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mircea_popescu: they were sold to the chinese conglomerate lusski for 5.5 bn.
mircea_popescu: the woman has no idea what she's talking about nor any appreciation of what having an idea even is or why'd it be desirable.
mircea_popescu: as milk products are virtually unknown in the mud eating empire.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski they reference the smell of butter of people who eat in the western fashion
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski the truth is that "butterism" or however you say in english the chinese concept equivalent to the mexican "malinchismo" ensures that a chinese corp is in the best position to make money from otherwise defunct us brands.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski eh, teh usg herps will try and as per usual fail to enact their mattering in the history of the world as recorded by its current sovereign, bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: we're going to see a negative correction here for fucking once.
mircea_popescu: (in the end it could only do about 110, but that's... still enough)
mircea_popescu: then one day power was out and suddenly... "wait, isn't that 240 HP engine backed by a full electric generator ? that could do up to 240 HP aka 180 kW ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: of course, to their discredit they still didn't figure out what the COMPLETE correction to their existence is. just went from "doing something stupid" to "not doing anything". the "how about you stop existing at all" thing is too hard.
mircea_popescu: to bureaucrat's credit, it must be pointed out that this time around they learned from those mistakes of the past and DIDNT spend on infrastructure. just gave the money off to the banks free and clear.
mircea_popescu: have all the good ads for it : take it to a skating rink, pour water up to the axles, watch it freeze, then climb, ignition and just go.
mircea_popescu: there clearly exists a market for $100k cars, and this wouldn't take that to make.
mircea_popescu: make it 3-4 tons, damned thing could pretty much climb straight up a wall.
mircea_popescu: to power the drive train function of torque draw. and just for the marketing, put optional TRACK kit on the list.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1370904 << in truth, engine miniaturization has proceeded to the point where this product would be marketable : a 4x4 "true" SUV with a pick-up truck option that has a 2-3 liter gasoline engine with a gpl add-on (so you can run it either on full gasoline, or do gasoline starting and run on gas) that autoswitches from powering the drive train to powering an electric engine
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: but try and explain it to the ustardian weabos that they are solving an imagined problem with the exactly anti-adequate tools.
mircea_popescu: for applications where the low end of the torque curve is what pays the bills, it is actually worth to generate electricity and run an electric engine rather than run a straight combustion engine arrangement
mircea_popescu: timothy b lee > wants to write about bitcoin > is not in #bitcoin-assets >wonders why he can't make sense of anything.
mircea_popescu: like google's been evaluating the "business case" for not being evil.
mircea_popescu: which is why your parents calling you joe is a fundamentally different activity from the girl at the bar saying "hey stud" or the dudes threatened thereby going "hey loser".
mircea_popescu: strictly the only reason you might try to name things you don't own is your hope to steal a little.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there is exactly 0 possibility that one tries to heysteve and is not rentseeking.
mircea_popescu: but of course you can't SIMPLY ADD STRINGS NUMERICALLY right ? :D
mircea_popescu: think dns, if getting other websites i like would be as easy as adding 1 to "trilema.com"...
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "Updated: 1/14/2014" << are you from the past ?
mircea_popescu: ything good to flow to ~these~ people, and for it to constantly enlarge. that is all.
mircea_popescu: hehe check that out, dub got repelled by the antiuniversalist nature of the new democracy. turns out he was right : the citostatic has prevented tumours (doublespoken as "the channel") from growing. it has however not prevented the list of our accomplishments from growing, which was exactly the fucking point. we don't want more people, and we sure as fuck don't want "all the people". we just want a larger share of ever
mircea_popescu: "The decision was made to pull from our profits to fill these wallets back up over time, thus attempting to avert complete closure of the website at that time. "
mircea_popescu: this because the tramps were tramps, whereas pressed shit doth not intellectual makes.
mircea_popescu: i've known tramps more successful in life than the sort of pointless idiots that come out of "ivy league".
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-01-2016#1370682 << you would think that the fucking idiots making handcuffs would have figured out the importance of all using the same key. but no : everyone uses ever-so-slightly-different plain, rectangular shits. and so because i have a bunch of various cuffs and because ending up unable to free a girl happened exactly once... i'm stuck carrying around a fucking pile of tiny l
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: as a sign of bitcoin's progress in the intervening coupla years, the amir taaki v2.0 can marginally spell, and in a very flat, vulgar manner express himself in writing.
mircea_popescu: fresh from the... cupines. "I'm obese, but you are hilarious!"
mircea_popescu: actually the ddr metallic-something tapes of the era were much better than everything i saw since.
mircea_popescu: not sorted in any particular order. so that you know, if you needed a calculatuion made... you could just run my program and ... look it up.
mircea_popescu: did i tell the story of the utility program i wrote in basic ?