asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where in usa, exactly, are folks building 'highly defensive "everything's a fortress and with gun ports" bourgeois restructuring' ?
asciilifeform: (how many popped in orlando - five ?)
asciilifeform: then again, last month we learned that they issue demo charges.
asciilifeform: afaik no u.s. police precinct Officially issues frags.
asciilifeform: 'He added that while robots aren't typically designed to be armed — they're used for observation or dismantling purposes — law enforcement could decide to use bomb robots when officers are in immediate danger.'
asciilifeform: (otherwise would go to the same place as ro nuke institute)
asciilifeform: just as ro railroad is this thing that exists mainly to move nato tanks.
asciilifeform: hey it isn't ro gold no moar, it is nato (usg) gold.
asciilifeform: at this point, folks with actual interest in the subject would last five seconds in the school.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: re 'institutional' - every other year or so i visit the headquarters of the dept i graduated from, on foot, just because i live nearby and why the hell not. but lately it is almost a challenge to avoid barfing
asciilifeform: i suspect that the good teachers have been driven into drink, and retirement
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: do you recall the professor brin thread ?
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i've never met a 'study abroad' type in usa who wasn't prestige-farming 'future student leaders!111' apparatchik candidate
asciilifeform: actual education, in usa, to the extent it can be had, is done by skipping class and hanging out among the dusty tomes, and illicit experiments in your cellar.
asciilifeform: but you ~can~ pay 200k usd to derp about the great zimbabwe for 4 (5? 6?) years.
asciilifeform: also a case of 'cost paid by mircea_popescu to talk to a thousand derps to get their pennies is not a cost because we say so and shuddup terrorist'
asciilifeform: ETH, not necessarily BTC or fiat). The irony is it's the pro-fork people who tend to be the loudest voices calling their opponents "shills."'
asciilifeform: 'One thing a lot of pro-fork people don't realize is that they're basically encouraging a very damaging form of speculation on the value of ETH. Because a hard fork promises to return ETH at a rate of < 100 DAO per ETH, it encourages people to buy up large amounts of DAO tokens at their current rates (> 100 DAO per ETH), and then actively advocate for the fork to happen. Last time I checked, this guarantees them a profit of > 30% (in
