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mircea_popescu: usgavin's been on a kick about this imaginary hardware that will run his 200 trillion jiggabit nodes.
mircea_popescu: they need imaginary hardware to support their imaginary "technologies"
mircea_popescu: trinque im thinking the same, this is something readily resolved in court.
mircea_popescu: 'We as a company own all of the machines. There is no outstanding balance and we've already had the tech come out to unlock them."
mircea_popescu: we're not talking 100 bucks for a piece of plastic here.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't get it. who would "buy" such a thing ?
mircea_popescu: ;;google christina applegate buys a car with kellog's cornflakes cutoutsd.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field im talking money cut out of a fucking notebook.
mircea_popescu: check it out, bitcointalk scams fooled tons of "early adopters", "world changers" etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "Copy machine money" : this is a sad necessity. if it weren't present, muppets WOULD "try it", and discover "it works", and srsly financial collapse. for real.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`> batorade (tm) << secreted by the batshit insane ?
mircea_popescu: trinque oddly that thing doesn't load any content for me. either im not drunk enough or you broke it.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> The User is Drunk ... << why not go all the way and admit it. "the user is stupid, therefore worthless. so am i. please pay me money because worthless idiots are people too. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE IRREVERSIBLE!!11"
mircea_popescu: you know, stupid people sleep ad libitum by the definition of those terms.
mircea_popescu: if you b-a her name it's all in there because she's one of those (unfamous, anon irrelevant people that appear suddenly and on one topic. as opposed to say lenin.)
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the ugly but aging sex in the city aspirationalist that "found satoshi's identity". then ascii_field thought she was rich then she wasn't.
mircea_popescu: and it his isn't poverty, i guess i'm just privileged.
mircea_popescu: leah goodman poor, which is to say he gets a few 100s of discretionary tspending a week and gets to - at the lord's pleasure - inhabit a decent mancave. for now.
mircea_popescu: and to round up the "sam altman is poor" thing : yes, he actually is.
mircea_popescu: considering how the entire subculture is composed of nothing but "transhumanists"
mircea_popescu: and dealing in sub-million units is really like proposing to settle differences by wager of battle, "except let's use styrofoam weapons". totally dude, rad.
mircea_popescu: "donation to charity" is what rich people do to make poor people think something happened.)
mircea_popescu: (for poor people reading : "donating to a charity" = tax deduction = you didn't actually spend anything. because say my company has made 1mn revenue this year, and my tax accountant is bs so i have to pay like 120k in tax. if i donate 100k to a charity and pay 30k ish im all done. so therefore - whether i lose this bet or not decides whether i write a check to x or to y, not whether i write the check at all.
mircea_popescu: what's with the charity bs and what's with the sub million bs. is this the new jersey memorial golf circuit ?
mircea_popescu: (also, 32 bit os should work on 64 bit hardware, compatibility mode)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron don't worry, you also put 64 bit on the 32 bit arm.
mircea_popescu: moldavian count. famous pop singer of the 20s. after which, took up clay pigeon shooting, and became world champion 4ever.
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> I've also wondered what would happen if we implanted chloroplasts in our skin, just live off sunlight? << toxic epidermal necrolysis much more likely./
mircea_popescu: PeterL but geneticists have am uch better idea of what goes into phenotypes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the variety of bacteria is actually staggering.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm contesting the importance and corectness of whatever, maillard, what have you. but nobody who looked at the matter seriously is claiming the problem to be even described
mircea_popescu: the vinegar thing is an industrial product and at best cattle feed.
mircea_popescu: pickes are cucumbers fermented in a saline solution in the dark and cool.