asciilifeform: es taxes to be withheld by the state while providing anonymity for Customers.'
asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: i have had for many years a box running said item, and it has never oom'd.
asciilifeform: i wonder how many people understand what a BLIGHT niels bohr was on his field.
asciilifeform: he laser was possible. When Townes showed them one in operation, they retreated artfully.'
asciilifeform: every CD player and long distance telephone connection, lasers today are manufactured by the billions. At the heart of laser action is perfect alignment of the crests and troughs of myriad waves of light. Their location and momentum must be theoretically knowable. But this violates the holiest canon of Copenhagen theory: Heisenberg Uncertainty. Bohr and Von Neumann proved to be true believers in Heisenberg's rule. Both denied that t
asciilifeform: 'Central to Mead's rescue project are a series of discoveries inconsistent with the prevailing conceptions of quantum mechanics. One was the laser. As late as 1956, Bohr and Von Neumann, the paragons of quantum theory, arrived at the Columbia laboratories of Charles Townes, who was in the process of describing his invention. With the transistor, the laser is one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century. Designed into
asciilifeform not mega-expert on dopes but is aware that certain types bring about excitability and amplify existing inclinations; others - torpor, lethargy, and a sort of living death
asciilifeform: observe how nobody's about to legalize the performance dopes.☟︎
asciilifeform: seems to go pretty well with the 'dope'em up to reduce barn repair cost' program
asciilifeform: they gave distinct impression of labouring under a notion that 'our thing will be different because we can keep the Bad People out by being Modest'
asciilifeform: the folks with the 'modest' coins always rubbed me wrong
asciilifeform: married to a broken-down husk of a thing.
asciilifeform: it means, as i understand, 'this dun work but WE KNOW HOW TO FIX!111111 and will fix before anyone notices!11'
asciilifeform: american business folk have a term, 'technical debt', for this kind of horror
asciilifeform: that ~reasonable~ behaviour requires unreasonable degree of complexity.
asciilifeform: this is what it means for 'shit os' and 'shit language'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my contention is not that it is impossible to write proggy that behaves sanely under unix when catches SIGABRT or whatnot, but that the effort required to do so and the verbosity of the resulting code is beyond most folk.
