asciilifeform: the cockroaches, mice, and rats, have come to genuinely believe that they own the house.☟︎
asciilifeform: now the root of the matter is, the miners do not particularly relish being publicly called the vermin they are. and if they weren't specifically taking aim at tmsr, they will at some point work up the nerve, and do so. 'whatchagonnado about it.'
asciilifeform: (shows that the thing is actually real, in real time)
asciilifeform: ^ for some reason i thought it was obvious that bitbet ~did~ win from publishing actual, live bet addrs
asciilifeform: 'You think Bitbet benefits from the open display of bets and payouts? Fine! Publish them for paid-out bets. Publish a shortened version for active bets, first few digits of the amount, a fragment of the address… publish hashes of the whole data, deedbot them, anything you'd like. Why publish the whole thing, plain text, all the time? What did you imagine would come out of that rabid, unthinking transparency besides empowered☟︎
asciilifeform: (for n00bz who think 'it is impossible to be sacked from usg' - it is actually very easy. one merely has to be employed as a contractor, of whom there is a dozen or two for every actual 'civil servant', and then you can be fired any hour.)
asciilifeform: i heard that when he died, the very few folks whose employment survived his retirement, were finally sacked.
asciilifeform: he was, (shock!) very boastful of being listed (at some, then recent, past) in it.
asciilifeform: that i even learned that plum book existed.
asciilifeform: it was actually from.. i'll call him dr. plumbook,
asciilifeform: an old officemate of mine (now deceased, he was in his 80s) was, for some perverse reason, very boastful of having known nehru personally.
asciilifeform: btw am i the only one who thinks of lumumba when hearing ubuntu ?
asciilifeform: l0l, reading the src, apparently I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="true" cures...
asciilifeform: what MOTHERFUCKING BUSINESS is it of the port what kind of ram.
