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mircea_popescu: constantinople wasn't so important militarily ; but certainly in
the copying monk sense here discussed. even after
the venetians sacked it, it still had shit.
mircea_popescu: before
that, it was "who
the fuck are
these anons" all
the way.
mircea_popescu: this is not very clear.
turks captured cairo because htey held constantinople.
mircea_popescu: except not at all without. i personally sat on
the steps of oldest university in europe -- in istanbul. 1200s
mircea_popescu: in
the simplest of
terms, no afghan goes "we must make peace with
trump because he bought himself a jet". at
the
time,
this literally happened, "we can not be at war with
these people
they have books".
mircea_popescu: there is a moment in frank history when
this
third brother raised up in rebellion because his father disinherited him. and he had... no artefacts.
this was a huge fucking deal,
they had not a single book
to know how
to organize
the state/church.
mircea_popescu: but, understand : copying monk cca 1490 was worth, in adjusted
terms, more
than
the current 747 jet
trump bought.
mircea_popescu: it is a matter of fact,
though. a monk was fucking expensive. more so
than
the modern item in question.
mircea_popescu: classical
text were copyable by hands of higher capital value
than
today's silicon copier.
mircea_popescu: "bare hands" at
the
time meant low control high force "i can move rocks hehe".
mircea_popescu: there's a very strictly defined ingredient which distinguishes
the cargo cult scavenger worlds from
the renaissance scavenger worlds.
mircea_popescu: the more you pull on
the nipples,
the bigger
the
tits grow.
mircea_popescu: the point however, is
that if
this gets going he'll be (justly) motivated
to do more work, replacement wise on
them etc.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 15:17 mircea_popescu: and
this in
the best case, a good half simply buy
them
to deny it
to memory strokers in
the hope of geting more $$$ later.
phf: it is possibly because 3600 series is a hog. xl1201 is snappy, i got it
to render a jpeg over
the wire for example, all
the hacking was done on machine over x11
mircea_popescu: understand :
the neurotic chick
that's fucked regular, unbecomes neurotic.
the sane chick not fucked, becomes.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other lulz : i just brokered a deal whereby we could in principle get candi
to run off vintage iron, as a hosting deal :D
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:26 asciilifeform:
the 'collectors', in my experience, have been
the farthest possible
thing from a help -- quite a hindrance, in fact.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-23 03:17 asciilifeform: it is almost as if
they did not want
their 3-10k $ investments
to
turn into
the equivalent of old nintendo.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the idea was, restaurants don't work like apple stores,
there's a "concept store" etc.
they work more like music acts i guess.
phf: well, right,
this is not any kind of area of jwz
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the situation is
tight coupling between businessman and chef, which meanwhile disolved. i still count it as an a, except
the funes item came in
thje shape of starr/rose binome.
phf: i'm pretty sure starr himself is not a cook, but apparently
the whole starr restaurant is not his first venture, he started as a large-scale stadium concert organizer (? i'm not sure what
to call
that role), so who knows how much cash he put into his restaurant venture
mircea_popescu: a yeah, check
that out, franchised. sad. i've not seen
the books but i'll bet you
the conglomerate lost money q1 2017.
mircea_popescu: or did he do
the whole
tv franchise bs and left coucou ?
phf: mircea_popescu: i'm
thinking stephen starr
mircea_popescu: i am not aware of a successful restaurant
that was built as you describe. you have a)
the funes style restaurants, owned and operated by an actual expert chef.
these are 50-50 for roi. b)
the "prestige" restaurants of very large hotel conglomerates.
these always lose money and are
the mud from which a sprouts and in which a goes
to die. and
then you have
the roadside diners. and
then d) you have
the franchises.
phf: well, how do
they have it with
the restauranteurs: you have
the guy who designs
the concept and
then you have
the day manager who actually runs
the place
mircea_popescu: phf he
tried and failed from hwat i hear.
though i hear via actual bar people, as opposed
to itards, and it's mixed in "shithead has nfi how
to run a bar" expletives.
phf: i
think if he stuck
to
the original "cyberia" vision from
The Hackers instead of leaning
towards
the whole san francisco cyber goth
thing, but
then you can't really bring new york cool
to san francisco anyway
mircea_popescu: the way it usually works is
that
they lose focus vision but retain lateral vision (this is how chet's eyes work).
this
then can
through intensive
training be
taken
to
the point where you can actually write code. whereas surgery
to implant a) doesn't yield very good focus vision and b)c
threatens complete destruction of peripheral remnants.
mircea_popescu: major problem is
that few people lose vision
through retinal failure in a way
that produces
total blindness.
mircea_popescu: actually
the ancient web presses were coupla mil a pop.
mircea_popescu: so...
two dozen 1/4mn boxes, what of it ? ordinary print shop
mircea_popescu: i believe.
to my eye
that's not apparent, just, you know, "Whatever boxes
they use"
phf: not even just because of bolix, but
the overall "there's working being done here" feel
phf: yeah,
that's a beautiful video