asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good example. but, not only must accept 'close enough', but go and try to get the answer out with reasonable speed.
asciilifeform: anyone who 'comes with a sword' - doesn't get his back. that simple.
asciilifeform: patent office specifically proclaims that employees are retained & promoted based on piecework (their term, 'production')
asciilifeform: implies (apologies to orwell) some actual relationship (if inverted) with fact.
asciilifeform: a 'classroom' example necessarily overdramatizes.
asciilifeform: graphical terminals for proles, while having an actual computer in your possession will be seen as rather like owning, e.g., a Kugelrohr.
asciilifeform: nintendo for the lumpen, lisp machine for man ?
asciilifeform: 'even entire free operating systems... ...existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggersyou could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.'
asciilifeform: e.g., 'log all the palmprints' means -all-, not merely the ones which didn't come with benjamins. or, alternatively - means all but the district attorney's, when he buys his dope.
asciilifeform: greendot << homeland severity compliant, long before its demise
asciilifeform: u. of md. used to have another one, kept in the car impound lot. but it must have broken down, was sold.
asciilifeform: https://chronicle.com/article/On-Campus-Grenade-Launchers/148749 << that tank was actually where claimed, i went in.
asciilifeform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampi%C3%A3o#mediaviewer/File:Degola_de_Lampi%C3%A3o_MB.jpg
asciilifeform still finds the picturesque scene in 'bird' implausible.
asciilifeform reveals that he has not, in recent times, succumbed to the temptation of connecting current to brain
asciilifeform: if controversy is manufactured from whole cloth, in empty space, then typically - both.
asciilifeform: 'A simple no in answer to questions regarding NSA involvement could end the controversy. The governments failure to answer generates a presumption that either no would not be a candid response or the prosecutors do not know the answer.'
asciilifeform: both belong to the state-god-emperor.
asciilifeform: re: container houses piece << classic chumpatron. put up steel container on empty lot to live in -> illegal, confiscated. bezzlamatic cuts costs for self by using shipping containers (painted to look like house) -> 'amazing company, innovators!'
asciilifeform: the example jurov (inadvertently) gave us - is instructive. someone succeeded in 'tefloning' the 'juvenile justice' thing before it entered his brain.
asciilifeform: as the anglo empires get swept from the stage, the bantustans they created with heroic strokes of pencil will go away. arabian, soviet, wherever.
asciilifeform: what you do << 'what do you do when a shell lands in your trench? jump up twenty metres and scatter yourself around.'
asciilifeform: your isp also may succumb to temptation to nudge a decimal.
asciilifeform: (or drunken impostor. don't lose keys, people will wonder.)
asciilifeform: pronounce as 'champions' for extra bite.
asciilifeform: homo chumpiens isn't meant to keep his iPnohe for longer than a year, or the like.
asciilifeform: decimation: not so much example for output (you can see that in 'man' page) but of where you might actually bother with profilers.
asciilifeform: hams use a 'flagpole' << think from this angle - any scenario where a gigantic antenna is a plus, it is also quite important that it be hidden from prying eyes
asciilifeform: though, if i recall, it concerned employment rather than real estate
asciilifeform: ;;google disparate impact
asciilifeform: it was example.
asciilifeform brings this up as example of something that you certainly, definitely, under threat of harsh punishments, could not get away with in allocation of american housing.
asciilifeform: doesn't have to be integrals. i just picked an example from 'captchas' used on some russian forums.
asciilifeform: cannot, for example, 'to buy property here you must solve this here single-variable integral.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'd be great, but would have to be deep in a forest, secret, with a stump for a chimney - just like during the war. because living in something that isn't a house is highly illegal in usa (unless part of a designated ghettoschwitz)
asciilifeform: mortages grow on gubermint trees << more complicated than this. no houses in the usual sense, near what remains of civilization in usa, are permitted to cost less than mid six digit.
asciilifeform saw, not impressed
asciilifeform: that was example of 'can't'
asciilifeform: didn't say - successful escape. attempted.
asciilifeform doesn't know the secret of the hypothetical, legendary 'motorized sleep.' but suspects that, just as eight cylinder engine is an improvement over the most skilled runner, there could be a means for improvement here.
asciilifeform: just as the example you gave, of stimulant abusers - most of the documented medical sequelae, afaik, are from extreme sleep deprivation...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall an experiment from the '70s where everyone who was placed in apparatus had seizure. from ordinary flash lamp - but not at the familiar 20hz which sets off known sufferers
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: for the latter, i never found a satisfactory setting where i could pronounce the old papers - replicated. but the usual idea is to set 100-200 Hz, square wave (some insist sinusoid instead), constant current (not constant voltage) output, and ramp up from zero.
asciilifeform: http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dsculley/tutorial/opamps/opAmpCurrentSource.JPG << like this.
asciilifeform used a constant-current amplifier
asciilifeform: ''There are straps for the hands here, for the feet here, and for the throat here, to tie him in securely. At the head of the bed here, where the man, as I have mentioned, first lies face down, is this small protruding lump of felt, which can easily be adjusted so that it presses right into the mans mouth. Its purpose is to prevent him screaming and biting his tongue to pieces. Of course, the man has to let t
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa, never such a problem. they'd simply confiscate houses, cars, mattresses of money, until shortfall vanishes.
asciilifeform: cazalla: a casino is an example of a controlled environment. no one comes remotely near a machine - a door, hell, a toilet - without being filmed from several angles
asciilifeform: did he carry out his traditional routine of attempting to speak local language ?
asciilifeform: doubt that there is anyone in usg that is empowered to use garotte << apparently they prefer limpet mines on auto and plane fuel tanks. perhaps they're also short on these ?
asciilifeform: xmj: complicated. imagine you happened to live near a fission reactor.
asciilifeform: the presumption of a totalitarian 'we' - that will 'fix things' once 'take control' - jumps straight out of the page.
asciilifeform feels like a chump, apparently works for russian foreign service for free, should demand pay
asciilifeform: but have some sympathy for poor dr. evil. he only has, what, half a dozen vans in a city. doesn't care to sift through every idiot playing 'quake' pissing in his sse regs.
asciilifeform: likewise compiler has the option of pissing out 'xor reg, reg' etc - clean up after yourself
asciilifeform: compiler can use 'fancy' instruction that does various things 'in one shot' - or can use ordinary i386-style fixint multiply, etc.
asciilifeform: but the cpu manual offers compiler writers the option of using 'our new exciting accelerator for 4096-bit chinese remainder theorem'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fundamental misunderstanding. machine does not know (unless it is fiendishly complicated, and elaborately trapped, perhaps) that you are doing, e.g., rsa.
asciilifeform: if your compiler does not respect 'volatile' - throw it out
asciilifeform: even then - can simply declare 'volatile'
asciilifeform: let's suppose that you cannot escape the sin of running crypto on a multiuser os with von neumann cpu (for sake of argument.) let's also suppose that you are stuck with a traditional 'C' compiler, and your work must remain portable (no inline asm)
asciilifeform: the poor beast promptly got run over by a bus.
asciilifeform: usg caught an alley cat, tamed, and implanted a listening device, then released (in moscow, i think)
asciilifeform: more like the olympic drugs.
asciilifeform: 'Recently I heard a story on NPR about a poor family that went around looking for discounted food items at various groceries and stopping at the food pantryin their own private minivan! And so here is a poor family that owns what in many parts of the world would amount to a bus company!' (orlov)
asciilifeform: not impossible - but difficult if work for a living
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: by now i'd imagine that assumption is SOP. but we're dealing with a vintage piece here.
asciilifeform: 'All Soviet interrogations are based on the assumptions that: (1) all prisoners are liars; (2) most Westerners can be bought; (3) those who cannot be bought can be broken; and (4) the process of breaking the prisoner can be continued as long as necessary to acquire the desired information.'
asciilifeform: compare with:
asciilifeform: lol! '5. Agents should not have been members of the armed forces of the United States nor employees of the United States Government. 6. Agents should be chosen from those persons who will not be logical internees of the enemy.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: empowering betas to be weird >> http://www.wired.com/2014/09/armys-new-laser-cannon-blasts-drones-out-of-the-sky-even-in-fog << e.g. this. yes, let's draw a ruler in the sky straight to own artillery position,
asciilifeform: physical Bitcoin << two-legged vacuum lamp half filled with gallium.
asciilifeform: 'They tend to show up late at parties because they figure they can always steal the cake anyway, so why bother go early ? Let the suckers figure out first - on their own dime - where the good cakes are, then just swoop in and collect... This means the only way they can get in is if you let them get in. Don?t let them get in for cheap - they have no business here.' (mp's http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollar)
asciilifeform: 'There once was a cyber attack; / The Chinese our network did hack. / Since arguably / Cybers WMD / Do you think we should nuke them right back?' << actual example from usg's limerick contest. (http://cryptome.org/2014/09/natsec-thesis.pdf)
asciilifeform: '...served as chairman of the board of Wiscraft Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping blind people find employment in manufacturing.'
asciilifeform: http://www.workingbase.com/project/Design-and-Build-a-Website-for-a-Law-Enforcement-Product.3052162.html << and the company site...
asciilifeform: https://www.freelancer.com/contest/Design-a-Logo-for-a-Police-Product-67956.html << and apparently he 'crowdsourced' the company logo...
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: no. think - simplicity. no seat, sharpened seat-post. stakebike.
asciilifeform: '(S//REL) Covertly, IC agencies form front corporations to participate directly in the market and emplace spyware that detects speculative tradinga leading indicator of systemic risk in this market. The findings help the United States build international support for stronger oversight.'
asciilifeform: 'NSA's multicultural workforce can be challenging for a supervisor, with separate rules for dealing with military, civilian, and contractor employees. As the Agency has moved to a 50-50 military/civilian mix, this challenge has only grown...'
asciilifeform: 'Dear Zelda, (U) I'm new to the agency and I'm also a young employee (in my late 20s). I have noticed that the older managers/supervisors think that we don't have the skills/knowledge/potential to run this agency in the near future. I heard them saying that. They tend to stereotype/discriminate without knowing our intelligence and fresh knowledge. What can we do to make them think differently? Thanks, Younger Sk
asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/09/nsa-ask-zelda-14-0828.pdf << mega-lol. nsa printed its 'employee etiquette q&a' column.
asciilifeform: there was more life here at the height of mp's april party, even.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if enemy died when you said 'bang! yer dead' life'd be a lot simpler, yes.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we call this 'добровольно- принудительно' ('voluntary-compulsory')
asciilifeform: u.s. presidential car is an infamous laughing-stock - broke down recently in england (?) and they had one hell of a time finding a shop that would attempt repair
asciilifeform: the other pertinent 'psychiatric' observation here is that the waste decried in the airplane piece is - mandatory. consider - in savage tribe where, e.g, hats are worm, chieftain might have longest hat. or he might get the choicest slice of long pig, whichever. in 'consumption' tribe - modern usa - what badge of rank for royalty?
asciilifeform: these folks actually picture themselves as 'chinese emperors', with 'forbidden city' conjured up anywhere they like.
asciilifeform: re: story with airplanes: i once saw something quite like this in life. was in wash., d.c., and an entire sixteen or so blocks were barricaded off, no one knew why. some days later, newspapers triumphantly described dick cheney's dinner at a certain restaurant in middle of said place.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is not just about depriving you of knobs to turn. the hearniators must clear some ground to emplace their hearnias - this requires demolishing some very well understood, traditional widget, so that it -must be replaced, dontcha know, it's obsolete-.
asciilifeform: this is also applicable, in theory, to any other people who would simply hammer a wot, were they to build one, to copy exactly their existing hierarchies
asciilifeform: if pumped through 'google translate' - all bets are off
asciilifeform: people have asked me why haven't escaped, and i answer 'i haven't $xx mil.' to which, eyes bug out, and i have to explain 'a real escape means retrieval is not simply legally, but militarily uneconomical.'
asciilifeform: it's interesting how people ask questions that have this bizarre presumption of sameness baked in
asciilifeform: 2-3k usd is chump change for folks who can otherwise afford to escape, though
asciilifeform: happens also at computer shops, yes
asciilifeform: f this trend continues, we may soon see homeopathic computer repair. Perhaps it will consist of adding a virus to a program, deleting the virus, and then running the program. You may soon be able to take your laptop to a faith healer, who will lay his hands on the keyboard and pray for the recovery of the operating system. Is this the future of computing? Or can we instead build on the idea that a computer progr
asciilifeform: i always use the term 'calmed down' for these people. starting from having played 'half life', where there is a scene of an einsteinesque white coated figure who gets an alien 'headcrab' jump on his head. it takes roots, he struggles for a while, then 'calms down' and ambles on as zombie.
asciilifeform: aha empty carapace
asciilifeform: symptom.
asciilifeform: (as if this needed repeating - but for completeness - don't keep sensitive non-public material on 'nexus' or similar machine.)
asciilifeform: decimation: can't fix with money. soviet professors rolled in cash (compared to most other occupations.) this just attracts poseurs.
asciilifeform: this, as i understand, is why schwartz never made any attempt to raise funding
asciilifeform: but to even begin the kind of work it would take to 'technologize', is an investment that no one would remotely contemplate without the kind of proof that can only be obtained after his enemies were to give in.
asciilifeform: decimation: adelberger, for example, would have to perform seppuku - and all of his students, and their students
asciilifeform: i recall mircea_popescu even used this tale as an example in an essay
asciilifeform: if you want the needed accuracy - it's rather more complicated.
asciilifeform: al schwarts published a possible recipe for room temperature supercon - afaik, it was ignored.
asciilifeform: e.g., home 'mri' scanner plus some fairly simple image processing.
asciilifeform: room temperature supercon is a box of surprises.
asciilifeform: heat loss in conductors isn't terribly critical << consider why virtually all present-day applications of low temperature superconductors is in high-strength magnets.
asciilifeform: room-temperature superconductors << unless we all perish in laser pistol duels.
asciilifeform: to go back to the example with coins - you're probably safe if you melt them down and sell by gram
asciilifeform: upon reading of that contract, i came to inescapable conclusion that the box thing is an active chump-magnet rather than simply a poor deal.
asciilifeform: divorce << probably the worst possible use of a bank box in usa. other tidbit in the contract was that the bank will immediately impound any box against whose owner there are civil proceedings
asciilifeform: implication, to me, was - if you're happy with the box, take your goodies and post them straight to the enemy - at least then you'll know where they are.
asciilifeform: hence the sea capsule example. for some classes of object (nuke?) this might be cost-effective storage.
asciilifeform: hold territory - sure. impale enemies - yes. bury treasure - why ?
asciilifeform: seems like we've this one nailed down. now, implementation... 'exercise for alert reader.'
asciilifeform always found it interesting that people whine if they try to use his computer, but never think to borrow eyeglasses and then complain
asciilifeform: afaik patent trolls succeeded in more or less exterminating acceptable compression for scanned books. djvu was devised by folks who didn't care to comply.
asciilifeform: the americans, for some reason unknown to me, pre-empted this project by destroying own industry.
asciilifeform: not simply as a hiding place, but as the weapon
asciilifeform: no need for this. a simple strobe light should suffice for night search.
asciilifeform: decimation: something was left in the Box on last authorized entry, and was found to be missing on the next entry, will not create a presumption that it was lost << conclusion: bury your goods in the forest. fuck bank.
asciilifeform: must assume this happens, whether 'tor' or simply playful isp / backbone operator
asciilifeform: example:
asciilifeform: back to subject - imho btc client is 'safety critical code' - but none of the existing implementations rise to even the most basic standard for such.
asciilifeform: decimation: when 'better compiler' sits on 'same old cpu' - yes
asciilifeform: for your puzzle, famous example - http://code.google.com/p/corkami << grep for 'polyglot'
asciilifeform: not only google, but apple, and microshit before them, turned away from traditional 'gcc' suite and proclaimed elaborate crud in its place. i could only ever assume - for ease of 'thompsoning' people.
asciilifeform: many american 'public' unis publish complete lists of who's paid what - where i live, this is required by law
asciilifeform doesn't read scans on normal computer
asciilifeform: would require more than a simple electrical mod
asciilifeform: compared to a distant ground, yes
asciilifeform: (nice thing about 'djvu' is that it automagically decompresses to whatever your native device resolution is, with no scaling op. hence speed.)
asciilifeform: (djvu is the canonical b00k w4r3z format - wavelet compression)
asciilifeform: or, the traditional explanation for how italy went from an interesting place to pesthold (unification. warring states - think. unified empire - stagnates)
asciilifeform: where a well-born (though not always - gotta have the lumpenbait) hack is carefully groomed, lipstick is put on the sow, is heavily advertised, 'a star' is made
asciilifeform: purpose is to 'wash' the bezzlars and maintain 'merit' illusion for the lumpens to swallow
asciilifeform: (idea of pumping the ionosphere to solve the 'mains socket in your pocket' problem is quite old. dates to at least n. tesla.)
asciilifeform once inhabited an office with a mostly complete set of haarp manuals
asciilifeform: (rumour has it that it was obsoleted by a clever satellite downlink employing laser)
asciilifeform: decimation: the more interesting thing is the belief that 'compliance' will save them from gasenwagen
asciilifeform: whatever has the serial number stamp is 'the rifle'
asciilifeform: (new dump engine...)
asciilifeform: 'Bit Drop project' << aha the old tired african chumpatron. lay siege to some pisshole, make 'international' stink, food is dropped from bombers. drive off would-be eaters at gunpoint, collect the crates, sell.
asciilifeform: what continues to astound me is the meticulously tended garden of a parallel universe where this discussion isn't happening, a 'computer' means 'wintel box', 'bitcoin economy' means 'coinbase' and 'bitpay', etc. - carries on just so. with the glossy magazines, free newspaper publicity 'so plentiful they can eat with their arses', etc.
asciilifeform: but, to complete the metaphor - it ever hopes to birth the mythical beast that will save it.
asciilifeform: mandatory 'V2V' << if the bureaucrats simply wanted to enable self-driving cars in dense city traffic, optimized stoplights, etc. - they could mandate a simple radio beacon in tail light lamps (screw-in replacement.) doubt there'd be mass protest - it'd be a machine-vision-friendly version of the light cars are traditionally required to emit anyway. but (no prizes for guessing) - 'V2V' is not about automatic car
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: magnet company << 'bucky-balls'
asciilifeform: echo on impedance mismatch - basic physic
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: with simple tools, one can theoretically make everything (with possible exception of lead screws) for nicer set
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: herr vanunu: archetypical example of 'can have problems'
asciilifeform: normally when people contemplate 'superintelligent' whatevers, if they use their imagination well, the machine is to us as we are to the bacterium
asciilifeform: if you (org.) want to keep secrets, the menu is roughly: a) employ incorruptible fanatics b) keep all henchmen incommunicado, in 'шарашка' prisons c) there is no 'c.' tertium non datur.
asciilifeform would ask for the ads, if he had any reason to think that some weirdo would bid enough right away to recompense for 'my site ever had ads'
asciilifeform: which is not to say that one could not, hypothetically, compute a numerical solution to something-or-other by tossing balls.
asciilifeform: decimation: catch a ball << bad example. when high-speed photography appeared, people learned that man (and dog, and circus lion) do not catch balls by computing integrals, but through 'bang-bang correction'
asciilifeform: bats_cd03: that is - the implicit endorsement of the pseudoscientific concept of 'random'
asciilifeform: which brings us back to >> I suspect that the number of USG employees who understand money is too small to coordinate a mass bitcoin theft << does one need to understand the structure of Au atom to plunder gold coins ?
asciilifeform: !s chumpatronics
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what fascinates me is how many people whine about 'slow' without saying precisely why they want 'fast', and while remaining entirely innocent of basic kindergarten-level gotchas like 'lamport's clock'
asciilifeform: re: electronic warfare article - the conflation between garden-variety signal jamming and 'emp' circuit zapping is inexcusable and a classic leper's bell of journalistic hacks
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: how is the 'impressions' figure generated ?
asciilifeform: the russian 'pinnockio' - 'буратино' - is an almost totally different thing. a kind of parable about chumpatronics (esp. in the animated musical rendition)
asciilifeform: complete with aliens, death rays.
asciilifeform: herr handle, incidentally, is employed as (not a secret) a lawyer.
asciilifeform: aha the olympics thread
asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment time. go to your workbench, pick some precious, rare, instrument - and contemplate what 'most people' would do with it.
asciilifeform: surely someone is campaigning to have meth brought back to the masses.
asciilifeform would love to buy a (yes) bowdlerized compendium of taleb, with all the annoying 'i'm the strongest man alive, grasp my throbbing cock!' crapola snipped out.
asciilifeform: example: pediwik page for nsa 'type a' - gone.
asciilifeform pictured 'complaint' wankers, rather than nsa
asciilifeform: he confuses the shoddy nature of modern computers with bitcoin as a technology, which can and will exist independently from today's crap-o-soft << this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://polimedia.us/trilema/2013/in-which-we-discuss-datskovskiys-discussion-of-mpex << here i think
asciilifeform: BlueMeanie4: 100% have elevators. 'disability act' compliance.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu maryland excepted. i have nfi idea what it's even for << it's where they keep ft. meade. (largest employer, largest consumer of mains current, per public stats.)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: ottoman empire << 'the sultans' (n. barber)
asciilifeform: or simply need to 'have problems'
asciilifeform: van allen belt, incidentally, is what becomes the 'dynamo' for a nuke's emp burst.
asciilifeform: now he's a living 'tilt mode' and campaigns for... unionizing programmers ?
asciilifeform: how to maintain full employment on the cheap? how about jacqueries.
asciilifeform: general principle - if usa cannot maintain full employment for career trigger-pullers - collapsatron revvs up in record time.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: article: taiwan is an interesting case of what i like to call a 'refrigerator' - pocket of thermodynamic dis-equilibrium kept going via outside energy (in its case - u.s. imperial navy)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: re: electrochemical machining: if you do the obvious thing and run it backwards, you can deposit metal. but you'll have to temper the finished product.
asciilifeform: collapse of mega-empires and even pre-collapse deterioration of industrial base tends to favour a return to classical arms, however.
asciilifeform: folks who spend a good deal of time at target practice complain about the fouling (no jacket.)
asciilifeform: the .22 (for non-usians, the familiar 'olympic' caliber) rifle is also explained by cost: roughly 1/2 - 1/3 of a 'proper' m16. low pressure round, can use garbage metals.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: we had actual program-writing (os, compiler, busloads of data structure crud, etc.)
asciilifeform: he expects no impact to the satellites planned design life of 14 years.... he says. We put enough fuel onboard to pretty much fire those thrusters continuously. << 'folks who won't do arithmetic are doomed to talk nonsense' (j. mccarthy)
asciilifeform: electricity is still sold by the watt << most humans don't have 1000 amp feeds, hence 'no hurry' observation.
asciilifeform: 'check out our other installments, such as Balanced Trinary Computing and Electrically Induced REM Sleep.'
asciilifeform: if clever, emplace a magnetic field of the appropriate geometry around the fluid intake/return channels, so it is propelled entirely electrically. if even more clever, emplace a system in the reservoir to re-separate the metal from the electrolyte.
asciilifeform: on account of your electrolyte being, by definition, conductive - you can pump it electrohydrodynamically.
asciilifeform: these unfortunates, who, one can surmise, don't know russian, neglected the detail that one must pump the electrolyte.
asciilifeform: the students are asked to simply memorize the book of, e.g, organic reactions.
asciilifeform: the computer has no idea what, if anything, was actually cut - and hwo
asciilifeform: turing-complete << this brings up another interesting observation - none of today's machine tools give the computer any feedback, beyond slide end-stop sensors
asciilifeform: decimation: g-code << it's just simple coordinate motions, with some commands to specify tool changes, splines, etc. what would you have them use?
asciilifeform: try this with an ordinary drill! (without annealing to destroy knife's temper)
asciilifeform: it is more or less impossible to anneal (and, opposite, harden) all but the smallest objects in 'jungle conditions'
asciilifeform: if you're fine with waiting a year for the, e.g., pistol, draw 1 amp instead of 1000.
asciilifeform: diode logic is a complete logic, incidentally.
asciilifeform 'east cost corporations' << had the distinct impression that most of the people here never had to walk the u.s. большая зона
asciilifeform: '
like a refugee from very rural Pakistan who gets relocated to Oslo, Norway, and still thinks that he could make better food if he were only allowed to light a fire in his living room instead of using that complex electric stove. (This is a real news item. Every now and then, landlords discover indoor fireplaces and occasionally the newbies to civilization burn down the building.)' (herr naggum)
asciilifeform: if we actually get the tech for rural non-simpletonism (keep own pigs -and- bake own 14nm cores) - we'll learn
asciilifeform wonders when ocean fiber reamplifiers will begin to include a few kg of trotyl with motion fuse, for meddlesome buggers
asciilifeform: ^ beautiful example of u.s. media hush campaign. vanished entirely from nearly everywhere within days of first mention.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to fully visualize the logical conclusion of that gedankenexperiment, picture if one could subsist entirely on the output of a 'desktop garden' under a fluorescent lamp.
asciilifeform: DERP << still waiting for some muppet to start a company selling bottled piss or the like, and labeled 'bitcoin'
asciilifeform: 'Lithium ion batteries blog up if they get wet or bumped.'
asciilifeform: like the doomed office plankton jumping from a burning skyscraper, they don't much care where they land.
asciilifeform: implementation - an exercise for alert reader.
asciilifeform like probably everyone else, contemplated the mathematical curio of a 'panic key' that irreversibly destroys coin (in a hypothetical 'btc 2.0' apparatus, naturally)
asciilifeform: but if you compare folks carrying on in exactly the same profession, the pay is similar
asciilifeform: most of the contractors are hired for a fixed salary, agreed on before-hand, as if they were normal employees
asciilifeform: even today, buying the kind of insurance available for a token fee to civil service folks or employees of large concerns - costs 1-2k usd / month if you do it 'as a human'
asciilifeform: 'contractor' here means actual contractor, vs. proper full time employees of private firms who bid on federal contracts
asciilifeform: proper employees, that is. contractors get zip.
asciilifeform: there is a third option, that i'll bring up for completeness because it appears to be very popular these days: piss in a paper cup, write 'beer' on it, drink up.
asciilifeform: more recent example - ussr, collectivization
asciilifeform: MolokoDeck: probably simplest solution: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1490 -- but can be trivially improved on.
asciilifeform: let's give example from outside of cryptology
asciilifeform: this is almost convincing re: the impossibility argument. but suppose the goods isn't a generic rsa pill, but something more akin to nuke. that is, oppenheimer & friends didn't run off to an island and form own kingdom, because their 'jewel' required astonishing resources to put into action (industrial empire) and not very useful on their own, on paper
asciilifeform: so, continuing with this lemma, the 'guard' is an impossibility because, were he to exist, he could trivially order his supposed superiors to disappear forever up their own arses, should he wish this?
asciilifeform wasn't there, didn't personally boot carter - or gorbached - from the goodies vault. but tale is plausible. compartmentalization of 'fun secrets' is generally easy because of the miniscule number of qualified thieves - that is, folks who apprehend the true value of the goods.
asciilifeform: 'lizard king' perhaps should be understood as 'set of remaining competent commanders'
asciilifeform: jurov: perhaps i implied that a literal 'lizard king' lives. this is not a necessary hypothesis for a cryptologically-strong usa
asciilifeform: i bet that eth dump could've bought some talent.
asciilifeform: re: user interface << a 'clean ui' doesn't mean what people often think it means. e.g. a lathe has three knobs. what could be simpler. and yet.
asciilifeform: decimation: it's pretty simple, at least with regard to the basics
asciilifeform: 'The debtors, of course, had no way of knowing who actually owned the debt. Nor did they have any reason to suspect that they might be paying thieves. They were simply being told they owed the money and had to pay.' << why should the wretches care - which thief ?
asciilifeform: (hypothesis, straight from My Arse (TM) : usg 'spent' S SR coins to buy kS 'clean' coin, for some positive k > 1. these were dripped into 'eth' and are now being dumped.)
asciilifeform: everybody dumps his doughnuts, cops and rioters alike
asciilifeform: re: microwave blaster: raytheon's pumps out 95 GHz. --> ~3mm wavelength. don't have pinholes in the suit.
asciilifeform: 'nexus 10', for example, is just right for reading vintage djvu scans of 'наука и жизнь'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the chess example, or its life version with debt, etc. is really a play on 'hilbert's hotel'
asciilifeform: that is, it doesn't matter that the well is -EV if expendable slaves are pumping by hand
asciilifeform: e.g. oil well that needs more joules to pump than you get out - is abandoned
asciilifeform: chetty: cave man (or airplane man) is not an automatic born champion at saying 'no'. which is how we got 'the state' to begin with.
asciilifeform: ers tells which key was pressed... Its corrosion resistant, impervious to the environment, and yes it will work underwater.'