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mircea_popescu: part 2 : if sega/ms can't make it into hardware... neither can randombitcoinforumcompany.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moral here is twofold. part 1 : microsoft xbox went nowhere in spite of being pushed by microsoft marketeers. originally it was going to do 200mn polycount. then 300mn. then 125. then it demoed 60.
mircea_popescu: reeses i am still surprised they didn't die the fuck out.
mircea_popescu: i mean what the fuck, since the dreamcast 10 years ago what have they done ?
mircea_popescu: sega made the same half billion. on ~5bn income rather that sony's 75bn, and while doing... nothing
mircea_popescu: so fucking hell. sony made half a billion. it does everything, from chips to being a total IP asshole conclave.
mircea_popescu: reeses be a darling leave the link as a comment ? will ye ?
mircea_popescu: i mean it's one thing to tell girls they prolly have a great body under the bikini. quite another to cold call people's reading.
mircea_popescu: and allow me to pat myself on the back quite publicly for my fucking otherworldly transcendent talkent picking abilities.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seriously, if you ever go bankrupt and everything you should probably start a voicing career.
mircea_popescu: "Drawing on extensive cross-domain industry experience along with broad and deep technical expertise and innovation, Art Taylor LLC translates business strategy and goals into predictable technology initiatives with solutions that produce measurable results."
mircea_popescu: also apparently the owner of the world's worst fucking tagline.
mircea_popescu: benkay old timer, got mostly cleanned out by smart investment long before asicminer was a glimmer in its daddy's eye
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they became the largest selling romanian rappers in history, and so consequently half the brandy drunk here is that, in spite of romania having much better stuff and definitely the world's best cognac on tap.
mircea_popescu: i distinctly recall a buncha romanian dorks being so fucking impressed with hennessy they put it on their song
mircea_popescu: the email came from a screenshot in the link. it found me all the guy's emails.
mircea_popescu: reeses i wrote a thing and of all the irc people you're possibly the only one misanthropic enough to read it well.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this will probably have a npc-ish town in the sense that it's likely the first one will be made by me, but i don't intend for that arrangement to be permanent.
mircea_popescu: i have not yet heard anyone say "you know what, i think it'll suck". either i'm really good at filtering my circle or else this game may be too cool to make.
mircea_popescu: one of the dumbest douches on that forum, the phoenix guy.
mircea_popescu: "Even the NO side, which I imagine is supported by all of the #bitcoin-assets fanboys"
mircea_popescu: i used to do that back in the glory days of the pmbs, coupla years ago, with the synth assets.
mircea_popescu: the jackpot goes to the exact set of players that played at 1.9% or w/e.
mircea_popescu: it's not different players in this statistical sampling sense we are using the term.
mircea_popescu: toffoo yes but different "players", so it can't go into the edge discussion.
mircea_popescu: because playing more or less does in no way improve your chances to get anything from the 2nd thing
mircea_popescu: i should perhaps write to explain the entire us corn situation, seeing how im probably the only one that both understands it and isn't sworn to secrecy
mircea_popescu: calculate the maximum thickness of rebar allowable if 1% strontium is radioactive.
mircea_popescu: if i were teaching a nuclear physics class the next assignment would be,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the soviets had a recipe for warm concrete floor
mircea_popescu: that';d be the fucking end oif it, when i go to cash and carry, buy two sacks of nano particulate silicone cement
mircea_popescu: we don't have a very good model to map hash to transistor count yet.
mircea_popescu: the end of the free market and silicon cartel cca 2003 is well visible on that plot
mircea_popescu: make people pay now for benefits later, which they believe in because it's the founding myth of their civilisation.