asciilifeform: the only reason anybody even dares to talk about 'hardware wallet' today is that he's weaseled out of the task of building the hard part
asciilifeform: if you want to discuss a hypothetical device, you must approach from the standpoint of the builder.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: from the point of a luser, a mercedes runs by dwarves under the hood turning a crank.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: please take the time to learn something about how btc actually works
asciilifeform: let me guess. dedicated piece of pc software.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: let's work through this. how do you propose the wallet machine is to be communicated with?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a thing in the sense communism is 'a thing' - folks will keep trying
asciilifeform: 'throw transport down the well, so yer country can be free!' (sasha baroncohen)
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: i wish people didn't spread messianic exaggeration re: cardano. it isn't a Final Solution, just intended to be a little oasis in the desert.
asciilifeform: petent at dealing with the human cattle : fastfood providers, supermarkets, the government. Both as employers and providers these specialised bureaucracies have the necessary tools, including cattle prods (or whatever they’re called now, non-lethal something or the other) to correctly handle them. They have the chemicals, they’ve done the research, know the behavioural patterns, have the walls all built to☟︎
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: 'Honest toil not so much, but honest cunning aplenty in this fabled subsection of the population, the offensively stupid poor. The costs of the strategic mistake of dealing with them are huge. Up until recently it was practically impossible to become embroiled into any sort of dealing with the subgroup, their ownership being strictly assumed and their lives strictly subsumed by the corporations com
asciilifeform: (about 10 min. long, so you need an attention span)
asciilifeform: fundamentally different problems. ones which only the folks with the cattle prods are properly equipped to handle.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: see mp's piece on why it is unwise to become embroiled in the making of products for idiots.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: this is catastrophically misguided.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: i might theoretically, at some point, make something that fits this description, but the current product has nothing to do with bitcoin or wallets
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: i think you have the wrong address. that'd be 'trezor' et al.
asciilifeform: ninjashogun: who said i was involved in making a bitcoin-related anything?
asciilifeform measures dust thickness on apple laptop
asciilifeform: and then there are the poor schmucks who just want a portable posix box that mostly works.
asciilifeform: afaik the only software today 'specifically targeted at mac users' is the nickel-and-dime chumpatron where these folks pay $20/each for a hundred little gui utilities that'd be a 1-line bash script on an ordinary computer
asciilifeform: and, finally, his moment arrived! von Kármán surrendered his orange ticket, took a deep breath, and said, "God, explain turbulence." Theodore von Kármán spent the rest of eternity burning in Hell.'☟︎☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán died and went to heaven. In his registration packet was a bright orange ticket. Said Saint Peter, "You may get in line to ask God Himself one question." von Kármán ran to join the far end of the orange ticket queue. It was a long line, a *very* long line. Eons passed by and, sure enough, eventually in the distance he espied a giant glowing throne. More eons passed by
asciilifeform: afaik nothing stops you from printing a self portrait and using that today.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: cheap led vga projectors are common now, i imagine very soon you'll be able to project your face on the target at your local target lane.
asciilifeform: so perhaps i'll teach the penal battalion.
asciilifeform: people have said to me that my teaching anything would qualify as cruel and unusual punishment
asciilifeform: quite a few of us here could probably teach.
asciilifeform: i'm already signed up to be gassed at nsa, sec will have to wait in line.
asciilifeform: (we don't even know if he leases the bear, or keeps it on retainer, or it lives in his bed)
asciilifeform: the trial is about as likely as mr. putin personally hand-feeding preet bharara to bear
asciilifeform: 'latvia airlines' ? (or was it poland?)
asciilifeform: 'endless war and endless underfeeding for the sake of war, slave populations toiling behind barbed wire, women dragged shrieking to the block, cork-lined cellars where the executioner blows your brains out from behind. So it appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic.' (orwell's 'notes on the way')
asciilifeform: i recall reading that it caused great public wankage at the time
asciilifeform: people don't seem to grasp the fact that the situation in 'shall be delivered' is as inevitable as that first street drunk who electrocuted himself in the 1870s (?)☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see your piece on the forcible prevention of 'school bully'
asciilifeform: this is a parsimonious hypothesis to explain american 'concern' for certain 'oppressed groups' worldwide
asciilifeform: (s/bitch/пидор for the linguistically non-challenged)
asciilifeform: thereby sitting him under domination of bitches
asciilifeform: standard, ages-old algorithm. if you want to lower someone into bitchdom, take those he has himself lowered and forcibly lift them
asciilifeform: 'no idea why they'd be anti gay' << same reason as in russia, as described by mr. o - 'As Prof. Cohen recently pointed out, prior to Americans' gay rights agitation, Russian gays used to be called “faggots”; now they are being called “American faggots,” and gay rights in Russia have taken a giant leap back.'
asciilifeform: 'intellectual root of conservative americans' concerns mainly the rust on their truck mufflers.
