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TheNewDeal: how bad of any idea is it to short btc/ltc over
a short term period
cazalla: shinohai, lol that image reminds me of another which someone on bitcointalk claimed to be
a police report regarding asicminer thefts.. turned out to be
a birth certificate or something
assbot: Draft signed by F2Pool, Antpool, BW, BTCChina, Huobi committing them to
a 8MB increase. : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1Ggc6qu )
mircea_popescu: ascii_field is emerging like quite the tragic, byronian hero. on one hand, wishes to drive the dozer, on the other hand, wishes to have
a place for noli tangere.
ascii_field: '(875 – 884 AD) when Huang Ch’ao,
a powerful young heir to
a family fortune, was unable to pass the rigorous exams needed to become
a licentiate. He responded by selling salt on the black market and using the funds to organise
a secret society with which he incited rebellions that massacred nobles and officials and nearly, thought not quite, brought down the ruling entire dynasty.' << this has been my secret crackp
mircea_popescu: always
a pleasure to see people able to refer to the right source material.
ascii_field: there was some utterly deranged bloke yelling 'buy me
a bed!!!'
ascii_field: in other news, i dreamed last night that ft meade had been turned into
a kind of city-state, and i came through it for some peculiar reason. it very crowded and full of rough-looking folks, like d.c. subway. went into
a pub, full of demented old beggars, and pulled out
a wad of 'nsa money' - shit-brown 'hundies' with portraits of some senator on them. in return got glass of water.
ascii_field: the one in which the glass vessels themselves dissolved
a little.
ascii_field: react endothermically, and forming
a solid ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field vacuums not my forte, but is the following ever done : have
a solid cylinder separated into two closed rooms by piston. fill one room with chemical compounds in liquid pahse which react, so the resultant volume is lower.
thestringpuller: I like how they publicized BIP-100 with "This won't require
a hardfork" while the PDF clearly states "Oh yea guise we need to remove the cap completely to make this change."
funkenstein_ has heard tell of
a time when people wrote RFCs
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it reads to me like
a very plain "let's try and hijack b-
a by pretending
a bigger ba exists somewhere exotic and we are the only ones able to translate its red star stamps"
danielpbarron: and by "invalid address" i mean that i'm not about to do business with someone who insists I acknowledge "multi sig" is
a thing
ascii_field: why shouldn't ru air defense battery open up with all barrels on
a 'mystery meat' airplane which won't identify owner ?
mircea_popescu: fucking ridiculous. "oh, we will get
a bitcoin license to keep our hobby alive!11"
mircea_popescu: i remember
a day, not so many years ago, when people actually went on trips to check out claims of "hey i goit some images in photoshop" miners. how much things have changed in these few short years...
ascii_field: even
a schmuck like me has
a fat manila full of these stamps.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the validity of the stamps would be trivial to verify, if of course anyone still gave
a shit about the nonsense scampress publishes.
mircea_popescu: you'd be in
a better position to grasp the depth of this chasm of
a dilemma
ascii_field: incidentally, who even has
a crashless validating node with 1mb blocks
mircea_popescu: in other news
a display campaign for eulora started today, if any people called Eulorian show up treat 'em mildly. and if no such show up, well... it just goes to show the value of advertising.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lot of difference between the mild idiocy of hearst and the down syndrome of "ft alphaville" etc
ascii_field: it was ~always~
a pseudoreality, from at least william randolph hearst and up
mircea_popescu: by now they're reporting nonsense out of
a whjolly imagined pseudoreality
ascii_field: but i don't imagine that i'll learn to breathe water and become kind of the ocean in
a few weeks. and if mircea_popescu can do this, we should all learn from him.
ascii_field: i imagine i'd bubble
a bit in calcutta as well, before going under.
ascii_field: on how many dollars
a day does pufferfish live in the sea ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field seinfeld has an episode about this fundamentally female method of authentication ("i always wanted for him to drag me by the hair in this alley and stretch my anus"). elaine explains that "Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just
a beautiful moment between two lovers"
ascii_field: he wrote
a whole piece about how he threw the decrepit diesel out of the original boat's bilge to make
a storage room
ascii_field: but then he birthed
a son, and bought
a boat 2x the size
ascii_field: btw as
a long-time reader of herr orlov, i can't help but notice that he spat on diesels and bragged about
a seldom-used ('only in doldrumss') outboard petrol engine
mircea_popescu: iirc baseline is
a dollar
a day, so... there's his lifetime income
mircea_popescu: tho... didn't he just beg
a few k's recently to buy himself
a new mayo dildo or something ?
punkman: "The day after the breach was made public, OPM finalized
a more than $20 million deal with Winvale Group to start notifying individuals "within 48 hours of award.""
ascii_field: but it is still not
a true asic, because the pieces are not movable
ascii_field: considering that to me, the ~whole fucking point~ of fpga is to get
a computer which ~i and only i~ define
ascii_field: (of having to use the gui, every time you get
a slightly variant chip, and of never coming remotely close to understanding wtf is in the black box)
ascii_field: (and only
a paid-up, to the tune of 100K+ usd, or well-cracked, xilinx toolchain, will even talk to the $200-300 ones)
ascii_field: and if you want, e.g.,
a 100BaseT nic, or sdram controller, it has to be laid out mainly by hand using floor plan of the particular chip and explicit coordinates. which vendor can do, and you (user) cannot.
ascii_field: funkenstein_: the way it works is that there is literally no way to build
a 'bitstream' (as the configs are called) for
a chip without using vendor's turd toolchain
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 17:32:11; ascii_field: (xilinx, altera, actel, etc. ~all~ make the bulk of their revenue by charging rent for 'properties' like 'the right to have
a network card' in your fpga)
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:01:16; mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers
a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or
a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
menahem: hahaha, imagine
a team of us.
shinohai: I want to take
a picture of myself wearing it and post it to reddit to see how many downvotes I get :D
ascii_field: and the folks who have notions that it is, demonstrate
a total black-as-night unmarred by any light ignorance of the physical basics involved
menahem: bahaha shinohai - it was
a must. :D
shinohai: Thank you menahem, I bookmarked. My world is not complete without
a mircea popescu cult t-shirt.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 15:52:09; mircea_popescu: (and similarly prop delays are an empirical phenomenon, cheaper to measure than to make
a new chip)
ascii_field: (xilinx, altera, actel, etc. ~all~ make the bulk of their revenue by charging rent for 'properties' like 'the right to have
a network card' in your fpga)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now we understand that retrospectively, the chord in phones is not
a requirement but an anachronism, and we expect everything be available as wired or wireless at our option. but the wired/wireless dichotomy was not even meaningful to bell, or marconi.
mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers
a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or
a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:42:52; asciilifeform: midnightmagic: meanwhile please go and 'nanofabricate atom by atom'... one mosfet. (it's been done! so what if you need
a 'gigabuck' of gear to crap out an item which is worth
a nanopenny...) then get back to us
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165957 << this is you know, like saying that "printed matter powered education is nonsense, it costs more to write the infolios than an entire campus of ivy league's worth". or, for that matter, "it takes more work to program
a sound card than it takes to think through all the problems humanity has thought through so far".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (and similarly prop delays are an empirical phenomenon, cheaper to measure than to make
a new chip)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am not for
a moment arguing against the closed turdness approach ddram is wrapped in
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:17:59; asciilifeform: you can pick up
a textbook and write
a dram controller for fpga from first principles - and it won't work. because, for starters, only
a small number of output cells in the chip can function on both rising and falling edge of clock cycle (what 'ddr' means) and only xilinx's closed turd knows where they are in the routing fabric;
mircea_popescu: no wait, that must be wrong. it was... oh... uh... iot was
a DIFFERENT REDDIT!111
mircea_popescu: i thought we were the only ones left that actually believe there is
a place for scrip like usd & the rest of the fiats, doing roughly the job of movie tickets and coffee coupons
mircea_popescu: These guys believe, without
a trace of irony, that there will someday be no other currency than Bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "qntra.net is
a rabid bitcoin maximalist blog, run by one of the permanent fixtures in the #bitcoin-asshats tribe.
midnightmagic: Notice the lack of foot arches. I thought that was
a sign of
a lack of exercise.
mircea_popescu: drive fast die young leaving
a wholly pierced foot sole.
mircea_popescu: i know girly doing that number'd pretty much look hot regardless. but the straight me thinks it's rather disqualifying for
a man.
funkenstein_ is happy some of that time is spent teaching the kids in b-
a mats: somehow the 'we have
a terrible business plan' has yet again transmogrified into the old 'omg the chinese are counterfeiting again' narrative
mircea_popescu: i just saw "love me or live me" last night. story of fucking america retold as being being built by
a sucker labouring atop
a dry cunt.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:34:30; asciilifeform: given as presently i can't even afford to not have
a day job which eats 98% of time & energy
mircea_popescu: i remember some guy paying
a lot of money for that sort of thing
mircea_popescu: nobody ever gave
a shit. least of all the girly in discussion once she's 17.5