean, Virginia by his father Kamal Ghaemi MD, a neurosurgeon and neurologist, and his mother Guity Kamali Ghaemi, an art historian. A graduate of McLean High School (1984), he received a BA in history from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, 1986).
mircea_popescu: i come from a land where intelligence is luxury, and i gaze upon this land where intelligence is merely alternative boring in amazement.
mircea_popescu: "you have to come to school every day!" but but mircea hasn't showed up this month!" "i am affraid of him."
mircea_popescu: not "oh, you finished the work, now do this stgupid shit" like us
mircea_popescu: in my world, all kids are equal : gotta do this much work.
mircea_popescu: in the nazi us, all kids have to have the same result : spend 50 minutes fucking with x.
mircea_popescu: If you gave Aristotle ten thousand unplugged computers of different makes and models, no matter how systematically he analyzed them he'd not only be wrong, he'd be misleadingly wrong. He would find that they were related by shape-- rectangles/squares; by color-- black, white, or tan. Size/weight; material.
mircea_popescu: Aristotle was smart, but there is nothing he could ever learn about computers from his investigations. His science is all wrong for what he was doing. But Aristotle would think he knew a terrible amount about computers from his studies. In fact, he'd probably be considered an expert. "To fix this computer, we need to make it more rectangular. Get chopping, malaka."
mircea_popescu: so does any half-ass decent teacher. give a kid a pile of unplugged computers, pick the best one.
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mircea_popescu: punkman i always wondered if he actually deliberately chose his nick that way
mircea_popescu: by now the stupid "reporting" thing is so much a kabuki of its own you can often separate it from the actual event it parasitizes
mircea_popescu: sort of like once shit dries enough, you can just pick it out of the hair of the African in question, leaving behind "clean" hair.
mircea_popescu: "The question that they are answering isn't "does environment matter more than genetics?" It's a more subtle, sneaky, social-policy questionr: "since we now know that genetics isn't as deterministic as we hoped, is there something else that we can focus on which is equally out of our control? What about the goings-on in utero? So that the environment factors matter only at that time, not later? Then we can safely
mircea_popescu: say that behavior is "innate" and out of our control, while still leaving us the door to intervene in people's lives for their benefit."
mircea_popescu: No one in the behavioral sciences discovers something, and then constructs policy recommendations. "We learned that people are like this, so..." It's the other way around. The policies come first; the money is spent on the research that supports them. In questions about evolutionary psychology and behavior, the question they want to answer is always of the form, "how is it not the individual's fault, but we can medd
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Are Certain Behaviors-- And Jobs-- More Masculine? And Out Of Our Control? ... (
http://bit.ly/1H13MfJ )
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assbot: Logged on 12-12-2014 00:01:28; asciilifeform: emp arms powered by chemical explosives are 'sexy', suck in grant money like nothing else, even deployed (!) by usa in gulf war 1 - taking a tv broadcast antenna out of action for a few hours (they had to change an amp)
mircea_popescu: (ftr, grounded windows are cheap and easy to make, just put mesh in between the two layers of plastic)
punkman: mircea_popescu: or maybe that's how he chose the quote
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 16:32:27; asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified
punkman: asciilifeform: I found this interesting "the STACK UB analyser found that UB code occurs in 40% of all Debian Wheezy packages (that use C)."
mircea_popescu: so apparently there's a hurricane headed for mexico that's well twice the size of katrina
mod6: I've been to that place many times: Puerto Vallarta.
mod6: nice town. probably will take a long time to rebuild. they had a hurricane that hit back in like 2002 or 2003 that hit them pretty hard, probably not nearly as bad as this though
mod6: yeah, gigantic cloud mass.
mircea_popescu: but those accounts only popped up once mccain was in the news, whereas the cartoon looks like silver age/HB
mircea_popescu: the fact that republicans have a knack for this is kinda strange. recall the bush record ? BOTH of them ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if you ever saw hot shots, the base commander there is also a sort of mccain/mcduck
mircea_popescu: how about the "i know you've won the war mr wellington, but what have you done for us lately???"
mircea_popescu: in any case the reference is particularly weak - the officers in question ACTUALLY LED THE CHARGE. ie, were there.
mircea_popescu: apparently "biotruther" is a word, now. what libertards call people who know biology that's not been approved by the global warming committee
mircea_popescu: ie, do the idiots use it themselves or is it just a fuck me
shinohai: Good afternoon, #bitcoin-assets. Anyone here care to make a recommendation for a replacement of my lappy that just died?
shinohai: so I don't fuck up and buy a bad machine again
shinohai: Me too. I bought two of these shiity Dell i3's last year. One died within 6 months, other died yesterday.
shinohai: Buy old batteries, zap with welder. win.
shinohai: So if anyone needs good touchscreens, I got 'em lol.
mircea_popescu: and throw them in the regular garbage, too. teach the plebs a lesson.
mircea_popescu: the chinese keep making them. seriously, the batteries i bought were so much younger than the laptop it'd have been pedophillia.
mircea_popescu: luckily the battery goes into the laptop rather than the other way around os all good.
shinohai: I rather expected something to go wrong. The day I get my sdr in the mail, lappy takes a shit.
shinohai: So finish your OS asciilifeform and save us from this package maintenance hell.
shinohai: well I daresay *that* was an interesting tale asciilifeform
shinohai: I may need to mull it over moar ...
shinohai: If I can avoid drinking the whole damned spitoon, I would try to avoid it.
shinohai was just busting asciilifeform's balls
mircea_popescu: not like it's useful anyway, the difference between "run this binary" and "build" is absent in thos context
mircea_popescu: but it's firefox 16 or some shit. 11 ? i dont even recall.
mircea_popescu: it's not a secure machine or anything, watch movies in bed off its 10gb hdd
mircea_popescu: yes it does. a general purpose box is the next best thing
mircea_popescu: but i disover the problem with me actually is SIZE. as in, gotta be this long.
mircea_popescu: ya that too. "oh you could put the laptop on a table" well fuck you then, i could jkuist use a kbd ?
mircea_popescu: "so toxoplasmosis is basically a conspiracy against rat's best interests ?" "no. it's basically a selected accident. all the other accidents that didn't close the cycle didn't live to get a name."?
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jurov: tangentially related, i have done the mistake of emerging pypy and enabling it systemwide
jurov: since there is no gento pypy maintainer, it's running into dep problems
jurov: but have not noticed any mirror problems
mircea_popescu: in other news, intel finally teased out tlp's email. if anyone cares, he's 52. etc.
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mircea_popescu: correlates with a high probability of being a dangerous pedophile.
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adlai: trinque: deedbot.org is not showing the latest deed
adlai: (which had to be submitted twice)
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trinque: adlai: might have to do with whenever the last block happened
trinque: adlai: I only see you subitting something once
trinque: right, when you say "had to be submitted twice" I expected that it didn't accept one of them
adlai: first time, it didn't deed at all; second time got notarized in block 380163, but doesn't show up on deedbot.org
trinque: btcd is barfing on the transaction for some reason
trinque: adlai: I'll figure it out, ping ya when I do
adlai: deedbot put the hash in the blockchain, assbot put the content in the cloud, what more does a man need?
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trinque: adlai: he got ahead of himself and double-spent an output, then lost track of which output to use. I've fixed the db, and expect that he's back on track.
trinque: today I'm actually working on his replacement, which when complete I will provide sources. I'm starting from the bottom (stay online, keep your nick, no seriously) so do not know when it will be complete.
adlai: why not cannibalize existing works?
trinque: because that's what led to this.
trinque: I'm not doing it with duct tape this time
adlai: well you must be using some 'bedrock'
trinque: heh, if you have a proposal, make it!
trinque: every bot I've used, someone highly recommended it, and then I end up having to hit the thing with a wrench to do what I'd expect should come with the definition of "IRC bot"
adlai: cl-irc is good, it doesn't support sasl but you don't necessarily need that
trinque: by good, do you mean it will detect when freenode thinks it has not connected, but it has in fact reconnected?
trinque: and it will subsequently grab its nick back?
adlai: no, but you'll have an easier time building that with the condition system than if you're using $blub
trinque: I've only been farting around yet, so I'll see if I like cl-irc
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assbot: Logged on 24-10-2015 18:57:10; asciilifeform: and that atrocity in the desk photo is ?!
ben_vulpes: remind me to rhapsodize about 'turbo links' some day.
ben_vulpes: eh, pipe to haus is slow. still, nearly a whole second from my aws instance.
mircea_popescu: nothing says "done right" more than spurious name parasitism. really.
mircea_popescu: come to tyhink abo0ut it, one could open a whole fast food chain / pizzeria call it DeLay
shinohai: Am I an asshole if I go there and get a loan then default ?
assbot: When the loan purpose is building reputation, is it possible to withdraw the funds? – LoanBase Help Center ... (
http://bit.ly/1Ruxrn6 )
shinohai: There used to be a tranny pr0n site that accepted btc for subscriptions.
shinohai: I blew 0.1 buying subs for people I hate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't say i do, but what, it should be banished now ?
mircea_popescu: "I've rarely met an ADHD kid who sleeps enough, and I've never met an ADHD adult or adolescent who does. When a kid is sleep deprived, he gets hyper; they are too tired to be inhibited, too tired to exert self-control."
trinque: adlai: tried cl-irc, turned off my wifi until the test nick was disconnected on freenode's end, and connectedp still returns T on the cl-irc end
trinque: this is the kind of shit that drives me crazy
mats doesn't see any spiders