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mp_en_viaje: why the fuck woyuld it be paying google money now.
asciilifeform: same thing the real estate people do on the konsoomer end
mp_en_viaje: sucks out the "excess" gold resulting from welfarist approach to corporations
mp_en_viaje: it also provides ~useless "services" to usg.corps still living
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: iirc e&y is a carrion-eater, comes to finish off dying corps and feast on corpse
mp_en_viaje: cocksuckers actually had the gall to charge MILLIONS in fees. for doing what the fuck, ernst & young is only famous for fucking up everything they touch.
asciilifeform: it'd not surprise asciilifeform if mp_en_viaje said that he still owns acres of buenos aires, on off chance that he ever needs to park some nuke waste somewhere
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 10:33 diana_coman: what can I say, to me it reads over-and-over again like all the group-thinking ever did: if we do it, it's all right because we are ALL doing it, if s/he does it, it is wrong because it's outside the group
mp_en_viaje: in other wtf, back to the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920146 lulz : "Legal Fees - Monitor 851,776.31 Monitor Fees 676,908.61 Legal Fees - Applicant 454,950.46 Legal Fees - Rep Counsel 388,282.12" ☝︎
asciilifeform: if re biznis, then how could disagree, own, sure, acres of urk, penguin plantation in antarctica, why not.
asciilifeform: hm i read billymg's q as re where ought he to take up residence.
asciilifeform: could own pasture, but not necessarily have to live in it
mp_en_viaje: nothing wrong with owning a few acres of top slut pasture.
mp_en_viaje: land in zimbabwe was never free ; and besides, this zimbabwe freeranges decent cunt.
asciilifeform: ( and ftr i suspect that orlol aint wrong when he suspects that ukrs + usg handlers might try an' stage an 'accident' to score 'humanitarian' aid )
asciilifeform: and even for residence where one sits tightly , can think of better landscape than where half dozen sovok-era nuke plants running on square 'general electric' fuel rods hammered into round holes with sledge
asciilifeform: it's a shaky latvia, has erry chance of transition to zimbabwe in near term
mp_en_viaje: and there's exactly 0 likelihood kiev's ever gonna be anything other than a latvia.
a111: Logged on 2014-12-10 00:51 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry arse if he were to do so.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-12-10#949583 is what i was thinking ☝︎
mp_en_viaje: and sure, a partnership is not off the table ; subj ofc to vetting your gal, you &c.
mp_en_viaje: billymg, ah, no. just talking the sluts through yurp during the rainy season.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 19:13 mp_en_viaje: prolly a better bet to buy real estate in ukraina or syria than costa rica. it's always good to buy in places the pantsuits just finished "helping" and sell in places they're just about to start "helping".
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920222 << can't speak re syria, but the notion of 'buying property' in ukristan is imho lulzy. ☝︎
asciilifeform: simply happens to be a historically popular scheme for shoving packets through a serial line.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 18:57 bvt: i have never worked with slip, so can't tell right now
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm talking the US-fugees
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a few -- do have solid idea how to ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 19:21 mp_en_viaje: forget the "b&b" bs, there's 5`000 of them and most don't make money.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920243 << Here the expat trap is all the expats wanna go into farming without a solid idea how to do it. ☝︎
billymg: mp_en_viaje: ty for the perspective on this. if it's not out of line to ask, have you left cr behind for good?
billymg: not the line of work i pictured myself in but this is making it sound more interesting
mp_en_viaje: and with this, /me shall bbl.
mp_en_viaje: it's so small tho, and so everyone's cousins, all you really need are a coupla prominent lawyers, a head of this or that here and there, and the cool head to use it.
mp_en_viaje: "0 tolerance for uppity old women organization", instead of the "acoso callejero awareness bullshit'
mp_en_viaje: get yourself support locally, too. there's a few remnant pantsui torgs that need strangling ; i murdered one there's just a few left. they must be publicly raped, and then get the repubkican style institutions going. ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: the cr pink market is fuckiong desperate. the locals are braindead, the entire reason cr tourism is dying is that the tards permitted their pink market to die out sometime between 1995 and 2015.
mp_en_viaje: billymg, take a hair stylist with no clear ideas of the future along, or at least take about the possibility of joining etc.
mp_en_viaje: forget the "b&b" bs, there's 5`000 of them and most don't make money. ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: and advertise in san jose, the shitty part around us embassy (escazu)
mp_en_viaje: hell yeah. forget the bs, get yourself a spot in jaco, put up neons larger than the wall.
mp_en_viaje: so wait, you wanna import a nyc hussy in cr, and she's willing to go ?
billymg: but open to moving
mp_en_viaje: where the fuck did you find a bdsm local in cr ?!
billymg: she would offer other services as well, tantric massage, bdsm stuff is her speciality here
mp_en_viaje: nothing wrong with that.
billymg: and fill as many gaps in my knowledge -- technical, lingual, personal -- as i can
billymg: beyond that my goal would be to work on whatever the republic needs working on
mp_en_viaje: so it comes down to the brass tacks, how low can you keep the costs of making breakfast and how likely the chick's to run off etc.
billymg: in terms of what i'd see myself doing, i think the most important task for the rest of my life is to protect my keys, if i can do that then i should be fine
mp_en_viaje: billymg, lotta people do that, i'd sat 40% actually make any money. like, ever.
mp_en_viaje: mind that owning real estate [as a business] in foreign jurisdictions, esp exotic ones, is generally very demanding of the owner, in terms of business acumen and experience and etc.
billymg: i also thought of a small b&b in tamarindo, to generate income, plus something else with more acreage to live on further inland. i also know a girl here, who already speaks spanish and is entrepreneurial herself, who could be relied upon to run such a b&b
mp_en_viaje: depends what you want and what you're doing, kinda the problem here is, a very general question can't possibly get but the most useless of vague answers.
mp_en_viaje: prolly a better bet to buy real estate in ukraina or syria than costa rica. it's always good to buy in places the pantsuits just finished "helping" and sell in places they're just about to start "helping". ☟︎
mp_en_viaje: businesswise i dunno, if you have some kinda insider tip then it may work for you ; but in the general i suspect cr is actually overbought as it stands, and while the effect may be least noticeable in the rural edges, there's a reason for this -- marginality dampens, meaning the tiny sliver of overboughtness spilled all the way to over there is actually fair and market supported, meaning good times won't propagate any better.
mp_en_viaje: billymg, on a personal note i fucking hate puntarenas ; rural shithole, terrible services, connects by boat to nicoya which idem rural shithole, terrible services.
bvt: i have never worked with slip, so can't tell right now ☟︎
asciilifeform: i suspect that 'slip' would suffice for most purposes, and keep the thing simple.
bvt: re rtc -- i can see that. re network - i guess at some point it may be easier to provide a (first, emulated, later hardwarized) pipe device and write a custom driver to it; basically a high-speed tty that also transfers information about message boundaries
asciilifeform: bvt: re mipsism -- i realized that the emulator will need , at minimum, a realtime clock, to be actually useful for general-purpose linuxism. ( the minimal draft item simulates only two devices aside from cpu/ram -- serial uart, and power/reset switch )
bvt: well, building is actually trivial -- sed 's/aarch64 x86_64/x86_64 mipsel-sf/' build-ada-arm64.sh > build-ada-mipsel.sh ; i'll do a post about this, but this'd be all the technical meat in it
billymg: i'm thinking cr because it's already been vetted, but i admit i'm not sure yet what would be best for me, i just know i should get out
billymg: mp_en_viaje: what do you think of the puntarenas region in cr?
billymg: so i'm planning to give my two weeks notice next week so i can focus on actual work. i'm also going to be looking for property on the other side of the wire
asciilifeform: bvt: the 'how was built' would be moar useful than the bin tar tho.
asciilifeform: bvt: will eventually want the working (non-zcx) mechanism, but this is pretty good start, ty
bvt: if you want, can share the tarballs as well. afaik mips also uses zcx by default -- i did not change anything there
bvt: asciilifeform: i have built ave1gnat with mipsel-sf support with a small patch (http://bvt-trace.net/src/gcc-4.9.adacore2016-4-mipsel.diff) -- adacore has snipped those files from their source distribution.
billymg: his, i believe one, other book, the neon bible, also not bad
billymg: confederacy of dunces was a great read, also had me laughing out loud nearly the whole way through
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2019/lifes-a-helva-gumdrop-you-know/ << Trilema -- Life's a helva gumdrop, you know ?
mp_en_viaje: by one john kennedy toole. currently in the copyrast cone of shadow, but one of the very few us items worth reading
asciilifeform: i recall somewhere a discussion of 'voraphiles', where author sorted'em into 2 distinct subspecies, one which wants to be properly eaten & digested, but another, distinct type, which wants to live 'as jonah in whale', as a foetus-like parasite
mp_en_viaje: re the eating, it's prolly more a case of "mom finally came to her senses, took me back in". ever read "confederacy of dunces", 60s boo?
asciilifeform: orlov had a piece where 'people feel privileged to be robbed by such superior...'
asciilifeform: iirc there exists a 'fetish' set who dream of... being eaten by cannibals. i never grasped exactly how this worx, psychologically, but entirely possib that 'is proof of my deliciousness!'
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, indeed, i suspect we agree. "to have loved and never lost is not so much like having ever loved at all", there's a certain insufficiency of feeling requiring the cripple to die defeated and alone.
mp_en_viaje: in fact -- evaporation ~is fundamental mechanism~. there's a great monologue explaining the problem ; basically : if not lost, not truly felt like had. loss is proof of haveness, much like offspring dependency is proof of potency.
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: imho it goes with the 'vhs america'(tm) that these folx moved into, in heads, when moved. and feeding corzine is part and parcel of the 'rent' for living in this fantasy
mp_en_viaje: weird, this failure to compute
asciilifeform: and when asciilifeform reminds'em of how they lost most of the pennies they pinched in '90s to jon corzine et al, still dun compute in their crankcases
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's relatives see him as lunatic : 'why didja buy that btc/plane ticket/lispm, you oughta have put in 401k/realestate bezzle/stocks !!'
asciilifeform: iirc mp had a piece re how 'chief erryday biz of socialist state is to dupe subjects into underconsumption'
asciilifeform: reminiscent of tlp's 'the product is the feeling' hypothesis. the orc is not buying 'have money in future', he is buying 'feeling like having money'. so the evaporation turns out is minor detail, he still had 3decade of 'feel'
asciilifeform: i find it interesting, how typical sovok orc is incurable believer in 'skip icecream cone, save the dough', and that it is ~more~ common among the older folx, who in fact watched 1, 2, or even 3 episodes of 100% evaporation of savings during 'currency rebasings' etc
asciilifeform: 'dedicatedly ascetic' is adaptive if there aint much to go around
mp_en_viaje: all idealistic periods (commonly referred to "dark ages", esp when not talking of one's own) share this problem, very dedicatedly ascetic, consumatedly futuristic
mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform, the problem / curse / salient feature of postmodern man is this peculiar ascetism, of the "future" ilk.
asciilifeform: neato, appears to work.
asciilifeform: physical economy hits wall, and yet some folx still want to 'financier', offer 'jam tomorrow' (despite no supply of jam even today, much less any reason to think will arrive tomorrow) , imho it aint happenstance that good % of konsoomer spare change in '90s ru went to 'mmm' & other pyramids, somehow lotsa folx eager to share in the delusion
mp_en_viaje: i see the same thing.
asciilifeform: rando gox operator dun have a printing press with which to spackle the hole, is the only, afaik, diff.
asciilifeform: (in so far as can tell with naked eye of what it consists)
asciilifeform: to tie into 'alexander & pirate' thrd, i'm hard pressed to see any diff b/w what this d00d did and what everyday biz at e.g. goldman sachs consists of
asciilifeform: s/an in the process/and in the process
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 09:15 mp_en_viaje: and btw, why doesn't the qntra select work, i have to use archive /
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920121 << I'll try shimming the select script in. Qntra is still on a not quite mp-wp fork due to the DB changes that happened between mp-wp and qntra-wp forking from derppress ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-26 09:15 mp_en_viaje: BingoBoingo, so did that "bitcoin financier" in his own mind kill himself for having "traded" opm into nothingness ? his "unaccessible wallets" totalling ~100 btc dun really match the ~300mn figure in claims.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-26#1920120 << Probable, but indeterminate. Derp crowd has been making noise about dude having maybe faked his death, running off with the coins for months. Little information to make a call until this report that suggests that he did himself in. ☝︎