asciilifeform: or perhaps 'food chain' is not the right term. lion looks dangerous to man, but not to adult elephant, though the latter will not eat him
asciilifeform: alive because knows his place in food chain, presumably
asciilifeform: wai what, those great tales of children chained to streetlights so cars would stop, and then drivers can be throat-cut and robbed - all fake ?!
asciilifeform: good old-fashioned 'mad max' collapse, that is
asciilifeform: well yes. but the events described there, afaik - happened.
asciilifeform confesses that when he learned that mircea_popescu was going to Ar, assumed that it was because of the joys chronicled by (among others) ferfal.
asciilifeform mercifully forgot that microshit sold a 'tablet'
asciilifeform: plus the one with >1080 lines has gloss.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: no 'F' keys! what a steaming turd.
asciilifeform: just as unrelated q: anyone know of a laptop comp. currently on the market which isn't a complete piece of shit? (everything i see either has display with < 1080 lines, glossy, or both - imho unusable.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're thinking of a sequel, might be interesting to go into the biological hooks made use of by a qualified ce (chumpatronic engineer)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: chumpatronics? it was very spiffy.
asciilifeform: if cocaine could teleport - it would be as ubiquitous and invulnerable as w4r3z.
asciilifeform: you're NOT doing it online << but if you could - you would. the number one ingredient for 'humint' rollups of whatever thing usg dislikes - is to get people to drag their earthly carcasses out into the physical open, where they can be 'controlled buy' operated and arrested.
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves, others - if your objective is not merely to avoid committing an indictable crime under american law as your lawyer was taught it, but to hide your wealth from total dekulakization - you cannot solve this problem without a closed arse-mouth btc cycle
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: you aren't thinking big enough. 'agents' or not, if you're feeding into or from a usd bank at the end of the day, you're in panopticon.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bitcoin had an otc market larger than the exchanges back in 2012 << this is where, at least from my jail's eye view, the buggers - won. as usaschwitz inmate, otc doesn't even exist for me. in order for it to exist - i'd have to become embroiled in handling suitcases of benjies in meatspace. precisely the kind of thing агентурная работа is optimized to roll up participants of.☟︎
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: ministry of truth has to make up some truthy truth first
asciilifeform: imho, it was not a sale, but a trade. hence the bid circus
asciilifeform: the controlled market will allow the entry of sizeable parcels coin, but not of usd; and the egress of usd, but not of coin.
asciilifeform: the 'vapour' carried away is the coin that is panic-sold by civilians
asciilifeform: knob is turned, lowball bid is lowered still, shills continue to buy
asciilifeform: at slightly lowballed price. shills (perl scripts) then 'buy' the coin at these prices.
asciilifeform: so we have 'buterin's waterfall.' ingredient - a fat bag of coin. (where found? sr coins traded for 'boring' coin with no peculiar blockchain history - plus gov. mining, other confiscations, etc.)
asciilifeform: so you get a vacuum that is about as good as the water's vapour pressure at the room's temperature & pressure. not bad. cheap. if you remember school - you used this 'medieval' gadget.
asciilifeform: water is pumped from a tank up, and then flows down a pipe back into the tank. in the down pipe, there's a spigot to the side, where a vacuum forms - water carries away air.
asciilifeform: so, for the record, what i'll call 'buterin's waterfall' - picture a water-powered vacuum aspirator pump, of a kind used in school chemistry class.
asciilifeform: this is why the sr dekulakization hoard appears to 'sit still'
asciilifeform: (meatspace trades - outside the blockchain)
