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mircea_popescu: srsly. so it is a year or two late. coulda been worse.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla considering the encrypted wallet.dat did eventually make it through, i have high hopes.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr one day you'll learn it's a bad idea to involve yourself in name only.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you perceive this as somehow related to the foundation thingee ?
mircea_popescu: which was wholly unexpected because it turns out, nobody on power ranger team had read or understood their own databasecode.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it's a piece of shit, practically. why, just last march, just as Luke-Jr & friends were trying to mount the entire "sdice is bad" offensive, they got cut down by a sudden fork!
mircea_popescu: it is possible "venezuela" might have not heard of you, you know.
mircea_popescu: you expect them to somehow suddenly jump the fence ? hardly. they have other problems, like you know, how to live without credit.
mircea_popescu: it's not a sort of rara hate america thing, but moreover... those people have run themselves into a corner already.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 i can respect that, but seriously... i'm very skeptical.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 so what if it does get left in the dark ages ? i mean... who cares. shit happens, countries die all the time.
mircea_popescu: until we have a majority of the aircradft carriers on the oceans, it'll be this muppet strawman thing.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you're missing the part where in no way will an open, above the ground political party of bitcoin interest can exist or makes sense to exist before bitcoin is a world dominating sovereign.
mircea_popescu: ultimate exercise in something for nothing extraction.
mircea_popescu: it's ridiculously simple : you go ahead and promise absolutely anything you want. we won't deliver any of it, but hey, if they deliver anything on the strength of your empty promises, all the better.
mircea_popescu: so whatever, focus on maximal washington entertainment value.
mircea_popescu: <Luke-Jr> it can help Bitcoin without trying to run the show <<< look, you know as well as i do the foundation is essentially purposeless, but has been recently re-purposed on the fly so as to give the usg muppets some pleasurable way to waste their time.
mircea_popescu: and they're gonna influence exactly you, for as long as you stick to that notion.
mircea_popescu: or, alternatively, "so that nsa budget is relieved a little"
mircea_popescu: right, and the foundation can then ask for donations honestly, "so that ycombinator deadbeats may continue pretending like they're businessmen"
mircea_popescu: i would propose you yourself as anecdotal proof that no such bulslhit detector either exists or is available.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 are you kidding me ? socialised medicine passed by a joint vote.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin Foundation. "We're irrelevant so you don't have to be!"
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 what's an information age and what's the problem with the us having like one almost nonsocialist party ?
mircea_popescu: persky americans, stop inventing measures and units and start dieting.
mircea_popescu: KRAMER: Yeah, well I wasn't looking for a long term relationship. I was on TV.
mircea_popescu: KRAMER: Well, I'm not saying that! You know, things are going pretty well for me here. I met a girl...
mircea_popescu: KRAMER: What do you want me to say? That the things haven't worked out the way that I planned? That I'm struggling, barely able to keep my head above water? That L.A. is a cold place even in the middle of the summer? That it's a lonely place even when your stuck in traffic at the Hollywood Freeway? That I'm no better than a screenwriter driving a cab, a starlet turning tricks, a producer in a house he can't afford? Is
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves lol drop it on the article comment section will ya :D
mircea_popescu: "top lies men will tell to your face : 1. I don't play games ; 2. I don't jack off ; 3. I don't drink, smoke or do dope ; 4. I'm not gay"
mircea_popescu: if one generator at one end has overcapacity and the one at other end undercapacity
mircea_popescu: if you have 100 generators 10 km apart each, you can actually move 1000km instantaneously
mircea_popescu: reeses romania has been exporting about 1/10 of its output since early 2000
mircea_popescu: but that's really besides the point. mooching isnt a business plan.
mircea_popescu: i mean, sure some states subsidize domestic power consumption,
mircea_popescu: in fact commercial power costs by and large the same all over the world.
mircea_popescu: if that were true the chinese govt would just export all the electricity and increase the production, exponentially, until balance were met.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 it's a false idea that chinese dc has no power cost.
mircea_popescu: power up the board for a time, see how much of it burns
mircea_popescu: MilkyLep it'd depend tho. see the thing is, unreliable chips are unknowns.
mircea_popescu: so your gen II process is in theory 3x as efficient in power as gen I, but if you get 99% reliability on gen I and 35% on gen II well... gen I is still more bang per watt.
mircea_popescu: now, it's much more likely to have blown cores in tight process.
mircea_popescu: which means it uses 7 times as much power as it actually needs.
mircea_popescu: here's a set of fun facts : in a 16 core chip which has 14 blown cores it is likely the blown cores are powered anyway.
mircea_popescu: however overall efficiency also includes hash output / cycle. which... you know, depends.
mircea_popescu: power efficiency (ie, consumption per cycle) correlates strongly with the process size,
mircea_popescu: the quality of the design is probably a degree of magnitude more important for performance
mircea_popescu: (risk can be mitigated a lot if you have a very well connected node, by blasrting your withheld block just as soon as anyone relays a competitor.