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mircea_popescu: Bugpowder message seems to be more along the lines of a shakedown than anything
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder why they do things like this srsly. takes anyone five minutes to figure out WHY "we've been featured on atmel blog".
mircea_popescu: the difficulties of scaling. you end up overdeveloping some depts some of the time.
mircea_popescu: jespern no, but i have currently 3 people stalking my stalkers, and they're apparently real good at it.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell vexual did you end up paying mike_c his 1 atc ?
mircea_popescu: hence the "give the kids strong crypto as an addon, let the broadcom blob eat its nails"
mircea_popescu: yeah, but what i'm saying is : in this particular case probably cheaper and better for the free world to subvert than to replace
mircea_popescu: yeah, but these are enthusiasts we're discussing here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that said, some raspberry pi enhancing boards may be a good idea.
mircea_popescu: just enough cryptography, the exact equivalent of just in time industrial processes.
mircea_popescu: o look asciilifeform you've been beaten to market honey.
mircea_popescu: "what's holland, where's the netherlands and who are the dutch"
mircea_popescu: best geography question of all time, "where's holland, what's the netherlands and wo are the dutch"
mircea_popescu: basically "we have to take corporate money for political functions because a) we like money and b) politicians gotta meet with the corporate ppls somewhere".
mircea_popescu: Dimsler the reason i get into pissing matches with the pro-illiterate is that i have a flow like a fire hydrand and their bosses are made of sugar.
mircea_popescu: basically all those kids are either congressional aides, prostitutes or family.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 nah, see, this is mostly a campaign financing darkpool thing.
mircea_popescu: as you know the key people better than you know their supposed properties)
mircea_popescu: (atlantic media being d g bradley's publishing empire of nothing in particular
mircea_popescu: "Quartz, Atlantic Media’s mobile-first business site, launched on Monday afternoon following much fanfare this summer."
mircea_popescu: holy shit on a stick, because hatguy and armpitbeard girl said so one day and drew some doodles on their starbucks napkins ?!
mircea_popescu: bunch of hipster doofuses who imagine they're doing "a new kind of global business news outlet".
mircea_popescu: omfg this thing is actually everything i hate. check this shit out :
mircea_popescu: a, no. pet slaves are actually quite competent, intellectually.
mircea_popescu: not only it can't be done, or in other words we've just mathematically proven they're cattle
mircea_popescu: there is literally no way in which one could design a pow based on "the people".
mircea_popescu: as a side-effect of this sad state of affairs, no proof of work can be devised that'd allow them to hash.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. the problem with those people is that they are in no way distinct.
mircea_popescu: pankkake was a link here coupla days ago bout some game site that got hussled by ny for 1mn over having made $3500 from exploiting user gpus
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no. a war isn't decided by personal valor.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the altcoin is sha256, not pumped and not premined. just like... you know... NO OTHER ALT out there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform indeed. as if such a thing belongs anywhere outside of a creative reenactment society meeting
mircea_popescu: i wonder how many people realise that when they hash scrypt they hash socialism.
mircea_popescu: result ? nobody gets flattened anyway, by different group
mircea_popescu: so some idiot somewhere comes up with "non-asic" pow, so that the nobody may matter.
mircea_popescu: that shit i always found hysterical. man with a computer wants to matter.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> afaik they've mostly switched to altcoins now << the scrypt coins yeah.
mircea_popescu: they do have a cost, even if you're not paying the elec. cost of opportunity in that case.
mircea_popescu: botnets are also underwater for btc mining, same reason
mircea_popescu: most mining units by count are underwater today, because of the cost of elec.
mircea_popescu: course.... where you got the 78k from ? or what am i misunderstanding here ?
mircea_popescu: pretty difficult to fake land deeds (not to mention felonious)
mircea_popescu: i guess this is an interesting test for havelock, because if the kid now fails to buy properties worth whatever he supposedly got from the ipo the difference will have to somehow be explained.
mircea_popescu: basically the libor was a scam, the forex is a scam too. fiat is about as bad as bitcointalk
mircea_popescu: why not put current through your sister's brain like sane people.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i take it the fuckit neobee ceo is all over this rite.