asciilifeform: trinque: believe or not, they spat it out, and it causes much butthurtz - refused, e.g., electric supply from su, insisted on building own, expelled military 'advisors', etc
asciilifeform: it dies ( and it will die, there is limit to how many decades you can dance from a noose tightened by entire 'civilized' world ) there will be 0 remaining.
asciilifeform: which is why north kr was priceless treasure -- the ONLY remaining experiment with industry sans konsoomer-spending-britneyizes-all☟︎
asciilifeform: chinese experience in africa suggests otherwise. rm -rf / the locals, ship in worker bees.
asciilifeform: so closing borders, even supposing this were somehow desired by the lizards, ain't happening
asciilifeform: usa has the extra-lulzy feature that it ~relies~ on porous borders in order to work (~100% of agriculture, construction, etc. business in various places is mexican)
asciilifeform: i suspect that the 'ju-jitsu' kit, 'club enemy with his own arm', 'sit on river side and wait for corpses to float by', has limitations; and for some things you probably need a physical castle. but then again i'm not in the mircea_popescuation business.
asciilifeform: if you want to hold territory, i could think of less useful one to hold.
asciilifeform: hm speaking of the bomb, iirc great U deposits in ro
asciilifeform: which romania, though. the current demooocracy one, or a re-created 18th c. one, consisting of current minus the moocows (sell to dairy farmers, berbers, whichever specialists)
asciilifeform: why would anybody ~want~ to pay of-gross ?
asciilifeform: the fritz chip starts from mask rom, the contents of which are unknown (and potentially unique per-batch at factory) and it in fact brings up the remainder of the cpu
asciilifeform: 'I bought my first Bitcoins in 2013 and have been active on the Bitcointalk forum since March, 2014.... I’m concerned. I believe we urgently need to find a scaling solution, and I believe the best solution is to increase the blocksize.' << lol, betcha these come out of a perl script by nao
asciilifeform: 'OSX El Capitan. SSD + 32 GB RAM, ENS app super sluggish yesterday and same problems as OP. backed-up everything, deleted Mist and support files, re-installed. imported jsons after merging, working fine now, except for the fact that owned domains to be finalized are disappearing from the side bar. Domains cannot be finalized when typed in, mist refuses address lookup, type in a different domain and the retype the domain to be finaliz
asciilifeform: in other noose, we have... long division
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform's pet does not know how to drive )
asciilifeform: having already 1 working auto and 1 arse
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i considered buying the peculiar auto for incabux, but then realized that i dun actually need one for anything
asciilifeform: market of idiots is not exactly busting down the door to buy sane hardware.
asciilifeform: it isn't really much like getting, e.g., circuit boards, made.
asciilifeform: ( we had, some time last year, a thread, where asciilifeform learns that a number of 'crackpot' fabs will make you a few dozen dies for the cost of a toyota, rather than aston-martin. but various problems remain -- it typically takes 5 or 6 rounds; and they want nda, and the use of winblowz liquishitware tools, etc, and extensive hand-holding )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'reasonable cost' in this context is ' asciilifeform's experimentation budget.' which presently does not stretch to ic fab.
