asciilifeform: 'Sorry, Meat Processing Plants - Cattle Hate You'
asciilifeform: CheckDavid: plenty of people have used the blockchain as a telegraph, when the occasion called for it
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: the ancients understood atoms perfectly well << very peculiar meaning of 'understand' needed for this to be true
asciilifeform: bitcoinpete: probably as old as the first humanoid who looked with envy at an anthill
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots << but they're already filtered - they aren't in your living room, and they aren't in mine. on the other hand, if filters could physically zap spammers, there would be considerably more interest in filter...
asciilifeform: and i think mr. a meant 'hammer through their thick retarded heads' rather than merely 'tell them.'
asciilifeform: 'the difference between promise and mechanism.'
asciilifeform: so, if i could teach just one thing to these lost souls:
asciilifeform: he said 'show them the world is made of atoms'
asciilifeform: asimov was once asked what he would do if he were to take a trip in time machine and could teach/prove just one fact about physics to the ancients
asciilifeform: 'Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor, the timber of the Atlas, the grain of Africa and Egypt; and the carts brought nothing out but loads of dung. That was their return cargo. London turns dirt into gold. Rome turned gold int☟︎
asciilifeform: folks who don't get their 'dietary minimum' of 'millideaths per day' tend to get edgy.
asciilifeform: there's also 'mortido' (as in libido)
asciilifeform: (people who endlessly fidget with their cars)
