asciilifeform: ic is fundamentally 'statalizing' tech

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-06-2015#1175523 << see also ☝︎

asciilifeform: (picture if the 'anti-centralization hardfork' were a regular event.)

asciilifeform: if you even smell the practice - your whole system has failed in a catastrophic way

asciilifeform: rather than practice.

asciilifeform: thing is, like the old-fashioned proverbial nukefest, above scenario works best as a game-theoretical device

asciilifeform: ugh

asciilifeform: (somebody plz tell the 'strings' folks this?!)

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: 'what is the point of building a doomsday machine if no one is told!' (tm) (r) ('strangelove')

asciilifeform: sorta how working nukes gotta stay on the table

asciilifeform: ^ see also today's asic thread..

asciilifeform: t.'

asciilifeform: 'Colby asked if he could have a firing squad. No, Howard said, he could not. Howard said a firing squad would just be an ego trip for Colby, the blindfold and last-cigarette bit, and that Colby was in enough hot water already without trying to "upstage" everyone with unnecessary theatrics. Colby said he was sorry, he hadn't meant it that way, he'd take the tree. Tomas crumpled up the gibbet sketches he'd been making, in disgus

asciilifeform: !b 2 ✂︎

asciilifeform: (which sums to the observation that it is possible to breed people to become a kind of cow)

asciilifeform: there is also orlov's 'deer hunter' effect

asciilifeform: picking at the general principle of 'cheapest shaman' observation

asciilifeform: none afaik

asciilifeform: somebody gotta tell the gazelles this.

asciilifeform: same amount of 'lion discouragement' ?

asciilifeform: that's like saying 'if going to stot, jump as little as you can'

asciilifeform: 'hanging on bouncyball'

asciilifeform: (classic of engl. literature)

asciilifeform: http://jessamyn.com/barth/colby.html << as described here!

asciilifeform: thing goes up, down

asciilifeform wonders about the choice of elevator. gotta have been like those old pirate hangings, with hang/unhang/hang/unhang sequence

asciilifeform: on time!

asciilifeform: said - delivered.

asciilifeform: that schmuck who hanged self from elevator.

asciilifeform: with similar engineering constraints

asciilifeform: i bet something like lensed explosive would beat railgun

asciilifeform: i can think of 1,001 'substantial'

asciilifeform: that money 'could be snorted'

asciilifeform: at any rate, actually building it would run contrary to the spirit of the scam

asciilifeform: not physically impossible, just very gnarly.

asciilifeform: ;;google hochdruckpumpe

asciilifeform: or mile of atmosphere

asciilifeform: mile long vacuum ?

asciilifeform: but costs.

asciilifeform: not impossible to build hardware that eats 500g

asciilifeform: which will launch microsats 'for free', 'any day now'

asciilifeform: i predict that eventually they will justify it with talk of 'railguns'

asciilifeform: which is why i said, these folks are trying to push scam to a kind of logical conclusion

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: only question is - how often

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ~all~ satellite business reduces to that kind of contract

asciilifeform: (horn gotta point down)

asciilifeform: kinda useless if couldn't align

asciilifeform: usganity

asciilifeform: plain cubes.

asciilifeform: not the last time i saw this.

asciilifeform: no mechanicals

asciilifeform: whole point of the 'microsats'

asciilifeform: (at least, last i saw this scam)

asciilifeform: no thrusters.

asciilifeform: these are 'breadboxes'

asciilifeform: nah

asciilifeform: http://nosuchlabs.com/stats << aaaand we're back.

asciilifeform: as in, turkeys.

asciilifeform: 1b in spendables.

asciilifeform: to constantly send up 'disposable' boxes into leo

asciilifeform: it 'helps' in the sense of (as they hope) setting up money siphon from usg

asciilifeform: wake me up when he has problems making rent

asciilifeform: stamp collections ?

asciilifeform: https://sociorocketnewsen.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/wv-57.jpg?w=580&h=345

asciilifeform: ~1.3M rsa-containing keys

asciilifeform: and yes, sqlite was not meant for this

asciilifeform: decimation: not as of 2 min. ago

asciilifeform reaches for gear shift lever

asciilifeform: http://nosuchlabs.com/stats << aaaand we've past 1+M.

asciilifeform: muppet can 'bite' muppeteer, but to a point.

asciilifeform: mr mold's term was 'muppet state'

asciilifeform: kju 'annoys usg' in strictly-circumscribed kabuki defined by his elders.

asciilifeform: between the coke, whores, and 'warcraft' - when ?

asciilifeform: but folks who actually ~saw~ sr alive tell me that this was always loony.

asciilifeform: on custom logic, etc.

asciilifeform: incidentally, prior to the fall of ulbricht, i entertained the notion that sr is run by 'serious person'

asciilifeform: decimation: because retardation? ☟︎

asciilifeform does not have 'intel dept.' and cannot comment re: what miners do, aside from the trivially observable

asciilifeform: much to lose - little to gain.

asciilifeform: why would a 'serious' fella 1) use anything but what himself wrote 2) share so much as a word of it with anyone

asciilifeform: sorta like mircea_popescu's magical private bitcoind

asciilifeform: can't help but wonder if any serious miner will ever touch what he himself did not write

asciilifeform: they can look at recently blockified tx-en

asciilifeform: not sure why any communication other than 'fee' and 'made into block or not' is necessary here

asciilifeform: responsibility of sender of tx to learn what 'going rate' is

asciilifeform: why would they bother to answer ?

asciilifeform: what's wrong with 'fee'

asciilifeform: (like the idiot 'change addr' thing)

asciilifeform: not even sure that it was done for cache, rather than out of some misguided notion of 'anonymization'

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: why is everybody stuck playing cache for the miners

asciilifeform: i will confess that i've always found the whole 'mempool' thing to be a dodge ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: by, say, turning off mains plug

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: because mempool is by nature ephemeral

asciilifeform: out of general principle, ought to retransmit until 'blockified'

asciilifeform: where would they go.