asciilifeform: they have these regularly tho

asciilifeform: i do

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so 'north pole' is ~everywhere.

asciilifeform: phf: yeah, the former is what i do now

asciilifeform: soooo usg finally made the old man 'offer he couldn't refuse'.

asciilifeform: jurov: link ?

asciilifeform: phf: i was intrigued enough to investigate - quotes are more like 2.5k

asciilifeform: (nobody needs to maintain empty thing)

asciilifeform: without generating any expense

asciilifeform: from the pov of the bezzle artists, empties are just as useful as filled units, they help to prop up price.

asciilifeform: nobody actually needs to ~live~ in these, for the builder to make bank.

asciilifeform: straight bezzle play.

asciilifeform: just about everywhere i go, i see old buildings being bulldozed to make room for condos, built of matchsticks and cardboard, where ~80% of the units stay vacant for years after the thing opens

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: barbaric, aha

asciilifeform: i used to work right in that institute.

asciilifeform: it was a great place tho, had spiffy ruins

asciilifeform: i dun like rowhouses.

asciilifeform: well the interesting bit in this and previous threads is that 'i want to rent a house' is almost 'i want to rent reactor' in usa.

asciilifeform: y'know, with MONEY

asciilifeform: i am speaking of folks buying

asciilifeform: the derps are getting raped on interest

asciilifeform: (e.g., whole thing is subtracted from tax)

asciilifeform: in usgschwitz there are massive subsidies to folks who buy the thing

asciilifeform: (unlike workerbee in house)

asciilifeform: lower tco

asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu said 'i rent a boeing' folks would believe

asciilifeform: yeah but yer not a workerbee and dun hang out with same

asciilifeform: it is apparently a 'martian' thing to do.

asciilifeform: hilariously, when speaking with (now former) colleagues, 'where do you live?' 'in a house' 'but you said you rent...' 'right, i rent a house' 'you mean, a room in a house?' 'no...' 'what, whole floor??' 'no...'

asciilifeform: it is just that it is ~impossible to rent a house anywhere else !

asciilifeform: and it is not even that i need living near students for anything

asciilifeform: i dunno of any country where students dun live in own filth

asciilifeform: he's never seen pile of rubbish before ?

asciilifeform: what aspect is mircea_popescu interested in ?

asciilifeform: next one i shoot pics of

asciilifeform: well i walked into this one with the contents still alive...

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the kind for rent

asciilifeform: and entirely unusable, even were it to be cleaned with a flamethrower - as usual, the owner divided up the normal rooms into tiny garrets for students

asciilifeform: floor to ceiling !

asciilifeform: the sheer filth

asciilifeform: lel i went to see another one of those houses

asciilifeform brb, food

asciilifeform: my version works over message-in-a-bottle

asciilifeform: not very carrierpigeon-friendly.

asciilifeform: well sure

asciilifeform: and perma-hose you until whatever next reset.

asciilifeform: who can deny you one single packet

asciilifeform: elementarily ddosable by enemy

asciilifeform: this is a Bad Idea

asciilifeform: i dun see how.

asciilifeform: what's pfs

asciilifeform: namely, inability to backdate messages

asciilifeform: that is theoretically fixable via plugin (znc)

asciilifeform: irc is an ancient and simple protocol, and has pretty much 1 serious flaw

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: standard client

asciilifeform: still waiting for my briefing, lulzily

asciilifeform: you would be surprised.

asciilifeform: right next to 'sane os' on shelf

asciilifeform: what next, line-speed crypto in perl also.

asciilifeform: lel

asciilifeform: it eats irc on localhost end.

asciilifeform: because i am not writing motherfucking guis.

asciilifeform: well actually you need an irc client to operate (my draft of) gossipd

asciilifeform: (i don't know of one)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: might have to write it yourself

asciilifeform: nor how many, wtf, srsly

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-16#1466990 << land mine also 'easy to get rid of' ☝︎

asciilifeform: (somewhere deep in the logz...)

asciilifeform: was BingoBoingo into this subj yet when we did the crematorium thread ?

asciilifeform: twatter will close the acct for 'abuse' and work - wasted.

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: when writing a patch

asciilifeform: but sorta duplicates the things that you gotta do on your end anyway

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: md was a 10/20 a decade ago.

asciilifeform: *iirc

asciilifeform: iirf those turned into 50.

asciilifeform: and this is the 'cheap' sort.

asciilifeform: approx.

asciilifeform: these lands, they be cursed.

asciilifeform: even goes through socks

asciilifeform: repeatedly

asciilifeform: it comes out of burrow and machineguns your feet

asciilifeform: we even have something called a 'ground wasp' here

asciilifeform: in one evening.

asciilifeform: i can walk into my back yard right now and get stung by 7 types of insect.

asciilifeform: happenz

asciilifeform: even a motherfucking beehive.

asciilifeform: but yes, they still have a good chunk of campus devoted to animals, and fields for 'test crop', etc.

asciilifeform: these are generally a snore imho.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: today there is precious little left but for the party.

asciilifeform: it, like all of the others, was originally an agronomic thing, eons ago. and there are still signs of it everywhere

asciilifeform: u. of md.

asciilifeform in the depths of his pit, has heard of none of these people

asciilifeform: i.e. you gotta 'be someone.'

asciilifeform: that it is more like buying plutonium than milk

asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu specifically explained that this is not how pro grade whores work ?

asciilifeform: it is almost at the level of postulate, that folks who have dirigible are those who don't need.