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mircea_popescu: but both of these make sense from
a business perspective.
nubbins`: i once spent
a summer running fluid dynamics sims on
a 24-node beowulf cluster
mircea_popescu: but you see how from
a business perspective this makes no sense ? the hardware's the biggest cost. in any and all dcs ever since the world begun.
mircea_popescu: there is
a lot terribly wrong with the picture you paint. i've yet to see this wonder where support costs more than the hardware.
mircea_popescu: here's
a thought : two $10 old cpus are faster than
a $50 modern cpu.
mircea_popescu: (kinda weird how the "stuck with windowsy linux" discussion denegerated into
a "because i need to run windows".
mircea_popescu: i just never ran into this sort of edge myself. i guess count it as
a blessing an' move on.
mircea_popescu: well this sounds like
a fucking curse on the level of, "must have sex in my car trunk, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: you can't just boot up say
a vm for it on
a remote server ?
mircea_popescu: and you gotta run the winblows in an emulator on
a physical laptop ?
mircea_popescu: something's amiss with this picture tho. i find it hard to believe that you need
a lot of computing that is
a) physically in your lap and b) exactly fits within the seeming arbitrary constriction of "what 2014 laptops allow"
mircea_popescu: im not sure why you want to run 2014 hw at all. but whatever, maybe i don't do enough hi res porn conversion on
a laptop to care ?
mircea_popescu: finding
a fucking nat router that's not backdoored by design is
a fucking hassle as it is.
mircea_popescu: uh. if you have servers you'd have to be insane to use rented hardware oyu manage yourself. either colo your own metal or else have the fucking dc handle it if you don't give
a shit.
mats_cd03: > that bears
a striking resemblance to an androgynous lesbian.
A heterosexual dude who, at first glance, is often mistaken for
a boyish lesbian. He is usually of smaller build, wears ambiguous attire, (ie: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors) and cuts his hair into
a faux hawk or other such lesbian-trademarked coiffure.
mircea_popescu: "If you have ever been F#CKED using BTCitcoin for something this would be
a great way to memorialize that as well."
kakobrekla: > It was commissioned by
a person on this forum but then they back out half way through completion. Original price was $600usd.
jurov: nubbins` if you're ever gonna make some b-
a book, these reich images are very fitting
mircea_popescu: artist is
a servile profession. the long and the short of it.
nubbins`: anyone working for someone else is
a busker if you wanna split that hair the rest of the way
nubbins`: he's not
a real blogger, he's just
a busker
nubbins`: you and your capital
A "Art" ;D
nubbins`: we even had our own chat about it, i drew you
a thing.
nubbins`: but the thing is, they don't give
a fuck that there's grant money being given away; they care that it's being given to
a band called holy fuck
nubbins`: there was
a big sadness when
a band called "holy fuck" got
a grant
nubbins`: jurov this is
a problem, people get all hissy when someone gets
a grant for something they personally don't like
mircea_popescu: jurov i used to know this chick that wore
a bracelet she made out of her pubic hair.
nubbins`: well ya know. it doesn't make
a good xmas gift with one either.
mike_c: doesn't make
a good xmas gift without
a denomination
nubbins`: it makes no sense to put
a denomination on it, period
mike_c: yes yes, i am saying it no longer makes sense to have
a 10 btc that is actually funded
mats_cd03: anyone want to play
a quick chess game (blitz)?
mircea_popescu: it made perfect sense to have
a coin with something more than nothing's worth of bitcoin in it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you gotta ppreciate, when the cas coins were
a thing, 50 btc was like 100 bux
gribble: Error: 'lisp' is not
a valid integer.
nubbins`: speaking of teeth, we got
a pig skull the other day
adlai: it's just
a bloody expensive paperweight without them
nubbins`: i want
a hellraiser-style puzzlebox physical btc
nubbins`: nobody gives
a fuck about coins with holos
nubbins`: anyway, the physical crypto space is at
a standstill
mircea_popescu: jesus fuck i want
a buttcoin.org account. the stupidity bitcoin brings out from i dunno where...
nubbins`: this one's actually just
a piece of wood
mircea_popescu: there;s going to be
a flood of these. the marginal cost to make small metal discs is about zero
mircea_popescu: something tells me this is going to be the biggest problem of bitcoin finance. to earn
a living as
a rentier you'll have to own
a shitton of 'em.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose in all fairness the byzantino-rabinical approach to the written text as deployed for the needs of bitbet is
a special kind of hell for all esl speakers.
mircea_popescu: yeah, turns out running
a safe investment fund in btc is harder than in usd. who'd have thunk it!
mircea_popescu: and if it does, no lost anyway, it's just
a matter of how the yes pot is split up.
leen_: if i place
a bet on no now and pric doesnt go under 250 i win the amount stated at th calculator if noobne else bets?
mircea_popescu: and it's
a moot point in any case, the 30th was 4 days ago.
BingoBoingo: The odds move anyway, the calculator is just to be used as
a rough guideline.
leen_: then on
a no bet i dont get their earnings
leen_: so i made
a bet placing
a winning BTC bet on: Yes pays: 4.39046755 BTC No pays: 1.14220213 BTC after fees, at current weight and assuming no one else bets
leen_: Bitcoin to drop under $250 before 2015 The price of one Bitcoin in USD will drop below $250 before January 2015 as per Bitstamp . If the difference between
a given "Yes" bet time and the bet's closing time is less than one week, such bets will be refunded minus fee. First two "Yes" bets are excluded from this rule.
leen_: there is
a problem with
a bet
mike_c: only
a few blocks left til it resolves
mircea_popescu: What kind of retard created this bet? Closing in 5 months?? why???
a bunch of people are just going to bet on Yes whenever they see difficulty is going to be down during the year, what's the point of this bet??
mircea_popescu: it's funny how the free market naturally evolves towards
a corner to wedge itself in.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> dear ddoser, please add more bots as it is not clear if you are still ddosing or not <<< yeah this srsly. i was half considering replacing the voice model with
a ddos model, but srsly, you gotta provide better servcice for free if you wanna be part of infrastructure here!
mircea_popescu: <davout> yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's
a blocker i'm missing tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is
a future that has no future date ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> you don't like the 15th 12:00 GMT, you want to change it, no? << nah he just wants
a shorter break. than ONE WEEK. which he gets.
mike_c: my estimate seems
a bit high at the moment. i gotta do some digging into why. I would use the october statement as
a closer NAV right now.
xanthyos: but maybe that was
a different network
xanthyos: at
a time i thought all nickserv-idented nicks were cloaked
xanthyos: better to know it's
a ddos to get angry about than to have uncertainty and be unable to diagnose the problem
xanthyos: but the pm with gribble took
a while to come back
xanthyos: if i connected from my home ip i'd cloak. i don't notice
a lag at all from the ssh session
xanthyos: it's
a shell so i have no idea if it's being ddosed
jurov: hafta convert them to
a+bi anyway
jurov: <adlai> slight tangent (from reading about impedance) - why on earth are complex numbers introduced as
a+bi << easy addition and multiplication?
jurov: mircea_popescu: EVERY BALANCE CHANGE ON MPEX SHOULD HAVE
A REASON NAMED IN JSON/JSONSTAT OUTPUT. FULL STOP.
davout: yes, continuous trading seems so much simpler, not sure if there's
a blocker i'm missing tho
xanthyos: life's more exciting with
a coinbase progress bar in one of my browser tabs
davout: which creates
a trading gap unless everyone is perfectly synchronized
jurov: and why's that
a problem? french ppl u no have hard deadlines?
davout: it's not that i dislike it, it's just that i point out that it creates
a hard deadline for everyone