asciilifeform: 'fuck you fuck me' << that was the original teledildonics product, if i recall.
asciilifeform: 'chromebook' can be turned into a perfectly normal machine (diassemble, remove eeprom write protect jumper, write in an ordinary linux, e.g. 'gentoo')
asciilifeform: 'And the investment in higher education, even if it means finances are strapped now, leads to higher wages that boost future spending power.' << eat recycled food. it's good for the environment - and ok for you!
asciilifeform: chetty: the 'lies per kByte' in this turd must be some sort of record.
asciilifeform: (everybody gets a unique firmware. as described in the prospectus.)
asciilifeform: regardless of where the production gizmos end up baking, the 'breath of life' will have to be breathed into them right here.
asciilifeform: given the nature of the product, there are also other considerations.
asciilifeform: decimation: you need a non-drug-addicted human to run the machines << when it comes to it - one can run the machines in person. if one is truly serious.
asciilifeform: in summer, tropical hell, like the venus of old sf stories
asciilifeform: swamp land of dc << example. moved to new place recently. even the garden shed has... air conditioner.
asciilifeform: i hear they even eat real - non-recycled - food, there.
asciilifeform: decimation: an asphalt road is far from any kind of permanent edifice. gets reclaimed by the jungle after just a few years of neglect. so don't expect to hear any talk of 'future' anything.
asciilifeform: point of fact: i've seen bitterns here.
asciilifeform: the whole dc region is a gigantic swamp.
asciilifeform: decimation: the remainder - confiscated from a few hundred unfortunates.
asciilifeform: decimation: md200 << aye. i even have the rfid billing gizmo just for it.
asciilifeform: decimation: assembly for small runs is ruinously expensive, and has logistical issues (where do the parts come from? who purchases? is there a vig?)
asciilifeform: decimation: i occasionally etch simple 2-layer boards in kitchen, but only for quick experiments (e.g. studying particular smt component)
asciilifeform: decimation: i've no intention of producing pcb per se at home. at this point it is in fact more expensive than chicom boards with proper solder mask, plating, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: supposedly stalin, but in point of fact it was a fictional stalin.
asciilifeform: decimation: what little (semi) automation i have in mind, is simply to eliminate problems with prototype assembly quality (vs design) from consideration during test.
asciilifeform: decimation: very little. and nothing at all from the s.nsa piggy has gone for tooling.
asciilifeform: landscape is now permanently spammed with houses << 1km or so from where i sit, thousands of condos are being built. many already put to market; not 1 in 10 is inhabited.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: ancient egyptian honey, famously - still edible.
asciilifeform: Rich fools are a resource to harvest like any other until the simply become fools << dollar in the hands of billionaire is not the same as dollar in the hands of a mere mortal. just like a gram of dirt in orbit is not the same as same gram in a moon. 'quantity has a quality of its own.'
asciilifeform: what rich fools built? example - today's usa.
asciilifeform: i can picture a scenario where random bozos are invited in, but with the understanding of... biodiesel, if they don't make themselves otherwise useful
asciilifeform: decimation: don't confuse buying passport with making friends
asciilifeform last informed on the subject many years ago
asciilifeform: some foreigners (usa) find this very surprising
asciilifeform: incidentally, in jp it is not only legal but routine to refuse real estate deal, rentals, work, etc. to white devil.
asciilifeform: if i recall, you need to be very popular with the locals, collect signatures, demonstrate cash flow, etc.
asciilifeform: guy who moved to japan and got citizenship << contrary to popular belief, this is not impossible - but about same level of difficulty as getting tenured professorship at a big uni
asciilifeform: japan/migrants << we'll know jp is done as a going concern when they give up and let the devils in
asciilifeform: why would a node ever reply >> if you're fetching blockchain state, vs. pushing tx
asciilifeform: people tend to use weak passwords << this - and the famous experiment where a psychologist purchased office planktons' passwords with chocolate - is a fundamental result of people not giving a fuck. not a technical problem.☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: traffic should resemble people exchanging gpg messages maybe << this only works if two nodes have some 'wot' relationship.
asciilifeform: because in the latter case, two nodes must know something about one another, or mitm is trivial.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one shouldn't be able to spot a b2.0 node on the network << in that traffic should resemble a traditional bitcoin node? or simply point to point encryption?
asciilifeform reminds listeners that he's a rather busy fellow and that they also have hands, and can do all of the above.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're willing to ditch ecdsa and use traditional rsa, and eat the cost of longer keys, this is trivial.
asciilifeform: again, as a certified armchair general, i've no idea whether this is actually necessary.
asciilifeform: another, perhaps obvious temptation is to bake in the wot.
asciilifeform: again, why to do this, remains a mystery to me. but people seem to really want it, and could in principle do it this way.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the 'we want an0nym1ty!!1' folks could be satisfied - use paillier's arithmetic to represent balances. so you need private key to know the state of an address.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: either we keep every pissant transaction around, or we snip. tertium non datur, as i understand.
asciilifeform: every so often, a 'year zero', and the chain is replaced with a hash of its state. anyone who wants the history, goes to an archive.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: make retaining blocks spurious << i thought this was solved, at least in principle, with 'checkpointing'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what would you wish to see improved in chaining?
asciilifeform: 'once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down. that's not my department, said wehrner von braun.'
asciilifeform: the question of whether this needs doing, i'll leave to the folks who give a damn.
asciilifeform: but the concept outlined here would provide something close to the theoretical maximum of annoyance to mining asic builders.
asciilifeform: the folks looking to somehow 'vanish' the asic thing will be disappointed, though.
