asciilifeform: diametric makes very nifty flying machines. and scanned head busts. and other goodies.

asciilifeform: fixed then. got our tyrant plugged in.

asciilifeform: except, if we are told correctly, for the 0-cutoff

asciilifeform: any user must be viewed through the lens of a selected other.

asciilifeform: easy fix for wot (was gonna write this myself before i ever heard of btc) is: no global totals.

asciilifeform: the other way to avoid 'imperium in imperio' in a wot is: a tyrant.

asciilifeform: proof of stake? then who'd need wot. just have people sign 'i like mr. xyz' with an addr. key

asciilifeform: that's bizarre

asciilifeform: wait, everyone's rating counts towards this purpose equally?

asciilifeform: since this is important, i'll repeat it: you can have a cryptowidget that nukes itself when disassembled, circuits potted in unobtainium, etc. or you can have one whose function you can personally verify. can't have both. 'fried ice.'

asciilifeform: but then you risk loss on dead battery, airport xray, etc.

asciilifeform: Vexual: if you keep keys in SRAM it gets much easier

asciilifeform: 4) process into gpg-compatible key.

asciilifeform: 3) read back bits

asciilifeform: 2) remove appropriate chips

asciilifeform: 1) read the (to be published) design docs

asciilifeform: the only definite promise is that the key cannot be exfiltrated silently by the attached pc.

asciilifeform: so the latter isn't in the mix

asciilifeform: they cannot be reconciled

asciilifeform: auditability and physical security

asciilifeform: see, there are two contradictory design objectives

asciilifeform: resistance to physical attack is not on the menu. (if you want this, encase yours in concrete.)

asciilifeform: cardano key extraction is not physically impossible (that'd be a lie) - just non-trivial.

asciilifeform: ok friendly reminder

asciilifeform: wait, srsly?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dns server already chugs 10+GB of turd: unix.

asciilifeform: that is, between your own addrs.

asciilifeform: (or gigantic tx. doesn't matter, since the coin is going in a closed loop.)

asciilifeform: store a few bytes as small tx.

asciilifeform: KRS|Gotyawallet: not like it was my idea. has been obvious for ages.

asciilifeform: would anyone care to explain why namecoin, when you can encode name-ipv4 pairs in the conventional blockchain trivially

asciilifeform: (you can buy ~50GHz+ ECL gates from mouser, or whoever)

asciilifeform: does anyone even remember how to design with ECL circuits nowadays...

asciilifeform: re: asics: anyone crazy enough to build a discrete-TTL logic miner yet?

asciilifeform: programmer's wife: 'do you want pizza or chinese for dinner?' programmer: 'yes.'

asciilifeform: any kid who can still wiggle out from under the conditions with finesse should be marked passing.

asciilifeform: that is, one ought to ask 'you are alone in the desert, even the shirt on your back has worn to tatters, you encounter the obelisk of ozymandias, quite tall, and wish to measure its height before you die of thirst, with nothing but your remaining barometer.'

asciilifeform: the barometer example is just one of a poorly-specified problem

asciilifeform: pankkake: 1 or 2 of these are interesting, in the sense of 'what not to do'

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: let somebody give the same test with (kindergarten level) electric circuits.

asciilifeform: or just let them go broke, and they can join the crackpots who spend their lives teaching dolphins sign language.

asciilifeform: maybe these folks will relent once they understand that even literacy cannot be taught to everyone.

asciilifeform: alan kay (smalltalk), the original 'i'll teach even monkeys to program' fellow, persists in this delusion.

asciilifeform: ed is still, afaik, the only place where you will find some of the more interesting and factual (older) 'paladin press' works.

asciilifeform: (nothing against the latter, but the former is more what i had in mind)

asciilifeform: pankkake: are you a member of any that have 1970s soviet trinary mainframe manuals, rather than peculiar and rare fetish porn?

asciilifeform: if 'bittorrent' is your neighbourhood dope pusher, 'edonkey' is alex shulgin's basement lab.

asciilifeform: (scanned russian maths books, etc)

asciilifeform: and, afaik, bearshare is dead, but the (DHT-based) 'edonkey' is still up and running, and stuffed full of high-quality rarities

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/paper1.pdf loads fine

asciilifeform: correct.

asciilifeform: but the study of the underlying pathology is useful.

asciilifeform: people who can't (or won't) do arithmetic and turn into the Financially Sad are nothing new

asciilifeform: a shocker for the teacher, not for me in particular

asciilifeform: their answers did not sum up to a consistent picture of anything. even a mistaken picture.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the real shocker was that the 'back hump' did not cough up a model of the problem. even a wrong one.

asciilifeform: with bitcoin we have sorter and sifter in one.

asciilifeform: and these sample people think that training circus animals is cruel.

asciilifeform: it's at least as much of a sifter as abstract algebra.

asciilifeform: see also 'the cold equations.' (tom godwin, 1954.)

asciilifeform: electronic or otherwise.

asciilifeform: short version: factory-OEM human brain doesn't deal in abstraction.

asciilifeform: (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats.html for anyone who doesn't remember.)

asciilifeform: 'the camel has two humps.'

asciilifeform: funnily, tor has made lusers' traffic more public than it ever was before.

asciilifeform: it doesn't take long.

asciilifeform: lest you end up like that swede.

asciilifeform: if you publish your results, do it in some way that cannot be readily linked to you in meatspace.

asciilifeform: KRS|Gotyawallet: no comment. but i recommend the exercise.

asciilifeform: 'bob the bridge-builder.'

asciilifeform: 'great fleas have little fleas, on their backs to bite them...'

asciilifeform: i still suspect that there is a large - but finite - supply of chumpatron fuel. at least of any particular variety.

asciilifeform: if some clever fellow runs a scam, he will harvest so many idiots that that particular species of scam won't work again - at least not without major cosmetic remodelling.

asciilifeform: there's a delicate predator-prey equilibrium, though

asciilifeform: i mean, if you're not above scam

asciilifeform: since when is there a shortage of ideas for cheats

asciilifeform: KRS|Gotyawallet: set up tor exits which replace SD addrs with yours.

asciilifeform: KRS|Gotyawallet: sell gpu cards with magic firmware to ltc miners.

asciilifeform: all good and well, rational to close down the plants, until the boats with toyotas stop coming.

asciilifeform: reminds me of russia's (and, for that matter, u.s.) disappearing auto industry

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: more like 'how much background radiation would it take to get mobsters out of manhattan'

asciilifeform: say beijing builds an optical computer out of unobtainium

asciilifeform: i often wonder, how much centralization would it take to send people running for the exits

asciilifeform: most of the participants get fucked, the survivors win.

asciilifeform: and that it is normal and unavoidable in some spheres (athletic hopefuls, junior professors, etc.)

asciilifeform: i once saw the term 'tournament market' used to describe this situation

asciilifeform: two drunks each pay the other $100 to eat spoon of shit. ☟︎

asciilifeform: why do people play

asciilifeform: that's my understanding. which leaves the question: wtf?

asciilifeform: (i study botnets)

asciilifeform: botnets appear to be switching to strategically ddosing pools instead of mining.

asciilifeform: are there actually happy miners somewhere (vs. mining hw vendors), or are they all busily going broke and cursing each other for the 'arms race' ?

asciilifeform: there are people (i'm told, in sweden) who believe that nazis still run everything.

asciilifeform: sometimes even after.

asciilifeform: that isn't the point. the point that there are always people at a wake saying the corpse isn't one, until it starts to stink.

asciilifeform: after A was fired.

asciilifeform: that came later.

asciilifeform: so he'd 'confess'

asciilifeform: whereupon angleton had N starved in a dungeon for a few years