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dub: just what was spent on land/kit/ip for
a build out before deciding it wasn't going to return capital
dub: one spectacular project failure in recent years resulted in
a $50m writeoff
dub: failure is
a, not uncommon, calculated risk
dub: similar situation, customer wants x to do y in z,
a project arises to achieve it funded by the promise of its success
dub:
a contract with the manufacturer that they don't get paid if its not delivered
mircea_popescu: in general you should be able to borrow to pay
a fixed retainer rather than have to offer the laywer
a % as in personal injury cases
mircea_popescu: which is moot since he;'s arguing it as
a cost reduction measure
Bugpowder: Of course, there is
a discussion about the spec
Bugpowder: In my limited experience with silicon mfg contracting, you send
a detailed spec sheet. If they don't meet the spec, they don't get paid.
Korbman: and if you're
a fast and accurate worker, you can surpass hourly workers regularly
Korbman: especially if they know they have
a solid case
mircea_popescu: "Another delay we've had to endure is the fact that we have effectively tied the ASIC teams payment to the success of the chip. If the chip were to be
a failure they don't get paid... so they have incentive to get it right but that has made them very cautious and slow to approve final masks"
Namworld: Sure no one has something they'd lend for
a fee?
thestringpuller: did you ever find out if it was
a dns attack or direct to your ip?
dub: fpga has is an array of various logic units that can operate in
a number of ways, you give it
a program of sorts telling it what you want them to behave and route between each other
mod6: anyway, was
a dream I had this morning
mircea_popescu: those things may be used to possibly fold, for instance, but only if you do some transforms on the fold problem to make it like
a hash
mod6: and in
a distributed network you could have
a cloud of fpga's
dub: also, isnt want you can build with
a sha2 hashing asic fairly limited, to hashign sha2?
dub: no thats
a stupid word
mod6: anyway,
a long ways off. i want to see what I can build with these things.
mod6: I have this dream to build
a really extensive elastic asic network
dub: dude everyone has made
a pottery cup when they were 4-5 years old
mircea_popescu: <mod6> i didnt pre-order anything, because I'm
a wait and see type usuall << seriously wise in this case
kakobrekla: the pic that bfl showed is not
a flipchip
Bugpowder: I think BFL is going to eventually ship. The scam is collecting money
a year or more before they actually ship
mod6: But, I am hopful that someone will put together an orginization that can turn out
a stable asic product this year.
mod6: i didnt pre-order anything, because I'm
a wait and see type usually...
mod6: i was even hoping to get
a few of these going in '13 also (asics)
mod6: maybe so... the asics are
a huge let down so far.
mod6: i feel like it really wants to break out here... im
a cash buyer for sure at $10, but i've been really wanting to grab some more quick before it hits 20
assbot: Hell, ain't we about more fucked than
a whore at closin' time, huh?
mod6: it seems hard to find
a lot of downside at this stage of the game
Bugpowder: I totally agree with this statement "It is, I submit,
a lot easier to be
a star in BTC than it is in fiat, simply because so many more intelligent people (that aren’t computer programmers!) are involved with the latter as opposed to the former."
mircea_popescu: if there were
a box into which i could go "hey, there was this graph like so and so somewhere"
Bugpowder: "Have you actually talked to
a lawyer? I think maybe you should, very soon!"
Bugpowder: well, people that actually set it up more official than
a google doc
Bugpowder: jcpham, Hard to say which security will do the best in the coming months, depends on the revenue growth. So just buy
a little of S.MPOE, S.BVPS, S.DICE and S.BBET
Bugpowder: jcpham There are
a variety of good options
jcpham: so i'll smoke like
a pack or two in
a night
jcpham: i used to be seriously dependent on both fentanyl and oxycodone
a few years back
Schadenfreude: Same with nicotine, it's just that I'm exposed to caffeine for about 3 weeks on occasion so it's
a tad harder
Schadenfreude: Yea, but I meant the kind with terrible headaches and feeling tired for
a couple of days, since I don't drink coffee if I don't have to
Schadenfreude: Poppy tea orso after
a passed exam is
a different matter. Thank god for greyzone laws on dried poppies here
Schadenfreude: I hate the fact, that I have to go through caffeine withdrawals after
a major exam
kakobrekla: i used it
a few years back for
a while
Schadenfreude: It's meh, caffeine tends to produce
a nasty tolerance pretty fast
Korbman: I wish I had that stuff when I worked both
a night shift and day shift at two different jobs in college
kakobrekla: here assbot, you been up for weeks, have
a line.
Korbman: Daytrading has
a hell of
a rush
jcpham: so let's say I wanted to buy
a few thousand shares of S.BBET
azx: 24/7 same game? LOL, this will become
a real hell fast
mod6: well, not thats its
a bad thing, but it happens enough to get annoying on this aws shit where im in and out all the time.
mircea_popescu: Bridge is such
a sensational game that I wouldn't mind being in jail if I had three cellmates who were decent players and who were willing to keep the game going twenty-four hours
a day.
mircea_popescu: there should be
a bet : does bfl deliver before pirate pays ?
Dishwasha: But it can change how quickly
a transaction takes to process.
Namworld: Unless they form
a closed network willingly.
Dishwasha: Is the idea to create
a network with 6+ other exchanges and submit transaction to them and once at least 6 are confirmed the transaction is complete?
Dishwasha: This may sound like
a naive question, but how would
a person go about becoming
a bitcoin exchange? Particularly to only process bitcoin transfers?
smickles: i was also thinking of adding the option to specify
a keyring to use
smickles: clearly, i'm
a literary genious because it brought an excellent image to your mind
smickles: "Well, I'll tell you one thing. Having
a kid ended my addiction to being
a recreational asswipe and made me seriously consider stopping that professionally."
mircea_popescu: answer: "There's really nothing to it. Start as
a billionaire and then
mircea_popescu: Airways, was asked how to become
a millionaire, he had
a quick
smickles: it's just something like half
a second currently
mircea_popescu: "Late in 1993 I sold 10 million shares of Cap Cities at $63; at year-end 1994, the price was $85 1/4. (The difference is $222.5 million for those of you who wish to avoid the pain of calculating the damage yourself.) When we purchased the stock at $17.25 in 1986, I told you that I had previously sold our Cap Cities holdings at $4.30 per share during 1978-80, and added that I was at
a loss to explain my earlier behavior
smickles: quick, someone give me
a bunch of btc to pipe into my bot!
OgNasty: gigavps I had
a chuckle at that as well.
OgNasty: Thanks for the advice.
A logo wasn't
a big concern obviously and the ssl cert works fine, it just is private. ;)
topace: and
a working ssl cert :p
Korbman: and it's for 4 weeks...I figured
a month would be fine
Korbman: that's why you buy both times...buying now at $14.20, then again at $14 would give you an average of $14.10 ...if it goes above that you make
a profit
Korbman: You could hedge it
a bit...buy 1/3 of your bitcoins now, another 1/3 next week, and 1/3
a week after that.
Schadenfreude: I'm sitting on some cash which would best be put to work as BTC, but I'm afraid I'll lose 5-10% on
a price drop