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ben_vulpes: mostly because i intend to own the thing for over
a decade, and not drive it
a whole lot.
ben_vulpes: i'll take the odd thousand dollar charge over
a car lease.
ben_vulpes: btw, where is the epic mp asciilifeform thread about tuning the nonce shifting to ensure nodes have
a market for their digests?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: not saying you should rent
a car and "win" "points", but you recall our earlier discussion of tco ?
ben_vulpes: not
a lot of time to get keccak into the hairball.
mircea_popescu: investing is, by and large, the capitalist equivalent of honorable in fedualism. the country with more honorable barons had
a better footing in war.
mircea_popescu: PeterL it works for the group.
a society with better investment policies will have more intensive usage of capital and thus drive other societies out
mircea_popescu: efficiency works, in the sense that the more efficient corporation will drive the others out. but this is
a business, not
a household concern.
mircea_popescu: in the illustration used, the cunt has the CAPACITY to procreate, with whatever man, as
a function of whether it works or does not work. if it has the capaqcity to procreate, it will procreate. if it doesn't procreate, it's because IT didn';t work, NOT because the cock was black.
mircea_popescu: part one. you said "i've never done 'honest work' in my whole life, phf." ; and "mircea_popescu has
a spiffy article, about folks 'worth their weight in frozen pork'". this equivocates experience with capacity.
mircea_popescu: ff of her as she staggers and drools in the aisle. He has
a powder blue hat. She carries
a finely stitched black leather purse about the size of one of her shoes. They cannot decide who should be pushing the cart. They head back to the women’s room and have sex standing up, between the stall doors and the sink, with the door wide open. She is bent over the sink and he is having
a hard time getting his pelvis level with her
mircea_popescu: "
A very attractive couple enters and begins shopping with
a basket. She is tall, elegant, and white, not busty enough to pose in playboy, and not thin enough to model clothes. She is beautiful in the very high heels she can barely stand on, doing the dopefiend lean as she is. Her date is
a short muscular black man with his pants actually buckled around his waist. They are in their late twenties and he can’t keep his hands o
phf: the mentality here is "i'm fucking all kinds of scum, but at least it's not
a black fella"
mircea_popescu: so : whether cunt works or not is
a separate and distinct consideration from whether cunt ever did it with black cock before.
mircea_popescu: how would this circumstance influence their capacity to in the future conceive
a baby with their putative black lover ?
mircea_popescu: do you know any women who've never fucked
a black guy in their life ?
phf: and the shop itself was how i imagine alf shop is,
a small group of math/compsci grads doing peanut work under inhumane conditions
phf: i once interviewed for an interesting problem shop, that was
a upenn spinoff of some ph.d. thesis work, results could be immediately applied in oil refinery optimizations
phf: that sounds
a like
a very respectable, if very narrow specialization
mircea_popescu:
a sole attempt in
a drowning boat does not constitute
a valid basis for the response you presented.
mircea_popescu: was this
a concern ongoing or winding down at the time ?
mircea_popescu: almost like
a cloud of perpetual brick rain follows you around.
trinque: it's afaik
a common thing in software
mircea_popescu: PeterL one place in ro, suburb of supposedly nice town, ran me $2200 per quarter, house on two levels (bout 4k sqft total iirc) +
a spot of land, fully furnished. and i mean, natural leather couches and walnut furniture and whatnot.
trinque: aw, beating on the left coast folk is
a great passtime
mircea_popescu: you can read. and you can read in such
a way as to GUARANTEEDLY never end up in "i dunno man"
phf: i have burner friends with workshops that you literally drive into
a fenced off area with barbed wire on top, go inside
a heavily reinforced building and work with your 50k equipment in peace
mircea_popescu: five years in you'll prolly want to hold
a conference. if not 3.
phf: asciilifeform: within 3 hours drive? c'mon. i can find you
a workshop within 3 hours drive for less than 500
a month
mircea_popescu: nope. but this is just an argument towards "us is fucking nuts". why the fuck should it cost
a lot ?
mircea_popescu: ideally, they go in the form of renting time from
a workshop wtf is this my garage is my workshop artisan thing.
phf: living in
a hotel is more expensive still
phf: not that i don't, but my burn rate is significantly higher than
a random schmuck
phf: mircea_popescu: idea is that furnished apartment is for
a salariman on remote assignment, like amtrak and services like that, assumption is can jack up
a price as much as you want
mircea_popescu: phf such
a bizarre place you know, they rent last years' car for 2 bux
a day, everyone hauls countertops
phf: that is if you don't lease it yourself from
a third party
mircea_popescu: that's ridoinculous. 1k buys you the swhit in
a coupla months.
phf: mircea_popescu: hard to get furnished here, i price it out every time, and it's an extra 1k
a month almost always
phf: proper way to deal with iowa is buy
a house, get your 800$/mo satellite internet (not even checking what's available, why bother), and do your aerospace/banking/medical it consulting work remote
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
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".
phf: asciilifeform: this is not
a particularly interesting exercise, because rent in DC is significantly above what you could be paying anywhere else in the country (except usual suspects, nyc and sf)
mircea_popescu: yeah. you know what they do all day ? bitch importantly about how the bus fare went up
a quarter peso.
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)
phf: btw how does voice work here exactly?
a whitelist?
mircea_popescu: this is
a derp who wanted contract in dollars to protect self from inflation, got choice of X in pesos or y in dollars, picked y.
mircea_popescu: in other morning lulz : argentinian owner of
a rental wants to get together to discuss changing rental contract because "inflation has gone up".