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asciilifeform: 'there's plenty of room at the bottom' (tm)(r)(feynman)
asciilifeform: and in the swamp.
asciilifeform: i can think of worse things to be in usa
trinque: tell you where, shitty real estate in florida with hair on their backs
trinque: they had a great time in prohibition; where are they now?
asciilifeform: how did 'air dissolvd their wot' ? plenty of italians famiusly preserved their wot in usa
trinque: still, came to america, the air dissolved their wot, wot died
trinque: went from wealthy italian folks doing italian things to more or less "people of walmart" in 2 generations. lack of options doesn't excuse that.
asciilifeform: instead of the only industrial empire not wrecked by the war.
asciilifeform: where would you rather they had gone in 40s , lol ☟︎
trinque: my ancestors chose the states rashly in the 40s, look where that got them
trinque: oughta do it somewhere you can see yourself staying, or do without. or so the logic goes ☟︎
asciilifeform: but he gets to eat'em.
ben_vulpes: fwiw this house came complete with cat5 in every room
asciilifeform: no moar then my current one objects, lol
trinque: it's the kind of work that stays behind, too
ben_vulpes: orc landlord also ain't gonna object to actual improvements.
asciilifeform: ( and even him i seem to recall cursing the air conditioner people in b-a )
asciilifeform: unlikely to get this level of service from orc landlord, unless you're mircea_popescu ☟︎
ben_vulpes would rather make terrible noises on the guitar than gentoo fucking houses
ben_vulpes: lol mhm, just this month i had the gutters cleaned, various blinds replaced, wiring performed and all at zero cost to self
asciilifeform: but granted 'tco' optimization is a very personal thing
asciilifeform: neither is a toyota's worth of orcland
asciilifeform: you don't lease the chair you sit in, neh
trinque: as far as land ownership, not too sure how much I want to marry a piece of real estate anyway.
asciilifeform: will be interesting to read .
trinque: haven't, but it's on the list
asciilifeform: or trinque
asciilifeform: have you been there yet, ben_vulpes ?
asciilifeform: iirc thailand bans all land ownership by noncitizens. but this is prolly finessable mircea_popescutronically.
trinque: diameter of accountant suggests he's finding something to get fat on over there
asciilifeform: but i'd be genuinely surprised to learn that there are, say, multitude of quality icecream vendors, in thailand.
asciilifeform not yet been in person there, cannot speak to the practical acuteness of said problem.
asciilifeform: see china thread. white man phood scarce in we-dun-lactase land.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by that logic costa rica is oil-fried flour-kingdom.
mircea_popescu: other than that, cr oceans are indeed warm.
asciilifeform: lotta ru folx in thailandistan
mircea_popescu: thai seems to be favoured destination
trinque: guy might be able to help there
trinque: but I also have an accountant with thai wife, citizenship
mircea_popescu is curious how that goes.
mircea_popescu: personally went across the whole thing in a day. quite doable. especially if going at night. locals are pretty nuts with the timings, crowd within the same hours, are apparently petrified of driving at night
ben_vulpes: great excuse to buy mega truck in saturated american market of mildly depreciated truck
mircea_popescu: mountain cr kicks ass but obviously no subs there
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes coastal cr is hot and humid though.
ben_vulpes: you know i have objected to skinny dipping more and more of late on the grounds that i will get cold and grumpy within five minutes so why don't you just strip and get in and i'll make a fire up here and catcall
asciilifeform: either that, or grow yer skin fat, like the finns
asciilifeform: prolly yer path lies to the tropics, then, to mircea_popescu landia.
ben_vulpes: i hear this layer is deeper elsewhere
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: where i'm from there's a layer of maybe 6 inches of warm water in the summer
asciilifeform: i dun think i ever saw warm water outdoors.
ben_vulpes: i've lived near cold bodies of water my whole life, have no insulation, and i would like to get in warm water on a whim
ben_vulpes: oh also chilean ocean is fucking cold, forgot that criteria
ben_vulpes: arstan had thicker rain than portland, but i heard that it was not the soul-killing constant grey fog.
asciilifeform: or for that matter , timis is same parallel as odessa but warmer, because in a 'kettle'
ben_vulpes: this is possible! but i would muchly like to trade number of hours in longest summer day for...more summer days.
ben_vulpes: bits of rural costa rica look nice, was briefly looking at chile before i realized i'd probably end up at the same miserable latitude
ben_vulpes: somewhere i can launch autonomous subs under cover of learning to surf
asciilifeform: if it ain't a seekrit, to where does ben_vulpes want to move ?
ben_vulpes: i'm currently reevaluating my own exit timeline; project tinyhuman did not go particularly well this time through
ben_vulpes: congrats on the new project
asciilifeform: ( ftr it ain't as if asciilifeform had a thing to move into yet. but may as well get all of the parallelizable balls rolling. )
asciilifeform: most of my earthly goodz dun merit the cost.
asciilifeform: may as well sell for fiatola, or leave for the vultures.
asciilifeform: i dun have any desire to give away to non-l1
mircea_popescu: alternatively, simply buy them passage in a container. though that more reasonable when going to kekistans, i guess
asciilifeform: kudos to phf for finding a fella who needed a lispm.
asciilifeform: at any rate, l1 folx firmly stuck in usa ( who... ben_vulpes ? mod6 ? ) invited to inquire re particulars.
asciilifeform: i suppose i oughta also mention 2 21-inch trinitrons, one of which -- brand-new, ~1hr of runtime.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 17:29 asciilifeform: asciilifeform had a 1958 'britannica', made in usa, that he fished out of a dumpster as a boy. it was superb, as far as encyclopaedia goes, about on par with famous большая советская энциклопедия . but today it lives packed in a crate.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655937 thread ☝︎
asciilifeform: and i think this completes the list of items somebody in l1 might actually want.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 00:46 asciilifeform: asciilifeform likewise will have a rail car's worth of goodies to liquidate
BingoBoingo: !~later tell pete_dushenski http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1734821 << You want in on the alf firesale? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: the lispm is finally gone tho.
asciilifeform: any idea what the thing weighs
asciilifeform: didja think it could come ?!
BingoBoingo: You're leaving the LASER!
asciilifeform: asciilifeform likewise will have a rail car's worth of goodies to liquidate ☟︎
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: More than that less than 1 GB. Document dumps and pictures, etc
BingoBoingo: Prolly not going that small. Qntra may get own box E350 or similar AMD
ben_vulpes: in other news, vancouver washington elected a dead man to city council
asciilifeform: how much does the workingset weigh, BingoBoingo ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-09#1734789 << for that matter would work even better on a 'pcengines' or other small machine with GB nic + ssd . ☝︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is not such a thing as a sane fiatolistan. but otoh it is difficult to do worse than usa.
BingoBoingo: davout: And hence not Brazil parallel search becoming very attractive. Brazil is slow. Anyways the reason BingoBoingo has been condensing physical plant is that there are many compelling anti-reasons to operate ISP in US.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Depends on what I call the computer. Uruguay however has actual charts.
davout: aok, hence the .br residence permit talks
asciilifeform recalls rolling crate of pogos, for c3, and paying 0 because nobody wanted to try to compute duty
BingoBoingo: davout: That is plan
davout: you'd need to actually move yourself for that to be an option, no?
asciilifeform: what's the duty on an ancient comp anyway
BingoBoingo: davout: Freight happens later as "household", that way duty free.
asciilifeform: afaik if you make it externally baglike (i.e. with handle) and it fits in mass/dimensions given by carrier -- they'll carry it
BingoBoingo: And if wrapped in nylon and strapped together in 70 lb units, still bags?
BingoBoingo: Does airline treat this as a bag or a something else
asciilifeform: but i prefer the crate the machine shipped in
asciilifeform: look in music 'dj' catalogue, they make cases
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.