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phf: having grown up with a dacha, i grok country house/city apartments, but that's not even under consideration for most people here, unless they are boomers, who bought ocean property in the 60s for peanuts
asciilifeform: phf: i dun live in dc
mircea_popescu: well... country house has its place. i'm just not old enough to want one.
phf: i know nhi couple who own a house in gaithersburg, which is about 40 minute nhi commute (note nhi itself is 30 minutes outside dc center), it's a magnificent place and they put all the toys from their world travels there, englishmen style.
mircea_popescu: i guess you have a solid point there - ba is an oldstyle city, eateries on every corner, etc. good reason for rent to be more than what it can be in industrially produced "suburub".
asciilifeform: i recall chetty mentioned an entire city quarter packed with idiot usaschwitz escapees ?
mircea_popescu: (actually i do have a pretty good idea - they all live off the govt which is here so much like lice they crowd around)
mircea_popescu: i didn't tell you to live there.
asciilifeform: where i live, 750 would maybe get you an open air parking.
mircea_popescu: anywya, it was lulzy, guy wanted 12k pesos ; i offered 750 usd which he took - at the time ~6 mo ago it came to about 11k pesos on the black market and it looked like it will imminently will cross 12 13 15 etc.
mircea_popescu: i wasn't proposing any such thing ?
asciilifeform: Apr 01 10:22:12 <mircea_popescu>god damned it. so half hour's research has produced not the article i was looking for, and the knowledge that decimation actually introduced lafond to the chan. << decimation introduced the thread about atomic clocks also. so cesium clock is a sc4m?!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i was actually trying to figure out what that interest rate point /was/
mircea_popescu: i mean... blows.
mircea_popescu: first i found, mebbe i'm missing something, but no i dun recall him being discussed prior.
phf: huh, well then. i somehow though people were reading him before the riots
mircea_popescu: god damned it. so half hour's research has produced not the article i was looking for, and the knowledge that decimation actually introduced lafond to the chan.
mircea_popescu: well i guess i grep lafond in log.
shinohai: I have elderberries and blueberries.
PeterL: danielpbarron I guess it depends on how you do it, I never did beer, but I made mead, and it was much cheaper than buying an equivalent volume, about an hour of work and a few weeks of waiting
PeterL: pete_dushenski have you ever read the book "the total money makeover" by Dave Ramsey? I recommend the book, makes mostly similar points to your post
ben_vulpes: i grow convinced that wherever pete_dushenski hails from is even weirder than asciilifeform's big gulag
mike_c: lol. well I'll be sure to finish reading it before I reload the page :)
phf: in other words i'll be surprised if it's still running when i wake up tomorrow
phf: i.e. back=1
phf: mike_c: i actually have an old version of log working, http://glyf.org/h/t-a if you want to read the backlog
phf: i should have it working over the weekend
mike_c: hey phf - I heard you might be working on a log for this chan. is that true?
BingoBoingo: Anyways, I got out of my time machine and I've discovered some facebook posts from Gavin's future https://i.imgur.com/4DRHHGI.png
mircea_popescu: " At the October Meeting, Board members voted to award a gift membership to Gavin Andresen for his exceptional service working with our Bulletin Editor, Rebecca Fricke, on the League’s recently redesigned website, www.lwvamherst.org ." << i guess he gets 20 bucks in gift certs or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised. mass is very haughty like that.
BingoBoingo: I haven't checked this. mircea_popescu do you know off hand if the Amherst city council position he holds has a stipend?
mircea_popescu: i dunno... mit-tron ?
asciilifeform: to whom is the schmuck in debt, i wonder
mircea_popescu: i know, i know.
mircea_popescu: o i c. your arse is also solvent, which is more than can be said for him.
mircea_popescu: well i guess a fantasy agency can substitute then!
mircea_popescu: o i c.
asciilifeform: i dun have an intel agency!1111
mircea_popescu: i bet you've not as much as looked at the schmuck's cv or anything ? just sat on ass and journalised ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno how to get a handle on facts!!11
mircea_popescu: i dunno, fuck the guy's wife ?
asciilifeform: i would, in fact, like some handle on the factz
mircea_popescu: looky, there's nothing wrong with your hollywood inclination. it's, from what i hear, inescapable in first generation americans. nevertheless, it is not factual.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu tells me that the mit proclamation is a lie - i will believe him
mircea_popescu: where "cow" "farm" and "india" mean things i didn't even dream, but constructed tendentiously and ex post facto.
asciilifeform: he is not an employee, does not clock hours or report to a boss, and is not - in as far as i can surmise - accountable to anyone, for anything he does.
asciilifeform: i'm not aware of any positions there which even include 100% tele.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i don't see how gavin is part of a set, ~no mit folk get to sit at home and collect money for nothing.
asciilifeform: i think i had a toy one as a boy.
asciilifeform: even the quasi-legal mexican janitors at every place i ever worked, got to park.
asciilifeform: i can believe this purely on faith.
asciilifeform: i only can disagree with this one bit, i know of no wage slave who does not get parking spot, the auto is holy in these lands.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I dunno how to save it. You way be too coastal and insufficiently rust belt.
asciilifeform: the thing about cars as peacock objects, is esp. mysterious; e.g., none of the folks i work with have ever even ~seen~ my car
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: more so! i clock motherfucking hour
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i grunt for wage, what of it
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> or have it delivered up the street << i have a friend who many years ago showed up in antique steamroller.
asciilifeform: i dun think you can drive those on the highway
ben_vulpes: although i'd go for an excavator
ben_vulpes: "no dood i rented it for laffs for tonight."
ben_vulpes: iono man when i want to show up at a party in a stupidly expensive car for fun, i rent something ludicrous not a fucking ford
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i live, car leases are typically used by 'poorfag' to pretend to be richer
ben_vulpes: "hi i would like to pay interest on the loan for this car and also the one that you'll replace it with."
gernika: I will probably return it to them, since I also brought back a replacement eerom-8u that worx, as opposed to the first one they sent me.
gernika: asciilifeform: fyi I made a trip to eetools HQ today and came back home with a curiosity: EmMax plus rom emulator - connects to LPT port - comes with console app. It does *not* however appear to support dos - win95 is as far back as it goes it seems.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather pay to go to mall of america.
asciilifeform: then again i also think uncle al wrote reasonably.
asciilifeform: am i the only one to whom trilema was never a 'language speculum' ? mircea_popescu writes entirely reasonably.
hanbot: trilema is a language speculum. yesterday i got stuck on "Does the mint flower to welcome the butterflies where you live ?"
mircea_popescu: i may not be a cunning linguist, but i'll sure as hell rape the shit out of the language.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform looky what i accidentally dug out http://trilema.com/2011/treburi-de-lipsa-la-casa-amantei/#selection-53.0-55.0
asciilifeform: i was trying to make sense of 'As of the today, the minimum value of the assets in my possession is ~755 BTC, while the maximum total amount for the liabilities, should all claims be certified, is ~981 BTC.'
asciilifeform: i can see this angle.
mircea_popescu: which difference is why i can travel, and you - not.
mircea_popescu: consider a house. if a woman i loved died there, i might not have any further use for the item, not even as fire kindle.
danielpbarron: gotta say, I'd prolly use bitbet again if asciilifeform is the owner/operator
asciilifeform: i don't see the 'turned entirely to shit' angle
mircea_popescu: i don't think this border can be smudged. sure, crypto makes it more difficult [for some people] to notice it.
asciilifeform: i feel like i'm watching a movie through a door lock, can't quite make out what is what
mircea_popescu: i can't elaborate in a void! you gotta produce something.
asciilifeform: i might be lacking the ropes on which this explanation hangs
mircea_popescu: "oh, if i don't get cake ima hold my breath".
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see on the table there's used condoms.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it asciilifeform ?
asciilifeform: (as i understand, it gets sold with empty tank)
asciilifeform: incidentall i don't recall, davout , didja specify that only wot folks can bid ?
asciilifeform: and i've been running a (cut-down) wp thing since '07.
asciilifeform: i've never even heard of 'jetpack' before now.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron tho in fairness if you add all official s.mg auctions up, you get something more like 6 btc i think ? so yeah. totallies.
pete_dushenski: davout: iirc jetpack offers some nifty functionality, i even ran it myself back in the car blogging days, but yea, it's too messy to audit, so too messy to use anymore
mircea_popescu: i doubt it really, prolly just ban the offender from future auctions.
davout: pete_dushenski: i did not know jetpack was such a pos, learn something new everyday
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
davout: mircea_popescu: re the signed addresses list: i'm looking into it
pete_dushenski: i could see bbet fetching 20 btc. more than that would be [pleasantly] surprising.
pete_dushenski: congrats to asciilifeform on being top bidder thus far. i'd actually like to see him take it down.
pete_dushenski: re: auction, i've taken the liberty of putting the bug in a few ears to see if some interest can't be drummed up.
mircea_popescu: i did play prehistorik but seems unsimilar.
mircea_popescu: well i never had it.