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mircea_popescu: i'm also certain it wouldn't be worth having ; but that's a different story.
mircea_popescu: i imagined they must be spraying, but then again i never saw either flight or land crew doing in.
mircea_popescu: it is the strangest thing, i used to think mosquito is the sort of beast that either doesn't exist or else is abundant
mircea_popescu: by that criteria buenos aires spring is about 10 months long.
mircea_popescu: (funny enough, winter in romanian is iarna ; reads almost exactly like english "yearn")
mircea_popescu: but if one is going to live in a large human anthill, byzantium prolly a better choice than more modern atrocities.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a bad place. of course, these days... Joshua-I sorry wut ?
mircea_popescu: every time i leave someplace there's a bunch of girly tears left behind, you know ?
mircea_popescu: it never rains in egypt. that was nice. not in suitcase. it never gets hot in northern transylvania. also. i dun have either bosphorus or golden horn. the list is long
mircea_popescu: looky, if i missed everything i cared for and don't currently have it'd be an endless funeral+wake over here.
mircea_popescu: well, if you count it going to like 5 celsius ONE NIGHT and otherwise being a very balmy lower tens thing winter,
mircea_popescu: course, it's always my womenz that warmed it, might be a factor.
mircea_popescu: so you'll drink piss just so as to not have to listen to the neighbours fuck ?
mircea_popescu: your sail will power a seawater processing plant now ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could not wash for an entire year, a la rms...
mircea_popescu: fresh water, at a gallon a day per head, means if you're actually alone a deux, 4 tons just that.
mircea_popescu: suddenly your item is not a mere boat but a fucking battleship.
mircea_popescu: well, figure out what you eat in a year ; plus all the things you might want but won't eventually eat.
mircea_popescu: it pointedly does everything you openly admit you want ; and fails to do all the things you want but disawov, such as "it should be a grownup for me".
mircea_popescu: which is why it's always cheaper for merchant to cater to old dutchess than to young upstart wife.
mircea_popescu: "pointedly not it", chiefly because you're trying the oldest trick in the poorfag's book, which is to say to NAME his target according to the conventions of trade, but to secretly expect it to satisfy his metaphysical expectations.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; floating apartment is not much worse for maintenance than car.
mircea_popescu: on the planet where the guy he bought it from paid 15% what it cost in 2014
mircea_popescu: depends how much he flies it. but good engines, like good everythging - no longe rmade
mircea_popescu: actually he bought a jet not a mig ; it was a few hundred not mil ; and it's not a terribru investment.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, in common terms the problem is solved : 4 room floating apt can be had used in good condition for a coupla mil.
mircea_popescu: "if my answers scare you, time to stop asking scary questions"
mircea_popescu: but the % varies - at the heyday of the empire, during trajan, burebista's 200+ tons of gold were not enough ; centuries later, a few % of that sufficed for an entire dynasty of paleologai
mircea_popescu: brache was, famously, so incapable of social intercourse he couldn't leave a banquet and died of a busted bladder.
mircea_popescu: perhaps tycho brache / keppler is the best example of this duality.
mircea_popescu: depends tho, some parts of science are nonconversational. it's a mixed bag.
mircea_popescu: (1469 captain general of venetian navy, no naval experience, guy being a lawyer and orator at papal court. chose to pretend like he knew his shit, cost venice its head eventually.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in the man's own words, "he who thinks of death best not follow me"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505518 << strangely enough, none of the kids playing history (with the abundance their forefathers so imprudently assured them) realise that "hey, things are linked, a boat like this means i gotta sleep with a schmitar under pillow!"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you know, sultan ordered "an army as strong as the one which took constantinople" be assembled to deal with this guy once and for all. after not doing so well for a long time eventually cornered him against a mountain, where vlad told his men that neither capture nor death of famine beign fitting of warriors, how about we go into their camp and fucking rape them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> possibly answer is, be small king. far away <<< this is quite lulzy, you know. "i want a center of a circle that's squarer and closer to the margin"
mircea_popescu: if they do, are solvable in practice. if they don't, you're advised to fix your head.
mircea_popescu: anyway. problems, like f(x)=some polynomial, either have or don't have real roots.
mircea_popescu: that's a different thing. all non-problems are non-psychogenic.
mircea_popescu: whenever you end up with a problem which has no real roots, you therefore have a problem which... has no real roots.
mircea_popescu: hence my observation that the problem is psychogenic in nature.
mircea_popescu: so you'll store your apparata ; plus three princesses and some stolen fenders.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it comes with the gunk - once you are powerful lord for yourself, you gotta also select others for which to be, or else make enemies.
mircea_popescu: the momeny you've defined your aim as "to exclude others", you have therefore and inseparably defined your goal as "i wish to be powerful lord"
mircea_popescu: a change from, "who the fuck does this priam think he is"
mircea_popescu: there is EXACTLY no other ; and the main issue of the war of troy was, "who the fuck does agamemnon think he is!"
mircea_popescu: the only definition of "powerful lord" is "he who can exclude others".
mircea_popescu: and understand - this is the fundamental boyishness here. "father, how should i be a powerful lord ?" "have many friends" "i'll just build a strong castle"
mircea_popescu: hence it comes down to money. not random amulet, be it boat, dome or kryptonite.