asciilifeform refrains from launching into rant re: how you can actually fit 10x more gates in fpga if you start 'cheating' by using secret data re: the internal layout, and how any system which offers this capability is actually telling lies when advertised with its highest-level intended abstractions as the correct ones.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: first unrolled design on spartan... and the only one << wait which 'spartan' actually had room for unrolled sha2 ?
asciilifeform: and know that the idiot is emboldened by the fact of the non-idiot not having any more effective, immediately, an answer than he.
asciilifeform: likewise, both idiot and normal person understand that something evil is at work underneath the cost of modern life being what it is re: the bezzle.
asciilifeform: the idiots << nuance here. if i have soldering iron up my arse, i might utter something more than the 'moo' of a cow that has soldering iron up her arse. but the fact remains that having hot iron up arse - is not pleasant.
asciilifeform: i often wonder what take #2 would be like, if they understood what happens to price (e.g., usa with credit and 'college loans', etc)
asciilifeform: ... typographers - and generally, not particularly good ones.
asciilifeform: sometimes the death of a profession is not all smiles. i once saw a rant lamenting the invention of LaTeX as a terrible calamity for mathematics. argument was that, whereas it was once possible for mathematicians (and physicists) to remain entirely innocent of typograpy and its brute labours, now the typographers gave up and went home. and now you (maths folks) also are stuck being typographers - and generally, no
asciilifeform: there is another 'secret' - and that is, that most folks who actually need 40+MP photographs in real life - astronomers, spies, biologists, weirdos like yours truly, etc. - own and operate own hardware. and don't actually need photographers.
asciilifeform: re: photographers: situation is rather like bulldozer operators. machine costing half of a plebe's yearly pay. you rent it, and it happens to come with operator who is mostly certain not to break it, and knows approximately which knobs to turn to dig the ditch, err, snap the photo.
asciilifeform: 'responsibility sink' is simply my shorthand for any apparatus which lets you 'make a decision' without putting your arse on the line as decision-maker.
asciilifeform: claim is not a fact << when talking about a scam, the claim is the fact (that is, the fact of the scam being set up as such or other)☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it cannot die for so long as so-called decision makers want their 'responsibility sink' mechanism.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: astrology is alive and well - under new brands (e.g., 'economics')
asciilifeform: BTC Guild Shutting Down, May be Sold << say hello to usg's brand-spanking-new mining pool reserve.
asciilifeform: irradiated for the glory of the leader << funny how this happened to exactly no one back when 'small militaries constantly warring' was a thing.
asciilifeform: ('usg' here should be read as the entire nato blok.)
asciilifeform: if there were a 'pepsi' alternative to usg, folks who can make any claim at value would be defecting in droves.
asciilifeform: see the life of, e.g., leon theremin, to see that this does not always work as planned - but it is still the only thing that works.
asciilifeform: e.g., pre-unification italy, where if you were stuck under a ruler who isn't fond of trigonometry, you could walk to the domain of another who is - and will hold your pursuers off by force of arms, if he's an aficionado of your work
asciilifeform: undata: 'pepsi' in the sense of an alternative to 'coke', which, in the lack of alternative, turns into 'usg soda'
asciilifeform: but observe, no human dairy farms. (perhaps a mere engineering problem!)
asciilifeform: what modern folks think of as 'dictator' is really, (psychiatric observation) the name given to a fellow who tries to do the job of aristocrat without having been bred for the task (as in a woman who thinks she can fill in for a milk cow)
asciilifeform: everybody with half a neuron (aristotle to mr moldbug) groks this
asciilifeform: the disappearance of the aristicrat (fellow who is bred to the task of 'deciding where to live to') is the basic boojum
asciilifeform: extant problem is not the overabundance of 'flies' (plenty of funded garbage in babylon as now) but the disappearance of 'cutlets'.
asciilifeform: see also, obligatory, j.c. scott, 'the art of not being governed.'
asciilifeform: externalised costs << the entire story of government is - some folks staying warm by burning other folks' furniture (or dessicated carcasses.)
asciilifeform: and what units is it denominated in, in actuality.
asciilifeform: or, rephrase: does it actually cost 2k usd/mo. to keep the box presently over my head standing? if not, who pockets the difference?
asciilifeform: there is a reason why i say 'usaschwitz.' what's the actual problem, in most people's mind, with living in a concentration camp?
