asciilifeform: it is an almost inevitable thing, per the familiar chumpatronic model (consider fiatola 'middle class' fella trying to evaluate his net worth, sitting in a pile of bezzles of 1,001 types)
asciilifeform: at any rate, i expect 'must evaluate expression with unknowns to learn how much shitcoin you really have' will one day appear.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, when digging into eth etc in light of 'turing-complete!111 programmable!1111' scamatronics, i was somewhat surprised that they did not add the flourish of 'algebraic coin'
asciilifeform: we do not yet have a modern example of roman-style collapse to work with.
asciilifeform: beast was devoured by much larger, stronger beast, and not by some mythical 'victory of the beoble'
asciilifeform: soviet sphere quite certainly did not fall because su (or ro, or any) police ran out of cars to burn. but because gorbachev wanted his flat in manhattan.☟︎
asciilifeform: the sad part is that they're one-armed gladiators. e.g., burning police cars, rather than shooting politicians or latifundistas etc
asciilifeform: 'The ‘filthy anti-system’ extremists in the neighbourhood are defending their coop culture, free schools and kindergartens, their anti property speculation, shared living experiments, anti patriarchy, music, art, bar and cafe collectives, refugee welcome initiatives, anti war and climate saving politics and degrowth movements……. etc'
asciilifeform: what will it spend? old candy wrappers ?
asciilifeform: jurov: i am failing to discern what the protest was against☟︎
asciilifeform: 'In a related case, authorities nearly 100 miles away in Lancaster County arrested the parents of the 18-year-old, with police saying the couple had “gifted” their daughter to Kaplan for helping them out of financial difficulties. She was 14 when her first child was conceived, the criminal complaint said.'☟︎
asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: 'Updated the price to 100 USD. It's really not a complicated task, everything is outlined in the paper. An average C++ programmer knowing operator overloading should be able to do it in 2-3 hours.' << ahahahahaha☟︎
asciilifeform: but i have nfi how many bugs ago it was.
asciilifeform: at any rate, the web message box is a useful thing, and in fact the only way for heathens to talk into gossipd transmitter in the future.
