asciilifeform: i can almost see the pleabargain-of-the-fyootoor: 'mr idiot, 33, to forgo impalement or the anthill, agreed not appeal any death sentence of beheading or less'

asciilifeform: in yet other noose, https://archive.is/3aDwi << 'A Florida man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that he conspired to operate an illegal bitcoin exchange .... Anthony Murgio, 33, entered his plea in federal court in Manhattan to three counts, including conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a month before he was to face trial. Under a plea agreement, Murgio agreed not to

asciilifeform: buried in this lengthy turd is the entirely valid observation that 'If Miner i cannot obtain a single block posted before Bi, he quits the business. Therefore, we investigate the time between any two consecutive events. As {Ii} is indeed a Bernoulli process, ... ' (concluding with 'miner cartel is +ev and inevitable')

asciilifeform: 'The paper propose a new proof-of-work mechanism that improves decentralization and reduces the risk of 51% attack without increasing the risk of Sybil attack. This new mechanism introduces a series of principles such as Career open to all talents, without distinction of birth, Distribution according to labor and All Men are created equal.'

asciilifeform: btw over the years i was able to purchase an xdp probe from a scrap dealer. but never once got hold of the software. so made no headway on reversing xdp.

asciilifeform: to observe the increase.

asciilifeform: it is like the increase in diameter of german maidenz taking 1,001st syrian cock, after the 1,000th -- you will need a micrometer.

asciilifeform: (in actuality the thing suxx, because it cannot -- usually -- be used to debug bios. a la sage probe (or intel's, xdp))

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-10#1600290 << oh noez, folx with physical access MIGHT be able to debug own kernel without buying $10,000 brick from intel and using winblowz box with $50,000 xdp turdware! oh noez. ☝︎

asciilifeform: is supposed to “react very fast” to “disinformation” on social media, especially with an eye toward the general election in 2017, because fake news could “influence” said election and avoid the predetermined outcome (by making the voice of the people heard).'

asciilifeform: 'This plan is now in play, with the Merkel régime threatening to heavily fine social media platforms for… “fake news,” of course! The Ministry of the Interior is about to create a Disinformation Defence Center, to battle “fake news.” If you think that it sounds like Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, or the MfS in the old East Germany, that’s because it is. To be located very close to Merkel’s office in Berlin, this center

asciilifeform: case of regional interest,” making an even bigger mockery of themselves, because by then even the Washington Post took up the story. Similar things have happened on several similar occasions, and in each case the exposure the story received through social media made these events into running jokes. So, not reporting the news at all will not work any more, and it is time for Plan B: actual, real censorship of social media.'

asciilifeform: in other lelz, specifically in re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-07#1598644 , http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2017/01/wherefore-goes-germany.html (guest piece) >> 'When the beautiful daughter of an EU politician was brutally raped and drowned by a migrant in Freiburg last year, Tagesschau, the flagship newscast of state TV channel ARD did not report it at all and was forced to justify this two days later. They then called it “only a ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-10#1600288 >> 'Shortsighted people once laughed at the idea of a $1,000 Bitcoin. Today they laugh at the idea of a 1,000MB block. ' << lel ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-10#1600289 << lel i dun know these folx ☝︎

asciilifeform used to work with d00d from tw, interestingly a dbtronics greybeard, and asked him 'ready to fight for your motherland against dirty reds' . he looked as if beholding a martian

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can initiate with hammer. we had thread.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's not there. you can trivially ~initiate~, right in your kitchen, with laser. what nobody can do is ~confine~ so that chain react.

asciilifeform raises the glass, drinks.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'u.s. national ignition centre' is an unholy cocktail of 'scientocracy'. it has three purposes: 1) ensure that laser-initiated fusion chain reaction is not discovered. (distant) 2) -- 'if discovered, must be under usg roof' 3) employ 1,000,000 'physics'-flavoured mediocrities

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if you were thinking 'laser fusion' -- it's a cynical fraud, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-11-14#921351 ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-01-10#971559 << thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: and ordinary laser at the tip.

asciilifeform: i was picturing a tesla-valvular-conduit, with vortex flaps pointing in the direction of the exhaust, running the length of the rocket.

asciilifeform: what the hell do you use for optics in a laser-ignited rocket motor ?

asciilifeform: iirc we had a thread about an engine tuning d00d who ran one. on '80s micros too, to this day.

asciilifeform: plenty of these