asciilifeform: i don't grasp this, and won't, regardless of how well mircea_popescu explains it. why the fuck would anyone want ritual over the real thing ?☟︎
asciilifeform always suspected that 'starbucks' is dominant for reasons which have nothing whatsoever to do with food, or with consumers choosing x over y
asciilifeform: at any rate, if you go and read edison's writings, you get a very similar flavour of 'idiot savant / malicious imbecile' as from bill gates☟︎
asciilifeform: if you read the primary 'current warz' crap from 1880s-90s, it is hauntingly similar to microshit in 1990s-2000s
asciilifeform: (and crown thug force, and usg monopoly concessions)
asciilifeform: specifically, the one thing edison is known with certainty to have invented is inferior-tech-empire-propped-by-pseudoentrepreneurial-fud☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the philosophical (if not in any detectable way historical) continuity of microshit and edison's thing☟︎
asciilifeform: if the fluids equilibrate, engine - stops.
asciilifeform: 'hot', in this case, being the world of the coolie, and 'cold' being the world he aspires to enter (or at least send his children to, oxbridge and harvaprinceyaleton)☟︎
asciilifeform: i.e. requires both 'hot' and 'cold' parts
asciilifeform: it is also important to note that it is a ~heat engine~
asciilifeform: we all laughed at rpietilla, but his antics were based on what actual $maxintillionaries do.☟︎
asciilifeform: this is the idiot 'normie''s idea of 'rich'. not taleb's library, no.
asciilifeform: phf: the ultimate pleasure is perhaps to pay a servant to pour the bottle directly into a (field-portable, in the back of limo) golden pissoire.
asciilifeform: 'some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night' (tm) (r) (blake)
