asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: under discussion was orlov's gambit of seagoing-thing-as-escape-from-rent
asciilifeform: elsewhere - i can easily believe that it is not.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is relevant in usa.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i would park there immediately if i had a ship.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: prolly 90% of the reason i even read the man, is that his idea was solid - there is exactly ~one~ escape from the real estate leeches, and it is into the ocean.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ever consider doind the orlov thing and moving to one ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unrelatedly, i found out that orlov told the truth, and it really does cost only a few hundy usd/mo. to part a 30 ft. boat (on east coast usa at least)
asciilifeform: i was under the notion that it was a one specific box, which then redirects
asciilifeform: how does the chat.fn thing actually work?
asciilifeform: i read some of the available material ( mircea_popescu must've posted it ?) but all i saw were btc-fiatola dealz
asciilifeform: and certainly every orcish pesthole where they ever burned a gestapo archive with stoolie idents, knows.
asciilifeform: 'oops we rm -rf / 'd the capital allocationz. all mine now'
asciilifeform: i have actually nfi, but at the time i could not help but wonder how much of the jpmization of american bankz was engineered via precisely that kind of 'physical jubilee'
asciilifeform: (they typically like to imagine that the thing is salvaged from a sunken sub, while in actuality the damn things are sold by the pallet-load surplus since '91 or so)
asciilifeform: first photo is of standard su naval clock. for some reason it is a beloved souvenir among u.s. navy folks.
asciilifeform: (model f is unusable with any modern machine without aftermarket controller, which has to be soldered in and manually calibrated for each key. ~100 on its own, incidentally. plus a weekend of sweat.)
