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mircea_popescu: this is
the direct equivalent of
the heckled comedian going "hey, i work here! how would you like it if i came
to your workplace and hecked you!"
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking culture : so you either know, quite well and exactly, what kind of problem a genius would approach and how, or YOU MAY NOT USE
THE FUCKING WORD IN YOUR STUPID PILE OF DRIVEL.
mircea_popescu: no, dumbass, "writers aren't writers". i don't give a shit "you just want
to".
mircea_popescu: of convincing detail means
the reader does not believe, whether it is fixing an engine or presenting
the actual philosophy of a character purported
to be wise, and can make
the readers long for
the informed ability."
mircea_popescu: One choice
the writer has is
to go ahead and show
the supposed "ability". But if
they don't do
the research,
this leads
to such laughable characters as
the scientist who spouts Hollywood Science,
the
tactician who comes up with
the sort of
tactics a five-year-old would
think of and
the "genius" who is only a genius because
they're
the only one coming up with any plan at all, and everyone else is downright stupid. Lack
mircea_popescu: On occasion,
the ability cannot adequately be portrayed by
the medium used for
the work. For example, a comic book cannot show how good a character's singing voice is, and a radio show would, at best, be forced
to merely describe a character's great paintings.
mircea_popescu: haven't a clue what kind of problem only a genius would be able
to work
through, or how. If
they actually attempt
to show
the ability in action
they
take a very real risk of
the portrayal falling completely flat.
mircea_popescu: "What often deters writers from going
through with
the above plan is
the fact
that, well, Most Writers Are Writers.
They're writing a character who's supposed
to be a musician, but
they don't know
the particulars of meters or chords.
They have a character who is a military expert, but
they don't know how long an infantry division can fight until it needs
to be resupplied.
They have a character who's a genius, but
they
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but as
that only goes so far, also by insisting
that "this is everything" and
that "being
told off is mean"
mircea_popescu: well, by limiting
themselves of an audience of similar quality.
BingoBoingo: Sorry, you seems
to be looking for #labcoin-ants
mircea_popescu: "Se
trata de una suma equivalente a un
tercio de las reservas brutas que declara el ente monetario que conduce Alejandro Vanoli o al
total de lo neto propio que
tenía (los analistas coinciden en que ahora sólo quedan dólares de los ahorristas y la porción invertida en oro)."
mircea_popescu: "De esta manera, liquidó US$ 560 en la semana y lleva vendidos US$ 1750 millones en lo que va del mes. Así, el proceso electoral presidencial,
tomando el lapso que va desde las dos semanas previas a las PASO hasta ayer y el propósito de mantener el status quo cambiario (aunque no sea sustentable), insumió US$ 8015 millones de las reservas."
mircea_popescu: if only
they could spend 10
trn like president bahamas,
they might've won.
mircea_popescu is looking forward
to hearing just how badly mismanaged
the country was and just how much hay mas futuro is really left in
the vaults.
mircea_popescu: could be "Mr. Michael Stute Co-founded Global DataGuard, Inc., in 2000 and serves as its Chief
Technology Officer. Mr. Stute has over 13 years of experience in IT", in which case...
mircea_popescu: (i'm not asking emptily. i know he's nobody, because i don't know who
the fuck he is. i googled, and
the only hit is a 2014 article in which forbes is pushing
the same name on
the same
topic. so really, worse
than nobody. so
then ?)
assbot: Logged on 22-11-2015 23:21:54; asciilifeform: i'm kinda surprised
they didn't fill
the
thing with glue and be done with it
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: In
truth Brodin,
the All Spotter and bringer of
the Whey does no have a
throne. He does
though have a squat rack and a bench.
BingoBoingo: duty. Of
this, Lincoln famously wrote back, saying: "By
the way, gentlemen, can either of you
tell me where General Grant procures his whiskey?""
BingoBoingo: From another review: "It smells very heavily of alcohol first off, but
the
taste is surprisingly sweet, like candy corn and pears (but mostly bourbon:)... It is my go-to whisky, and being a Kentuckian of discerning
taste, I'd like
to
think
that says something
towards it's character.
Two of Ulysses S. Grant's fellow Generals were said
to have complained
to Lincoln personally of Grant's drunkenness and it's detriment in
the line of
BingoBoingo: "Hear hear. When you buy Old Crow, you know what you're getting. Old Crow is not a night on
the
town with a beautiful young debutante. Old Crow is not a conversation with a craggy and learned professor. Old Crow is half an hour in a motel room with a fifty year-old prostitute who maybe doesn't look like much but still gets
the job done, dammit, and sometimes
that's all you want. Sometimes
that's exactly what you want."
BingoBoingo: Scotch is "warm-up" whiskey
to get
the palate primed for rye whiskey followed by all of
the cheap bourbon
punkman: well, I'm no malt connoisseur but I'd put it right next
to similarly-priced scottish bottles
mircea_popescu: isn't ammonal about on par with black powder, in
the sense
that if it gets wet you can go salt your food with it ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo is convinced real whiskey is only made by people with pickup
trucks or
tartans
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> o ffs. japanese whiskey ? << I knew I picked a good
time
to
try sobriety
mircea_popescu: i guess we should be
thankful grain at least grew in
that shitty island.
mircea_popescu: been like
that forever. also iirc alaska still has homestead here and
there.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> dude get
the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view. <<
Truefax.
There's even a
tiny
tram you can ride
to
the
top of
the Arch for more view
mircea_popescu: ;;google
the guy with short fingers
that quit duke lawschool and made a horrible movie
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter wgat's his name,
the guy with short fingers
that quit duke lawschool ?
mircea_popescu: "new york
times best seller list" items are radically not worth cutting down
the
trees.
hanbot: asciilifeform by now, i dunno. old friend is about
there, relegated
to san jose armpit, and last i checked
the only
thing in his house was a box of cheezeits.
phf: ben_vulpes: just
to clarify, literal
translation would be
that i can
talk without censoring myself. but mp explained
the actual meaning,
that i'm not quite sure how
to put in words better. it's something like, can
talk on point, without revisions on account of
this or
that.
mircea_popescu: if you're going
to
throw half a million a year on living expenses why
the fuck would you not just rent a raj palace in india and install human powered ac.
assbot: Fuck you and your stupid epub. Also, David
Thorne's 2nd book (it isn't really very good). on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1LuN21d )
mircea_popescu: everything in
the us was much better in
the 90s. buffett-style "i believe in america" merely sounded overoptimistic, hadn't yet caught
this greenish hue of past-ridiculous senility like something found in a fridge on
the side of a demolishing yard.
hanbot: well, it had good air.
the panhandlers were entertaining. i was 16.
phf: true,
to be fair, anywhere is nicer
then dc. i
thought ascii was overly dramatic, but damn is
this place bad.
mircea_popescu: dude get
the fuck out, missouri has a park with a view.
phf: sf is nicer
then dc
though,
they got a giant park with a view, and food is much better. (actual japanese and mexican foods)
kakobrekla: so i google 'google parking lot' and get 'Google employee lives in a
truck in
the parking lot ' as first hit.
mircea_popescu: you live with
the bureaucrats not
the
technocrats alf.
mircea_popescu: you can't drive a
truck and be in
tech, it's like being an efette wwf fan