asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: here's what i want out of life:
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: iirc, that was mircea_popescu describing the virtues of working on inventions in a yurt in patagonia. but the thought experiment presumed infinite (or at least, adequate) funding.
asciilifeform: i'm already making it in a jungle. but a jungle with warm bed, good food, reasonable instrumentation, and opportunity for work that doesn't send me in search of a pistol to fellate
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i'm of the opinion that i, in particular, will die here in usa (and not of old age, either)
asciilifeform: i get paid to work on interesting problems. and, like other people who do this, it happens by cultivating relationships with people who have these problems.
asciilifeform: except i don't go around asking to be paid to program.
asciilifeform: but more about the fact that once you've lived as a man, do not ever again wish to live as a dog.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: if want to live among own kind, why leave where you are ?
asciilifeform: as useless a statistic as 'life expectancy'
asciilifeform: and why on earth would you care about 'unemployment rate' ?
asciilifeform: for instance, afaik, white man anywhere in east asia is either a miserable wretch, a hermit, or largely confined to an enclave of his own kind.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: you left out an important bit - how much you (for particular value of 'you') even make sense there as a foreign devil
asciilifeform: 'Deliberately keeping deposits below that threshold to avoid the reporting requirement is a crime (known as "structuring"), but Hinders was never charged with it. Instead federal prosecutors argued that her bank account had facilitated the crime of structuring, making it subject to civil forfeiture.' << lol!
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: then you're in orbit and have other problems like bones dissolving
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: let me guess, you're one of those folks who only lie on their back in bed and never else.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: and when i want to turn over ?
asciilifeform: the black van man should have to work for his pay.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: for one thing, i refuse to use wireless keyboards.
asciilifeform: 'Some immediately apparent disadvantages are: ... ... I cannot read in bed. The book-size portable terminal will come later. A household may require several terminals or perhaps we may have to compromise with sin and provide a hard copy terminal after all.'
asciilifeform: the latter, aside from being a poetteringism, consumes precious memory
asciilifeform furious that the emacs in that box's ports tree cannot easily build without dbus
