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ossabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 15:26:42 asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938420 << spyked this is pretty interesting. is that a coupla 100kB of base64'd fontisms in there ? ( and, apparently buncha perl-genned ???! in 1 of the cl libs ?! )
spyked: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938438 <-- re. fonts, also see http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-09-13#1935895 ; long story short, for all the "open font" claims, there's no (text!) sources for those, so I just included them base64'd, to reflect the blog entirely as it is now. can safely ignore them/remove them from css and blog'll still work.
asciilifeform: there are also minor improvements to 'reader' , but these need moartest atm.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 23:20:25 asciilifeform: test of action line
asciilifeform: this rev also knows how to echo lines of form : http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/1938795#1938795 , if we decide to go there in 'reader' re 'url problem' .
snsabot: (ossasepia) 2019-09-27 asciilifeform: maxim_mivo: it will have rack ears welded to it, if the hoster does not offer shelf
asciilifeform: oh and the crosspost thing is in:
snsabot: asciilifeform: time since my last reconnect : 0d 0h 2m
asciilifeform: new ver. of reader.py laters. (and then will vpatch.)
asciilifeform: this (and merged in fix of reconnector) i think covers in
asciilifeform: ^ nomoar 0x01 turdola
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 23:20:25 asciilifeform: test of action line
snsabot: mats last seen in #asciilifeform on 2019-09-26 16:35:48: when i have something concrete to report it'll go into #t
snsabot: mp_en_viaje last seen here on 2019-09-27 20:30:52: anyways, ima be back tomorro.
asciilifeform: ACHTUNG, PANZERS! about to deploy new rev of bot. expect ~45sec of dead time.
BingoBoingo: The entire 1960 to 1990 span added ~0 to Montevideo's skyline as seen from roofs in the city
BingoBoingo strongly suspects Uruguay's construction industry peaked in the 1920s with Palacio Salvo
BingoBoingo: I have a strong suspicion if the investigation move to poking around the interior of listed structures the project could have turned into strictly evaluating for the lot footprints as the tower builders do
mp_en_viaje: anyways, ima be back tomorro.
mp_en_viaje: i mean, even if someone gave you a free chevy vega -- it still wouldn't make economic sense to try and run it
BingoBoingo: It makes tremendous sense.
mp_en_viaje: this make any sense to you ?
mp_en_viaje: in short : not a single one of the items there look to me like something that'd be acceptable to carry on books even if given freely ; if yo uowned them i'd insist you sell them.
mp_en_viaje: #6 is again #3, early 1900s, possibly good enough to stand, but possibly terribad, will have to drill a wall to see wtf is even in there
mp_en_viaje: i bet you the doors use the copper keys we discussed at some point yeaes ago
mp_en_viaje: 3rd item lacks entirely outside shots, which makes me suspect it's in a building that'd have been bombed in ww2, except it wasn't in active war theatre.
mp_en_viaje: 2nd item i don't even know what to make of. seems someone literally poured some concrete, made a sort of post-wood outhouse. i dunno how it is even a house at all.
mp_en_viaje: this isn't euroinsanity. the item is too far gone to be worth repairing, what.
mp_en_viaje: i mean taking the list, right ? 1st item is literally a ruin ; that item has central wall damage from uncontrolled water infiltration. it would be condemned in europe.
BingoBoingo: In my immediate surrounding they are primarily valued as potential footprints for future residential towers so long as that activity continues.
mp_en_viaje: but the cost to own / cost to carry still a factor of 2 over what it coudl/should be with saner autoclaved cellular concrete filler and etcetera. whole poured concrete walls are for you know, river dams and things, wtf, heating that, preventing water seepage, it's a bundle.
mp_en_viaje: they're not all that great capital goods. obviously immensely better than usgistani paper wasp atrocities, yes.
mp_en_viaje: i confess i am not at all impressed with the images on this particular score : they're all 1970s pure-sovoktech relics. it's directly visible, at least to the aculturated eye
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 19:34:55 mp_en_viaje: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-26#1938397 << here's the problem : these are all paper fortunes. paper fortunes are protected by naught besides the owner's willingness to endure hunger. argentina's future is so dim and its prospects so hopeless, there's ~0 incentive for argentine to liquidate rather than starve.
BingoBoingo: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938736 << Uruguay's laws are such that they do have to liquidate before starving.
mp_en_viaje: not like they'll magically learn how to build ust because the neighbour's goat died, either.
mp_en_viaje: the salient points : a) half the prices ; b) three times the area ; c) one fifth or less the age. i expect ro 2000s construction, for all its warts, is still infinitely better than ~1970s uy construction technology
BingoBoingo: The problem of the Rio de la Plata is the people hold the opposite of the truth in the ways in which they are rich and poor.
BingoBoingo: One nearby property I'd been watching since arrival finally sold after a flurry of listings once the price hit ~160,000USD. When I arrived it was listed around 200k. It had my attention for being a two bedroom house on an excellent corner with attached small commercial premises suitable for shingle hanging. Even after selling and becoming inhabited is still painted as a japanese restaurant.
mp_en_viaje: and yes, haggle. but this is no joke : to match eg romania, they'd have to haggle to 10%. looksy :
mp_en_viaje: in practical terms, that's the only available option ; real estate never drops suddenly, for deep and fundamental reasons sometimes superficiaslly touched in the logs. it's just not possible, like it's not possible to dream the unknown
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 17:50:32 asciilifeform: they all seem to cost 1-1.5k $ / sq m., aha. tho BingoBoingo seems to have found that they haggle .
BingoBoingo: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938475 << The "conventional wisdom" passed around is that they haggle. I have not tested this myself.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 17:52:50 mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, very nice work ; but this seems untenable on the face. i mean, even the san francisco "premium" bezzleworld's been losing 2-3-5% a year, each year, since 2015 or so. and 2s and 3s ealirer, 5s and above these days, 2019 may well close more like 7%
BingoBoingo: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938480 << This is what I was expecting. I regret not taking better notes up till now on the history of advertised prices, but there appears to be a steady march downwards. I publish a selection of sample properties again in three or six months.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-27 04:37:33 spyked: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-26#1938376 <-- hm. I suppose feedbot could do something along the lines of "talk (via PM) only to people who are already +v in the channels where bot is listening"; either way, there's currently no strict enforcement in place, I'll add something if/when it becomes necessary
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-27#1938413 << entirely up to you, if it becomes costly or w/e, limit it
mp_en_viaje: it makes a huge difference this, between being the 70yo who walks to the bar and the 70yo who can't leave the house.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-26 19:17:45 BingoBoingo: Before investigating transit times it had probably been a good three months since I'd been inside a vehicle. Present tranportation costs consist of food calories above basal metabolic rate and a few cents a day in shoe/boot depreciation.
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-26#1938406 << in positive news, this is possibly the best thing for a human. each year with >500 miles on the odometer under age 50 adds 6 months of ~mobile~ life after age 70.
mp_en_viaje: so i don't expect uruguay market will ever find price. instead, the "properties" will just decay into the ground
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-26 19:02:08 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: As of 2013 through a bilateral treaty the shelter part of the arrangement went out. From where I'm sitting it is hard to tell which way the Argentine winds will push
mp_en_viaje: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/trilema/2019-09-26#1938397 << here's the problem : these are all paper fortunes. paper fortunes are protected by naught besides the owner's willingness to endure hunger. argentina's future is so dim and its prospects so hopeless, there's ~0 incentive for argentine to liquidate rather than starve.
asciilifeform on this merry note has to attend to meat : bbl
mp_en_viaje: or cared to
asciilifeform: very easy for zoologist to laff at wasp, when he's a 'k' shaved ape
asciilifeform: i.e. the 'r/k' thing.
asciilifeform: at any rate insect moar relies on 'horizontal' ('there's many wasps') 'rng', than 'vertical' ('if rnd()<0.99 then check_nest()' etc) rng.
asciilifeform: aha, and also vertical predators (afaik moar of the latter)
mp_en_viaje: im sure they have competitive predators, flies whatever
mp_en_viaje: which is why the discussion is carried in terms of choice. rather than in terms of "compulsion" or whatever.
asciilifeform: right, asciilifeform's contention aint 'dafuq, this can't work' but 'well it clearly worx, i simply dun know precise mechanism'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, precisely. the "lacks rng" could very well be entirely artefact of perception.
mp_en_viaje: taken seriously, the objection becomes suddenly very weak.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: poor model, transistor, it's ~nuffin BUT rng when 'out of the box'
asciilifeform: given that the wasp is still around , evidently worx out.
mp_en_viaje: this could be like saying "it's weird individual transistors lack rng"
asciilifeform: it is interesting that wasp seems to lack 'rng'. asciilifeform does not know why, or what sorta evolutionary sense it makes.
mp_en_viaje: anyway -- this was very fashionable i nthe 70s. but there's pretty serious problems with hoefstadter's critique of conceptualized consciousness
mp_en_viaje: can supposedly have it check the nest until it dies of starvation
mp_en_viaje: but if during 2 you move it, then it resets at 1
mp_en_viaje: was another thing, some other preditorial wasp, where it 1. drag to nest ; 2. inspect nest ; 3. deposit in nest.
asciilifeform: the ants, however, interesting because in anthill there ~will~ be found some who can walk 'nonstandard' path.
asciilifeform: this kinda thing is ubiquitous in the insects aha
mp_en_viaje: and if you cut those, it doesn't eg, drag by a leg.
mp_en_viaje: well, what i recall is that it pulls the cricket (nfi, maybe some others do larvae) by the antenna
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i recall the spiders. wasn't necessarily a sphex tho, there are other wasps that 'smarter' and will throw exception and stop looking for the caterpillar
mp_en_viaje: anyway. yes all living things do a certain amount of "but it must". all livign things do a certain amiunt of excretion, also.
snsabot: Logged on 2019-09-25 21:52:01 mircea_popescu: for this reason any imanentization (ie, mapping of concepts into reality) will revolve around a "paradigm" / wilful blindness of some kind. "how could i not think of that" is always lulzy -- if you thought of everything your head would explode. and that's a literalism : if you somehow fit all states of its own emptiness into a glass it'd go boom.
mp_en_viaje: pretty sure i actually had a spex on trilema, had a nest fulla spiders
asciilifeform: all living things do certain amt of 'but it must'
asciilifeform: dunno that so diff. recall the sphex wasp ? the 1 that will still run the 'walk to caterpillar, see if eggs in its spine hatched' even if entomologist removes the caterpillar.
mp_en_viaje: very different thing.
snsabot: Logged on 2016-07-11 11:31:03 asciilifeform: in ideal picture, 'nobody would dare', as curtis lemay answered when told to put out his cigar lest he set off the fuel depot
mp_en_viaje: "dude, it's not up to you." "yes it is." "wtf" "the dumb pleb always triumphs" "where the fuck did you see that ?" "on all anon graves"
mp_en_viaje: it's this : "what i do doesn't work" "do something else then" "no." "well what ?" "it must."
mp_en_viaje: mno. that's not it.
asciilifeform: 'i'ma quit my job an' work as a wolf instead, will grow teeth as i practice' 'write back, say how it goes'
mp_en_viaje: and it's a most informative and productive line of inquiry. there's a REASON the pleb projects choice upon those, and disavows his patently idiotic applcation of entirely imagined choice, and so on.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: 'imagined choice' can drive the imaginer into walls, but is unclear to me that the walls move, or even get dirty as result
mp_en_viaje: point remains : the hallucination of choice is the specific distinguisher between the plebs and the brigand/kulak/whatever, non-pleb.
asciilifeform: but imho still interesting, as neutrino was interesting before anyone knew how to catch 1
mp_en_viaje: not like it in the end matters, unless/until pugachev shows up demanding a rating.
asciilifeform less convinced, but unequipped to press the point while lacking working timemachine
asciilifeform: 'bring back the planes' 'wat planes, war ended, this is island 8000km from humanity' 'gather straw, we'll make planes!11'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: this is a+++ model of 'america great again'(tm)(r) lulzcows aha
mp_en_viaje: "he fucking imagiend it on the basis of his granpa. thing was dead like 1505." "omfg wut"
mp_en_viaje: "wut" "motherfucker. the world your granpa lived in didn't in fact exist" "lies"
mp_en_viaje: "how to make it like before" "fukctards, what you're feeling is the portuguese getting a trade empire going FIVE CENTURIES AGO"
asciilifeform: 'main switch' not , afaik, fully crystallized yet as concept, then.