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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one place i rented here contained ~6 local derps at
the
time ; now inhabited by
two.
mircea_popescu: myeah. "longer life expectancy"
turns out
to be a horrible idea.
mircea_popescu: seriously, wtf slum lord is
that, doesn't rape
the girls and whip
the boys ?!
mircea_popescu: whole day was ~dedicated
to hashing out
that steaming pile of 20yo lulzideas.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-18 14:25 mircea_popescu: so let me get
this straight, you want
to give people
too poor
to litigate,
too stupid / desocialized
to
talk
to
the landlord and
too scared
to act
the option "you can either pay 100
to
the landlord as deposit or 300
to me and unlike
the landlord I PROMISE
to give it back (maybe), except im not anywhere near you and you can't burn my house down" ?
mircea_popescu: there's also a large one discussing with some guy his idea of bootstrapping on a shoestring a landlord governing body, because he's a 20yo brogrammer and
that's how governance works in his mind.
a111: Logged on 2015-12-07 23:34 mircea_popescu: and if you want actual numbers, i just got a coupla girlies an apt.
the sale value would have been i guess 160-170k or so.
the monthly rent is 750.
the first month,
the washing machine went, and
the owner replaced it.
the next month, ac went (brother was
that an incredible pos job wow), owner replaced it. so far owner's been making 0 from his property.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-16 15:12 mircea_popescu: we had
this in
the log in detail.
mircea_popescu: that if i don't say "obama is a whore's dog" over ssh, aws can't produce a correctly signed
token for "mp said obama is a whore's dog" over ssh.
ben_vulpes: it's
trivially swapped out once in
the machine
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if
they give you keypair
they can sign imaginary connection sessions from you. if not, not.
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, amazon has buried
the ingestion point for ssh pubkeys in a
truly obscure corner of
their systems
mircea_popescu: to bobbeck,
to attach a subservient aparatchick
to
the sort of entreprise lords might have either heard of or outright respect, so as
to puppet it along
the nazi cause.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally bobbeck sounds like exactly
the right word for it.
mircea_popescu: something about
the old chap being
too "out of
touch" for "day
to day" decisionmaking
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you recall
that ridiculous piece ? somehow nobody noticed it.
mircea_popescu: i subscribe
to "the end is nigh"
theory,
the usg dept of berkshire convened
the rich kids for a visit over with obama and
they all agreed
to donate moar money
to
the nazi party.
mircea_popescu: jurov holy shit, yahoo,
the mother of all worthless "internet companies". at least activesoft has or maybe had some competent garbagemongers.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes,
this means
that low-volume shops cannot serve good coffee from an airpot <<< girl had one of
those filter drip
things all her life.
the unit she had broke, over weekend, and i
taught girl
to make
turkish boiled coffee.
then
today "did you want
to replace your drip
thing ?" "umm... nah".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> straight bezzle play. <<
the world over,
this.
phf: generally i suspect you'll have better luck with renting from owners, rather
than mgmt companies, since later can allow for dead souls
phf: asciilifeform: hmm, 1,6 quote is from my massage
therapist, who's got
two places for rent in
that block
danielpbarron: idk i'm kinda of
the opinion
that if i'm gonna have coffee at a place, it should be served into a ceramic mug by a waitress and come with free refills
ben_vulpes: danielpbarron:
there's nothing wrong with a well-used airpot in
theory, but it does require dumping
the remains every ~10 minutes for a fresh pot. yes,
this means
that low-volume shops cannot serve good coffee from an airpot, but since when has
that stopped anyone.
jurov: "Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
Takes $1 Billion Position in Apple" lol
the end is nigh!
phf: i was
trying
to buy one of
the larger buildings
to renovate for company's office,
they wouldn't sell. i'm sure
they can make bank on condos
phf: 1,6k is for a standalone, i'm sure rowhouses are cheaper.
they have a few standalones for sale, dc- "cheap" 600k or so
phf: man, i go
there for massage, and it makes me heart ache, all
those beautiful ruins, "modernized"
phf: asciilifeform:
there are some nice whole house rentals next
to walter reed research institute in silver spring.
they converted "national park seminary"
to condos, can find whole house for 1,6k or so
danielpbarron: i
think i'm
the only one
that even orders cappuccinos
there; everyone else is content
to drink
the pre-made 'coffee' from
those self-serve pump stations
danielpbarron: speaking of which I've resolved
to stop eating at a local cafe/brunch place because half
the
time
they can't be arsed
to use
the espresso machine, sometimes claiming
that it's 'broken'
mircea_popescu: the fact
that you can't find a decent cofee house at north pole does not signify you should give up
the cappuccino habit.
mircea_popescu: "women may not hold money" doesn't mean something about women. it means something about money, ie, capital is
to be deployed in business not in
the household.
mircea_popescu: if you have
that money, you find a partner and start a real estate corp, and go rent yourself a house.
mircea_popescu: hm ? renting house is exactly
the same, lower cost
to carry.
mircea_popescu: even fucking GE sold its own fucking machinery
to GF
to lease it from
them
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck BUYS oceanfront property for instance. other
than a hedge fund /
the miami mahjongg club
mircea_popescu: studends are, at least in most of
the world,
the people who value
their cunt closest
to its
true value.
mircea_popescu: i dunno of any country where
the students don't
THINK ustardians live like in "friends".
mircea_popescu: you have nfi what pile of people all over
think "like in america" is a superlative.
mircea_popescu: landlord can't show
the house, his job
to fix
that. if he can show
the house, you're
taking pix.
mircea_popescu: hey,
that's
their problem. you're
there on business, gotta have
the pics
to make a call.
mircea_popescu: you gotta plox
take pix and make a blogpost of
this once.