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mircea_popescu: if one's forced
to pick prolly best pick a mix, but yeah
Landgull: I don't own real estate in Lviv and won't particularly recommend it as an investment.
Though it's probably better
than a US bank account, which I do have.
mircea_popescu: what's
the idea, someone'll indemnify you, come hell or high water, because
they deeply care ?
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 04:37:45; Landgull: You can buy enough rental properties in Lviv
to live indefinitely with indefinite free
time for ~$100k USD.
mircea_popescu: Landgull
the future hears you and says "your cheap psycho-skullduggery holds no power here".
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 04:24:38; asciilifeform: Landgull: planning
to live by gleaning ?
Landgull: But if you
try
to ban leaving,
they have
to admit what
they really are.
Landgull: If a few dissidents flee, what of it?
They were dissidents anyway.
Landgull: It would,
though.
The US learned from
the USSR: you're better off making people believe
that you'll be murdered and raped and strangled if you go anywhere and leave
the hotel. It keeps people in line much more effectively
than a
travel ban would.
assbot: Logged on 03-06-2015 03:48:44; Landgull:
They can't ban flights in and out of
the US,
that would strangle
the beast.
Vexual: its funny coz its
true
Vexual: southpark episides are so much easier
to invent
than southpark episides
Vexual: more of an openeded intelecutal
thingus really
Landgull: Homo facebookus would have
to be aware of its life
to die.
Vexual: they renamed rabies here when
they discovered over 50% of
the fruitbats had it
mircea_popescu: "we joined bitcoin because we didn't like
the banks so please
take our bitcoin and put it in a bank"
mircea_popescu: the masquerade where "people" ie, social media astroturf is misrepresented as being in favour of
this atrocity...
BingoBoingo: Apparently some upstate politician who called himself Illinois fats died
this week.
Landgull: I don't
think
they can keep fighting physics and math forever.
mircea_popescu: it will self-defeat once
the last policeman is buried in
the coffin of
the last politician.
mircea_popescu: Landgull
the 20mb block is a
transparent attempt by
the usg
to
take control back.
Vexual: it means it
time
to vet ur nodes or ask someone else
to bitcoin for you
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if one scales shit linarily, a 20mb block would be verified by
this machine in 560 seconds, or just a shade under 10 minutes << Welcome
to my world
Landgull: So doesn't
that mean
the 20mb block will self-defeat?
mircea_popescu: meaning
that
the average server your average internaut can't afford would barely keep up with
the chain.
mircea_popescu: if one scales shit linarily, a 20mb block would be verified by
this machine in 560 seconds, or just a shade under 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: back when it was comissioned coupla years ago it blazed
through
them at
the rate of 7-10 seconds per.
mircea_popescu: in sadder news, a reasonably recent 8 core server is doing block verification at
the rate of 28 seconds per.
☟︎ Landgull: It's definitely safer
than
the city I grew up in back in
the US.
Landgull: Or
the "I want your money" and
then run away sort.
Landgull: Eh, violence here when it happens is much more
the fist fight sort
than
the murder sort.
Vexual: like strippers
that dont pull a gun?
Landgull: I'm not
trying
to claim
that
this is some kind of paradise, it's absolutely not, and you have
to give up a lot of
the "first world" comforts.
Vexual: fuck furn around here and
the shits got maggots
Landgull: If
the bacteria won't eat it...
Landgull: Which sounds like a bad
thing, but I'd like
to know why it is
that chicken rots much faster in Ukraine
than in
the US...
Landgull: Well,
they're still firm, because
they're fresh. But you have
to go
to
the market every day or
two because
the food goes bad quickly.
☟︎ Vexual: i kinda like em firm like
that
Landgull: The reason
tomatoes are pink instead of red is
they're heterozygous for RIN, or ripening-inhibition gene
to make
them ship better.
☟︎ Landgull: People from
the villages around Lviv bring in what
they grow and sell it
to you. No mass-produced GMO rin
tomatoes.
Landgull: The food is better
than anything I've ever had before.
Landgull: If you actually go shop at
the market and
take public
transport, as opposed
to walling yourself off in some hotel.
Vexual: can you get a good
tomato?
Landgull: Cost of living, for
the same standard of living, is ~5-10x lower here
than in
the US
Vexual: chapagnes
that cheap huh?
Landgull: It was more of a quip
than a serious comment - but I know a number of people who spend
their
time yelling at
the box because of what obama/the republicans/the gays/the church did
today.
Landgull: Moving.
The fact
that people still pay for cable is proof
that
the second isn't for everyone.
Landgull: And if
the western finance system does come crashing down, you're going
to be better off in poor countries (granted
that you can live like a local) because
they're used
to
things like
that happening. USistan will devolve into utter insanity.
Landgull: I'd rather
there were a safe, sane, stable country where I could go, build a business, and have a normal life, but
that's not going
to exist until btc finishes what it has started.
☟︎ Vexual: they do finger wagging with
the windows up
Vexual: in australia, its
too hot for
the cops
to get out of
the car mostly
Landgull: I like learning languages, and I like buying my food in an open air market from
the person who grew it.
Landgull: Decimation: I'm not running from, I'm running
to.
decimation: Landgull: seems like a high price
to pay in
terms of years of your life for very
thin guarantees
☟︎ Vexual: how much is
the chapagne agian?!?!
Landgull: Same
thing with
the women. If you go
to Ukraine, find English speaking girls, and flash your passport and cash around, you're going
to have a bad day.
Landgull: Sure. And it's why you do need
to actually integrate. I.E. learn
the language, get
to know people, etc.
Landgull: The babusya/babushkas here have more power
than Poroshenko does.
Landgull: Decimation: You're imagining
that governments in
the rest of
the world work like
the US government. I.E.
the laws on
the books matter.
They can pass a law saying just about anything
they want, but
they don't have
the means
to enforce it and
they have a population
that is used
to just ignoring government stupidity instead of bending over.
Landgull: Ascii: met
the girl in Canada, she pays for half of everything, and she's not interested in ever going back
to
the west, because it's
too insane.
Landgull: Ascii: I won't disagree with you (decimation, you're wrong.)
that most of
the world is currently under
the USgov
thumb,
to some degree. But you are still better off in an outlying part of it, where
the control is less potent, and has much less influence on your daily life (like, in
terms of being able
to buy food
that doesn't make you sick, and being able
to date girls who aren't insane)
than you are sitting in
their back yard
decimation: ^ if ascii wanted
to live in a mut hut, he could do in
the us for
the same price
decimation: you are part of
the greater-usaia
that has no pretense of rights
decimation: and I'm saying
that you have lept from
the frying pan into
the fire
Landgull: ...for
the last
time, I'm not saying "Hey guys, you should move
to Ukraine." or
that I'm moving
to Ukraine for
that matter - I prefer South America on
the whole. I'm saying
that if you want personal liberty, and
to not live in an insane culture, you can actually leave and be better off.
mats: fun fact:
there are ascii art animals in
the windows source
decimation: or an entire village pointing
the finger at
the foreign wrecker
Landgull: You don't go running headfirst
towards
tanks unless you're an idiot.
decimation: what is your kalash going
to do against a
T-72?
mats: why would you
think
that
☟︎ mats: fun fact: some large radio
telescopes were built for earth
to moon
to earth surveillance of su radars
Landgull: Ascii: a kalashnikov in
the hands of every resident would achieve
the same
thing.
☟︎ decimation: I'm opposed
to
the lack of liberty in
the us
decimation: woah, I never said I was opposed
to us imperialism
Landgull: So, you're opposed
to US imperialism, but simultaneously
think
that people shouldn't have a right
to self-determination?
decimation: because
they suck, and cannot achieve it