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a111: Logged on 2015-09-07 03:12 mircea_popescu: had the option to buy it for like 80k, which i didn'
t take.
mircea_popescu: they wouldn'
t have even shot at me, i'm 100% sure, just got out of the way and scratched heads wtf.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:26 diana_coman: asciilifeform> and you generally can'
t make massive reworks <- this yes, though I'd be surprised you wouldn'
t be able to agree with landlord; more like you'll go nuts trying to get what you want from builders, but that's a different story
mircea_popescu: you imagine discounted market values don'
t work in romania or what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: (similar to how exams, or sentences work -- you're more than welcome to appeal, but you can end up with a worse outcome! you didn'
t like your 6, here's a 4. you didn'
t like the 5 years, here's 7.)
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 15:24 asciilifeform: and you generally can'
t make massive reworks
mircea_popescu: i can'
t discern if 16yos will grow up into dumb or not half the time. HALF THE TIME!
mircea_popescu: last anglo books worth reading were penned cca 70s i suspect. i can'
t recall finding one useful past feynman, knuth etc.
mircea_popescu: "let's make grammatical rather than phonetical notation because wouldn'
t be dumb enough just by being dumb, gotta also advertise it"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that could not be so. there's also fewer cunts than dresses. if there weren'
t, cunt couldn'
t be meaningful.
diana_coman: "massive reworks" meant in my head dig foundations and from there up; not that it can'
t be done with own hands, I know
diana_coman: asciilifeform> and you generally can'
t make massive reworks <- this yes, though I'd be surprised you wouldn'
t be able to agree with landlord; more like you'll go nuts trying to get what you want from builders, but that's a different story
☟︎ diana_coman: anyways, why not rent? don'
t know about Timis precisely, but I'd be surprised if it were terribly expensive or anything
diana_coman: I guess it might be more of a trouble if there still is that thing with "can'
t own land" if foreigner, dunno if even still true
diana_coman: again, maybe things have changed in the last years, I haven'
t really looked at it
a111: Logged on 2017-10-25 17:29 mircea_popescu: as a general rule you don'
t want personal property registered with the fiatistans.
diana_coman: o.O you mean they won'
t open a bank account for you?
mod6: nothing has popped up yet that I haven'
t been able to make sense of.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-31 14:32 diana_coman: asciilifeform, iirc cyprus was selling citizenship and discounting it even; don'
t quite recall what was the last price though
diana_coman: asciilifeform, iirc cyprus was selling citizenship and discounting it even; don'
t quite recall what was the last price though
☟︎ shinohai: "Hardware scam didn'
t work guys, let's try an ICO!!!!!"
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: If they can'
t speak English I can learn enough protugese if they communicate by writing
felipelalli: I don'
t know if they can speak English, I'll inform myself.
BingoBoingo: Why didn'
t you pack a tent? If it works for the Gypsies...
BingoBoingo: felipelalli: There's a strong preference for involving an actual lawyer and accountant. Preferably through an arrangement where they can'
t walk off with the capital.
davout: the british appear to me as the most intensely annoying people i've ever encountered, in ways i can'
t always put a finger on yet
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Sure every gov does, but the difference is in degrees. Only when solidly in Chicagoan maleboge does one find law protecting "sign hangers guild", haven'
t found such in Sao Paulo... yet.
BingoBoingo: In brazil you can start a lot of conversations with "Oi, tudo bem? Please tell me you don'
t get winter over there"
BingoBoingo: Mississippi doesn'
t get boats close to that big until south of the Ohio river confluence
mircea_popescu: in short, if the math grad students who didn'
t get tenure ever take over a country, ima be careful about liposoluble tritium tissue markers when visiting.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason my rewrite doesn'
t feel like rolling through crusty sheets permeated by bum scent.
mircea_popescu: well, an exageration, but the point remains. alien can always land and go "hey, why don'
t you knot your shoes LIKE THIS ?" "fuck, it never occured." "idiots."
mircea_popescu: for all the difference it makes you don'
t even have to host them live, dump them locally whenever you feel like.
mircea_popescu: weren'
t you going to take a suitcase over to the tsa people anyway ?
mircea_popescu: at first some stress testing will surely be welcome ; but on the long term can'
t flood trinque with 1 satoshi bills.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-28 06:03 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo eh, alcohol is expensive and doesn'
t exist. he's safe.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 22:29 mircea_popescu: thatg aside, the more pressing problem is that we don'
t have a proper pdf-decrufter, (random moron with delusions of self-impoirtance failed to be useful, as you prolly recall), and if we're going to do something by hand this'd be more sorely needed than that.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo eh, alcohol is expensive and doesn'
t exist. he's safe.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: obviously this dun preclude anyone from private commentary. but you can'
t have trilema announce shit as comments because it heard from discuss.
mircea_popescu: the reason i didn'
t start the gossipd discussion with trilema specifically has to do with the comments problem. which is : there's some implicit authority-and-authorship play wrt comments, as reader is more interested in mp's idea of what comments were than in random spew, and by a large factor.
trinque: current web flowing over the thing wouldn'
t look much different from that; however, things *built* for the model would be parceled differently.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-27 22:09 asciilifeform: so long as they don'
t tear hair out when it becomes clear that no, you can'
t charge for sunlight
mircea_popescu: thatg aside, the more pressing problem is that we don'
t have a proper pdf-decrufter, (random moron with delusions of self-impoirtance failed to be useful, as you prolly recall), and if we're going to do something by hand this'd be more sorely needed than that.
☟︎☟︎ mod6: i don'
t know if it is doing this any longer, or if it does zips or whatever. no idea.
trinque: mircea_popescu: no, unless he didn'
t bother to tell me.
trinque: though what happens when someone unsubscribes, archive is gone? doesn'
t serve the logs very well
mod6: cool. but i don'
t think invoicing everyone for this is gonna work.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the idiotic "make it count" argument. and it should be obvious that ALL IT DOES is a) actually enact the "less important" enemy nonsense, such as "jaywalking laws" and b) fundamentally corrupt the republican opposition, because if you won'
t naturally jaywalk, hoiw would you naturally shoot obama in the face ? one needs the other, like tree needs roots.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t get it either, nor am i an expert in the matter. but still, shitty story is unpersuasive.
mircea_popescu: the faits d'armes of brave duellists who don'
t know what a foil is and how handguards work or why ain'
t.
mircea_popescu: what is this jan valjean bullshit of would be assassins who "could but wouldn'
t" shoot ?
mircea_popescu: yes, well, don'
t tell me that a would-be mubarak nearly machinegunned romania's anwar al sadat a year or so later.
mircea_popescu: be all you can be, yes ; protect your ass as far as it can be, sure. BUT NO FURTHER. as far as it can be and no further! and don'
t go around pretending like anything's just as good as anything else, either.
mircea_popescu: the whore who dares pretend as if she doesn'
t owe the soldier her cunt, but rather, she... "has her own mind" and "her own options" and whatnot else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no theorems isn'
t it. there's that famous case of my driver whom my mother (who was bumming a ride) asked in shock why'd he'd go around playing valet for a 17yo. he said something like "not everyone's a big deal". man had 0 theorems to prove, but also didn'
t go around deluding himself on the matter.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but in no case do i care about stalin's statistics. so he killed 50 trillion imbeciles ? good for him ; if they didn'
t suck so bad they'd still be around.
mircea_popescu: the question any 70yo has to answer, and CAN NOT escape anymore than 20yo can escape the draft or the call of the streetgirl, is "why didn'
t you die".
davout: my personal interactions with old accountants were mostly along the lines of "no, you can'
t do this"
mircea_popescu: yes, bovine clientele puts up with it ; but this because they don'
t beat their wife and her children into shape, so the neglected sfortunati end up building the cheloid in the first place.
mircea_popescu: impossible to defend king who doesn'
t order the death of the pantsuit. kinda how trump lost, by not having clinton kidnapped and jailed in afghanistan.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-26#1729594 << "we don'
t at this point have a sufficiently palatable whitewash of inflation ; or for that matter even any statement that doesn'
t reduce to how the best course would be for us to eat shit and die. so in preference of that, we'll just pretend ignorance, because such a course totally works and everything".
☝︎ diana_coman: I don'
t really know of someone from Bucharest who wanted Cluj either
mircea_popescu: this is not exactly so. the extremely snot-nosed transylvanians didn'
t want to move there in 1850, either.
diana_coman: in any case and fwiw since I happen to know this tidbit, gospodin Medvedev did open (and I don'
t mean cutting the red tape sort of open but rather pouring the money & bringing in people from abroad sort of open) tam-tam big uni and all that in Tatarstan some years ago already rather than next to Moscow and I seriously doubt it was *not* part of a wider-range development plan
diana_coman: I don'
t know enough on RU to say much at that level really so...