asciilifeform: i will note, for non-usaschwitz readers, that if you want a 80k BRICK house in usa, it will be in 1) baltimore 2) with all food vendor in 100km being 'food depot' ( see thread from last july ) 3) no 1mB/s, much less gB/s, fiber, for any price

asciilifeform: and asciilifeform does not need quite as many cubometres as mircea_popescu .

asciilifeform: still not megabux

asciilifeform: btw found thread, mircea_popescu is right, quoted cost was 80 not 50 : http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-07#1264870 ☝︎

asciilifeform: i sat there and wondered how often american banx dispense pseudobenjies to unsuspecting idjits

asciilifeform: took forever to chug

asciilifeform: they had this very elaborate contraption for supposedly ferreting out faek benjies

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that was in a trilema i recall !

asciilifeform: i wondered if because to prosecute false coiners, or because usg demands record, or both

asciilifeform: felt quite like usa.

asciilifeform: what was not-so-nice in ro is that money changers take copy of passport

asciilifeform: can rent. my neighbour at prev street kept a stable of'em.

asciilifeform: naaaah

asciilifeform: fwiw in usa can also rent excavator. but it's 500 not 50 / d.

asciilifeform: oh re excavator i entirely believe.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's expertise re real estate reminds me of construction expert recommending diesel-powered circular saws to escaping prisoner. zek does not have diesel saw, or electric, zek has a length of band saw smuggled in anally.

asciilifeform: i'ma come back to this, it is buried in l0gz.

asciilifeform: and where he boiled old hdds in tomato compote

asciilifeform: the one with the square lawn that mircea_popescu cut with electric grass cutter

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu did quote '50k usd' for the house he wrote about.

asciilifeform: well no, in ro you get a house, in theory, for what a harley costs in usa.

asciilifeform: and intend to keep having a scum-free 4 walls and laboratory.

asciilifeform: i'm not 19.

asciilifeform: total, incl food/heat/net.

asciilifeform: i like the idea of my recurring monthly expenses being 3fig. and this aint happening with leases.

asciilifeform does not disagree

asciilifeform: but i'd be buying a freestanding thing, not a hruscheba, lol

asciilifeform: can always self-made insulate, carpets & various orc solutions.

asciilifeform: i saw some in bucharest

asciilifeform: hruschebas yea

asciilifeform: i suspect that i pay moar for moving bits, than mircea_popescu paid for heat.

asciilifeform: that's less than what i pay nao, by far, because today i live in a ~paper~ house.

asciilifeform: so i believe.

asciilifeform: i saw the fat, fat spools of fiber, and billboards promising 1G/s for 9bux/mo.

asciilifeform actually likes winter.

asciilifeform: and i used to live at that parallel , know what the winter loox like.

asciilifeform: everywhere !

asciilifeform: and grapes !!

asciilifeform: the diff b/w what i pay for ~fiber~ nao, and would pay there, alone, would prolly pay for small flat

asciilifeform: i expect that it will

asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu , will read

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: tonal

asciilifeform: this is pretty great; usa never invented torrens

asciilifeform: neato

asciilifeform: well it dun have to be literal whack, could be dud contract or some other variant of 'you paid but dun own nuffin'

asciilifeform: can use standard aquarium or needs custom job, i wonder.

asciilifeform: swap the water instead of diaper... genius

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-07-10#1196745 << see also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: sorta hilarious, anglos turned the (elementary, but for some reason 'unprintable') fact that some % of females, 'apoptote' their spawn -- into a faux-epidemiological clusterfuck

asciilifeform: then surprising that i saw only 1 such.

asciilifeform: aaaaa like usa blax

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: scene from shop in ro : asciilifeform's pet fondling some kitchen apparatus. asciilifeform answers 'i do not have rocket to put this on'

asciilifeform: that and icbm cones.

asciilifeform: trivial if in own hands, neh

asciilifeform: lol!!

asciilifeform: for 30-40 i can split it into suitcases and give 10 people phree vacation so they carry'em, lol.

asciilifeform: ugh that's for what, same-day ?!

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: it's called freight.

asciilifeform: get an 'antonov' or the like

asciilifeform: they will ferry megatonne! if you want to pay, lol.

asciilifeform: that's approx what it was when i moved 1st time

asciilifeform: maybe 100kg + meat, optimistically

asciilifeform: gotta shave those grams.

asciilifeform: ( in practice, neither will, once i find/make a scan of the ru )

asciilifeform: upstack, asciilifeform came to realize that ru knuth might come with him in the launch capsule, but orig. prollynot.

asciilifeform: 'a whole policeman'

asciilifeform: they have a phrase,

asciilifeform: it would also seem that british know this :

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: ahahahahahaha

asciilifeform: hm?

asciilifeform: nah that one only re 'ment' ( militsya man )

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: the comp, of course, has more or less made this unfunny.

asciilifeform: )

asciilifeform: ( chukcha is offered a goodb00k. replies 'but thank you, old friend, i already own a book!'

asciilifeform: !~google книга у меня уже есть

asciilifeform: there is a chukcha story about this

asciilifeform: ( ffa work resulted in many hours deep in knuth )

asciilifeform: laugh if you like but nowadays i even look at my ru knuth moar often than at original

asciilifeform: nao i only look at the ru b00kz

asciilifeform: epic junk

asciilifeform: i made mistake of buying a b00k on ro for englischers one time

asciilifeform: try that with anglophonemes.

asciilifeform: or even passable jp pronounciation

asciilifeform: cyrillic 1918-model was flexible enough to cover, e.g., kazah

asciilifeform: grr Нью-Йорк

asciilifeform: but yes you can do ru-style , e.g. Нйю-Йорк - i.e. njoo-jork

asciilifeform: veh.

asciilifeform: not because asciilifeform can do impeccable ro, but because he can unplug english phonemization, lol.

asciilifeform: btw asciilifeform accomplished what asciilifeform's pet could yet not , in ro : managed to have simple 'how much' 'i'll buy 2' convos without counterparty switching to damaged english

asciilifeform: e.g. koi8 works this way.

asciilifeform: it's a cheat

asciilifeform: you can do damn near anything with 26 + 1bit

asciilifeform: stickybit!1111

asciilifeform: my latinatron has 26 lol

asciilifeform: waitasec which is 27th

asciilifeform: which side has 'special, gnarly' phonemes, and which -- Properly Righteous phonemes that must have own glyphs -- is not settled q.