asciilifeform: also to have the cake.

asciilifeform: who goes willingly to the fermenter?

asciilifeform: for them - biodiesel.

asciilifeform: precisely because the alternative is for their children, if for anyone

asciilifeform: if given an 'alternative' that's slightly more attractive than drooling despair and starvation, they'll bite.

asciilifeform: (idiot fuffle that fudged numbers)

asciilifeform: we even have the financial equivalent of 'ramdoubler'

asciilifeform: from the food replaced with synthetic garbage, to the car which costs a few years of avg. pay (hello ussr 1950) to... whatever.

asciilifeform: but, as various people proved to the satisfaction of any but the thickest case of maliciously ignorant - it's everywhere.

asciilifeform: the man on the street is gagged with 'shuddup plebe, where's the hyperinflation, nowhere'

asciilifeform: so what if yesterday there was a penny and today - two.

asciilifeform: possibly even disguised as ordinary memory leaks.

asciilifeform: financial memory leak. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it may very well be the case that, in the bulk of it, gram for gram, the answer is: printing press.

asciilifeform: incidentally, the hunt for 'who pays' in cc fraud may be a unicorn hunt.

asciilifeform: at any level of magnification.

asciilifeform: bezzlatron is fractally bezzlic.

asciilifeform: so long as 'ebay' gets its x%

asciilifeform: with the enthusiastic cooperation of 'paypal' et al.

asciilifeform: likely, no 'xbox' and no actual buyer. just a sp4mz0r washing his stolen cc #s. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it's entirely routine.

asciilifeform: (not collectible curios, either. ordinary junk.)

asciilifeform: game consoles 'sold' for $5000, etc.

asciilifeform: buy worthless domain for 1mn, then laundered 800k out of it << incidentally, the ancient 'secret' of 'ebay'

asciilifeform: see user box.

asciilifeform was there back when it was readable

asciilifeform: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2ljrdi/buterins_waterfall << sp4m4tr0n1c

asciilifeform armchair admiral, armchair general

asciilifeform: paper submarines.

asciilifeform has no truck with mining and doesn't wish to

asciilifeform: (discussed at various points here as a handy cooling, power, and security solution.)

asciilifeform: like towed hydrophone arrays on nuke subs.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: and about the same shape.

asciilifeform: the hedgehogs would be approximately the size of christmas tree ornaments.

asciilifeform: and surrounding water, with its convection currents, is sufficient cooling.

asciilifeform: at any rate, so long as each 'hedgehog' ball contains one chip, the surface-to-volume ratio is favourable

asciilifeform vaguely recalls a flight of fancy calculation of how much 'tidal plant' it would take to... yank the moon from orbit

asciilifeform: not really related

asciilifeform: tidal - a kind of poor man's hydro

asciilifeform: (didn't learn thermo in school? dig out a 1990s pc with 'peltier' cooler and connect a load to it instead of powering. then see how long until cpu melts.)

asciilifeform: (and i hope i don't have to explain the thermodynamic folly of trying to run waste heat through it)

asciilifeform: rtg is laughably wasteful.

asciilifeform: tether should clamp inductively on outside of bulb, rather than penetrating.

asciilifeform: given the power requirement, tethers are probably a fact of life.

asciilifeform: via whatever. ideally, tethers.

asciilifeform: (private - on 'mother ship')

asciilifeform: all comms - public key

asciilifeform: submerge.

asciilifeform: 'vitrify' individual miners into glass balls.

asciilifeform: in a heat sink.

asciilifeform: nothing to burn.

asciilifeform: this is why i suggested small 'naval mines' with steel capsules in water pool.

asciilifeform: because infinite money.

asciilifeform: fluorinert.

asciilifeform: it isn't like this was invented just today.

asciilifeform: circulate the oil though whatever.

asciilifeform: am i the only one who stayed awake in first grade?

asciilifeform: dear glub, everyone, cfc does not 'absorb' heat. mechanical refrigeration works on ideal gas law / inverted carnot cycle.

asciilifeform: decimation: costs like fine whiskey

asciilifeform: afaik someone is using just this.

asciilifeform: transformer oil is probably cheapest.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: rc4 still used somewhere? lol

asciilifeform is aware of the threadbare physical metaphor here

asciilifeform: no need for real coordination, just mildly guided inertia.

asciilifeform: they get 'cracked down'

asciilifeform: also a bludgeon for those who fall out of favour (employers, that is)

asciilifeform: the only reason they even bother with visa bureaucracy is that a whole class of pestilential 'helpers' feeds off it.

asciilifeform: corpse doesn't get asked what kind of worms shall eat.

asciilifeform: considering that folks are -still- grinding down soviet army installations for metals...

asciilifeform: there's plenty of delicious meat left on the bones of the gigantic dead dragon that was usa.

asciilifeform: every elevator pisser on the planet dreams of meeting a virginal elevator.

asciilifeform: decimation: this is only partly due to bezzle. it is also because in usa, 'they don't piss in elevators like back home.'

asciilifeform: with a few embers of burning europe down helping stay warm

asciilifeform: usa has been running on batteries since when? wilson?

asciilifeform: 'achievements' lol.

asciilifeform: stayed in furnace where it belongs, etc

asciilifeform: if fire got out of the burning houses business...

asciilifeform: danielpbarron would make great fireman. holding a sign, 'do away with fire.'

asciilifeform: this is already happening. no need to advocate for it.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: employers don't want to feed the mortgage, etc. bezzlatron. and this is perfectly logical.

asciilifeform: !s bedrock

asciilifeform: except that we haven't actually invented modularizable software yet.

asciilifeform: (see 'multics')

asciilifeform: whether on present-day 64GB monster or pdp-10.

asciilifeform: the seeds of rot are in any deviation from 'fits in head.'

asciilifeform: no.

asciilifeform: any software project with more than a handful of people - is inevitable crud. but this is a 'hatefact.'

asciilifeform: decimation: turns out, these don't work all that well.

asciilifeform: decimation: the original point was 'human compilers.'

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: likewise, 'at the bottom' - on SR, SR2, idiot chumps' machines, etc

asciilifeform: those were dropped in simply as examples

asciilifeform: 'USG. (Bitstamp and Coinbase)' << might wanna fix

asciilifeform: neato.

asciilifeform: actually, it's rather relevant.

asciilifeform: 'Let's Make the Water Turn Black' << see also the infamous operetta, 'urinetown.'

asciilifeform: whither shitfalls in nature?

asciilifeform: fecal << if somebody wants to do a similar job involving a 'nitrogen fixation cycle' graphic, why the hell not.

asciilifeform not specialist.