mircea_popescu: it's just that i see a lot more compartments, separate, than is customary in "the profession"/"the biz".

mircea_popescu: it's strictly a "yes, shit and myelin both go into body, but there's a membrane between them".

mircea_popescu: this says nothing re common trunk ; it's a discussion of #import idiocy.

mircea_popescu: phf gimme a sec ima package what i run.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bout the usual quart a week.

mircea_popescu: today, tried the contents. pears delicious, the liquoir a bit strong. brewed fresh pot of coffee, added it in. OMFG best coffee ever.

mircea_popescu: on the upside you can prolly have emacs macro to properly handle image linkage if you have a fixed scheme

mircea_popescu: you can tell a shit language (html) by the fact that as it matures it goes back where it started from : infancy.

mircea_popescu confesses to being tempted by such a scheme many times past, because that way the headers would be historically accurate.

mircea_popescu: so far we're working on whether it's, strictly speaking, a sin

mircea_popescu: howevert yuou state it, manhood can't be much of a talent.

mircea_popescu: in principle a household should be capable to intake 500 lbs of freshly slaugthered pig and craft it into food supplies worth ~1 1/4 mn delicious calories

mircea_popescu: "bitch, get your ass to baltimore and don't come back until you've picked up a local."

mircea_popescu: well, i'm nor one to ineptly suggest stuff. "Hey, you building house ? look into geodesic dome / $random crap!" because that's what i last read in Nature and i fancy myself a cultivated fellow.

mircea_popescu: film's definitely a must watch, in any case.

mircea_popescu: the only question before you, mr alf-form, is : are you a jew ?

mircea_popescu: ow food or to gaze at a limitless land and call it your own, no, no. You just go on and on and on repeating this process over the centuries over and over and suddenly you make a grand discovery. You have a mercantile heritage! You are a merchant. You are known as a usurer, a man with secret resources, a witch, a pawnbroker, a sheenie, a makie and a kike! "

mircea_popescu: cloth, cut it into three pieces and sell it for three pennies profit. But, my friend, during that time you must never succumb to buying an extra piece of bread for the table or a toy for a child, no. You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece cloth and so you repeat this process over and over and suddenly you discover something. You have no longer any desire, any temptation to dig into the Earth to gr

mircea_popescu: hy or an army or a land myth. All you have is a little brain. A little brain and a great bearded legend to sustain you and convince you that you are special, even in poverty. But this little brain, that's the real key you see. With this little brain you go out and you buy a piece of cloth and you cut that cloth in two and you go and sell it for a penny more than you paid for it. Then you run right out and buy another piece of

mircea_popescu: "You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want to learn the secret of our success, is that right? Alright I'll teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several thousand years, during which you have nothing to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land to call your own, to grow food on or to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in one place long enough to have a geograp

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's exactly two ways to construct value into this world. one's to take the 1/4 * 350mn / 2 = 40 or so million currently useless refuse and turn them into women. even if you only manage a small %, it's still something. aka, uranium water filtering.

mircea_popescu: cairo, for the record, is a city ~the size of california.

mircea_popescu: there's ONE thing the middle eastern guy has that white man can't replicate, and that is, a stable, and here i kid you not, a stable, of dozen+ pliable obedient females WITH offspring. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: the question to you is, are you building a dirigible in the white man sense or in the sand nigger sense ?

mircea_popescu: for the anthropologist, god damned fascinating, they're like a family-sized snail building its conch. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: so, they do not have rooves, per se. just an unfinished floor, which has a foot or two of pillar reinforced concrete, with the rebar exposed.

mircea_popescu: but to this dubious race of the east, a house is not a definite item. instead, it is a tower.

mircea_popescu: see, to you, or in general to white people of the tribe that invented houses, a house is a thing, a definite item.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with the house structure as a cultural item in the middle east ?

mircea_popescu: it's either "paiont and scrub this property" or else "go to school" / "look for a job" / ruin perfectly good food "cooking" and be bitchy about it.

mircea_popescu: anyway, "<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform cheapo scheme above, cheaper to replace the ducts." denotes that in the "central air" image i linked, the ducts exist in the attic as free standing tin foil. they're connected to a grate in the roof of rooms.

mircea_popescu: last time i took over a place, ~50 girl-hours went into scrubbing surfaces.

mircea_popescu: just proper fridge (1k at the very least) ; proper stove (about 500, fittings et all) ; dishwasher (another 500) touches your 2k. this includes no cabinets or other furniture, no retiling the walls, no holy shit expenses such as redoing the floor, fixing holes in walls or adding a section of roof etc.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-03#1495572 << which reminds me of this girl i knew back in romania, whose grandfather had bought her uncle an entire street as a 18yo present. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: so they'd blow up a ceiling in the entryway to make the house "look" tall, and so on.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if memory serves, they cost ~2-3k a pop, which is to say about the same as a hundred vinyls or so.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes electric range ? wtf is a range ?

mircea_popescu: parquet, area carpets, women with carpet beaters a few times a year.

mircea_popescu: phf builtin carpet is a misery anyway.

mircea_popescu: it's a war, after all. i count their "innocent victims" even as they count mine.

mircea_popescu: so let's hear it, brick and termopan window vs vinyl siding and shit on a stick.

mircea_popescu: since we're doing externalities, let's do the whole shebang, not like i'm a fucking redskin and the oh-so-clever ustard is going to get to count MY externalities and just mine.

mircea_popescu shurgs so run a miner.

mircea_popescu: it's a 20sqft slab whose main purpose is to allow the master bedroom to have proper windows.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform usually this is done for the 2 rooms (of 4) that have "a balcony"

mircea_popescu: bitch, i grew up in a land where the window is an entire wall and it opens out all the way ☟︎

mircea_popescu: usually done for warehouses (originally, a thing from positive pressure clean rooms)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, central air is when you have a huge tube and the conditioning happens entirely outside.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a split unit is this thing where the compressor and hot phase sit outside, for instance on roof, and cold head inside.

mircea_popescu: just thinking about "window ac", wtf is this "feel good" nonsense. it clearly doesn't solve the problem, it just what, gives you the impression of a cool breeze ?

mircea_popescu: there's a space between "window ac" and "central air". you can get a proper split unit installed.

mircea_popescu: now you know where Guo Boxiong's truckful comes from. it's a dropplet of the rain falling on all things from the comrade xi's fountain.