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mircea_popescu: chew shares likely
to grow for
the foreseable future off permanently elevated plateau.
thestringpuller: so. I'm pretty sure
the lulz cows want us
to clean up
the room.
mircea_popescu: yeah ; but
they meanwhile figured out
that bees produce honey, and noticed
their drones produce nothing.
mircea_popescu: so
there, biology, system
theory, political science and psychanalysis!
mircea_popescu: (likbez #3 :
that
the socialist shithead can not
think of anything because
too obsessed with anthill fetish should be informative as
to his braindamage)
mircea_popescu: (likbez #2 : ant colony, nature's finest example of star
topology, is for
this reason uniquely bad example for
the (correctly defined) "complex system".
the boom-bust cycle of rabbits and other small rodents much better examples. complex systems are made of like parts, not worker-queen sorta nonsense.)
mircea_popescu: (likbez : ant worker is not genetically distinct from ant queen. epigenetics (mostly, env factors - as in feed) make
the fenotypical distinction. consequently yes, whole anthill, as far as its underlying mechanics go, is found in each worker ant, all you have
to do is sequence
the dna and explore
the possibilities.
that such is currently a computationally prohibitive
task is not relevant
to
the discussion.)
mircea_popescu: "Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how
the ant colony operates. For
that, one needs
to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants." aaaand we lose interest.
pete_dushenski just waited 3 hrs for
tx conf with 0.00022 fee. "bitcoin is
the worst form of e-payments, except for all
the rest." (tm) (r)
BingoBoingo: Anyway pete
ty for adding coverage of another life science
today.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski:
ty, coda has been rehumored
pete_dushenski: the neat
thing about places (like edm)
that are increasingly insane is
that
the definition of 'what's central' continues
to expand as
the peripheries explode across
the prairie landscape.
mircea_popescu: much easier
to pull off in places
that had historically insane restraints on land development which just went away. a lot harder
to do in places which are increasingly insane.
pete_dushenski: this 10-20 jump ahead of
the 'cool' kids i've seen work here as well. currently 50-60s neighbourhoods are
the attractive ones for $profit here.
mircea_popescu: but
the idea is
that you want
to be 10-20 years early
to
the party. much like you know, if you're gonna rent out fuckspace at burning man, best go
there a day early park
the van right.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated, esp in
the states. in romania much more
trivial a point, growth pattern of cities quite obvious.
mircea_popescu: only ustard will go into "high value", watch
that erode from under
their feet.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 21:12 pete_dushenski: crazy... mp's pal must've been in new suburb. most every city in orcland has 'old' 'established' neighbourhoods with 100+yo mansions allowing if not even requiring 'proper' house
to be built. ofc, land values in such areas are astronomical.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: like round
trotskyite eyeglasses,
these
things come and go.
a111: Logged on 2013-05-08 02:18 gribble:
Time since last block: 2 hours, 17 minutes, and 59 seconds
a111: Logged on 2013-05-08 01:55 gribble:
Time since last block: 1 hour, 55 minutes, and 38 seconds
trinque: someone sacrifice a virgin
to
the chaos god
pete_dushenski: crazy... mp's pal must've been in new suburb. most every city in orcland has 'old' 'established' neighbourhoods with 100+yo mansions allowing if not even requiring 'proper' house
to be built. ofc, land values in such areas are astronomical.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2014-09-12 15:28 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall
the case of
the people making
that very cheap wholly natural house, being ordered
to destroy it ?
a111: Logged on 2014-03-04 22:05 mircea_popescu: romanian friends went
to us, bought land, proceeded
to build (proper) house
mircea_popescu: however,
the actual artefact of
the
time in
the context of its
time was maybe capable of 80, and otherwise liked
the 50/55/60 limits.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't dispute
that with care, and expert handling, even a stock
trabant might, on perfect roads, safely drive 100km/h briefly.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-15 19:13 phf: somehow you can't just hold one variable, just cause you will it
to be so.
them dependency graphs find SAT, and
the solution is might surprise you!
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-15#1522049 <<
this is actually
the controlling point. for all
the
theoretical
theory of how "woman" should be ; you're still going
to meet individual women with which it works or it doesn't. plenty of cases "the wrong" works way better
than
the
theoretical best, even if present (which it oft isn;t)
☝︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: hm don't recall mp's bud's housebuilding
thread
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
thought it was all either electric or else 4stroke for
the ride-on stuff. 2strioke is such loud, smoky nonsense...
mircea_popescu: i dunno what
trabant did 100km/h. maybe in lab conditions, engine on bench sort of
theory.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: don't anchor
to
the numbers... i only brought
them up
to overcome your lawnmower nonsense
pete_dushenski: bicycle doesn't need spoilers at
that speed but
trabant does ?
this is a problem.
pete_dushenski: that
the mcmansion is designed by children who failed ~technologist~ programs (not even architecture school) is indicative of deeper rot.
trinque: asciilifeform: yeah.
thing's 39 lines using feedparser. braindead simple loop.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: except if you had spoilers on a
trabant, you'd be forced
to ask 'why do
those need
to be
there'
to which
the answer is 'oh because
the car is dreadfully engineered and will lose stability and
traction above 50mph'
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
the article is merely observing
that 48yo pack-a-day smoking whoor looks black inside ~and~ outside
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: melamine biscuits are besides
the point.
the point is
that muricans manifestly suck at not only using name materials like brick and stone, instead preferring shitboard, but
that
they can't even assemble
them into anything coherent. really just a reiteration of
the old 'garbage in, garbage out' adage i guess.
mircea_popescu: if he were in wot
there's hope he wouldn't be doing stupid shit.