asciilifeform: because individual renting house is almost entirely unheard of
asciilifeform: decimation: aha. this contributes to the scarcity of the overall market
asciilifeform: nubbins`: scarce rental market thing << you don't know half of it. virtually unheard of to rent a house here, other than by gigantic groups of immigrants or students living like sardines in can
asciilifeform: as for the inevitable question of what i must be smoking to have done this at all - it's a consequence of the geography in which i'm trapped (a handful of houses advertised for rent in my price range at any given moment - if that; the most tilted 'seller's market' one could imagine)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, decimation: the point that i was trying - and failing - to make, was that a fundamentally fiat-based business arrangement like renting a house from a fella on opposite end of continent who you've never met and never expect to meet, cannot be 'bitcoinized' in the sense of turning you loose from usg financial jail
asciilifeform: decimation: aha. then usg also has receipt
asciilifeform: decimation: as in, ability to prove that you paid
asciilifeform: decimation: i can believe this. but then you lose what small protection was provided by the fiat wot
asciilifeform: nubbins`: but to imply that everyone who is not in your position is necessarily a spendthrift who would be a winner but for the 'fatlogic' - is disingenuous
asciilifeform: glutton: 'eat 1/10th, take up hard training'
asciilifeform: nubbins`: why dontcha try telling us condemned fools the equivalent
asciilifeform: nubbins`: analogy fall apart easily enough if nudged: you can readily tell the glutton what he would have to do if he were to seize hold of himself and climb out of his fat with iron will
asciilifeform: it is also a good approach because it forces all the crud to be expunged with hot iron
asciilifeform: this is SOP on very cheap routers with minimal, low-endurance eeprom
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mod6, jurov, mircea_popescu, et al ^^^
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: in other news, i got netbsd ramdisk to build.
asciilifeform: cazalla: no, but the cost of electricity, gas and others under the idea of global warming and taxes [and rest of that thread] << if it makes ya feel better - far worse in usa. i, for instance, know for a fact that i will never own any lands here.
asciilifeform: he'd have to live for ten thousand years in the jar to make so much as a visible mark in the glass.
asciilifeform: the mouse is a perfect analogy here, because his efforts at glass-breaking are not in any way cumulative
asciilifeform: or to tell him that in the garden shed where his jar stands, in a toolchest there is a glass-cutter.
asciilifeform: but to tell mouse that there is no glass, and it is only a figment of his perceptions, is an odd thing imho
asciilifeform is one of the numerous mice on parade here in #b-a who go 'thchwack' against the glass daily
asciilifeform: if it costs 100k to be let out of asylum and not have the thorazine injected daily, should we still think of the sanity in the usual sense of the word ?
asciilifeform: see, linux is free if you had the upbringing, but 100k might as well be 100kg of plutonium as far as i'm concerned
asciilifeform: so far i don't disagree - the problem i described could indeed be magicked away entirely and semi-permanently by judicious application of ~100k usd
asciilifeform: so that defeats the purpose of the exercise of using cash.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you probably knew this, but large (how large is 'large' varies based on the day's 'terrorism thermometer') cash tx in u.s. banks require id and are reported
asciilifeform: it works if we were both, say, italians, where 'it isn't done', or if i were part of an ethonmafia that will cause him problems in the event of raw deal
asciilifeform: that is, say i had landlord who is paid in cash, and he decides that months's bag of money 'never happend'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: goes deeper than my superficial explanation suggests. i was really on about the difficulty of 'bitcoinizing' fundamentally fiat-wot-based business arrangements
asciilifeform: let's say you could. how do you prove you paid ?
