asciilifeform: i have lived in cities. in crappy soviet dwellings, with little room to move, even. in order to do this again voluntarily i would want something very valuable in return. such as not having to work for a living ever.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: while you're at it, compute the cost of a 10km^2 opaque bubble for me to live in there.

asciilifeform: if i used 'uber' for commute, could easily sum to cost of a nice car every month...

asciilifeform: i filled a knapsack with books and didn't feel like trudging home in the 99% humidity

asciilifeform: this was on a u.s. university campus

asciilifeform: i suspect that the iPnohe only checks that a chump has been 'picked up', but not delivered

asciilifeform: whereby a bunch of folks pretend to be an uber 'cabbie' and 'pick up' customers ☟︎

asciilifeform: mats: which is why i suspect that a new scam was invented

asciilifeform: mats: glad that you mentioned this. because i did an experiment, and forgot to speak of it. actually tried to ride 'uber.' (did it once before, at an airport, and it sorta worked.) but this time the car approached, clearly saw me, and ... kept going. inside was a gaggle of college 'bros' all holding iPnohes.

asciilifeform: jurov: not speaking of 'find a fault' but 'minimal acceptable' here

asciilifeform: jurov: some 'people' can 'seem happy' on a bowl of rotting rice in a day, earned by sucking 500 cocks.

asciilifeform: srsly i would buy a tourist ticket if i could be guaranteed a front seat

asciilifeform: mats: at least they have public executions. i, for instance, am living in a tyrannical empire that doesn't even have fucking public executions to watch. picture that.

asciilifeform: and arrange for a letter of recommendation for lucrative job cooking 'gutter oil' or mining uranium

asciilifeform: mats: so possibly you have the 'seven-to-a-room' thing covered.

asciilifeform: (and before you say 'i am willing to live like mexican', note that for ~you personally~ it will cost 50x what it does for the native-born orc. because he has the extended family, willing to live seven-to-a-room with him without murder, and you don't.)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165804 << problem is never 'where to flee,' but 'where to flee where can afford to live like gentleman.' everybody here can afford a plane ticket. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165778 << find us another way to amortize the cost of making so much as a z80 ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'There is a discussion on FAA meetings about encrypting the ADS-B signal. By angering the authorities, we will only speed up this process.' << holy fuck the idiocy. i have idea! let's give usg brass cars without license plates ! that way no one will ~ever~ know where they are.

asciilifeform: because they will not deliver so much as the means for making a usable steel fork. and you can take this to the bank.

asciilifeform: you would have us believe that the idiot cult of technowankerous 'homework doers' will deliver salvation re: the 'ic in your kitchen' problem. and i will say that this is not a harmless misconception.

asciilifeform: while doing a peculiarly heavy amount of 'homework'

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: my observation was that there is a curiously large population of people who studiously avoid so much as dipping a toe into the prototype waters.

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: do you know kanzure ? the two of you would get on very well, i think. he's another fella who likes 'doing homework.' wrote a 'nano cad', even. (because surely - somehow - this puts us closer to actually rearranging atoms with bare hands, right? or so goes the theory)

asciilifeform: i, for one, only have a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know that i will not be making so much as a triode valve with this pump. ☟︎

asciilifeform: many ways to pump a vacuum.

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: would be neat. where do i go to get a 10^-4-torr vacuum pump for less than the cost of new car ?

asciilifeform: would love to know how to do this on a 'jungle' budget

asciilifeform: i would like, for example, to fabricate simple circuits in copper (a la pcb) with electron beam

asciilifeform: this is precisely the kind of animal mircea_popescu wrote about - idiot 'millenials' who have never so much as carved a chess set with own hands, failing to distinguish elaborate 3d drawings from actual tech

asciilifeform: also, very amusingly, there are a total of 3 sentences casually referring to xray shielding.

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: have you ever witnessed the operation and internals of even a very elementary 'nano' instrument such as electron microscope ?

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: go and pump a high vacuum from a vessel you sintered on a 'metal printer'

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: meanwhile please go and 'nanofabricate atom by atom'... one mosfet. (it's been done! so what if you need a 'gigabuck' of gear to crap out an item which is worth a nanopenny...) then get back to us ☟︎

asciilifeform: midnightmagic: take a little less lsd

asciilifeform: given as presently i can't even afford to not have a day job which eats 98% of time & energy ☟︎

asciilifeform: jurov: i can 'decide' all i want' 'spirit is willing but flesh is weak' in this case. unless you'd like to contribute $100B for a fab and an army

asciilifeform: thing could even have a clear lid, like the old uv-erasable eeproms, for inspection with optical microscope (the fabric would be visibly homogeneous)

asciilifeform: a readily-available ~true~ fpga would be the greatest political advance in a century of electronic crud.

asciilifeform: you ~can~ sloppily 'bit-bang' a 10BaseT ethernet nic. but ~not~ sdram controller.

asciilifeform: the entire thing is cynically deliberate. notice how, e.g., xilinx boards, come with ethernet jack and magnetics? well, you can't actually ~use~ the ethernet without paying a per-unit license fee to the bastards

asciilifeform: thing is, fpga is fundamentally a very cruel lie

asciilifeform: you can pick up a textbook and write a dram controller for fpga from first principles - and it won't work. because, for starters, only a small number of output cells in the chip can function on both rising and falling edge of clock cycle (what 'ddr' means) and only xilinx's closed turd knows where they are in the routing fabric; ☟︎☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165915 << key detail: 'IP-Core : MIG V:3.6.1'. that's 'memory interface generator', xilinx's gui turd. it shits out code which is a mere wrapper on a closed-source gigantic steaming pile of shit. and the output is unique to a particular model and subtype of chip. ☝︎