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mircea_popescu: i'd imagine it's the control structures / branching that's problematic
mircea_popescu: "old guy came by told me he'd give me five if i climb up that tree"
mircea_popescu: "this old guy said he'd give me five dollars if i climb up in that tree!"
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: "i tried this in the past, was always told 'go, quit.'"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for my own peace of mind : have you actually said this ? or just fantasized about saying it ?
mircea_popescu: next thing he's gonna want to telecomute instead of showing up in irc.
mircea_popescu: almost like a cloud of perpetual brick rain follows you around.
mircea_popescu: (lemma : the definition of shit job is one where employer says "go, quit.")
mircea_popescu: what is the moral you derive from this experience alf ?
mircea_popescu: but it is pretty cool living with the natives you know ? girl can pillowtalk tell you about her bf, and how hard he's working for his promotion.
mircea_popescu: other than that, two-girl furnished apt in town ran 3-400 monthly.
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.
mircea_popescu: leverage ? you got more leverage in baltimore than you do here.
mircea_popescu: you can read. and you can read in such a way as to GUARANTEEDLY never end up in "i dunno man"
mircea_popescu: stop flattering yourself. nobody's wasting an erectio0n on your sorry ass.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how rare fucking is, in human experience ?
mircea_popescu: what do you think whiteboy with compuyter habit ends up doing in prison ?
mircea_popescu: you have immense leverage - you're the only one that can make sense of the entire sea of symbols they don't grok.
mircea_popescu: the same thing that gets most women knocked up that ever carry to term.
mircea_popescu: also, gangs aren't exactly intellectual strongholds. by and large they survive by not caring, not by fine-tuning their civ playing strat.
mircea_popescu: eh, you know enough chemistry to be useful to meth lab.
mircea_popescu: do you actually believe blacks aren't people or something ?
mircea_popescu: five years in you'll prolly want to hold a conference. if not 3.
mircea_popescu: phf it also happens to be the right thing to do, other than buying bitbet.
mircea_popescu: o wait - turns out alf is actually closer to lafond's dear friends than to the white house ?
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.
mircea_popescu: rentals are exactly that : correctly priced, multi-room hotels.
mircea_popescu: how about never mind teh purposes, stick to the causes!
mircea_popescu: phf such a bizarre place you know, they rent last years' car for 2 bux a day, everyone hauls countertops
mircea_popescu: that's ridoinculous. 1k buys you the swhit in a coupla months.
mircea_popescu: confirming the age old observation thart socialism works betterf the smaller it is.
mircea_popescu: phf actually internet in midwest way better than on the coasts. usually run by township.
mircea_popescu: so what's rent like in the cheap suburbs next to umd ?
mircea_popescu: well... country house has its place. i'm just not old enough to want one.
mircea_popescu: (which is not so terrible, even, considering gdp is like 18k pa)
mircea_popescu: you can't possibly convince me that rents can ever exceed ~half the average per capita income
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".
mircea_popescu: moreover, you can readily add wi/mn/whatever to the ro/pl/etc list.