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asciilifeform: 'Factom's software allows companies to maintain a permanent, time-stamped record of their data tied to blockchains, reducing the cost and complexity of conducting audits, managing records, and complying with government regulations. n the financial services industry, Factom tools let customers build transparent accountability systems for the financial industry, helping clients build immutable records that can be synced and shar
asciilifeform: incidentally, for the two kinds of dope picked for this comparison, the packaging and distribution costs dwarf the actual cost of producing the pill
asciilifeform: of, e.g., 'depakote' vs dextraamphetamine
asciilifeform: there are no hardcoded implementations of ciphers, or hashes
asciilifeform: a 'public key' is simply a snippet of code for this 'computer'
asciilifeform: the - presently nameless - pgptron - is simply an emulator for a very simple but imaginary computer which performs arbitrary arithmetic on bignums.
asciilifeform: 'I don't care if your language lawyers tell you gcc is right. THIS WILL CAUSE PEOPLE TO GET HACKED.' << this is not hundred percent idiotic. the c programming language is specified in such a way, with sufficiently pervasive 'undefined behaviours' and nonstandardized but inescapable routines, that it is ~physically impossible~ to program in it as-specified
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298580 << i dun get it. why there has to be a 'pack' of whatever sort, why not simply nuke the idiot xml rpc thing once and for all ?
asciilifeform experimented with erlang at great length, on multiple occasions, but cannot bring himself to use it for anything on the battlefield because 1 ) ONE IMPLEMENTATION and 2) IT DOES NOT FIT IN HEAD
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-10-2015#1298593 << mega-essay, recommended to everyone who is interested in salvaging what little of worth remains in this whole 'computing' thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, 'severance' typically means a lump sum of usd. 'unemployment' is something quite else (financed partly by a tax on the employer, partly by state, it is a meagre pension that one draws for precisely so long as one remains Officially unemployed.)
ascii_field: the real question is why did they need 4200 employees ?!
ascii_field: labeled 'temple.'
ascii_field: there is no temple.
ascii_field: or shall i simply post the latter.
ascii_field: '...so the room would be empty!'
ascii_field: but this is no more and no less astonishing than when, e.g., ibm ceased to build computers
ascii_field: something like the reason why the church never countenanced the various attempts to weigh the dying to learn the mass of escaping soul, etc
ascii_field: 'i'm on arsebook, but i have a brain!' 'good work, now arsebook can say, 'some of our users have brains!'' lubing up the chumpatronic intake hopper.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-10-2015#1297760 << this is the basic vampirism on which the 'sv' huckster set lives.
asciilifeform: in fact, at this point if i had to choose whether to spend the rest of my days in the close warm company of cockroaches, XOR with c++ - would likely pick the former..
asciilifeform is not an mpex user and feels entirely free to issue traditional, expir-dated keys
asciilifeform: (who is sandberg? what is jezebel? what happens in 'access hollywood'? and, more importantly, what do i gain from trying to figure this out...?)
ascii_field: as presently implemented.
ascii_field: the flip side of this is that civil-death-by-dint-of-key-compromise will become a thing.
ascii_field: nubbins`: this was an ancient thread. mircea_popescu explained that if people could update keys of mpex account, it would become practical to sell 'secondhand'
ascii_field: because 1) he would have to send a shuttle to his orbital station to swap out the ROM with the old key 2) people could sell mpex accounts!!111111
ascii_field: (at mpex)
ascii_field: what would happen? cpu overheats from attempting gluttony and lust at same time ?
ascii_field: any other policy, not my place, I am pointing out that doing it the way it's done protects the 1% by letting the Aspirational 14%-- who crave recognition and are easily identifiable and hatable because they are poseurs, just of a different kind-- act as human shields. They take the bullets, the unknown mega-rich take tinted window rides to the Hamptons.'
ascii_field: 'Here's the other side's example: when they talk about raising taxes on the rich, why do they pick a "low" point and push it higher? Should the highest rates be at $250k/yr? $300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why they cannot do it, is start at the top and move down. "We need $1T. Ok, top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about top ten guys pay 90%. Not enough? Top...." I'm not advocating this or
ascii_field: because we discard, or emplace, axioms, based on whether we get timecube or skyscraper.
ascii_field: i'm prepared to explain re: the pubkeys, it is really very simple
ascii_field: where nothing of any value or import was 'retail-mechanized'
ascii_field: just like computing stalin's rent.
asciilifeform: afaik this was not a case of 'freedom to experiment' but of imprisonment
asciilifeform: mega-example
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice that i did not say 'exterminate people who didn't graduate in maths.' i said 'what if people had freedom of association.' the example give was, well, an example.
asciilifeform: we're designing a residential complex, and trying to keep out destructive lumpens
asciilifeform: for comparison, therealbitcoin is < 700kB
asciilifeform: (actually i can. it was... winblowz compatibility. of course.)
asciilifeform: this is the kind of thing i was afraid of when first contemplating automating any of this
asciilifeform: my other thought was that it is even possible that both variants used physically-identical components and the cheaper one was somehow crippled in software.
asciilifeform: unrelatedly, today i went into a shop and saw a type of chumpatronic contrivance for which i do not know the name:
asciilifeform: intimidation of chumps, as in 'lie detector', will take care of two thirds of the 'patients'
asciilifeform: as it is, western/non-orc bureaucrats use ceremonial language dating to a time when cooperation was a (comparatively) voluntary thing
asciilifeform did not link it as example of good writing, no.
asciilifeform: nor is anything else about the current implementation (what is signed is IN ALL CASES a sha1 of the key-to-be-signed) sane.
asciilifeform: this ~could~ be implemented sanely, but the traditional implementation - where the new key is accepted silently - is not it.
asciilifeform: but i also recall a recent attempt by orcs to flood into ft, that was checked by force of arms
asciilifeform: eh that's one's a crock of shit in 10,001 ways. it is in all sense compulsory for a serf to live in the grounds to which he is bound
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-10-2015#1296129 << i must disagree here. the design was brain-damaged in several important ways from day 1
asciilifeform: 'Given that we are expecting to soon switch from RSA to ECC for improved security and that the current base of OpenPGP implementations supporting ECC is quite small, I would recommend not to allow a second fingerprint format for v4 keys but to bind a new fingerprint format to a v5 key packet version.' << who the fuck is 'we' ?!
asciilifeform: 'While I focused myself on the technical side of mining and over time found it very difficult to keep up-to-date even with this narrow sub-topic, DaT always seemed capable of following any development in the bitcoin world. Take a look at his essay supporting block-size increase as an example of his contribution.' << mega-l0l
asciilifeform: no mega-shocking result - pgp is not a magical fountain of phree-energy-style 'trust from the aether', but rather an amplifier of trust established - to some extent - in the meat.
asciilifeform: and this still is predicated on an assumption, to date unproven, that rsa sig operation is not malleable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://github.com/coruus/cooperpair/tree/master/pgpv4 << contains, iirc, example of collision
ascii_field: 'Concretely, we estimate the SHA-1 collision cost today (i.e., Fall 2015) between 75K$ and 120K$ renting Amazon EC2 cloud computing over a few months.'
asciilifeform: i picked the thing up because - like a total chump - i saw 'carl zeiss' on the chassis
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: doesn't work so well with vm and emulators, which stupidly pump video buffer straight from emulated winblowz
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: here is a classic historic example of such a design: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
ascii_field: all of it maximally proprietary, without exception - microshit-based, and having 'compile times' measured in weeks or months
ascii_field: but it is important to understand the sheer magnitude of the first counterfactual here.
ascii_field: su actually had competing suppliers, and sometimes entire supply chains, for things.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually worked some magic to try scoring a sample board but nothing came of it.
ascii_field: for all i know, it is a '90s-style chumpatron like the last elbrus !
ascii_field: it is not even about complexity.
ascii_field: the reason why the decay is at its most cartoon-coloured visible in computing, is that it is the most inherently centralized industry in existence
ascii_field: you can't buy a truck without plastic in it, and computerized ignition, either.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: this kind of thing began in 1960-70s, where 'why did this computer end up in su' became a thing
ascii_field: (functions only if you use the ubuntu kernels and never attempt to so much as rebuild)
ascii_field: because it enables a host of sc4mz0rz to peddle 'linux-compatible!!1!!!11' crud that is entirely not
asciilifeform: gotta wake up for a few min. every day to pump the sap
asciilifeform did a long tour of duty in empirical lab bio at u.s. nih while a schoolboy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: at any rate, 'plausible synthesis' has a rough meaning. ask PeterL perhaps to explain in detail. but yes, synthetic vitamin B was a nobel. beyond a certain point of complexity, one tries to harness living things to crap out the goods
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we had a db from u.s. national cancer institute of a few million plausibly-synthesizable compounds, largely of unknown effect (never organizedly fed to any living thing)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sure. usg did not build on empty space
asciilifeform: it is hemp in approximately the same sense that a chihuahua is a wolf
asciilifeform: thing is, dope in usg (and 'international treaties' as they presently exist are ~pure~ usgtronics) is not about dope, but about empire. if tomorrow no one wanted to snort coke, something else (can you say warez?) takes its place as excuse to feed standing army of stormtroopers
asciilifeform: (phun phakt: lucent corp. still brings in $20M/yr or so... renting out rotary phones. caveat is that this figure is a few yrs old, and a substantial number of the chumps are likely to have succumbed to old age since it was last published)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: normally in usa the telco pays (in exchange for an indenture lock-in chumping)
ascii_field: as in, there ought to be no operations which result in prompts
ascii_field: mircea_popescu et al: http://habrahabr.ru/company/mosigra/blog/268211 << user interfaces in china. interesting enough to be worth the work (googletranslate if you must)
ascii_field: mircea_popescu actually got to see an example of my l337 p4ck1ng
ascii_field: 'Undeterred by diplomacy, the US squeezed off a couple of cruise missiles in the general direction of Syria, but the Russians promptly shot them out of the sky, triggering a major rethink at the Pentagon and, of course, making the US look rather silly.' << i missed this?
ascii_field: 'GPG throws a warning [3] that the message could have been modified, but other implementations do not differentiate between SE and SEIP.' << what 'other implementations' ? microshit crypto ?
ascii_field: 'The implications are, among others, that an encrypted and signed message can be stripped of its signature and modified arbitrarily, with certain restrictions, by an attacker without knowing the key.' << ahahahaha
asciilifeform: 'Dear students! Remember that money can solve anything! Even complicated differential equations.'
asciilifeform noticed ages ago but promptly forgot
asciilifeform used to work for an outfit that made millions simply in ensuring that this kind of snafu did not happen, for megacorp clients
asciilifeform implodes into a cosmic singularity
ascii_field: someone should teach this woman about the piss-pants-for-justice campaign.
ascii_field: also 'everything is shit' is a sane and correct attitude for anyone involved in kompyooting.
ascii_field: my theory was that the bumps are from nostalgia for crappy orcish roads...
ascii_field: even without all of this, it is quite certain that ~computing~ 'is not old enough'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: re: 'camping': the thing in question is part of a campaign by just about every half-respectable usa jurisdiction to squeeze out 'trailer trash'
ascii_field: (as if there were any shortage of symptoms of this)
ascii_field: with a sort of gas sampler, even
ascii_field: thestringpuller: the committee took its sweet time lifting features from ada, functional langs (even lambdas…) etc. but does your compiler have them now ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290758 << speaking more of modern petroeconomics than 'who is the longest historical imperial cock'
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-10-2015#1290783 << compare cos of chainmail and conductive cloth! if the latter works against electric weapon just as well, the linked article is an advance
ascii_field: aaaand you need a Real Computer that ~has~ the port.
ascii_field: complete with part datasheets, discussion.
ascii_field: http://mail.blockyourid.com/~gbpprorg/mil/photoanglo/index.html << attempt to replicate 'photoanglo' radar-illuminated theremin-style bug described in snowden papers.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2015#1290515 << this puzzle is - contrary to what is implied - entirely unrelated to public key crypto
ascii_field: nobody would amputationfetishize if it meant starvation in the gutter.
ascii_field: pampas cat.
ascii_field: '...The Secretary of the Authors' Union / Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee / Which said that the people / Had forfeited the government's confidence / ... ... / Wouldn't it Be simpler in that case if the government / Dissolved the people and / Elected another?' (tm) (r) (brecht)
ascii_field: europe is simply yi yi zhi yi-ing itself into proper hierarchical segments again.
ascii_field: it is more like pumping water from a ship's bilge
ascii_field: '10th Annual Homeland Security Week.' '...Top 10 Priorities Guiding DHS into the Next 10 Years. Improving the Unity of Effort Initiative. Securing the Cyber Ecosystem. [moar crud snipped]'
ascii_field: 'I am member of a 7 pumping groups that entering costed me 15BTC+.' << ahahahaha
asciilifeform: the 'planet' thing, as with most american neologisms, leaves little to the imagination. it refers not to obesity even but to a qualitative jump in the progression of the disease where the afflicted begins to lose 'human form' - what a child might draw when asked to 'draw person' - and converge to... a sphere. hence 'planet.'
asciilifeform: just about nobody, outside of p.t. barnum's circus, was 'hamplanet' in 1880. not rich people, either.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-10-2015#1289392 << this is why 'fastfood-fat' is, to the trained eye, a thing; and is what i thought the term 'hamplanet' referred to, customarily.
asciilifeform: this is the Right Thing for ~very few~ items. and yes, a game is a textbook example of where it is ~not~.
asciilifeform: 'hamplanet' as i understand is a mark of rancid, unrepentant, irremediable... spiritual poverty - rather than lack of physical exercise as such
asciilifeform: nor does football or not have anything causal to do with 'becoming hamplanet' (it is virtually impossible without 'fast food')
ascii_field: the designated zoo of impotence is a dead end.
ascii_field: similarly, it is made clear that if you wish to oppose some particular usgism, you can do so in the company of impotent flat-earther twerps to your heart's content
ascii_field: this is at least partly engineered for the purpose of reminding the more uppity members of the public that 'if you want to oppose transgendered studies scholarships, fine, but you will do so in the company of people who believe that cancer is caused by demons'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: the depth of the contempt that the herders show for this particular variety of sheep is astonishing imho
ascii_field was under the impression that this is a waste of time
ascii_field: just the man for a 'Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.'
ascii_field: 2) the new cards are BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE for www purchases and equally scammable
ascii_field: 'Starting Thursday, merchants will be held fully liable for any losses due to credit card fraud if they are not geared up for the new, more secure, chip cards. And consumers will need to change their habit of swiping their credit cards to pay: Instead, they "dip" their new cards into terminals and leave them there until the transaction is complete. That is, if the retailer they're shopping at has the necessary equipment.'
ascii_field: i confess, i lack the full vocabulary to describe adequately a scamatron of this complexity.
ascii_field: (what is it called when honest folks end up doing this duty for a chumpatron..)
ascii_field: there are a few indie computer games etc. sprinkled in for legitimacy
ascii_field: just when some may have thought that it is impossible for 'kickstarter' users to get any dumber: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving
ascii_field: 'My recommendations are to follow The Making of the Atomic Bomb and The Los Alamos Primer (see "Books", below) with a few nuclear engineering and physics texts, at which point you'll be well-equipped to daydream about your own neutron initiator ideas and radical implosion symmetries. ' << without exception engl. language material is crawling with deliberate and potentially lethal disinfo, on this and many other subjects.
ascii_field: 'The police major—perhaps in mind of the nationwide spate of police killings by thugs—decided to speak to this loitering person. The content of the conversation is not yet known. The cop did tell the idiot to show his hands. The idiot refused to show his empty hands. The cop shot him in the leg—I bet that shit hurt! The major then took off his own belt and used it as a tourniquet and the last I heard the boy bl
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it was the very textbook example of usg powershow modus operandi - pick on the borderline retarded, preferably ones who practice voodoo to a degree repugnant to the tvtronic public
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for my enlightenment, formulate example of 'usable' hypothesis here ?
ascii_field: there is sludge being pumped, yes
ascii_field: short version, proto-usg squeezed out poor white catholics, who were slow to 'get with the program', from urban centers, with 'population replacement' gambit where 'housing projects' were built and filled with lumpens
ascii_field: i was speaking of overall neg-pr campaign against municipal police in all if usa
asciilifeform: '...'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. men were shot on our recommendation. Adolf Eichmann himself congratulated us. 'You met him, did you?' I said. 'Yes' said Arpad, 'and I'm sorry I didn't know at the time how important he was.' 'Why?' I said. 'I would have killed him,' said Arpad.'
ascii_field: it is important to remember why we came up with the whole shebang of 'fits-in-head 1-page' patches, 'v', the lot
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287947 << this is, virtually by definition, an impossibility.
ascii_field: (10,000 'openings advertised on www' has something to do with actual employment? and 8.6B spent on 'research' has something to do with r&amp;d ? not on my planet...)
ascii_field: ' It's still hiring like crazy, with nearly 10,000 open jobs listed on its website, for instance, and it has ratcheted up research and development a bit, spending $8.7 billion in its last fiscal year — which ended in August — compared to $8.6 billion in fiscal 2014.' << does anyone else feel brain melting from the sheer density of flimflam packed into this paragraph ?
ascii_field: 'Lots of tech companies do that, but in Oracle's case, it is mandating that all employees pay for this furlough with four days of their paid time off/vacation time, according to several sources we spoke to.' << l0l
ascii_field: the way these items are implemented is ~inherently~ retarded
ascii_field: the most pedestrian hypothesis here is that rsa is considerably easier to implement.
ascii_field: this makes it more like 'nintendo' than computer.
ascii_field: any attempt to patch kernel that is detected (and the traps move around) hangs the box
asciilifeform: 'the address for Cryptome is listed to be the location of a fiber optic cable junction in Sterling, VA (next to an Amusement Machine company)... which is quite some distance away from your location in NYC, and a considerable distance from your ISP who hosts your file, and it is located away from any signal switching systems use in the area, but it is virtually next door to fiber that goes to a large NSA listening post nearby.
asciilifeform: when i worked in usg, they had xp boxes, yes. i simply requisitioned 'vmware' and cooked up a gentoo vm.
asciilifeform: it does it just as well by being empty and decaying.
asciilifeform: just keep prices at 400-500K for the remaining chumpers
asciilifeform: an empty house, from usg's standpoint, still does 90% of its job - keeping 'property values!111!!111!!1' sky-high.
asciilifeform: pretty basic chumpatronics, i think. why spend more effort than is required to fool the mark ?
asciilifeform: for their part, the squatters are fooled. the buildings, stay empty.
asciilifeform: laugh but this is not entirely fiction. i discovered recently that it is customary where i live for the city to continue to cut the grass in the yards of empty houses
asciilifeform: perhaps only in the dc swamps.
asciilifeform: gotta appreciate the pure genius of the chumpatronics here
asciilifeform: incidentally all this was, afaik, ~before~ self-destructing printer cartridges and other mundane implementations of this crud became common
asciilifeform: 'KeepKey is actually a fork of the Trezor project. We have maintained compatibility through development, and are compatible with Trezor v1.3.3.' << l0l
asciilifeform: but this way, a release is simply a vpatch that adds a 'this is part of such-and-such release' comment to a set of files in such a way that the desired leaves are brought into the release.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mod6 http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-09-2015#1285169 << the way i suggested doing it is to avoid having multiple classes of signed objects. manifest for a release would be merely another kind of patch - one that simply takes every leaf that is to form part of the release head, and add a comment to the top of the file, 'REL-xxx.' this auto-gloms the leaves into a single patch 'handle', think about it.
asciilifeform: (chumpatronic engineering)
asciilifeform: rsync would need a pre-write hook so that it only accepts 'push' attempts that end up sig-verifying
asciilifeform: more importantly, authenticated.
asciilifeform: (the set of mathematical operations used in crypto is quite limited, well-defined, and does not require a turing-complete interpreter to fully encompass.)
asciilifeform: it CAN be implemented correctly.
ascii_field: the other important question is whether the node being synced was also accessing the net at the time
ascii_field: how much time spent on the dumps ?
ascii_field: the correct way to use eatblock is with dumpblock coming from an already synced LOCAL node.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu once alluded to a dirty ad-hoc implementation of this by chinese operators, where nodes had vpn links to one another
ascii_field: and, importantly, wasted time
ascii_field: get a real computer somewhere ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-09-2015#1284966 << headers-only sync is not sync. the phoundation client is not a bitcoin implementation and hasn't been for ages. on the other hand, a box that takes 3 weeks to sync FROM EATBLOCK ON DISK has something seriously wrong with it.
ascii_field: pogo is something quite like an actual computer
asciilifeform: (not only in the added complexity of a zlib decoder, but in the fact that a message's actual length remains unknown until your start shitting it out)
asciilifeform: traditional whizzzdum is that it somehow improves seek00rity by making the plaintext less structured.
asciilifeform: the third and all-encompassing atrocity of rfc2440/4880 is the idiot cruft pertaining to 'new' vs 'old' packet formats, the magical constants specifying largely antiquated block ciphers and hash algos, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one example of something which Must Die is 'subkeys'
asciilifeform: it is possible in principle to write a provably-correct implementation of a subset of rfc4880, but the result is still horrendously ugly.
asciilifeform: btw, for anyone else contemplating pgp, the retardation really flows from the protocol
asciilifeform: enemy only needs to supply a temporary burst to kill you.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is every bit the archetypical example of a sucker's game.
asciilifeform: 'complete meal' is not the best description here.
asciilifeform: very occasionally (at least for white usians) - meagre payola from state ('food stamps', etc)
asciilifeform: i.e. people who have never shown any symptoms of earning one's keep
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they are proper lumpens
asciilifeform: recall tlp's piece re: how a history of normal employment is more or less a kiss of death in consideration for 'disability' pension
asciilifeform: folks outside of usadom rarely know just how much the handouts, 'safety nets', and other socialisms ~strictly~ exclude the non-lumpens.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: by the time it is 'for me', it will consist of a complimentary cyanide
asciilifeform: it is strictly, strictly for registered members of the lumpen castes.
asciilifeform: often this process takes the form of 'we will pay, but for amputation rather than treatment'
asciilifeform: or at the very least leave the diseased chump with $maxint bill
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: correctly-implemented gossipd is intrinsically ddosproof.
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: gossipd is a computationally very lightweight thing, and also does not suffer from network effect
ascii_field: r loads a lot of DLLs from the executable directory first, so by copying the vpndownloader.exe file from Program Files to a temporary directory and dropping an appropriately named DLL you can get code execution as SYSTEM.'
ascii_field: may live in comparative harmony without fear or threats or intimidation.'
ascii_field: of his time. It is important that each inmate follow the rules of the institution in order that all
ascii_field: 'Confinement in any institution such as Lewisburg is never a pleasant experience. Every attempt is
ascii_field: wywialm: pope has ~actions~ !?! who else, queen of denmark ? emperor of jp ?
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: he's a vat.-II-compliant pope
asciilifeform: https://www.realitykeys.com << atrocity, linked from earlier atrocity. apparently there is no shortage of attempted schemes to build this perpetuum mobile, the 'decentralized fact verifier machine'
asciilifeform: earch / auto-complete ("pre-processing"), we don't yet have a "central" nervous system to advise our decisions...'
asciilifeform: project for months, Peter Todd is actively reviewing it. Unlike 100% of all Bitcoin 2.0 projects, there have (so far) been no standing complaints from these elite-skeptics. Roger Ver, who has famously invested-in and donated-to some of the most promising organizations and experiments in the Bitcoin space (from original Ripple, to BitPay, to Purse.io), and ignored many others, has endorsed this project financially.'
asciilifeform observes that 'bugs' like this (if gaping hole in the chest of an idea can still be referred to as a 'bug'...) can live almost indefinitely long when there is a 'play money only' system such as ones mentioned earlier. simply because the 'unreasonable!11!!!11!!' folk with serious dough don't show up to clean their clocks.
asciilifeform: know what the crowning glory here is? no drug whatsoever in an ~actual free market~ could ever cost $100/pill. it costs less than this to pay ukraininan chemists to make $arbitrarycompound.
asciilifeform: rather than 'nuke intellectualpropertyism, dekulakize and publicly behead everyone who profited from its imposition'
asciilifeform: my current understanding re: the firm from the link is that it specialized in ultra-low-demand items for which there is unlikely to be competition from foreign generics. clever.
asciilifeform: consider, where other than pharma does cost have no impact whatsoever on demand ?
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282871 << the basic textbook example is mujahedeen in afghan.
ascii_field: important difference.
ascii_field: they ~are~ 'bitcoin companies' in the 'roach motel' sense
ascii_field: 'At DEC’s founding, the US Congress decided that the US government had bought too many computers, and decreed that no more would be bought until those machines already acquired were fully loaded. So DEC sold PDPs, not computers.'
ascii_field: fat compresses.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282504 << people complain about pharmaceutically-polluted chickens and now we are to eat ~THIS~ ?!! l0l!
asciilifeform: ^example
asciilifeform: this is true. but think of modern pharma, where one really ~does~ 'pick direction' in the sense that there are, say, 100M synthesizable compounds you can work with
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1282294 << selective breeding works, but is the exact opposite of what i meant - which was something more like a (hypothetical) electric implant that gives you iron determination at the push of a button
asciilifeform: i was about to say 'balls cannot be grown from empty space' but it is conceivable that the biological foundation of what we think of as 'willpower' could be discovered and played with
asciilifeform: 'the pie' implied some harvestable resource, no ?
asciilifeform: the really galling thing, to me, re: the 200mil sc4mz0rz, is that for prolly less than half of that, a sane man could build a perfectly serviceable chip fab in the pampas or the like
asciilifeform: 'We'd paid nearly $1 million in income tax on our profits for calendar year 1999. Not so bad considering that we built everything from a $10,000 investment.' << at the risk of cribbing from obama's 'you didn't make that company', greenspun... did not make that idiot dotcom gold rush!
asciilifeform: 'During the spring of 1999, for example, recruiting 5 hires would earn the employee a Honda S2000. Recruiting 10 employees would net a Ferrari F355. A trophy F355 in bright yellow was kept parked outside of the Prospect Street office in Cambridge to entice employees into recruiting. Later in the summer of 1999, as new management was brought on board, the policy was quietly changed to a lease of the cars, not outright ownership
asciilifeform: likewise, the most egregious retardation is shat forth by one specific consideration - backwards compatibility.
asciilifeform: for example.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1281874 << the absolute worst risk category for this kind of disease is to be involved in computing. because there, it is largely ACTUALLY TRUE that everyone is retarded.
asciilifeform: is life of a soldier, for example, a fail ?
asciilifeform: simply how it works.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-09-2015#1281876 >> http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3185426046243327@naggum.net.html >> 'There is much less intellectual dishonesty among people who aren't smart enough to make up a sufficiently large part of the world that they can live in it, and the bigger part of the world you can create inside your own head, the more important it is that you don't move into your own mind, but keep
asciilifeform: with couches, escritoir, tiffany lamps, etc.
asciilifeform: i see the point here, i think. the (private) 'crime and punishment museum' in d.c. - the one with the famous electric chairs - has an example of mafia don's cell
asciilifeform: this simply leads to a new trial.
asciilifeform: and if the judge catches a juror actively persuading others to nullify, he can try him for 'contempt'
asciilifeform: jury nullification is, contrary to popular belief, not really a thing in usa. not in the sense that it is impossible - it is certainly possible, on paper. but in practice verdict (in criminal cases) must be unanimous, and it never happens.
asciilifeform: all cp prosecutions are, without exception, exercises of 'lettre du cachet' powers. on account of the impossibility of proving otherwise, plus the lack of anyone giving half a rat's arse re: said proof.
asciilifeform: tions and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - what the code actually says and does. Particularly "criminal" - using a computer in the manner it itself allows to be used.'
asciilifeform: t be used and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - the woman in question. Particularly "criminal" at the time - using a woman in the manner she herself wishes to be used. Times have changed, women are now worthless, but computers aren't, and these same dead hand fictions propose anew : that they own all computers, that if you own a computer it's only a sublease from them, subject to furthering their regula
asciilifeform: and a separate tank for compressed air.
asciilifeform: 'computer' had stopped being a job title, but was still very much a ~place~
asciilifeform: *improvement over
asciilifeform: the micropayment thing has to be taken in context. it was 1960s and his vision was arguably an improvement of 'if you want to make money from thinking, have a job in usg academia'
ascii_field: (useless for any other purpose, and, importantly, specifically nonfunctional for conventional bitcoin)
ascii_field: now ~that~ was a quality chumpatron
ascii_field: 'your margins on bitcoin earned by selling digital goods and services with the 21 Bitcoin Computer are likely going to be much better than your margins from bitcoin mined with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. That is because the 21 Bitcoin Computer allows you to use bitcoin as a true digital currency for taking worldwide payment for your APIs. The mined bitcoin just provides continuous liquidity into the system. '
ascii_field: 'Yes, you can indeed make a profit with the 21 Bitcoin Computer. However, you would do so not by directly selling bitcoin, but by selling digital goods for bitcoin. That is, you are not going to get rich by immediately selling the bitcoin mined by the device for offline currency, but you can potentially do very well by selling digital goods and services to others for their bitcoin. ' << hilarious. worth a read, for the lulz
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