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mircea_popescu: he made up some story about how he was wounded in the war
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty of examples, from clarke to what have you
mircea_popescu: then all their prose is equally and uniformly bland and stupid and hey, they give each other prizes.
mircea_popescu: fucktard doesn't know "the particulars" nevertheless thinks he can write up a musician
mircea_popescu: this is the direct equivalent of the heckled comedian going "hey, i work here! how would you like it if i came to your workplace and hecked you!"
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking culture : so you either know, quite well and exactly, what kind of problem a genius would approach and how, or YOU MAY NOT USE THE FUCKING WORD IN YOUR STUPID PILE OF DRIVEL.
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren't writers". i don't give a shit "you just want to".
mircea_popescu: of convincing detail means the reader does not believe, whether it is fixing an engine or presenting the actual philosophy of a character purported to be wise, and can make the readers long for the informed ability."
mircea_popescu: One choice the writer has is to go ahead and show the supposed "ability". But if they don't do the research, this leads to such laughable characters as the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science, the tactician who comes up with the sort of tactics a five-year-old would think of and the "genius" who is only a genius because they're the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: On occasion, the ability cannot adequately be portrayed by the medium used for the work. For example, a comic book cannot show how good a character's singing voice is, and a radio show would, at best, be forced to merely describe a character's great paintings.
mircea_popescu: haven't a clue what kind of problem only a genius would be able to work through, or how. If they actually attempt to show the ability in action they take a very real risk of the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going through with the above plan is the fact that, well, Most Writers Are Writers. They're writing a character who's supposed to be a musician, but they don't know the particulars of meters or chords. They have a character who is a military expert, but they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs to be resupplied. They have a character who's a genius, but they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but as that only goes so far, also by insisting that "this is everything" and that "being told off is mean"
mircea_popescu: well, by limiting themselves of an audience of similar quality.
mircea_popescu: "Se trata de una suma equivalente a un tercio de las reservas brutas que declara el ente monetario que conduce Alejandro Vanoli o al total de lo neto propio que tenía (los analistas coinciden en que ahora sólo quedan dólares de los ahorristas y la porción invertida en oro)."
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial, tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
mircea_popescu: if only they could spend 10 trn like president bahamas, they might've won.
mircea_popescu is looking forward to hearing just how badly mismanaged the country was and just how much hay mas futuro is really left in the vaults.
mircea_popescu: could be "Mr. Michael Stute Co-founded Global DataGuard, Inc., in 2000 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Stute has over 13 years of experience in IT", in which case...
mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don't know who the fuck he is. i googled, and the only hit is a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing the same name on the same topic. so really, worse than nobody. so then ?)
mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in the sense that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess we should be thankful grain at least grew in that shitty island.
mircea_popescu: been like that forever. also iirc alaska still has homestead here and there.
mircea_popescu: apparently my native oop is intuitively alligned with google sql
mircea_popescu: ;;google the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool and made a horrible movie
mircea_popescu: and for that matter wgat's his name, the guy with short fingers that quit duke lawschool ?
mircea_popescu: "new york times best seller list" items are radically not worth cutting down the trees.
mircea_popescu: in other news, a "368 page book" reads in a coupla hours, and consists of 90% recycled website material + some letters from weird.
mircea_popescu: my problem is more in line with "nobody's gonna fucking shave her snatch at 30 below", but yeah.
mircea_popescu: actually most of siberia/alaska are pretty much rent free and from what i hear rather enjoyable.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to throw half a million a year on living expenses why the fuck would you not just rent a raj palace in india and install human powered ac.
mircea_popescu: they made movies about how hey, "america gotta shape up soon".
mircea_popescu: everything in the us was much better in the 90s. buffett-style "i believe in america" merely sounded overoptimistic, hadn't yet caught this greenish hue of past-ridiculous senility like something found in a fridge on the side of a demolishing yard.
mircea_popescu: dude get the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view.
mircea_popescu: whereas foogle/gashbook/bapple/etc are more like sf/bay area/fauntleroyland
mircea_popescu: you live with the bureaucrats not the technocrats alf.
mircea_popescu: you can't drive a truck and be in tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan
mircea_popescu: not that many consumer choice 1983 lebarons out there.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> as it stands now, all ''german manufacturers' are using 'us tech' and no 'us tech firm' is using a 'german manufacturer' << you ever looked in the parking lot of these "tech giants" ?
mircea_popescu: wait, is it actually a different story ? ie, not with these ?