asciilifeform: ^ i suspect this beast, if not a piltdown man, was made using the method described by lomachinsky , with the old radioprotective drug that causes gigantism in mammal
asciilifeform: would be quite interesting to learn what it thinks 419373 was.
asciilifeform: at any rate plz don't lose that thing's blockchain, mircea_popescu , can use my 'blkcut' or ben_vulpes's ver of same, to get at the blox
asciilifeform: btw when i first saw ^ photo i parsed it as a wtf, because of the peculiar position of the ballsack, it looked as if it could be a hyena-like concave proboscis, holding a dildo
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i read 'approach' phf's observation literally, as in 'walk up to'
asciilifeform: took me ~year to even unearth that it ever existed.
asciilifeform: it melts my brain, that this is apparently a backwater subfield, whereas it really ought to be ~100% of cryptology
asciilifeform: 'An up-to-date list of research and survey articles in average complexity.' '(Date Last Modified: 12/30/03)' lel
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: papadimitriou ? i assumed -- a greek. at any rate, he wrote asciilifeform's (and probably ~everybody's) undergrad schoolb00k on complexity
asciilifeform: 'why do you dumb orcs not simply speak the king's english'
asciilifeform: phf: subvariant of the 'why does emacs not use ibm's standard keystrokes!!' people.
asciilifeform: ( speaking of which, i finally score a thallium-doped cesium iodide scintillator pre-bonded to big fat photodiode. finally can read spectra. )
asciilifeform: the classical 'kickstarter' business model -- 'hey, it ain't ~us~ defrauding you, it's this stable of monkeys over there, you agreed to trust them'
asciilifeform: phf: paid but no room ? or rat-infested pit ? or which
asciilifeform: 'Then-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) spoke twice last year with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Justice Department officials said, encounters he did not disclose when asked about possible contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and representatives of Moscow during Sessions’s confirmation hearing to become attorney general.'
asciilifeform: was promised to be an independent investigation. How an Obama donor could be trusted to investigate Obama’s heir apparent was never explored by the fake news media. Even worse is that as Chief of Counterintelligence, Laufman has the power to kill any investigations into leaks, a power he has been exercising.'
asciilifeform: in very other lulzies, https://archive.is/on8dl >> 'Obama holdover David Laufman is the source of the national security leaks, Cernovich Media can exclusively report. David Laufman, Chief of Counterintelligence, has all classified information regarding espionage pass by his desk. ... Laufman, who had donated to Obama’s presidential campaign fund in past election cycles, was the DOJ official who investigated Hillary Clinton in what
asciilifeform: chickens move imaginary coinz between goxes.☟︎
