asciilifeform: diametric: really? i was told it was banned as 'racist' at one point.
asciilifeform: point not being that i personally relish integral puzzles, but that if it were possible to escape usaschwitz by getting good at them, i'd be inclined to try.
asciilifeform brings this up as example of something that you certainly, definitely, under threat of harsh punishments, could not get away with in allocation of american housing.
asciilifeform: (perhaps mircea_popescu and i might've forgotten how to grind gnarly integrals mentally, but we still have the neurons to grind with 'macsyma' etc.)
asciilifeform: doesn't have to be integrals. i just picked an example from 'captchas' used on some russian forums.
asciilifeform: cannot, for example, 'to buy property here you must solve this here single-variable integral.'
asciilifeform: those aren't areas I want property in << designated ghettoschwitzes, yes. notice how it is highly illegal to keep out scum other than through real estate pricing, in any part of usa.
asciilifeform: if could afford to escape - would. just like every other schmuck
asciilifeform: gotta be in usa << currently. (as discussed in the past)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall a story of yours, about a chum who went to usa and left in disgust, when he was not permitted to build other than a cardboard house.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'd be great, but would have to be deep in a forest, secret, with a stump for a chimney - just like during the war. because living in something that isn't a house is highly illegal in usa (unless part of a designated ghettoschwitz)
asciilifeform has workshop in a very large garden shed, that came with current rental. itches every time coming out of it.
asciilifeform: big glass << laugh all you like, 'corning co.' is one of the few remaining mega-industrial giants in usa
asciilifeform: real estate parasite scum live, breathe, to keep housing costly.
asciilifeform: for the same reason buckminster fuller's injection-molded plastic house was banned.
asciilifeform: Not legal in my area to use a shipping container << perhaps you can guess why.
asciilifeform would happily live in a refrigerator truck, or a partizan dugout, or similar, if it didn't come with being corralled into a ghetto of similar wretches
asciilifeform: mortages grow on gubermint trees << more complicated than this. no houses in the usual sense, near what remains of civilization in usa, are permitted to cost less than mid six digit.
asciilifeform thought trailer was for 'owning home' when you only have a few thousand usd in pocket
asciilifeform: what would it take << beautiful question. let's say we find that chetty has, e.g., more efficient mitochondriae, that eat and shit less for given level of activity. and therefore require less cleanup. then we say 'can't fix this with aftermarket patch.'
asciilifeform does not even remotely know the answer to this one, but can't rule out a beriberi-like gotcha
asciilifeform: what if we just aren't eating enough $rareearth
asciilifeform: picture hypothetical - what if actually needing 8+ hours is something like 'beriberi'
asciilifeform: ah and that's another tidbit - some people need considerably less, for firing on all cylinders, than others. find out why. if can replicate - win.
asciilifeform: likewise, paid in scrip, but never need to wake up / go places / take orders - still a kind of escape.
asciilifeform: a few bullets from the guard towers lodged in arse.
asciilifeform: didn't say - successful escape. attempted.
asciilifeform: sixteen hours a day working to "make money while they sleep" >> they're struggling for escape from arbeit macht frei.
asciilifeform: good analogy, except that, with correct plans, it is possible to survive the bathtub catapult (parachute exists.)
asciilifeform has wild, '9000%' variation in sleep quality from day to day, since childhood, and would be satisfied with knowing why and having knobs for it.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: question'd be, which sort.
asciilifeform doesn't know the secret of the hypothetical, legendary 'motorized sleep.' but suspects that, just as eight cylinder engine is an improvement over the most skilled runner, there could be a means for improvement here.
asciilifeform: and 3, 4, and they won't even lie down
asciilifeform: just as the example you gave, of stimulant abusers - most of the documented medical sequelae, afaik, are from extreme sleep deprivation...
asciilifeform: if it were, that's still not enough << ??
asciilifeform: not that 'stage 1+2 is a spandrel' is a proven hypothesis, of course. merely that it has not been tested. i suspect that it can be proven.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: vestigial waste of time. <<< why <<<< if you pharmacologically zap stages 3 and 4 of sleep - eventually death. stages 1 and 2 are spandrels. they're, as far as anybody knows, worthless - if you sleep only 1 and 2, approx. same as not sleeping at all. but our meat is not equipped for skipping straight to 3 normally.
asciilifeform has an entire book shelf of ancient crapolade re: electrocranial diddlage from 1940s up, in 4 languages. all decaying xerocopies. ought to scan in one day...
asciilifeform: but it does pop up once or twice in refereed journals, apparently.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla, BingoBoingo: i remembered the american firm that made electrocranial something-or-others - 'alpha-stim.' but i never tried or even saw their gadget - and, a bit dubious, smells a little of spam.
asciilifeform: just a fellow a few thousand $ poorer and with episodic memory loss.
asciilifeform: now with anaesthetics, so no more picturesque screaming madman in straps
asciilifeform: it, too, is still used. quite popular in usa, i'm told.
