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mircea_popescu: and if i'm also friends with phf, phf will report to me having heard you say "hi".
asciilifeform: when i say '<asciilifeform> but consider this thread' it is not specified protocolically to ~whom~ i said it
mircea_popescu: what about this thread am i considering ?
asciilifeform: i have killed a great deal of paper working on a clean solution to this.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-16#1467105 << phf modelled this (as did i) - it is trickier than it sounds ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have genuinely nfi how - and whether - these people wash.
asciilifeform: i was reading a treatise re indoor fixtures, by british fella, circa 1960, and he described how bidet was installed in a few london hotels at one tim
mircea_popescu: seriously, "water saving shower" ?! because why, i'm in palenque ?
asciilifeform: i dun think i have ever lived in a place with fire sprinklers
asciilifeform: i was very lucky, 2y ago, to find a place with an actual wooden floor.
asciilifeform: another detail, since i lack photo, of what makes these dwellings stomach-churning, is the american custom of 'wall to wall carpet'
asciilifeform: that incidentally was the type of structure i was looking at
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one place i rented here contained ~6 local derps at the time ; now inhabited by two.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, i only rarely visit such places, because - while i can outbid 4 or 5 of the wretches - i cannot outbid 10, and that is closer to the typical number
asciilifeform: i say 'paying' because it is quite rare for such a house to have only the paying ones
asciilifeform: i will add one detail that mircea_popescu may find interesting. amidst the piles of rubbish from floor to ceiling, the black mold in the single solitary toilet, carpet of stinking laundry, etc. there was a, i shit thee not, ~2metre tv in every room.
asciilifeform: re slumlords, i am still reeling from what i saw today
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" ?
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.
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.
mircea_popescu: how not ? i put my pubkey in server.
ben_vulpes: i seek to entertain, what
mircea_popescu: oh i c. bwahahaha. makes sense dunnit.
mircea_popescu: no i mean, other than ssh keys
ben_vulpes: rsa if i understand your question
mircea_popescu: yes what i meant. berkshire got fsf'd.
asciilifeform: i do
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: 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".
asciilifeform: phf: yeah, the former is what i do now
phf: generally i suspect you'll have better luck with renting from owners, rather than mgmt companies, since later can allow for dead souls
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
asciilifeform: phf: i was intrigued enough to investigate - quotes are more like 2.5k
asciilifeform: just about everywhere i go, i see old buildings being bulldozed to make room for condos, built of matchsticks and cardboard, where ~80% of the units stay vacant for years after the thing opens
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"
asciilifeform: i used to work right in that institute.
asciilifeform: i dun like rowhouses.
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'
asciilifeform: well the interesting bit in this and previous threads is that 'i want to rent a house' is almost 'i want to rent reactor' in usa.
asciilifeform: i am speaking of folks buying
mircea_popescu: NOBODY owns a boeing today. i'm pretty sure.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu said 'i rent a boeing' folks would believe
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i rented all sorts.
asciilifeform: hilariously, when speaking with (now former) colleagues, 'where do you live?' 'in a house' 'but you said you rent...' 'right, i rent a house' 'you mean, a room in a house?' 'no...' 'what, whole floor??' 'no...'
mircea_popescu: i dunno of any country where the students don't THINK ustardians live like in "friends".
asciilifeform: and it is not even that i need living near students for anything
asciilifeform: i dunno of any country where students dun live in own filth
mircea_popescu: i want the datapoint for my own lulz.
asciilifeform: next one i shoot pics of
asciilifeform: well i walked into this one with the contents still alive...
mircea_popescu: i really wanna see.
asciilifeform: lel i went to see another one of those houses
mircea_popescu: this, i believe, should be a setting exposed to the user. wherever the fuck he wants it to be sorted.
phf: asciilifeform: ircv3 supports backdating (as well as "batch" message spool). i've hacked together backdating for erc, since znc supports it for spooling missed messages, but clients like irssi support it out of the box
mircea_popescu: if later i get a message with key 1, i put it before the 3rd key one.
mircea_popescu: then if i get a message with 3rd key and none with 1 or 2, i put it first
mircea_popescu: "bitch, you wanna live in the us, well... learn to ham radio then i guess ?"
mircea_popescu: i'd rather know someone can deny my packet.
asciilifeform: i dun see how.
mircea_popescu: that's what i mean.
mircea_popescu: anyway. nothing wrong with that split. i guess eventually "Sane irc client" will be a project.
mircea_popescu: lol. i thought python had guis out the ying-yang
asciilifeform: because i am not writing motherfucking guis.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking, "and hopefully it's called gossipd"
asciilifeform: (i don't know of one)
mircea_popescu: one of these days i should get a client that's not retarded enough to split urls.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-15 00:03 asciilifeform: i love it when mircea_popescu takes 'my' traditional side in argument - e.g., as seen here, argument ad metacocksucknsa
shinohai: jurov btw i finally made account, how to add qntra ?
jurov: in any case, i need refill, can be 10BTC again
mircea_popescu: this'll be a heated auction i take it ?
shinohai: BingoBoingo: http://i.4cdn.org/b/1463329268243.png
danielpbarron: ;;later tell jurov may I please get some coppers today?
mod6: i wanna write a snarffer for this http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/rss that tweets these things out
mod6: im ciked that phuctor is crushing keys while i sleep, ride the train, eat a sandwich
mod6: <+shinohai> just as a backup at least cuz i love t so much << ok no worries then, just wanna ensure we're not duplicating work and what not.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-15#1466784 << not that they've not earned it, but as far as i'm concerned tmsr is here to take a bite out of that market. ☝︎
shinohai: just as a backup at least cuz i love t so much
mod6: what i also want to build is a CI thingy for trb ☟︎
shinohai: hold on I'll bring it to ur chan
mircea_popescu: i'm looking at teh data.
asciilifeform: i can walk into my back yard right now and get stung by 7 types of insect.
mircea_popescu: if i had parents not only idiotic enough to insist i get a degree but actually brain-manged enough to do this in the us, i'd have gone to arizona u. definitely.
asciilifeform: i.e. you gotta 'be someone.'
asciilifeform: i thought mircea_popescu specifically explained that this is not how pro grade whores work ?
mircea_popescu: i never pursued the matter and by now i guess she'd be old. but anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway : as i watched the woman be in 50% of the shots and never ever win anything, it occured to me that maybe she's doing the same thing, only much better ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, well i dunno if you know or not, but anyway - at the same time women contemplating a career in porn were more than willing to shoot a few features for the more respectable sites ~for free, because they gained popularity and a stamp of quality.
asciilifeform: i always found austro-hungarian hanging to be interesting
asciilifeform: yeah i recall.
asciilifeform: relatedly, i was reading a thing re 19th c performers, and one of the tricks lost to modernity is the sport hanging
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well yes. but i don't expect you'd do this in the bedroom, it's bad for the brain.
mircea_popescu: and i did not say strangle idly - it was the method for that situation. no idea if you've ever choked anyone but it is a) deeply sexual and b) probably the easiest way to go, outside of freezing, which they had no access to.
mircea_popescu: i believe the key to understanding ottoman poetry (which, btw, was very accomplished) is in this tension.
mircea_popescu: in general it is directly obvious to a woman that "yeah you have a nice cock, but i'm full ty". somehow the point is an egological insult to the healthy male.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-15#1466772 << no bojum, basic or otherwise. the problem is long solved and the solution well known. i even published it, but you overlooked. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: this view may even be correct ; but then their inability to maintain abundant, loyal whores is very striking. it's such an obvious point of failure, after all. but hey, not that i don't understand them - the whore will kneel lovingly, but not before every idiot. and being a self-indulgent idiot is so much... easier... and nicer... and pushing yourself so... hmm... is it even compatible with the dignity of warrior ? ain't that
phf: but seeing the general freak out that happens, i think that i'd rather it was self healing, and a message or two was lost :p