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mircea_popescu: electric stoves are ok ; but they better be gas-stove standard, not a lulzy teapot warmer + microwave.
mircea_popescu: bad lightbulbs ; bad flooring, bad carpeting bad walls bad you name it.
mircea_popescu: seriously, "water saving shower" ?! because why, i'm in palenque ?
mircea_popescu: also wtf is with the lulzvoltage ; and with the poorly provisioned water and often inexitent gas pipes. etc.
mircea_popescu: but these days... wtf is with the paper walls, and the attendant fire sprinklers and fire drills and whatnot ? you couldn't pay me to live in a place with firesprinklers.
mircea_popescu: actually most of the stuff ustartds do these days is insufferable. used to be that if you wanted proper floor spacing and decent sized fridges you had to go to the us. which is how people ended up in california.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> but nobody does it for rentals that will be promptly shat in again by the usual clientele << rent control ruins real estate huh.
mircea_popescu: apparently this is a permanent item, usg-born orcs forcibly integrated by usg, revert to the tribal arrangements that are adequate to their needs and capacities.
mircea_popescu: there's stories in the us proletcult folklore about the regime deciding to socially integrate gypsies, ending up with indoor fireplace fed from what used to be the parquet...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: too many detached family houses on two levels waiting for the treatment.
mircea_popescu: but, as with all things, nobody's going to bother putting in the effort for a shitty apt.
mircea_popescu: even that, yes. this is a whole profession, buying property managed into the dirt by idiots and making it shine. pays pretty well, too, most hands-on types end up doing that.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> the mold in the toilet is there to stay, until the place is bulldozed. << nah, copper sulphate will wipe it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one place i rented here contained ~6 local derps at the time ; now inhabited by two.
mircea_popescu: myeah. "longer life expectancy" turns out to be a horrible idea.
mircea_popescu: seriously, wtf slum lord is that, doesn't rape the girls and whip the boys ?!
mircea_popescu: whole day was ~dedicated to hashing out that steaming pile of 20yo lulzideas.
mircea_popescu: there's also a large one discussing with some guy his idea of bootstrapping on a shoestring a landlord governing body, because he's a 20yo brogrammer and that's how governance works in his mind.
mircea_popescu: that if i don't say "obama is a whore's dog" over ssh, aws can't produce a correctly signed token for "mp said obama is a whore's dog" over ssh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if they give you keypair they can sign imaginary connection sessions from you. if not, not.
mircea_popescu: to bobbeck, to attach a subservient aparatchick to the sort of entreprise lords might have either heard of or outright respect, so as to puppet it along the nazi cause.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally bobbeck sounds like exactly the right word for it.
mircea_popescu: something about the old chap being too "out of touch" for "day to day" decisionmaking
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you recall that ridiculous piece ? somehow nobody noticed it.
mircea_popescu: i subscribe to "the end is nigh" theory, the usg dept of berkshire convened the rich kids for a visit over with obama and they all agreed to donate moar money to the nazi party.
mircea_popescu: jurov holy shit, yahoo, the mother of all worthless "internet companies". at least activesoft has or maybe had some competent garbagemongers.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, this means that low-volume shops cannot serve good coffee from an airpot <<< girl had one of those filter drip things all her life. the unit she had broke, over weekend, and i taught girl to make turkish boiled coffee. then today "did you want to replace your drip thing ?" "umm... nah".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> straight bezzle play. << the world over, this.
mircea_popescu: the fact that you can't find a decent cofee house at north pole does not signify you should give up the cappuccino habit.
mircea_popescu: "women may not hold money" doesn't mean something about women. it means something about money, ie, capital is to be deployed in business not in the household.
mircea_popescu: if you have that money, you find a partner and start a real estate corp, and go rent yourself a house.
mircea_popescu: hm ? renting house is exactly the same, lower cost to carry.
mircea_popescu: even fucking GE sold its own fucking machinery to GF to lease it from them
mircea_popescu: who the fuck BUYS oceanfront property for instance. other than a hedge fund / the miami mahjongg club
mircea_popescu: studends are, at least in most of the world, the people who value their cunt closest to its true value.
mircea_popescu: i dunno of any country where the students don't THINK ustardians live like in "friends".
mircea_popescu: you have nfi what pile of people all over think "like in america" is a superlative.
mircea_popescu: landlord can't show the house, his job to fix that. if he can show the house, you're taking pix.
mircea_popescu: hey, that's their problem. you're there on business, gotta have the pics to make a call.
mircea_popescu: you gotta plox take pix and make a blogpost of this once.
mircea_popescu: and the (otherwise spurious) concept of "a chan" reduces to "a list of specified broadcast recipients".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now something like a111 would run on an "observer" node, which is to say with the rule that it doesn't publish/pass lines not reported by the putative author. because those constitute...gossip.
mircea_popescu: and there's sure as fuck no way for u4 to prove to u* that u2 insulted u1's mom, or didn't.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile u4 has absolutely nfi wtf went down there, u2 may be an asshole or fucking around or w/e.
mircea_popescu: at which point u1 can verify that HE didn't get the A5 or the A9. And he couldn't care less that it's a "network problem" or intentional withholding, much like MPEx doesn't gas what proxies do or don't do on the way.
mircea_popescu: then in the relationship u3-u1 whatever G may be A1(G) will be
mircea_popescu: whereas in the relationship u3-u2 G is "Hello u2" and A1(G) is "Hi!" and B1(A1(G)) is "How goes ?" and C1(B1(A1(G)))) is
mircea_popescu: and in the relationship u1-u2 G is "Hai u2 howru" and then A1(G) is "fine ty.", and A5(G) is "urmom's a ho!" and A9(G) is "lol j/k",
mircea_popescu: so, to belabour this point : if users are u1, u2, u3 and u4 ;