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asciilifeform: decimation: if the indians graduating from u.s. schools agreed to live 10 to a room in a dormitory, instead of 250k/yr in chumper town (see http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-04-2014#606968) they might get hired in place of the imported coolies.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'.
asciilifeform: hanbot: about the size of a compact car.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: 2btc offer for complete xyz frame and analogue components.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: sure. i could have parts machined. but, on top of being a miser, i'm rather impatient.
asciilifeform: mpex modem << as i recall, reliability of net connection is not an issue at mpex
asciilifeform: decimation: the marginal kids get herded by their family into a kind of boot camp where they get trained, like animals, to jump through the burning ring
asciilifeform: http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/dev_random.html#update_5 << linus on rng, for anyone who hasn't already read.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: still pales in comparison to the mp3 CAN bus hack: http://www.itworld.com/security/139794/with-hacking-music-can-take-control-your-car
asciilifeform: mathematics, systemantics, chumpatronics, polemology, psychoceramics.
asciilifeform: mike_c: i vaguely recall some joker who wrote a complete 386 pc emulator in about 1k of perl. that's the kind of thing being spoken of, i think.
asciilifeform: the notion that every male of the species can turn into mircea_popescu by effort of will is, at the very least, misguided. i catch quite a bit of crap for insisting that virtually everyone can, e.g., learn mathematics - so i sympathize. but it's still mistake.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's almost like you read a guide to survival in the arctic, and said 'wtf is this nonsense, just take compass and march south'
asciilifeform: now the interesting part. as i recall, the company in palahniuk's comedy actually exists...
asciilifeform: 'I ask him, Why sometimes not? “The way this works is we copyright every conceivable combination of words, Greek words, Latin, English, what-have-you. We get the legal rights to every conceivable word a pharmaceutical company might use to name a new product. For diabetes alone, we have an inventory of one hundred forty names,” he says. He hands me stapled-together pages from out of his briefcase in his lap.
asciilifeform waits for shortwave-mpex
asciilifeform: decimation: knuth was, in fact, wrong. there are inadequacies in a pseudorandom sequence of whatever variety that do not concern cryptography at all. see, for example, this - http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-03-2014#574674
asciilifeform: as to how an enemy might proceed to put this hypothesis to actual use, see example of 'satcoin'.
asciilifeform: simply by the fact of the hash being in use
asciilifeform: likewise, given that (by design!) a 'cryptographic' hash will be computed in such a way that every bit of the input affects every bit out the output,
asciilifeform: rng designers very often succumb to the temptation to 'inflate' their output using a hash
asciilifeform: classic example of u.s. armies scoring own goal for (somehow) good pr.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moscny lived in usa. 'flood' is to be understood here to be the 'fundamentalist' one, complete with mandatory drowning dinosaurs.
asciilifeform: not that it is impossible in principle - the tech simply isn't there yet.
asciilifeform: when strain gauges and computers became a thing, this was no longer necessary
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: why? you have an example of the item i posted ad for ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mostly because they tend to get discovered close to an empire's peak complexity (i.e. collapse prelude)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov is an incorrigible believer in an impending pollutionocalypse.
asciilifeform: these folks will indeed 'upgrade' any computer they're left alone with to 'pink and round.'
asciilifeform: just like - for example - orlov will delete any comments inquiring about what kind of arms, if any, are to be found aboard his ship
asciilifeform: mpex still building ?
asciilifeform: decimation: likewise, if doubt arises regarding some component, it can be removed, examined, replaced with nominally identical one
asciilifeform: 'В лототроне не должны использоваться процедуры, реализующие алгоритмы, которые позволяли бы предопределять результат розыгрыша призового фонда до начала такого розыгрыша.' ~= 'a lottotron must not employ procedures implementing algorithms which would permit a pre-de
asciilifeform: ^ notice he says 'лототрон' ~= 'lottotron.' the original, in fact, 'лохотрон' - chumpatron.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: yes.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: yes, i do a fair bit of non-x86.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: don't misunderstand - if there were an actual substitute, and it only ran under, whatever, ultrix, that'd count
asciilifeform: the decompiler appears to be mostly worthless. and the tool runs only under mac os.
asciilifeform: copumpkin: yes. seemed like a joke (at least in comparison)
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: the issue isn't whether one likes it, but whether any practical substitute (other than 'objdump' and 10-100x the time/sweat) exists.
asciilifeform: many people write, e.g. a 'mips' (or other small instruction set) emulator and cross-compile for it. when you get hold of one of these, you can just extract the turd and disassemble using toolset for that cpu.
asciilifeform: Rassah: wait. you expect that your target market consists of people who would even contemplate buying a knockoff ?!!
asciilifeform: Rassah: your friend has cemented my conclusion. i can figure out which cells are responsible for the device's output, merely by knowing your room temperature over time. and then all we have to do is run brute force over the narrowed set. (a few bits)
asciilifeform: Rassah: 'Skew shift is monotonic with respect to temperature. If an increase in temperature makes a neutral cell become 1-skewed, then decreasing the temperature will make that same cell 0-skewed.' << fixed bad paste
asciilifeform: Rassah: ergo: if i have a sufficiently precise graph of the temperature of your unit over time, i can infer something about the sram and which cells are responsible for the bulk of the input to rng.
asciilifeform: Rassah: 'Skew shift is monotonic with respect to temperature. If an increase in temperature makes a neutral cell become 1-skewed, then decreasing the temperature will Fig. 11: This contour shows the probability distribution at 273 K and 323
asciilifeform: Rassah: but all of this pales in comparison to another little observation. recall pg. 10 of the paper.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: comput von neumann of '0101010101'.
asciilifeform: Rassah: hashing as an attempt to 'distill' entropy.
asciilifeform: Rassah: other question. in my own experiments, i found that sram powerup 'static' depends heavily on the die's temperature.
asciilifeform: 'swamp donkey' << lol! apparently a usg version of 'cryptolocker'
asciilifeform: the 'ddos mpex' script is probably in there.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, benkay: 'linux rifle' << when i first heard of this gadget, first though was 'why is it fired by electromechanically-controlled trigger weight and not simply electrical'. turns out, electrical firing is banned in usa.
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: / msg NickServ REGISTER password youremail@example.com (to freenode, obviously not in channel)
asciilifeform: Xplosionist: simple: first, ';;gpg eauth yourname' - then, 'wget -q -O - http://bitcoin-otc.com/otps/YOURKEYID | gpg -q --output - --decrypt' and paste result into ';;eauth resultgoeshere' (msg to gribble)
asciilifeform: re: 'performance enhancing' dopes - important to remember that, even supposing performance enhanced, it matters who you were. e.g. paul erdos will crap out theorems, a hooligan will be able to break that many more windows, a lunatic will rant longer and more vigorously, etc.
asciilifeform might have to break down & pay an importer
asciilifeform suspects that itanic was a 'lock-in play' - intel hoped that no one else could write a decent compiler for the chip. but what ended up happening was - for ages, gcc was the only working itanic toolchain...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the famous 'itanic' used an approach called 'vliw' - 'very long instruction word' - where the compiler was expected to fill up the pipeline manually, avoiding 'hazards' (instructions fighting over a resource, e.g. register or memory)
asciilifeform: so it's a reasonable presumption. no, i don't have the manual for the new one.
asciilifeform: BayAreaCoins: if this were so, he could simply keep his coldwallet in a bank deposit box (or some number of them, via shamir's algorithm)
asciilifeform: (not only for pleasure, but to absorb impact.)
asciilifeform: 'All of the mechanical stuff on this unit is from the 80's (When the mechanical stuff was great because the computers sucked)' << re: earlier discussion of power supplies.
asciilifeform: 'The "extra" pinchers are attached to a LCR meter for the machine to "measure" each component before it put it down! You wont find that on the $5K Chinese machines!' << had no idea this existed. anywhere.
asciilifeform randomly wandered into an old book store last night, saw a textbook on romanian language. every chapter opened with some example of torments from the 'russian yoke.'
asciilifeform: if i were to attempt it again, i'd probably just machine a copper plinth in which the mobo can live, upside-down, with fins on bottom side.
asciilifeform: artifexd: there's probably a golden mean here. a real 'saint' with a dynamometer wrench probably could've tightened the clamps exactly enough.
asciilifeform: artifexd: mine had hose clamps on all joints. theory - clamping deforms the barb, you leak anyway.
asciilifeform: 'uber' is just another in a long line of chumpatrons which work by persuading some chumps to make idiotic business decision, and packaging/selling the result to other chumps
asciilifeform: wouldn't the increased fiat pull of btc today compensate? e.g. for 30k btc one can build an actual skyscraper - which proceeds to fall...
asciilifeform: nobodies who got in in 2013... meagre disposable income already made it impossible for them to matter << not so simple. chumpatronic engineers, malware artists, etc. who got in 2013 (or even today) can still accumulate enough to build plenty of falling skyscrapers
asciilifeform: somehow i can't picture the folks buying 500 usd robot legs sitting on mpex
asciilifeform: likewise - any idiot can compile a doctored sshd.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: compared drive firmware before & after ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: techs and spooks << anybody dump the hdd firmware ?
asciilifeform: language with no macros, where chump can't fix this omission himself: herp, derp, and... zerp ?
asciilifeform: of the GRU have a particular dislike of Western nuclear power stations, which reduce the West's dependence on imported oil (including Soviet oil) and make it stronger and more independent. They are one of spetsnaz's, most important targets.'
asciilifeform: see french example
asciilifeform: example of how to get 'shell' on a 'seagate' disk: https://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Home
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider posting a firmware dump of one such drive.
asciilifeform: other, 'gentle' idea, dissolve 'windows' into the eeprom with nitric acid. replace cover. when time to decommission, use a UV lamp.
asciilifeform: no need for 'complements'
asciilifeform: ternary cpu was not only space-efficient (closer to 'e', more compact arithmetic representation) but considerably simplified arithm. circuits.
asciilifeform: all native russian work on computing was nixed
asciilifeform: ^ first 'computer' my university got.
asciilifeform: note (e.g. at 47 minutes) the pcb-as-passive-component trick
asciilifeform: 20ghz is easy. 20ghz where you aren't simply picking up harmonics from your own logic - hard.
asciilifeform: take N independent adc, and stagger the sampling phases
asciilifeform: decimation: at present time, i apply the paste with a pump. tried plastic templates (laser cut), wasn't satisfied.
asciilifeform: re: bfl - the sad part is that the entire mining industry, afaik, is based on exactly this kind of chumpatron. and if outright take-money-and-run merits two years of parole, what does, e.g. six month deliberate 'we mine with your hardware' merit? harsh words?
asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.
asciilifeform: (technically not simply gps, but tower triangulation on top)
asciilifeform: gps < difficult - but not impossible - to fit. and what'd be the point? throttle the core unless standing in warehouse XX?
asciilifeform: if you can arrange for, say, the entire crop of 'bfl' units to spin their wheels fruitlessly during known time intervals, your own miners (presumably exempt) can be scheduled to run then and precisely then
asciilifeform: time for gedankenexperiment. what payload would be 'useful' in a miner core (vs. the controller, which is normally a standard micro and relatively simple to audit) ?
asciilifeform: urbit already found its chumpatronium golden vein
asciilifeform: or - for added realism - it'll be the 200k btc dpr is coughing up on the impaler machine, rather than derper's coin.
asciilifeform: if i recall, there is no proof, for example, that the ubiquitous 'iron maiden' was used even on one occasion.
asciilifeform: davout: usually they're simply avenging a husband or son
asciilifeform: but afaik no implants - yet
asciilifeform: good example of what, for the lack of a better term, i think of as 'partial differentiation'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sexual promiscuity... it'll be the norm, stop bitchin << interesting how early 20th c. folks imagined that birth control would be 'a thing' - i.e. that people would actually use it, and promiscuity would have zero impact on how children are brought up
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: private investigators that collect samples from fields << always wondered why they aren't simply shot on sight
asciilifeform: let's go straight to the guild. the proverbial google grunt, who pays 150k usd / yr. to live in auto range of his 200k gig - is he a proper burgher? or peon imposter?
asciilifeform: usg1 - 'idealism', attempt at actual federation of independent states; usg2 - strong federal / centralized, slave states alive; usg3 - slave states zapped, vestiges of state autonomy removed, capitalism; usg4 - the one we know and love.
asciilifeform: see the 'insider trading' prosecutions in usa, for example./
asciilifeform: see earlier example with solar plant contractor
asciilifeform: chetty: the only birth control that works on the 'lumpen' folks is the kind pitched by Captain Aguilera.
asciilifeform: *olympics
asciilifeform: likewise the importance of 'k' value in ecdsa
asciilifeform: people gotta understand the importance of rng on a gizmo that doesn't import - only generates own - keys.
asciilifeform: if usg employs thinking people, they did not write this.
asciilifeform: 'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?' (mr holmes)
asciilifeform: jobs pop up here ocasionally << for example, for steady hands good with microscope.
asciilifeform: based simply on the examples known to me (e.g. the woman involved with 'obamacare' etc)
asciilifeform: simply picture a correctly designed 'tor'
asciilifeform: say he grows a brain, and starts 'tcpdump'ing. finds that the proxy just connects to another just like it. rsa on both ends.
asciilifeform: what trace? so a chumper finds that he was running a socks5 proxy. big deal.
asciilifeform: pankkake: re: 'mycelium' << the nice thing is that i don't even need to purchase and cut open the unit to piss on it. you can't fit a user-auditable rng in a keychain. simple physical fact.
asciilifeform: can't wait for the mandatory wheelchair ramps on heli-gunships
asciilifeform: "people have problems" which seem to reinforce agency heirarchy << interesting examples abound. consider the u.s. grunts who were disciplined for wearing privately purchased ballistic armour in iraq.
asciilifeform: being as the local stuffed uniforms are the first to 'go free agent' in any imperial collapse, this is sorta basic.
asciilifeform: Encryption Foiled the Cops << example of hierarchy of power in action. the local doughnut eaters don't get access to the manufacturer backdoor. unless it suits the crown for one reason or another.
asciilifeform: incidentally, (as school project!) i once went to the u.s. national library of medicine and had them dig up for me ancient, yellow copies of lysenko's complete works. and read them.
asciilifeform: many other cases of severely brainless are also created artificially - by rescuing 'super' premature infants, for example (at tremendous cost to the taxpayer, even before they enter the welfare system)
asciilifeform: i vaguely recall a documented case where deaf women sued for the right to 'in vitro' select deaf samples from a set of foeti
asciilifeform: ;;google deaf community cochlear implants
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i understand, it's a peculiarly sad 'chinese copy' of the usual 'victimhood olympics.'
asciilifeform: 'The fine system is the Institute's latest innovation. Khrzhanovsky decreed it a few months ago, fed up with staffers smuggling cell phones and talking about Facebook. Other finable offenses include tardiness, which costs a whole day's pay, and failure to renew the fake Institute pass. The program has been a hit. Not only has morale improved, a whole new euphemistic vocabulary has sprouted up. ("Google" is now "
asciilifeform: benkay: it is a very simple design based on johnson noise. -- plus, the entire design will be published in excruciating detail.
asciilifeform: !up Dalrymple
asciilifeform: Dalrymple: so long as you don't expect the exchange rate to increase monotonically - sure, buy.
asciilifeform: ;;google theodore dalrymple
asciilifeform: Dalrymple: fan of the actual Dalrymple ? or the man himself
asciilifeform: ctified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head. For example, the Ministry of Plenty's forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been
asciilifeform surprised the various chumpatronic engineers who push 'amazing! web based stock trading' crud haven't come out with one yet
asciilifeform: 'unknown number of times' << empty magazine in the end
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: betcha this fellow is american. over here, they'll bring a mostly empty bottle of vodka to the shop, say 'i didn't like it', get money back.
asciilifeform: 'стукач' ~= 'one who knocks' (implication, on the 'right door')
asciilifeform: benkay: different names, depending on the cultural flavour of the particular example
asciilifeform: mthreat: likewise the front of the car compacting.
asciilifeform: as exemplified by the iconic russian iPnohe.
asciilifeform: 'human dishwasher' << one item i keep expecting to see from the chicoms. looks precisely like the mechanical kind, but has a nice little fellow living inside (first eats scraps, then washes, then returns to his compartment. convenient sewer hookup for both!)
asciilifeform: canvas, the oldest of the pump-altcoins.
asciilifeform: and whether you really need your computer to run
asciilifeform: !up mp_a_colonia
asciilifeform: mp_a_colonia: what must they be drinking to crap out yet another 'seekoore mail' ssl gizmo ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo, mp_a_colonia: where i live, pawn shops are very peculiar places, where nothing is priced remotely close to what any sane person would pay. probably just cash laundries.
asciilifeform: inquisitor? plenty employed already
asciilifeform: !up mp_a_colonia
asciilifeform: mr reptila, with his silverware hat, would make good company for mr spam and his imaginary 'rolex'
asciilifeform: mp_a_colonia!
asciilifeform: scammers sometimes even succeed in breeding an entire class of dedicated chumps.
asciilifeform: and what does one need to smoke to see the pluses of the concept of letting competitors vote on whether you can spend your coin ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: your complaint is with the geating on electro-mechanical clocks.
asciilifeform: dignork: unless i misunderstand - btc protocol as presently implemented cannot do this
asciilifeform: !up mp_on_a_boat
asciilifeform: 'pump.'
asciilifeform: mp_on_a_boat: why'd you snip the end off the cocksnipper tale? it has a proper end.
asciilifeform: when do we get mp_on_atomic_dirigible ?!
asciilifeform: mp_on_a_boat: yours? or chartered
asciilifeform: pankkake: doesn't exist yet, and it already modified my crypto processes >> impatient man can, theoretically, make his own, just based on the description.
asciilifeform: afaik that's just an attempt at a standard format for signing 'buy' & 'sell' proclamations ?
asciilifeform: i described this here when first found the channel, somebody (mp?) said, 'this is being built'
asciilifeform: that quote betrays a staggering lack of comprehension regarding... virtually every aspect of computing.
asciilifeform: idiot anglo empire wants to shoot itself in the head? sure, why not.
asciilifeform: (like sex, most folks can get some for free, but others... must pay. an empty niche here.)
asciilifeform: mycelium machine << it still isn't clear to me - are they actually sampling an sram, or just using atmel's turd which purports to do so internally
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: misread sentence as 'maybe we should run a campaign to rename antennas. ThickAsThieves: balunus'
asciilifeform: as i recall, he applied it as a general principle - christianity being an example of the clusterfuck that happens when 'the slaves win.'
asciilifeform: more complicated. the tree trimmers routinely cut fiber (likewise strung overhead)
asciilifeform: and one of these (electric pump) is built.
asciilifeform: 'agents, they are here' << 'we had no doubts that the dacha [place of n. s. khruschev's forced retirement] was festooned with microphones, but as to where the receiving devices and tape reels were emplaced - no one had any idea. somehow this did not interest us... ... i must say that the apparatus worked in a rather mediocre way, and the eavesdropping was conducted so shabbily, especially in the latter years of
asciilifeform: next phase is to convince folks to voluntarily move into labour camp, etc. to get Free! internet/food/whatever
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: example of this machine: http://www.notanon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/gentoo_libretto.jpg << the circular object underneath 'intel' sticker is the mouse. two buttons on the back of lid.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: (you mentioned wanting a traditional wm specifically for miniature computers, which i found odd)
asciilifeform: re: russian 'arm' cpu hype << same sad story as 'elbrus' company. the latter started out as a somewhat original superscalar design, ended up a cheap pentium clone. they succumbed to the temptation of the ussr starting in '70s - clone common cpu, run l33t w4r3z.
asciilifeform: examples of felis - 'savannah cat' (domesticus + african serval)
asciilifeform: afaik every hybrid that's ever been attempted in earnest - worked.
asciilifeform: i always found it interesting how much functionality one... loses by rolling a 'general purpose' computer into a product. not even concerning security and the like.
asciilifeform: build the radiation dome, fill with breathable air, impale the capital controls idiots, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'operating systems' and 'compilers' (traditionally considered the gnarliest subjects in the department, outside of the required maths) were already optional and barely attended.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...bright young men that hadn’t gone though the compiler and complexity modules of their CS programme' << i actually watched the beginnings of this change at my uni. various things were made optional, and the audiences became 'pocket sized'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: '...know better than to get involved with the armed retinue of a lord...' << see interesting example - the private army of gazprom (said to contain own tank corps, aviation, etc.) - nobody fucks with it, scarcely anyone even mentions it.
asciilifeform: i think that was meant to imply mr. thiel
asciilifeform: punkman: a good refresher text on discrete maths / computability /etc. is hopcroft & ullman
asciilifeform: i especially liked the 'obsolete' chapter on mechanical computers
asciilifeform: punkman: 'All the Mathematics You Missed' (Garrity) if impatient/american
asciilifeform: who the hell has impi on a 'human' box ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is one of those weirdos who actually turns his computer on and off ?!
asciilifeform: what computer-based product, on the shelf today, can be guaranteed manufacturable 50 years hence?
asciilifeform: us dod realized that computer would remain 'a thing' - wanted hard specced formats.
asciilifeform: all of this took place in the long-gone era when usg insisted on full blueprints, chip masks (!) etc. to ensure longevity of a complete design
asciilifeform: decimation: such countries typically add public vpn companies to ban list
asciilifeform: at some point you have to ask, what problem are you actually solving by building pocket computer
asciilifeform: an empty '2u' rack case is 300 usd or so
asciilifeform: which plays havoc with real-time anything. and with any attempt at hand optimization
asciilifeform: there are countless other examples. visit a university laboratory.
asciilifeform: the 'heirloom computer' is old, old hat.
asciilifeform: the 'computer industry' loves the crapfest, though. ('employment!' see http://www.loper-os.org/?p=388 etc)
asciilifeform: everybody can get behind the impalement of author of 'heartbleed' but problem goes deeper.
asciilifeform started crackpot career by reading at&t unix as described in 'lions book' and setting out to 'take out mistakes' - then noticed that result is... empty space
asciilifeform: and some mistakes (the need for a compiler) aren't so easy to take out.
asciilifeform: one dump truck.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: was it you who turned down working F.MPIF on account of living in usa ?
asciilifeform awaits the epic rampage of a future mr. heap.
asciilifeform: somehow, 'hypertalk' was well-liked by serious users. why? theory: it lured a bunch of folks who were 'on the right side of the camel's hump' to begin with - into learning elementary programming
asciilifeform: the most elegant example of the agony of 'plain language' is: attempts at computer programming systems which purported to use such.
asciilifeform: which was interesting, because 'tools of crafsman' are normally exempted from auction by creditors
asciilifeform: no, just example of somebody who actually relied on a micro airplane for a living
asciilifeform: lol at expecting anyone to have sympathy for the folks who lost their heads from cables.csv (assuming any)
asciilifeform: example:
asciilifeform: ms on the other hand is... usg department of compyooting.
asciilifeform: xscale was their attempt at the true microcontroller market
asciilifeform: idea is, intel fears for its life, because x86 (and all the compatibility kludges that enable 20 years of crapola to run) is doomed.
asciilifeform: (intel never once in its entire life published anything but a mockery of 'open source.' see their 'open' bios, for example.)
asciilifeform: ;;rate mats 1 temporary voice
asciilifeform: benkay: i once worked with laboratory (-80C) units that didn't. a pump moved the cold air to reservoir when you turned the handle. room air pumped in, door opens. reverse when close hadle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDvikAG7cD8#t=15 << 4-cycle petrol engine built from that fridge's compressor.
asciilifeform: e.g. my father was once employed to reverse-engineer movie projectors
asciilifeform remembers 'fucked company'
asciilifeform: mp has bank now?!
asciilifeform: japan jumped the gap - why? because they had the 'natural resource'
asciilifeform: industrial civilization doesn't get birthed from coffee shop (as discussed in one of mp's essays?)
asciilifeform: was crap << complicated. if you want sovereignty - gotta crank out the hardware, best as you can.
asciilifeform: (western hardware was difficult to get - trade embargoed, had to go through shill companies)
asciilifeform: decimation: start with the soviet mistake (circa mid-70s) of scrapping their own (interesting! e.g. trinary!) comp. research and deciding to copy western archs - e.g. pdp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider benkay's point. if i have to wrap sample pcbs in benjamins to get them through customs, this ought to be considered a cost of doing business in Ar
asciilifeform: afaik folks get housed on company dime at drilling platform
asciilifeform: welfare folks 'pay' by having to live in specially designated concentration camps
asciilifeform: there's a reason, for example, why e.g. a spammer will 'work 16 hours a day to make money while he sleeps'
asciilifeform: d co-authors continue. Academic science is only one such market; other familiar examples include rock music, professional sports, and national politics. '
asciilifeform: 'One of various ways of organizing work that economists have identified, a tournament market "offers participants the chance of winning a big prize--an independent research career, tenure, a named chair, scientific renown, awards--through competition," writes Richard Freeman and co-authors. Tournament markets amplify "small differences in productivity into large differences in recognition and reward," Freeman an
asciilifeform carried a fat oscilloscope and ominous-looking crate with sample boards through u.s, german, romanian customs; nobody blinked an eye
asciilifeform: 'Avarus, Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on September 20, 2010. The Company was originally organized as a “blank check” shell Company to investigate and acquire a target company or business seeking the perceived advantages of being a publicly held corporation.' << lol!
asciilifeform: burn a registered company and walk away and start a new one << interesting historical degenerate case: russia during lenin's 'NEP' - 20s - folks would close a firm immediately prior to tax day, open new one the day after with same assets
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with 30k usd profit, it is not too adventurous a guess that polimedia does not house mpex ?
asciilifeform: coke market in the us would be like meth market << nope. bioreactor (aside from somebody having to jump the hurdle and produce the transgenic critter in the first place) is a considerably more cerebral undertaking than grignard reaction in a garage.
asciilifeform: e.g. impotence
asciilifeform: btc folks who expect to 'can have problems' from daring to demonetize the dollar should contemplate gedankenexperiment - what'd happen to a nation that 'demonetizes'... cocaine. (that is, establishes dirt-cheap production & distribution.) if your starfish doesn't quiver at the thought of the 'problems you can have' then...
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