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mircea_popescu: deadweasel perhaps that's an argument there. in the end, you can sell dangerous mushrooms in europe as long as you give people insteructions on how to properly cook them
mircea_popescu: i have no problem with you rooting for the underdog, as you perceive it.
mircea_popescu: it means that it makes no difference how much trouble the woman got herself into.
mircea_popescu: she couldn't quite believe it, but by the next day my nail was fine.
mircea_popescu: alcohol did nothing, rivanol did nothing, eventually my mother heated water to boiling and i stuck my finger in there repeatedly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's a fun story : one summer @seaside i dug thriough so much sand to make castles i separated the quick of my nail, and infection bred.
mircea_popescu: it turned out that the "internal memos" were not either internal or memos. regulator mandated.
mircea_popescu: the classical case of the "internal memos" bs is the ford pinto.
mircea_popescu: so why make claims with no factual basis that are also against your economic interest.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it can't be a fact, no matter who claims it
mircea_popescu: macdonalds' have to be incredibly poorly counselled to do that.
mircea_popescu: how in the heck did your slick lawyer prove the negative ?
mircea_popescu: maybe the stronger paint stripper cleans my bath tub just perfect.
mircea_popescu: maybe i was driving all across town for the 180f coffee cause my cock liked the temp.
mircea_popescu: and it's not paint stripper's maker's job to "know" what i do with it
mircea_popescu: 't want apple telling me how to "safely" use my computer,
mircea_popescu: mike_c "they know" is irrelevant. they don't give a shit.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel someone deriving a benefit from their activity does not immediately create a right to realocation towards random bystanders.
mircea_popescu: except "irresponsible" is an undefined symbol ready to take any content, and what woman did to herself is her damned problem
mircea_popescu: anyway benkay you've inspired me to write an article here.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like irl, early adopter risk/reward vs late adopter.
mircea_popescu: also carries the risk we just go sorry, production discontinued
mircea_popescu: hm. who'd have thunk it, this actually makes MORE sense of retail.
mircea_popescu: and if all you ever wanted was one, then let the bigger fishes get their prototypes first see if they like it.
mircea_popescu: well, the best advice being, don't go ordering 1k units out of the gate :)
mircea_popescu: basically it induces a lot of uncertainty on your end, as in, you're not even sure what words mean so multiple restatements are actually beneficial because they'd expose errors ?
mircea_popescu: if you find a difference we damn well wish to hear about it.
mircea_popescu: if you run linux you can hash the code for free, compare to what's printed on the thing.
mircea_popescu: dawg you refuse to read ? "If desired, it can be read on a common instrument sold for this purpose and its contents checksummed or otherwise perused. The checksum of your firmware ROM is printed on the bottom of the chassis, under the unit’s serial number"
mircea_popescu: now, you will need a rom reader, and the ability to grok microcode,
mircea_popescu: i don't see how a blackbox item would be useful or practical.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if mining manufacturers are by now screening their released copy to bitbetproof it.
mircea_popescu: i feel we need a channel mascot girl, who could moon for us.
mircea_popescu: B) Cardano’s firmware. This is a socketed antifuse (OTP) ROM which is unique to your unit and is engraved with the latter’s serial number. If desired, it can be read on a common instrument sold for this purpose and its contents checksummed or otherwise perused. The checksum of your firmware ROM is printed on the bottom of the chassis, under the unit’s serial number. For your safety, this ROM is non-reprogrammable
mircea_popescu: finally they've managed to work themselves to the actual ideological disagreement in question.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you're kinda late to that party tho, by now my picture is more widely affixed to dictionary entries than goldstein
mircea_popescu: more like it, someone did a larger arb with the azn mkt