asciilifeform: but if that venture relates to computing in any way, you will probably render your brain unfit for the original mission.
asciilifeform: so quite right - one needn't (mustn't!) start there.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: well actually your observation is correct above: the only way to fund such a thing is to be obscenely successful in some entirely unrelated venture.
asciilifeform: i specifically assign the failure of each and every attempt to date with the notion that you can get to the moon by piling chairs.
asciilifeform: this is probably where we are doomed to disagree.
asciilifeform: and how 5m wouldn't even appear as a droplet of rain in the seven seas.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: possibly because i explained to him just what would be involved
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: problem is, the folks willing to be the 'pioneers with arrows in their back' would each have to pay 100M not 100K for the thing to happen.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't buy a (new) pick'n'place robot, for example, unless you go ultra-chinese
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recently watched such a machine burst lcd for no discernible reason
asciilifeform: the madness of the terminally bored is key to understanding much of what we spoke of here.
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's 'tin woman' article.
asciilifeform: why ru oligarchs buy british sport teams, without giving a damn whether it wins or loses, etc
asciilifeform: but also a certain amount of 'sultan has infinite money, why shouldn't he sit down on a toilet of monocrystalline diamond, the costlier and more useless - the better'
asciilifeform: incidentally - and i am quite sure that mr mold would disagree - but he went to the precise place where i proclaimed he is doomed to go.
asciilifeform: the hell they lived in from day one was always amusing
asciilifeform: outfits such as 'google', i'm told, are experimenting with bringing back the factory dormitory. which would have a bright future in usa, if there were any factories
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: voluntary (nominally) for the adults, yes
asciilifeform: these folks are being prepared, by the flats far more so than anything in the lecture halls, for how the rest of their lives will be lived.
asciilifeform: (the on-campus housing is packed to the gunnels)
asciilifeform: these will be inhabited, incidentally, by chumps feeding the 'college' chumpatron
asciilifeform: where mega-highrise kommunal flats will be built
asciilifeform: just a few hrs ago i drove past a street where they were knocking down, as we speak, sixteen or so blocks of rental houses
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i live, the rental racket is being rapidly rolled up by mega-conglomerates who specialize in building titanic blocks of communal flats
asciilifeform: packed denser, repaired even more seldom, and again denser, and at geometrically climbing cost
asciilifeform: when it becomes a question of physical difficulty in obtaining any other way, or even prior - a symbolic but tasty bone thrown to folks who hate you for what you are - the confiscations.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to round off the earlier thread, house will be confiscated a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble the thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's☟︎
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