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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the folks with unlocked doors are often married galz trying to get cazalla a 3rd while he's not looking mmkay
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i was saving this for the travelogue, but will give 1 interesting example: the flagpoles in timis, have no locks on the winch.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how did that expression go, "i like to encourage intruders" << AHA, chainsaw!
asciilifeform: in theory there is no difference between u-235 and u-238; just take out the extra pieces!1111
mircea_popescu: how did that expression go, "i like to encourage intruders"
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Door left unlocked here too, we don't have the urban folk to necessitate much locking
mircea_popescu: harem is mostly the very same western women with no visible drawback.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 13:07 cazalla: these fucking western women
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1730654 << you know, there's no substantial difference betwene a bunch of idle idiots hanging around tardstalk type 1 and "consensus"-ing that bitcoin "needs larger blocks" and a not-even-different bunch of idle idiots hanging around tardstalk type n and "consensus"-ing that "deze western women". ☝︎
asciilifeform: or whenever they last had proper lynchings.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: picture, there are barely any guards even in museums. folx leave doors unlocked.
BingoBoingo: Well, the exeburbs.
BingoBoingo: Nah, in the burbs
asciilifeform: and with petroroquefort to eat.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i will note, for non-usaschwitz readers, that if you want a 80k BRICK house in usa, it will be in 1) baltimore 2) with all food vendor in 100km being 'food depot' ( see thread from last july ) 3) no 1mB/s, much less gB/s, fiber, for any price << Nah dawg. We have a handful of 75-85k brick houses within 20 minute walk of BingoBoingo's seat. Catch is small, 1950's foundation on slab idiocy
mircea_popescu: but the dubious advantage ("historic building!!!") is readily blown out by much nicer historical buildings in ancient civilised lands. get a palace in sibiu rather than a an ex brothel from the time of carol in bucharest.
asciilifeform: anyway 80 is same weight class as 50 : what a nice truck costs in usa.
mircea_popescu: most usg-once-removed corps are trying hard to advertise bucharest.
asciilifeform: ( mall thing )
asciilifeform: they were, unsurprisingly, near the american reservation
asciilifeform: i saw ads in timis, 'win a flat in bucharest!'
mircea_popescu: romania also has the "million dollar condo flat" delusion, on like calea victoriei in bucharest etc. similar to moscow seattle what have you
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo similarily to "whcih house", we presume these matched.
asciilifeform: i will note, for non-usaschwitz readers, that if you want a 80k BRICK house in usa, it will be in 1) baltimore 2) with all food vendor in 100km being 'food depot' ( see thread from last july ) 3) no 1mB/s, much less gB/s, fiber, for any price
mircea_popescu: a further 3 to 5x away from the original 3x the bum's fare. which is how this works, after all.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> well no, in ro you get a house, in theory, for what a harley costs in usa. << Which harley? This is the 1.2k to 100.2k question
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also was an option to me. iirc they were trying to retail it to rando sucker for 105 or such.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i bought some lillies yest, maybe 1-2 kgs or so for like 2 bux. decided i liked them, sent girl to buy out the shop.
a111: Logged on 2015-09-07 03:12 mircea_popescu: had the option to buy it for like 80k, which i didn't take.
asciilifeform: btw found thread, mircea_popescu is right, quoted cost was 80 not 50 : http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-07#1264870 ☝︎
asciilifeform: i sat there and wondered how often american banx dispense pseudobenjies to unsuspecting idjits
asciilifeform: took forever to chug
asciilifeform: they had this very elaborate contraption for supposedly ferreting out faek benjies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was in a trilema i recall !
asciilifeform: i wondered if because to prosecute false coiners, or because usg demands record, or both
asciilifeform: what was not-so-nice in ro is that money changers take copy of passport
mircea_popescu: well that's nice then.
mircea_popescu: maybe. doubt it tho. for one thing -- gotta have union worker.
mircea_popescu: they wouldn't have even shot at me, i'm 100% sure, just got out of the way and scratched heads wtf.
mircea_popescu: could have used it to dig out the local jandarmerie building.
mircea_popescu: did not fucking bother to ask if i can even drive it.
mircea_popescu: dude... i went into the lot, asked for the boss, they pointed me to the office-latrine, i was like "i want an excavator" he was like "50 a day" "i was like here" then he pointed out the window to machinery.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's expertise re real estate reminds me of construction expert recommending diesel-powered circular saws to escaping prisoner. zek does not have diesel saw, or electric, zek has a length of band saw smuggled in anally.
mircea_popescu: if the medieval mercenary experience taught us anything.
mircea_popescu: own people and rent land works da fuck better of trying to pretend like you own land on rented people.
mircea_popescu: and this is generally a point -- if you want quality sex work done, you bring your own whores. and so following.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 17:17 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1730985 << this also works well, if you own one. if you don't own one, meh.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:26 diana_coman: asciilifeform> and you generally can't make massive reworks <- this yes, though I'd be surprised you wouldn't be able to agree with landlord; more like you'll go nuts trying to get what you want from builders, but that's a different story
asciilifeform: i'ma come back to this, it is buried in l0gz.
asciilifeform: and where he boiled old hdds in tomato compote
asciilifeform: the one with the square lawn that mircea_popescu cut with electric grass cutter
mircea_popescu: which is this ?
mircea_popescu: the "harley worth" place in romania will rent in romania for what the harley leases for in the us. wtf.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu did quote '50k usd' for the house he wrote about.
mircea_popescu: you imagine discounted market values don't work in romania or what the fuck.
asciilifeform: well no, in ro you get a house, in theory, for what a harley costs in usa.
asciilifeform: and intend to keep having a scum-free 4 walls and laboratory.
mircea_popescu: you're not giving yourself much space here, "i wish to live like prince on 3x what bum spends".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can prolly have something like a detached suburban house or a girl's townhouse (3 rooms, central) for three figs np.
mircea_popescu: (similar to how exams, or sentences work -- you're more than welcome to appeal, but you can end up with a worse outcome! you didn't like your 6, here's a 4. you didn't like the 5 years, here's 7.)
asciilifeform: i like the idea of my recurring monthly expenses being 3fig. and this aint happening with leases.
mircea_popescu: so in general they tend not to dare.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1731023 << you can. provided that they are not damaging to the property (no, change is not presumptively damage) the only avenue of owner is to protest to whatever authority, which may or may not inspect, and generally will write down some subevaluation of your improvements. which the owner will be held to pay when you leave. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: not this -- not rent.
mircea_popescu: this, ftr, is the ONLY way rent works. anything else, see above discussion re torrens title.
mircea_popescu: if concerned, add auto-renewal, they can never kick you out as long as you pay.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:24 asciilifeform: yea but when you rent a house, orig owner can fail to renew lease, and kick you
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1731021 << not at all ; for one thing you take a 3 or 5 year lease ; this works as an option -- you can stay or leave, they can;'t kick you out. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: some things are better served by industrial rather than artesanal solutions.
asciilifeform: but i'd be buying a freestanding thing, not a hruscheba, lol
mircea_popescu: course in many places town hall undertook some insulation work. not great afaik.
mircea_popescu: but you can have the bare-concrete matchbox flats, those are a nightmare in terms of heat efficiency. which generally why cheap.
asciilifeform: i suspect that i pay moar for moving bits, than mircea_popescu paid for heat.
mircea_popescu: yeah this was ~1m thick walls.
asciilifeform: that's less than what i pay nao, by far, because today i live in a ~paper~ house.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like it sure, but still gotta heat. iirc a reasonably modern setup took me back something like $1 / cubicmeter-year.
asciilifeform: i saw the fat, fat spools of fiber, and billboards promising 1G/s for 9bux/mo.
a111: Logged on 2012-08-16 09:08 mircea_popescu: Luceo no joke on either score. romania interwebz is like top 5 IN THE WERLD.
asciilifeform: and i used to live at that parallel , know what the winter loox like.
mircea_popescu: and timisoara, technically is mediteranean climate, has figs. except one year there it had a winter of pure doom, people died in teh streets etc.
asciilifeform: the diff b/w what i pay for ~fiber~ nao, and would pay there, alone, would prolly pay for small flat
asciilifeform: i expect that it will
mircea_popescu: your heating costs will typically outpace it by two degrees of magnitude (romania does get bitter winters, a la boston not a la wash dc)
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:23 asciilifeform: sounds like on anything short of a palace, it is less than my current mains current bill
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1731019 << i never paid anything notable in property tax, even for whole buildings. typically it's the last in a sorted list of property bills, under even de-snowing services and such. ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: tonal << Only 8 of them
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:15 asciilifeform: i'ma have to research, but i'd bet money that it is true. otherwise americans would have snapped up all of the country, and there would not exist such a thing as a 50k-usd house in timis.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1730997 << this is doubtless. ustards are called tards because they are tards, not because we want or like to call them tards. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:11 diana_coman: go to public notary, what
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-31#1730985 << this also works well, if you own one. if you don't own one, meh. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: (if different principle -- do reconsider "ownership" there.)
mircea_popescu: basically you go there with the owner, he provides all the paperwork they want, thassit.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:10 asciilifeform: so what does this look like ? walk in with suitcase of benjies, come out with plutoni^H^H^H^Htitle ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: tonal
mircea_popescu: usa never invented anything worth the mention.
asciilifeform: this is pretty great; usa never invented torrens
mircea_popescu: if the op raises the slightest objection, warn once, walk on 2nd pass.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform torens title. get it registered, it's done.
asciilifeform: well it dun have to be literal whack, could be dud contract or some other variant of 'you paid but dun own nuffin'
mircea_popescu: for that matter, when's the last time yo usaw anyone get out of the car with a tire iron in hand ?