asciilifeform: mr mold's example was, if i recall, his '300/mo. book bill'
asciilifeform: they aren't trying to live as cultured man.
asciilifeform: i'm not in a position to say what he ought to have done instead of, well, what he did.
asciilifeform: 'even with plenty of fairly successful precious metal speculation' were, iirc, his words
asciilifeform: decimation: he said what i believe was the truth in that post - ran out of money, given as his winnings from 'dotcom' idiocy were not enough to live an entire life as a cultured man, but only about a decade
asciilifeform: inevitably, this is an unappetizing product if you aren't the target. like a chinese motorcycle, belching black devil smoke as it goes at 20k/hr
asciilifeform: mr mold's audience is not mircea_popescu but rather an intelligent student from somewhere in usa with some curiosity about 20th century but no knowledge of euro languages and only a faint idea of civilization
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 90+% of the 'good' mold is from '07-'10
asciilifeform: quite likely somebody conveniently 'happened' to be near, to ease him onto the cock
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fact is, mr mold was not always a whore; iirc, he did run out of money, and descended into whoring from lack of a plan
asciilifeform: but at least started with vaguely correct cargo.
asciilifeform: afaik it was an example. he wanted to somehow bring the pre-ww1 dynasties back.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mr mold started with a very different kind of 'state agenda' (poorly articulated desire to... resurrect the stuart kings) and ended with... andreesen horowitz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he ever say, why deleted ?
asciilifeform: decimation: there's no reason to actually set the system clock from bitcoind, on account of it being the only proggy on the box that needs absolute time.
asciilifeform has no idea, pontificating using anal rng
asciilifeform: but it's being sold to civilians, and, more particularly, men, and that's rather like pitching captive bolt guns as a product to cattle
asciilifeform: that it might more efficiently manage a queueing of women in the city for processing by local mircea_popescu - possibly
asciilifeform: hanbot et al : what tinder's doing is removing the basic requirement of... << snore. i'm thoroughly unconvinced that anyone is having any sex that would not be being had otherwise without this proggy
asciilifeform: (it costs employer little or nothing, as the vendors the chumps are herded into using - usually pay.)
asciilifeform: sometimes this is even included as... an employment perk. at some megacorps.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: modernized version of this sc4m4tr0n is 'services' where chump pays subscription (xx months Phr33333! l1mit3d t1m3!!!11) to get 'rewards' (coupons for things that he won't use / don't exist / end up costing even more than for others)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...see how many COUPONS you find. to "save" generally 5-10 bux << popular chumpatronic device in usa, but fading on accout of the demise of dead tree newspapers
asciilifeform: and what to do it not (or if this results in a wild number due to diddled box on other end)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is no reason whatsoever to have ntp client -or- server on that box. question was whether to use functionality built into 'u-boot' to grab ntp time from [somewhere] once, on powerup.
asciilifeform: but as delta from system clock, in userland.
asciilifeform: let it maintain own local time if must
asciilifeform: there is no reason to add linkages from bitcoind to kernel space.
asciilifeform: decimation: terrible idea. can hardly even picture how to make it worse.
asciilifeform: decimation: ntp shared memory interface << what have you been smoking ?!?!
asciilifeform: every bubble's going to bring more into the fold << trying to make argument that they weren't 'in', but more like the clingers-on one sees hanging from trams and trolleybuses in the turd works
asciilifeform: the psychology of not merely bagholder, but with gigantic hole in the bottom of bag
asciilifeform: 'took' so they can lose to winblows, or sell at 100.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: when 1200 usd/btc, did they take?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i suspect they would even refuse a brick of, e.g., iridium. because it isn't gold, they've never seen it, have no idea of its value nor even whether it's a stable element
