asciilifeform: every kindergarten teacher combined << add up the earnings of all of the garbagemen in your country. and to see what value they create, visit a city with 'garbage strike'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the best error << see 'precision vs. accuracy', as (perhaps even still?) taught in school
asciilifeform: but having ingested the entire rotten egg - no bet.
asciilifeform: i'd have bet, on account of the first page or two of the turd smelling of crafted disinfo
asciilifeform: where crypto academics are quietly slipped various turds to print under their names. 'can also have problems.'
asciilifeform: of course i can picture another scenario
asciilifeform: this is a sadder discovery than i expected - (expected a green grad student or somesuch)
asciilifeform: as far as i can see, this fellow's a genuine, if unimaginative crypto type. and bitcoin is now part of the mandatory 'gentleman's set' of topics such a creature must at least pretend to show an interest in. hence paper.
asciilifeform: that paper was a true masterpiece of the 'chicken recipe' where the chicken never turned up.
asciilifeform: did anyone ever ferret out who courtois is/was ?
asciilifeform: (which is exactly how 'brissance' works, in explosion)
asciilifeform: if you can induce oscillations strong enough to stretch the materials past breaking point.
asciilifeform: to finish the previous story - not everything is a wine glass. but anything that can be induced to behave like one, can be broken in just this way.
asciilifeform: tesla's hammer is often said to be 'debunked' because, placed in an arbitrary patch of ground, it is unlikely to do much.
asciilifeform: same thing, but accidental - on a larger scale.
asciilifeform: tesla's apparatus was briefcase-sized. and, according to rumour, the experiment has been replicated since. but, to no one's great surprise, the data in open literature is very scarce.
asciilifeform: or, at least, stipulate in the rules that both fighters must share a channel
asciilifeform: some tricks would probably have to be excluded (e.g. radio jamming)
asciilifeform: excess engines will withstand some glue, but draw more power. use imagination.
asciilifeform: there is enough 'design space' to make the tourney interesting. e.g. a smaller and more maneuverable craft is harder to blast with the glue gun, etc.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: going to sponsor a UFC fighter << never having known of 'UFC', i assumed that it referred to an 'unmanned flying competition' - i.e. drone dogfight tourney.
asciilifeform: when do we ask for 10m rubles to mean something ?
asciilifeform: where vegetarian (TaT?) - 'animals didn't ask to be milked' - me: 'then let's milk the ones which we can ask'
asciilifeform thinks back to the discussion of which animals to milk, held at mp's meetup.
asciilifeform: or - for that matter - the recent discussion about what it costs to house a google worker, and why
asciilifeform: this kind of thing permeates everything.
asciilifeform: they cost considerably more than their weight in platinum.
asciilifeform: recall an incident i described some months ago, of getting ordinary circuit boards baked at a u.s. plant.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what the inexistend fighter jet has cost << what would it have cost ussr to build a flat screen tv ?
asciilifeform: some years ago, stage magician james randi challenged psychics, soothsayers, esp artists, etc. to tell him what lies under an overturned pot in his basement.
asciilifeform: yeah i haven't kept up. no idea if there's a lockheed contract for trampoline yet.
asciilifeform: in other news: 'the U.S. should consider getting its astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline.'
asciilifeform: if someone were to find an actual exploit, of whatever kind, in whatever coin, the 'proof of the pudding' would be - 'in the eating.'
asciilifeform: 'i have psychic powers!' - 'tell me what is under the upturned pot.' 'fuck you i'm dragon.'
asciilifeform: all of this inescapably reminds me of james randi's flower pot.
asciilifeform: as far as i can see, author is a (self-proclaimed) academic
asciilifeform: i.e. how would the cost of a double-spend possibly go down ?
asciilifeform: let's picture a source of hashing cycles, publicly auctioned. how would it not be subject to the same bidding dynamics as presently existing miners?
asciilifeform: there is the little detail that a (detectable) double-spend more or less buries a coin
asciilifeform: as if infinite cpu just sat there, on the shelf, its price entirely unaffected by this hypothetical.
asciilifeform: 'people will rent cloud for five minutes and double-spend.'
asciilifeform: recommended to everyone, for 'entomological' study.
