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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo mike_c "here's how november went for mpex stocks" piece for qntra ? can has ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: is the blockchain cpu-bound on ssds *and* spinny-drives? << not really. afaik the bitcoind was always IO bound, either on memory or more usually disk. but i guess some people somewhere run shitty enough systems that it's the cpu.
mircea_popescu: what they're actually saying is, "you'd never pay for us to do things you don't want done but we do, so gotta force you to pay". which proper restatement of the argument is of course too plain for their taste.
mircea_popescu: and you're telling me the local school or w/e couldn't, IF IT WERE ANY USEFUL.
mircea_popescu: i mean... the fucking commie party of the at-the-time enemy of the us could have lived off fucking us citizen ~donations~
mircea_popescu: to... essentially... build an experimental prison camp. or to leave to the communist party of ussr.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, completely insane and otherwise entirely pointless derps like the jones dude got TENS OF MILLIONS of 1970s dollars in donations
mircea_popescu: you know, reading on this people's temple thing... the general pro-state argument is that o noes, donation powered police department and government generally "wouldn't work" because "people won't pay, gotta tax!"
mircea_popescu: i hope he comes here to tell us how "gpg is not user friendly and too hard".
mircea_popescu: no but i mean... the kid's clearly trying, which is good.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell jyap you have to be fucking insane to send over copies of whatever residence card to derpy websites.
mircea_popescu: hopefully those folks got to live like kings for a while lol.
mircea_popescu: so i bought half a dozen cartons of romania's cheapest and threw em over when coming back.
mircea_popescu: one day they had one of those convict crews doing some roadwork in front o' my house as i went shopping
mircea_popescu: that the free and happy people of jonestown i mean new york are more than happy to pay 18 bucks for
mircea_popescu: still, as a general rule a 1 mb block takes < 1s to download and multipes s to process. makes little diff.
mircea_popescu: but they help with the indexing, which was an issue esp on bdb, and they may also help with tx related stuff
mircea_popescu: anyway, they don't speed up the download per se, because blocks are still downloaded
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it needs to trust the correctness of whoever made the checkpoints.
mircea_popescu: the proper operation of bitcoin is trustless. there's nothing it needs to trust in a no=chekcpoint scenario.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes incidentally, a server or two to be used as a [l2-accessible?] bitcoin testing environment may be a great foundation expenditure
mircea_popescu: cazalla from what i hear from Naphex yes, exactly same.
mircea_popescu: "he acted as an investment broker without a license ?! AND HE DID SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN THE AVERAGE ?!?!" burn him!!1
mircea_popescu: so they dun want random internet scammers and other non-proper-meta bezzlominds getting any
mircea_popescu: decimation which is why all the legal barriers, it's basically free money for the taking
mircea_popescu: and the less you think about what exactly wl, rd etc are, the better, you can just keep derping between em
mircea_popescu: if you acronym it YOU NO LONGER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT
mircea_popescu: which, incidentally, suggests to me a simple, direct and therefore likely correct explanation of the previously mysterious tendency of english-speaking thinkers to create acronyms.
mircea_popescu: as tlp would say, "don't change the system, just shuffle among its offerings"
mircea_popescu: "Allan S. Roth is the founder of Wealth Logic, an hourly based financial planning and investment advisory firm that advises clients with portfolios ranging from $10,000 to over $50 million. "
mircea_popescu: decimation it's so amusingly pervasive this. so the cbc article you linked punching holes in the rich dad thing ?
mircea_popescu: they'll just end up exactly where they are now : five to the room, crowded in insalubrious conditions, spending their time voting on reddit
mircea_popescu: what about when groups of friends go camping and some douche never buys anything ? doesn't last long does it ?
mircea_popescu: decimation hyow the fuck are you going to achieve the respect of your peers if you're a loser lol.
mircea_popescu: in practical economic terms, the unfound amazon tribes are just keeping high import tariffs up.
mircea_popescu: the problem with tariffs is that they economically insulate their jurisdiction, and sooner or later you get left out.
mircea_popescu: if you define labour as per income, then it is by definition.
mircea_popescu: trade tariffs are singularly the most stupid taxation font in existence.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes, it's why/how ibm was originally reorganised.
mircea_popescu: all i ever heard about that thing was that it was a dreary shithole in the mud
mircea_popescu: decimation no i mean, how are you sure they got their money's worth ?
mircea_popescu: wow check it out, that bad ? this is like the publishing business.
mircea_popescu: " That relationship generated sales of $438 million, of which Rich Global got nearly $45 million in royalties"
mircea_popescu: apparently everything anyone's doing there anymore is some sort of attempt to create a miniworld or other.
mircea_popescu: wait, there's more to that than just a derpy book from a decade ago ?
mircea_popescu: "He studied at Harvard until the First World War broke out in 1914. At that point, aged 23, he returned to Canada and joined the Canadian army in Halifax and was assigned to the Cyclist Corps of the Second Division, Canadian Expeditionary Force."
mircea_popescu: punkman basically it meshes half sentences from the two huh.