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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-10#1641453 << the hft trading folk are about as dumb as the "serious www publishing folk". the "implement from scratch" thing is a fiction, there to justify insane and unjustifiable expense. exaclty how and exactly why any third hand "outside consultant" in third world sells random dopes on "whole new cms!!11" for their "project" so it is "for srs professional".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you're both welcome now shake hands and stop being so pissy all the time. life's too square and my fruit salad too good to waste suchly!
mircea_popescu: well, alfie, there could ALSO EXIST SUCH A THING AS A PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER
mircea_popescu: not the nonsensical "oh, paperclip!" microsoft access / lotus 1-2-3 / novell bs approach
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this, i am aware. but i suspect the "concept of db" trinque defends is "here is the set of definitive -- because mature -- things that handle data ; fucking use it".
mircea_popescu: unlike the french word ingenieur, for instance. which comes from genius, or whatever, ingenuity
mircea_popescu: actually the english word engineer denotes furnace stoker.
mircea_popescu: i was there in winter, so not much call for anything of the sort.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform save on electricity through spraying it in finely i think ? not sure, never took one apart.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you could get your ac connected to the water pipe -- like the fridges with built in ice maker.
mircea_popescu: it rained once while i was there. took 5 minutes, most of the water was gone before touching soil.
mircea_popescu: btw -- i have no ac here. the girls are naked indoors. it's fabulous.
mircea_popescu: even in buenos aires, of every 10kw the ac ate, 7 to 8 made water.
mircea_popescu: i never saw unmath this bad aside of us college educated girls.
mircea_popescu: then... she doesn't know how much for the dozen. if they're 400 each then 12 is... 3600...
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news : me goes into shop where girl has bought nice shot glasses to buy shot glasses. "do you have these in a box ?" "yes" "how many in the box ?" "uhh..." nicaraguan chick is very much willing to be picked up but has nfi how many shot glasses in 3x4 case.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-10#1641374 << this is a perfectly reasonable view, and it'd carry were it not be tinged by a history of asciilifeform on occasion producing overgeneral statements not because he ran against design constraints of the space but because he ran against mental constraints of his own.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: as asciilifeform correctly points out, there's not THAT much of a deal to insert an article once a day / a comment once an hour and otherwise serve reads.
mircea_popescu: was "gauss copula" for a while famously. was a buncha things, i have notes somewhere.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, math finance goes through one of these every 3-4 years (ie, every time a new crop of collegiate tards ends up dominating the hiring pool)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a narrow interest item, perfectly respectable in its niche. as bb says, ended up being a sort of shorthand for internet expert in here because randos and history.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, for all the ulterior leonization, the actual wild west was very much like this : buncha children captive in adult bodies trying to cope.
mircea_popescu: you know, when trump gets elected. when the niggers who figured they were gonna use "consensus" to get the delicious chicken fail to get the delicious chicken.
mircea_popescu: shinohai most of the legume soil improvement happens through the root anyway
mircea_popescu is more than willing to share his dollar-a-lb bounty with l1 all-comers. i also made myself fruit salad out of [actually ripe] mango, [actually ripe] pineapple, [actually ripe] banmanas, drenched in fresh oj etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cheese, in fairness, is very much like dealing with fromphuctors. gotta have lots of patience for duds.
mircea_popescu: anyway, today watched sunset by the pool, with dog and woman. dog is a friendly pitbull, woman has nice tits. there could be worse fates.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, i also wasn't nearly as much of a lord a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: i tell you people - do not live with the plainsdwellers, for they are retarded and eat shit.
mircea_popescu: long have i sought the native foods of my land, and never have i found them before,
mircea_popescu: but as a side point : i went to town yest, bought jug of milk. guy kept trying to warn me it's not milk! i bought it anyway. it is FABULOUS buttermilk. best i ever had. also got a strong sheep cheese and a mellower one. i am happy like i've not been in a long time - finally, food! like god at home made it!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: disconsidering this fundamental in any manner opens the chasm of hell, in all its presentation from evil to insanity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, imo the principal point of the discussion is that knowledge, any knowledge, enacts a partition upon the world. this is the only difference - chucka and man are distinguished not by skin color, not by anything else but the overpowering fact that chuka doesn't know what to do with the rtg ; or with pushkin ; or with etcetera.
mircea_popescu: i didn't perceive this cheifdom in the chief characters. mebbe my antennae too blunt, but who ? how ?
mircea_popescu: but yes i'm aware not being stupid results in a deary lack of monkey island special olympics participation trophies.
mircea_popescu: because yes the monkeys could win if not enough to eat, BUT you know this because there's 12 starved men.
mircea_popescu: "i think the whole charade is a sickening display, personally."
mircea_popescu: "who do you think will win, mr 13, the team with two guys and monkeys or the team with three guys and monkeys ?"
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, on top of a world ontologically constituted as "12 men on monkey island" attempting to construct alternate world hallucinatorily constituted as "men and money teams compete for island special olympics".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at the time they did this, the world split. there were the people who built the "something quite like a proper comp", on one side. there were the people who did not so build, on the other side. you see this ?