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mircea_popescu: "your honor, i
tried
to buy a hdd and
they refused
to sell me. vendor
told me
they have an illegal arrangement
to promote
the business interests of Amazon cloud services. I want 100 dollars in liquidated damages and 10bn in punitive damages kthx."
mircea_popescu would have never bought. "sell me
the half dozen or go
to hell."
mircea_popescu: because
that's how bureaucracy goes in and
then never leaves.
mircea_popescu: and even
the current state of
the art spindle drives...
they won't last for ever.
that'll be an interesting bitcoin-fs application
mircea_popescu: now i can't even buy SSDs - admitting i somehow wanted
to - because lol what, sub
tb space ?!
mircea_popescu recalls
the
times when provisioning a bitcoin node came with "just set quota 100 gb or something, it'll never get
there".
mircea_popescu: but
THAT was not only an economic activity - it was
the only economic activity in bitcoin at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: i had
to publicly bitchslap
them and privately
threaten burning and pillage
to get
them
to shut
the fuck up already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually
the whole power ranger array
threw a hissy fit, started bitching about censoring
txn and whatnot,
mircea_popescu: and
this is no fancy sort of setup with raids and backups and whatnot. just man and his single cpu single hdd playstation.
mircea_popescu: so basically, if 10k people store
the blockchain, it
takes just as much in hard drive costs
to store
the damned
txn as
the miners get for including
them.
mircea_popescu: it's fucking ridiculous.
the current cost of 14.7kb is something like
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and
they are getting included, and basically EVERYONE is stuck storing 14.7kb in exchange for a one
time payment of nothing at all in btc or about 5 cents
to a
third party
mircea_popescu: this faux "use" of bitcoin capacity has been ongoing for close
to a year now.
mircea_popescu: in other news, oldest
txn in mempool ? first seen jan
the 25th, usual 14.7kb crud with 0.00015 fees.
mircea_popescu: whole fucking
thing's driven by china and
they don't even have
to do anything.
mircea_popescu: notice incidentally how isis isn't making a single move in
THAT direction.
mircea_popescu: the ru "90yos get
together
to decide which 70yos should retire"
thing in full swing, but producing much less spew
than
the ru version did
mircea_popescu: so far
they were fortunate
to get very liberal minded leadership
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda curious if
they're in for another great leap forward actually
mircea_popescu: cn has made a career out of an inability
to feel
the heat.
punkman: they wouldn't really sell a lot of bootleg-intels. shit ARM copy does power
the megatons of phones
though.
mircea_popescu: "i always found it interesting
turks can not only not design own greek fire, but can't even produce shit copy!"
punkman: asciilifeform:
there are more "server ARM"
things coming out lately, might eventually have a workstation
mircea_popescu: im actually curious which happens first,
trb hardware delivery or cn hardware delivery.
mircea_popescu: much moreso
than say saudis are getting out of
their oil.
mircea_popescu: they're getting a lot of mileage out of
the rare earths.
mircea_popescu: no idea where
this mineral idea came from, but if you look on
the net china is an importer of minerals. be it canadian oil or euro gold,
they mostly buy.
mircea_popescu: which is why
the prisons are full of orcs with "booze and women put us here" rather
than
the other way around
mircea_popescu: and
they'll get some bonus from redditard going "oh,
this will make chips like 3d printable!11"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it happens
to be
the correct strat for
the
table.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 14:08:37; mircea_popescu: i'd imagine
they'd opt for "countless multitude"
mircea_popescu: why not ? will be great. lumbering chinese golem strong enough
to fracture nato, force whatever remnants are actually worth saving into #b-a, crush
the rest into alabama.
mircea_popescu: im rather curious what
their strategic choice will be
to unseat intel.
mircea_popescu: After moving
to Beijing
to study at
the university, Mr Zhao made a fortune in electronics, property and natural resources, before becoming chairman and second-largest shareholder (after
the university itself) at
Tsinghua Unigroup."
mircea_popescu: Most intriguing of all,
Tsinghua Unigroup, a company spun out of
Tsinghua University in Beijing, has emerged in
the past year or so as
the chosen champion among champions, a Chinese challenger
to
the mighty Intel. Zhao Weiguo,
the firm’s boss, started out herding goats and pigs in Xinjiang, a remote province in north-western China,
to where his parents had been exiled in
the 1950s, having been labelled as dissidents.
mircea_popescu: hers). And HiSilicon of Shenzhen (part of Huawei, a maker of
telecoms equipment) will be one of a select few champions in chip design.
mircea_popescu: "In
the government’s earlier efforts
to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels and LED lamps, it spread its largesse among a lot of local firms, resulting in excess capacity and slumping prices.
This
time it seems
to be concentrating its firepower on a more limited group of national champions. For instance, SMIC of Shanghai is set
to be China’s champion “foundry” (bulk manufacturer of chips designed by ot
AKWAnalytics: Just some guy. I need
to verify ident as AKWAnalytics. My real name is Adam Wyatt.
AKWAnalytics: hello #bitcoin-assets. MP,
thank you for voice. Cheers.
mircea_popescu: "so as
to cease being dependent on foreign supplies."
the chinese dream since forever. and
they'll get it,
too.
mircea_popescu: i had archive.is preserve
the dpaste just in case anyone wants it after it expires. assbot has
the link.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2016 06:16:40; ben_vulpes: saying "no"
to a hundred
thousand dollars from Conde Nast is worth approximately 5x
the bezzlebuxx in question.
mircea_popescu: seems
the matter of control is squarely resolved in
the field. mp can get
to anyone in usg,
to anything
to
them he damned well pleases. so it goes.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller idiots actually moved
to 100% discussing what i say, STILL can't fucking say my name ?
thestringpuller: The SEC
tried
that you big dummy. Go back
to MIT and continue
to eat glue.
thestringpuller: Yes cause people like mircea_popescu are so easy
to control.