asciilifeform: so wai not dekulakize the mit derps for 'tax on 80k'.
asciilifeform: or whatever the inspectors decide they were worth, when they raid
asciilifeform: and the income is tallies as the market value ( per usg gosplan ) of the difference, 49bux/ea
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: re 'other side', recall that usa a bestkorea where ~everything~ is, at least on paper, taxable -- e.g. if i work for a butcher and he pays me in the form of letting me buy 10 chickens a month for a 1 $ instead of 50 $ ea., this is considered taxable just the same as if he paid in buxxorz
asciilifeform: ( iirc later was found that ~only~ police had been present at this particular shootout )
asciilifeform: well answr to the 'who sez' is 'usg gosplan sez'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: didja read the milk thing on trilema ?
asciilifeform: well apparently threatens to become ordinary, rather than magically tax-exempt For Reasons, income
asciilifeform: not that usd is required to obey conservation of mass, but possibly mit is about to be struck off the list of folx having the crown privilege to make it appear and disappear on command in this way.☟︎
asciilifeform: ianal but there's a genuine eggog in there -- either that 50k is ~income~ for the chump^H^H^Hstudent; or it ain't, and it then also is not expenditure ( i.e. something to be written off taxables ) for mit
asciilifeform: somehow it is a-ok for folx who win a toyota in a lottery to go broke, from sudden tax owed. but ohnoez, try an' tax pantsuit 'leading tech institution' dim bulb folx...
asciilifeform: in other butthurts, https://archive.is/nw25r >> 'For M.I.T. students, this waiver keeps us from having to pay a bill of about $50,000 every year — a staggering amount, but one that is similar to the fees at many other colleges and universities. ... But under the House’s tax bill, our waivers will be taxed. This means that M.I.T. graduate students would be responsible for paying taxes on a $80,000 annual salary, when we actually e☟︎
asciilifeform: ( all implementations of rsa in common use, are unsuitable for real time programs, on account of leaking private key via timing side channel )
asciilifeform: i'd quite like to have some bigendian heavy iron for 'biodiversidad'/specificity-of-diddling reason, but afaik there is none to be had ( at least in the weight class of opteron, which can haz in 32cores easily enough )
asciilifeform: it had similar problems, iirc, to opteron -- ran hot
asciilifeform: trinque: sounds respectable. are they obtainable ?
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/p1RZm >> 'Chinese drone maker DJI left the private key for its dot-com's HTTPS certificate exposed on GitHub for up to four years'
asciilifeform: enough room in the eeprom for a kernel as payload, even.
asciilifeform: back to coreboot, fwiw i have a working build for 'pcengines'☟︎
asciilifeform: ( g4, with its 4GB address space, i do not regard as very interesting )
asciilifeform: !~later tell trinque ever found a rack mount multicore g5?
asciilifeform genuinely does not know of anything worth calling 'standard box of the republic'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-17#1740117 << you can't v-root an item containing binturds. and the only x86 bios without winturds, is for opteron or ancient (pre-2008) intels. with recent chips even binturd-containing coreboot dun work, and yer stuck with the heathen fw shipped in the box.☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: was introduced for same reason as milk pasteurization
asciilifeform wonders if gamma sterilization of meat is mandatory yet in usa
asciilifeform: bonus is that pasteurization ( and for that matter anything short of incineration ) does 0 against prion. if it were excreted in milk , usa would be depopulated crater long ago
