asciilifeform: also presupposes dns-zappers part 1 through 3, without which it is meaningless
asciilifeform: (this goes for all patches, but most of all this one. it affects virtually every major subsystem)
asciilifeform: no one should even dare to think of using what i'm about to drop in the ml, anywhere close to the front lines, without ~several~ literate folks having first read it.
asciilifeform: in other nyooz, i'm at the tail end of some very gnarly therealbitcoin surgery
asciilifeform: (in my time the separation was by left-right wings of floor)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the dorm i lived in still had relics from the time of sex-segregated floors of bldg: bathrooms tiled in the traditional sickly pink or blue signifiers
asciilifeform: but someone would have to install them
asciilifeform: plenty of folks here still live in such places, because just about every shop sells these fuses.
asciilifeform: located at the top of a stairwell to nowhere in a deep cellar, top of staircase bricked up (near the base, a ~working~ toilet in the middle of bare cement, incidentally)
asciilifeform: guess what, until recently i lived in a dwelling in usa with ~just such~ fuse
asciilifeform: i can admit some explanation of 'why burned' but to say that 'had nothing to do with it' is a tall glass to drink
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja visit the charred ruins left over from the folks for whom 'violence has nothing to do with it' burned to the ground ?
asciilifeform: breaking everything not made of unbreakables and pissing/shitting/throwing fast 'food' garbage where one stands is 'sexual potence' ?
asciilifeform: ^ speaking of which, brings back to the point of whether mr mold is a disinfo agent. not that i can say definitively, but imho the best argument that he is not, is the difficulty of formulating a picture of a hypothetical 'moldbug minus the restraint' who does ~not~ advocate inaction
asciilifeform: -- unless you can fabricate a convincing 'blue collar' work history and biography (in which case, work for cia...) you're phucked
asciilifeform: where god help you if you have, say, uni degree and history of serious technical work, and suddenly need to make ends meet by digging trenches, washing dishes, etc
asciilifeform: incidentally, here in usaschwitz we have a plague called 'overqualification'
asciilifeform: the difficulty of 'emulate stupid for the rest of your life' is likely the reason for the infamous u.s. police dept. which figured in a lawsuit where some schmuck was rejected from police academ for scoring too high on 'iq test'
asciilifeform: whether it was on account of boredom, i never learned
asciilifeform: phun phakt: when i worked in u.s. army, a guard on the campus did just that
asciilifeform: the result, in best case, tends to be something like mr mold.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, folks who are placed in the unenviable position of 'emulate stupid' still try to use their mind. just like a prisoner in solitary cell, who theoretically does not really need legs for much of anything, will still wiggle them around
asciilifeform: the 'cost of intelligence', as mentioned earlier by mircea_popescu, is that the clever fella is not ever content to buy rifle, weld some steel on an old van, shoot out a police station window, and die
