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phf: nah,
there was
that other guy who built a computerized nomadic boat house (i
think he started with a computerized recumbent bike in
the 80s) and unlike orlol he actually documented his process very extensively
mircea_popescu: expensive wood is not a case of "hey, x
team can never win, cedar lol"
mircea_popescu: people use plastic because cheaper plastic is cheaper
than cheap wood, and
there better.
mircea_popescu: nothing like
the advantage doped silicone offers over old galene/lead whatevers.
mircea_popescu: for
the record,
the hull design style of
the vikings STILL IS!
to
this day!
the best, fastest and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the ibm example isn't so good.
the sort of phenomena
that were conquered
to produce
the 1k chickens 1950-1990 are very fucking different from
the sort of phenomena
the boat has
to encounter,
mircea_popescu: phf i have nfi what any of
the
terms mean as used, for
the record. we're in plebeconfusionland.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
the market for "boathouse" is composed of people who already own
townhouse in large
town ; also prepared
to spend by
the million.
mircea_popescu: you may be interested ; but
the market for "sailboat" is composed of people who already own say a race horse, or sponsor a speed racing
team etc ;
they're ready
to spend by
the million.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is no "practical instrument"
that is
the unworkable cross between a hammer and a screwdriver.
mircea_popescu: best i can discern from
the unexpected in
this latest convo, he's
trying
to do something
that makes no sense for
the market, a sort of ostrich-camel of epic proportions.
mircea_popescu: see, a sailboat, ie,
the
thing you run sail and rigging championships etc with ?
that
thing has no generator, because it's heavy. most have no engine either, except where legally required on occasion, and
the presence of engine is disdained universally. etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well,
that's nonsense, no saving it. fuck, sailboat with plumbing ? wut ?
mircea_popescu: i also never attempted
to live in my shoes, or judge shoes by how "livable in"
they are.
mircea_popescu: i also sailed proper sailboats ; which have no plumbing. under discussion here, both from
the introduction of
the article you quote, and from his "live in boat" general outlook, are pointedly NOT sailboats.
mircea_popescu: this sounds very much like an item made pre 1980
than post 1990.
mircea_popescu: equires one
to become a contortionist. Another common problem is lack of space for both
the arm (with which
to work on
things) and
the head (with which
to look at what you are doing), meaning
that much of
the work has
to do be done “by Braille.”
mircea_popescu: to quote : "Boat plumbing systems are virtually never designed with ease of maintenance in mind; mostly
they are an afterthought, not so much engineered as crammed
together in any space
that’s available. A very common problem is
that working on
them requires
the use of
tools—screwdrivers, channel locks, sockets with ratchets—but
there is no room
to wield
these
tools in
the normal manner, and just about every operation r
mircea_popescu: engineering
took a sharp
turn
to sanity sometime in
the 80s wrt
to
this sort of "vacuum spherical chicken" issue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno about his nonsense. every (admittedly, large, expensive) boat i've been in had detachable pannels. you first
take
the shit OFF,
then fuck with
the pipes gauges etc in
the normal manner. yes it
takes 3x as long as if you were doing house plumbing, but
that's about it.
mircea_popescu never likes
the results, but perseveres reading orlov linked material.
mircea_popescu: truly odd
this
theory,
that
they'd sell
the paintings but not
the girls.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here, beyazit ordered paintings made for his father by bellini (sent from venice at sultan's request) sold in
the bazaar and enough with
this dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except who did any political business among
the baths and wet
tits ?! not really how it worked ; presuming
the girl's not accepted back in... which is perhaps where
the rub is.
mircea_popescu: there is such a
thing as "why is e < 3??" "no reason" in nature, and from
there in engineering.
there isn't really such a
thing in society, and from
there in culture.
mircea_popescu: the basic, and really only, rule of hermeneutics is :
that
then you've understood a
text when, far from its shortcomings appearing inexplicable errors,
they become
the actual pillars upon which
the damned
thing is constructed, and what originally seemed
to you sensible and structural
takes its
true place as accidental.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not so. culture makes more sense, on average,
than any bit of engineering.
mircea_popescu: with a little
training
they'll be more of a
tool of state
than
the dubious religion
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and yet
they gave
the nobles caftans, ie, "here's
this holy piece of clothing, worth so much more
than
the fabric and cut
to you because i'm giving it"
mircea_popescu: you should read
the poetry of
the
time,
they were pretty drunk on a sort of adolescent male idealism perhaps best rendered as sportsfan-hiphop in
today's
terms.
shinohai: Logged 7-19-2016 08:39 +thestringpuller shinohai:
they added steem
to poloniex. shit is bubbling. i wish
there was enough liquidity
to go short.
this is
the ultimate bubble. <<<only
teh American exchanges I see
mircea_popescu would have simply sold
the girl, but
then again /me is no
turk.
mircea_popescu: but
the principle of
the
thing. "if you love her set her free" apparently means something else in ottoman
turkish.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, since i apparently fell in a barrel of reading old history, fellow describing "the cruelty" of mehmed 2 : "for some books stolen from his secretary he punished an entire village
to be moved
to asia ; for a stolen watermelon he
took
the life of a suspected janissary, and he did not back down from killing with his own hand
the most adored being in
the harem, who had shackled him with her exceptional beauty
to
the p
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the code || ideology parallel should be pretty obvious. yes people run other [from
their wot] people's
text, but
this is neither obligatory nor particularly encouraged. on
the contrary, with ideology as with code as with "wot maintenance best practices" and as with any other
text, heterogeny is
the key
to victory.
mircea_popescu sees in
the scrollback
that
the fact of
there being no log has already been mentioned :D
thestringpuller: shinohai:
they added steem
to poloniex. shit is bubbling. i wish
there was enough liquidity
to go short.
this is
the ultimate bubble.
thestringpuller: If shit really hits
the fan with
the hardfork,
the doors are nailed shut indefinitely.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "In addition, for
those interested in keeping
their
tokens from
the losing blockchain as a keepsake, we will support a one-time withdrawal of
the deprecated
tokens, provided
that
the losing chain is still functional when you attempt a withdrawal. Specific instructions on how
to access your
tokens on
the old chain
to follow."
mircea_popescu: not
that it's much of a concern,
there's exactly ONE customer doing eth on poloniex. but as a
theoretical
thing.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller and if
there's
two chains surviving, customer gets one poloniex gets
to keep
the other ?
mircea_popescu: so
to sum up,
the process is more like washing
than anything else. gunk removal.
mircea_popescu: laziness is a natural want, and unavoidable. (no, wanting your children
to survive is not natural, but perverse, and a major part of what makes kant's
timber crooked.)
mircea_popescu: something
that may appear as a subcase but i believe is not (not
that
the dispute is all
that relevant) and in any case is more numerous is
the jwz :
the fellow
that "just wants
to" keep right on being lazy.
mircea_popescu: this is always and everywhere personal failure, sometimes a forced mistake (like
the female's universal "wanting kids
to survive", which is stupid but nevertheless part of her ample array of genital curses)
mircea_popescu: a few of
them, recently called
the "hopefuls" but otherwise simply
the incarnation of evil, are capable of handling
the statement of
their assumptions, but are unwilling
to separate
themselves from what "they want", which is usually stupid but
that's not something
they're prepared
to face.
mircea_popescu: obviously, most derps are, owing
to fundamental genetic insufficiency, unable
to handle
the plain statement of
their assumptions.
these, we call cattle.
mircea_popescu: so
the way deculturation works is, derp comes
to
tmsr, makes statements, which belie assumptions, which are explicitly stated BY someone in
tmsr for
the first
time in derp's experience, and
then rejected explicitly. sometimes a cause is presented, but
this is not particularly "better"
than none being offered.
the burden is on
the derp ANYWAY.
thestringpuller: Also
they are nailing
the doors shut on Ether
tomorrow until "clear winner": "As a Poloniex customer, you do not need
to do anything.
The migration will occur automatically, and your full balance of Ethereum will be
transferred
to
the winning chain. Keep in mind
that as we near
the fork, we will be
temporarily disabling deposits and withdrawals in preparation for
the migration process.
Trading will continue
to operate as normal during
☟︎ thestringpuller: "I've noticed a
trend with
these guys.
They're
too dumb
to even know
they are clowns. Well I guess
they're focused on
the present and not
the future. Money counts for
these guys. He's nothing but a banker selling btc." and has reply >> "Dunning–Kruger effect" It's odd reading comments like
that on reddit.
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