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mircea_popescu: ie, do you count what it costs to run the trucks starting with what it costs to build the roads they run on ?
mircea_popescu: i know there exists a us corp by that name. it originalyl did books, then junk, now hosting.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but you have to send someone to hunt these down and use them.
mircea_popescu: but correcting my usage of sky makes them dumb, and their ignorance is no excuse.
mircea_popescu: so in this perspective, not knowing what the sky is makes one ignorant, not dumb.
mircea_popescu: it's also the deep reason women have been throughout human society and the centuries been regarded as intellectually inferior : it just so happens that for very good biological reasson they're primed to accept new circumstances.
mircea_popescu: which is why things like "x animal sought to find its home" makes the animal seem smart, or w/e the opposite of dumb is.
mircea_popescu: dumb in my head is the situation of one who takes his circumstance, whatever it may be, as the complete story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imo, the " and why do you use that weirdo archaic word 'sky' anyway, it's 'ceiling'" is exactly definitorily dumb.
mircea_popescu: people not washing is easier to tolerate. much easier.
mircea_popescu: it bothers most thinking people, on a very fundamental and not necessarily conscious level, to interact with anyone exhibiting this particular idiocy.
mircea_popescu: it's a) exactly my experience and b) the fundamental reason the cattle is despised, actually.
mircea_popescu: but they don’t understand what the calculations are really telling them, like Searle’s chinese room but with numbers.
mircea_popescu: ilometers. No one would notice when answers were wildly wrong. [...] Since I began working in the business world I’ve noticed that most people never develop that skill. Stick a number in a sentence and people just mentally run right over it, you might as well have inserted some klingon phrases. Some of the better actuaries do have some nice numerical intuition, but a surprising number don’t. They can calculate,
mircea_popescu: The first time I taught undergraduates I was surprised to learn that most of the students had no ability to judge if their answers seemed plausible. [...] You could ask a question about a guy throwing a football, and answers would range from 1 meter/second all the way to 5000 meters/second. You could ask a question about how far someone can hit a baseball and answers would similarly range from a few meters to a few k
mircea_popescu: any physical location takes well over 100 man-hours of research before it can be livable.
mircea_popescu: the us is principally annoying because of the challenge finding edibles is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aka punishment room. small room no windows where bad girls go to meditate.
mircea_popescu: very supportive home market. "oh, our empire building boys abroad found blue rocks ? FINE! we will make hats with them! they're very valuable now!"
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, england had jamaica, only thing it was good for was sugar.
mircea_popescu: well, it's a historical accident. on one hand, "this wine is pretty good, could we add shit to it ? maybe make it thicker ?"
mircea_popescu: brendafdez how about something simple like, bar and dancing pole ? that's 100sqm right there.
mircea_popescu: you can't have a basement in the swamp. or good cheese, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: or if too old to get it up anymore, prized wine collection.
mircea_popescu: brendafdez depends on what lifestyle. place to throw a party. place to store a lot of books. place to practice some indoor hobby - from kendo to rockstaring.
mircea_popescu: besides, something tells me you'll salivate after the vibe of any place that's not washington fucking dc.
mircea_popescu: timisoara. it thinks itself a major romanian town, but it's more like... well... portland, basically.
mircea_popescu: the girlies that lived alone in town generally got 500 sqm apts running 300ish a month.
mircea_popescu: it came with my $7k a year two level + garden house in ro.
mircea_popescu: "For the first time in New York City, a multi-unit building will (legally) consist entirely of what the city has dubbed "micro units," which are apartments of between 250 and 370 square feet." << this is almost exactly it!
mircea_popescu: dude, shakespeare had only part of it. not only is the world a stage, but the same old play is going on endlessly.
mircea_popescu: "construction zones that only constructed themselves" fuck, that's SO DAMNED SOVIET!
mircea_popescu: i'm curious if it's going to yield some sort of ragnarok-like "the world is doomed" (seems to jive with the "austerity won't work for us so it doesn't work period" self-seeking ignorance) or some sort of ultraviolent civil war of six sides, like in japan
mircea_popescu: there's a difference between "laughing is evil" (as aptly depicted by eco) and "we are wrong"
mircea_popescu: but the us has been hating itself, quite loudly at that, for decades now.
mircea_popescu: ironically, neither group (ru, ro) selfhated pre the experience.
mircea_popescu: not that it was avoidable, but it did make for enduring hatred for both communism and russians.
mircea_popescu: five-six thousand years later you'll be launching the titanic!
mircea_popescu: incidentally : shared kitchens are absolutely the ONLY way to go high density. gotta let the women become friendly so the tribal structure re-emerges. once they're breastfeeding each other's babies you can start over with the moses desertwalk.
mircea_popescu: where they put all the peasants that went to town to work
mircea_popescu: 'The authors of a new report from the Boston Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds local nonprofits, prefer the phrase "millennial villages," dorm-like developments that maximize space by combining smaller living spaces with lots of common areas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for all i care people are still paying to visit graceland.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Young Adults Are Losing All Hope of Buying a Starter Home - check it out, being a twentysomething usian kid is a worse fate than being a 20something chinese kid.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo btw is qntra making a "first static bitcoin" post ?
mircea_popescu: you can't have moral persons that have delegated their authority. everyone in the us agrees that they're obeying laws because they're laws, not because they're right. consequently, american citizens can not be moral agents.
mircea_popescu: the ridicule of this after their "austerity as only way out" consensus in the 90s is completely lost, also in typical usian fashion.
mircea_popescu: which is why, in typical usian fashion, they're claiming currently that "austerity is not a way out" in the general.
mircea_popescu: it can't stop. this is a foregone conclusion, the us has no austerity way out
mircea_popescu: how does air manage to avoid being digested by mammals ? well...
mircea_popescu: when confronted with stuff such as, you know "quite a few 'civilians' don't believe me when i explain that the 'publishers' do not edit, or - in most cases - even typeset the submissions; and that not only do authors receive no royalties, but often -pay- page costs"
mircea_popescu: strange that anyone would even for a single second propose the usg even exists as a going concern,