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mircea_popescu: myeah. one classical problem the corporations were for is that usually ventures require a lot of dedication, and people got lives to live.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo damned tging nearly burned down in croatia this summer anyway.
mircea_popescu: "USS Mount Whitney sunk by russian backed syrian/ukrainian/whatever rebels"
mircea_popescu: the notion that government agents/agencies have ANY right to privacy is the highest grade of lulz.
mircea_popescu: "The Cooperative is declining to name the Illinois state agencies and buildings which will be affecting by" why the fuck ?
mircea_popescu figures in short order fucking tables will "no longer be able to cool passively".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the discussion of "philips desperate to stick its shitendrils in here before led takes over" i think
mircea_popescu: which is why the power plants don't update : they actually do the math.
mircea_popescu: but, and this general point remains, you don't get to, nor should you, exclude operational costs from efficiency calculations. after you factor in the $500 to replace your favourite pair of pants you always just so happen to be wearing at the time, plus the inconvenience at billable hour cost etc, suddenly the idea to switch to "modern, energy saving, efficient" bulbs looks a lot closer to the insanity it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which means they increase draw until they explode, normally.
mircea_popescu: well anyway. mercury usually makes for negative resistivity
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr, where do you buy your metal-halide lamps that are ACTUALLY free of mercury ?
mircea_popescu: punkman if it doesn't get up as much as before for a few weeks the effect's supposed to go away.
mircea_popescu: well, br exposure, not the end of the world. wash the place, but at leasr you get to keep your clothes.
mircea_popescu: yes. but when they do they don't cut through the fucking glass protector and burn the floor!
mircea_popescu: punkman those aren't the kind that cut through teh glass
mircea_popescu: punkman they pretty much all have ; the other heavy metals they could have are not much better.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, if you didn't know - this is pretty much the only thing where a vacuum cleanner that was supposed to have its bag changed weeks ago is good for - but boy is it great for it.)
mircea_popescu: expect ~1 cubic metre of assorted toxic waste per exploded shitbulb.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: remove and seal all clothing, wash in abundant water, have air in space vacuumed throw out, wash the surfaces in acid
mircea_popescu: i somehow suspect less than 1 in 500/15 young men die within 5 years.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: punkman go throught chemical exposure protection cycle rightnao.
mircea_popescu: makes 0 sense. to be paid 500k when you die, even starting as a 20yo man you'd have to do at least 500 bucks a month in premiums.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you will note that the thing discussed in my article was health insurance, which is a contingency sort of deal. life "insurance" has nothing to do with this, as everyone dies. as practiced it is moreover a sort of heavily discounted investment plan\
mircea_popescu: fortunately rakim has no say in setting the narrative.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't count unless it's racist. google is tech, vw is manufacturing.
mircea_popescu: but whatever, easier to write fiction than get a job. like any fifteen year old with a "backup plan" knows full well.
mircea_popescu: this figures way higher than "oh, president bahamas of london 1715 - what do you mean he didn't exist, not like he's a recent invention dun be racist! - forced companies to pay more in wages which is why manna fell from the heaven as it certainly will now!!1"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "productivity" claptrap is irrelevant. england just had a good moat.
mircea_popescu: forget corporation sole and all that actual history, it wasn't on Cheers.
mircea_popescu: gotta be "companies", as if such a thing even existed in any sense any recent derp would be familiar with.
mircea_popescu: which... whatever. you can pay ustards any amount of fake money you want, up to and including infinity. they're still goners.
mircea_popescu: well, they want the entire "higher wages = technology" argument.
mircea_popescu: Jay Hathaway said something with numbers in it once so Jay Hathaway is mathematician ? something like that ?
mircea_popescu: that dude is pretty lulzy tho. "i like thinking outloud on shitter, it helps me gauge how deep in the latrine i am"
mircea_popescu: nothing quite beats glass resting straight on metal, nor the tittilating value of fully dressed derps.
mircea_popescu: that's the worst layouyt for one i ever saw and wtf is with the window
mircea_popescu: can go through the whole playbook in three years and STILL feign to not be aware who's daddy.
mircea_popescu: simple man's playbook. 1. OH NO THIS IS BAD ; 2. gotta do it too ; 3. we've always done it this way.
mircea_popescu: lol remember that time when i invented stickers and everyone got crazy butthurt ?
mircea_popescu: and really, the vegetation of deep russia is stunnignlyt beautiful.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that anyone who isn't born in a minor culture can ever enjoy this situation of "i am the only literate one of my people. literally."
mircea_popescu: other than the same-day homage thing, i would guess between half and two thirds of every romanian blog is either a straight lift, a bad translation or a more or less hacky adaptation of either current or historical trilema.