asciilifeform: i get up for one day into meatspace, and back - and now 'rentacoder' is back from the dead?! or what is that 'fiver' thing

asciilifeform: no thx

asciilifeform: sit on a stake scanner.

asciilifeform: rectumprint.

asciilifeform: jurov: fingerprint locks -> lose yer finger; cock wallet -> lose...

asciilifeform: davout: that's what it was

asciilifeform: forgot to lock my console once at uni, in dorm. chums walked in, changed display background to a shot of winblows 'me'

asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: if document is genuine, this is likely a 'marketing scheme' for the usg blacklist crap.

asciilifeform: anything resembling 'accountability' would see the entire orchestra demolishes, the earth where it stood - salted.

asciilifeform: decimation: visit any university lab in the u.s., anywhere. invite a postdoc for a drink, ask how much of what is done stands any chance whatsoever of 'working' - in the customary meaning of the word.

asciilifeform: decimation: the 'red' folks will get their nasa museaums, with noah's flood, etc

asciilifeform: laugh now - press release later.

asciilifeform: just remember kidz, we're all connected to each other and the universe through quantum-intestinal resonance.

asciilifeform: just to keep the heat on

asciilifeform: 'наука и жизнь' ('science & life', the russian equivalent of the - pre-90s-decay - 'scientific american') circa '91-97 was running pieces on nostradamus.

asciilifeform: thought pandering to bureaucrats sucked? try the public.

asciilifeform: all the 'democracy' catabolic collapse processes get thrown into high gear when the paycheques stop coming.

asciilifeform: public wants snake oil. academia - retools for snake production.

asciilifeform: physicists selling 'biorhythm' charts in bazaars to feed their children, etc

asciilifeform: re: nasa & collapse - the very same thing happened in ussr

asciilifeform must have spammed the moldbug-on-cs link a thousand times

asciilifeform: as described, for example, here - http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2014/03/05/anatomy-of-a-fusion-press-release

asciilifeform: e.g. the fusion folks

asciilifeform: just more obscure

asciilifeform: easy target. but understand that u.s. academia is divided into pissant fiefdoms entirely like the climate chumpatron

asciilifeform: this one wasn't a quick learner.

asciilifeform: plenty of physics folks still getting bread ticket there. but they are taught - on what toes not to step.

asciilifeform: don't be surprised to see nasa-branded horoscopes

asciilifeform: how to get public support? court shamans

asciilifeform: namely, it's quite close to the front of the line for the chopping block

asciilifeform: nasa has problems

asciilifeform: decimation: gotta understand why they threw this fellow under the bus to cover for the shaman

asciilifeform: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Livermore-Engineer-s-Mysterious-Death-3240466.php

asciilifeform: like this fellow

asciilifeform: at least they didn't plug him

asciilifeform: decimation: not a secret. only throwing some light on the mechanics.

asciilifeform: ^ recommended reading. british, but generally applicable.

asciilifeform: related: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/decline.htm

asciilifeform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ve23i5K334

asciilifeform: ;;mitbattery

asciilifeform: [insert obligatory mit battery film]

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'he' needs - not antibiotic - but proper burial.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what problem. the 'patient' is 100% microzoa by weight at this point.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu knows history, cannot be surprised

asciilifeform: it's a kind of smaller 'komsomol'

asciilifeform: i.e. hire the folks with the yale '4.0'

asciilifeform: the next stage of pipeline for the ivy kids (employment, either directly in .gov, or the many quasi-private arms of the ussa hydra) follows the same formula.

asciilifeform: precisely this one

asciilifeform: but in order to provide this service, they must maintain the illusion of 'we only recruit True Genius!'

asciilifeform: guaranteed max grade

asciilifeform: so now you know one of the services they provide.

asciilifeform: while in public unis, at least in hard sciences, 40-50% flunk

asciilifeform: (various means. sometimes direct diddling of grades, some even abolished grading for first years; many methods)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they make it virtually impossible for a kid to flunk

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 15k for nothing << surprisingly few people are aware of an interesting scam the 'ivy' unis run ☟︎

asciilifeform must've woken up in 2002

asciilifeform: gnome!?

asciilifeform: (as outlined in mp's essay on the subclasses)

asciilifeform: the wrong gay

asciilifeform: they could also saw off their own limbs and roast them. save on food cost for their startup.

asciilifeform: (he's got his own end-to-end chain)

asciilifeform: picture: silicocalypse, and just chuck moore left standing.

asciilifeform: (yes they're still extant)

asciilifeform: even more fun than the traditional compiler infector.

asciilifeform: betcha all the current btc asic houses use, e.g. 'synopsys'

asciilifeform: spud?

asciilifeform: spamz

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: afaik this has been discussed - nowhere.

asciilifeform: the monoculture in engineering software puts microshit to shame

asciilifeform: likewise: if the toolchain is diddled on the manufacturer's (golden master copy) end, you can own multiple (all?) ic producers.

asciilifeform: yereaditherephurst (tm)

asciilifeform: think: variation on the ken thompson theme.

asciilifeform: nobody's gone over tape-out mask with a magnifying glass since when, '85 ?

asciilifeform: ... diddled toolchains.

asciilifeform: i'd even dare to guess that the much-hyped ic fab diddling does indeed take place - but through...

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo dredging up VAXen also seemed improbable just a few years ago.

asciilifeform: old hardware - suddenly worth something. at least temporarily.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for miners ? who gives a shit, they're bricks in a year anyway << not necessarily. let's gedankenexperiment. picture scenario where the two or three remaining producers ship... sabotaged ic. (take your pick - timed self-destruct, perverted algo with collusion of 'dev' folks, etc.)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: common chalk minerals << your chalk isn't CaCO3?! do we even want to know?

asciilifeform picks graphite

asciilifeform blackboard << always wondered if mathematicians ever die of 'white lung'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 'i would like to attend your... hmrh, croak, zzz...'

asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-oversharing-in-admissions-essays.html

asciilifeform: from the lolpharmz:

asciilifeform: crypto projects that may not suck << where's the list?

asciilifeform: the final solution (tm) to heat problem

asciilifeform: heat math << unterseeminer.

asciilifeform: go adapt to iodine.

asciilifeform: the notion that 'microbe will eventually adapt to anything' is a bit simplistic.

asciilifeform was not involved, just sat in a lecture

asciilifeform: he's extracting strange from sewage even now.

asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: at my last work (us army) the management flew in one of the last remaining soviet phage experts

asciilifeform sees a future for phages, for small-molecule antibio - not so much

asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/Ni7t20wY

asciilifeform: for pdf haters:

asciilifeform: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/2711/1/The%20answer%20lies%20in%20the%20sewers%28lsero%29.pdf

asciilifeform: see also: 'the answer lies in the sewers.'

asciilifeform: naturam expellas furca...

asciilifeform: not so hidden.