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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's sad yo, back as a wee kitten in romania i had a lotta respect for the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: the entire fucking movement is in point of fact about as related to the reality of computers as party clowns are related to fucking.
mircea_popescu: this is the fucking point. it's not just bitcoin "core" that's irrelevant
mircea_popescu: if i was running things that'd have been the only thing being worked on.
mircea_popescu: so am i the only one displeased but unsurprised that not.a.single."foss".implementation out there has yet come up with a way for the user to bind a sole keyboard to kernel bus ? and all others get rejected ?
mircea_popescu: that's the point of having legal definitions in the first place.
mircea_popescu: well obviously race as a legal concept is going to diverge from sanity.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: lady v and got stoned and can't remember if we fed the dog << it'd be funnier if you had a cat.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: stuck at the ktichen sink for a 40 minute block << this is called "doing the dishes"
mircea_popescu: anyway. the problem of re-reading. i find goldsmith much less on point than i did back when i first read him.
mircea_popescu: rather than just pretend like "everything's equalk anyway"
mircea_popescu: is it that the slave is actually a better human being, strictly for having had the sense to be a slave, and follow the will of a worthy master
mircea_popescu: “The poor citizen found almost all the spheres in which an honourable livelihood might be obtained wholly or at least in a very great degree preoccupied by slaves, while he had learnt to regard trade with an invincible repugnance." <<< here's a good question. how come the "free citizen" aka, delusional derp can not compete with the slave ?
mircea_popescu: i so loathe it when people try to serve a solid point by pious fraud.
mircea_popescu: "Also he possessed a wife and child. This, too, was a great innovation."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes how do i do it lol. she's on my payroll and keeps things organised for my convenience ?
mircea_popescu: course these days due to automation, crews are kinda obsolete in both aviation and submersion roles.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck do you think can put up with constantly rubbing against other dudes ?
mircea_popescu: it's not just "an improvement". it's cultural revolution huge, like the automobile.
mircea_popescu: right ? turning a simple one way consumer into an actual integrated cycle is huge.
mircea_popescu: (i obviously fucked up my digit breaks, but i think the idea carries anyway ?)
mircea_popescu: this is roughly speaking 3 to 5x the efficiency your competition gets.
mircea_popescu: your costs ? .18 + .3 = ~.5 MJ to keep a 1MW circuit going perpetually.
mircea_popescu: this water has another .7MJ added by a nuclear power plant, turns to steam, powers a turbine, putting out 1MW of electricity which restarts the cycle.
mircea_popescu: 1MW is used to generate hashing power. this means it turns into 9.999 MJ of heat. This heat is extracted, by compressor using 180kJ, and 6MJ of it are used to preheat some water.
mircea_popescu: well, why not ? let me run a quick model for you here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that it was trying to administer the lands that ruined them. not conquering them in the first place.
mircea_popescu: it is not true that money and wealth is "wrong" or "corrupts", as the fucking protestants would have you believe. it is not true that appetite or expansion are evil, as the puritans would hae you believe.
mircea_popescu: dermined the basis of social stability, by substituting the bonds established by “contract” for those dependent on “status” as a basis for social order." are little more than present nonsense anachronised.
mircea_popescu: "The resultant society, however, was still reasonably stable and probably would have lasted a very long time if it had not been for Rome’s expansionist policies, which led to the establishment of the Empire." << this notion, that it was "expansionism" that broke rome's back, together with the previous "Its power was not based on hereditary status but much more on wealth. Such a change in itself must have seriously un
mircea_popescu: that indeed preheating water with the extracted heat would boost efficiency enormously.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it finally danwed on me after seeing that comment on the humble proposal to miners
mircea_popescu: the fact that chip manufacturers are mostly not selling to individuals anymore, and the fact that mining is moving towards meaningless "cloud" derivatives is some point of concern.
mircea_popescu: a well, sure, plenty of scams. those are of little consequence.
mircea_popescu: yes, except now pushed by the more corrupt of the mining gear manufacturers.
mircea_popescu: cazalla just between you and me, this bullshit "cloud mining" is a step away from pool mining in the utterly wrong direction.
mircea_popescu: There is the moral of all human tales '(tis but the same rehearsal of the past) : first Freedom, and then Glory when that fails. Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last. For History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagined the way this works is, an actual provider somewhere gets orders from random derps on whatever forum
mircea_popescu: no, but if you only can afford 10 hours a week, what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: decimation well, prolly trying to make the most out of his budget.