asciilifeform to avoid dying of laughter, takes a break.

asciilifeform: (why would the smaller machine fall into the net dragged by the larger - slower - one ?) ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342238 << this has all of the hallmarks of a first-class rigged demo absurdity ☝︎

asciilifeform: imho this is not any less or more appealing than pr0n with cockz in it. but to each, his own...

asciilifeform: one day i would like to read a cookbook published by mircea_popescu. which will show the foods not only as they are on the table, but as they are in the stomach, small intestine, large, and onward... ☟︎

asciilifeform: just when i began to think that mircea_popescu doesn't even go in for that sort

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342223 << at last, proper pr0n ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-12-2015#1342233 << give that poor bony fella his preorder moneyz back. ☝︎

asciilifeform: almost pavlovian reflex.

asciilifeform again sees '7.95260000' and thinks 'not bad...' then remembers it isn't a bits'o'entropy/bt figure

asciilifeform: l0ltr0nic.

asciilifeform: 'We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills and, in the spirit of liberty, as broadly and evenly distributed as is possible safely.' << interesting turn of phrase ☟︎

asciilifeform: how many russia did they buy yet.

asciilifeform: 'Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years.' << lulzy ☟︎

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: snore

asciilifeform: --> 'can verify the'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'that actual Bitcoin clients can the entire blockchain including transaction signatures during initial sync' ???

asciilifeform: hey do to you.' << waat

asciilifeform: ' I drove to my next loop and sobbed aloud as I tried to shove thick magazines through thin, razor-sharp mail slots that made my fingers bleed. I kept crying, from exhaustion and frustration, as I walked through hedges and tree branches. When I finished and arrived at the station, my supervisor asked if I had been crying. I told her my allergies were terrible. Another carrier had already told me to never, ever show them what t

asciilifeform: but not here.

asciilifeform: possibly

asciilifeform: hellcat ?

asciilifeform: grumman ?!!

asciilifeform: so there is something to be said in his favour.

asciilifeform: bbbut he wears a pith helmet, and is thereby entertaining.

asciilifeform: my current postman routinely drops parcels at the wrong house.

asciilifeform: now - afaik - just 2 +ev ministries left.

asciilifeform: after this - broke.

asciilifeform: ~until~ made to

asciilifeform: (these are - or rather, were until recently - the only cash-positive ministries other than irs (tax collectors) in usa.)

asciilifeform: in usa, post office and patent office have well-deserved horrid reputations for... actual work!11111

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2015#1342149 << there's government jobs and then there's government jobs. ☝︎

asciilifeform: ah hm.

asciilifeform: mega-nostalgic.

asciilifeform: punkman: pretty sure that's the intro to 'system shock' !

asciilifeform bbl.

asciilifeform: and the only reason why spam from .gov/.mil is a rarity is the fascist filtering on the head end

asciilifeform: here in gringolandia spam is routinely sent from city, state, and esp. shithole .edu machines

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2015#1342101 << the giftz of winblowz ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spiffy

asciilifeform: but it was not very impressive, the condemned was doped with opium

asciilifeform: iirc the last known public ling chi was in 1907

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: re: link, i have always found 'ling chi' interesting. by all indications, the condemned remained alive almost until the very end. this must have taken considerable skill on part of the executioner.

asciilifeform: it was punished harshly.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: folks certainly tried moonshining.

asciilifeform: in us - with rent bezzle

asciilifeform: in su this was done with the state monopoly on liquor

asciilifeform: the second half of this particular engine's cycle is, of course, repossessing the bezzlars so they do not circulate and spread chaos

asciilifeform: they simply print the bezzlars, and hire.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: it isn't even a matter of 'we'll try to reallocate some of our other budgetary items'

asciilifeform: answer: ~somewhere~

asciilifeform: sorta like a hard drunk, or better yet, a costly dope addict - where does he get the coke money ?

asciilifeform: somebody moved a magical pencil, and - bam - there were fewer rolls of tp to be had. but chips appeared, aha.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1539 << obligatory illustration. where do you suppose these originally came from ?

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: obligatory thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299184 ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'serious' being a relative thing

asciilifeform: serious cpu is one of the very few remaining american monopolies.

asciilifeform: why import ?

asciilifeform: to buy swedish steel ?

asciilifeform: (what does it cost usg to order intel to bake 100,000 14nm asics ?)

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: why do you imagine that the consumer prices have anything to do with the actual cost to a geopolitical player ?

asciilifeform: (largest power could easily occupy, e.g., 10,000 cheapo warehouse lofts in 300 cities)

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: there is no reason (aside from laziness and idiocy) for there to be any geographic concentrations of miners whatsoever

asciilifeform: where'd it go..?

asciilifeform: ;;nethash

asciilifeform: 'it is on the screen, ergo it matters even if it is nonsense'

asciilifeform: tlp's disease ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2015#1341978 << that was sussman ☝︎

asciilifeform: them that die will be the lucky ones (tm) (r) (treasure island)

asciilifeform: each of us will get an anthill 'entirely his own and fully adequate for him' (to borrow a mircea_popescuism)

asciilifeform: ahahaha the admiral poindexter thing

asciilifeform: https://mises.org/library/ten-economic-blunders-history << lulzy, found by chance

asciilifeform: !gettrust pete_dushenski

asciilifeform: wai wut

asciilifeform: looks like Vexual's vacant chair is finally filled ?

asciilifeform: if prisoner's dilemma somehow solved itself, you wouldn't need miners to begin with

asciilifeform: 'free market' doesn't come with a 'let's all chill and think and do we really want thermonukefest??' button

asciilifeform: fill it with whatever.

asciilifeform: you can occupy as much space as you like by bidding up.

asciilifeform: adlai: the 'free market for negative block space' follows trivially from the scheme discussed in the old thread, where miner optimizes for fee/byte

asciilifeform: did i miss a tray of lsd being passed around earlier.

asciilifeform: ('legal transactions only')

asciilifeform: 'go ahead and transmit your tx to the free^H^H^H^Hterrorist world, but be prepared to wait two years for a confirmation. or you can send to u.s. fed miner and get in the next block.' ☟︎

asciilifeform: on a usg scale

asciilifeform: i suspect that we'll be seeing some variant of this quite soon

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-12-2015#1341667 << how's this work ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: 'How to read alchemical texts An introductory study course for the perplexed'

asciilifeform: in other despatches from the dept.-of-things-i-had-no-idea-i-needed, http://www.alchemywebsite.com/bookshop/reading_texts_course.html

asciilifeform: quite anatomically illustrative !

asciilifeform: iirc - nanjing

asciilifeform: that one's famous

asciilifeform: n00bs seem to think that isis et al are the first folks to partake in this kind of sport with modern cameras rolling, but this is not so.

asciilifeform: shinohai: caption is, 'trophy' of dja-lama - a skin 'artistically' removed from a live kyrghyzian warrior

asciilifeform: (focus on asian flavours)

asciilifeform: http://foto-history.livejournal.com/8378510.html << historical interest, re: punishments. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it comes with 'chapter & verse' concordance (like a bible)

asciilifeform: adlai: if you want the manual, it can be had; be sure to get the 'rationale' document also

asciilifeform: aside from this, http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html

asciilifeform: this being said, the language is not a favourite among the open sores crowd and so you will not find a great many full-length megaprojects in public