asciilifeform: and miners pay to access the cream of tx cache

asciilifeform: decimation: mircea_popescu's idea was to have it be precisely by miner fee

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-08-2015#1222794 << that one ☝︎

asciilifeform: decimation: see the thread with mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: n6: might wanna speak to trinque when he wakes up

asciilifeform: '"There were real issues with the operational wisdom of the program, and those who were to conduct the mission were sure that whomever thought this up was using bad hemp."'

asciilifeform: wouldn't be surprised if it is the same part.

asciilifeform: sop in all civilized nations in 1930s, i thought

asciilifeform: ehind. Army field manuals warned that it was "not possible to state that [the timers] will fire at a specific time," so SADM teams were trained to predict the general window in which the weapon would go off.'

asciilifeform: 'Probably to make the weapon resistant to electromagnetic pulses from any nearby nuclear explosions, as one might expect at the outset of war with the Soviets, the AEC had fashioned the SADM largely devoid of electronics. Instead, the device relied on two mechanical timers that, unfortunately, became less accurate the longer they were set for, potentially going off as early as eight minutes ahead of schedule or as many as 13 b

asciilifeform: having live men carry these things about was a fashion on both sides of the ocean

asciilifeform: to this day.

asciilifeform: like the bridges, all over europe, with trotyl in the pylons permanently

asciilifeform: (described su intel knowing precisely where they were)

asciilifeform: unless rezun lovingly fabricated the very elaborate description of the thing in his autobio

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the one thing these are definitely known to have been used for is burial (connected to phone lines, yes!) at useful places in west germany: dams, power stations, factories

asciilifeform: not certain the place would have looked much different..

asciilifeform: llow that to happen,'" and his men agreed to share the code in the event of a real mission.' << l0lz

asciilifeform: 'In addition, the two-man rule, which to this day dictates that no individual service member have the ability to arm a nuclear weapon, demanded that Green Light teams divide the code that unlocked the cover plate. But that could present a challenge if the wrong man got killed en route to the target. "Here you were with this hunk of sh-- in your bag and no good place to go," Flavin said. "So we said, 'Eh, I don't think we can a

asciilifeform: 'But when Green Light team member Ken Richter began interviewing potential candidates, he said, not everyone was as enthusiastic: "I had a lot of people that I interviewed for our team. Once they found out what the mission was, they said, 'No, thanks. I'd rather go back to Vietnam.' "'

asciilifeform: 'The Army's countermobility field manual taught soldiers to use ADMs for "stream cratering," in which atomic explosions near small waterways would "form a temporary dam, create a lake, cause overbank flooding, and produce an effective water obstacle" for enemy forces.'

asciilifeform: https://web.archive.org/web/20140302041146/http://www.stripes.com/news/us/when-elite-us-forces-strapped-nukes-to-their-backs-1.266168 << them

asciilifeform: out of flying cattle car and to the street in ~10 min.

asciilifeform: decimation: idk, i bought a 100 usd piece of paper and was 'processed' by a vending machine that printed 'get out of customs now' pass.

asciilifeform: then glass over the surviving cockroaches.

asciilifeform: personally i wouldn't waste so much as one private on the place. glass it.

asciilifeform: now we're talkin'.

asciilifeform: (when they shoot a white fella it's generally 5th-10th page newz, as linked earlier)

asciilifeform: also make sure to ignore grizzly bears in alaska

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a usaschwitz term

asciilifeform: can't imagine anyone wants to pay for this.

asciilifeform: if shipped, thing would have to be transported like a ming vase