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asciilifeform: any public evidence that they are paid below market rate for other clerks ?
asciilifeform: afaik they get no commission.
asciilifeform: the crapple salesmen are wage labourers
asciilifeform: can mircea_popescu give example of the levels ?
asciilifeform: (i.e. what would be an advanced crapple pusher, vs rank-and-file)
asciilifeform: where are the hierarchical levels then ?
asciilifeform: if chump sends the new chump on his merry way to the crapple store, we have a scam, sure, but how is it 'mlm' ?
asciilifeform: but the traditional definition remains, does chump take money from chump.
asciilifeform: by this notion all consumer crud is 'direct market'
asciilifeform: then mercedes is also pyramid ?
asciilifeform: last i checked, they didn't offer 'get ipnohe for selling five'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where's the consumer direct-sale chumpatron in, e.g., apple ?
asciilifeform: (they are not true iridium toilets because i can identify them visually)
asciilifeform: platinum toilets ftw!
asciilifeform: (can anybody identify the kbd ?) ☟︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-02-2016#1405999 >> https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/her09-15_b_lo-res2.jpg?quality=80 << l0l, 2x eizo 'colouredge' !111 ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: (is there some principle whereby they would wait until i do ? why ?)
asciilifeform: interestingly, immediately while i sent the double.
asciilifeform: funnily enough, the malleators got to it first.
asciilifeform: aaaah finally.
asciilifeform: (would have to laser a few million holes)
asciilifeform: this kind of thing would be an expensive but very decent display-shield. ☟︎
asciilifeform: (the latter has microscopic holes lasered in it, in a circle pattern approx. the size of a printed period)
asciilifeform: it has a power led that shines through the aluminum chassis
asciilifeform: in my collection of junk there is an apple wireless keyboard thing
asciilifeform: to pick up a thread from yesterday, re: rf shields that pass light,
asciilifeform: i get 'ERROR:root:Couldn't open wallet.dat/main.'
asciilifeform: for anybody ?
asciilifeform: does pywallet actually work with trb ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: quite unobtainable, it seems.
asciilifeform: why elisp
asciilifeform: ick
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what am i looking at
asciilifeform: now, mad kudos to anyone who can locate a 'mensch computer' available for purchase...
asciilifeform: interestingly, the chip design is licensable... http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/w65c02s-core.cfm - presumably for serious dough
asciilifeform: appears to use a variant of the 6502 processor that is still made by western design inc.
asciilifeform: but sounds vaguely and pleasantly temple-os-y.
asciilifeform does not own this box, cannot recommend or disrecommend !!
asciilifeform: several assembly language library routines built into firmware and a ROM monitor allowing the ease of programming any of the included devices including graphics, sound, game controllers, communication to a PC, Printer or Modem or other solid state devices. The ROM monitor provides an easy interface menu for checking registers and modifying data in memory. All software listings, schematics and documentation are included.'
asciilifeform: 'The Mensch Computer is a solid state computer that was never designed to compete in the PC market. It's not a PDA, calculator, home controller or personal organizer, but it could be any of these things. It was designed to provide simplicity without complexity allowing users to evolve it into their own creation. Many people put a lot of thought and many years into the design to provide a head start for many projects. There are
asciilifeform: ;;later tell BingoBoingo some lulz, http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/Mensch_Computer.cfm
asciilifeform: punkman: see thread from 1/2hr ago
asciilifeform: and enough with the machine 'knowing' that you 'spent.'
asciilifeform: enough with the 'intelligence'.
asciilifeform: specify x1 from addr a1, x2 from a2, ... x_n(a_n)
asciilifeform: the whole 'wallet' concept is braindamaged and must die.
asciilifeform: how's that
asciilifeform: but money is for people... with money.
asciilifeform: not only this,
asciilifeform: plus there is fee
asciilifeform: it is only 'to yourself' if your test is successful !
asciilifeform: so how to test?.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i contemplated 'fixing wallet' ages ago, but doing so was complicated by the fact that i REALLY, ~REALLY~ do not like spending coin.
asciilifeform: (anybody else?)
asciilifeform: i would malleate own tx to low-s atm but i don't have a handy proggy written for this
asciilifeform: but i'd be curious to see what mircea_popescu has in mind
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've already unsheathed the knives
asciilifeform: 1) it was a good chunk of my net worth 2) it was a surrender to shitgnomery which i still don't properly understand
asciilifeform: send perfectly valid tx, now i have to figure out a way to double-spend own tx, failed to make a bet in time, and may very well end up in limbo
asciilifeform: i have my wrath bit set, re: the high-S thing
asciilifeform: hm
asciilifeform: what's a ~honest~ mine cost ?
asciilifeform: l0l!
asciilifeform: which enemy
asciilifeform: does anyone have a link handy to where in the logz mircea_popescu calculated what it would cost to run a guaranteed-block-in-x-days mine ?
asciilifeform: idiocy.
asciilifeform: (generated, naturally, from ancient box)
asciilifeform: sooo in other newz i put down 5btc on a bitbet and whaddayaknow, 'high S value'
asciilifeform: sorry about the noise, but tradition dictates that this oughta be done 'in forum.'
asciilifeform: i think that's all for now.
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asciilifeform: but even so, mega-kudos to kakobrekla for the discovery.
asciilifeform: and i still have a few mechanical drives, that have not yet been replaced with flash
asciilifeform: i can sorta hear the inductors tho
asciilifeform: fanless.