asciilifeform: something i can certainly sympathize with.
asciilifeform: aha, i for one reread when 'brain compiler' spews 'syntax error'
asciilifeform: ^ his attempt to address the question of gravitational collapse of maxint gold
asciilifeform: tether should clamp inductively on outside of bulb, rather than penetrating.
asciilifeform: also a bludgeon for those who fall out of favour (employers, that is)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: employers don't want to feed the mortgage, etc. bezzlatron. and this is perfectly logical.
asciilifeform: decimation: the original point was 'human compilers.'
asciilifeform: likewise, 'at the bottom' - on SR, SR2, idiot chumps' machines, etc
asciilifeform: 'USG. (Bitstamp and Coinbase)' << might wanna fix
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: wanna chip in, chip in for my coffin, should i ever end up in a position where forced to attempt the above.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i 'could' under same logic become an internationally-renowned violinist. or olympic athlete. or wtf else.
asciilifeform: elgamal signature was removed on account of very simple fact of having been successfully broken.
asciilifeform: the attempted point is that the h1b folks are quite analogous to 'zamac'
asciilifeform: voluntary-compulsory.
asciilifeform: proverbial example of 'big hand, small bounty' - don knuth and his typo cheques.
asciilifeform: on-demand flooding is also a varied beast. canonical example: 'hermitage' art museaum in leningrad. fitted with co2 tanks in the '50s. bell rings, you have two minutes to get out. after that, doors seal and 100% co2 atmosphere.
asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2lexl2/here_is_why_the_hash_rate_jumped_and_took_a_dive << 'miners can also have problems' !
asciilifeform: in mr o's docs, he specifically highlights 'unspell' being designed for folks who aren't u.s. subjects, but rather random people from the outer landscapes of the empire who 'know english' as written hieroglyph, but can't actually speak to one another except in a highly-castrated pidgin when they chance to meet
asciilifeform peeked, not impressed. must not understand how the world works (tm).
asciilifeform: the key to a functioning computer isn't that "everything is on your screen at the same time" << this is how i ended up with 4 screens (and counting...)
asciilifeform: not like this isn't a fool's errand anyway, if it's gonna clam up at block 250k << i actually have most of a patch for purely configurable block pumping. but shelved it and everything else for this reason.
asciilifeform: ^ possibly shortest interesting academpaper ever.
asciilifeform: http://francis.naukas.com/files/2013/05/dibujo20130521-counterexample-to-euler-s-conjecture-on-sums-of-like-powers1.png?w=584 << good mathlol
asciilifeform: and an advance fuckyou to anyone who might bitch, 'you whine about modeline vs. mode-line but you even want to switch to trinary computer and no existing soft.'
asciilifeform: note that classical 'k&r' variant of the language used a now-archaic function declaration style. that extant compilers have less than perfect support for.
asciilifeform: (had to be treated with care, crushed in specially designed compactor)
asciilifeform: both of the above historic examples also featured gas seal (piston pushed out bullet) and therefore silent.
asciilifeform: but - not compatible.
asciilifeform: a few years later, the company tried selling what was, at the time, an 'actually nice' computer - 'amiga.'
asciilifeform: last i knew, commodore-64 still held the record for the greatest number of a particular design of computer ever built.
asciilifeform: chicoms could be stamping'em out by the megatonne this friday if they wished it.
asciilifeform: ^ not turd. why? didn't have to run on toy computer in paupers' bedrooms.
asciilifeform: 'Bitcoin interests me as an obvious example of a technological jewel tossed around aimlessly by the brutal hands of cave men. I cant help but picture a flashlight or a radio set, left behind in the wilderness by geologists, to be picked up later by some Stone Age aboriginals; to be fought over and worshiped. Until the batteries run out.' -- your truly
asciilifeform: to bother with own computers.
asciilifeform: there were computers once, among the people of the east.
asciilifeform: people age, and empires - and the 'computer we know' isn't really a separate animal from the u.s. empire.
asciilifeform: and increasingly, 'hysterical raisins' became primary justification for all engineering decisions re: computer.
asciilifeform: for instance, in the '70s, when there was an understanding that a computer is purchased and comes with own os, and your own men will write literally everything else (often including os) that will ever run on it, until it goes to the scrapyard -
asciilifeform: and it takes a supercomputer, of a kind not even yet built, to write a word processor where there are no palpable delays when entering a character. if you believe microshit.
asciilifeform: cargo-cult imitation of real computer.
asciilifeform: decimation: this sounds like top-grade batshit to 'civilians', who don't normally understand how simple (from algorithmic standpoint) everything they usually want out of the machine, really is
asciilifeform: it means that even 'competent' c programmers are playing.
asciilifeform: don't look for the 'incompetent c contest.' it's right there on your desk.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actual shovel, like actual computer, is not field-portable.
asciilifeform: re: maths wot << it is important to understand why this happens.
asciilifeform: (just one example)
asciilifeform: although, on second thought, not sure if it was pumping the full 14.4. there's auto-rate in there.
asciilifeform: why would someone with a computer use a phone << dial-up from phonebooth in $turdworldshithole ?
asciilifeform: he can also 'be you' to any moron who isn't asking for pgp sig, and impersonate, and summon gasenwagen, etc.
asciilifeform: chetty: the only exception, really, is the 'pwned phone listens at all times' and 'pwned phone dumps www/mail logins to pwner'
asciilifeform: johntraveller: afaik his stepfather, usg diplomat, dragged him to several places around the empire
asciilifeform: 'shuddup and oil the compressor'
asciilifeform: in that sense, perhaps. but know that i left with the distinct impression that most of the folks standing for the final exam were masters of cribbing.
asciilifeform: 'mortification of the flesh' via 'compilers 4xx' and 'operating systems 4xx'
asciilifeform: (it blew my mind the other week when i noticed that these were being paid, by many folks in the crowd, with... something quite like actual monopoly money. issued by the state, it turned out, 'vegetable food stamps.' presumably these are redeemable for usd in some dark cellar at city hall.)
asciilifeform: the 2k does not include other bezzles. e.g., auto, without which it is flatly impossible to buy edibles much less earn anything
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it right re: the massive bezzle gifts, but notice that these aren't really handouts to the plebes - they only get to touch the money and feel warm inside for a few seconds, then they have to give it directly to real estate chumpmeisters or college racket
asciilifeform: the tax breaks mostly subsidize playing in chumpatrons like real estate
asciilifeform: mike_c: the current pNohe is entirely usable without a computer.
asciilifeform: what would, e.g., herr landau, have accomplished, if he had to occupy himself with teaching arithmetic.
asciilifeform: there is another 'secret' - and that is, that most folks who actually need 40+MP photographs in real life - astronomers, spies, biologists, weirdos like yours truly, etc. - own and operate own hardware. and don't actually need photographers.
asciilifeform: 'responsibility sink' is simply my shorthand for any apparatus which lets you 'make a decision' without putting your arse on the line as decision-maker.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: heroku << paulgrahamian vc chumpatron, iirc
asciilifeform: and not simply bureaucracy in the usual sense of the word.
asciilifeform: there is a reason why i say 'usaschwitz.' what's the actual problem, in most people's mind, with living in a concentration camp?
asciilifeform: 'inventor must be wealthy' works about as well as 'computer ought to be a cow.' wouldntitbenice.
asciilifeform: incidentally, this doesn't always work. witness the mindless regurgitators who shine in every academic chumpatron.
asciilifeform: undata: there, the implicit part is 'go reverse engineer'
asciilifeform: undata: glorious leader given the power... tends to turn it into a masturbation implement << straight to aristotle's 'politics' on what the pill here is.
asciilifeform: asking inventors to always 'independently wealthy' is like asking your computer to harvest all of its energy (and material to create additional parts) from the environment on its own accord. a 'would be nice' scenario, but there are good reasons why it is not practical. machines that can do this exist, they are called animals, and generally have their own problems that prompt people to invent less-general machin
asciilifeform: undata: just one specific example where devil is in the details.
asciilifeform: (in fact, specifically implied that it took place on a planet with slightly less retarded inhabitants than this one)
asciilifeform: i've spent most of a decade trying to extract some nugget of living matter from 'computer science'
asciilifeform: 'In most (though not all) cases, all a designer must do in order to implement an unfeature is to refrain from tying the users hands in a particular way.' - yours truly
asciilifeform: (linked earlier) feynman did some entertaining gedankenexperimentation re: how much energy must one actually piss away in order to compute something
asciilifeform: room for improvement.
asciilifeform: because mathematically impossible.
asciilifeform: you could use, for example, chinese ones
asciilifeform: one of the things pretty much no one (save possibly mircea_popescu) seems to comprehend is that bitcoin is, what old timers call - 'safety critical code'
asciilifeform: nic - similar. see example in 'bare metal os' (bsd license, iirc)
asciilifeform: disk - see example posted earlier (< 1 kb asm)
asciilifeform: the only devices a hypothetical bitcoin x86 os needs to comprehend is disk and nic
asciilifeform: ecc with amd cpu - almost impossible to obtain now. ecc on intel - on high-end 'xeon' boards.
asciilifeform: probably began by driving ancient hdd 'voice coils' directly with his amps...
asciilifeform: ('pio' - programmed i/o, mode of using standard 'ata' without dma. used by simple schoolboy operating systems for x86)
asciilifeform: sufficiently smart fs will compact runs.
asciilifeform: again, compress.
asciilifeform: can compress below fs layer, realize
asciilifeform: http://lh3.ggpht.com/-8kIGkSd5HlY/UFdBJkTZo-I/AAAAAAAAdLQ/oGTBToZyGR8/karni-mata-temple-6%25255B2%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800
asciilifeform: http://www.lovethesepics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pampered-rats-at-rat-temple.jpg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crab bus << reminds me of my consulting partner's tale of the rat temple in his home town
asciilifeform: my grandfather worked on a hydraulic computer. memory literally leaked.
asciilifeform: he has something grunted together that works almost like real computer
asciilifeform: incidentally, turd exhausts ram even if left to suffer in its attempt to fetch blocks
asciilifeform: because good native compiler.
asciilifeform: (rampant memory leakage is not 'works')
asciilifeform: the mostly-empty wiki?
asciilifeform: undata: earliest (lightest-weight, least lines of gavin) version that is known to be compatible with the extant net.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: these die during initial blockchain pumping
asciilifeform: well, only catch, have to jump out.
asciilifeform: fellas, i know, i have sympathy, when i was a boy i wanted to buy an airplane for 100 rubles too.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you want polished turd, buy a girl who knows cpp, 'valgrind', gdb, understands memory discipline, can implement bdb replacement ab initio, knows ecdsa mechanics, etc, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bdb locks initialisation issue << my current study suggests malformed txes in the mempool also.
asciilifeform: to finish off my 'sword into the stone' speech - yes, i can do this. (turd lathe.) but - if i were to put in the time required, the hour would soon come that i could not pay electric bill. and then s.nsa, and turdatron, will have to summon the gnome rumplestilskin to work in my stead. while i boil in whatever pot in hell moiety and pankkake are cooking in.
asciilifeform: and provided basic impetus for anyone who wishes, to take up the work
asciilifeform: presently i'm not getting the impression that anyone actually gives a sufficient fuck about this undertaking.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: '"Indirectly lost". This covers cases 4 and 9 (for the BBB blocks) above. This means that the block is lost, not because there are no pointers to it, but rather because all the blocks that point to it are themselves lost. For example, if you have a binary tree and the root node is lost, all its children nodes will be indirectly lost. Because the problem will disappear if the definitely lost block tha
asciilifeform: 'anyone important is always in a car' (tm) - remember
asciilifeform: important detail when you're in this type of 'funeral parade' every other day.
asciilifeform will however believe the noises of 'there cannot be just one great kingdom' when mr. p starts impaling anyone caught with winblows
asciilifeform: bounce: set up a cheap shop full of "coders" in pakistan, had them churn out cookie-cutter "apps" with other people's content << lemme guess, lost out competition to the fellow with same stolen appz, but plus malware
asciilifeform: gotta love modern spamatronic engineering terms like 'efficiency', 'reach.' they take arguments! but somehow always implicit - you can say 'reach' without saying 'reach what' ??! it's as if we were writing perl.
asciilifeform: 'but greater scams have greater scams, for their chumps to go on; and greater scams - yet greater scams, and greater ones, and so on...
asciilifeform: phone demo << http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest << ancient classic, no news
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'he turned off the light, so the room will be empty'
asciilifeform: 'any periodic noise that makes it through simply reduces the bits/byte number of the entropy and gets smeared out by subsequent whitening' << is he serious? gotta be trolling
asciilifeform: ^ important
asciilifeform: rather than simply assuming that i don't smoke crack
asciilifeform: who's the 'third leaker' who leaked the impalement of the second ?
asciilifeform: that or simply store hashes of msg
asciilifeform: and folks ask me wtf i mean when i say 'we don't have computers yet'
asciilifeform: iirc, chocolate plays important role in the lives of zoophiliacs...
asciilifeform: anyone willing to review patches - read, ponder, sign. jurov can dump it all in turdatron later.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strauss is a (now very old) man who was involved with some of the '70s derpistans (actual attempts at island 'nations' by american jokers). worth reading if only for zoological purposes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i posted enough re: rng that any kid could bloody well copy it. but no, must have 'improvements.'
asciilifeform: punkman: it'd be all-throughhole now if the components were actually available in that package.
asciilifeform: undata: in case this was not clear, complete design documents -and- rationales will be published (including in dead-tree form).
asciilifeform: undata: the only formally published aspect so far is a set of high-res photos. but it, plus everything i have said about rng, is ten times more than enough to recreate it for a determined and impatient student.
asciilifeform for some reason thought there were serial numbers in mpex commands
asciilifeform: onerng << there are two possible explanations for the above. one is that the author simply did not stop to think. and, well - the other explanation.
asciilifeform: 3) the asinine RF noise sampler can be switched off. but does its tuning oscillator also switch off?
asciilifeform: 1) what kind of dope must one smoke to put a micro under the tin can with the analogue amp ?
asciilifeform: onerng.info << this gizmo is interesting to me because it uses exactly one sane design decision (rf shield); resembles mine from a distance. but inside - uses every single design mistake which i rejected. to avoid 'empty words,' i will name a few.
asciilifeform: incidentally, is there any alternate hypothesis re: bitpay that does not involve it being a btc intake valve for usg's 'waterfall' dumpatron?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i may have said this in the past, but this is rather like my 'elephant procurement company' (gedankenexperiment)
asciilifeform: unrelated: https://archive.org/details/HowToStartYourOwnCountry << a little riot of a book. no-bullshit guide to (failed) attempts at ab initio sovereignty. (i met the author in person, incidentally. fun fella.)
asciilifeform: 'Asked what had happened to the $8.8bn he replied: "I have no idea. I can't tell you whether or not the money went to the right things or didn't - nor do I actually think it's important."'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good question! answer: packing it in such a way as to guarantee safe shipping would be prohibitively expensive. the man i bought it from, david schmidt (last symbolics employee) refuses to ship his remaining stock, after a multitude of DOAs.
asciilifeform: or even showed symptoms of having so much as smelled the book gas in kiczales et al
asciilifeform: the 'we embezzled 40 years of grantola from usg to pretend our fourth-rate mathematics is relevant to computing' folks.
asciilifeform: 'A character and its encoding are different concepts. An encoding and its (external) representation are different concepts. An external representation and the numeric values of whatever unit it is made up of are different concepts. By conflating all four concepts into one, Unix has held text processing and computing in general back several decades. This is fairly ironic, since Unix started out as a text proce
asciilifeform: because 'that's just how computer works, didntcha stay awake in school'
asciilifeform is not pleased that these are presently more widely supported than the complete ascii set. but it's a fact.
asciilifeform will sign own code (cardano) with 'will die by this' seal. will not sign other folks' code, unless compensated to actually put in the time to play 'reverse underhanded c contest.' << not cheap
asciilifeform will not be able to resist the temptation to build and test for free, but cannot promise to do this on a usably-frequent basis without compensation. is already doing rather many time-consuming things, not all of which bring in food.
asciilifeform: (the 'ddos mitigation' stuff, for example)
asciilifeform: 'closeouts and de-accreditations shall comply with the following procedures... Reset safe combinations to 50-25-50 and lock the containers.' << ahaha, default pw.
asciilifeform: like that spam template, yes.
asciilifeform: http://www.soufron.com/le-numerique-doit-il-etre-user-friendly-ou-recompenser-le-talent-et-lexperience << which one of you is responsible for this lul ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: but given things like obfuscated c competition << you were probably thinking of the 'underhanded c' competition.
asciilifeform: as i said, let's grunt out what happens if composite.
asciilifeform: (trivial example - 2^4 - 1 == 15.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: though it will further imperil folks who are enciphering on hardware without proper rng.
asciilifeform: though i'd succumb to the temptation of popping in to visit mr. tesla, possibly
asciilifeform: as per kakobrekla's stern warning some weeks ago, a full-bore approach (complete with future gallows) for shitgnomes has the flipside of needing to ensure against ending up swinging there by mistake.
asciilifeform: i own such a mouse, came with a prehistoric 'sun pizza box.' they have very little in common with modern optical mice - simply a pair of photodiodes and matching emitters
asciilifeform: i'll guess that he started with a clean satoshi-era snapshot - brought up to compatibility with extant network
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: numpad forever.
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps i should not have said 'mining' specifically. idea here is that once the buggers give up trying to destroy bitcoin, they will transition to employing any and all tools at their disposal - for robbery.
asciilifeform: at any rate, btc mining is the 'fulda gap moment' for all of these folks. all the shitgnomery corrupting, subverting computing mechanisms of every kind - suddenly, it all had a purpose.
asciilifeform: so far, there's been no reason for non-retarded people to care, because - we don't even have computers yet.
asciilifeform: the other thing happening is that the lizardmen will never pass by a good excuse to 'regulate' (ban) powerful general-purpose computers.
asciilifeform: not entirely unlike u.s. 'fee simple.'
asciilifeform: decimation: complicated.
asciilifeform: compressed.
asciilifeform: templeos << terry davis is a 'stainless steel rat.' just, a more skilled one than i am
asciilifeform: (who, it appears, believes that organized stampede is the answer. well, doesn't really believe it answers the puzzle, but thinks it wrong not to at least try)
asciilifeform: shoehorns are a neglected but important piece of infrastructure!
asciilifeform: champions of synaesthesia.
asciilifeform: but more important.
asciilifeform: i presently get my (and got the woman addicted likewise, when first met even) sprat fix from a german importer in wash. dc
asciilifeform: importers.
asciilifeform: although, i'll spill the one bean, that the point of my particular long-term 'fits in head' compaction for it, is to determine (for my own perverse pleasure) whether: it works.
asciilifeform: i simply didn't zap win32, left it for other folks
asciilifeform: as with my example
asciilifeform: jurov: important thing is that patches and sigs must stay married
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: point is not to simply disable flag, but to whittle down the turd bitwise
asciilifeform: http://www.tube-classics.de/TC/Klangfilm/EurodynAmps/KLV401/KLV401-1.jpg << nazi bitcoin node
asciilifeform contemplates mechanical ecdsa
asciilifeform: another game, invented by the same folks who brought us 'russian roulette' (imperial-era cavalry officers, bored out of their skulls) was called 'cuckoo'
asciilifeform wonders if this escapade will progress much faster than one could reasonably expect, on account of people like jurov, mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes - who actually use bitcoin 'in anger' - succumbing to the temptation to release some of their secret mods.
asciilifeform: '...since there're SO many Sega 64s floating around in the States and indeed, the world, there's probably many people alive today who wouldn't be if their governments could crack their secure messages. I'm told that at least two democratic revolutions were made possible, in part, due to PGP S-64. Right now, myself and several others are attempting to create a version of StegoSaur for the S-64. That one extra
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: north apple is best apple << that'd be soviet 'agat' computer ?
asciilifeform: how they could limit the balance << obvious! they watch the addr, if it's over limit - they pump out the excess, using privkey
asciilifeform: tempest horn doesn't have to belong to the crown.
asciilifeform: and wai wat, who ever said tempest needs to scale.
asciilifeform: done with automatics, usable by chimp, approx. the size of iPnohe (minus receiving horn)
asciilifeform: tempest.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re: your chronicles: 'importprivkey' is more or less inescpable (how the fuck can one do anything technological with the thing, lacking it?)
asciilifeform: i gave example.
asciilifeform: doesn't get any smaller or simpler than scuttling the obvious crud.
asciilifeform: amazing company.
asciilifeform: i always hated the emphasis on those
asciilifeform hopes that folks have the sense to think about the merits of the approach, rather than simply start doing it
asciilifeform: diff output of readelf or objdump if you give a damn why this happened
asciilifeform: or simply in a mail-to-other-folks process
asciilifeform: linked turd is fresh but includes only a simple turd excision - removal of qt
asciilifeform: that any system where the 'patient' sees a blurred boundary between the trivial and the absolutely impossible - will produce the learned helplessness.
asciilifeform: jurov: i want a single 'nixed qt' diff, for example.
asciilifeform: no complaints whatsoever, that i was able to find, about deleting bins.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, others: you must appreciate why this is necessary. it is direly important. our patch set must start with a known, traditional tree, and end with the end product.
asciilifeform: just preventing him (or rather, his chumpmeister) from fucking us
asciilifeform: ;;google when computers were human
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mempool ?
asciilifeform: this is yet another case of compounding failure.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: so far i got qt and ssl snipped. mega-triumph! lol
asciilifeform: rushed aside the serious espionage implications of having backdoors in CPE; believing that -- for whatever reason -- everyone has a right to choose what software is running on electronic equipment installed in their own home or office. Nevertheless, I am expected to appear in court in a couple of weeks...'
asciilifeform: '...This ELA technique is used to visually detect any conflicting compression levels in an "photo"; indicating composite fakery in an image... On 19 June 2014, in relation to discoveries published on my media fakery blog, my home in Shropshire was raided by six police/intelligence officers; only two of whom identified themselves. An undocumented quantity of electronics equipment, including modems, computers, me
asciilifeform: at any rate, no sc4mz0r, he, i've no complaints. house does exactly what was printed on the tin.
asciilifeform: (his 'fuckyoumoney' was, he said, actually just 'temporarily fuckyou' and had run through. his dependopotamus had birthed.)
asciilifeform: decimation: but he certainly sat in comp sci grad school long enough to suffer the braindamage which produced those monstrosities
asciilifeform: decimation: actually i must disagree. i followed mr mold's project since the day i ferreted out the semi-public dump where he kept it
asciilifeform: 'At the 1980 Olympics, Brezhnev begins his speech. "O!"applause. "O!"an ovation. "O!!!"the whole audience stands up and applauds. An aide comes running to the podium and whispers, "Leonid Ilyich, those are the Olympic logo rings, you don't need to read all of them!"'
asciilifeform: ze fuhrer says through his megaphone - whatever he is asked to say. for example, '38400 baud.' >> http://imgur.com/a/oZSiI
asciilifeform misses the mpoepr essays
asciilifeform: chumpnet node, snore
asciilifeform: decimation: what, precisely, would this accomplish?
asciilifeform: simple enough best, so there was no real need to make electron micrograph and laboriously reverse the mask
asciilifeform: decimation: if the chinese had simply copied the die, as folks often do, the vulnerability would be no surprise. but instead they reimplemented the thing bug-for-bug.
asciilifeform: *contemplating
asciilifeform peers into abyss, contempating evil assbot and gribble
asciilifeform: *not tempted
asciilifeform buried herr torvalds in his head long ago, 'and ordered cement poured to be tempted to dig up'
asciilifeform: 'arm'-compatible.
asciilifeform: at one point, chumpnet miners often went through tor
asciilifeform: people seem to forget why we even bought computers.
asciilifeform: 'A visitor received this implanted, false message today, promoting the market of certificates of authority and encryption. HTTPS fetishists are trying to coerce us into using the crappy security gambit. Ignore HTTPS monotheists. Online security promises are hokum. This is admitted on sec discussion fora. Pushers of HTTPS, Tor, crypto, secure drops are David Blaines.' (cryptome.)
asciilifeform: banks 24/7 << story. where i live, you can walk into the vestibule of a bank (where the atm often lives, on 'bad streets') using a magnetic card. implication is that it must be the bank's - but this is false.
asciilifeform: usually, entire floors empty.
asciilifeform: i give the library tidbit as an example of what, in my mind, 'not living as rat' involves
asciilifeform: rolled into that particular chumpatronic prize.
asciilifeform: here's a random example of what it costs to effectively think about problems in the physical sciences, without a Crown license.
asciilifeform: even the comparatively smaller undertaking i'm presently engaged in - still doesn't come cheap. (i speak of the tooling which i have not charged to the piggy, but also of the fact that i cannot convert btc to usd even for those portions where expenses invoiced. as previously recounted here.)
asciilifeform: 'fuck you money' is a very real item for which folks have a very real longing - because in fact, it is simply the desire to be released from workschwitz and arbeit macht frei.
asciilifeform: 'fuck you money,' if i recall, has the following etymology. the idea that if you came into $fuckyou, you could utter 'fuck you' to the boss at the plant tomorrow, and continue to live at least as well (consumption) as presently, indefinitely
asciilifeform: not as such, but at least suggest how the apparent unicorns are simply goats with horn glued on
asciilifeform: in those days, it was a kind of compressed 'crash course.'
asciilifeform: the digital computer is a beautiful dream. good and well, but you can't dream the dream without some 'meat' to dream it with.
asciilifeform: (how long it takes to fill your car? how long, on the road, to empty it?)
asciilifeform: how many times faster the spigot pours, than your fuel pump?