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mircea_popescu: you wouldn't want to live in a bob sleigh or inside your go-kart either. it's not that dissimilar.
mircea_popescu: i mean sure, as an outing, soemthing to do for a day or w/e, great. splendid sport.
mircea_popescu: you can not begin to imagine how fucking inconvenient it is. at all.
mircea_popescu: yes. well, before you expend any serious money / other resources on this, do that.
mircea_popescu: but have you ever spent, a whole day, on a sail anything, at sea.
mircea_popescu: you ever like... i dunno, ever had a friend in porn invite you to spend a while with a coupla girls on a yacht ? or generally, spent any time on a sail vessel ?
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well the results were so out of place for the venue. like... wow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> which is what i call folks who don't need any physical plant << which is why i said i was a theoretical physicist :)
mircea_popescu: myeah. i see it. well... i feel better for having discussed it!
mircea_popescu: may explain why you're even contemplating the alien insanity, instead of just telling me i'm evil.
mircea_popescu: the reason you find it so hard to escape the gravity well is in no small part due to the fact that you;ve spent many decades making the wrong decisions and they're a bitch to undo.
mircea_popescu: yours is some sort of insane c) where it has all the disadvantages of both.
mircea_popescu: basically, you're in this space that doens't eixst, at all. there's a) real estate you own, and you like enough to own, which contains furniture of value proprotionate to that. and b) real estate you don't give a shit about, if you come back to find it ablaze you just shrug and move on.
mircea_popescu: antiques suffer from transport, and wtf do you even want to put nice furniture in a place you don't like.,
mircea_popescu: look, if you're going to fill a place with antiques, YOU SHOULD NOT BE RENTING IT
mircea_popescu: trinque i never used a chair for more than i dunno, a year ? two ?
mircea_popescu: who the fuck cares about the desk! and a chair, whatever, you just... buy a new one! that fits!
mircea_popescu: this is residential not commercial space we're discussing here.
mircea_popescu: obviously warehouses are rented empty whether you live in them or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then you're muddying the discussion up by being one of those who lives in a warehouse
mircea_popescu: if i rent i expect to take the keys, take a girl there and fuck her in this order.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck are you going around with an debodied engine!
mircea_popescu: this is like renting cars without the engine. "because i have an engine"
mircea_popescu: Adlai there's nothing wrong with hatin' an' railin'. on the contrary. meanwhile the attempt to not do so seems to be damaging for the attempter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you misunderstand. no title was ever magicked.
mircea_popescu: this was an earlier time in romania : foreigners weren't allowed to own property, like in fucking burma, and locals were the sort of retards the soviet collapse left behind,
mircea_popescu: prices collapsed, an apt could be had for a working color tv.\
mircea_popescu: gorj, romania's lignite mining county, finally had govt subsidies cut after 5 years of the mines n olonger being economically workable.
mircea_popescu: Adlai you know, you should probably write an exhaustive discussion of the cult an' publish it on yoru blog, rather than bottle it up and end up pankkake'd.
mircea_popescu: seems this process would have sunk them by now, but hey.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that's some kickass research on reddit submissions ? do you like do this professionally or something ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise, they're a coupla hundred bucks to the million.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron 66 shitty twitter clicks are worth 50 bucks in the lalaland whjere twitter is a public company and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't mean in the past. i mean for the future. they're trying to make a "special file".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no practical considerations will interfere with my strategic management!!1
mircea_popescu: Adlai that faint glimmer reflects principally your tender years.
mircea_popescu: which is roughly what the power rangers figured out eventually too.
mircea_popescu: the only solution is to pull in the relevant code and encase it in acrylate.
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