asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://www.amazon.com//gp/offer-listing/B000MOLJGI/sr=/qid=/?condition=used&tag=bkfndr76-20

asciilifeform: ask mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from delano to obama << 'от ильича до ильича'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on their side - presumably, the turd.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://imgur.com/Bn88rOZ

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the remaining lesson, possibly, is that we are still without a general-purpose btc-powered hoster.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one could also hypothesize again about 'married men' and who can or cannot afford to take what risk, etc.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if there's a psychiatric lesson here, it is that resisting crud is not necessarily from cleverness, but could also be on account of being a goat herder in afghanistan and what even is all this recycled food.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't really argue that 'no we won't even talk' was a correct answer. but i do understand how a n00b might associate bitcoin as-a-concept with the derps and sp4mz0rs.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: moving a functioning usd-fueled business to btc - other matter. especially if you're sensitive about not wishing to fatten vultures.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, i and the other jugglers - find ways to hoover up enough usd to pay the usd-eaters in.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i weigh less than an isp/hoster/restaurant/etc. yes.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: death is a hard boundary for experiments. once dead, no 'let's try this differently'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but brings back to the fact that usaschwitz is a thing. if i presently had to rely on btc for anything life-sustaining, i'd be quite dead.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my reaction just now was 'why won't they show up and at least talk' but then realized that this may be the flip side of the medal, so to speak, of the same conservative thinking that ultimately made n.f.s. co. even interesting in the first place (they've resisted every known variety of crud)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that is still not how i read that one. it was more of a 'what is this martian trinary computer, where can i plug it in? with what sauce can i eat it'. and iirc that was your own initial reaction in '11.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: physics student turned electrician (experimental physics) turned 'quant' aha.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tesla?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: care to draw a simple picture of what you'd do in their place ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no one was asked to care, but trying to explain here that folks are sizzling in an electric chair not necessarily of their own making, rather than simple death through individual folly

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this death is a collective one. or, go try to tell the nearly free speech folks how to get their upstream isp to take btc, and where to get spare disks and pizza for it, and in such a way that it doesn't immediately end up in the waterfall, etc.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol. why the emotion. the article told the sad truth: 'We have nothing to spend bitcoins on...'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mango happily pays. that's what digestion is all about.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sad part is, they have a point. they can't eat it.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/bQyAKJqY << here.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XwwiZPPa

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/belief2002

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you have some notion of how to transmute that into a solution to yesterday's conundrum - i'm all ears.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what i meant was, that it offers no useful mechanisms for anything other than, well, making ordinary backups for own use.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tarsnap isn't really a public access gizmo

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wrote letter.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i shall write.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i learned of them when looked for a hoster that specializes in censor resistance (through traditional legal-wrangling, rather than fancy tech. it was another age.)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't know them alive, no. but it is entirely possible that they could be lured. it's a small family op, afaik.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik they only eat usd however.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've been using that hoster since starting my site, >7yrs. ago. they're absolutely super. the cost is virtually unbeatable for low-traffic, simple sites. and, on top of this, almost wholly ddos-proof.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as far as i can see - it merely disappeared into the aether.

asciilifeform: jurov: once someone (you, ben_vulpes, whoever) reads them - can also sign, and display will read 'two people signed...'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also must understand the 'good cop / bad cop' dynamic here. the buggers lure folks to their sugary 'imponade' (see naggum) by, among other things, sabotaging the rest of the universe

asciilifeform: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2013/cmsc417/public/assignments/project_bitCoin.pdf << lol. 'yesterday's nobel prize is tomorrow's homework assignment.'

asciilifeform: mike_c: the part when you're high out of your mind on placebocin

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they almost always print 'no mitigating factors' (as in, must install update or die)

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: you may find that my patches rely on one another

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: neato.

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: well, i was able to determine that wedging takes place prior to memory exhaustion

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: wedging almost certainly involves what ends up being saved as blockchain

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: doubtful plan