asciilifeform: anyone on u.s. verizon fiber - your dns is being hijacked.
asciilifeform: seems like they don't make oceans wide enough, any more.
asciilifeform: although even this no longer suffices.
asciilifeform: "ignore it" not with "debunk it" or "use it" << ignoring herr lysenko is best done from across an ocean.
asciilifeform 'private key for the confirmatory transaction' << misread as 'the crematory transaction'
asciilifeform: ' The order also gives the receiver authorization to convert the bitcoins "to cash on a systematic and reasoned basis."' << brace for waterfall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: misplaced a zero again?
asciilifeform: (it blew my mind the other week when i noticed that these were being paid, by many folks in the crowd, with... something quite like actual monopoly money. issued by the state, it turned out, 'vegetable food stamps.' presumably these are redeemable for usd in some dark cellar at city hall.)
asciilifeform: but the point here is, the most humble tomato peddler at my local market - still usg funded.
asciilifeform: even if you only sell for gold dubloons and have never heard of farm subsidy.
asciilifeform: if you're a potato monger in idaho - usg funded.
asciilifeform: that is, either works for usg, works for entity funded by usg, or works for a humble physical service (e.g. restaurant, plumber's shop) that is frequented by 1 and 2
asciilifeform: (see the canonical piece by 'last psychiatrics' re: one town where this was demonstrable to the naked eye.)
asciilifeform: decimation: government jobs << in usa, everyone - at least, within a few steps of recursion - has a government job.
asciilifeform: unfortunately those categories are almost entirely membership-by-birth.
asciilifeform: but there are several categories of inhabitant who don't need money at all
asciilifeform: decimation: every 'burgher' (see mircea_popescu's essay on the subject) - exactly right
asciilifeform: the 2k does not include other bezzles. e.g., auto, without which it is flatly impossible to buy edibles much less earn anything
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it right re: the massive bezzle gifts, but notice that these aren't really handouts to the plebes - they only get to touch the money and feel warm inside for a few seconds, then they have to give it directly to real estate chumpmeisters or college racket
asciilifeform: and afaik, most of 'homo redditicus' is not living from government pensions, but from relatives
asciilifeform: if you aren't in the target demographics (not purely 'ethnic', but approximately for most purposes) it may as well be 'macarthur grant' or nobel, for all you'll ever see of it
asciilifeform: decimation: outside of usa, there are misconceptions. it isn't like anyone can just go and sign up for 'welfare.'
asciilifeform: neh, the thread was, in some parts of the world one can get the 'three gruels and a cell', but very few of the folks subscribed have shat out anything worth talking about
asciilifeform: i suppose ed limonov might be another exception.
asciilifeform: (only exception i know of re: 'not coughing up' was j. k. rowling, author of the children's book 'harry potter.' i wonder if they billed her for the pension retroactively...)
asciilifeform: ergo, the sponsors are selective about who gets the cell and three gruels. in a very particular way.
asciilifeform: stone cell with three gruels << notice a peculiar fact about various 'advanced' bezzlatron nations where one can get a nice flat and three fine restaurant meals a day. but, for some reason, the occupants of said flats are not coughing up any great advances in sciences, arts.
asciilifeform: decimation: notice, 'baron von stierlitz' has the same in his file.
asciilifeform: decimation: so clearly, if you're in the game, that's you.
asciilifeform: decimation: idea is, you can't play unless 'aryan, good nordic character'
asciilifeform: 'We never pay any-one Dane-geld / No matter how trifling the cost; / For the end of that game is oppression and shame, / And the nation that pays it is lost!"'
asciilifeform a believer in 'last psychiatrist's theorem' - 'if yer reading it, it's for you'
asciilifeform: cazalla: who, if it isn't a deep secret, is?
asciilifeform: what would, e.g., herr landau, have accomplished, if he had to occupy himself with teaching arithmetic.
asciilifeform: putting footnotes in there so even the clueless can follow may work ? << lol! what next, footnotes for linux kernel so illiterates can understand? bitcoind? lev landau's 'mechanics' ?
asciilifeform: there's a 'golden toilet' vendor claiming to be churning out the proverbial 'bullet that goes around corners' on precisely this principle
