asciilifeform: S.NSA to buy its own foundry << just came back from taking exact dimensions of new flat. not quite big enough for foundry. gonna have to be when i che guevara with mp in jungle.
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, high property values stopped being a proxy for 'nice place to live' sometime around when 'programmer' became a profession.
asciilifeform: which, in turn, reduces to 'just let me conjure up all the coin and parcel it out to the lot of you idiots'
asciilifeform: it seems to reduce to 'mining wastes energy so let's have central banks'
asciilifeform: i understand how 'proof of stake' works. but not wtf is the point.
asciilifeform: as in, how you can tell that a fellow's a russian even if he lives in new york, never once mentions russia, writes in 'the king's english', etc.
asciilifeform: sport magnate 'can also have problems'
asciilifeform: mike_c - he might discover that the 100m belong to the crown, which now owns his arse, and not to himself
asciilifeform: 'Dijkstra said angrily. (He’d been visibly shaking his head through out the talk even before this outburst.) “How many bugs are we going to tolerate?” he demanded. “Seven,” Teitelman shot back.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: supreme court << eh, i'd rather sit on a 'troika'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: having two cellphones, now a criminal << quite a few people i know have 2+. 'human' and 'work' phone.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: she ever contact you << nein.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: victim's head (or microphone) becomes heterodyne.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: two beams, ~40kHz, audible payload in beat frequency.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the solution to the megaphone madman (mentioned in your 'twitter' page) isn't laser - it's ultrasonic 'voice in head' trick.
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, the team won't be permitted in matches so long as he is owner.
asciilifeform: they all went to gasenwagen in the war.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: if you're expecting to find the village from 'fiddler' in russia, i must disappoint you.
asciilifeform: (strike that. lib.ru was merely censored. it's some of the mirrors that charge)
asciilifeform: (someone mirrored the good stuff, 'took ball and went home.')
asciilifeform: the 'real library' has been at flibusta.net, for ages.
asciilifeform: the thing that makes this a mega-lol is that lib.ru sold out to copyrasts years ago - charges for access to a number of things, incl. books by folks who never asked for this
asciilifeform: tldr - russian pediwikia bans the mega-library lib.ru - on account of warez.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: the only remaining actual law is - 'Не верь, не бойся, не проси' ("Don't Believe, Don't Fear and Don't Ask." russian prison maxim, at least a century old)
asciilifeform: fluffypony: setup mining operations in the US... rent it to someone outside << lol, you think 'rule of law' is a thing in the usa
