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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if memory serves,
they cost ~2-3k a pop, which is
to say about
the same as a hundred vinyls or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform irani imports, "persian carpets" in romania.
the shit
that was common middle class in my parents' house and is now untold luxury omfg.
mircea_popescu: parquet, area carpets, women with carpet beaters a few
times a year.
ben_vulpes had
that while attending uni. 8th floor, poured concrete building, enough ac
to make nipples pop, gas fireplace but *electric range*
phf: it seems like
they can't quite get it right here
phf: but have
that at
the expense of builtin "carpet" in bedroom
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 16:07 mircea_popescu: bitch, i grew up in a land where
the window is an entire wall and it opens out all
the way
mircea_popescu: (yes,
the deep reason amored
truck is "needed" is exactly
this : moving
the injuns around will require some caterpillaring.)
mircea_popescu: apparently,
they want
them back so bad, it's even worth destroying
the police over it.
mircea_popescu: people want
the houses of
the grandfathers back, can't built
them anymore.
mircea_popescu: yep. kinda what's driving
the entire resettling of
the injuns.
mircea_popescu: it's a war, after all. i count
their "innocent victims" even as
they count mine.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
the usg counts "corruption" against me. i don't.
mircea_popescu: so let's hear it, brick and
termopan window vs vinyl siding and shit on a stick.
mircea_popescu: since we're doing externalities, let's do
the whole shebang, not like i'm a fucking redskin and
the oh-so-clever ustard is going
to get
to count MY externalities and just mine.
mircea_popescu: or for
that matter
the disadvantage of porthole + neon light "for energy efficiency" ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform anyone bothered
to run
the "fire hazard cost" "amortized over lifetime of house" for
the shitty wood-glass napalm mix ?
mircea_popescu: this window insulates better
than anything full brick or below.
mircea_popescu just did
the calc, ~800 bucks for 3.55 x 2.0 meter window, 24mm float glass x2 with argon filling.
mircea_popescu: yes, and it makes me want
to put
the drink down and leave.
mircea_popescu: it's a 20sqft slab whose main purpose is
to allow
the master bedroom
to have proper windows.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usually
this is done for
the 2 rooms (of 4)
that have "a balcony"
mircea_popescu: for one
thing,
they were wood rather
than plastic frame
then
mircea_popescu: bitch, i grew up in a land where
the window is an entire wall and it opens out all
the way
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they have
these
tiny shits, more insult
than window. and
then IT ONLY OPENS HALFWAY.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i dunno
that i loathe anything us as much as
THE MOTHERFUCKING WINDOWS.
mircea_popescu: usually done for warehouses (originally, a
thing from positive pressure clean rooms)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, central air is when you have a huge
tube and
the conditioning happens entirely outside.
mircea_popescu: unlike central air, you move freon gas around rather
than air. so no huge
tubage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a split unit is
this
thing where
the compressor and hot phase sit outside, for instance on roof, and cold head inside.
mircea_popescu: just
thinking about "window ac", wtf is
this "feel good" nonsense. it clearly doesn't solve
the problem, it just what, gives you
the impression of a cool breeze ?
mircea_popescu: now you know where Guo Boxiong's
truckful comes from. it's a dropplet of
the rain falling on all
things from
the comrade xi's fountain.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 15:01 asciilifeform: where
they ran out of where
to put
the dough
gribble: Framedragger was last seen in #trilema 4 days, 19 hours, 49 minutes, and 24 seconds ago: <Framedragger>
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-28#1492083 << out of loop; soo, many awesome bitcoin nodes actually run on
the same host? kinda hilarious / sad
mircea_popescu: i suppose mormon smith imagined europe needs "a new kind of mormon bible". you know,
the one
they've had for about 2k years.
mircea_popescu: get a load of
these schmucks. step 1 : pretend inept, boring shit like "star
trek" and "the assvengers" is fiction. step 2 : pretend even more inept, boring shit like "star
trek 8" and "assvengers 7.3" is ALL
THE POSSIBLE FICTION. step 3. pretend like
the ~everyone who never gave a shit about
the little island of crazy "needs a new something or
the other".
phf: i
thought goal was zero rent, rather
then resale value?