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mircea_popescu: at any rate : most actual foodstuffs, such as pickles, cheeses, cured and aged meats etc aren't even flora-enumerated, in the sense that we don't even really know what all grows on them
mircea_popescu: if you had a cistern to run through, and a few years and an infinity of budgets, you maybe could get something sorta usable some of the time. which is about wheree it is.
mircea_popescu: PeterL no, you can't actually, because a glass is not enough sample.
mircea_popescu: your competent oenologist can usually spot the year and most of the time the vineyard. not the region mind. the vineyard.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` sure, soime cases are more advantageous than others. now go distinguish a glass of wine from another glass of wine, chemically.
mircea_popescu: human taste is sensitive to ppb in some lines. smell easily to ppm.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this "chemically the same molecule" ... i can distinguish peppers and capsein.
mircea_popescu: PeterL didn't we have the discussion with the complexity of aminoacids ?
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing chemistry describes about food is that it has no hope in hell of describing it, and here's some alternatives that 90% of people can't distinguish
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> I would say most of food is pretty well described by chemistry already << you have no idea.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> guess they hope to sell mining equipment with the key baked in << wouldn't this necessarily leak it ?
mircea_popescu: <danielpbarron> to which I ask, why even use a block chain? it's like cloud storage with unneccessary drawbacks << this pretty much
mircea_popescu: According to the 2002/2003 census, 143,167 farms had plum trees bearing fruit covering a total area of 554 km². According to the same census, about 75% of the crop ends up as țuică.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : methanol has significant lower boiling point. which, again, means that even if you start with an equal part mixture, if you distil correctly you take it all out.
mircea_popescu: you know these things get highly traditional / fixated.
mircea_popescu: well i was talking of the traditional process as used, not of whatever random strange one may try.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, properly fermented plums specifically are so and so.
mircea_popescu: but historically, methanol is "wood alcohol". ie, if you try to distil roadkill and old boots, you get a lot of it.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's two things : one, what you use and how you ferment it. two, how you distil.
mircea_popescu: even if you start with a 50-50 mixture, keep the still open at ~75 degrees for half an hour, then you can just let it burn and collect the result.
mircea_popescu: anywya, if memory serves there's a good 10-20 degrees differential between ethanol and methanol boiling points.
mircea_popescu: seeing how one hundred thousand people made their own for decade upon decade without ill effect.
mircea_popescu: they probably tried to "concoct grappa" out of office chairs or something.
mircea_popescu: i think you gotta boil wood before you get crap like that.
mircea_popescu: actually, distilling fermented fruit can not yield methanol. it's ancient and perfectly safe at that.
mircea_popescu: the very notion that the govt would tell you what to do or not do... lol.
mircea_popescu: romania (at least back in the day) was this place where nothing could be banned.
mircea_popescu: so when it's firing time... buncha very drunk dudes that swear they didn't drink a drop
mircea_popescu: most respectable older men run their own stills, and they usually leak and are in basements
mircea_popescu: romania (at least the nw, where i'm from) is all about this particular plum distilate.
mircea_popescu: i suspek that makes me a heavy drinker, at least at the time.
mircea_popescu: cazalla heh notrly. my high mark is putting away something over a liter of 50% moonshine and then walking out.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the thing, if it's not a big deal it just... isn't a big deal.
mircea_popescu had a drink at his junior high prom. which was held in a bar. because romanians didn't actually give a shit.
mircea_popescu: let some dude show up for you in exams today, be cited for 198 gang rapes next tuesday
mircea_popescu: so you could get me a law degree just in time for lawsky being extradited to serenissima jurisdiction so i can da myself personally ?
mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, works in constipated human infants too.)
mircea_popescu: think your life sucks ? at least you're not mom jaguar.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : most large felines don't know how to shit as infants, so the mother licks their asshole to stimulate bowel movements.
mircea_popescu: cazalla he just doesn't want hair in the asshole is all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo brazil is waxing yo. and btw, general point : girls get their tit implants age 16 down here.
mircea_popescu: but i don't think we can go "all bitcoin happens in english fuck you"
mircea_popescu: russian, japanese right ? then all the arabs will get pissy because why do we pick the one or the other ?
mircea_popescu: but prolly portuguese > spanish, on account of... well... brazil is like > south america.
mircea_popescu: and before you dismiss that, you should see what fucking tits & ass lean tall blonde stuff they produce!
mircea_popescu: cazalla so then let them be 1:1 but only allow basically es, en, cn and mebbe portuguese ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the thing is, if you give them parity you'll end up with you know, hungarian translation of 500 qntra articles diluting you to shit.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so you're thinking translation more like 2/3 ?
mircea_popescu: the first time today i sat here and couldn't figure out a problem was when i tried to parse davout's proposal. brain just can't cope.
mircea_popescu: also, articles written by drunk people only counted for 13.37% of normal wordage?
mircea_popescu: cazalla i was thinking btw, on the general principle of translations. what do you think of a model where translations, be they en to es, or es to en or cn to en or whatever they may be count for half the shares ?
mircea_popescu: brendafdez better get out of the defensive shell of stupid and work your butt off, i think.