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mircea_popescu: ideology matters a lot more than these things. the germans wanted to be free and the french wanted to party.
mircea_popescu: heck, even in 1950 stuff was a lot more reliable than the shit that passes today.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for as long as they make as much difference as rats, they can also multiply as rats.
mircea_popescu: ro soviet socialism was very much a medieval arrangement.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, doctor came to your fucking house. like they still did when i was a child, and ironicallyt - for the exact same reason.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: except if you were poor and unconnected, but in that case - YOU BELONG IN THE SEWER.
mircea_popescu: and note that there wasn't any sort of run amok "medical profession", or "legal profession", or anything else back then. doctor fucking paid house calls.
mircea_popescu: so you got a 4x improvement in qualityt of life for the slaves&servants in question out of the very simple measure of halving the costs and doubling the quality ; and at the expense that julie nobody doesn't get to pretend on reddit and gates doesn't get to pretend in washpo anymore.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but the ONLY difference is that instead of cox writing 10k 50 dollar bills for cable each month, a coupla hundred people sign off on cable bills worth 10k dollars each once a year. and the internet is twice as good.
mircea_popescu: and yes this means some inept derp doesn't get to sit around and "save the world" with "his foundation". fuck gates, too.
mircea_popescu: and yes this means that julie slaveface doesn't get to elect who's gonna take her maidenhood. fuck her.
mircea_popescu: because the 200 are stronger than the 12 ; whereas the 10k are weaker than fucking cox cable.
mircea_popescu: . now there's 200 masters, and 12 cable companies, and no fucking monopoly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-01-2016#1373607 << it's the same money, but in fewer hands. think of it this way : currently, there's 10`000 "family units" in town X making "the decision" to buy cable. as a result... there's two shitty companies and a de facto monopoly. transform those families into slaves and servants. they no longer get their own house, but live in the house oftheir masters, at their disposals
☝︎ mircea_popescu: fucking roman empire got dates across the sea in time to start a war. wtf already,
mircea_popescu: NACK. This renders hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment useless. It will leave a bad taste in the miners' mouth. I also think this is an unnecessary fix to a problem that won't exist in the long term. ASIC mining hardware will sooner or later hit fundamental physical limits and become commoditized. Decentralization of mining will naturally follow."
mircea_popescu: letting bitfury & friends eat 100mn in unrecoupable engineering costs would provide exactly the correct lesson as to what it's a good idea to say and when it's a good idea to shut the fuck up and toe the line.
mircea_popescu: This is literally no harder to get consensus for than a hardforked block size increase. This is probably easier, in fact, since it impacts fewer people negatively."
mircea_popescu: "@transcats Memory-hard PoW hasn't been invented yet, so we can't implement that.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: be that as it may, i'm going to take the girls out to eat, and so we can continue later !
mircea_popescu: course by now he's taken longer than conceivable for this purpose, but then again... his lyf.
mircea_popescu: anyway. my in-between-the-lines reading of the situation was that alf found, unexpectedly, that he had been doing dope for a long time, and while is working to get himself off the stuff, nevertheless due to the lenthy time spent on sudden solutions aren't practicable. so he's working on it.
mircea_popescu: jurov to kick what project off ? the "looking for yet another job" project ?
mircea_popescu: really this fiction of paying money rather than equity is nonsense of the first order.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather watch okcupid sluts camho. and no, i'm not watching that either.
mircea_popescu: anyway, alf's position is particularly unfortunate i guess, on one hand not one of "mps' 15k", on the other not one of the 15mn, is there no spot in the sun for an alf!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes incidentally did that other guy work out, what's his name
mircea_popescu: then again you know, the forum exists for people to voice their voice.
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon you gotta at some point stop acting and trying to think like a child.
mircea_popescu: put your offer in the book, if it is of this nature of a firm offer, and wait and see.
mircea_popescu: jurov seems the trade'll unwind. in fairness, you can't at the same time try to snipe bids you like, and be upset you don't see as many as you decided you need.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo except he doesn't seem to want them ; and besides, what confidence does a bum inspire to be a chief engineer ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if alf specifically won't show up in the employment line, an exactly fungible equivalent surely will.
mircea_popescu: i dun happen to want to run yet another of those ventures, myself. but others do, and i'm sure if you're one of them you can go open an office in sf, hire head hunters and proceed apace.
mircea_popescu: jurov lettuce not be naive. the alternatives here aren't the alternatives we perceive we would prefer. it's either he's a free man and does it as such, or else he's a peon like al schwatz describes in that very well written piece.
mircea_popescu: ascii_shmoocon you'd also be lying if you didn't say you specifically hate it.
mircea_popescu: jurov did the foundation ever spend anything, i forget.
mircea_popescu: what's the hurry anywaqy, the republic has infinite times.
mircea_popescu: so i don't terribly favouring the "quickly! spend!" approach. but that's just me.
mircea_popescu: there's a lengthy list of various fiat-based stuff that tried the "low time, high money" approach. they all failed and had to be rolled up in ever-larger failed ventures, usg style.
mircea_popescu: you're more than welcome to prefer a different time/money ratio, and even start a competitor.
mircea_popescu: you'll notice that while it took a very long time, s.nsa did not spend a lot of money.
mircea_popescu: you're also wrong in imagining that anyone does anything other than in their own time.
mircea_popescu: you are wrong in the part where you presume to decide whether what other people do is needed or not.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, is phuctor back online ? it'd have been a very convenient answer for me to give a few lines above.
mircea_popescu: and from the looks of it investors are starting to have had enough, eh.
mircea_popescu: there's no merchants left in thsi world are there. whole fucking raft of culture and its knowledges, gone from the world.
mircea_popescu: jurov dependency and investment are orthogonal concerns.