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mircea_popescu: no wonder they're so dissociated they claim to love it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my heart goes out to the poor souls stuck working knee deep in this crud because of their idiotic employer.
mircea_popescu: best racket ever, if princeton sold shares in itself it'd obliterate the apple.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how it goes in the us, but eu folks are more thna happy to oblige, and also because humans are generally lazy most machinery mostly sits idle
mircea_popescu: in most times and places you actually do, in my experience.
mircea_popescu: you can coax time on expensive machinery for very little money. what costs is the bezzle support, you know ? most of grant money goes back to university to "pay for" grad students etc.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller exactly my point. it sounds like a pro until the 250kg beast licks you.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller trust me, it's like wanting your own tiger.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: so now you have to symlink it because half the shit expects "node" and the other half expects "nodejs" <<< bwahahaha you guise, stahp.
mircea_popescu: burns the sould of the unworthy with the fire of a thousand hells + 1 matchstick.
mircea_popescu: i know whenever i have a large numbers problem i tend to fire up basic too!
mircea_popescu: right, because so much crypto work is being done in the least apt language for the purpose.
mircea_popescu: "my cock is the right tool for everything! it can fuck things up, mess them up, screw up and everything else i normally do!"
mircea_popescu: mats: 'Javascript is the languge of heaven. It is the right choice for every programming task.' << :D
mircea_popescu: dude check out the poor entropy in kbd mashing. who knew!
mircea_popescu: the dispute (in typical redditesque retardom) was whether 7 is "less likely" or "more likely" to stad for a nsa-diddled ecdsa curve than 5976928769872976597967965769845 or w/e
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: way to argue the null case ;p << no but it was relevant in context.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` yeah, what part contradicts your tender youthful mind ? :D
mircea_popescu: now /me waits patiently for the home videos of fluffyfamily.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me waits patiently for fluffypony to be done with playing and start srs bzns.
mircea_popescu: well, neither did the various stabilisation funds irl lol.
mircea_popescu: oh i recall the derp. i think i told him off back when i was on twitter.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. then again this may be a rather short term concern you see.
mircea_popescu: this is a fact and it's not going away except in fiction.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony all future coin, of any type, and more generally all future human industry of all types is indelibly linked to bitcoin
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you are in the endsaying this is more of a hobby than serious.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i dun think his idea is directly applicable (stolen by btc), but nevertheless, someone with a better business value proposition can just fork your code.
mircea_popescu: what do you think the earth is if not hardpacked, ancient sewage.
mircea_popescu: it'd decript somethinmg you got off a pastebin for you, but obviously it can't guarantee the computer you're on won't read your memo too
mircea_popescu: seems airgap means you're not touching some other system neh.
mircea_popescu: i dun think "invesing in altcoin" generally was being contemplated.
mircea_popescu: adlai that wasn't the most organised argument i ever read :p
mircea_popescu: well, if your view is correct then all altcoins are essentialy the logo.
mircea_popescu: canadian govt srsly has to do some liquidity injections o.O
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at crazy shit ranch : "I am a twenty-year old sub living with my dom in Sask in a 24/7 D/s relationship. For the past two years I have been training as a sub and saving money for school. In the summer I will be relocating to Toronto for college in the fall. My Sir will find a Dom for me there with the hopes of finding me someone to stay with while I study. In exchange I will serve him as his slave for
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with that, i just spent a coupla hours derping in eulora myself. jus as long as it's not coming as a surprise later.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it gotta somehow make business sense. and the problem is, if it doesn't make it for me it doesn't make it in general, because what exact particular assumptions got baked in ? nothing much. if there isn't a good answer to "so what's my btc buy me" other than handwave, there's probably no better answer to "what's your time buy you" other than, whatever, "playing a mmorpg".
mircea_popescu: fluffypony understand what i'm saying here. you seem cogent and together, you're working on this whatever thing i can't readily evaluate. i'd consider putting a few coins into it ; i can even ignore the involvement of whatever known derp on the theory that on the long term sterile works itself out of metal anyway so who cares.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but basically any growth won't come to me. so i won't build on it.
mircea_popescu: it may make sense if i won't hold it overnight sorta thing
mircea_popescu: well no, so far i gather the contrary : i'm guaranteed to not see any mid or longm term return
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so from a purely business pov, why would i give this thing a 2nd thought ? what exactly can my 1 btc buy me and how ?