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mircea_popescu: do we yet have something that people can put on pogo and run ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, in all that story a release is required.
mircea_popescu: rather than pretending depression under false pretenses much like "ununderstood" adolescents pretend to be gay.
mircea_popescu: (the incidence of depression among idiots being for this reason the most amusing thing of all! seriously, YOU'RE depressed ? you don't even have enough of a fucking clue to be sad.)
mircea_popescu: more like, the brain's not made for thinking anymore than bitnodes' is made to count nodes.
mircea_popescu: human physiology, the stuff the memory hole effect's made of.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` bitnodes is in the business of finding what it wants to find.
mircea_popescu: and the thing that keeps schmuck is, the thing that keeps all schmucks. fear.
mircea_popescu: inertial mass is, much like the "centrifugal force", a matter of observer observing
mircea_popescu: what is it that makes the speed of chemical reaction be the speed of chemical reaction ?
mircea_popescu: always reasons. the fact that nothing's instantaneous in the physical world is the chief reason there may even be life in the first place.
mircea_popescu: who and where told them "we're getting wiped, at the most last out another three, maaaaybe six months" ?
mircea_popescu: now wonder along with me : WHY is it that shithead gavin is SO VERY FIRMLY CONVINCED this must be done "before the end of the year" ? hm ?
mircea_popescu: there ~IS~ a reason they switched from trying that to trying gavincoin last year.
mircea_popescu: actually, i hope most of it does, and i hope it comes out of their corneas and their daughter's labia.
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how much of it comes out of the skins of idiots.
mircea_popescu: i LOVE!!11 the fact that they're giving me free money this way
mircea_popescu: soros' breaking of the bank of england should be the only example you might ever need.
mircea_popescu: the "you can't hold it" thing works on everyone. huge difference.
mircea_popescu: how do you call the "part which does the printing" in a printer ?
mircea_popescu: the granules themselves are more or less engineered to clog competing heads.
mircea_popescu: the toner granularities thing is a fine example of biology in business.
mircea_popescu: yeah, because that's the monkey logic, "shit, this guy makes it so that i have a job!!1"
mircea_popescu: is your log also only made out of paper that was there before you were born ?
mircea_popescu: i was thinking ima publish episodes on trilema an' then the whole thing
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know i left you a ding in the logs while back, you ever got it ?
mircea_popescu: do you also want something that's warm and slippery while using no cells made after you were born ?
mircea_popescu: "if it can't sync it can't really be used seriously" makes a whole lotta sense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it IS pretty much the baseline to distinguish computer from toy.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the reason they're 100 bucks a pop is ~ that nobody wants em
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but seriously, "efficiency" aside, i have nfi how one'd program for a processor that allows random switching in and out of the process counter / memory counter etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, i dun think romania actually ever made that.
mircea_popescu: i will also observe that s.mg launches much awaited bitcoin's mmorpg, usg.agitprop is silent ; "blockstream" launches "much awaited" (by whom ?) nothing at all, the wsj seems compelled to write it up within the hour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but anyway, For additional background on Blockstream’s founding values, read “Blockstream: A Champion of Bitcoin’s Core Values.” ?! "press@blockstream.com" ?!
mircea_popescu: curl: (35) Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to www.blockstream.com:443
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the population of the world barn stood for it once, "monopoly on violence" and all that bull, why shouldn't it work again ???
mircea_popescu: amusing how transparent the usg efforts of turning bitcoin into gold are, by the way. "oh, we don't want to kill bitcoin, honest, we just want to make it so we're the only ones that can safely hold it. you know... like gold..."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: iirc the yugos had even more , but i don't recall specifics
mircea_popescu: there existed an "official" one, MMN80CPU and a number of unofficial clones made in small runs and mostly clandestinely. (most of ex-soviet bloc economy in the early 90s consisted of "anyone who is clever enough to use this nobody's fixed capital - welcome to do so for the cost of the consumables")
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