mircea_popescu: yacht engine not so much different from luxury car, same few hundred hp. you run it for an hour, you burn about a galon, costs you about 2 bucks.

mircea_popescu: (and speaking of "luxury", romania's ex-minister woman that the hubbub was about recently, "Rumanas vivían entre lujos" lived in a pretty shitty apt in rohrmoser, which is a sort of... auburndale, i guess ?

mircea_popescu: topless, chimed, it's a fine luxury item.

mircea_popescu: what, i get the luxury of a door lock but programming environment must take all comers ?

mircea_popescu: this is the fundamental point of ye above linked car article : if "luxury brands" come up with ~substantail improvements~, they're next year in the "mass market" cars.

mircea_popescu: efore -- that is, zero-cost shouting ; (the bounty of that experience also readily provides us with a luxury no woman knew before -- that is, zero-cost defloration, the experience of the "significant" cost of expression as perceived afore the fact dissolving into nothingness with the consummation, "what a big deal writing this blogpost was going to be that it didn't turn out to be after all") ; and so following.

mircea_popescu: all that said, there's no bad blood here. i have infinite time (in the sense that the republic is eternal, not in the sense that i've been around for seven milennia or thereabouts) and every boy has to take his own fucking journey to his eventual himself. for as long as you can continue speaking the truth you're perfectly welcome here, as everyone ever is ; the magic of the workings of the log permit us a luxury no men knew b

mircea_popescu: the whole discussion was re daykin, specifically that for our particular usecase, it's not the end of the world that it wants "napkin numbers" : we enjopy the luxury whereby we can construct them to measure.

mircea_popescu: never did, no. tho during wartime romania it was THE luxury.

mircea_popescu: the funniest bit being, that the above construction is exactly what teh robohitler's notion of luxury line anti-trilema would look like.

mircea_popescu: much like we'll have the luxury of paying taxes (it IS a luxury, if they're correctly used it's way the fuck better to pay a twenny and snow mover to come in than for each to keep in shed, oiled and repaired, own minimover for own driveway) once there's tmsr.gov somewhere. and so on.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-25#1865802 << yeah, sure. and we'll have this luxury again once tmsr-os. because as it is right now, the option is not actually available. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: this is what breaks the imperial brain, too : we stick to our trees being continuous, like blockchain. to zek -- luxury, can not be afforded.

mircea_popescu: as it is, the politics carefully (and secretly) constraining it, all that's left visible is harmless nonsense, a la "saudis buyers of luxury cars"

mircea_popescu: well, the cloud of oricsh morons a la amstan are an expensive luxury.

mircea_popescu: i will download a luxury liner.

mircea_popescu: luxury liner!

mircea_popescu: the only stable solution is when 50%+1 of all energy production goes to mining ; there's absolutely no space for "alternate" coins other than an expensive luxury early on.

mircea_popescu: seriously asciilifeform dun take it the wrong way / be discouraged. it's great, so great in fact we can afford the luxury of refinement. while no one else has as much as the lines, we can thumb our noses and only deem the count worthy of insertion. if this isn't luxury i don't know what is.

mircea_popescu: anyway, this is suggesting new peaks of luxury. they spend ~half hour waiting for their wings to dry / batting them slowly. if you get a few dozen coordinated chrysalises you could have quite the grandiose dinner table.

mircea_popescu: item knew no competitor ; "unfathomable luxury" means that it was MAGIC, outright, plain and simple and spread on bread ; not "this is the shitty thing dad makes me fuck with because he hates me" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: but this outlook is a luxury, the prime luxury of life, in fact

mircea_popescu: marriott-luxury a very poor substituter.

mircea_popescu: anwyay : such is true luxury in life, to be able to disinterestedly walk into #lisp, spend an hour evaling and shrug.

mircea_popescu: (maybach was an old luxury brand bought by mercedes ; maserati idem, early 1900s brand, bought by fiat ; spun off with alpha romeo and abarth recently cuz who wants a fiat)

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform new symbols are indeed the most expensive luxury there is.

mircea_popescu: mod6 i used to enjoy the luxury of multipass reads through the log. but it's under threat these days ☟︎

mircea_popescu: ie, GREAT GRAND LUXURY!

mircea_popescu: lafond is hallucinating, those people live in luxury.\

mircea_popescu: mno. his question was "why do these 12 people not see the glory of socialism and dedicate their lives to making every receptionist live in luxury she can't pay for"

mircea_popescu: (the source was 80s dispute wrt to general public's apparent bottomless appetite for purchasing luxury goods -- in eastern communism this includes meat, washing machines, electricity, etc -- for which they won't even have the fucking decency to pay in hard currency, but aim to use the worthless reminbo internal scrip) ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: freedom of thought is indeed a luxury isn't it.

mircea_popescu: yes, but anything that isn't luxury is, today unlike the days of the su, ersatz.

mircea_popescu: http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160912/#770 << this is a luxury. as all other luxuries, strictly reserved for the rich.

mircea_popescu: because nothing quite says prestigious luxury like a full option package where the leotard anti-matches the car paint.

mircea_popescu: "if the victim perceives they have the luxury to shut down memory, they're evidently not petrified enough."

mircea_popescu: let's say it was an early luxury we did for a time enjoy

mircea_popescu: phf that's a luxury on par with sleeping ad libitum.

mircea_popescu: it's been huge in the luxury/perfume market for a while now.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform irani imports, "persian carpets" in romania. the shit that was common middle class in my parents' house and is now untold luxury omfg.