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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day) << im pretty sure those are illegal in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;) << ha.
mircea_popescu: stupidest protocol in common use since the bretton woods agreements
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate << it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign
mircea_popescu: it looks like a pretty good attempt at being the onion
mircea_popescu: jurov "Behind the scenes, however, some new that peace was definitely not secured."
mircea_popescu: about as much as they know about psychiatry : everyone has his own story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform scoopbot's down, deedbot not here, it's like microsoft over here.
mircea_popescu tries real hard to imagine the next generation shamir putting to paper the 'friend of the us' string.
mircea_popescu: "why get now for free what you won't be able to afford later on ?!?!?!!?"
mircea_popescu: "As a friend of the US I am deeply worried that if you continue to delay visas in such a way, the only thing you will achieve is to alienate many world-famous foreign scientists, forcing them to increase their cooperation with European or Chinese scientists whose countries roll the red carpet for such visits. "
mircea_popescu: In my humble opinion, we are heading toward a disaster, and I have heard many people, among them our top scientists, saying that they are not willing anymore to visit the US, and collaborate with American scientists, because of the difficulties.
mircea_popescu: mebbe we should ask adlai to pay him a visit ? do an interview for qntra
mircea_popescu: "how long is a program ?" "that depends. on 64 bit registers, roughly 21kb
mircea_popescu: everything should be dereferenced every 1337th instruction
mircea_popescu: i think you see my point. well "my". porobably the oldest point in computing.
mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can't be bothered, write your own damned card"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i fail to see how "reference counting" is any sort of anything resembling a solution nor c etc demented for not having it.
mircea_popescu: chatquack i just went through home made cherry brandy, im full up on sweet liquor
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller reddit runs out of 6k a month worth of servers ? impressive if true.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> to avoid winblows. << it could be because they don't givew so much of a shit about the money. if he/she could afford a pointless masters,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you dunno to begin with wtf data strcutres its gonna have.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have no idea what that is. what's a reddit gold ? a dollar ? 2 ? 10 ?
mircea_popescu: for this application! not for treating his blepharospasm
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he's making a poc, for himself, as the first thing. he can solder later if he can't solder now
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller this theory is in fact long standing practice, it's just that the derps filling up the www with their words don't know what they don't know
mircea_popescu: this is true but misleading : in fact you know the fiats will inflate to all shit. and you know start-ups will dilute to all shit. in absolutely no proportion to "Words added" or any other sort of metric.
mircea_popescu: the qntra dilution argument is similar to the bitcoin inflation argument, saying something like "bitcoin is set to inflate at a fixed rate, fiat currenciesa are not"
mircea_popescu: and for that matter... a) in fact qntra is set to have MUCH LESS dilution than absolutely ANY start-up.
mircea_popescu: this is like telling me that a dollar's not worth 1/100 of a hundred dollars.
mircea_popescu: ;;LATER TELL mike_c but logically a share can not be differently worth from mktcap/sharecount.
mircea_popescu: but your point seems self contradictory to me. on one hand, oh, this is irreplaceable, on the other, oh, this is not worth its market value
mircea_popescu: mike_c you wouldn't need to hire them specifically, but you would need someone. and as there's very few people outside of b-a with brains working worth two shits...
mircea_popescu: ie, control and ownership are really separate concerns.
mircea_popescu: there's really no logical reason to buy it unless you got a better way to run it
mircea_popescu: conceivably they could run it as it runs now, which brings us to the point :
mircea_popescu: i think you at least theoreitcally could make a buyout offer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suspek jurov is perhaps in the best position to write you a short of some kind.
mircea_popescu: it's a nonsense statement, "mkt cap is fine, stock price too high"
mircea_popescu: anyway jurov may be able to write you a contract, seeing how he probably has a large chunk
mircea_popescu: however, betting against qntra being worth w/e, 5 btc ? seems insanity.
mircea_popescu: mike_c 158k includes whole shebang, 50% are issued, i'd guess 20-30k more likely for either cazalla or bingo