asciilifeform: 'A few years ago, Etsy lifted some of its stricter sales requirements, including a ban on sellers using certain manufacturing techniques and hiring staff...'
asciilifeform: if this is 'intelligent', what's retardation look like ?
asciilifeform: 'According to neighbors and a man who hired the teen to write for his Web site, the Osbourn Park student was quiet in person but exceptionally intelligent — authoring articles on complicated science and technology topics.' (wa. p.) << mega-l0l
asciilifeform struggles to recall the traditional term for the kind of technowankery where folks buy 'pro' tools without any place to use or relevant skill
asciilifeform: iirc we had the 'can you club with it' thread
asciilifeform: (iirc all the m-whatever things are Al but for the barrel)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: correct if i've my dod-speak mixed up, but 'designated marksman' is not a sniper - he engages only within visual contact distance
asciilifeform is an armchair general and recommends that aficionados seek out the primary sources.
asciilifeform: (simple weapons, but highly skilled professionals)
asciilifeform: ru school of thought took, unsurprisingly, opposite tack
asciilifeform: americans took the whole 'golden sniper toilet' thing almost to logical conclusion, with microprocessorized wind&elevation calculators, bullets turned on lathes (!), etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's a beautiful treatise, 'art of the sniper' ('искусство снайпера') - ru of course - highly recommended if aficionado or even mild interest in the history. describes precisely what modern designers changed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: largely a third-world (afghanistan, africa) item currently, afaik
asciilifeform goes further than mircea_popescu, dispenses with 'machine word' concept. want bits, say how many.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: long story : traditionally, "int" means a word... << obtain, from purely historical interest, if you don't already own it, k&r 1st ed. good tour of the weirdo word (and byte!) sizes on the archs of the day. predecessor 'B' was 'typeless' (all things are machine-word width) and this was not uncommon then
asciilifeform: hanbot: if it's a reasonably recent gentoo with reasonably recent contents, there is no escape but to read the manual.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: for folks who need graphical whatevery
asciilifeform: (will point out, for the record, that there are other adas, not descended from gnat - but i will never see them so long as i live, and quite likely neither will you)
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: how to get it on your system is a puzzler that you would have to resolve
asciilifeform: defined strictly for the purpose of this line of inquiry as 'that which might cause btc sphincters to tighten and less to be spent tomorrow'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is your explanation essentially that exchange value of btc (in the secular world at large, not speaking of usd in particular) and the btc income of a well-organized business are tightly coupled and the 'rope never breaks' ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mpex, as i understand, consists of ultra-long-haul folks
asciilifeform: btc heats up, begins to climb, revenue drops..
asciilifeform: say, you are in the habit of selling $gizmos for btc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is that most sources of bitcoin revenue are made of flesh and likely to suffer damage on hypothetical 'day x'
asciilifeform: ^ if above reasoning is flawed, i'd like to learn how
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: what somebody's worth as a slave is still a finite sum, that isn't especially difficult to come up with (ask the romans)
asciilifeform: (you lose 1btc because poor schmuck couldn't come up the the ten sets of organs, only one, and you lost most of what you lent him)
asciilifeform: so borrowing btc, as shown above, is an uncapped liability
asciilifeform: (let's say tomorrow's 'day x' and 1 btc > your organs)
asciilifeform: and what kind of collateral could possibly suffice for btc
asciilifeform: (though it is potentially - and thus, in fact is - an infinite-liability deal; how can you guarantee that you will find the coin to repay)
asciilifeform: iirc wot folks have borrowed from one another before
