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pigeons: i could just spend the money i dont have because im taking a temporary loss on more efficient hardware that doesnt exist
pigeons: my stocks went down too, but the price doesn't matter, i'll just take a temporary loss and not sell. how long is temporary?
ThickAsThieves: "Cost of mining doesn't matter to the price, miners will readjust themselves according to the current price by either taking a temporary loss and not selling or reduce mining nodes/more efficient hardware." fukn traders...
xmj: i dont wanna pay taxes; just get a bank account and receive money :p
csshih: "To expedite the issuance of an EIN for a foreign entity, please call (267) 941-1099. This is not a toll-free call.
xmj: rephrase, how long does it take them to process a fax'ed SS-4 form and issue an EIN ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which isn't THAT expensive to do, but it does require a puppet-master sysadmin type to start it all << OMG Bob Beck has a path to redemtion if he takes it
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many of these fucktarded kids realise that a) domestic animals could "learn" the bullshit they've "learned" and b) that automatically means it ain't fucking worth bothering with.
mircea_popescu: just... the ability of being actually useful is a lot rarer than the ability to down a special interest studies read list and then derp around in circles.
mircea_popescu: ironically, for all the bitching, wailing and thrashing of insignificant subhumans on reddits and forums, there is A TON of free space right at the top, and for years i've just been waiting for people to come and claim their spot.
mircea_popescu: which isn't THAT expensive to do, but it does require a puppet-master sysadmin type to start it all
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that idiocy aside, an actual namecoin that actually worked well'd be a pretty good thing.
BingoBoingo: Now it takes longer to name a bridge than build it
mircea_popescu: turns out it cost like 20mn to build back a century ago.
mircea_popescu: if someone made a sterling silver lifesized replica of the golden gate, it'd still not be 3bn.
BingoBoingo: There's probably a few places in the world where a bridge might cost 3 billion honestly, but...
mircea_popescu: it only costs 3bn if a particular type of sucker (us govt) is buying it.
BingoBoingo: "I can see this working for a limited amount of time, in small communities. But who is going to build a $3 Billion bridge and regulate the quality of the engineering? Donations? What will keep greedy companies from paying desperate workers $2/hour, which is what is happening right now in countries with less regulation." Ferries are still a thing
mircea_popescu: i ran a town, it was a pleasure to live in. for everyone except the buttcoiners, of course (the dumbass kids that go for postdocs in the us didn't exist) and the feminists (the dumbass womenz also didn't exist).
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2blwn1/i_honestly_dont_care_about_many_laws_put_around/cj6s0ar << the lithuanian guy has a point.
BingoBoingo: Right now a big piece of spam when I listen to the radio is "Own your own oil well" commercials targeting accredited investors.
BingoBoingo: It's related to a sort of spamvestment scheme traditionally oriented towards targeting doctors.
mircea_popescu: that's a way to look at it yeah.
BingoBoingo: This is a moral failing of Doge and Ether
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mircea_popescu: derp : "omfg they got 5k btc this is so important". older generation derp : "ripple claimed the same thing, a year later they have nothing to show for it"
BingoBoingo: Indeed rather large as well. Getting enough that size for a strand would be one of (expensive, a pain in the ass)
BingoBoingo: Well, if I settled next to the sea I figured I'd call myself vegetarian and eat hundreds of oysters a day for the trollz
mircea_popescu: hm, now that'd be a character : a gaudy hipster that identifies as vegan and chains oysters
BingoBoingo: Anyone can imagine they've done anything if they smash their head into a cinder block until they have the cognitive funtion of an oyster
BingoBoingo: It isn't amazing that he accomplished something. It is amazing he took such a fail path to do so for so long.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem like a big deal.
BingoBoingo: 500 hours is more than enough time to make a perfect cheat on such a sumb platform
assbot: One Man's Five-Year Quest To Find A Shiny Pokmon
BingoBoingo: Doge distractions http://pocketmonster.kotaku.com/one-mans-five-year-quest-for-a-shiny-pokemon-1603763304
BingoBoingo: Somebody get this man a buttcoin http://deadspin.com/gm-gets-prostate-exam-in-stadium-sings-take-me-out-to-1610657985
assbot: Quest for vision is a great blessing.
asciilifeform: (everybody gets a unique firmware. as described in the prospectus.)
decimation: that comes down to a trade-off between development and production
asciilifeform: decimation: you need a non-drug-addicted human to run the machines << when it comes to it - one can run the machines in person. if one is truly serious.
mircea_popescu: the way a country of "laws not men" works is by definition that unless it stumbles into sense, it will thread stupidity.
decimation: I've been seeking such a person for years
mircea_popescu: decimation this is an unfair observation. who in the us has the authority to actually take these facts in hand and make a decision ?
asciilifeform: decimation: an asphalt road is far from any kind of permanent edifice. gets reclaimed by the jungle after just a few years of neglect. so don't expect to hear any talk of 'future' anything.
decimation: go into debt building roads they can't afford while failing to provision for a future when no one can afford cars
asciilifeform: the whole dc region is a gigantic swamp.
asciilifeform: decimation: the remainder - confiscated from a few hundred unfortunates.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I just guessing off of the name that Julia has a vagina API call, and vaginas are accomodating to nearly anything given sufficient time to warm up
mircea_popescu: how does php care about a special folder ?
DreadKnight: considering ditching it for python myself just because python doesn't care about a special folder
mircea_popescu: DreadKnight php is not too popular here, following a total bashing it got a few months ago over some bizarre design choices and (i suspect) the fact tux loved it.
DreadKnight: good thing you made a disclaimer earlier :D
BingoBoingo: Wait Amazon is still a thing too???
DreadKnight: why wouldn't dropbox still be a thing? :P
BingoBoingo: Is dropbox still a thing?
DreadKnight: BingoBoingo, I could just share source code with someone and it would be easier for him to run it; I could start working on a dynamically generated website on my computer in any folder
BingoBoingo: I'm just curious, also a little bit drunk and trollish for full disclosure.
DreadKnight: I still hope that someday php will be usable system wide, like python, not just in a specific directory
BingoBoingo: decimation: They already cut Apache from base in favor of nginx, this is more it seems a still more basic alternative to nginx for people that desire it
BingoBoingo: Ah, around here one need not drive on a fancy road to find spammed homes. Even the barely paved have domicile spam.
decimation: the real issue is that you need a non-drug-addicted human to run the machines
asciilifeform: decimation: assembly for small runs is ruinously expensive, and has logistical issues (where do the parts come from? who purchases? is there a vig?)
decimation: right, pcbs are a different matter I suppose. I'm not so sure that assembly must be so expensive, given that the pcb is outsourced
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: supposedly stalin, but in point of fact it was a fictional stalin.
mircea_popescu: ie, quantity has a quality all of its own
BingoBoingo: Concentration decides whether it is a nutrient or a preservative hostile to invasive life.
BingoBoingo: Well historically most candied things were produced as a way to preserve various foods.
mircea_popescu: however a half pound glucose crystal is about as perishable as plastic.
asciilifeform: Rich fools are a resource to harvest like any other until the simply become fools << dollar in the hands of billionaire is not the same as dollar in the hands of a mere mortal. just like a gram of dirt in orbit is not the same as same gram in a moon. 'quantity has a quality of its own.'
mircea_popescu: suppose rich fools (in the shape of oversexed, misguided older us women) show up in africa, with a cohort of young, undersexed male followers
mircea_popescu: decimation you familiar with the "the best way to sink a good start-up is a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
BingoBoingo: <decimation> are you saying rich fools are unwelcome ? << Rich fools are a resource to harvest like any other until the simply become fools
mircea_popescu: decimation try a mental experiment. consider very insular, outsider-hating middle america community. consider you show up there and lavish new york mannerisms and expectations upon them. lynch mob is unsurprising. consider oppositely you show up there and display an intimate knowledge of the various blood feuds underpinning their social system. suddenly everyone wants you over for sunday dinner.
BingoBoingo: No US town wants a factory to be useful, they want it because it employees consumers
asciilifeform: a la dubai.
asciilifeform: i can picture a scenario where random bozos are invited in, but with the understanding of... biodiesel, if they don't make themselves otherwise useful
mircea_popescu: you can be a scholar or you can be a merchant. what you can't be is a consumer
mircea_popescu: well, permanent. i don't do permanent, i do a few years.
asciilifeform: guy who moved to japan and got citizenship << contrary to popular belief, this is not impossible - but about same level of difficulty as getting tenured professorship at a big uni
mircea_popescu: i know a guy who moved to japan and got citizenship, i know a guy who married a very pretty japanese rosebud and settled in yurp
asciilifeform: japan/migrants << we'll know jp is done as a going concern when they give up and let the devils in
nubbins`: which isn't much of a mystery at all
nubbins`: now we're only a mystery $15 over
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you shouldn't need a node for state.
mircea_popescu: like all the people falling on a nail gun from the 9th floor
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a valid point. if i hadn't had trilema and all i did was finance i'd probably hang myself
asciilifeform: why would a node ever reply >> if you're fetching blockchain state, vs. pushing tx
mircea_popescu: why would a node ever reply ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well, the only scenario where he can't is where a node only replies to 'friend', otherwise ignores.
mircea_popescu: “To have a nation, you must have people and you must have young people to be able to drive the economy and young people buy the products — all these gadgets and fine dining — and if you don’t have that, and you refuse migrants as the Japanese do, you will just dissolve into nothingness! I think before that comes, they may change (their) policy.” << a country which doesn't have enough gullible fools is not use
asciilifeform: well ostensibly purpose of stego is 'dr evil can't tell if x is a node'
mircea_popescu: as women started giving a fuck, fertility melted away.
asciilifeform: in such a scenario, stego is useless
mircea_popescu: the core reason for it is that the species must perpetuate. this hinges on women not really giving a fuck.
mircea_popescu: also, people not giving a fuck is a major technical proble,
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> just doing up the books for july, seems we have a mystery cash surplus of $666 << you have been clearly blessed. now if the lady's late...
asciilifeform: when it turns into 'lose password and die' - some people will begin to give a fuck.
asciilifeform: people tend to use weak passwords << this - and the famous experiment where a psychologist purchased office planktons' passwords with chocolate - is a fundamental result of people not giving a fuck. not a technical problem. ☟︎
decimation: either a central server or a universal blockchain
nubbins`: just doing up the books for july, seems we have a mystery cash surplus of $666