asciilifeform: 'Indeed imagine a world where messages broadcasted publicly could be recorded. A world where screen shots and web archiving tools can preserve the content of broadcasted messages indefinitely, and where comparing the publication medium to an archived record can reveal otherwise unannounced retractions. In short imagine the real world as it actually is.' << gold

asciilifeform: 'This place is a prison. It’s like living in the Hotel California, except we can’t even drink wine here.'

asciilifeform: 'Imagine one day having your bed converted into a bunk bed without your consent. Being promised food to be included in the fee you pay only to be yelled at when the food runs out. Witnessing an ex-military dude marching around the house yelling at people who didn’t “keep their shit clean enough”. '

asciilifeform: re: the evicted 'castle': 'Do you have a fancy college degree or a job in a STEM field? Do you have fewer than two tattoos? Do you avoid Tinder dates and songs with explicit lyrics? Do you spend more than two hours a day exercising? Then you may be qualified to live at the Startup Castle, a self-proclaimed “community of excellence” located in a 17,000-square foot mansion in Woodside, California, just minutes from Stanford

asciilifeform: or a parody piece

asciilifeform off for a spell

asciilifeform: imho 'had x coin last year, still have it now' is a pretty good test

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is certain they don't see articles? what kinda spammer uses anything but a fresh ip ?

asciilifeform: could simply mean a 300 baud link over 'diode' and optical fiber, to next room, with 24/7 eyes watching the text

asciilifeform: generally you do not want to hook up a machine with sensitive keymat to public.

asciilifeform: i'll let mircea_popescu answer this one (if he feels like..) - iirc there is also a 'diode' in there somewhere

asciilifeform: hope you're on a reasonable unix.

asciilifeform: williamdunne: my current understanding is that there is not, on this planet, a 'gpg library that actually works' - period, full-stop.

asciilifeform: (a particular proggy)

asciilifeform: williamdunne: please try to avoid referring to common lisp as 'clisp' in the interest of not confusing n00bz - clisp is a thing, it is a (pretty poor) free implementation of common lisp

asciilifeform: but off-to-make-a-little-dough

asciilifeform: dr y. wasn't dumb. merely entirely uninteresting, preoccupied with details of daily life as a not-especially-well-of d.c. resident, e.g., where the 'cheapest' petrol is to be had

asciilifeform: nah why do that when you can hang a man upside down and cut off his skin until have they key.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole orchestra of cn folks, many who did not even appear in the org chart but somehow had leverage, appeared out of nowhere, making a fuss

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps more on subject, the interesting and magic moment came when a middle-aged animal handler chick from cn was fired (over long-standing dispute over a paper's attribution) with the (.in) chief

asciilifeform: me: 'your thesis reads just like a summary of dr. c's work'

asciilifeform: my office mate, for a spell.

asciilifeform: few years back, they shot (or perhaps made noises of threatening to?) a mega-crystallographer in uni of beijing. he faked structures for decades, and his subordinates too

asciilifeform: not related by blood or marriage ? then you're a barbarian, to be dealt with the way a teenager deals with a coke machine

asciilifeform: it isn't a 'couldn't do business,' but my current understanding is that the han chinese see white man sorta how the gypsies see european - as somebody to be scammed clean at the first opportunity.

asciilifeform: at any rate, this is not the class of problem which is a problem to mircea_popescu.

asciilifeform: to - another matter. but prolly just a question of cost

asciilifeform: trinque: neither i nor the sources can speak for 'all' of anything. but cn is a rice kingdom, yes.

asciilifeform: idk, but i imagine it isn't any less entertaining than crashing a lame thin fuck's party ?

asciilifeform: could prolly find a spot with nothing bipedal for 500km+

asciilifeform: i mean, if i had to give up something like eating Proper Food, i'd rather live on tree bark in siberia. nice, quiet, prolly could get a photovoltaic set and satellite horn running there.