asciilifeform: e.g. http://www.google.com/patents/US4575330

asciilifeform: it was even mentioned in soviet 'наука и жизнь' mag ('science & life', similar to 'scientific american')

asciilifeform: in the '70s.

asciilifeform: that was actually the original '3d printer'

asciilifeform: not new

asciilifeform: although i'd also be surprised if altcoin aficionados don't take to bloating their chains to 'look relevant'.

asciilifeform: this is hardly surprising.

asciilifeform: 'btc! greatest blockchain in the wurld; all other blockchains are run by little gurls...'

asciilifeform: pankkake: '...come grasp the mighty phoenis of our Leader...'

asciilifeform: i'd prefer not to live with my '07 Tyan for ever

asciilifeform: since we're doing hardware minutiae: anyone know of a modern ECC mobo?

asciilifeform: speaking of bizarre: from the text of a spam sample: 'purchase extreme intestinal activity station'.

asciilifeform: box came in entirely virginal.

asciilifeform: dour old woman at post office: 'how the hell did you get this through customs without a name'

asciilifeform: nubbins`: (unrelated) shirts are in. thanks!

asciilifeform: much more doge. http://i.imgur.com/M6GApQd.jpg

asciilifeform: i'd love to buy an lcd, 2 M or so diagonal. but it would need to have at least the same pixel density as the eizo.

asciilifeform: 3:4.

asciilifeform: 16:9 lcd is mostly worthless unless you turn it, though.

asciilifeform: 27 inch proper 'Eizo'. 600 or so usd, ebay, new. perhaps it 'fell off truck'

asciilifeform: amusingly, loan word 'герла' is more or less equivalent in meaning to 'gurl' above.

asciilifeform: that's more or less: usa in one sentence.

asciilifeform: just the question of what is a 'gurl', one could think about for a while.

asciilifeform: weird

asciilifeform: winston c.

asciilifeform: the rhyme reminds me of another: http://blog.sayan.ee/a-birthday-poem/

asciilifeform: 'it will be long, it will be hard, and there shall be no withdrawal'...

asciilifeform: laugh, but this has become an actual fact.

asciilifeform: http://philip.greenspun.com/research/shame-and-war-old

asciilifeform: division of labour. most of us pay other people to slaughter and gut animals for the table. what's the problem in doing the same with email, if you can afford it...

asciilifeform: richard stallman is also well known for having minions check his mail (and even load pages)

asciilifeform: or the pope's 'twitter' account, etc.

asciilifeform: i expected DOGECOIN to involve old Venice / slave trade...

asciilifeform: cellphone miner? i can only conclude that 'silk road' is back, and btc people are partaking of strong drug.

asciilifeform: (you need some to mine any)

asciilifeform: afaik there are crackpot 'proof of stake' altchains where seedcoin actually exists

asciilifeform: seedcoin? is that the last little bit you needed to plant next year's btc crop, that the Reds confiscate when they dekulakize you?

asciilifeform: 'The Man Who Was Thursday' !

asciilifeform: wait till they learn about bitcoin...

asciilifeform: p. 35. geocaching.

asciilifeform: (p. 14)

asciilifeform: This is pure gold: "Monitoring strategy games like Counterstrike can be an effective way to track individual skill levels in firearms, tactical operations, group cohesion, leadership, etc."

asciilifeform: authored by literature team at Meta-NSA.

asciilifeform: gotta be fictional, to discredit other leaks

asciilifeform: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/10/us/politics/games-docs.html?_r=0

asciilifeform: in other news: latest word is that NSA spies on... WoW.

asciilifeform: no turning hardware straight into match outcomes, there.

asciilifeform: SatoshiGo is a far better idea

asciilifeform: when you can use machines at your leisure, it's a somewhat different game that you're playing.

asciilifeform: think 'knife fight' rather than 'boxing match.'

asciilifeform: a 'strong human' in this context is simply one who knows how to use his machine correctly.

asciilifeform: (monte-carlo style searches, or even classical - e.g. A* work quite well on 9x9 board.)

asciilifeform: nubbins`: correct. there's been some brouhaha about go ai, but it pertains mainly to games on undersized boards.

asciilifeform: see 'CoreWars.'

asciilifeform: alternatively, one could set up a contest explicitly for machines.

asciilifeform: let the race 'be to the swiftest.'

asciilifeform: no point in 'policing' the arena for AI, i've met people who play rather like machines.

asciilifeform: right.

asciilifeform: go would produce a dual-tiered situation, with a population of idiots running machines against each other, and pros who clean them out at their leisure.

asciilifeform: in case that wasn't clear.

asciilifeform: go works. chess devolves to AI contest.

asciilifeform: right. just like on park benches.

asciilifeform: benkay: easily enough. let people play for btc, collect fixed commission.

asciilifeform: because a serious player can beat the state-of-the-art machine there.

asciilifeform: well, the former.

asciilifeform: curiously absent are: actual games of skill. where is SatoshiChess or SatoshiGo?

asciilifeform: someone could probably squeeze out a meager living from cracking these chumpatrons.

asciilifeform: from both sides of the stand.

asciilifeform: modern people, who've never heard of carnival games, fall for the most basic shams imaginable.

asciilifeform: of the 'faux game of skill' species.

asciilifeform: straight from the analogue meatspace world.

asciilifeform: basic 'chumpatron.'

asciilifeform: if someone wises up, the rules will change.

asciilifeform: so he can collect the edge while appearing to be merely one of the players.

asciilifeform: since the author set the rules, he knows exactly how to optimize a rat.

asciilifeform: there is no mystery where the house edge is.

asciilifeform: and why only augmentations. let the chumps buy ratpoison for a selected enemy rat.

asciilifeform: when do we get 'SatoshiRoach'

asciilifeform: not bad

asciilifeform: https://blockchain.info/address/1DTiiobTw8LTFwCRoVVCg1gYeBfe4tzyHN

asciilifeform: aren't there quite enough of those?

asciilifeform: yet another 'crack our RNG plz' contest?

asciilifeform: (Meta-NSA is the Shangri-La where they keep the real cryptographers.)

asciilifeform: i can't help but imagine some fellow at Meta-NSA, with a pill against ECDSA hidden under a flower pot in his office, laughing his arse off at these morons. ☟︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the motivations of people who try to bring PKI to bitcoin are no secret.

asciilifeform: 'good cop / bad cop.' old as time.

asciilifeform: good, i don't need to draw a picture.

asciilifeform: notice what they did instead.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that one was a double whammy of sorts

asciilifeform: heavier than air, so you have to do a head stand afterwards.

asciilifeform: opposite of 'helium voice'

asciilifeform: ever see a stage performer breathe sulfur hexafluoride?

asciilifeform: (head stand?)

asciilifeform: i wouldn't - you still have to get the stuff out of your lungs eventually

asciilifeform: always wondered if some truly loaded fellow has a swimming pool of fluorinert.

asciilifeform: usually cheaper to make a new baby

asciilifeform: not standard, because $$$$$

asciilifeform: mike_c: afaik it's been used in medicine - children born with breathing problems, or something like that

asciilifeform: if you're going for classical (thermoblocks, pipes) vs. immersion cooling, use water. it pretty much can't be beat re: heat capacity.

asciilifeform: just about any oil you can get cheaply is poisonous, flammable, or both.