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mircea_popescu had a complete lotus 1-2-3 and novell netware ~suites~, hundreds of 1.2mb floppies in 50 item boxes, shelves of the shit
mircea_popescu: i had a batch of 100 out of which 30 died the first write
mircea_popescu: but also very variant. i had one that was good for hundreds of rewrites over a year
mircea_popescu: that aside, adding a curly bracket at the end or something doesn't hurt anything
mircea_popescu: the opinions about the Mysts of Mystery emitted by fans of the power rangers and co.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron "bitcoin hardliners" is becoming the #1 strawman. #shitlibertardssay
mircea_popescu: and obviously mike & gavincoin's dog and pony show have yet to address the fact that "hey, we are ehtereum 2.0, we have the support of "investors" and so on"
mircea_popescu: for my curiosity, you ever computed aggregate monthly utilisation of your capital goods ?
mircea_popescu: it can be purely platonic, "you may touch the instruments" thing
mircea_popescu: i suppose a version of the above "make it now" is what drives your hoarding behaviour
mircea_popescu: anyway, ftr : i don't expect the electric grid will cease to exist.
mircea_popescu: just like if you wanted a good plate mail, have it made in 1650.
mircea_popescu: because it's unlikely you'll be able to in the future.
mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is kind-of why it's so damned important we start making right things
mircea_popescu: thgere's going to be one of the latter and an infinity of the former.
mircea_popescu: research either happens on 500 dollar 3d printers, or else on 500 trillion hadron colliders
mircea_popescu: you will notice that the capital base of the oldmodel is dying into irreelvancy
mircea_popescu: so if i want a 3d printed item, which university i call ?
mircea_popescu: like, you knock off to decimation and two friends over gossipd "can you ploxpoint your microtelescope at the x y z and send me the dump ?"
mircea_popescu: so no, i don't see any sort of future for that model, which is EXACTLY why i pointed out to tim whatshisname that either he gets with the program or he goes live in the sewer.
mircea_popescu: but that said, the wot model does dispense with most of the previous advantages of university
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, "fucking in retards", like "reproduction in mammals"
mircea_popescu: university is important because the close physical proximity is a requisite for fucking in retards, and students are yet retarded
mircea_popescu: usually known as "course material", ie, "these few pageswhich if you read, you should be able to answer anything"
mircea_popescu: specifically that it is not merely cheating to be given in advance the questions which will constitute the exam (which, to my undying amazement, i found out is by now actually standard practice in the us), but even to be given any sort of selected reading material that contains a larger density of answers than the average for the entire world text.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly fair, in the same session i also explained my view on cheating on university examinations,
mircea_popescu: Essentially, “Megablock Bitcoin” will be exactly like the Apple App Store. <<< mmmm yeah.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron bingoboingo an' any other b-a single gentlemen - if you want to try this out ima give you a bitcent to tip the chciks and then you can pester naphex with how broken it is. dump addies.
mircea_popescu: well browse's broken on this browser, no doubt on account of it being prolly too old. anyway.
mircea_popescu: Naphex well everything loads but no video plays, dunno if there was supposed to play anything