asciilifeform: going briefly upstack, my understanding is that this particular batch of forkolade is effectively 'hard', in that no trb-generated tx is likely to be mined.
asciilifeform: ( the other prong of the front is the attempt to make trb difficult to use reliably by preventing effective quarantine of derp nodes and their tx)
asciilifeform: creating 'kakos' with emotional buy-in on account of their entire stash being bound up in the spider silk
asciilifeform: the prb gambit, as far as i can tell, is to siphon as much coin as possible into a must-use-prb parallel world
asciilifeform: i was about to 'do we have rockets ROLLING OFF CONVEYER LIKE SAUSAGES!111' yet
asciilifeform: (and incidentally i suspect that you do not need anything like 51% for demolition of 'segwit' and other 'soft' idiocies, but just enough to feedback 'arse-mouth' and buy moar cycles immediately)
asciilifeform: well it also has to remain unorphaned, just like any other
asciilifeform: to paraphrase barnum, it is quite difficult to lose money when betting on the poverty of redditards aggregate.
asciilifeform: alternatively, can putter along like the timelock crap, with the pot always just-below the magical threshold for +ev.
asciilifeform: (summary: usg's most recent attempt to pound in the cock 'halfway', 'segwit', consists of prb churning out txen that result in 'anyone can spend' from trb pov, but miners are to 'agree never to process counter-softforkian tx', a la 'timelock' etc)
asciilifeform: with enthusiastic applause from kako et al.
asciilifeform: (mostly unrealatedly, and strictly for the entomologically-inclined, mega-derp in old #b-a re phork warz etc.)
asciilifeform: just that it was an educational moment, when i first thought about why.
asciilifeform: i do not find it puzzling ~today~ that he needed it.
asciilifeform: (as a boy, when i read that a messerschmitt-whatever cost R reichsmarks, it blew my mind, 'why did hitler need money ?!??')
asciilifeform: other than this, it is an elementary, kindergarten 'you can't eat money' observation
asciilifeform: well, if these were convertible to swiss franks, and then into swedish steel in '42, or american petrol in '40, there would have been no 'bunker moment'.
asciilifeform: competent engineer is pure cost, for sv derp, and 0 win
asciilifeform: it is wholly orthogonal to their extraction model
asciilifeform: same reason they don't hire competent, e.g., jet pilot, for sv startup
asciilifeform: well, an old trabant-engine powered empire, cannot win against spherical frictionless gossipd, no.
asciilifeform: but also where mircea_popescu's 7k buys what bill blasio's 77k do not buy.
asciilifeform: sure, but they are not fungible / convertible units. just as redditard cannot be converted to mircea_popescu-class by feeding him same food.
asciilifeform: replace with whichever. (whoever does not want to take asciilifeform's word , that , e.g., lsd is quite same as nuke detonator from his pov, obviously does not have to)
asciilifeform: because real-life market is more analogous to those old strategy games where you don't just need gold, but also 'mana' etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i tried, and failed, to turn up thread in l0gz, with -- incidentally -- thestringpuller, iirc, where i noted that i could buy a large quantity of, e.g., bricks, but 0 lsd.
asciilifeform: i cannot dispute (largely from lack of direct exposure to the venus in question) the ordering, but only mechanism
asciilifeform: whereas a suggestively worded letter from, perhaps, mircea_popescu, buys several kg, for less than ben_vulpes's car might fetch.
asciilifeform: this really being how 'universal market' is an illusion, like newtonian mechanics, and, e.g., ben_vulpes's house, if sold, does not buy $epsilon gram of plutonium, but 0 gram.
asciilifeform: or as in the 'this is my family rembrandt' thread.
asciilifeform: (on account of being different types of animal, rather than simply happening upon bags of different types of dollar)
asciilifeform: as in the old mircea_popescu article, where, e.g., buffett cannot send his dollar to isis, but king saud - can, etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is not clear to me that this is the most parsimonious model -- chumpatronicity is not as such a property of individual dollars, any more than ZIL-buying ability was a property of particular rubles in 1980. it is more that the actual coin of the realm - is something else
asciilifeform: she needs to drink moar young blood, the face is starting to run
asciilifeform: and woah, is that... baba yaga, on the left !
asciilifeform: so it is not as if this particular batch of monopoly money were somehow ~more~ chumpatronic than the usual.
asciilifeform: ~nobody in usa has seen, felt, touched, or smelled, 'actual' money, since ~fdr.
asciilifeform: disguised as 'technical problem' or what it was.
asciilifeform: they even tested the 'panic' button a couplea times in past few years
asciilifeform: PeterL: this was proclaimed ages ago, and regularly (~monthly) like clockwork.
asciilifeform: and there was epic butthurt, almost as if they had suggested gassing the jews or whatnot
asciilifeform: then the idea of doing the same to the 'womanities' was floated
asciilifeform: here's one local example from the nowhere company town where asciilifeform lives. at one time uni of md was on cost-cutting spree (as usual, quite selectively, but see below) and merged ~all~ of the sciences into 1 mega-department - chemistry, microbiology, physics, etc. all under 1 roof;
asciilifeform: so from the pov of the eaters - yes, benefited.
asciilifeform: well, just as with the last 'system' and its children, this one took a buncha folk who ought to have grown up washing the decks on godforsaken rusty freighters, or playing piano in whorehouses, and raised them onto suburban thrones, 'macmansions', 'professorships', etc.
asciilifeform: it delivers the sheeple, who see it as absolution.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: elaborate why this was losing move..?
asciilifeform: speaking of this, in case anyone missed, clitler was Officially absolved of all sins and issued indulgence by obummer's lead inquisitor, etc.
asciilifeform: there is a substantial difference b/w the linux that a literate user, with some notion of hygiene, ends up with, and 'africa', and the treatment of modules is part of it
asciilifeform: let's rephrase, unless you built own kernel, rationally, it is probably in yours, whether you want or not
asciilifeform: but if you use 'african' linuxen, you have 'all' possible mods
asciilifeform: well yes, most drivers end up as mods in linux traditionally
asciilifeform: (originally word implied berserker/kamikaze mission, but in modern times often refers to anyone who is expected to fight to the death or at least set off 'shaheed belt' as last hurrah)
asciilifeform: then again it is old trend, there was reptilia etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi who, but very telling that there are now fake mircea_popescus in the psych wards in place of the old napoleons.
asciilifeform: people, corporations, and governments attacked me. Then, they tried to kill me. NOW I'M FUCKING RICH.'
asciilifeform: 'Every person in Bitcoin failed. We are looking at 100% failure rate. I could go on and on about my involvement but the fact of the matter is, I'm rich and everyone else is poor. Rant aside, every one of my projects has magically disappeared - I'm talking about full stacks in every market. Why? Every project I did, Peercover, Providence, Simple Exchange, Simple Stocks, Omega Interpreter, Webmata - massively sued legal entities out as
asciilifeform: also yer browser takes every www page it loads, synthesizes into peptide, and injects straight into the nearest vein on yer neck. so going to WRONG!1111 www is a Bad THing.
asciilifeform: aaat least i'd be quite surprised if it turned up.
asciilifeform: trinque: nowhere is there a guarantee of the environmental change pushing in the direction you would like, and on a timescale you can live to see.
