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mircea_popescu: this strikes me
as the same fundamental insanity of "we'll replace bdb with leveldb in the sense that WE KEEP BOTH!!1".
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 08:59:13; punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like a smart move.
As,
Azelphur: mircea_popescu, yea I know, dude is very good at excuses,
as I say it has been 3 months, and even if he has sent a bank transfer it's still only for a small percentage of total owed
Azelphur: Was really unsure whether to place that one (badmouthing former employer and all) but figured he'll probably look here for someone to replace me, and other people might not be so financially secure
as I am.
kakobrekla: basically folks have been used
as sort of catalyst for the reaction of them getting 16nm or so and are now no longer needed
punkman: "Bitfury recently announced their 28nm, 0.2 J/Gh offering (with some impressive efficiencies claimed) but have declined to inform us when they will be available, either-ways they do not sell to the public anymore. They also alluded to a 16nm chip with efficiencies
as low
as 0.02 due out later this year."
punkman: "It has been quite a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like a smart move.
As,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: arrived at through a lot of experimental
as well
as theoretical effort.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: 21co tried to make energy friendly chips, now they are trying to pawn them on users
as "compooter"
mircea_popescu: (the problem, in the simplest terms, is that for h to be constant energy and spacetime must stay coupled.
as such, it's impossible to have an original singularity (aka the big bang) seeing how everything solves neatly for a radius of 0, yielding a pretty field of 0's and a pile of nondetermined constants. conversely : in planck terms, the age of the universe is about 10^61, its radius about 10^61 and its energy about 1
mircea_popescu: trinque well, an argument can be brought that yours are a lot more cleaved. like, you know, you can separately desire to lay with the woman
as in cuddle, to lay with the woman
as in fuck her brains out, to lay with the woman
as to impregnate her and so on. whereas poor simple he, just lay with the woman.
mircea_popescu: there's another great difference, which may be easier to ford. socialism - sacrifice now for later paradise. this - is enjoyable. now. so much so i have not the least care if paradise or no paradise, or
as the old man of the mountain said to allah,
mircea_popescu: anyway - the exact same sort of people sifted to the top in the su
as do anywhere else all the time. which is why yeltsin didn't survive and putin did.
mircea_popescu: two step process : a) make everyone ACTUALLY carry the burden of being the lord he was seeing himself
as and b) allow the scum to shirk away.
mircea_popescu: so, if that guy fucks up,
as no doubt he will, his distress is merely amusing from a societal pov. and perhaps instructive., but mostly amusing.
ben_vulpes: i literally do not care and the spending of time figuring out why the derps do what they do is best left
as an exercise to good men like mister backtick who actually enjoy hanging out on bitcointalk.org all day
ben_vulpes is the undereducated american today
as every day
ben_vulpes: i wonder what alf gets out of it, so competent
as he is.
mircea_popescu: even if through whatever arcana you get it "good enough" for the current context you happen to inhabit, such
as your room.
mircea_popescu: you're trying to meld two things together that will never, ever stay put
as temperature varies.
mircea_popescu: their needs (represented by copper in this diagram) and the realities of owning stock in a small venture (represented by iron in same) have very different reactions to a change in financial context (represented
as temperature)
ben_vulpes: and
as a result, my equitizing the staff is miserably difficult.
mircea_popescu: the only correct solution is to pay in stock only. you do get alf moaning about his sad fate
as an owner of his own fate,
ben_vulpes: hey man i'm just trying to get cash in the kids pockets while paying
as little taxes on it
as possible
mircea_popescu: "
As for having fat pets, this shows that they have no concept of portion control. An animal will eat anything you put in front of it." << this is nonsense.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> for any innocents : bingo is this activity where you get a bit of paper printed with numbers, there's a loudspeaker saying numbers, and you cross out the matches. << Aha, yes. It's like lottery
as in person activity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes,
as per github tradition. if you trust your computer and v implementation, you can sign the output.
pete_dushenski: in lab, no, but the results would seem to support your theory, particularly
as heathens with slingshots seem to be picking them off like flies buzzing around yesterday's leftovers
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 22:40:27; BingoBoingo: Can then hang
as trophy like "angel"
pete_dushenski: korean shitboxes tend to rattle and groan like very poorly maintained vacuum cleaners at 15-20 years of age and find themselves in the scrap yard
as a result
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: bwahaha. "how much does your enemy need to pay you for you to answer the call in his time of need ?"... indeed. why shouldn't "recovery" guys be on the same side
as "thieves" ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
as BingoBoingo points out, that most of the 'thefts' happened on rental lots indicates exactly this. namely, fraud.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform:
as to thefts, the point of the rape parallel is that the act (of ownership or sex) never actually happened.
assbot: Logged on 22-01-2016 21:39:10; pete_dushenski: the only way i could explain dodge thefts topping the charts is that only poorfags ~report~ thefts, in much the same way
as "all the rapes that happen on us campuses are committed by varsity athletes"
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: and you'd be amazed how many buyers preferred the alien. i sold 10x aveos
as cobalts in my day.
pete_dushenski: the only way i could explain dodge thefts topping the charts is that only poorfags ~report~ thefts, in much the same way
as "all the rapes that happen on us campuses are committed by varsity athletes"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Meatspace friend had boring v6 one for a while. Beat it all to hell then "upgraded" to one of the daewoo crossovers rebadged
as a chevy.
pete_dushenski: chrysler has definitely taken the crown of "piece of cobbled together shit that only lasts
as long
as you're making payments on it", which fiat had through the 80s. fitting that fiat came back to north america in 2012 under chrysler proprietorship, really.
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell ben_vulpes i'd avoid all chrysler products (including jeep) like the plague. land cruiser/4runner, tahoe/suburban, and explorer/expedition are all worth considering and all fit the "mega-suv with low tco and reasonable maintenance prospects for an american family" niche. that being said, you'd probably be just
as well, if not better, served by the 00-06 escape or 97-02 cr-v, both of which should be quiet
assbot: More Air Force drones are crashing than ever
as mysterious new problems emerge - The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1Pb6qH9 )
mircea_popescu: yeah, well,
as a matter of fact some cows do make it out!
ascii_butugychag: small pellet leads to thinking of next pellet always.
as in the professor who described to me how crack is smoked
ascii_butugychag: (it isn't about whether the pellets are small,
as in a zoo, or large,
as in a harvest season - but that zoo ~answeres prayers~ and rewards wheedling)
ascii_butugychag: ... isn't that sorta like 'toilet is a magnet for shit' ? yes, sometimes people plant flowers in one. but speaking
as to its purpose.
ascii_butugychag: 1) fits-in-head. also known popularly
as 'knowing precisely wtf you're doing'
mircea_popescu: while cutting out crud we could get away with less poring, but
as we add / change / etc it becomes ever more problematic.
thestringpuller: well openssl will eventually need to be excised
as well, what to replace it with, I don't know.
mircea_popescu: well...
as much
as a car without combustion
as possible.
thestringpuller: i've invested in hobos. not really an investment
as much
as charity.
thestringpuller: except ethereum assumes all individuals in a contract act
as machines. Better yet why not make them all machines!
AdrianG: ethereum
as a cryptocurrency itself is probably useless.
PeterL: <AdrianG> cryptographically signed txn ledger will simplify parts of audits << why do they need etherum for this? just sign bits of the normal ledger
as they are made, why do you need to involve cryptocurrency?
mircea_popescu: neveretheless... have you used it
as a door ? will you ?
mircea_popescu: take your window, on the presumption that you are currently located in a room with one. this window of yours COULD be used
as a door, to a larger degree than ethereum could be used to anything.
AdrianG: even
as just an experiment, really.
AdrianG: thestringpuller:
as for bitcoin not doing what investors expect, ethereum can be shoehorned into their needs much more easily
assbot: The woes of Altcoin, or why there is no such thing
as "cryptocurrencies" on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1fsGWG5 )
mircea_popescu: terminal well, get in the wot and let us know how your trade went
as far
as long term gains.
assbot: Logged on 19-01-2016 13:40:52; *: adlai notes,
as a humorous aside, that someday there needs to be a rock-off between PeterL and PeterR
PeterL: is that terminal
as in cancer or terminal
as in computer, or
as in train station?
mircea_popescu: PeterL> y'all are a bunch of pansies, afraid of a bit of snow << ho i knew took a (well earned) vacation to morocco in the middle of the carpathian winter once. her fondest memory was that there was a tiny bit of snow just
as she got ou of the bus, and everyone in sight was on their ass. "they have no idea how to walk on snow, the africans!"