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mircea_popescu: there certainly exists the sufficient cause and backing for it.
mircea_popescu: here, i'll trade you : "the writer here has something interesting to say and a few useful ways to explain it, but jesus if trilema hasn't completely fucking spoiled me for elegance and conciseness."
mircea_popescu: mod6 i'll tell you later, in the shape of a future nsa product :D
mircea_popescu: if the gear costs 100k per terahash and it has to be amortised in 6 months however, the cost of electricity would have to be under -7 dollars/kwh or so.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if they pay less than 1.75 dollars / kwh and the gear was free they're making a profit.
mircea_popescu: ah the sweet day when im tyrant and everyone who ever worked for microsoft is permanently in jail.
mircea_popescu: "Altima Yachts, Inc was founded out of a desire by our founder, Frank Sciortino, to produce the finest cruising yacht possible at a reasonable investment level."
mircea_popescu: consider : Subject: This Company Announced News Today From: frank@altimayachts.com
mircea_popescu: that run poorly secured, windows computers on the network
mircea_popescu: most of spam floating about today is traceable to clueless "businesses"
mircea_popescu: (half of which going to the party that reports the spam, of course)
mircea_popescu: part of a larger obama responsibility reform package, that also includes a rule that if your computer is hacked and sends spam, you're fined
mircea_popescu: yeah, but suppose it becomes law tomorrow that should your signature be forged, you're responsible as if you had signed.
mircea_popescu: on top of everything else however, like tech obsolesncence etc, the independent miners now also have the problem of dealing with people who mine for political rather than economic reasons
mircea_popescu: not quite as good a living as it was in 1993, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: yes yes. if you have a good opportunity they'll provide you goods. learn chinese, go hang out there fgor a year. it's a living.
mircea_popescu: start by getting the job of chinese foreign trade minister
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, china buys 100-150 tons a month. thanks to the jpm&co keeping the price low with their derivative trades,
mircea_popescu: yes, all hail b0n1, the new black gold market czar of china
mircea_popescu: but speaking of gold, anyone saw the 2mn oz paper sale on the 11th ?
mircea_popescu: think of dealing with the mob, it's how china handles its export business.
mircea_popescu: basically you need to sign an agreement that if you steal their money they'll kill you with knives.
mircea_popescu: also, tshirts, electronic appliances of all kinds, small plastic toys
mircea_popescu: b0n1 no. china is a net importer, and because of govt pressure consumer gold is even more expensive
mircea_popescu: basically you put a diode into backwards mode and count the electrons that make it past the barrier
mircea_popescu: dude wrote an article a decade ago, which saw 100bn page loads and 34 comments.
mircea_popescu: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just this one being linked from a discussion every week."
mircea_popescu: get everyone drunk, person with worst score picks up the tab
mircea_popescu: if you make it a webservice this'll be a great group activity at april conference.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` the interraction happens through em not airwaves.
mircea_popescu: what you do is you put up a mic and sample it at 0.00000001 hz.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> on the surface it sounds great. rub the contact mic against any surface and get all the entropy you need << o no, not at all. you can't use such low bits.
mircea_popescu: for some values of useful. i prefer them to avalanche processes, but they have to be well filtered
mircea_popescu: it's one of those rare bits written by a competent translator, ie, one who has solid familiarity in two different fields.
mircea_popescu: "random number" really shuld be "number obtained randomly"
mircea_popescu: well, actually, randomness is not a property of numbers. it's a property of processes.
mircea_popescu: maybe someone brings good quality hardware rngs to the masses.
mircea_popescu: it's a sad state of affairs when a man can't really find a friend past his creditors.
mircea_popescu: rivkin's protestations to the contrary notwithstanding, the us has managed to drive itself into this narrow ally where practically speaking china is it's closest ally.
mircea_popescu: mod6 mata hari was supposed to die in her bed, except they couldn't find it, so they did the next best thing :