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mircea_popescu: in exactly typical socialist fashion, the fucktards have been selling off this item not belonging to them, "technological progress", repainted as "hey, new iphone came out!! it's cheaper and shittier and works less!!!"
mircea_popescu: night hall inherited from his granpa with modern teracotta item. THAT was progress, and the knights applauded, and felt proud to fight and die for such a greatly SUPERIOR homeland, as represented by their lords castle, as communicated to them by their god damned STOVE. and by, to quote period, "wer kriegt so prompt wie der preusse sein traktament!"
mircea_popescu: but, it is very important to revisit and underline ye olde mazarin point ( ie
http://trilema.com/2014/modern-medicine-and-the-benefits-of-democracy/ ) : there is constant technological progress, in the PROPER sense (ie, NOT for plebels, but for lords AND FOR LORDS ONLY) going from 700ad to 1700ad. THIS, and THIS ONLY is what gave "technological progress" its good name -- when the lord changed ye olde fireplace in the common k
mircea_popescu: ie, it was strictly a manor house item historically ; and part of the manorial system in europe.
mircea_popescu: but, also just as important though not in fact exposed for other reasons : stove IS BUILT IN PLACE.
mircea_popescu: aside the matter that the problem hasn't been approached in postmoidernism, i dun see much better solutions available than historically found.
mircea_popescu: turns out there was a remarkably good solution, and a bunch of notbad ones.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is why this interests me, "make stove, with 1700s tech, i'll put it in the calorimeter and measure your %"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if you do a calorimetry experiment you'll see the austrian item converts nigh on 8% more than the swedish system
mircea_popescu: as it happens a major center was at tirgu secuiesc in ro. apparently still active, they fix and rebuild.
mircea_popescu: it's as old and culturally relevant as musical instruments (violins, say)
mircea_popescu: aaanyway -- is ben_vulpes going to make himself smoker next, grow rich out of feeding quality breakfast meats to the greater cascadia ?
mircea_popescu: remarkab ly small. i dunno whether it's a work-of-art omfg i can't believe master stovier managed to get the smokes crushed into that space or rather "we dunno what we did". i could guess, but why guess.
mircea_popescu: standard item about 2-3 m3, though it can be made larger (there's a twinning method)
mircea_popescu: (and i am deeply unsurprised the anglotards know not what they talk of. country of whiskey drinkers and so on)
mircea_popescu: dutch item is later copy of austrian original. you know, like gouda.
mircea_popescu: "there was no technology before fly-eyes" because it... wasn't for the fucking fly eyes, that's why!
mircea_popescu: yes. it is, when one understands the problem, a properly speaking breathtaking accomplishment.
mircea_popescu: got hanbot a place with one while she resided in ro, she quite liked it iirc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes romania still has in the rural areas the habsburg empire's premier invention in this world, the vienese smokes terracotta
mircea_popescu: gets tedious after, which is why god made winter not last.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes wood fired stoves are pretty cool, for the first few months.
mircea_popescu: moreover i'm curious how they'll "fix" this. evidently correct solution (throw out amazonaws from hitler list of "acceptable websites") ain't happening so.. what ? introduce limit of max 8 chars for subdomain ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, quoted because it's a great example of the ~principle~ of the thing, whereby you don't want fucking fleas, because "government" anointed fleas are no better and no cleanner than random from the street.
mircea_popescu: so amazonaws.com is on the hitler list, and consequently smaller fleas wish to ride atop the back of the great whale flea.
mircea_popescu: some dude managed to rank ~5trillion pages in teh google cache BECAUSE the "artificial intelligence" of bayesian-cum-minimum-wage-tractor works exactly like this "hand populate a list with wikipeida and whatever, and then "rank" items"
mircea_popescu: aaand in other parasite sites, check out best-bitcoin-mining-trading-info-near-you-australia.s3.amazonaws.com/Best-bitcoin-mining-difficulty-over-time-Information-for-*, such as best-bitcoin-mining-trading-info-near-you-australia.s3.amazonaws.com/Best-bitcoin-mining-difficulty-over-time-Information-for-Oakdowns-7019-TAS-2018.html
mircea_popescu: worst construction... well... have you seen that tv show ?
mircea_popescu: best construction i can put on it is, "closest pantsuit can come to saying chumpatron operator wanted".
mircea_popescu: isn't it refreshing just how fucking good an "unknown" ie, no women-in-tech language can actually be ?
mircea_popescu: also gives a "no c main" ada proggy a serious gold trophy.
mircea_popescu: whatever love anyone had for them back for their 1990s typographic utility is long lost.
mircea_popescu: !~later peterl i dunno, i think the ideal is no future for macs.
mircea_popescu: let ALONE the heresy of all heresies, unthinabler than incestouous-rape-while-vivisecting-right-of-life-chipmunk-dolphins-babyseals, which is ACTUALLY HANDICAP STUPIDITY, so dumbass gets LESS per unit than less dumbass ?!
mircea_popescu: the whole "reward intelligence", ie the positive republican value, is entirely unheard of in empire lands
mircea_popescu: but possibly rotting away under stacks of other female studies in $rando obscure uni
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-16#1752155 << really, everything is specifically designed with the single goal in mind of rewarding intelligence, be it v, the wot, ANYTHING. in fact, if something didn't reward intelligence i'd very much like to hear about it, because that's the one and only cause for reform.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: 1 am now ; so 10 hrs behind. that's not even so terrible.
mircea_popescu: hm i wonder what china standard time is in ticotime lessee
mircea_popescu: "instead of the speed of light, favoured other speeds that '''are much more important to (((us)))'''".
mircea_popescu: he has all the makings of could-have-been-euler-but-married.
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform , re the question of "where's pantsuit rembrandt" : perhaps that 88 yo
mircea_popescu: bi8g fucking whoop, peeling her panties off on calle colon
mircea_popescu: technically .5 btc is "more money than zek is pewrmitted to have" as it is.
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