asciilifeform is one of those weirdos who skates precisely on the bleeding red edge that separates being able to do your thing, in the above sense, from not.
asciilifeform: mozart's sister, iirc, was a very passable player but never composed.
asciilifeform: they didn't have to do bizarre circus acrobatics to stay fed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was gonna say 'doing retarded things to stay in food and roof' but then remembered newton's mint
asciilifeform: and you get a kind of temporary storage tank
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: somebody, it appears, stayed awake in freshman physics, and understood that if you revv up the supercharger quickly enough, gas cannot escape at the rate it is generated
asciilifeform: know what else they didn't have to deal with ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: like a chinese class where just one kid is expelled for cheating, the interesting story is the ~unwritten~ one concerning why him and not the other 99 flimflammers
asciilifeform: not partaking in this particular variety of crackpottery, i cannot comment further, but it is logical from their pov
asciilifeform: at least some vegetarians appear to take an interest in 'cell culture meat' as a way of giving the yet-unpersuaded a softer nut to crack on the path to conversion
asciilifeform: think of the analogy to vegetarianism in re: their pursuit of synthetic meat.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278246 << this ~has~ to be some kind of disinfo. it seems impossible, like hearing about a demolished skyscraper un-exploding, an egg un-breaking and picking itself up from the kitchen floor and sliding back into the chicken☝︎
