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mircea_popescu: possibly the first time something like that's been seriously modelled.
mircea_popescu: im kinda curions on one score, as to how many towns will be run democratically vs authoritarianly
mircea_popescu: anyway, there is going to be some secure space in the sense that players can make their town guards beat up on violent ppl.
mircea_popescu: players just pick where the inn goes, not what the inn looks like. unless they want to upgrade it, in which case it changes looks, but still to what the upgraded inn looks not to some thing arbitrary.
mircea_popescu: but seeing how I don't build the towns etc, it's mostly upon the players to pick where they want what to go.
mircea_popescu: just a version that's mostly workable on the code side should be here in oct.
mircea_popescu: i guess if you have the patience you can re-make all models into your favourite pornstars.
mircea_popescu: people could in principle mod it, not so sure why they'd want to but hey.
mircea_popescu: the only way for players to put things in the world in that sense is to become part of the dev team
mircea_popescu: ah, it's going the classical route, there's a client which you download.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i have this impression i don't understand the q. what do you mean !?
mircea_popescu: it has a few kids trying to work the engine for fractions of 0.001 btc
mircea_popescu: parseval dragon's tale example is what keeps me away from your mmo rpg casino idea.
mircea_popescu: you make even more with legitimate assets, which is where i am
mircea_popescu: you can probably make more scamming bitcoiners with fake assets.
mircea_popescu: you can probably make some dollars begging on kickstarter.
mircea_popescu: to get a few so they can play together you need to spend a bunch on advertising to chase away all the other scammors implementing the same model.
mircea_popescu: if you get only one whale you make a little over a few weeks then he leaves.
mircea_popescu: if you don't get enough playerbase to catch at least one whale you make zero
mircea_popescu: fosters are scams exactly for this reason. they know all it takes is to get you to take it temporarily.
mircea_popescu: so there's this kid screaming bloody murder right under my window. i run out to see what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you know that has been reported by people for a while
mircea_popescu: admittedly the last part could in some contexts be frankenstein but apparently it's not the case or w/e. chinese shit.
mircea_popescu: Jiē diànhuà de rén shìgè kēxué guàirén < they who answered the phone were weird.
mircea_popescu: Rulother we used to have it two years ago. then google went apeshiot and banned api access.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves bitfury ? didn't they say it's 4ph or some scandalous shit like that ?
mircea_popescu: avalon isn't doing too well apparently, which leaves pretty much vbitfury with actual chips
mircea_popescu: kleeck we're discussing things you can buy tho, not things people want to sell you.
mircea_popescu: the move from ~4 to 3.5 was a good 15% sliced offa there.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if the am victorious muppets realise that undercutting bfl means am just undercut its own stock.
mircea_popescu: so basicalyl we'll be at ~.2btc / gh within about two weeks ?
mircea_popescu: interesting, so am is selling 10gh at 3.5, bitfury 10gh at 3.9 ?
mircea_popescu: of course, unlike south africa the apartheid is voluntary, and reflects merit rather than birth
mircea_popescu: here's an open secret : bitcoin is much like south africa back when it worked, an apartheid system. forumers, redditors and co are 2nd class citizens. we don't give a shit about them.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is appointed in a chat log in the first place. am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: que burnside explaining how he had a lot of respect for mpoe-pr
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves my guess is it muddies the waters FOR LTC. much bnetter for it to have its own
mircea_popescu: ystarnaud certainly a good back-up to have just in case.
mircea_popescu: fucking paranoid people. i have spent all my morning so far entering passwords.
mircea_popescu: the avenue through which this will be realised will vbe exactly mining diff/price relationship
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is one of those markets, like television, where being #1 pays. being #2 maybe can be made stable if you cut corners. the rest however is a money black hole.
mircea_popescu: the total value of mining gear currently deployed = 214k
mircea_popescu: San1ty-Work a company once imploded over this exact problem.
mircea_popescu: well, this is an age old problem in the semiconductor business