asciilifeform: speaking of which, asciilifeform finally discovered how to make a decay-based rng that doesn't wear out or need high voltage -- use PIN diode. the q was always what to use for an emitter, that won't be stolen by post office of half the globe. granite, it occurs to me, is probably a good bet.
asciilifeform: (unless you have exotic 'pancake' probe)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trick q, geiger won't pick up alpha
asciilifeform: dunno if i want alpha emitters in my phood.
asciilifeform: lol granite... ever go over it with geiger ? (or the food..)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: could have brought your diesel!11
asciilifeform: and by the time it came : 1) 2/3 was missing 2) the remainder -- was utterly redundant
asciilifeform: the funny bit, is that all of the junk went by ~boat~, in special container
asciilifeform: approx, d00d : 'what is this' asciilifeform : 'technical samples' d00d : 'promise you'll take them back where you came from' asciilifeform : 'mmok'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did get that trunk of pogos through .ar customs. though it made for interesting conversation
asciilifeform: 'd00d walks in, knapsack of fat white envelopes to $monkeystans'
asciilifeform: phf: i am fairly certain the post clerk thought i was sending $contraband
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually tricky bit, say btc goes to 5k, then buyer may well be rather pissed, rather than 'oh i'll reorder'
asciilifeform: ( china --> usa usually gets away with it , usa --> wherever -- not so much)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've had parcels marked 'gifts' disappear mysteriously
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc jp is not the only head on the chopping block;
asciilifeform: expect moar 'back lucks' as usg burns the furniture.
asciilifeform: as uncle al schwartz wrote, re mexico's nationalization of syntex co (maker of 1st synthetic progesterone) -- 'it died, and as always they called it 'bad luck''
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg will loot everyone who is still worth anything who has any vulnerable limbs in usgdom -- just as it looted 'olympus'
asciilifeform: (y'know, the way nigerian villagers 'create wealth', by augering petropipe and standing around with buckets)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or how 'create wealth' means 'drill into the printolade pipeline'
asciilifeform: phf: i definitely know the ~type~ aha
asciilifeform: ( d00d who invented hyperlink, and spent half a century (!) and counting, trying to actually build something, even $mil's from john walker didn't help )
asciilifeform: ted nelson is a patron saint, of these folx
asciilifeform: he falls exactly into that bin, sadly.
asciilifeform: to revisit upstack, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633867 << naggum's observation 'cl does not support posers, no one will land a job by pretending to know it, you can expose him in 5 minutes' was only half-true -- turns out there is a process whereby vermin colonize a field, it is quite similar to the way in which lichens break apart a stone into soil☝︎
