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spandrell_: a lame book they might have read while on the commute
spandrell_: but you cant write a book saying that arabs are dumb
spandrell_: i can't get book deals because i dont write under my real name
spandrell_: and indeed the book started a fever of books on how being shameless and evil helps you with chicks too
mircea_popescu: spandrell_ looky : the publishing thing works (marginally) if you get book deals. from macmillan or whoever the fuck still does it. they pay you a few thousand, kinda measly, and maybe royalties but not really.
spandrell_: 5k are nice, but it's not like i can write a book every month
mircea_popescu: but think about it! what sad sort of bro culture is this where you put as much work into the book as a reader into the reading!
spandrell_: well if i can't get 5 pages per hour i'm not bothering with the damn book
spandrell_: that a page of a book should take more than an hour?
mircea_popescu: a) sub hour per page is hardly a book is it ; b) minimum wage is still minimum wage ; c) you've ever sold 1000 anything before ?
spandrell_: if i spend, say, 100 hours writing a book
mircea_popescu: you DON'T have a book deal ?
spandrell_: should i bother writing the book?
spandrell: i probably should check out some english translations if i want get the book written
mircea_popescu: (and yes the book burning was correct in spirit, if not particularly productive in implementation. the faux "humanism" nonsense is infamant.)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474937 <<< we gonna have to wait for the book or are you putting it all on blog ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 10:56 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473729 << this was so common in romania (for some reason romanians were even MORE crazy book-militant than the ru), that a) there was a state-sponsored, official "books" edition/complete library (called "biblioteca pentru toti"). cheap paperbacks, fixed format made to fit preexisting standard shelving, decent antologies of reasonable titles. this was like you know, the prol
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 10:30 mircea_popescu: you can't find a book that's not informed by either a christian or socialist notion of theosophy. neither of these are intellectually acceptable, or even digestible. the dumb will have to be washed off books before they may be instruments of human thought again. asciilifeform does not feel this because he insists on only reading an (insignificant) fraction, math is math eh.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473729 << this was so common in romania (for some reason romanians were even MORE crazy book-militant than the ru), that a) there was a state-sponsored, official "books" edition/complete library (called "biblioteca pentru toti"). cheap paperbacks, fixed format made to fit preexisting standard shelving, decent antologies of reasonable titles. this was like you know, the prole version of "it's ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: you can't find a book that's not informed by either a christian or socialist notion of theosophy. neither of these are intellectually acceptable, or even digestible. the dumb will have to be washed off books before they may be instruments of human thought again. asciilifeform does not feel this because he insists on only reading an (insignificant) fraction, math is math eh. ☟︎
ben_vulpes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet#Advocacy_of_kinetic_energy cites http://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400720749
asciilifeform: a similar effect applies to the book
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i am most sympathetic to precisely the 'anyone-can-print killed the book' argument.
mircea_popescu: a large factor that collapsed "the quaint institution" (from the pov of the insiders, mind, who cares what foreigners think) was the sheer inability of distinguishing at the edges. "why is this white man black ?" "book sez so"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "operation merlin" was one of the countless usg ss blunders cca 1998 ; it actually did something cca 2001 ; described in a 2010 book, for which some black dude was sentenced to jail in 2015.
Framedragger: libressl uses comic sans to deter web people and dummy hipsters. that in itself adds +10 in my book
mircea_popescu: just like a book. who reads looseleaf pages of novels.
felipelalli: at least they didn't come to Brazil yet! maybe because we're very bad too. everything is collapsing, as in the book Atlas Shrugged
mod6: i did get my stripper-DFA book btw.
mod6: ok, well, obv we need that shit. lol. just gotta buy a new book now.
mircea_popescu: page 2 in book, "claim enemy did it!"
gabriel_laddel: Eventually these were compiled into the book Zero to One.
mircea_popescu: and you'll have to desist with that, by the way. yesterday girl burst into tears in subte because i went "you don't understand fractions. pick up a third grade book, or at least it was third grade in romania, whatever highschool / college course it is in english, and study fractions."
mod6: btw, this snow crash book is pretty good. about 1/2 way through...
mircea_popescu: 3. make them live to their book of rules. if you also have a book of rules you lose.
ben_vulpes: dentists at least, which is every derp in my book.
mircea_popescu: bish, i've not as much as held a book in a decade.
phf: i could through a handful of pages before giving up, the book cover is just obnoxious
phf: there's a cool book about american weirdo prank culture of the mid 80s early 90s, http://www.amazon.com/Pranks-RE-Search-No-11/dp/0965046982 it's in the tradition of american weird (john waters, church of satan, boyd rice, that kind of crowd)
copumpkin: yes, but I have no receipt acknowledgment of that signed slip. You've just acknowledged getting some slip, and are not committing to any particular slip of mine. If you mess up your book-keeping, you might dig up an old signed slip of mine making a different request to a different address, and I'd have nothing to talk to you about until after it was too late
wywialm: this means that continuous trading is halted, orders are gathered and order book is balanced
a111: Logged on 2016-04-20 03:11 mircea_popescu: meh. mpex managed to flush the book. everyone is kindly asked to reintroduce whatever orders the had. apologies for the inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: meh. mpex managed to flush the book. everyone is kindly asked to reintroduce whatever orders the had. apologies for the inconvenience. ☟︎
asciilifeform: there is not a the book.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/consumerism-is-not-the-answer-though-it-will-put-you-to-sleep-or-american-history-x/#comment-117069 << if anyone cares to recommend the fellow "the book" on soviet propaganda...
mod6: i feel like a book of them would be good to re-read though
asciilifeform: http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/04/gchq-wizards-helped-prevent-harry-potter-book-from-leaking-online
a111: Logged on 2016-04-10 18:10 ben_vulpes: http://oopweb.com/Ada/Documents/AdaLinux/Volume/book.html << no spark?
ben_vulpes: http://oopweb.com/Ada/Documents/AdaLinux/Volume/book.html << no spark? ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell ben_vulpes http://oopweb.com/Ada/Documents/AdaLinux/Volume/book.html
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-08#1448998 << you know, if anyone actually cares, i had that book, and read it at the age (romanians did these super-glossy high value looking sf series for some reason, for a few years were the best physical item books avail in ro. http://www.endernews.com/images/covers/rom-1994-nemira.jpg << this one), but didn't think much of it. read to me like so much purple prose, some derp jacking off w ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and it is not clear to you that a brian-less 1984 would have lead to anything less than a complete domination right ? after all, at least he gave winston the book, right ?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-07#1447528 << this is not really warranted .oprah originally had a book club for blacks. ☝︎
mod6: been trying to plow through sicp and that compiler book. and ada.
mircea_popescu: in completely unrelated lolz, http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/the-worlds-most-expensive-book-will-remain-under-lock-and-key-until-the-march-2009-art-dubai-152983575.html
asciilifeform: it is scarcely a book
punkman: hmm they still have the Silmarillion book left, guess that'll do for another trilogy
punkman: tiny book compared to LotR
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the logic of keeping a blog to feed dead tree book publishing business when a) the publishing business is really trying to sell pdfs for 5 paypalbux and b) the blog is read by fewer people than ever heard of mike hearn ?!
asciilifeform: 'it' being not the book, but the historical fact
pete_dushenski: shinohai: we'll be consultants! like dogbert's bit wherein he sells $1k books on how to become a millionaire. inside book it suggests "sell 1k books for $1k!"
PeterL: pete_dushenski have you ever read the book "the total money makeover" by Dave Ramsey? I recommend the book, makes mostly similar points to your post
mircea_popescu: actually - one man, one harem, one notebook china could do this. if you feed a dozen girls, their workouts will certainly power the book.
asciilifeform: in unrelated nyooz, john h conway's book on quaternions and octonions is mega-spiffy.
mod6: i got my red-dragon compiler book!
mrottenkolber: I found https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Signing-Your-Work by the way
mircea_popescu: it needs the fucking standard AND RATIONALE book.
mod6: yeah, flipping through the book -- it's pretty dense.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't a cartoon. it was a "book of practical activities for making puppets and designing scenes". superadvanced art stuff for ro genius kids
phf: "the ussr olympiad problem book"
Agentzeromobilea: Anyone heard of or looked at this book America Betrayed by Dianne something?
mircea_popescu: a coffee table book about coffee tables!
thestringpuller: for instance the coffee table book about coffee tables that can turn into a coffee table
assbot: Logged on 16-03-2016 04:16:51; phf: i was about 50% into the logs that i missed, when i switched back to reading "the tunnels of cu chi" (mega book), so not sure if the gentoo recipe was posted
phf: i was about 50% into the logs that i missed, when i switched back to reading "the tunnels of cu chi" (mega book), so not sure if the gentoo recipe was posted ☟︎
ben_vulpes: something must be on the books for there to be any book value, etc.
thestringpuller: does company get lent credit and just book the bill as an expense? it's probably justifiable if done in a way where shareholders still get to see ~some~ profit monthly, but company doesn't go bankrupt paying of credit.
thestringpuller: phf: so zero assets is obviously an oversight << since corporation doesn't hold any cash outside of "day to day operations" and all profit is distributed, dealing with credit is tricky. what if company needs to buy a foo-machine but is too expensive to book as a one time expense?
mod6: im gonna tackle ada this week when my book gets here.
asciilifeform: i hate to disappoint folks, but i'm .. not made of book
danielpbarron: http://danielpbarron.com/ascii_book_list.txt
thestringpuller: ah I was thinking of little black book. was thoroughly confoosed.
assbot: Black Book on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1UilLYd )
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller http://trilema.com/2016/black-book/#selection-63.45-63.87
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: ever seen black book movie ? << Brittany Murphy is hot? ~_~
mircea_popescu: ever seen black book movie ?
assbot: Japanese craftsmen strike again: Make an old, beaten-up book look as good as new | RocketNews24 ... ( http://bit.ly/1XbGPPo )
pete_dushenski: in other turning-shit-into-gold news, http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/04/15/japanese-craftsmen-strike-again-make-old-beat-up-book-look-as-good-as-new/
asciilifeform: nubbins`: as you know, i very frequently disagree with him. you could prolly make a whole book of these.
nubbins`: he's a small, sad man, nothing more than a mark karpeles with better book-learning. lucked his way into a windfall by recognizing bitcoin as an opportunity early on; just hasn't fallen on the sword yet.
thestringpuller: dragon book is a hard read...
mod6: asciilifeform: did you ever mention a de-facto ADA book?
nubbins`: she has a piece in book linked above
nubbins`: FTR i've been teaching myself hardcover bookbinding and TRB.book would have been gorgeous
mircea_popescu: and in other "woman is a book" news, http://41.media.tumblr.com/7316eaa09f84216a8fe356ffba3c9df0/tumblr_mm4rjyzjH81qlne6uo1_1280.jpg
asciilifeform: that i even learned that plum book existed.
asciilifeform: though he worked for 58 years for usg and was in 'plum book' (emeritus, or whatever the heathens call it)
punkman: for the kids http://bookzz.org/book/2474909/210e75
asciilifeform: (who has seen the very colourful cartoon 'book of kells' ?)
mircea_popescu: "published the book first"