asciilifeform: i suppose it's still possible, even in usa, to buy lands far away from city, getting out of 'zoning law', and import white marble from italy and build castle. if yer rockefeller. i dun know rockefeller tho, so i've never set foot in 1 of these and have nfi re what specifically is involved.
asciilifeform: the judging does exactly 0, 'lemon market'.
asciilifeform: betcha the 'lucky' buyers still owe their 800k.
asciilifeform: shinohai: there's maybe half a mil of these on whole continent, and nobody's building any moar of'em
asciilifeform: shinohai: i fully expect that they ~will~ find how to make the hovels even moar starvation-cheap, whether cement or inkjetted styrofoam or whatnot. and the same folx who pocket 800k nao, will pocket the 1mil they'll mandatorily sell for.
asciilifeform: the '800s' have 0 to do with the cost of the junk they build from.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly ( or maybe not?? ) , asciilifeform found that ch16 is turning into just about a miniature number theory schoolbook, will defo have to be trimmed☟︎
asciilifeform: ( not barnum, was some d00d since forgotten )
asciilifeform: some 19th c american circus man even trained grizzly.
asciilifeform: hanbot: supposedly they can. i wouldn't undertake tho
asciilifeform: ( this in re : also mod6's woods! thread )
asciilifeform: recently i found that 1 of the trapped ones chewed most of the way through wooden '2x4' plank.
asciilifeform: y'know, where you pin the lucky customer to four stakes, and by next day bamboo grows out of him
asciilifeform: at one time asciilifeform lived in a block of flat surrounded by bamboo, and would see the shoots erry morning, growing straight from gravel. invariably thought of that old chinese punishment
asciilifeform: hanbot: washingtonistan very muchly belongs having vietnam-style dwellings, on bamboo stilts.
asciilifeform: iirc the 'law schools' were actually sued, for making concrete claims of employability of graduate, and ~lost~, but somehow this was magicked away.
asciilifeform: typical, as i understand, path, for these people.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i have a distant relative, who 'ivy league'(tm)(r) 'perfect grade' etc etc and ended up as n-th lieutenant prosecutor in some arsehole, prosecuting 'dindus'
asciilifeform: where they start at the 50k/y (pre-tax!) rank.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: last i knew , most of said graduates nowadays , get to take their arse, and its 250k of debt, to work in bureaucracy.☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: iirc mircea_popescu posted the perl script that shits these at one pt
asciilifeform: correct. and the opera replayed itself in miniature in the 'killermicro warz'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ought not to neglect the (explicit) driver of sov-style tech design : 'Солдат не жалеть, бабы еще нарожают!' (tm)(r)
asciilifeform: in re the computational spaceheater wars -- the loss tally from 'overflowable arrays' is still a-runnin'.
asciilifeform: gotta count the losses as well as the gains tho.
asciilifeform: the q of 'which machine spiffier' aint even meaningful outside of this frame
asciilifeform: ( and mircea_popescu , seems to like his bmw )
asciilifeform: to this i'll say, germany -- lost war; but i still like my 'zeiss' binocular etc.
asciilifeform: the especially lulzy aspect of the finale, is that germans themselves invented the faustpatrone , the very same item that makes tank such a limited worth item today
asciilifeform: ( and, recall, the match ended when germany ran out of petrol, rather than tank )
asciilifeform: 1 tiger is said to have been match for 2-3 34. problem for germans is that they brought 5,6 per.
asciilifeform: interestingly from the light of the 'tiger is a bolix' narrative, it was a quite close match despite the overengineer.
