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ben_vulpes: so basically someone who understands how asics work sat down and
thought about it for half a second
shinohai: It' a nice balmy 75 degrees here
today, and I sit outside on my patio
to irc.
mod6: i hear you
there. fuck, still snowing in my sector.
mod6: shinohai, what's
the word on
the street?
mircea_popescu: what a ustard
thinks "science" is has a lot
to do with what basil ii bulgaroktonos
thought god was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "science" as
the metaphysical concept. it's not what you and i mean by
the proper
term.
mircea_popescu: heck,
the bulgarians spent a millenium
trying
to immitate byzantine ridiculousness.
mod6: 'imitation is
the highest form of compliment'
mod6: herp
to
the derp mod6
mod6: w/e btc only :] whatever
that represents.
mircea_popescu: in spite of billions spent on "researchers"
that had apparently so many better
things
to do.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd say
the concept of pow was not well researched altogether, at
that point.
midnightmagic: but
there's a neat possible 20% algorithmic improvement in bitcoin mining
that was just released
that might eat bitfury/et al lunch.
mod6: (17:57) <+mircea_popescu> shinohai> I see
there is no way shinohai can just donate
the shares back
to qntra and forget about it all. << you can prolly instruct jurov
to sell
them and donate proceeds
to foundation say. <<
this is exactly
the correct approach.
this way we
take a btc donation (tyvm!) and we continue
to only hold M1
midnightmagic: memory-hard POW wasn't really researched well i don't
think back when bitcoin was invented.
mircea_popescu: nah, it's becoming apparent
to me
that
the WTC
that needs bombing is exactly
that.
mircea_popescu: yet another angle
that shows
the fundamental link between "intellectual property" and both
the usg\s continued claims
to financial power as well as
the continued infestation of
the free world.
mircea_popescu: i dunno wtf
they were
thinking putting it in
the chip rather
than
the ram. i guess nobody could have predicted mp kills moore
together with gavin.
mircea_popescu: and we - by which i mean mostly not me - should be buying, at least by
the pound.
mircea_popescu: fuck you, how about
that, next person who feels
the need
to ask.
mircea_popescu: but... people prefer
to sit on ass and wonder "what are
the criteria" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: this plan
to stockpile proper chips etc goes hand in hand with a republic-isp, incidentally, becauyse who else
to own hardware
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the irony is
that well... NOT LIKE NEWER CHIPS WILL BE BETTER
mircea_popescu: but yes, one
thing
the republic might consider is a stockpile of proper amd chips
mircea_popescu: anyway. yes amd gave us usable computers for a five-year plan longer
than'd have been otherwise possible.
mircea_popescu: anyway
this pipermail list... when i see all
the shitty signatures i get nausea.
mircea_popescu: which
term includes any and all
tax-paying entities
there.
mircea_popescu: not
to mention
there's a whole colonization of amd in
the arm space.
mircea_popescu: also why
the fuck does he even have mips on
that list, i
thought
they had
their own bs.
mircea_popescu: jurov how many does he have ? a few hundred should come
to something in dollars, is
that
too micropayment for bitcoin donations ?
mircea_popescu: and ejaculating on a face is closer
to actual reproduction
than ejaculating on sugar cubes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the relationship between sane bitcoin source as available on
trb www and "bitcoin" is
THE SAME as
the relation between a sane implementation of
tetris and "running
tetris"
mircea_popescu: incidentally BingoBoingo
that email might be worth a qntrization.
mircea_popescu: "=== RISCV === While
this architecture is extremely limited in performance, price, and performance per watt compared
to x86, ARM, or POWER, it is also one of
the only fully open source CPU architectures available outside of an FPGA. and may eventually be competitive with MIPS in
terms of raw performance. Currently
there are no RISCV SoCs in production, however projects such as lowRISC aim
to change
that:
http://www.lowrisc. mircea_popescu: basically
the only actually usable
thing in his list is arm
mircea_popescu: so
this is an absolute defense against any and all accusations of "computer crime" for as long as
the hardware involved is post 2009 intel / 2013 amd.
jurov: unless mod6/ben_vulpes instruct me
to keep
the shares as intangible property of
the foundation... imo not happening with such qty
mircea_popescu: shinohai> I see
there is no way shinohai can just donate
the shares back
to qntra and forget about it all. << you can prolly instruct jurov
to sell
them and donate proceeds
to foundation say.
PeterL: S.MG with an earnings of 0.14%,
that's better
than my savings account
PeterL: and I don't
think
the liabilites add up right?
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
This is a safe one related
to liked craigslist lulz
PeterL: actually, looks like player holdings should be a negative change
too?
BingoBoingo: PeterL:
That's what I'm suggesting
too, but I'm suggesting he makes a bigger pile
to do it with
PeterL: shinohai why not sell
them?
shinohai: I see
there is no way shinohai can just donate
the shares back
to qntra and forget about it all.
BingoBoingo: So now you are saying you gotta write more
to become a stronger person in general
shinohai: Certainly not, I find great joy in reading but writing may as well be Chinese water
torture for me.
BingoBoingo: What, you write lines in
the channel. You aren't illiterate.