asciilifeform: i.e. folks who reach arch N too quickly after reaching arch 1.
asciilifeform: so they could in THEORY bill 100% of the speeders
asciilifeform: (there is no other way to pay the toll, and license plate cameras look for deadheads)
asciilifeform: several years ago, a massive toll road opened where i live. if you go on it from one end to the other, you go through a dozen or so rfid arches.
asciilifeform: there is an imho interesting dynamic in speedtraps though, where the enforcement is never permitted to become ideal, or folks will simply drive very slowly and commerce grinds to a halt
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: from my own experiments, and i hate to be the one to rain on the 'cheap blaster' parade - ir laser does not go far outdoors in the air. unless said air is peculiarly dry.
asciilifeform: (i will point out, it is not necessary for camera 'a' and 'b' to be sprouting from the same cabinet, though afaik they usually do)
asciilifeform: if you appear on camera b too soon after appearing in camera a, you get ticket.☟︎
asciilifeform: thing works by having 2 cameras, each with licenseplate ocr
asciilifeform: the second prong of this, as described in the leaked mit slides last year, is to declare unbelted coin 'terrorist' and simultaneously shitcoin it from use at coinbase, bitpay, etc.☟︎
asciilifeform: the enemy is dull, but not so dull that he does not grasp the most hospitable place on the tank's armour to stick the mine onto. i.e. lock up as much coin as possible behind chastity belts of whatever possible kind.
asciilifeform: and the release. Once the command is produced, it is fully authoritative and proxy custodians must obey.' << ahahahaha will this idiocy never die
asciilifeform: 'We define algorithmic proxy custody as the automatic custody of cryptocurrency by a set of parties, where the release of cryptocurrency in custody is at least partially controlled by approval signals generated by programs run by these parties, and where programs base their approvals on the observation of a consensus for the release in another secondary blockchain, and the secondary blockchain has authoritative responsibility to comm
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: if you make a new pgp key, i will rate you
asciilifeform: (lusers who get auto-updated 'new kernel' etc do not notice the new chip. which often is sold with the same laser markings, even, as the old, not even speaking of the actual model number)
asciilifeform: it is done SPECIFICALLY to keep US out.
asciilifeform: every-six-months-incompatible-chip had ~0 to do with moore's law before, and has 0 now.
asciilifeform: point being that next year, their cards will eventually be whatever was common in usa in '07, roughly. and the next - '08. etc
asciilifeform: this is artifact of the turd world being ~decade behind the planned-obsolescence curve.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what are your players playing on ? i personally have very little idea, except that i notice that you support winblows and ergo some substantial number of them are lusers. and may well be 'walking into shop, buy lappy'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it being dead has not discouraged chip vendors from shuffling the cards every year.
asciilifeform: actually ~everybody who walks into a shop and buys a lappy gets a newest minus a year or two video card.
asciilifeform: but i have nfi, i am not the one to ask!
asciilifeform: jurov: i wouldn't put it past him to sell a 'game console' for it at some point
asciilifeform: it also has a broad spectrum of short-term half-solutions (use minimal subset of the iron's functionality; stockpile old amd; etc)
asciilifeform: (consider, perhaps most adults in industrialized countries - and elsewhere - have at one point taken an opiate, but how many became morphinists ? )
asciilifeform: most folks off the street, if given whatever dope you like, will not - apparently - take to it.☟︎
asciilifeform: one of the interesting recurring motifs in dalrymple (british dude who worked for decades as prison doctor) re addicts is that they are not 'could be just anybody'☟︎
asciilifeform: quite conceivably dope is a beneficial thing, by this light, if it helps folks who are candidates for BingoBoingo's 'scooty' photos to die (relatively) cheaply, and quickly, rather than slowly and expensively decades later
asciilifeform: doesn't their lim($marketvalue - $costofdopehabit) ---> -inf as t--->+inf though ?
asciilifeform: eh if dope folk 'just died', we'd see many fewer of'em
asciilifeform: (but not living in their company, i have deeply nfi.)
asciilifeform: dunno that 'rock bottom' folks still have the 'can quit anytime!111' notion
asciilifeform: the toilet chick from mircea_popescu's photo earlier -- has substantial edge over these folks. she at least ~knows~ that she is hooked on dope.
asciilifeform: konsensoos reality is one hell of a drug.
