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topace_: i have 25GH running and it uses less than
a 28.8 modem
mircea_popescu: that's
a good comparison i thought. bw is an important limiting factor for miners.
pigeons: so terryww you manually joined
a different server? Korbman was asking about netsplits
mircea_popescu: i never heard of
a company that size which managed to avoid getting political.
pigeons: funnier that that is i've literally often encountered people who actually think apple is like
a humanitarian organization
Diablo-D3: they cant seem to make
a working DRM
Diablo-D3: then load up it on
a different device
pizzaman1337: I'll be back to bit4x in
a month or two probably, busy at the moment with other stuff
pigeons: one day someone will think of
a use haha
pigeons: also released
a WP plugin so download this content via bitcoincapcha
pigeons: dusplays
a qr code for that
mircea_popescu: govt is
a pointless expense and high skilled techs have no business playing the employee anwyay
Bugpowder: in the first cell of
a google spreadsheet
assbot: I don't give
a shit who saw what and who did what or who did who.
Diablo-D3: as
a programmer and as someone who views both the law and business as domain specific languages, thats insane
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: everyone got to walk away with
a sore asshole after the GLBSE bust
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: and over the past, oh, 5 years or so, Ive learned why it never made sense, it really is just
a giant scam
Diablo-D3: it never made sense to me because it all looked like
a giant ponzi
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: Ive been laughing at wall street since I was
a kid
Diablo-D3: mircea_popescu: its not like securities are
a new thing for me
Bugpowder: yeah I could pay less but this is
a bit tricky job
Diablo-D3: its like
a competition of The Aristocrats
mircea_popescu: tho it's
a moot point, it just documents their most recent blunder
Diablo-D3: my first attempt was
a failure because the stock exchange owner backstabbed everyone
Diablo-D3: nyRednek: I tried getting
a company to take off
mircea_popescu: to our advantage the silicon valley world is slowly moving towards
a pure circus act.
mircea_popescu: i think "the milk was spilleD" is more apt
a comparison but anyway :p
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i've been asking questions, i know of
a case where they did 54 prototypes
mircea_popescu: right. the problem with the "spam
a core on chip" approach is that design cost is minimal
smickles: nyRednek: mpbor isn't really
a bond tho
mircea_popescu: error4733 maybe half
a dozen on the core and
a few hundred on peripherals ?
mircea_popescu: i don't think it was started as
a scam. just, no skills.
Diablo-D3: was it
a scam or did they just fail?
Diablo-D3: but
a 50/50 chance of $28 or higher becoming the new norm
Diablo-D3: because we'll likely see
a $28 high
error4733: well i have
a bet wit ha friend, BTC double this year
Diablo-D3: well, what Im saying is, we need
a firm foundation to continue building on
mircea_popescu: i guess it's like producers and consumers in
a strange market
mircea_popescu: seems in bitcoin demand is
a sharply increasing inverse of supply.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller there have been like... i think
a dozen since the ipo
thestringpuller: But Balanced shows what is needed by the marketplace .
a path that
a Bitcoin variant could follow. Balanced is offered in the U.S. only.
A bitcoin-variant could operate globally.
thestringpuller: Each of Balanced.s customers is
a potential Bitcoin merchant. Zaarly is using Balanced to provide payments handling for its peer-to-peer task market. Instead of Zaarly having to build its own, it can used Balanced.s API. With Bitcoin there is
a little different flow. You can.t pull funds from
a Bitcoin user. Bitcoin is push only. But Balanced also handles the payout component. And that is
a push transaction. Bal
mircea_popescu: Alma Whitten / Carnegie Mellon University. Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt:
A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0
mircea_popescu: found
a number of user interface design flaws that may
mircea_popescu: with
a laboratory user test to evaluate whether PGP 5.0
mircea_popescu: i suppose they periodicly audit make sure no ex-linode employe is running
a promiscuous sniffer anywhere on their network.
jcpham: not
a lot of volume to 25
kakobrekla: meh srsly you get
a top notch root server for 50euros
a month
mircea_popescu: Why not halt the trading for start and provide
a way to work this out between investors and those thieving scumbags at BitVPS."
mircea_popescu: "There are many options. Delisting and telling everyone to just fuck off is exactly what can be expected form
a narcissistic fucktard like Mircea Popescu.
kakobrekla: i have
a friend with
a whole bladecenter intalled for some tiny change cause hosting co made
a lousy contract
dub: its
a sick joke/debt ponzi
iz: real answer though, as
a hunter you realize there's not enough animals to sustain the population
mircea_popescu: if they keep it going for just
a little longer the top people can finish getting out
mircea_popescu: now, understandably the political decision was made that this wouldn't be acceptable. but this is
a purely internal affair of the us. i can sorta see why they thought this too :
dub: drastic reduction in the number of americans would go
a long way to solving the problem
mircea_popescu: now, the average american trying to live on 400 bucks
a year would be
a funny sight indeed.
mircea_popescu: making us average salari about 400 bucks ?
a year that is.
mircea_popescu: the average american citizen uses up about 20k worth of resources
a year.
mircea_popescu: it would just force
a much more unpalatable "taking down
a notch"
mircea_popescu: as far as i understand, the iceland thing was simply : banks are
a private issue, the state does not back banks. figure it out.
iz: if
a country wants to say "we fucked up, but we aren't going to pay our debts.. everyone else just absorb those costs and we're going to start over.. like country bankruptcy
mircea_popescu: so, let it go back to where it has to go, rather than try and pretend for
a coupl;
a more years
iz: i don't understand why you say there isn't
a "too much"
mircea_popescu: salaries go back to the economically warranted 5-600 usd
a year
mircea_popescu: and if given
a chance you will steal and idle rather than do somethinguseful