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assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 11:47:29; mircea_popescu: 170kW farm, double
the nethash. just as rewards halve. should be fun, if
they actually got
the chips.
mircea_popescu: it really is, and
throughout its ~4 century history started sometime during attempts
to liquidate
the strong feudalism leftover in sicily and other march lands, always was an "alt-path
to bourgeoisie"
mircea_popescu: generally, mobster's hope and aspiration is for kids
to join whatever $harvard locally and become "accepted by society"
mircea_popescu: i can't
think of a
time
this was
the case, in either
the old country or
the america.
mircea_popescu: like
the vory,
they don't know how
to pick women. and so
they don't.
mircea_popescu: unlike
the vory,
they can get married. and so
they do.
mircea_popescu: you deeply disunderstand
the mob. it has no higher purpose. it's just people
trying
to find an alt-path
to consumerism.
mircea_popescu: kinda what drove
the entire giuliani revolt, briefly backj when
the us still
thought it may
turn around.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 11:09:02; punkman: "The FTC provided a copy of an originally sealed document
that outlined
the spending it said was cause for concern. It said Butterfly Labs’ funds had been spent at stores “including Nordstrom, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Restoration Hardware, and Hobby Lobby” as well as for “massages, auto maintenance, day care services, gun stores, hunting stores and sporting event
tickets.”"
mircea_popescu: go, make some dead worth
the mention. if california fell into
the sea
today, what'd be remembered ?
mircea_popescu: but
the people dead on
the battlements are dead for
the dead, not dead for
the living.
mircea_popescu: before
that, you're just aspiring. what nationality you're aspiring
to be entirely your problem,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> how does
this work << because what is your definition of nationality ? byron is french, definitely.
mircea_popescu: just like lenin is
the definitive soviet
tho he didn't actually live
there significantly, marx is
the definitive american,
tho he didn't even speak
the "official" language. he spoke german,
the unofficial one.
mircea_popescu: preet is
the american, obama is
the american. not fucking kerry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no,
THEY were
the americans. everyone else's just scum
the wind blew in./
mircea_popescu: you understand ? all european literacy is based on
the concept of fixed forever symbols, so printing press may exist.
mircea_popescu: their equivalents in a previous century were using
the "magic stones"
to read "reformed egyptian". and
there is EXACTLY no difference between john smith
the mormon and lacan
the postmodernist.
they're EXACTLY
the same "ideal american"
mircea_popescu: but you're right, pomos do use
the medical style (in no small part due
to
the original idiots', lacan et all, vague fascination with
that particular citadel forbidden
to
them by
their own ineptitude -
mircea_popescu: and fucking note
that medicine used WORDS
to denote its array of datapoints. not fucking hieroglyphics.
mircea_popescu: but
the point stands : derpage is when you come up with new symbols or "new" readings (ie, wrong readings) of pre-existing symbols.
mircea_popescu: original
topic is romanian "grammar scholars" who aren't fit
to shine boots, and completely ignore anything whatsoever in
the discipline in favour of doing some inanity.
mircea_popescu: this is
the DEFINITION of derpage.
to quote from relevant article :
mircea_popescu: all i care about is
that
there's a specified maximum DEFINITIVE count of symbols,
mircea_popescu: and absent a better idea, my concept
that you can't possibily have more
than 255-27-10 actual
tools seems quite meritous.
mircea_popescu: THEN,
take
tools away from derps and caducei away from everyone.
mircea_popescu: first off - separate what is
tool and what is caduceus.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin should have been implemented as a solution
to pdp
timesharing problems.
mircea_popescu: to
think imbecile anglos spent 50 years in "computing" huddling walls and
trying
to be all flower-power.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of "problems" are really non-problems once
tmsr principles are applied.
mircea_popescu: and whoever wants
to pay goes !pay mircea_popescu bill or !pay mircea_popescu 7.5555 "not bad but not really worth 10fiddy, ho!"
mircea_popescu: then whoever wants
to be paid goes !bill asciilifeform 10.56546 "had a nice
time last night honey"
mircea_popescu: but mebbe you overlooked
the part where
to initiate a caching, one has
to either be in
the L or pay.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 08:55:55; punkman:
the cool part is
that it handles a lot of crap gracefully, kills stupid overlays over content, it goes behind paywalls, etc.
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punkman: the halving complicates
things
gribble: Estimated
time of bitcoin block reward halving: Wed Jul 13 13:26:42 2016 UTC |
Time remaining: 20 weeks, 0 days, 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 0 seconds.
mircea_popescu: i
think 1 year may be
too long. maybe go by 3 months sorta
thing
punkman: also saw a mention of antminer at 250w for around 4
terrahash
mircea_popescu: 170kW farm, double
the nethash. just as rewards halve. should be fun, if
they actually got
the chips.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Malini Mithal << at first sight one
thinks what
the indian supreme court
thinks about patents is irrelevant
to
the us. at second sight one
tries
to recall a usg lawyer
that's not indian and chuckles
to himself.
mircea_popescu: punkman well,
the cool part depending for whom doing what. i have no objection, all
that sugar&spice is nice
to have, but i don't
think it mandatory, myself.
the main utility is creating a copy of a resource (as in url)
that is outside of
the control of its original author. i'm more
than happy if
that is provided in
the first place and
the rest of
the swag on a best-effort basis.
mircea_popescu checks,
the
thing already exists. o
ty kako for your godspeed!
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla could we has deeds.bitcoin-assets.com added ? assigned
to deedbot.org
punkman: "We went
to court without notifying
the other party … because we were concerned about a dissipation of assets,” said Malini Mithal, assistant director of
the FTC’s division of financial practices. “We were worried about seeing corporate funds go
to Nordstrom, Bed Bath & Beyond, gun stores and
things like
that."
assbot: Bitcoin business Butterfly Labs, shut down as ‘bogus,’ settles charges for $15,000 |
The Kansas City Star ... (
http://bit.ly/1mX5N8K )
assbot: FTC moved quietly against Butterfly Labs
to avoid
tipping off bitcoin operation |
The Kansas City Star ... (
http://bit.ly/1mX5N8I )
punkman: "The FTC provided a copy of an originally sealed document
that outlined
the spending it said was cause for concern. It said Butterfly Labs’ funds had been spent at stores “including Nordstrom, Bed, Bath, & Beyond, Restoration Hardware, and Hobby Lobby” as well as for “massages, auto maintenance, day care services, gun stores, hunting stores and sporting event
tickets.”"
☟︎ punkman: late delivery of BFL lulz: "At one point, an FTC attorney carried into court a foam pitchfork
that was stamped with
the phrases “Y U NO SHIP!” and “BFL is late!”
The agency said
the pitchfork and similar foam
torches were found at Butterfly Labs and mocked its customers’ complaints."
punkman: (sidenote for anyone looking at phantomjs: it sucks balls and uses QtWebkit, and QtWebkit is kinda deprecated because Qt moved
to QtWebEngine which uses chromium)
punkman: and
the guy doesn't seem keen
to publish any of
that
punkman: the cool part is
that it handles a lot of crap gracefully, kills stupid overlays over content, it goes behind paywalls, etc.
☟︎