mircea_popescu: somehow it's directly hysterical to the mainstream romanian ear.
mircea_popescu: there's even hookers born and raised in bucharest doing the accent for dubious tv shows.
mircea_popescu: well to this day i expect the ancient amusement of "get a moldovan hooker at a party, make her strip and talk" still continues.
asciilifeform: they were ruthlessly mocked in su
mircea_popescu: really, they're ro equiv of scotts.
asciilifeform: i pictured them as ro equiv of ukrs approx
mircea_popescu: moldovans are orcs and not as romanian as they'd like, which is why chisinev spoken romanian sounds like embalmed ion creanga.
mircea_popescu: yes, which is how they ended up maintaining the phonetic influence of the old russkis.
asciilifeform: this is mainstream theory btw
mircea_popescu: ivan'd definitely behead people over their shitty speech if he came back to moscow of today.
mircea_popescu: i is easily the most fluid vowel in romanian, it really hides about half dozen distinguished forms of which about half are actually notated.
asciilifeform: where's the quadripthong ? tri- easy, e.g. copiii
mircea_popescu: whole fucking language consists of vowel counting for the native speaker.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as the foreigner speaker is concerned, the pons asinorum is mastering the ɨ/i and ə/a dychotomies. takes failure rate from 100% to maybe 60% just liek that. then the dypthongs/tripthongs/quadriphtongs (yes, romanian has that). contrary to intuition, the special consonants are not difficult.
mircea_popescu: mother hen should have sold injured chick to a pedophile, flew first class with the other one off the dough.
ben_vulpes: one month on guitar, one on ru is sorta my pattern there
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, lol! fwiw I kind of trashed "puiul" to start with: stated that mother-bird was idiot as she should have either taken chick on her back or otherwise leave earlier ffs
asciilifeform: ( any other rotaku here ? ben_vulpes ? trinque ? who's a humlang junkie but not learned ro yet )
mircea_popescu: this is moar like ww2. whereas parma had regrets in the 1700s as well.
mircea_popescu: italo calvino somewhat an echo for the contemporanous reddit ; but otherwise the kingdom of two sicilies excelled, before "italy industrialized" post ww2.
mircea_popescu: aha. the "leftover" italians had plenty of good stuff.
mircea_popescu: ppl think oh noes, huxley wrote up the alienation of the final stages of socialist decay ? hurr. try cezar petrescu.
mircea_popescu: the original hc andersen matchbook girl being among the few foreign items marginally qualified to pariticpate.
asciilifeform: aha, marshak, same d00d who translated shakespeare, translated most of the subj
mircea_popescu: the important point about romanian kids stories is that they're not even bleak, they're penned by fucking chulhu. they regularily make adult anglo girls cry for the rest of the night.
mircea_popescu: closed borders are a mixed blessing. all the shit has to be "translated", etc.
asciilifeform: we had this too, for 20yrs i thought that my nursery rhymes were su original, then found the english.
asciilifeform: or who was it, 'man who wasnt there'
mircea_popescu: amusingly, i recall all of these.
mircea_popescu: o right, silvia chicos did a bunch of them.
diana_coman: so it might be more copying the title
mircea_popescu: nah, ro consisted of theft. you should see the inane lyrics they stuffed on ~most everything making the pop charts in the 70s.
diana_coman: they are though stories by ro authors, including cosbuc, creanga, delavrancea
diana_coman: they are again recordings from 1961-1971
diana_coman: hmmm, asciilifeform I bought for my kid a set of cds, again radio romania old transmissions, "noapte buna, copii" ; tbh though those are 5-10 minutes sort of things and at times (now) I find them a tad annoying
mircea_popescu: but otherwise sure, what that great k. ushinsky "povestind copiilor" etc
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, heh, the old vinyls from my childhood are still in a certain attic in ploiesti...
asciilifeform: is there actually an antiquariat in timis? i sniffed around, found only old furniture peddlers
mircea_popescu: diana_coman if he finds the old greuceanu etc series for a buck a piece and buys a few buckets he'll have perfectly legitimate us house's worth of collectibles.
asciilifeform: yea already went hunting, so far turning up loathesome anglisms tho
diana_coman: actually since you are in Ro, you can look at bookshops for cds/dvds on the topic ; iirc there were quite a few at some point
diana_coman: asciilifeform, maybe search for "fonoteca" from some radio at least if not otherwise?
mircea_popescu: in languages as well as fucking, there's no disadvantage in starting directly with the master class.
mircea_popescu: will skip from the first syllable of first involved word as far as possibly the first sentence stop.
mircea_popescu: language is full of it, it's like a fundamental mechanism of romanian. ii da / ɨi də/ (he gives [it] to him) vs dai-i /dəii/ (give them to him)
asciilifeform: hm theere it was. asciilifeform had nfi how to pronounce i-i
asciilifeform: ( which counts, sure, but i was looking for a serious boobytrap where unwary noob bites the wax tadpole )
asciilifeform: i.e. 2 diff wrds that differ only there
mircea_popescu: it's one of the major vocalic axes in romanian.
asciilifeform: lol there is too close center, india iirc
asciilifeform reloads the needed chinanual into his head, it computes
mircea_popescu: the first takes ɨ not i.
mircea_popescu: there;s usually no ɨ explicitly in russian, but if you contrast say твёрдый and мягкий it's evident
mircea_popescu: i expect there can be peri-linguistic tests of language mastery consisting entirely of synthetic constructions.
mircea_popescu: this'd require a large study and the largeness will implicitly make it fail through publicity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea what the heuristcs actually are ; self-reported they vary.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 18:27 mircea_popescu: actually it is a fine example for linguistics, because, get this, native speaker presented with it would generally GUESS, based on PURE PHONETICS, that it has something to do with "being in the way" or "standing up inconveniently" or somesuch,.
mircea_popescu: by the book "we are poor and hopeless but communism rules!!!!" argentinianism.
mircea_popescu: "oh, wanna-be mps over at ycombinator can't compete with mp though they really really want to ? I KNOW!!! we'll make all the bars suck and then suddenly the shit-ass parties ycombinator throws won't look quite as shitty anymore!!1"
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point is to get the generation without ( http://trilema.com/2012/generatia-fara/ ) look better by comparison.
ben_vulpes: it's assault when creepazons do it, and otherwise it's the normal mating dance. most dudes are creepazons, so to regurgitate a popescuism, "unless the bar is 80% girls and the few guys were invited explicitly", american bars will continue to be full of creepy low value male meat.
ben_vulpes: enshrine even restaurant staff as local delegates of the inca
ben_vulpes: i know, let's train them out of agency
ben_vulpes: and in other trigger warnings http://katu.com/news/local/portland-bars-getting-certified-as-safe-spaces-against-sexual-violence-and-racism
mircea_popescu: of course this is never actually ~said~ as such, but i suspect for the same reason priest omits to specify manner and size of wife beating implement.
mircea_popescu: and no, ro hates all things russian in the sense of politically. otherwise romanian view is all other things were written by alt-romanians in bad romanian.
BingoBoingo: And in research at the fiat/Bitcoin interface it appears there is a Brazilian single person limited liability corporation, the Empresa Individual de Responsabilidade Limitada (EIRELI)
davout: i'm just a private pilot, when i fly people for money, i'm the one paying
davout: becoming a professional airline pilot is on the list, and if I don't do it now I'll soon be too old
davout: they have an aeronautic school in oxford i want to attend
asciilifeform: no nosov in the shop btw, subj was among pile of transld-from-engl harryfucker liquishit
diana_coman: if you are very curious you might also want to check the publisher: iirc many are in fact published in Chisinau (Moldova) and sold in Ro because cheap compared to local; iirc I saw quite a few books following this route and reflecting it, as it were
asciilifeform: assumed he was the 1 speshulexception lol
asciilifeform: brain-melting, i expected 'we loathe all things su' to definitely extend to such a thing, but go figure.
asciilifeform: in other surprises, kidz book shop had volkov ( su d00d who made cult classic 'fanfic' of 'wizard of oz' series ) in ro trans
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ( upstack, in art gallery, was 'pay extra buck, take photos', so on a lark asciilifeform to pet 'ok pay a buck' . result - in every hall different old broad hisses when sees camera, but wave the ordinary scrap of paper with 'foto' scribbled , and they disperse. i imagine locals are wise to this, bring own scrap of paper when they feel like photoing in gallery... )
mircea_popescu: aha. but he didn't have the good example.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as a phonetic meaning encoding, this item proves.
mircea_popescu: actually it is a fine example for linguistics, because, get this, native speaker presented with it would generally GUESS, based on PURE PHONETICS, that it has something to do with "being in the way" or "standing up inconveniently" or somesuch,.
asciilifeform: incidentally i was in the art gallery and lolled over the old pre-dekirrilization icons
mircea_popescu: (this is a synthetic romanian word, uses each of the special letters exactly once. it didn't exist naturally, but it SOUNDS like it'd be a thing, like "chioara" (one eyed female) or such ; so was defined by contest cca 2008)
asciilifeform: i've noprob with the ro
mircea_popescu: would you rather have demeswar ?
mircea_popescu: decent collection of vinyls down there.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 18:13 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i very much doubt there can be two items called "museum of communist consumer" under a bar called lejer in the tiny temeswar.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728126 << possibly it was in the cellar , which looked dark and offline and i did not go to
shinohai: If davout goes to Madagascar, please troll the locals by walking about in a plague doctor mask.
mircea_popescu: let it be stated i'll buy "stolen" art at any time ; possession is 100% of the law.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-21 23:26 mircea_popescu: and here's some lulz for asciilifeform's private "art ownerhsip" collection : femme nue couchee, a courbet knockoff of the maja desnuda goya painting was looted in 45 by the soviets, who displayed it in the manner of truckers, which is to say on a truck tarpaulin. the item was thought lost, but it surfaced in 2000. the owner (possession is 100% of the law!) was accused of being unfit for ownership, as he happened to be slovak
mircea_popescu: but anyway -- obviously now that bitcoin is here there will be no further "owner can't sell http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-21#1727511 because nato doesn't agree with ownership chain" bs.
mircea_popescu: whole of usg has like a developer and a half to carry the whole load of endless "agencies", mastercard sees five minutes of developer every full moon.
mircea_popescu: and lulz at mastercard, pretending as if they've not just one, but a whole fucking NETWORK of developers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i very much doubt there can be two items called "museum of communist consumer" under a bar called lejer in the tiny temeswar.
asciilifeform: but i'd take the box over usa.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 16:45 mircea_popescu: maybe they retire jointly, alf on boat trinque on airplane.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728093 << interestingly in comparison with being surrounded by nonloathesome people on nonloathesome streets in nonloathesome house for nonloathesome price etc being in moving iron box dun seem appealing nomoar
asciilifeform: 'The cost of fraudulent goods is worth $1.4 Trillion globally. Leverage the Mastercard Blockchain and Authorization Network to easily track high value pharmaceuticals, art, luxury goods as they are created, transferred, purchased and re-sold' << lol!,
a111: Logged on 2017-10-24 13:30 davout: in other wtf https://developer.mastercard.com/product/mastercard-blockchain
BingoBoingo: Then again the HKIX system is set up to minimize traffic sent through United States in transit
BingoBoingo: Of course it could also be a gambit to get the gringo to offer to invest in some undersea cable.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: The getting them to distinguish is a difficulty as well. Apparently the Mandarin/English language duo is not conducive to Brain finesse as per 2014-ish discussion in pidgins. The Veit Congs were more effective communicators.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-24#1728097 << oddly, this was a very different museum. but similar idea, tho i suspect it was made by seekrit communist, was full of abstract algebra textbooks, numbertheory, Kvant, catpic embroideries, nostalgic
davout: for the purpose of ending up living on airplane :D
davout actually left tiny mauritian island last sunday, in the process of moving to a much larger, less civilised, island
mircea_popescu: there's an ambiguity here, gotta distinguish between installed capacity and sustained consumption.
BingoBoingo: 20 Gbps, with the caveat of "excellent international connectivity". Provided context of high traffic websites with global audience.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo what were you asking them for ?
BingoBoingo: And today I wake up to a bunch of emails from different contacts in HK all telling me that for the necessary international connectivity... They need new peering links.
deedbot: http://www.contravex.com/2017/10/24/the-data-driven-racer/ << Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski - The data-driven racer.
mircea_popescu: maybe they retire jointly, alf on boat trinque on airplane.
asciilifeform: and then ate again phood i had nfi was even possible, for less than cost of a.. eh, i’ll skip it nao, saving for blogps0t
mircea_popescu: so we're stuck, me dealing with individuals only, they dealing with names only. until this is resolved, ie, probably by force of arms, the lulz will continue.
mircea_popescu: lobbes there's some very deliberate "we in communism also have coca-cola". because there's no way i'll take them in without their crossing under the yoke, and they dun wanna cross under the yoke (chiefly because they broadly understand that there being no further substance to them, they'll dissolve into nothingness, which is obviously true and also why i won't budge).
mircea_popescu: An error occurred during a connection to developer.mastercard.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). << aww, check out all the offline noninternet websites! do they do things and utilities ?
lobbes: Either way, a wonderful bundle of wtf davout
lobbes: Probably the latter
lobbes: "The Person-to-Person global market opportunity is $16 Trillion. Take advantage of the Mastercard Settlement Network to transfer funds between banks." << All these banks drinking the "Blockchain is the next The Cloud" scamolade. Can't tell if driven solely by the marketing-idiocy-cycle or if there is also some deliberate subversion greasing the wheels.
BingoBoingo: In other news, Austria's next prime minister to be Sebastian Kurz, shitlord party. Make lulz great again.
BingoBoingo: 8 it'll be then
mircea_popescu: you're not an experimental machine building station. if the item exists commercially you use it ; if not whoever aims to whine is more than welcome to produce it himself.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo one doesn't help. you gotta mount eight as per alf's magics, i wouldn't bother.
mircea_popescu: anyway, prolly get their lowest thing and expand it when you see enough traffic to justify it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo depends on the node, but a non-magistral item maybe 10-50 kbps.
mircea_popescu: ~340 GB = 1 Mbps sustained for a month. ignoring the 95% thing.
mircea_popescu: right. i don't recall off hand the phuctor traffic figures, but pretty sure it's not 1mbps sustained over a month ; iirc not even a tenth that. eulora similarily eats in the kbps sustained, and so...
mircea_popescu: not the worst arrangement.
BingoBoingo: Served, not figured into the averaging. Hence "95th percentile"
mircea_popescu: the devil is in the details. "busiest 36 hours ARE SERVED and not billed", or "we will simply cut you from internet 36 hours each month and bill for th erest" ?
BingoBoingo: Well, I am working on understanding this. Was sorta hoping to get a X per Terabyte figure. Anyways, the billing convention on these terms seems to be outta the month busiest 36 hours are tossed and transfer is averaged.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so they wanna eat a 3 per mbps at the lowest setting, looks like, and otherwise willing to let you have it for 50 cents if you commit.
BingoBoingo: Eh, looking more like the price of internet isn't being properly levied upon consumers.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: thus far i can’t escape the suspicion that rack rental is fundamentally same type of chumpatron as box rental
BingoBoingo: Remember kids to always ask for the additional details: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/DFTue/?raw=true
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: checking out the bed joint, $mission tomorrow
mircea_popescu: are you going to check out the strip joints ?
asciilifeform: also not an angloid but these fine folx dunnno that
asciilifeform: hey asciilifeform is not a hapsburg but had the carriage gate!111
mircea_popescu: anglos never were part of western civilisation in any meaningful sense, and their piracy adventures dun change this.
mircea_popescu: pointedly it does not, "western civilisation" reduces to the habsburg lands centered on vienna, or if one is 1600s versed the paris-florence-venice axis i guess
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727981 << i guess what everyone means by "islam" these days is salafism bs, much in the manner ustardianism is what "everyone" takes "western civilisation" to mean.
asciilifeform: and the grappa, is mightyfine
asciilifeform: pet re steak: ‘joiana the cow died not in vain’
diana_coman: lol; those rubbish bins looked very...Romanian but the "no islam" thing didn't quite fit, hence Hungary seemed more likely
mircea_popescu: ancient people, too. dobruja muslims are like odessa russians, there before the romanian occupation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's plenty of islam in ro lol. for eg constanta is like 15% sunni.
jurov: mircea_popescu: pls process mpex withdrawal, seems there's also stuck order
asciilifeform: ^ includes the oblig. airplane shot
asciilifeform: here's another clue, ~0 islam
mircea_popescu: or wait, this actually is dick rather.
asciilifeform: btw powerful pigeons here, they do their thing in sync, just like on asciilifeform's homeworld, you can hear from across the street
mircea_popescu: (carici being yet another way to say cunt in the language entirely made up of ways and means to say cunt)
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 17:36 phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because there's not any kind of hook to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-23#1727901 << me too, considering who they're dealing with. but i guess they dunno how to factor the alf into all of it.
mircea_popescu: AND throughout the egypt that i've seen, they to this day have clay pots with water in the shade every quarter mile or so on the road. notwithstanding that yes you can buy bottled water and did i share that pic of the desert dhl ?
phf: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of those small plastic bottles they leave even when proper water system is not accessible.
asciilifeform: nao if only they let folx with u.s. pasports in'ere
mircea_popescu: aha. to reiterate, must visit istanbul, at the very least a weekend, take girl across horn to see the train station the romanians bombed, kebab etc.
mircea_popescu: phf hahaha no such thing. throughout arab world, most of turkey included, the standard toilet includes a water spit pipe ~where the watertrap is. with special fauced accessible whiole seated.
mircea_popescu: in fact if taken to mission district and sultanahmed, civillian would wrongly decide which is "the capital of the technology world of the future"
phf: i suspect in turkey it would've been "they have bidet in public toilets!"
phf: but i'll guess it's either spain or croatia
phf: asciilifeform: it's not a fun game, because there's not any kind of hook to go buy. "great coffee and beautiful women" is not it
phf: actually, not even that, i'm not sure where i got the bidet from :o
a111: Logged on 2017-10-23 16:54 diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer;
asciilifeform: it's an orcistan not a batheinourownshitistan
diana_coman: if there were any cats mentioned I'd have guessed Turkey!
diana_coman: to recap clues as I see them: orcistan -> poor/undeveloped country; roofless palaces -> warm(ish); abandoned trainstations -> former colony/it was once something; good food + "you'll love Odessa" -> southern style; not enough language-fu -> !USSR; asciilifeform has "things that need to be done there" -> ????? basically this last one is a killer;
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 23:16 BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Didja end up in the Dontesk republic?
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: In other numbers hitting the inbox, an IP Transit price: "After checking in details, the IP transit (1G Global Internet Access) is around HKD310,000/m. It is provided by PCCW Global. 24 months contract is required."
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/the-socialists-pretending-to-relevancy/ << Trilema - The socialists pretending to relevancy
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Didja end up in the Dontesk republic?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: not bars here, but entire gambling-dens with nought but dedicated лохотронs << There are a few of those popping up too.
mircea_popescu: why ? all the hot babes on jersey shore...
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2017/untrue-story/#comment-123275 << i suspect that asciilifeform’s folx abused the word . yes it typically refers to entrances
lobbes: Hm. Good air. quality coffee for < price of us toilet paper. Mini-casinos abound. The clues mount
asciilifeform: and the air, did i mention, smells great
asciilifeform: asciilifeform went to an orcistan to do a necessary thing but also catching lulz along the way
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 21:28 asciilifeform wonders if folx other than mircea_popescu are yet ready to solve riddle, of where did asciilifeform go.
lobbes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727791 << this whole time I figured I just missed something in the logs
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> in other reportage from orcvalhalla: there are as many mini-casinos here as banks. << 5 years ago here in Southern Illinois there were few of these, now in most bars and a good chunk of gas stations. Even a few freestanding ones.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:20 mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727598 << pcengines ftr costs <200bux (sans disk), draws ~10w, and much spiffier for any practical use than vps << AHA, but it feeds same market segment. The thing about cheap boards is people can forget the other things that go into being a machine like casing, etc
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> If BingoBoingo gets cursed I'll be sad :( << Not the first time having recieved coin from MP
mod6: <+asciilifeform> in other holyfuqs: hotelshower has A HOSE << like a garden hose?
asciilifeform: ( in usa these are ~unknown, the one in asciilifeform’s house he brings himself to every new digs )
asciilifeform: in other holyfuqs: hotelshower has A HOSE
shinohai: I did not change asciilifeform 's functions at all, it was readable as is. I simply combined all the functions into a single script xD
mod6: <+asciilifeform> after release 'p', i'ma return to civilized-btctronics among other wurk << cool, right on.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 16:29 deedbot: diana_coman rated asciilifeform 5 << His kindergarten is better than your university. Also: producer of sane and reliable fuckgoats, horsecocks and lamport parachutes among other useful items.
mircea_popescu: but really, there's dozen+.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-22#1727650 >> asciilifeform at one time got one! but escaped the curse! ( how: sent it back, nyahaha )
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:49 BingoBoingo: PCENGINES APU not so cheap), VPS 3x+ cost basis. Misc weird (i.e. hand courier and colo 32 bit SPARC machine) billed in proportion to time they take from providing excellent customer service and 2x cost basis for livng space.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other honest day's work, http://78.media.tumblr.com/87815e8763030d25eab40f7a397320ee/tumblr_n3ewekRzNF1rj4efco1_400.gif
asciilifeform: riddle inspired by the classic where-is-mp game from earlier thread
asciilifeform wonders if folx other than mircea_popescu are yet ready to solve riddle, of where did asciilifeform go.
asciilifeform: i bet it’s the syscolade absence or similar
asciilifeform: in other amazements, asciilifeform’s eternal allergy stops in these lands almost straight from the plane, can breathe like anybody
asciilifeform: after release ‘p’, i’ma return to civilized-btctronics among other wurk
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 00:37 mod6 raises a glass to the 3rd anniversary of The Bitcoin Foundation
mircea_popescu: um. really ? during the daytime ?! how many people ?
asciilifeform: boot straight into get-os-over-nic or the like.
asciilifeform: i also! have firmware builder honed for these
asciilifeform only knows 1 other x64 board with schems: ‘gizmo’
asciilifeform: heat spreader was the slightly tricky bit
asciilifeform: they are very easy to mount, 4 drill hole and 12v dc
mircea_popescu: you can't market vps as 1 to the U.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 05:20 mircea_popescu: your cost basis is ~200 per server. you can rent them for 3-400 as such, or can give out vpsen, which are more productive. perhaps even "shared" if particularily interested into it.
asciilifeform: in other phoods, there is a ru-ism re people emigrating to usa ‘for 50 types of sausage’. but in usa the 50 sausages are mysterymeat. here - actual; they gave samples...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is right tho, the places in usa open to public, will happily take in arbitrarily thick wad of green, and giveya syscolade.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform unsurprisingly cannot comment re these - dark matter
mircea_popescu: there's maybe a dozen or so restaurants in the us, and im pretty sure they're not open to the public other than because they're 19 and "male pig" invited them
mircea_popescu: nothing exists in the usa ; including any moolah.
asciilifeform: afaik nothing like this exists in usa, not even for 5-10x the moolah
mircea_popescu: i am not responsible to explain why ustardianism is eccentric / not found outside of the ustard reservation.
ben_vulpes: whoa where in usgstan do they serve duck with faux syrup
mircea_popescu: (for the curious : the weinstein brothers were instrumental in independent film even existing in the us, through founding miramax and inventing sundance. uneasy relationship with pantsuit exploded in early 2010s, over michael moore's complaining that tribute's insufficient ; this after the inane pantsuitist idiocy of forrest gump was given pulp ficiton's oscar.)
mircea_popescu: the lulz via https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/10/10/author-and-journo-nukes-hollywood-on-weinstein-all-these-leftist-actresses-expressing-shock-are-lying/ which turns out to be a rather large community blog thing, on occasdion not even terrible.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : after failing to produce any footage anyone can be arsed to watch for 20 years running,. hollywood is finally being abandoned to the sufragette politruk brigade. as a result, amusing pieces like the discovery that jenniffer "nature itself is angry at trump" lawrence got her pussy grabbed by anyone and everyone, including momentary famous kulak harvey weinstein. AND LIKE IT. because yes, she's exactly what
deedbot: diana_coman rated asciilifeform 5 << His kindergarten is better than your university. Also: producer of sane and reliable fuckgoats, horsecocks and lamport parachutes among other useful items.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-22 14:54 asciilifeform: aaalso why are there signs warning of buried ~oxygen~ pipes !
mircea_popescu: our conversation today has distilled a golden bible of happy pet-taking. it goes like so : rule #1, do not presume to take decisions for the animal, it's capable for itself. rule #2, do not presume to put up a show for the animal, its sense of smell is fine by nature.
mircea_popescu: 0 result, just you can't tell mixed of the time.
asciilifeform working hard to keep his heathenry a seekrit
mircea_popescu: they can make their own decisions when it's their time to talk. take life one day at a time, can feed and pet your new pet today.
asciilifeform: can’t picture them wanting to go back to goatfuckistan where asciilifeform calls home
mircea_popescu: sure as fuck beats "raising" a dog ; and i can readily understand one not wanting to go through genital roulette at the cost of an irreplaceable decade and a reasonably rare million.