asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: well actually your observation is correct above: the only way to fund such a thing is to be obscenely successful in some entirely unrelated venture.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: possibly because i explained to him just what would be involved

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: problem is, the folks willing to be the 'pioneers with arrows in their back' would each have to pay 100M not 100K for the thing to happen.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: 20k is pocket change

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i recently watched such a machine burst lcd for no discernible reason

asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's 'tin woman' article.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: voluntary (nominally) for the adults, yes

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: where i live, the rental racket is being rapidly rolled up by mega-conglomerates who specialize in building titanic blocks of communal flats

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the rentiers are swimming 'in chocolate' and happier than could ever wish

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-01-2015#996757 << obligatory thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: to round off the earlier thread, house will be confiscated a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble the thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translators... armenian << actually usg translator racket is - traditionally - ultra-lucrative. complete with own boom'n'bust cycles

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: and the factory churns on, because the trucks carrying gypsum come on schedule, the roughnecks show up, etc

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll do that one next, quite possibly

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: basic observation (by no means mine! or even solely orlov's) is that collapse comes 'in fits.' for example, at the moment it did not occur to you to think that obtaining drywall or labourers to knock together a 'shitboard' house, could ever be problematic

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: then read mr o's 'post-soviet lessons' at the very least

asciilifeform: some politically important ethnic minority, for instance, might enjoy living in ben_vulpes's house ☟︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: may as well ask, why tax

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the interesting thing is that so far they use that and only that kind of 'feedstock'

asciilifeform: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5467/14059875162_dda7c1c05f.jpg << unrelated

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: we did this one here

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://poetrylibrary.ru/stixiya/korzhavin-1.html#osvobodite-zhenschinu-ot << almost like he wrote this one just for you

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 << he's alive!

asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has a prettified one on his site

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1UGC9WT4 << translation

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://libverse.ru/korzhavin/trybachi.html << relevant to thread

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu remarked, iirc, that i'm living in berlin circa '44, but it looks rather more like '38 here.

asciilifeform: from mircea_popescu's earlier article

asciilifeform: what does ben_vulpes do with his apple boxen? just throws them out when disk fills ?

asciilifeform - as ben_vulpes will be entertained to learn - just opened a 'macbook air' in dire need of a modern-sized drive to discover that said box made use of an obscure type of disk interface previously unknown to him, with aftermarket units only available from cn

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now -that's- interesting. got a link to the treaty ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: kings, queens in the past sailed on vessels that no one in their right mind would climb on today

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: depends who's aboard

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've historically been a skeptic of 'provably' whatevers, because the required furniture, in my experience, never failed to interfere with 'fits in head' - and the promised are often overblown

asciilifeform: http://docs.adacore.com/spark2014-docs/html/ug/getting_started.html << interesting simple example

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: le jour de gloire est arrivé ?

asciilifeform: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/OpenSSL_1_0_1-stable/crypto/bn/asm << very interesting reading for connoisseurs

asciilifeform: https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/records_management/ia_rds.pdf << funnily enough.

asciilifeform: use ada.text_io;

asciilifeform: with ada.text_io;

asciilifeform: ( http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/95rat/rat95html/rat95-p3-h.html )

asciilifeform: as described in mircea_popescu's 'nobody could have foreseen' essay;

asciilifeform: every time i read a document like this (and they're all quite the same, as mircea_popescu observed all clinical material re: the criminally insane being much alike - or was that tlp?)