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cazalla: can't say i'm
a fan.. might try to touch it in
a subtle manner to ensure it is
a mole lest someone didn't teach the poor girl how to wipe
cazalla: didn't bother coming back for the actual job, working in
a kitchen sucks
punkman: science boat pays
a bit less but still quite well
mircea_popescu: Namworld so do it for six months, take
a year or two off.
Namworld: Well cook might be more in my cords. But doing it all day? Seems
a bit mind numbing.
cazalla: Namworld, he's talking about working for
a living, he's talking about sharkin'
mircea_popescu: anyway, hanbot has
a point : join
a fishing ship / oil rig / something. they'll pay you 5k
a month to live in
a 50 sq ft space,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: right. so if you pick up
a girl what do you do, take her to
a motel ?
Namworld: The lack of land and bricks is worth
a lot of dough. You could be paying
a lot of dough at any big corp for fees and terrible services. Inconvenience is costly. What better investment than
a overpriced house so you can live inconvenience every day of your life? You save
a lot of money that way.
ben_vulpes: i could buy
a mini cnc mill and make custom leather embossing dies
ben_vulpes: <Namworld> [05:06] I feel much better having
a small living space and more << i miss lathes and mills and welders
Namworld: Cost of rent especially, since it tends to be
a big part of budget. Wouldn't want to have to pay rent in San Francisco.
cazalla: we have
a high minimum wage here (down under) but people still struggle on account of insane cost of living so can't really blame people for indulging
a little, not like it's worth their time to save
a deposit for
a house anyway
cazalla: no doubt they piss
a lot of it away but i don't think they are entirely to blame for being on struggle street
Namworld: I'm not trying to save, I'm going to be upgrading living expenses by $200 per month and have my own bedroom. In
a better location nearer downtown in
a bigger and better apartment.
Namworld: I'm sure
a toddler is more expensive... Cat is like
a $20 bag of food for like 2-3 months. And like ~$15 of litter for the same period. So about 10-15 bucks per month.
cazalla: my bad then, i assumed your interest in reducing living expenses was so that you could save
a bit extra
cazalla: i'd bet
a cat or dog costs about the same to feed
a toddler
cazalla: but if you're trying to save money, perhaps just eat the cat and reduce not only the cost of feeding it but save extra on
a meal or two for yourself
Namworld: The convenience of owning
a cat and
a dog in one, with all the disadvantages and not quite all the benefits.
Namworld: It might be
a dog that is disfigured and has bad vocal cords. Might just happen to look like
a cat.
cazalla: anyway, be
a man and get
a dog
Namworld: No point in having
a cat if he's away all day. It's just not doing anything but costing you and being
a nuisance to people around.
cazalla: local bird life for
a start
cazalla: meh i hate em, they kill
a lot of the natives around here
hanbot: confucious sez, cat can save you
a meal...
cazalla: Namworld, get rid of the cat, savings right there not to mention
A+ for no animals living in the house
Namworld: I didn't consider such
a thing. I guess I'd feel confortable even in
a submarine/ship.
hanbot: is Namworld soft-launching
a life coaching business?
Namworld: Haven't been around in
a while, but from lurking every now and then, seems it's
a bit slow for assets. There's no longer talk about assets/tons of trade tickers.
mircea_popescu: only time i ever bought such
a thing was off the auction block. had no use for it, but fuck. dat price.
Namworld: Space is
a concern only when you need it. You don't buy
a large warehouse building without any plans on how to use it/put it to work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
a time long ago i had
a 3 phase washing machine.
cazalla: Namworld, even
a small space cost you 30 years of your life here
Namworld: You're trapped overpaying for
a big space. That's the real prison. Small space, you're basically free to do whatever and have the luxury of free time with less stress.
Namworld: I feel much better having
a small living space and more spare money than I can use than having
a big place with only crap to put in it and struggling to afford anything but paying for
a large living space.
mircea_popescu: that's your job Namworld. can't be asking us. (there's even
a rule about it!)
mircea_popescu: sometimes i think i'm too terse. then i look at the logs and shudder. what's
a gal to do!
Namworld: This document from 2012 seems to say
a carton of 200 smokes were ~$77
Namworld: mircea_popescu, not always. Even then, I don't see many smokers smoking enough to burn almost $1000
a month.
Namworld: asciilifeform, I'm pretty sure working with folks struggling on maximal salary is
a masochistic endeavour.
Namworld: If only that... $420 rent here, split in 2 for
a 1 bedroom. I'm installed in the living room/kitchen as if it was
a studio. Roommate in room.
Namworld: 99c
a kilo? Never seen anything that cheap here.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i had an entire fucking lulz with the elec corp in romania. they wanted to give me
a deal if i prepaid, so i prepaid for like
a year. then the eu elec price explosion happened, and so they paid me to get out of the prepay deal. then prices went back down.
cazalla: nothing like sirloin at 99c
a kg
cazalla: and as i've mentioned
a few times before.. take
a roll of toilet paper home from work each day
Namworld: I often hear living in the city as someone poor (minimum salary) is harsh. It always seemed
a bit absurd to me. Minimum salary here is ~$1400 per month after taxes. CAD$10.55 per hour.
cazalla: Namworld, know the get
a discount on your bills trick?
Namworld: Well considering I don't have
a harem... that's not really something I have on my mind.
Namworld: I somewhat have
a preference for smaller living space, higher quality goods/food.
mircea_popescu: basically,
a video game producer's view of MIT AI lab is "hey, it was
a field-sized Daikatana"
mircea_popescu: 99.x% loss in sales, most commentators agreeing "it was prolly
a fad" etc.
decimation: ^ note that
a similar incentive exists for alchemy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's
a snippet that will be perhaps insturctive. the ai winter and the vg winter happened almost in tandem. the latter resolved within
a year.by the end of the decade vg was WAY ahead of the beginning.
mircea_popescu: i don't see
a future for the stuff covered by moore's law, for the very simple reason we could call "obama's arab league failure"
mircea_popescu: supposedly
a major contributor to gdp worldwide is, mental health medication.
mircea_popescu: doewsn't even have to be collapse. consider :
a hot area of research in the 50s/60s even 70s was genetics of intelligence.
mircea_popescu: the idea that computing power is
a monotone... heh. out of the crooked timber of humanity, no monotone was ever made.
decimation: it's
a good point, but is strong enough to close the escape hatch?
mircea_popescu: besides, factoring 4096 keys is not quite that much of
a given. for one thing, 1kb keys have not been factored yet. for the other... moore law, again ?
decimation: well, I was thinking about the case where one couldn't 'upgrade'
a key because of threats to existing key lengths
decimation: so who would fund
a business in present btc/usd?
mircea_popescu: is that alf actually beats
a lot of "professional" managers
mircea_popescu: well... you could start polyamory-ing, and then getting
a new girl each week and then tricking her into having her picture taken with weird numbers written on her chest.
mircea_popescu: suppose within the year cardano proves such
a success s.nsa trades ~0.00020000 like s.bbet. at that point, your 70% share of the stock will be worth 663.1905 ; your warrants like another 663.1904. if btc is 1.2k at that point again, you're now worth
a million and
a half in benjies
williamdunne: asciilifeform: If you find
a decent buyer, I'll give you 10% commission on
a kidney.
assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 21:44:05; ascii_field: i'm kinda curious why mircea_popescu considers
a new key signed with
a previous key to not be
a logical continuation of the same identity. (is it because of the impossibility of hard-guaranteed revocation, as discussed in previous thread?)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 21:45:38; jurov: he's born into wrong time, prolly wants to build
a pyramid
williamdunne: >Even the offer by Obama of
a separate tete-
a-tete in Washington could not persuade Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to attend what Riyadh sources describe as “
a photo-op” aimed at hoodwinking the American public.
menahem: williamdunne ahh i love #b-
a.. all the right reminders. :)
decimation: yeah that's
a good point. apparently the arabs are not happy that the us intends to proxy iran instead of them