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Wed Mar 09 18:03:50 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: not really, no. turks, at least at their height, quite solidly had 'fuhrerprinzip' - all officials, incl. vizir, personal slaves of sultan.
Wed Mar 09 18:03:10 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> dandians, duzians, twas a thing.
Wed Mar 09 18:02:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> speaking of ancient arcana - who even noticed that the soviet ideas of central planning are a direct calc copy off the way turkish empire ran ?
Wed Mar 09 18:00:56 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no, but i daresay i understand at least parts of it.
Wed Mar 09 18:00:46 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i thought it revolved around understanding.
Wed Mar 09 18:00:46 UTC 2016 <asciilifeform> or does mircea_popescu read it to learn how to actually produce philosopher's stone.
Wed Mar 09 17:59:44 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hey, i still read it.
Wed Mar 09 17:58:40 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> traditionally, lavoisier, i suppose. but mind that many people understood what you call chemistry long before the 1600s, and similarly an interest in alchemy survived long after.
Wed Mar 09 17:57:45 UTC 2016 <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: i would defer that question to PeterL
Wed Mar 09 17:57:21 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> thestringpuller who in your view made the switch between the two ?
Wed Mar 09 17:57:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> anyway - i welcome the antivirus-based new gestapo. it will doubtlessly work as well as the new us model army, seen at the muchly trumpeted, quickly forgotten tikrit offensive.
Wed Mar 09 17:56:16 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> let the beluga take its unfortunate form emergently to mr doctor X, so as to receive bookend implants.
Wed Mar 09 17:55:43 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> working by analogy with the fruits in the marketr stall, or perhaps even herself and her sisters, her ladyship figured such : what is good is tough and rocky, what's overripe, soft, unrestrained in the belts of rubbery skin is obviously iunferior.
Wed Mar 09 17:54:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> specifically, that these black roe, large and soft as were put before her, are evidently inferior to true black roe, as she always gets at [we're skipping this, lest we shame the third party]. which are small, much, much smaller, needle sized, and tough, so you can crack them in your teeth.
Wed Mar 09 17:53:58 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> a young consumation girl [ie, whore], otherwise clever and vivacious, receiving some caviar aside the mug of vodka, proceeded to explain some matters t ome.
Wed Mar 09 17:53:27 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in translation :
Wed Mar 09 17:53:25 UTC 2016 <assbot> Caviarul si fata on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1TLJTnM )
Wed Mar 09 17:52:37 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> actually, my favourite quote for that,
Wed Mar 09 17:52:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform> i will call this - ersatz cognition << the problem being that, much like in the case of blub, ersatz cognition can only be recognized by people not blessed with it.