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mircea_popescu: "do you have a basementfull of nife ?" "o yeah! shit rocks" vs "say wut ?"
mircea_popescu: some of the cleverer dcs use them bnecause they're so very tolerant. which makes it the best heuristic to evaluate the operational wisdom of any dc.
mircea_popescu: people generally went for the "cheaper" solutions that rarely last 5 years
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc decade old data, it cost about 2.5-3x as much but obviously you never had to replace anything.
mircea_popescu: cazalla hardest thing for a fraudster is to keep the story straight.
mircea_popescu: and the human civilisation is organised around the implicit currency of "Stored joules"
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd like to read a sf novel which explores a future where technology has re-arranged deep magma of earth into a humongo battery
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not to mention the earth is about 80% nickel and iron by mass.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, S.CARS would be pretty cool. a company that a) aspires atmospheric H2, b) fuses it into Li c) which it uses to make car batteries while d) the energy so produced it uses to make the cars and fill them up.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "if you're gonna fuck, might as well make the chick you're fucking in the same go" ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, practically, the peak oil thing is a lot less interesting now that electric cars have been demonstrated than 20 years ago. (dunno if you know, but this has been a fringe theory for > 50, almost 100 years by now)
mircea_popescu: you can't run out of carbon, ie, the element. but you can run out of, say, sugar. venus is a fine example.
mircea_popescu: but once the saudi flood is done, imo that's it, oil will only ever be expensive.
mircea_popescu: for that matter... it turns out there's not enough rare earths on earth to make an ipad for each person alive.
mircea_popescu: whetrher you care or not - entirely different discussion.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it is elementary that if you keep taking out of a sack and never adding, eventually you run out.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.airgapped.1:9fdc995fb92b89f46ae90459ad60e2b6c87f4627292744d93d9e0c7c8f3f0be7
mircea_popescu: so then it's halfa minute. yeah, see the link for commands.
mircea_popescu: if you were in gribble pre 2015, you were imported. otherwise, gotta reg your key with assbot.
mircea_popescu: airgapped you should prolly get in the wot while at it.
mircea_popescu: the pi is currently being worked on as a first example of a fully fits in head machine.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron more a case of "there's all these people who got pis because excitement, now have nothing to use them for", i thought,
mircea_popescu: i don't recall why we didn't like the pi for this purpoise, but it's in teh logs.
mircea_popescu: if you fill in with something other than 10k or with nothing at all it works.
mircea_popescu: also, make sure you typed the email address correctly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda how sane people use this : wallet on a system behind a node system in a nat.
mircea_popescu: but even admitting this were done correctly, the problem still remains of what txn the client should order broadcast.
mircea_popescu: ideally you want exactly what ben_vulpes was proposing : a node server with a wallet client
mircea_popescu: it's basically a sort of windows nt, to replace windows 3.1. look, flashier plumage and mating dances!
mircea_popescu: he doesn't understand the implementation details. but the situation, he understands just fine.
mircea_popescu: it's about not spending your time writing fiction under the pretense of "thinking". the mouse excels at this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, us had a much better view of the soviets than the soviets, and vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: the hoodlums trying to be drug lords in detroit have a lot more sense in this matter than the "business majors" coming out of harvard.
mircea_popescu: and that is, joining the wot early, and helping set the world on fire. it. strictly it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this is conservation. one does not acquire wealth except one single way
mircea_popescu: otherwise, there are some classes of optimization problems ~once you're already rich~.
mircea_popescu: if you are one of the people buying belgian rubber concessions on the stock exchanges, you make money. if you're in africa, you make quick with the hands and feet.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is a purely ~political~ function. if you are among the favoured elite of the respublica veneta, you then may invest in the ships, and make a profit. if not, not.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: making money is not a function of one's hard work and dilligence in the schoolhouse sense.
mircea_popescu: very naggum-ish character actually. except iirc swedish
mircea_popescu: once you do, you're fucked. "works on most machines" now.
mircea_popescu: looky here : for as long as you don't aim to use the "shortest program" thing for the purpose of attacking my statement, it is ok.