asciilifeform: decimation: shield design, note, is quite like mine. (and everyone else's!) i'd love to have the machined aluminum cavity, though. but cost.
asciilifeform: decimation: if you can reassemble the thing later, it's like it never happened.
asciilifeform: decimation: i 'tore down' a $300k robot. big whoop.
asciilifeform: colinistheman: interesting site. what does one sharpen a titanium knife with ?
asciilifeform: proper works of evil. If the victim, at the sight of the economic predator, goes into doggie submission, we must stop discussing the phenomenon in terms of conflict and consider whether what we are observing might be some strange instance of symbiosis.'
asciilifeform: '…we need a word that describes the artifacts generated in response to irrational actors who demand to be fooled. As the old saying goes, “A fool and his money are soon parted” – at the fool’s own insistence, no less! If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe☟︎
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: can't help but remember orlov's point about the deer hunt
asciilifeform: 'limited' scam always metastatizes into full blown scam.
asciilifeform: re: bfl - the sad part is that the entire mining industry, afaik, is based on exactly this kind of chumpatron. and if outright take-money-and-run merits two years of parole, what does, e.g. six month deliberate 'we mine with your hardware' merit? harsh words?
asciilifeform: countdown to the 'remote disable switch' advocates pushing their shit...
asciilifeform: pierce << ideal example of the animal described on one of mircea_popescu's essays - he could be packed into prison for life, any time, based on what's in his file. so he does as instructed.☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: all current cell chipsets use gps+tower
asciilifeform: people would notice, fix << i know a fellow with a 'jupiter' miner. most of the time, only a subset of the cores run. fix is nowhere to be seen.
asciilifeform: so, e.g., everybody gets x hash/sec, you get 2x
asciilifeform: throttle far below full capacity unless magic signal is present
asciilifeform: point wouldn't be to drop the diff, but to ensure that next block goes to one of yours
asciilifeform: if you can stop all miners but yours - for a given interval - you can plunder blocks at far below the expected energy cost☟︎
asciilifeform: gps < difficult - but not impossible - to fit. and what'd be the point? throttle the core unless standing in warehouse XX?
asciilifeform: if you can arrange for, say, the entire crop of 'bfl' units to spin their wheels fruitlessly during known time intervals, your own miners (presumably exempt) can be scheduled to run then and precisely then☟︎
asciilifeform: time for gedankenexperiment. what payload would be 'useful' in a miner core (vs. the controller, which is normally a standard micro and relatively simple to audit) ?
asciilifeform: no one seriously cares what was in the fpga miners from 2 yrs. ago
asciilifeform: a miner's a perfect place to hide some strange. esp. in the extant ones, where performance is 'variable' to put it mildly. but really, it is perfect on account of the fact that a miner board is forgotten very soon after it is sold
asciilifeform: prediction (not bitbet because... 'badBet') - sr coin, from derper's pocket, stolen; ends in in goatfuckistan, finances [insert your favourite american landmark] falseflag demolition...
asciilifeform: (nothing interesting there in life. it was a site in an old sf story, about more or less this)
