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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/outrageous-mps-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#comment-116904
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu, http://trilema.com/2016/outrageous-mps-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#selection-99.36-99.46 << but it any case / but ~in~ any case ?
asciilifeform: 'It is improper. Enumerations must always be made of items of the same kind. It's not enough that the items answer to the same purpose. They must actually be of the same kind.' << aaaaand this is how we learned that mircea_popescu , under the cover of darkness, programs! in ada !1111
pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2016/outrageous-mps-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#comment-116902 << mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: let's rephrase, how did mircea_popescu become convinced that usg did ~not know~ ?
asciilifeform: what would it have done differently, in mircea_popescu's view, if it knew ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are entire office bldgs where they do nothing but hear out stoolies of all colours
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there ~were~ steam diddlers in 1880s
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they make even chainsaws
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a type of honda
pete_dushenski: http://trilema.com/2016/outrageous-mps-guide-to-not-being-a-poorfag/#comment-116900 << mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i understand why you pick example of feudal battlefield, rather than red army, but the latter was actually the state of the art afaik.
asciilifeform: PeterL: ask this after you buy a bunch today, and mircea_popescu drops the nuke in the great phorkwarz of july
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's advice, 'become a pirate!1111' is ~practical and mega-useful~ by comparison !
mircea_popescu: part one. you said "i've never done 'honest work' in my whole life, phf." ; and "mircea_popescu has a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'". this equivocates experience with capacity.
asciilifeform: 0l holy shit i just read a trilema where mircea_popescu agreed with me?!
asciilifeform: i am left to wonder, clearly mircea_popescu has a very high opinion of orc scum, why doesn't he recruit ~them~ to write his softs, run his companies, etc. ?
asciilifeform: well as i gather mircea_popescu's answer was 'you could start doing 17 yo work for shit wage' and i answer 'why the fuck should i a single day earlier than forced to.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'
asciilifeform: phf: aha, in mircea_popescu's harem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually bignum is a nightmare because of algo transitions
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did precisely once, with my last employer. there was much gnashing of teeth, and ill feeling from the other slaves (there were only a handful of us, and no one was actually replaceable)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun need living LIKE A NATIVE in ro for anything.
PeterL: <asciilifeform> 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft. << my new house is ~1k for 2k sq ft (plus 1k basement, could be used as workshop)
asciilifeform: why does mircea_popescu think i could be an ~average~ dope man, much less a heroic one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is a lulzy fella
asciilifeform: i will start black gang after mircea_popescu does and i study his.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 11km from whitehouse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you have ANY idea what it would cost to 'rent a workshop' within 3 hrs of drive from here ?
asciilifeform: <+mircea_popescu> rentals are exactly that : correctly priced, multi-room hotels. << only for a theorist like mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not only books. i have nice desk that holds n displays, etc.
phf: mircea_popescu: idea is that furnished apartment is for a salariman on remote assignment, like amtrak and services like that, assumption is can jack up a price as much as you want
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have extremely nonstandard furniture
phf: mircea_popescu: hard to get furnished here, i price it out every time, and it's an extra 1k a month almost always
asciilifeform: 11:50 <+mircea_popescu> so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ? << i pay ~2k (if you count electric, gas, etc) for <1k sq ft.
asciilifeform: 11:41 <+mircea_popescu> $750 gets you a house in iowa. << aha and iowa shaves a zero off the salary.
asciilifeform: what does 750 usd (per mo?) get mircea_popescu in b-a ?
asciilifeform: Apr 01 10:22:12 <mircea_popescu>god damned it. so half hour's research has produced not the article i was looking for, and the knowledge that decimation actually introduced lafond to the chan. << decimation introduced the thread about atomic clocks also. so cesium clock is a sc4m?!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i was actually trying to figure out what that interest rate point /was/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: interesting gavin-heap
BingoBoingo: I haven't checked this. mircea_popescu do you know off hand if the Amherst city council position he holds has a stipend?
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu tells me that the mit proclamation is a lie - i will believe him
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: link appears to be dead
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the egyptian orcs ?
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: anyways, if monaco's not your jam, there's always baku, sochi, montreal, singapore, or if you're looking for sluts, sao paolo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how do you say juninca << тёлка ?
asciilifeform: am i the only one to whom trilema was never a 'language speculum' ? mircea_popescu writes entirely reasonably.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plenty! they used md5.
davout: mircea_popescu: the signed lists of addresses are now linked at the bottom of the report
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu makes an interesting point, the item for sale is not bbet, but its possibly-necromanceable corpse
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. but on this imperfect notion rests the possibility of having a town, or anything really that you can't carry up your arse while drawing a bowstring
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: would you sell mpex to hitler ?
davout: mircea_popescu: re the signed addresses list: i'm looking into it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see l0g
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^ yer l00000vely in-band signalling at wurk !!11111
asciilifeform: incidentally ~gpg~ is broken NOW, i can make a fresh key with, e.g., mircea_popescu's fingerprint, for less than the cost of a bus.
asciilifeform: 14:46 <+mircea_popescu> it's more of a "end of b-a" thing than a "update" << waiwut
asciilifeform: and just recently mircea_popescu published a spare key !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: who said 'through poorly specified'
asciilifeform: (this thing where folks expect keys to never change, is lulzy, yes i get it, mircea_popescu gotta prevent mpex account resale, but it is dumb in any other context)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and after that, i could have walked to confectionary and asked to smell a good cake !
hanbot: mircea_popescu she wasn't
asciilifeform: aha! actually the failed reddit thing, more so. some months ago i was fingered in some derp comment, ' mircea_popescu's demented lieutenant, in charge of argentinian bsdm....' or the like, i almost fell to the ground from my stake
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu and i and buncha folks went to a club, nominally s&m-tronic, but ~nobody (as far as my naked eye could see) was naked
phf: mircea_popescu: you saw asciilifeform in the nude? now i too am confused by this thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l, it was hilarious, no one fucked in the club
asciilifeform: how did i even end up in this thread, this is the perfect example of mircea_popescu's 'gynaeceum material, dun work in forum' thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'pissed in the back alley of cairo' example
asciilifeform: wasn't trying to frame as prescription. describing own desires. not any more portable than mircea_popescu's golden shower thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: finally, meta-nsa !111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was attempted, i had the elementary nervous system to resist
phf: mircea_popescu: it's a thing, look at recent usg "nerd culture"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it just makes me a hermit, who keeps 1 pet, and not 3 etc.
asciilifeform: hanbot: the ones who do both, if even exist, are prolly all living in mircea_popescu's house already.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm allergic, what of it. just can't do the zoophilia thing, never could.
asciilifeform: 11:35 <+mircea_popescu> generally, better a clever girl that thinks herself dumb than a dumb girl that thinks she must be clever. << how about CLEVER girl that thinks itself clever
asciilifeform: 11:31 <+mircea_popescu> phf i dunno fucking comprehend the disdain affected (perhaps to the point of believing themselves) by intellectual folk re the pro sluts. << nonono i just loathe the hump of the bell curve, sluts, no sluts, whatever
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i knew a buncha similar kidz who , yes, adapted to chimp cunt.
phf: mircea_popescu: the peak of plot?
asciilifeform: Mar 31 09:31:56 <mircea_popescu>he has his idiosyncratic criteria, which fit the events. and change with teh events. << this is unfounded. all i ever said on subj is 'gavin is exempt from arbeit macht frei, doesn't commute, doesn't punch clock'. turns out - true. (unless mircea_popescu has intel suggesting otherwise ?)
phf: mircea_popescu: it's very spot on, it's like everything that happens is a neurotic mannerism, "of course that's what she would say, of course that's what he would do", all the props fit too. painful, because i'm not in argentina and these people are way too familiar
phf: mircea_popescu: i can't argue the substance, but in weizenbaum's case he was saying therapy requires empathy, where's therapists were talking up eliza
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ukrs got the subsoil
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ah but you see, i'm cheep.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: costs 0! grows by self! << there was an amusing bit in 'what i learned losing a million dollars' about how feller bought 'investment horse' and spent boatloads on medical bills before thing... croaked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... the only thing they ACTUALLY hate is powerful people, as long as it results in a reduction of individual power they like anything
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've often wondered if the final de-horsing of major cities happened at the magic moment when tetraethyl lead made the roadside flora deadly enough.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: everything is either a complete-algebra or a buluceala pit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm testing a very preliminary cstron.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> subject of, why did mircea_popescu choose to stay on fleanode? << i chose nothing. i simply saw that teh republic chose to not make any usable susbitute yet, and so here we are. why do you ask ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> afaict there is mircea_popescu's court, some dismally jolly sappers digging tunnels, and some people emptying bedpans in their finery << becauyse why, we're 5yos and the alternatives we perceive are either cartman's own "whatever, i do what i want" or otherwise "we live in a dictatorship!111" ?
ben_vulpes: subject of, why did mircea_popescu choose to stay on fleanode?
ben_vulpes: afaict there is mircea_popescu's court, some dismally jolly sappers digging tunnels, and some people emptying bedpans in their finery
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my pet is 100% portable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think you might have me mixed with TaT
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, depending on skill of sapper.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: anti-undermine tunnel grids EXISTED
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, the original trope of 'fortress with many corridors going nowhere' has a root in history: anti-undermining tunnel systems from medieval times. largely undocumented (passed by word of mouth) and in some cases survived to 19th c., spawning the meme.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they wore whatever blended in with the scenery (e.g., enemy uniform)