asciilifeform suddenly grasps where mircea_popescu was going
asciilifeform: i still don't see how an altcoin could ever be an appealing thing other than to idiots and looters, assuming a still-functioning (if asymptotically-rewardless) classic btc
asciilifeform: where is the logical flaw in 'classic btc is schelling point for carve-of-all-value' --> asymptote ?
asciilifeform: did somebody settle the proton decay thing while i was asleep ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and what of the asymptote ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i normally buy rarities there that it is physically impossible to obtain in any other way short of a journey around the globe in person
asciilifeform: typically if i need 'the same thing twice' i open the crate and take out another.
asciilifeform: pretty much ZERO of my transactions are repeats (with same seller/buyer)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: aha, bordering on 20 yrs of ebay. but that isn't how it works.
asciilifeform tried using the classic otc site on at least five separate occasions but never succeeded in either buying or selling so much as a nut or a bolt there
asciilifeform: also will note that the portable i actually use for work, cost no less than the maximal mac, relies on blobs, and a good number of peripherals simply do not work, blob or no blob
asciilifeform: continually developing and testing new product experiences,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “This is a test we're running for a small number of Yahoo Mail users.”'
asciilifeform: 'Yahoo! confirmed reports that it is preventing some Yahoo Mail users from seeing their e-mails until they turn off their ad-blocking software. Users started complaining late last week on social media and ad-blocking forums that a message prompting them to disable ad-blocking software appeared when they tried to view their e-mail. On Monday, a company spokeswoman said the notices were a limited experiment. “At Yahoo, we are
asciilifeform: (legend being, killer would not know in which one to wait.)
asciilifeform: goes back, i dare say, to qin shihuandi and his 10,001-bedroom palace
asciilifeform: (unrelated) 'Our general approach is to introduce enough randomness into each hardware unit that a backdoor trigger cannot be reliably recognized by malicious circuitry.' << evidently my 'specificity law' is at least a shared hallucination
