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mircea_popescu: well, narrower than that : london no longer wishes to be taxed ; the eu will survive as a bureaucracy, sure, but what else.
diana_coman: plenty; what I was trying to figure out was why do those specific things seem so extraordinary to you as they are not (yet perhaps) extraordinary around Europe I'd say
asciilifeform: as we speak
diana_coman: fwiw raw milk can be had even in the uk and no, it's not terribly expensive/commando mission sort of thing; still, I wouldn't list that as some proof of sanity or anything
asciilifeform: asciilifeform frequented a zoo like this as a kid.
asciilifeform: the best thing was, as elsewhere, the clean air and absence of screaming idiots and their spawn ( visit washington's zoo )
a111: Logged on 2017-06-05 16:13 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-05#1666045 << the way the lizards expect the shit to work is exactly in the way mp -saves-openbsd worked : as seen moneyz. recall the story of the us embassy spending a whooping 50k to start an "empire" of fake news tv stations etc ?
asciilifeform: and nowhere in usa is there so much as a small town that's 100% people.
asciilifeform: actually it was being fixed as i watched
mircea_popescu: i agree with you the anyone has serious problems understanding food, architecture, etcetera. but that's about as far as it goes.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-21 23:26 mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
mircea_popescu: but should locals end up on the receiving payment for renoir, sure as fuck they do.
mircea_popescu: (california beach as in the ny shithole, for the non-natives)
asciilifeform introduced at one point as 'half j00 half antisemit'
mircea_popescu: anyway, evidently we diverge in how we evaluate biosacks. but that's fine, timisoara could really use some foreign cash inflows as it is.
asciilifeform: this , as often in mircea_popescu threads, is like asking a swallow for air travel advice.
mircea_popescu: as a general rule you don't want personal property registered with the fiatistans. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: buy a warehouse as personal property ?
mircea_popescu: as BingoBoingo well points out, THAT IS THE SCAM.
mircea_popescu: but as a general rule of thumb, whenever a fiat govt is involved, sensible isn't.
mircea_popescu: it can't be had. why the fuck do you think it's dead as a going concern ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not worth anything. timisoara is dead as a going concern, a local detroit.
jessie_: if i do NOT hand out the privkeys, well, i will sacrifice my dick, suicide a couple of days after, but also being acclamated as the "moar deflation guy" on reddit and gain a lot of karma points
mircea_popescu: jessie_ the obvious approach is to see if playing bottom isn't very satisfying. as orson scott card well points out, the only way to survive temptation is to yield to it.
BingoBoingo: As we referred to him watching drunk election returns in 2006 (It was college), The Black Deval
BingoBoingo: For gringo EIRELI requires 150,000 Reals of registered capital to establish, but is reading as an actually sole proprietor limited liability vehicle. That amount still comes with "plan to employ two Brazialians requirement" but virtual knocking on lawyer doors.
mircea_popescu: jew coverage as to how this is concerning but doesn't matter and people still give a shit about them abundent enough ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 21:47 asciilifeform: i pictured them as ro equiv of ukrs approx
asciilifeform: as a kid it vexxed me, i thought it had to do with страдать , suffer
mircea_popescu: im serious though, it's likely old slavonic as a source. certainly not russian import
diana_coman: I had a few colleagues at uni bucharest; re language my observation was that they mixed ro and ru (not words per se but rather languages as a whole) to such degree that result was at worst not-understandable, at best hysterical indeed; sort of saying "ulita" (because of Russian "ulita" obv) to huge boulevard comes to mind but it's not the only thing
mircea_popescu: very heavily dependent on russian support to continue existing, and ro sure as fuck doesn't want ANOTHER moldavia on its budget
mircea_popescu: because if you do that, there sure as fuck won't be any new ones either.
asciilifeform: i pictured them as ro equiv of ukrs approx ☟︎
mircea_popescu: moldovans are orcs and not as romanian as they'd like, which is why chisinev spoken romanian sounds like embalmed ion creanga.
mircea_popescu: this is because russian isn't as slavic as it used to be.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as the foreigner speaker is concerned, the pons asinorum is mastering the ɨ/i and ə/a dychotomies. takes failure rate from 100% to maybe 60% just liek that. then the dypthongs/tripthongs/quadriphtongs (yes, romanian has that). contrary to intuition, the special consonants are not difficult.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im translating http://trilema.com/2011/triumful-crizei/ as we speak.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, lol! fwiw I kind of trashed "puiul" to start with: stated that mother-bird was idiot as she should have either taken chick on her back or otherwise leave earlier ffs
diana_coman: ha, asciilifeform apparently from vinyls so quality as it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-VOU_jP-8&index=8&list=PLhFkMMCbqsCMq38PC3lGv11vmULgkUfH9
mircea_popescu: this is moar like ww2. whereas parma had regrets in the 1700s as well.
diana_coman: hm, asciilifeform maybe editura casa radio, "fonoteca de aur" such as http://www.edituracasaradio.ro/prod.htm?grp=3&cat=18&prod=925
asciilifeform: i also supposed that ro '80s may have included same style of spiffy kidz' records as su, and to hunt for'em
mircea_popescu: in languages as well as fucking, there's no disadvantage in starting directly with the master class. ☟︎
asciilifeform: as i did with eng
mircea_popescu: will skip from the first syllable of first involved word as far as possibly the first sentence stop.
asciilifeform: i was doing ii as if in finnish
asciilifeform: asciilifeform read it as-so upstack. and pictured some sort of old crone, in a tram, for some reason
mircea_popescu: "oh, wanna-be mps over at ycombinator can't compete with mp though they really really want to ? I KNOW!!! we'll make all the bars suck and then suddenly the shit-ass parties ycombinator throws won't look quite as shitty anymore!!1"
ben_vulpes: enshrine even restaurant staff as local delegates of the inca
ben_vulpes: and in other trigger warnings http://katu.com/news/local/portland-bars-getting-certified-as-safe-spaces-against-sexual-violence-and-racism
mircea_popescu: of course this is never actually ~said~ as such, but i suspect for the same reason priest omits to specify manner and size of wife beating implement.
diana_coman: if you are very curious you might also want to check the publisher: iirc many are in fact published in Chisinau (Moldova) and sold in Ro because cheap compared to local; iirc I saw quite a few books following this route and reflecting it, as it were
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as a phonetic meaning encoding, this item proves.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-21 23:26 mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
mircea_popescu: and lulz at mastercard, pretending as if they've not just one, but a whole fucking NETWORK of developers.
asciilifeform: 'The cost of fraudulent goods is worth $1.4 Trillion globally. Leverage the Mastercard Blockchain and Authorization Network to easily track high value pharmaceuticals, art, luxury goods as they are created, transferred, purchased and re-sold' << lol!,
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The getting them to distinguish is a difficulty as well. Apparently the Mandarin/English language duo is not conducive to Brain finesse as per 2014-ish discussion in pidgins. The Veit Congs were more effective communicators.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo one doesn't help. you gotta mount eight as per alf's magics, i wouldn't bother.
BingoBoingo: But makes it clear why Netflix tries to plant a cage full of VCRs as clost to every customer as possible.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thus far i can’t escape the suspicion that rack rental is fundamentally same type of chumpatron as box rental
phf: oh, right, same thread as http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727633 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 16:54 diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer;
diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer; ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do they keep’em in same bunker as the seekrit nonsysco restaurants ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> in other reportage from orcvalhalla: there are as many mini-casinos here as banks. << 5 years ago here in Southern Illinois there were few of these, now in most bars and a good chunk of gas stations. Even a few freestanding ones.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:20 mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
shinohai: I did not change asciilifeform 's functions at all, it was readable as is. I simply combined all the functions into a single script xD
asciilifeform: in other reportage from orcvalhalla: there are as many mini-casinos here as banks.
mircea_popescu: you can't market vps as 1 to the U.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:20 mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
asciilifeform: reacclimating to ye olde gulag will be hardenuff as it is
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : after failing to produce any footage anyone can be arsed to watch for 20 years running,. hollywood is finally being abandoned to the sufragette politruk brigade. as a result, amusing pieces like the discovery that jenniffer "nature itself is angry at trump" lawrence got her pussy grabbed by anyone and everyone, including momentary famous kulak harvey weinstein. AND LIKE IT. because yes, she's exactly what
mircea_popescu: sure as fuck beats "raising" a dog ; and i can readily understand one not wanting to go through genital roulette at the cost of an irreplaceable decade and a reasonably rare million.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> they cost you about 50k to buy, and the rack will run you about 50k for a year. that means your yearly budget is about 100k, roughly. << This is roughly my impression. 50k colorent, 40-70k-ish hardware, 35-ish k physical presence so as to walk to servers, 2k birthing company, 5k retainers, 100k prudent reserve (In case of Best Korea, Intifada, meteor storm, Pelosi). Rent boxes out for ~2x cost basis (all in, not board so
mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes a) you're not going to make money renting space as such. this wasn't even in the original design, i've nfi why you added it in.
BingoBoingo: That's the suspicion, but still likely useful as part of journey to second passport
mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak ☟︎☟︎
lobbes: ultimately my fault for labeling the subtotals as 'totals'
mircea_popescu: the thing, is, no-one ever accepts any of the alts other than as a bitcoin derivative.
mircea_popescu: who ever could hope to pay for lulz such as these...
mircea_popescu: same q as http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726308 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: aha, bout same range as other one huh.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Described self as datacenter
diana_coman: but detected as pl2303,hence barfs
diana_coman: hm, it sees it/reports it fine as far as I can tell; pl2303 attached to ttyUSB0; ehci_hcd
mircea_popescu: and here's a bit of an evolutionary biology mindbomb : since the ability to distinguish one's own sons from other's sons is positively selected in males, it is altogether probable males have developed the ability to recognize their own spawn as such.
deedbot: 76F814216BE3CF14AC31E0993B73837D67163DBA registered as ascii_in_orcland.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's same generation as my mainbox E350 but slower. E350 vulnerable to high block processing times even with 31337 SSD attached
asciilifeform: it's approx same as 'zoolag'
BingoBoingo: One cannot simply assume a world in 2017 without jbweld, much as one cannot assume a world in 1800 without procelain tile
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-19#1727102 << I am still looking for both higher density pcengines apartments as well as beefier AMD boards ☝︎
diana_coman: I think there'll be some crypto play in this house, lol; tbh as a child this part of "secret" messages was terribly fun even as idea only
diana_coman: asciilifeform, good idea actually; I suspect he needs more play with the whole point of throwing coin as it is ; part of what was difficult was precisely the "but why do you want to do that?"
diana_coman: BingoBoingo, not yet hardware store as such, no; he does get to see though anything that is going on (computers being operated on included), he does get to help with anything that he is able to atm and he does get to assemble his own stuff (the most recent of which is a fully functional water pump model thing that kept him busy for days as per http://www.dianacoman.com/blog/2017/10/08/lictis-plictis-ori-boala-copilariei/ (poor
diana_coman: phf, quite; basically "white squiggles" from his point of view atm really; he noticed the letters, yes, because those he recognises as symbols but otherwise in any case, screws and cables way more interesting
phf: fwiw current patches convention is that genesis-less vpatch is rendered as a purple box with an arrow coming in, e.g. http://btcbase.org/patches?patchset=deprecated but when it's only one it's not working
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that this is the 1900s, whereas peopel routinely travelled large distances in the cold and ate just five five centuries prior, and before that. because a) the cart of the time was intended as and functioned as a whole-family-mover, which is exactly how oregon trail happened ; and because the grain->bread and corn->mamaliga cycle permit something to the tune of 2mn calories per ton, ie enough to feed a family o
ben_vulpes: in tangential lulz, one of the "children rescused in fbi child trafficking sting", touted as an "18 month old, rescued from sex trafficking!" was in fact hooker's baby and is now a state ward