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mircea_popescu: clearly our reading is inadequate for the needs of contemporaneous english speakers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol that's what i thought too, when i first heard of it.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller all this btc noobs keep buying for fiat has to return to sane hands somehow.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "One was installed in a ship and followed General Douglas MacArthur during his South Pacific campaigns. In total during WW2, the system supported about 3,000 high-level telephone conferences."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the lolphonograph they had on a ship during ww2 ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i wonder which happens first : glass at 6k dpi or neural interfacing
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i recall correctly the actual retina resolution one inchfrom the eye is something like 6k x 5k or so ?
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> doesn't really give G any incentive to not fuck up, does it? << exactly right.
mircea_popescu: well... most people don't have the brainpower that'd allow them to walk and chew at the same time
mircea_popescu: we don't advertise a product that isn't yet orderable, no.
mircea_popescu: "Google wasn't just going to ship the devices to us bloggers and figure things out for ourselves."
mircea_popescu: well it hasn't actually delivered to customers has it.
mircea_popescu: is because i write gramatically correct uncapitalised irc lines
mircea_popescu: yes on this bet is actually a better "investment" than everything they do over btctalk/reddit/etc.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i was thinking, if there's a sudden hickup in the hashing there's going to be such a run to cover the world has never seen
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves what do you get if you win that one, 200ish ?
mircea_popescu: get out of here, ready to ship, so it takes a week if they ship today. too late.
mircea_popescu: zacm was here earlier and on teh grapevine for a coupla weeks yeah
mircea_popescu: at least coinbase has the sense to rape ex-respectable ppl a la gavin
mircea_popescu: funny. any someone is going to even look at that thing now ?
mircea_popescu: dexX7 is that the kslaughter of the famous activemining ?
mircea_popescu: basically it's summed up by george costanza's "a widget for televising opera or whatever"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the only reason that stopped is because the current crop of fanbois are too intellectually lazy to even take that much of a reading plunge
mircea_popescu: financial trade rags bad ; zh latecomer ; claims "we're not gonna be that retarded" ; benefit of doubt ; dissapoint.
mircea_popescu: not like they're zerohedge and people have expectations or anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they do have the lemon sale, which is actual news.
mircea_popescu: outright sterile, actually. the only thing a guy that comes out to claim he's the guy that REALLY invented bitcoin could possibly produce is a ream of arguments with all the other guys claiming they did it even before him.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it also reveals this funny "we have no understanding of any of the constraints of the space, therefore we don't understand what competence is or why would you want to build on the results of others"
mircea_popescu: i'm rooting for the guy who was advocating it in korea.
mircea_popescu: "Brock Pierce is the godfather of virtual currency," says David Johnston, CEO of Engine, and another early adopter of the digital currency.
mircea_popescu: "Shortly after his panel on investment opportunities, former child star Brock Pierce (The Mighty Ducks) was engulfed by a throng of admirers."
mircea_popescu: i suppose us housewives hold tupperware parties just for the shred of human contact.