asciilifeform: key set really ought to be a thing synced once a year at mircea_popescuconf
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: consider, for instance, that there is nothing whatsoever preventing a galactic spam flood
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not wholly convinced that 'key server' is a right thing at all.
asciilifeform: it is possible in principle to write a provably-correct implementation of a subset of rfc4880, but the result is still horrendously ugly.
asciilifeform: btw, for anyone else contemplating pgp, the retardation really flows from the protocol
asciilifeform: it is not enough to 'have miner', you need to control a sizable ~fraction of planetary hash~
asciilifeform: enemy only needs to supply a temporary burst to kill you.
asciilifeform: you have to 'get lucky every day', he - 'only has to get lucky once'
asciilifeform: thing is, 'strategic' mining in the sense of 'protect' pretty much guaranteed to fail - because 'customs inspector's theorem' applies
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only if you regularly add units to keep up with diff
asciilifeform: and don't much care what it fixed-costs.
asciilifeform: some folks just want clean-burning coin without transacting in usd with anyone.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did say 'exceptions'
asciilifeform: a (former) colleague of mine bought something quite like this, at the time i had access to a cabinet with 'free' mains current, let him plug it in. it blew out the breakers.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is every bit the archetypical example of a sucker's game.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: outside of a few odd exceptions which you and i will never meet, mining is of interest strictly to borderline imbeciles
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usians also drink liquid hfcs like water.
asciilifeform: ('chips' - or 'crisps' to other side of the ocean - are something like equal parts potato to synthetic rubbish.)
asciilifeform: a $1 bag of chips can easily go over 1000.
asciilifeform: many do not even have access to something normal person would recognize as a kitchen.
asciilifeform: i.e. the victi^H^H^H^Hchum^H^H^customers are typically folks to whom ~preparing a meal~ is a foreign concept
asciilifeform: there is also the fact of the 'fast' in 'fast food'
asciilifeform: the other thing folks outside of usaschwitz sometimes do not know, is that the cost of the materials of the 'food' is only half the story.
asciilifeform: which is added to literally everything where this is physically possible.
asciilifeform: most of the calories these folks take in come from corn fructose.
asciilifeform: it staves off caloric starvation, but just about everyone who makes a habit of these 'meals' suffers from one or more kinds of malnutrition.
asciilifeform: 'complete meal' is not the best description here.
asciilifeform: if they could get people to run on diesel, they would.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ever hear of 'medical bankruptcy' ?
asciilifeform: all of the 'turkey-buying dollars' are to be vacuumed up.
asciilifeform: e.g., if you had title to a house, it is to be sold
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: understand, no one is eligible for 'medicaid' until whatever earthly goods he had, are properly and documentedly vultured away
asciilifeform: often this process takes the form of 'we will pay, but for amputation rather than treatment'
asciilifeform: or at the very least leave the diseased chump with $maxint bill
asciilifeform: often enough, 'insurer' (misnomer, these are not insurance co. in the traditional sense) will find a way to avoid paying
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is demonstrably and abundantly false
asciilifeform: cazalla: 'buy' is a flexible concept in usa. if you have 'health insurance', it gets milked out to its theoretical maximum, and then you pay (if you have lines of credit, will max'em out naturally)
asciilifeform: cazalla: this normally requires - at the minimum - multiple years of tax receipts proving indigence
asciilifeform: cazalla: you get ZIP from usg unless you are part of the blessedly indigent class
asciilifeform wishes there existed some other typesafe, statically typed language usable on a microcontroller
