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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 ?
mircea_popescu: i had a great pic up lemme see if i can ever find anything again in this smoldering pile of everything that's my blog
mircea_popescu: supposedly (ro) intinate = (en) defiled, but im not too happy to it. tina is a derrogative for earth, soil. it's expected to be barren, powdery (but noit outright sand) and in generaly the equivalent of dirt.
mircea_popescu: either that or possibly doesn't give a shit about caryatids.
mircea_popescu: well, the ~$65 in box cutters the terrorists spent did bring down a 8-10bn piece of real estate.
mircea_popescu: cost about 150mn to tear down (without counting amortisation and hr costs) and about 18k to fix.
mircea_popescu: except the argentines fixed it that same day, and used it to land hercules for the entire duration of the conflict.
mircea_popescu: here's a primer on airstrike efficiency : the brits did 7 (SEVEN!) mid-air refuellings for one of their rustbuckets to manage to drop ONE bomb on the one runway in the faulklands, "disabling" it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "oh oh airstrike" "ok and ?" "we took out their outhouse!111"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i get it, an entire generation of disenfranchised young russians figure they're great chaps and the fault must be in the women empowering the old farts.
mircea_popescu: isn't this the book with lena the "poor her" whore and that schmuck doing dune "the voice" v2.0 ?
mircea_popescu: i never saw much in it (and in pelevin generally) other than "oh if only the holy tenets of TRUE socialism hadn't been /intinate/ or however you say that in russian
mircea_popescu is more into the "Brothel of intellectual lusts" take on female degradation than the flimsy political apropos take.
mircea_popescu: trotyl is more expensive than either the thing or the intended customer.
mircea_popescu: i actually get more "web designer" spam than "seo expert" spam.
mircea_popescu: "After fifteen years in the design industry and realising the only difference between sitting in front of a computer facilitating client's requests and kneeling on the urine soaked floor of a truck stop bathroom giving five dollar blowjobs to men named Chuck, is the amount of urine on the floor, the Jumping Frog fee has evolved from insurance against post-project client suggestion to client incentive to have somebody e
mircea_popescu: if one structures his tables sanely then none of these complex requests exiswt
mircea_popescu: for some reason these all sound to me like "the problems we get for having a bad db design"
mircea_popescu: trinque can i get "this" and "that" comparisons of the actual thing ? "ceci n'est pas une pipe" "this is not a pipe" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no but seriously, i'm at least partly here to learn, so what functionality is it ? like a good example.
mircea_popescu: what is this "chapter" thing and why is it in your epub^H^H^H^H zipfile ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, leaving aside everything else, why the fuck would you make THIRTY EIGHT DIFFERENT FILES ?
mircea_popescu: i would much rather spend five minutes writing queries than figuring why the fuck copy *. doesn't work and ending up using cat
mircea_popescu: if you're going to rule people you gotta be able to somehow explain what you actually want done and raw queries are really not far off.
mircea_popescu: and honestly i don't mind it so much. about the same as my life generally, really.
mircea_popescu: the only way it could be useful is if it somehow intuited what the columns are actually named for me so i don't have to always keep checking
mircea_popescu: i really have no idea why i'd want a language on top of that. what's it going to do ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much every time i want something from trilema i SELECT by hand
mircea_popescu: in other news, "you should perhaps point out to your mother that being ugly is no excuse to rawdog drunks" is my new favourite insult.