asciilifeform: starvation was good enough for people-who-had-no-food.

asciilifeform: until americans 'helped'.

asciilifeform: most folks didn't.

asciilifeform: afaik they never invented eating shit to begin with.

asciilifeform: just too big of a job.

asciilifeform: but i will point out that there are not enough koi, or even sharks, on the planet3, to feed the ugly anglo chix to.

asciilifeform: they might feed the ugly chix to koi ☟︎

asciilifeform: also i notice that jp, like ar, does not manufacture ugly chix in any appreciable qty. at all.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429778 << what even is happening in the pic ☝︎

asciilifeform: jp folktale.

asciilifeform: !s momotaro

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-03-2016#1429767 << momotaro. ☝︎

asciilifeform: which is why it is important to ~help them die~.

asciilifeform: to make use of sanity.

asciilifeform: no one wants to LIVE badly enough ☟︎

asciilifeform: because NO ONE GIVES HALF A FUCK

asciilifeform: because...???

asciilifeform: siemens sold them stuxnet-os successfully.

asciilifeform: consider iran

asciilifeform: he would have to sell it in north kr.

asciilifeform: but usg would not sign off on it.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429741 << well not quite, he ~could~ buy the whole orchestra and sell machine+nonwinblowz+customization etc. ☝︎

asciilifeform is not ~complete~ idiot

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-03-2016#1429740 << YES! which is why we called tecan 1st!1111 ☝︎

asciilifeform: but all i had was being me.

asciilifeform: and the solution was 'stop being you, be somebody else'

asciilifeform: certainly did!

asciilifeform: that thing was, if you will, my 'formative' naggum experience.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is SMARRT and GETS IT!

asciilifeform: agha!!

asciilifeform: handling 50k/gram samples !!

asciilifeform: certainly not a half mil machine!

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: and also recall that i'm a nobody with nothing. i dont;' even have the money to make 10k one month and then nothing for 3.

asciilifeform: didn't say there was !

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: and yeah i recall

asciilifeform: and assumes no surgical, if you will, complications.

asciilifeform: though this is mega-lowball

asciilifeform: approx.

asciilifeform: and reverse any proprietary hardware they have that i did not have when i wrote it.

asciilifeform: again if it helps to understand this, it is not a plug-and-go thing, i would have to show up in PERSON and work out the process flow

asciilifeform: but wtf woudl a usg lab care about speed.

asciilifeform: they were accurate, mostly, but could not match the speed.

asciilifeform: the competition to the machine was asian gurlz for $15/h

asciilifeform: ruined sample is a loss.

asciilifeform: my lab tested custom compounds in vitro, some worth $50k/gram

asciilifeform: can be 10, could be 1000

asciilifeform: which

asciilifeform: because how.

asciilifeform: and still don;t.

asciilifeform: WE DID NOT

asciilifeform: maaaaaaaybe we could have 'fought city hall' IF WE HAD MONEY

asciilifeform: but this is what i found out.

asciilifeform: anyway ianal

asciilifeform: this would actually touch the evidence.

asciilifeform: yeah but this is not doughnut

asciilifeform: think fda.

asciilifeform: this means 1) winblowz 2) massive bag of payola to 'cerfifiers'

asciilifeform: they have to use ~certified~ crud

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: this handily explained maybe half of my problem.

asciilifeform: by statute.

asciilifeform: which are bound to usgola

asciilifeform: found, later, that MOST evo were bought by forensic (police) labs

asciilifeform: i went out and did intelligence

asciilifeform: in terms of workflow

asciilifeform: and all were entirely diff

asciilifeform: we had 3 just in the building where i worked !

asciilifeform: this is a every-lab-is-entirely-different sort of thing, afaik.

asciilifeform: there isa typical case??!!!

asciilifeform: how do i quantify this?!

asciilifeform: very difficult to quantify. depends on what they paid their babysitter for the cruddy winblowz thing, how much money they lost to destroyed work on account of microshit.

asciilifeform: case by case.

asciilifeform: straight from the swiss.

asciilifeform: this was for the naked instrument.

asciilifeform: support - again somewhere north of, iirc, 50k/y

asciilifeform: 'evo' sold, in those days at least, for 250-500k depending on dealer options.

asciilifeform: this is a every-$500K-box-is-unique thing.

asciilifeform: this is not a mcdonalds deep fryer.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: to fit the thing to the instruments in question.

asciilifeform: for one thing, deployment would require ~month+ of my full time at the site.

asciilifeform: the other sad thing is that we do not have the capital.

asciilifeform: the matter is that the buyers for this thing simply do not exist !

asciilifeform: i do ~not~ think the matter was of insufficient propaganda.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did not want to put a final gravestone on it.

asciilifeform: iirc i spammed reddit, fwiw

asciilifeform: why would it.

asciilifeform: nope.

asciilifeform: much less sell the whole orchestra in kit.

asciilifeform: note that we were never able to get capital to even get a demo machine.

asciilifeform: i had and still have nfi.

asciilifeform: aha, possibly they made some calls somewhere.

asciilifeform: that we would wither away naturally.

asciilifeform: but tecan - cleverly - understood that they do not NEED to buy OR sue

asciilifeform: i was half-convinced they would!

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: the vendor cannot in most jurisdictions entirely forbid the use of 3rd party soft, but can make life harder for the user.

asciilifeform: the instruments typically come with service contract, $xx,xxx/y