asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's where the machines live now. not ideal, from standpoint of humidity & temperature, but practical.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: important question to answer before achieving world domination
asciilifeform confesses that he considered renting warehouse to house machines. then learned that, for what this would cost for ~1 year within practical driving distance, he could have a golden toilet nanofabricated atom by atom.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you could probably afford the services of an actual machinist for what this costs, no ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: your house has 3phase mains? or you use a genset?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: one can rent a crane, sure. but if you don't already have a facility with 3phase and concrete slab, it is likely to cost more than you're willing to pay for a machine used on rare occasions
asciilifeform: 'One glimpse at the following chart of Russian stocks today and one wonders if the West needed to arrest the gains that their "costs" had imposed...'
asciilifeform: ('wanna come use my pet terror-atm ?')
asciilifeform: unless random people took initiative to shelter them secretly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here's one gedanken-atm. it's inside a concrete block, cannot be repaired, etc. 50kg of thermite if disturbed. then, simply leave it somewhere reasonable. (network connectivity an exercise for alert reader.)
asciilifeform: justusranvier: if it needs human pistoleros, it might as well be a box with a slave in it counting out cash
asciilifeform: justusranvier: the saecular authorities will not protect btc atm.
asciilifeform: to correctly short squirrel, somebody must believe that it will get up and walk again, and then you bet against this
asciilifeform: thought being, not everything that's in obvious decomposition can be shorted
asciilifeform: to take it, would be to go 'long' on squirrel.
asciilifeform: g: 'show me the real budget.' a: 'you're asking too much. that's off limits to you.'☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: remember the story about gorby and andropov?☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, you thought they had access to the real figures?
asciilifeform: child support payments << phun phact! we still have debtor's prisons for these in usa
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: having them translated << to english? this promises to be exceedingly difficult
asciilifeform: another place people 'borrow' is... the tax authorities. (how? many who are classified as 'contractor' aren't paying their bill on time, because gotta eat.)
asciilifeform saw title 'you can do anything', expected a film where idiots try to fly jets, dive submarines, like in a certain ancient story by sheckley
asciilifeform is seeing this marvel for the first time
asciilifeform: success... name out there << is this quote from 'spam like a pro in 21 days' ?
asciilifeform: people who can't read - will reinvent. no surprised here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually 99%+ of the material, afaik, these folks would find agreeable, is... in russian. (they're, unsurprisingly, quite unaware.)
asciilifeform: (i also see quite a few 'trilema' headers)
asciilifeform: it was ~1/min before it started to live in the #b-a log.
asciilifeform: ~4/min. is approx. what i see on my site. which is quite obscure.
asciilifeform assumed ben_vulpes is actually named 'ben fox' when first saw
asciilifeform: in the actual police documents, the plausible data - suspect requiring a few more doughnut eaters than usual to subdue
asciilifeform: recently saw the very same ad on uni. campus. apparently they're still testing.
asciilifeform: (usg trials. for some reason, just about all the tear-off tabs on the 'volunteers needed' ad - stayed attached. one can infer that most people want > 1k usd for this.)
asciilifeform was once offered ~1k usd by employer to take ketamine, somehow never got around to it☟︎
asciilifeform: legend, afaik, is based on the 'feature' of it being anaesthetic without any soporific effect - so user could indeed use 'great strength' at the cost of tearing muscles.
asciilifeform: pixeldust << synthetic dope that drives user mad while giving him extraordinary strength? (or was that another 'dust' ?)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the parallel construction in the case of your local doughnut eater is largely 'automatic' - i.e., they get 'anonymous tip' and proceed via traditional means
