asciilifeform: here's an even better idea: vote on chess moves! who needs champions when you've got reddit. no need for the voters to know how to play! 'wisdom of crowds!'
asciilifeform: the people who made off with what remained of the ussr are quite happy campers in london, paris, etc. last i checked.
asciilifeform: or if you'd just like to be loaded at your new destination, a still-functioning locale
asciilifeform: dub: there's metals theft for plebes, and nicer things for the nobles (vanishing scientific equipment, war machines, piles of precious metals and still not entirely-worthless currency)
asciilifeform: (it is kept out of the national papers, but you'll find it if you know where to look - local news.)
asciilifeform: daring thieves have been attaching trucks to live (!) high voltage transformers, and driving off.
asciilifeform: quite a few of the 'underwater' houses in the u.s. are, unknown to their 'owners,' husks that have been stripped of wire, pipes...
asciilifeform: and virtually anything you might think of as stationary, can be dismantled and sold, if the will is there
asciilifeform: just as rebar was 'mined' from soviet missile bases.
asciilifeform: on the contrary, there is plenty to steal from a decaying superpower. witness the 'cable contains no copper!' (dirty lie!) signs that have popped up at construction sites.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: resemblance to a chicken (when seen on an anatomist's table) is amazingly close.
asciilifeform: dub: if you had a working 'shor's algo' setup, you could put pretty much whatever you like, anywhere you like.
asciilifeform: i think he was referring to 'QUANTUM' rather than feynman's 'quantum computer.'
asciilifeform: incidentally 'they broke rsa ages ago' makes for a good crackpot theory regarding the wasteful incompetence of, well, everything else. smoke screen.
asciilifeform: they've got - 'remote viewers!' with magic. as seen 'men who stare at goats.' surely.
asciilifeform: on paper, most governments reserve the right to 'we don't like you - go away.' the question is where it will happen in practice.
asciilifeform: what's with all the folks obsessed with 'being part of bitcoin!' ? i mean, it makes sense to want riches, but it is a curious way of phrasing it.
asciilifeform: phun phact: i used one of these machines, and it jammed. bank grunt went in with a putty knife, opened cabinet to reveal... mountain of dirt and leaked coins.
asciilifeform: i'll toss this in for anyone who didn't get a chance to laugh at it last time: picture an altcoin where the workfunction is a blank field in the protocol.
asciilifeform: 4. (crackpot) could be wangled into carrying out useful computation (e.g. cryptoanalysis)
asciilifeform: an alt could conceivably provide added value, in the form of resistance to well-funded jokers baking silicon at economies of scale.
asciilifeform: pankkake: the basic idea of altcoin isn't stupid; only the idea of 'btc with serial num filed off' is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've no incentive to do this, but the folks presently stoking their furnaces with old fpgas - do.
