asciilifeform: btw a pet is not simply any sex partner, but one that you keep fed, combed, vet visits, ..., etc. and don't send out to work for pay

asciilifeform: l0l why

asciilifeform: germany is spiffy

asciilifeform: jurov: congrats !

asciilifeform: in other news, pump is running: http://nosuchlabs.com/stats

asciilifeform: something almost aesopian about this

asciilifeform: but only suspect

asciilifeform: cannot know, obviously

asciilifeform: certainly, if he knew of it

asciilifeform: and yes, if dog could get ddt - he would

asciilifeform: i like converse 'on the net, though no one might know, i am still a dog'

asciilifeform: jurov: dogs, then, also have fleas because they insist ?

asciilifeform: and not before.

asciilifeform: he will eat worse once he runs out of my and neighbour's fat.

asciilifeform: he eats very, very well.

asciilifeform: so yes, postmen - will eat paper. but less than 2 yrs ago i was a guest at a house party of a fella who, it turned out, was middle management at nsa. he is not eating paper.

asciilifeform: l0l i think they actually guard the parties now

asciilifeform: i've been informed that some already are

asciilifeform: postmen - will eat paper, yes

asciilifeform: as far as i'm concerned, wh menu may or may not include flesh of virgins

asciilifeform: when he is picking the less-rotten tomatoes with his own two hands

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when i spot obama in my local shitgrocery i will then agree.

asciilifeform: link to 'beriozka' is pertinent because at no point did the senior managerial caste lose their access to goodies

asciilifeform: wai wat

asciilifeform: because they get fed by usg automagically

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: perhaps '06-07

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can scarcely remember a time when it -was- usable for some useful purpose.

asciilifeform: jurov: i haven't a synced one. ask danielpbarron

asciilifeform: see also orlov's 'dead souls' essay.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the payola from usg continues, life carries on. at no point are actual users required.

asciilifeform: because if something were to ship with the 128GB or whatnot that a sane person would ask for a node - built-in, the device would have a capped lifespan

asciilifeform: jurov: but this applies to any device

asciilifeform: jurov: true

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is no shortage of folks doing this even now.

asciilifeform: (likely sooner)

asciilifeform: you'd have to throw it out in a year or so.

asciilifeform: not to mention that 32GB is undersized.

asciilifeform: and phone flash is typically dog-slow

asciilifeform: 2-3x the cost of pogo.

asciilifeform: how cheap is 'cheap' ?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: or wat, broken ?!

asciilifeform: and l0l try running your node over a gsm modem today

asciilifeform: jurov: ram ?

asciilifeform: it is -literally- the cheapest device on the planet which runs bitcoin.

asciilifeform: nothing - and i mean, -nothing- remotely comparable is available for any less than 6x the cost.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: the trick with pogo, incidentally, is that its price is a rather artificial thing. my understanding is that they were sold 'at cost' and presently sold at liquidation price.

asciilifeform: jurov: common experience. vysotsky even had a mega-popular song about it.

asciilifeform: costs like a real computer

asciilifeform: !up thestringpuller

asciilifeform: i have a number of 'conventional' nodes where this warning now appears.

asciilifeform: gavin & the merry band of shitgnomes used their magic key to transmit 'Warning: This version is obsolete, upgrade required!' ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: in other news,

asciilifeform: (the trick was, the scrip was available on the black market, in exchange for ordinary - or as they were called, 'wooden' - ruble.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the comments were gold. folks pointing out that if you want to eat these things -today-, you need -significantly- better connections and de-facto 5-10x the money.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146238 << thing is about 50/50 'best of ru' and imported things. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146225 << yeah, same. i nearly imploded upon seeing that. ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the wares were marketed mainly to diplomatic staff, who were paid in a peculiar kind of scrip rather than ruble (which was Officially non-exportable)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146219 << my understanding is that similar establishments, under ru management, existed in the 'colonies' under a variety of names ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146171 << see the old 'promises vs mathematics' thread also. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146155 << not one of those things is prime, for perfectly valid arithmetical reasons (see Apocalyptic's note about 641 and 6700417. and you can prove it, but i'm leaving it as an exercise for now) ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-05-2015#1146154 << rootless kosmopolitan (TM) (R) ☝︎

asciilifeform: jurov: at this point, it would take a good bit to surprise me.

asciilifeform: 'Once the router is powered off, it restarts without the worm present.' << lamers

asciilifeform: <jurov> hope someone does this for gsm baseband soon, too << these have remote login with default creds ?

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu unrelated to anything, but for the classicz translation olympics: http://dpaste.com/0BP7BQQ << this time, not mine. but obscure, and very l337 ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://valaamov-osel.livejournal.com/171595.html << unrelated. catalogue of a soviet 'birch' store (sold products to K00l K1dz for d0ll4rz) circa 1975. ☟︎

asciilifeform: mats: l0l you oughta have this in yer head

asciilifeform: notably, before there was an 'app store' from apple

asciilifeform: mats: aha. famously. lotsa folks cracked theirs using this

asciilifeform: where you get a stock southbridge, dc power minutiae, cpu, bios, etc

asciilifeform: decimation: designing a modern mb is really a 'model airplane' sorta affair

asciilifeform: rather, it is a u.s. aircraft carrier - which simply happens to be made of earth

asciilifeform: the atlas lies: taiwan is not actually a country

asciilifeform: for highest bidder

asciilifeform: who toil in the darkness to dig out the nuggets of choice turd

asciilifeform: not so mysterious to the dwarves in the mines of moria

asciilifeform: !s whip the sea

asciilifeform: !up ascii_field

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: schrodinger was, iirc, fired from oxford for 'bigamy'

asciilifeform: iirc he never lacked a harem

asciilifeform: not to do this

asciilifeform: one would imagine folks would've learned by now

asciilifeform: which - didn't work

asciilifeform: where he wrote a similar letter to hitler

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you know the story of schrodinger's public pant-shitting ?

asciilifeform: according to the link, did surrender eventually

asciilifeform: everybody dies

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how did the mountain episode end ?

asciilifeform: e. coli has us beat hands down, at that

asciilifeform: of surviving ?

asciilifeform: let me guess of what

asciilifeform: i do not look up to afghanistan as peak of human culture. but that's just imho.

asciilifeform: this one alone sums up to afghanistan.

asciilifeform: all of them? lsd.

asciilifeform: three or four - granted.

asciilifeform: what's of it is that you can't be on the edge of every single human performance envelope

asciilifeform: what of it.