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mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc
mircea_popescu: well yes, fortunately i've cut to it by now. but listen, you gotta be much better at packaging stuff.
mircea_popescu: it's also necessarily going to remain there, and for great benefit.
mircea_popescu: "the human's inability to fully comprehend the parsing and syntactical schemes they're able to create" << this is actually a generally valid point, and about half of all problems of humanity come from this impedance mismatch.
mircea_popescu: dude, that thing's lengthy, and not directly obvious why i'd care ?
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone read "[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors." ?
mircea_popescu: jurov: when putin arrives everyone will be caught with pants down << everyone still there, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: and yes it had a half bowl top and a fat cylinder butt
mircea_popescu: only thing that ever scared me. but i'd quit the room in a hurry
mircea_popescu: that's what it is. parents suspect children are about on the level of c programmers, and try to avoid any situations where reality emulates the c compiler.
mircea_popescu: like, most of 'em. "are you sure you wish to forever lock yourself in ? well...that's what you're doing"
mircea_popescu: perhaps because parents are so acutely aware of the type of divorcement between meaning and action that trips up children.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny enough, it was heard of in 80s romania. parents insistently warning kids not to do it!
mircea_popescu: decimation you know, i had an old zil fridge at some point in romania, and the thing had been running for ~25 years, and it never ever leaked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that should be some pretty cool steel, that happily takes 100 degree differentials over decades.
mircea_popescu: that's another thing. hire a plumber so he tells you what to do ?!
mircea_popescu: leaving alone the weirdness of keeping most of your capital in a nonproductive asset (hey, that's made to be through purely government interventionist means), not even pretend like you're managing it ?
mircea_popescu: decimation but if one's principal equity is the house, a la us, then it makes sense.
mircea_popescu: and in principle can heat/cool to any arbitrary temperature, as long as your compressor's up to it.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah heat pumps seem a lot better deal than any alternative, yet the least commonly used.
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda wonder why water circulating systems aren't used for cooling much.
mircea_popescu: six months or a year down the road, we can continue this conversation in a better position.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos i could, but so far i'm not particulrly inclined. the logs are in the topic, peruse at your leisure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, but then again i never had a power outage. if they happened, ups would work fine.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and since it runs maybe five times a day for a quarter of an hour, battery's quite feasible.
mircea_popescu: decimation you sort-of need it for the pump, but it's not so much.
mircea_popescu: my house in timisoara, the heating system held about a ton of water in the pipes and radiative elements. took about an hour to cool a coupla degrees.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have nfi what that is ? but no, either keep a pilot going, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: whenever something happens, or doesn't happen, it starts or doesn't start here.
mircea_popescu: when it's decided gavin is of no further utility for bitcoin, it's decided here.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestinos mno. i mean, when it's decided that mtgox dies, it;s decided here.
mircea_popescu: decimation eu mostly heats on gas, these micro units that mostly don't need power. either because battery or ingenious.
mircea_popescu: otherwise i dunno what household can be run on 5kw (bottlenecked at 1.5ish)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, if it's all resistive charge it's useful.
mircea_popescu: decimation depending on the fridge. i think they make gen friendlier models now.
mircea_popescu: capacitive charge being what it is, the 2kw would serve for what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don't, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels << i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
mircea_popescu: there you go, asciilifeform, re the orwellworm thread. he perfectly well knows what the problem is.
mircea_popescu: rk that he disapproves of that kind of conduct–on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem t
mircea_popescu: "It is no use pretending that Kipling's view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a 'nigger' with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling's wo
mircea_popescu: "Kipling is in the peculiar position of having been a byword for fifty years. During five literary generations every enlightened person has despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
mircea_popescu: obviously a scavenger civilisation will hafta be built on top of the previous cities.
mircea_popescu: in fact argentina is about as close you can get to china without having to fuck azn looking women.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the thing is, argentina-chinese trade relations are about as close as us-canada