asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: incidentally i have not forgotten about your shortage of comps, i did get ye olde x61 out of storage, and dusted off, will be posting it this weekend when going to town.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet a mega-breakthrough that only exists upon this earth as slides in 2-3 frames of some obscure lecture film. but who knows, always a first time.
asciilifeform: socrates, we're told, also 'worked best in video', or how did it go ; plato -- wrote down.
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: if you believe this, plz consider , again, writing it down.
asciilifeform: i have not watched the film, gabriel_laddel_p . but its existence ~in that form~ does not bode well for the content. but if gabriel_laddel_p wants to write about what he saw -- i'll read..
asciilifeform: i bet if webcam existed when tesla was old an' feeding pigeons -- he would've rambled into a webcam.
asciilifeform: buncha these folx -- alan kay, ted nelson, et al
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: not even speaking of actual breakthroughs -- even discerning crackpots do not put their work in format of 'video' , but written word
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel_p: if you intended to link to unified theory... you made mistake, you linked to schoolbook that everyone has
asciilifeform: this thing comes & goes, it is clearly in experimental stage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey , these are the folx hell-bent on retrofitting inflation into bitcoin somehow. are firmly convinced that they will eventually do it ( alternative is to 'lie down and rot' , from their pov , world with perma-working bitcoin in it is not one they wish to even conceive of living in )
asciilifeform: various idiocies, i can't be arsed to catalogue'em all
asciilifeform: or the slightly more advanced kakobreklan version, 'oh that wasn't mircea_popescu's thing, it was asciilifeform , mircea_popescu only drinks his blood'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: standard unhappentronic algo -- 'if i strategically omit to mention it, it will unexist'
asciilifeform: about how human affairs work, and ought to work
asciilifeform: apparently rats in the sewer have conversations and things
asciilifeform: 'thestringpuller May 18, 2017 11:27 basically from a purely logical standpoint MP’s last bastion in generating bitcoin revenue is 1) through activities he can’t talk about on the clear net (he used to be a pimp and made money that way in the RO days), 2) through Eulora which is basically just A Tale in the Desert with Bitcoin' << didjaknow
asciilifeform: 'not ivan, but pyotr, and not won, but lost, and not the lottery, but at cards'☟︎
asciilifeform: 'Klein faces five years in federal prison for operating an illegal money exchange—a money exchange that traded USD for property, according to the IRS’s BTC tax document.'
asciilifeform: s at such a commission, IRS agents arrested him without mention of the money.'
asciilifeform: from earlier, 'They reached out to “jrklein,” out of thousands of LBC users, and arranged a meet. All said and done, the IRS agents met with Klein five times. The IRS agents clarified—with or to Klein—that they wanted to exchange their cash for his Bitcoin. Although other possible transactions existed on LBC, cash for Bitcoin was not uncommon. He made charged a 10 percent commission rate, and although the internet often scoff
asciilifeform: apparently there are junkyards for people.
