asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tru

asciilifeform: it was enough to establish that asciilifeform is completely immune to sea sickness, for instance.

asciilifeform: why

asciilifeform: maybe half a day?

asciilifeform: probably quite enough at this point to have bought an orlolboat for some cackling 'bay aryan'

asciilifeform: (never bet on any game you haven't rigged yerself!11111)

asciilifeform: for instance, almost 100% of the btc i ever tx'ed out, was on the dumb alphago bet

asciilifeform treats btc as something like the fabled 'write-only memory'

asciilifeform: lol that'd require selling bitcoin!111

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: nagant even cheaper!111

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i dun particularly need a motorcycle..

asciilifeform: but if asciilifeform ever ~were~ to buy boat, or plane, it ~would~ be a used one, and will pay for it not only in reichsmarks but millimorts, because new is simply not on the table -- a new, e.g., sailboat thing, may as well be a starship

asciilifeform: at any rate, and ought to satisfy mircea_popescu , i dun buy machines i have nfi how to drive, i did not buy airplane either.

asciilifeform: per my current (nonexpert) conception, it's a fiberglass shell, that is either broken or whole

asciilifeform: would mircea_popescu describe the chassis of boat as 'moving part' ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my toothbrush ain't 2ndhand either!11

asciilifeform: tru!! if i needed 10,000,001 -- would be stuck paying the chumptax

asciilifeform: was thinking of transformers and other smaller items. ~100% of my comps is made of 2ndhand parts, for instance.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: but i've had the same (inherited) auto for eons.

asciilifeform: ah these no

asciilifeform: was even a thread here.

asciilifeform: transformer? yes!

asciilifeform: or would, at any rate.

asciilifeform: i certainly do.

asciilifeform: plain and simple. ( it drives off the dealer lot, suddenly loses 10k in value, lol )

asciilifeform: newness is a chump tax.

asciilifeform: and i would not buy anything BUT a used car, wtf

asciilifeform: electric transformers, for instance

asciilifeform: incidentally 'industrial process offers a guarantee of sameness and conformity', 'natural decay DOES NOT' is not wholly given : there exists such a thing as turdalicious production processes, and -- on opposite end -- the 'bathtub curve' of winnowing

asciilifeform: i'll be sure to buy new b0at in china as soon as i learn chinese, get into cpcn wot, and obtain teleporter.

asciilifeform: asciilifeform barely ever buys 'new' anythings. 'newness' is a chump tax.

asciilifeform: [insert mircea_popescu boat thread here!111]

asciilifeform: sure it is.

asciilifeform: because $mil

asciilifeform: for asciilifeform , 'new' means 'never'

asciilifeform: if the 'replaced and renovated everything!111' is in fact tru

asciilifeform: although it is suspiciously cheap

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform considered buying the orloltron

asciilifeform: got it!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: np!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: done.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it, gimme a min

asciilifeform: re castes, see also http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=buluceala

asciilifeform: erlehmann: in modern parlance aha

asciilifeform: they - stuck with one another.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's this big bin of folx who ain't gotta look good to anybody, in particular.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not necessary

asciilifeform: as used in fighter jet

asciilifeform: erlehmann: ever heard of 'fof beacon' ?

asciilifeform: ( or whatver dalit )

asciilifeform: castes -- exist. and i can even see the argument, that one oughta be able to make the call from 10 metres, rather than burn away 10minutes of yer life listening to a wikipedian

asciilifeform: hey, gotta marry within caste..

asciilifeform: lolwat

asciilifeform: and their buffering -- is shit

asciilifeform: the 'net splits' also splices.

asciilifeform: relatedly, i've been seeing lines pop into existence on my client end in 2-3ln bursts

asciilifeform: trinque: no prizes for guessing from what!11

asciilifeform: or even acorn in forest.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: whole orchestra plays, solely so that $schmuck knows exactly, who, where to 'ask'

asciilifeform: sorta why there even exists a twatter, or a bock

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-20#1672698 << ahahahahaha ☝︎

asciilifeform: fractals before it was hip!11111

asciilifeform: all of'em

asciilifeform: 'as above, so below' (tm)(r)(the alchemists)

asciilifeform: *argue that

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've never seen anyone (other than fly going splat) in earnest that it was accident.

asciilifeform: it's the one fixed star in all of'em.

asciilifeform aficionado of autobios of the period -- most recently, serov's. and this element -- recurs. ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: and woe be unto you if producer (iosif vissarionovich!) shows up to the set!

asciilifeform: something quite like it (ww2 crunch) created, e.g., su as industrial-power, for while that lasted

asciilifeform: this is a mega-point,

asciilifeform: iirc we had an old thread about this.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as result, i suspect, of missing the 'silver age' etc, asciilifeform never imprinted on the various kabukis of the genre

asciilifeform: rather was thinking of age of 'too cheap to meter' (tm)(r)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wasn't speaking of the 'age of porn-makes-money', i wasn't there to see either end of it.

asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's head 'age of porn' is still synonymous with 'cheap svga card appears'

asciilifeform: asciilifeform was born a bit too late to properly notice this with own eyes: while he ~had~ paid for compilers -- never once paid for porn

asciilifeform: and 100mil pennies is 1mil$, etc

asciilifeform: homo redditicus falls for the novelty

asciilifeform: 'there was a golden age' of almost anything - even of begging: iirc the first d00d to conceive of begging via pisspal or what was it, made bank

asciilifeform: i.e. the folx on whom the hot irons worked ok

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: black, note, not amerind

asciilifeform: on 100 pound camera

asciilifeform: for some reason i pictured mircea_popescu filming to celluloid..

asciilifeform: makes sense nao.

asciilifeform: aaah field- vs flag- officer

asciilifeform: ( and are they, typically..? )

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did it come about that pornproducer and porndirector are separate people ?

asciilifeform: ( or else why 'in gold' )

asciilifeform: they dun have konsoomer credit in cn ?

asciilifeform: ( not even to mention californistan )

asciilifeform: > nyc ?!

asciilifeform: what else.

asciilifeform: the matchboxes, i mean

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, no need to even go as far as beijing, we have this right here in northern gringolandia

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'inner city' blax -- pretty much need murder conviction, to expel