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mircea_popescu: consider : "so we'll have 3500% inflation over the next 25 years." "wait, that coems to ONLY 15% a year ? TOO SMALL!!1"
mircea_popescu: well yeah. any sort of longer stretch is either inacceptably unprogressive or outright ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol whence the spunk ? blackdemandsmatter!
mircea_popescu: well, get a competent immigrant. ukr chicks cook well.
mircea_popescu: i suppose ~half the marriages in the world today happen about like that.
mircea_popescu: "you wanna cook for me, pick ingredients from over here" is the main driver, i expect.
mircea_popescu: i imagine a larger driver is that a) "restaurants" saw the "opportunity" to turn into caterers and "prepare" pre-prepared meals and b) nobody trusts their fucking acquisition process.
mircea_popescu: run a fucking business rather than a morroccan tourist trap and have some fucking self respect.
mircea_popescu: spare me, i don't believe in hiring your shitty workers on my dime. i'll take a slavegirl with, and she can wait on me. your inept "staff" can go hang, how abvout that ?
mircea_popescu: and meanwhile, when i visited the us people generally tipped 10% and derps were derping about how it's really not enough and should be more like 15%. incidentally looked on reddit the other day, "Everyone agrees" it should be over 20%.
mircea_popescu: so you took out a year and six weeks, once. rounding error.
mircea_popescu: buy in 1981 for 35k, sell in 1994 for 230k, buy in 1994 for 230k sell in 2006 for 1.2mn
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you have any idea what housing cost in the 80s ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes everything inconvenient lasts in socialism.
mircea_popescu: i get it, if you're visiting the 3 floor, 100k sqft country house of the marquis de Q you might not be fucking EVERYONE there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the notion of sharing space and not fucking is almost as ridiculous as the notion of female wearing clothes before 30.
mircea_popescu: if i end up buying it i'm so tearing down that shit...
mircea_popescu: because making a proper, 6x4 bathroom to unite two bedrooms is EVIL
mircea_popescu: speaking of insane idiocies. one apt i'm leasing i nthe fabulous ba has the following INSANE arrangement : two bedrooms, united by a 3x3 hallway, off one side of which is a 3x4 bathroom, and off the corner of which is... ANOTHER, tiny, 1x2 bathroom.
mircea_popescu: "i one day stumbled on this irc channel, and it changed my life. #totallynotacult."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except cunt's not made out of soap, to wear off. it strengthens through usage.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this wouldn't be a result of tarantino-cultism would it ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform somewhat less work, and importantly machineable.
mircea_popescu: yeah well. horse maintenance is a lotta work. the whole horseback thing is a honest signal of a hierarchical society.
mircea_popescu: i never lived anywhere that wouldn't have just splattered the derp.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> with just a touch of retraining he could be right at home in a bike advocacy group <
mircea_popescu: interestingly enough, senor vulpes understands quite exactly what i don't like about the subculture.
mircea_popescu: this is the traditional pathway of the derp. spends youth being inept, adolescence being revolutionary, gets metabolized by sub-slut grade female into "family unit"
mircea_popescu: of course the correct method to learn greek consists of reading the source material and the angry german commentary in alternation.
mircea_popescu: i just read it as "the difference between one's understanding and the course requirement, call it D, is the maximal aperture past which useful metaphors (with an utility marked as U) and inept strawmen (with a deviance marked as -U) can still be distinguished"
mircea_popescu: the one thing i wonder, asciilifeform , is why do we always talk in strawmen.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing when five people who spend most of their time doing things gather in bohr's outhouse and agree "x is prolly hard".
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, as a bright mathematical mind pointed out once, "at some point the effort invested in stating rsa is 'widely researched' exceeds the effort ever expended into researching it"
mircea_popescu: "this bag is as heavy as that car. we don't know whether that car is just a cardboard cutout or what, but hey, provedly heavy bag! !1"
mircea_popescu: dude speaking of "provability" bs. FSB are "provably secure" because it can be proven they're at least as hard as regular syndrome decoding. which is np complete. while we don't actually know if THAT is in fact resolvable in polynomial time or not, nevertheless... PROVEDLY SECURE!!11
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but i suspect this heavy... butted aesop is a little too hamfisted for the actual butts in question.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my idea was originalyl that it's a collaborative tool par excellence. girls better support each other's back, lest they fall in.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "would this be a punishment toilet ? for like the dungeon ?" "do you think the jacuzzi is a punishment pool ?" "ewww!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a general point : even if you did compute a fastest route, and even if in fact you are correct (which is fundamentally an undecidable problem), there is still no reason to panic if phenomena goes a slightly more circuitous path. there are at least two good reasons, both political. one's education (ie, benefit of the ingroup), the other ... well let's just say the other's for the benefit of the outgroup.
mircea_popescu: but conceptually, in my head at least, more of a "bitcoind migrates into bitcoinos" thing
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's one thing to add "a library". it's another to "import this 1k lines that i read myself".