asciilifeform: (locally, a la rotor, is another matter, and works great for its purpose)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i highly recommend against having any manually-built gcc installed systemwide on a gentoo box; this would prevent you from using eselect
asciilifeform: usaschwitz prisoner - even in the Big Zone ('freedom') - is rarely fed actual bread, or even clean water
asciilifeform: so to return to mircea_popescu's wild supposition, the answer is no - it is much CHEAPER to house a prisoner or pay a guard in usaschwitz than in, e.g., su☟︎
asciilifeform: e.g., zimbabwe has many more significant zeros, but also more turd
asciilifeform: the high wages in usa come simply from the sheer volume of bezzle sloshing around, and don't actually buy anything interesting (the lack of shit rivers in the streets has nothing whatsoever to do with the number of zeroes in front of the decimal point)
asciilifeform: adlai: read the hypothetical again. the net money to spend remains same
asciilifeform: (answer: yes! to the tax collector! he gets nonlinearly moar)
asciilifeform: let's put it this way, if $firm were to put N additional zeroes in front of my wage, and landlord put the same number of zeroes in front of my rent, does this make any practical difference ?
asciilifeform: r the Embassy of Israel in Washington. A U.S. intelligence official familiar with the intercepts said Israel's pitch to undecided lawmakers often included such questions as: "How can we get your vote? What's it going to take?"'
asciilifeform: 'The NSA reports allowed administration officials to peer inside Israeli efforts to turn Congress against the deal. Mr. Dermer was described as coaching unnamed U.S. organizations-which officials could tell from the context were Jewish-American groups-on lines of argument to use with lawmakers, and Israeli officials were reported pressing lawmakers to oppose the deal. "These allegations are total nonsense," said a spokesman fo
