asciilifeform: there's a bit of a general-purpose lesson here...
asciilifeform: "This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today."
asciilifeform: when i read these pitches, i can't help but recall: "...Filtration System A Marvel to Behold! It Removes Eighty Percent of Human Solid Waste!"☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: telegraphers (late 1890s afaik) called it 'glass arm disease'
asciilifeform: yep. same as air hammer operator's disease
asciilifeform: (what happens to a touch screen user, that is.)
asciilifeform: effect has a name. 'gorilla arm' syndrome.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: the termenvox link: good illustration of virtuoso (vs. bozo) concept.
asciilifeform: jurov: solution: not necessarily DIY, but to use a system that can at least be verified to 'do what it says on the box'
asciilifeform: but a 'respectable' researcher of some stature
asciilifeform: the fellow is supposed to be something more than a generic nobody
asciilifeform: if i found myself in that position, the last thing i'd do is crow to the media.
asciilifeform: and if you can afford a motorcycle, you can afford an 'ICE.'
asciilifeform: a logic analyzer isn't a nuke sub, you don't need to 'live the supernode lifestyle' to buy one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my problem is less with the (truly) extraordinary claims, but the complete lack of any sign of a desire to share the extraordinary evidence.
asciilifeform: bob____: one can get everything needed to verify the claims for < $1k.
asciilifeform: offered a camera. 'she won't show up on film. magic pixie dust shielding.'
asciilifeform: 'nessie really WAS there! but i, um, forgot my camera.'
asciilifeform: the 'badbios' discussion is distinctly 'cryptozoological' in flavour.
asciilifeform: or maybe not anymore, with prices being what they are. 'peak lead'...
asciilifeform: Vexual: best place to get astounding quantities of lead, cheaply, is... a boatyard.
asciilifeform: btw, some joker wrote a paper (maybe competing for the igNobel?) replicating this on cow carcasses
asciilifeform: well, lead and orifices mentioned together.
asciilifeform: i can't help but think of the lead casts they must've pulled from the corpses of counterfeiters executed in the traditional way, in the old days.
asciilifeform: 'and then one day upon the stair, i met a man who wasn't there; he wasn't there again today - i really wish he'd go away.'
asciilifeform: lottery win is 'sexy', successful investment diddling, not so much.
asciilifeform: nubbins`: the peanut gallery only goes wild for stories of 'ordinary bloke like you & i lucked out!'
asciilifeform: dub: how? it doesn't shed any light on the question of whether you (or i, for that matter) are a Gestapo mole.
asciilifeform: even assuming that i could be entirely certain that the government papers are genuine
asciilifeform: what does my certification that 'key K belongs to Mr. Such and Such' actually give people?
asciilifeform: dub: you're losing sight of the objective
asciilifeform: the value of linking pubkeys to government-issued id is rather tenuous
asciilifeform: vs. an actual friend (or even business associate)
asciilifeform: dub: people who you've never known before, and may not meet again, who come to you for the purpose of 'let's do keys.'
asciilifeform: it's astounding that anybody thinks you can 'meaningfully establish identity' or somesuch through casual meatspace meetings with strangers.
asciilifeform: because the latter is in no way a surprise
asciilifeform: VanCleef: are you thinking of something other than the difficulty increase?
asciilifeform: VanCleef: say you're trying to catch a bus, and run late. you run after it, and jump, don't quite make it, fall into traffic. the end. buses are a scam?
