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cazalla: people here use
to pay
top dollar for
the land but
they have
this scam of building 6 shoddy buildings where one use
to stand so people are paying 500k pretty much for bricks
BingoBoingo: There's reasons
the lowest in St Louis burn buildings for
their brick
pete_dushenski: houses, even $2 mn ones, have concrete foundation and wood beam construction in
these parts.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> pete_dushenski: in usa cities
typically contain brick&cement structures << Very common in "city proper"
decimation: pete_dushenski & asciilifeform : what about
the koch brothers building
their own western
town in
the middle of nowhere colorado
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << mircea_popescu is almost certainly correct, but in usa even multimillionaires (outside of
the major cities) live in houses made of precisely
these materials, linearly scaled up << In my hometown Beautiful brick house on well maintained lot going for 75 kiloUSD Vinyl equivalent 100 kiloUSD higher
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform re: housing.
the cheap shit houses multimillionaires in cities
too, well, 'suburbs'
decimation: one advantage of australia and new zealand is
that
they have
to grow
their own fresh vegetables - so everything is 'local'
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 22:37:12; lobbes: I only just started reading Orlov's blog not
too long ago. On alf's recommendation, I skipped
to some of his earlier stuff (from roughly 2011?). I do get
the feeling
that he can either be 'hit or miss' at
times.
decimation: that's about average for a good steak in
the us, but
the beer is at least double
assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 22:17:42; mircea_popescu: not
that it's not genuine sentiment, i'm sure
to some degree it is.
the
topless sluts were ALSO genuine sentiment, for sure just as genuine, definitely as widely held.
the result ? 400 people, beat up by police, not 4mn pushed by
the govt press agents.
decimation: as a usian, I had
to pretend
that $1=1gbp or else I wouldn't eat anything
decimation: my impression was
that
the food was expensive as hell
pete_dushenski: decimation
the food in london, at least on a middling budget, was lackluster. or perhaps
the museums and architecture just overshadowed
the cuisine.
BingoBoingo: Scotland and Occupied Ireland may have plusses over
the US, but England not so.
williamdunne: Isn't being in
the US a dis-qualifier from
the get go?
assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 22:03:27; mircea_popescu: so ascii_field from
the above, am i correct in deducing
that
there have been at most 47728 - 31262-4584 = 11882 (out of 47728, or ~1/4) keys without any RSA subkeys in
them ?
BingoBoingo: trinque: I find
that book for my network appliances what M. W. Lucas's BSD books are
to my laptop
decimation: pete_dushenski: london does have better museums
than nyc in my opinion
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> london is
the light of heaven compared
to nyc << And
the jungles of Granite City put both of
those so called cities
to shame
decimation: pete_dushenski: walking
the streets of nyc, all I could
think was: "how
the hell do all
these people afford
to live her"
decimation: pete_dushenski: yeah
that was even more depressing
williamdunne: decimation: Wasn't suggesting you were - I'm just not
too bothered by
the Englishness
thing personally. If
thats your boat
the South West is probably as good as it gets
pete_dushenski: decimation you
thought london was depressing ? cripes. never ever ever go
to nyc.
decimation: williamdunne: it's not
that I'm a hater on asian folk, just
that it doesn't have a distinct 'englishness' anymore
☟︎ trinque: I'll just stick
the
thing on
trinque.org and
then you guys can make your own decisions re: newsworthiness
☟︎☟︎ williamdunne: decimation: Kinda like it personally. Never bothered me, although I've not been
there for an extended period
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski> BingoBoingo
think qntra would be a suitable platform for
trinque's openbsd router guide ? << Would require consulting with
the other equity partners on deciding if we will do how-to's or how
to do
them
pete_dushenski: "North Korea's Defence Minister Hyon Yong-chol has been executed, South Korea's spy agency has
told parliament, according
to media reports. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported
that MPs were
told Mr Hyon had been killed on 30 April by anti-aircraft fire in front of an audience. He is believed
to have been accused of showing disloyalty
to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un."
decimation: last
time I was in london I found it depressing
decimation: williamdunne < about as crazy as
the scots
williamdunne: I'm not from here by birth, nor are my parents. But yeah, some nutjobs in Cornwall want
to be an independent country. Ignoring
the fact
that
they actually qualify for a european regional development fund
williamdunne: decimation: Not my sorta
thing personally. I'm still pissed off about
the cliff collapsing and fucking up
the
trains for a couple of months
trinque: alright, maybe I'll do some writing
this weekend
decimation: I would like
to see
the chalk cliffs one day
trinque: probably next step for me is
to stick privoxy in
the middle of
the
http traffic
trinque: there are loads of other examples out
there; my configuration isn't
too interesting yet
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo
think qntra would be a suitable platform for
trinque's openbsd router guide ?
BingoBoingo: williamdunne: WHat I mean by dead
tree is. People in
their WoT write comprehensive books and
they all check and
then promote
the books
BingoBoingo: williamdunne:
They sign
things
too, but... For
their own use in releases
they have a GPG alternative because GPG licensing violates part of
their license purity directive. Dunno how good it is , but sometime hetrogyny is insteresting.
☟︎ williamdunne: Maybe I could
try and one-up
them and climb up into
the mountains for a few years and carve a guide into a stone
tablet.
☟︎ decimation: asciilifeform:
that little fanless 486 would make an ideal serial
terminal
BingoBoingo: Well, not a feature of OpenBSD, but
their culture
BingoBoingo: <williamdunne> Any chance of a writeup on it? << A distinct feature of OpenBSD is
that outside of
the man pages much of
the best documentation is still produced on dead
trees
BingoBoingo: trinque:
The worst of
the pfconf stuff is inherited
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'll also say
that pf.conf seems
to suffer from
the same syntax-creep SQL does, where
they just add more
to
the grammar for every feature << Actually
the problem is
they've been supplanting inherited grammar inherited from ipfw
they imitated
to start with
towards more of a sensible firewall language
trinque: would've made more sense if it were a sort of function composition
thing, where you're producing a function
that'll process every packet
trinque: I'll also say
that pf.conf seems
to suffer from
the same syntax-creep SQL does, where
they just add more
to
the grammar for every feature
trinque: seems
there are a hundred-million other knobs on pf I didn't use
trinque: I
tend
to want
to have a pretty
thorough understanding of a
thing before I
try
to
teach anyone else,
too
trinque: I'd have
to put up some kind of blog
thing
trinque: williamdunne: I'll see about it; wasn't
that hard
trinque: appropriately blocked ports via pf, routing
the internal network nicely
trinque: so I made an openbsd home router, and as far as I can
tell it's actually doing its job
mircea_popescu: in point of fact
this is unchanged millenia later - very few kids end up here, a few more are in
the military, and
the rest on reddit.
mircea_popescu: yeah, pretty much. so... it couldn't conceivably been a bad standard for
them, inasmuch as it was...
the standard.
williamdunne: Pretty sure
the main alternative was
trading or poverty
mircea_popescu: otherwise... maybe become a client for some important patron, and done what
the us sub-political class does
today. in
the day's huffington post and astroturfed meetings and whatnot. a very precarious existence, certainly
the slavegirls had it better.
williamdunne: Yes, I'm familiar with
the land-ownership.
Truly brilliant option IMO. As you say, American dream.
mircea_popescu: the alternatives
to
this are unclear. if very clever you could have
traded, but various ethic groups had a defacto monopoly on
that, and a very large cultural advantage.
mircea_popescu: this allowed you
to
take a young woman and start a household in relative security.
the exact american dream.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but in
terms of standards : as a young man with no property, your options were essentially
to go into military service, which offered pay and, upon serving 18ish
to 20something years, a large settlement payment and provincial land.
williamdunne: Not particularly, I know fatality rates would be vastly different dependent on region
though. Obviously being a city-guard in Rome is a pretty safe job but being
the
the border of
the empire or in active battle/expansion seems like a good way
to get killed
assbot: Logged on 12-05-2015 18:19:52; jurov: neat. i am finally beating
the mailman into submission,
turdatron can link
there
mircea_popescu: it really wasn't much higher risk
than being in
the army, which was you know, a good chunk of
the population, especially poorer.
williamdunne: Sort of like
the difference between a pet and next seasons dinner - even if both are property
mircea_popescu: even
the xtians were
thrown
to
the lions, not
to
the gladiators.
williamdunne: Sorry I meant
the slaves as if in
thrown in
the pit rather
than
trained like you would a prize horse